New England, old and new; a brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of promise . se — of blood and money. The first warwith the murderous Pequots, in 1637, was won in an hoursbattle. Seventy-seven colonists from Connedlicut, Plym-outh, and Massachusetts attacked the palisaded fort of thesavages near Stonington, Connedlicut. Out of more thanseven hundred red men, it is said but five escaped. Thethoroughness of this viftory proved a salutary objed stilled the war whoop for forty years. King Philips From 1675 to 1678 N
New England, old and new; a brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of promise . se — of blood and money. The first warwith the murderous Pequots, in 1637, was won in an hoursbattle. Seventy-seven colonists from Connedlicut, Plym-outh, and Massachusetts attacked the palisaded fort of thesavages near Stonington, Connedlicut. Out of more thanseven hundred red men, it is said but five escaped. Thethoroughness of this viftory proved a salutary objed stilled the war whoop for forty years. King Philips From 1675 to 1678 New England fought for her life, ar, I 75-1 78 Xhis was the period of the terrible King Philips its course twelve New England towns were utterlydestroyed. Forty out of ninety towns were the scene offire and slaughter. Over a thousand staunch men lost theirlives, and scores of gentle women and helpless childrenperished. But it saw the end of Indian power in New it ended, most of the warriors were dead. Hence-forth, the Indians figured no more in New England historyexcept as allies of the French in bloody frontier /~)N a chill December dayi 1620,^ the Pilgrims landed on the snow-clad shore of New England; and, ac-cording to Governor Bradfords account,Te 25 day begane to ereBe ye firsthouse for comone use to receive themand their goods. It marked t}ie dawnof a new era. New England — Old and New 31 The end of this war found Plymouth Colony with a debtgreater than the value of all the personal property in thecolony. The same was true of Massachusetts and Connedi-cut. Practically every family was in mourning. Paymentin full meant years of unremitting toil, thrift, and self-denial. But the New England tradition was penny was finally paid. To proted: themselves against French encroachment wasthe obje6t of the expedition in 1745 against Louisburg, theFrench Gibraltar, on whose fortifications over ten milliondollars had been expended. T
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