. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... st-ance in the fastnesses ofa swamp, but were de-feated with great slaugh-ter. Sassacus, their chief^with a few of his mentook refuge with theMohawks, where he wassoon after put to deathby one of his own remainder of the tribe, about two hundredin number, surrendered to the English, andwere reduced to slavery. Some were givento their enemies, the Narragansetts and Mo-hegans ; others were sent to the West Indiesand sold as slaves. The Pequod nation
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... st-ance in the fastnesses ofa swamp, but were de-feated with great slaugh-ter. Sassacus, their chief^with a few of his mentook refuge with theMohawks, where he wassoon after put to deathby one of his own remainder of the tribe, about two hundredin number, surrendered to the English, andwere reduced to slavery. Some were givento their enemies, the Narragansetts and Mo-hegans ; others were sent to the West Indiesand sold as slaves. The Pequod nation wasutterly destroyed. The thoroughness and remorselessness ofthe work struck terror to the neicrhborinetribes. If the Pequods, the most powerful of all their race, had been exterminated by amere handful of Englishmen, what could theyexpect in a contest with them but a similarfate ? For forty years the horror of thisdreadful deed remained fresh in the savagemind, and protected the young settlementsmore effectually than the most vigilantwatchfulness on the part of the whites couldhave done. Relieved from the fear of the Indians, the. YALE COLLEGE. people of Connecticut prepared to establish acivil government for the colony, and in Jan-uary, 1639, a constitution was adopted. Itwas more liberal, and therefor^ more lasting,than that framed by any of the other colo-nies. It provided for the government of thecolony by a governor, a legislature and theusual magistrates of an English province,who were to be chosen annually by settler who should take the oath of IS6 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. allegiance to the commonwealth was to havethe right of suffrage. The members of thelegislature were apportioned among thetowns according to the population. Thecolony was held to be supreme within itsown limits, and no recognition was made ofthe sovereignty of the king or Connecticut took her place among thestates of the American Union, at the openingof the war of the Revolu
Size: 1642px × 1521px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthornorthrop, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookyear1901
