. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. on Main street, near the corner of the present Fort street,a house of brick, built by him and designed partly for defence 58 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD in war, so that it came atlast to be known as theold fort. Attached to therear of it was a part of theold wooden building inwhich his father lived. The old fort stood until1831, but nothing remainsof these relics of the past,except a box made fromthe wood of the woodenhouse and a hinge from oneof its
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. on Main street, near the corner of the present Fort street,a house of brick, built by him and designed partly for defence 58 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD in war, so that it came atlast to be known as theold fort. Attached to therear of it was a part of theold wooden building inwhich his father lived. The old fort stood until1831, but nothing remainsof these relics of the past,except a box made fromthe wood of the woodenhouse and a hinge from oneof its doors. These arethe property of the Con-necticut Valley HistoricalSociety. Major Pynchon,honored and loved, lived toa good old age and died in1703. A good picture of hishouse is given on this pagein the book plate of theHistorical Society. The view behind the house as in old times takes in the river and theWest Springfield meadows. Besides the Indian and the Puritan,the steeple of the First church is seen from another point ofview, with Mount Tom in the distance. The plate was designedby Clare Gardner, once a pupil of the Springfield CHAPTER IV. KING PHILIPS WAR AND ITS CAUSES.—BATTLES ANDBURNINGS IN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY. UP TO the time at which we have now arrived there hadbeen peace between the colonies of Massachusetts Bayand Plymouth on the one hand and the various Indiantribes on the other. In the Connecticut colony there had beena war so bitterly waged by the whites, aided by their allies,the Mohegan Indians, that it had resulted in the utter destruc-tion of the Pequot tribe. ThePequot war happened aboutthe time of the settlement ofSpringfield and though itmade the settlers in this partof the valley very cautiousin dealing with the Indians,and taught them that theylived in the midst of danger,yet nothing hostile , the famous chiefof the Wampanoags, was aneighbor of the Plymouthcolonists and had always beentheir friend. The Narragan-setts, w
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