A history of the United States for schools . ndians who escaped the flames wereat once shot down. Of more than four hundred in thefort, only five got away ; all the rest were killed. Thisterrible blow completely crushed the spirit of the Pe-quots. The remainder of the tribe started to fly to the Hudson River, butthey were pursuedby the white menand were nearly allslain. The last oftheir sachems wascaptured at a pointon the shore of whatis now Guilford ; hishead was cut off andset upon a pole, andthe place has eversince been called Sa-chems Head. Thusthe Pequot tribe, solong deemed invincible,
A history of the United States for schools . ndians who escaped the flames wereat once shot down. Of more than four hundred in thefort, only five got away ; all the rest were killed. Thisterrible blow completely crushed the spirit of the Pe-quots. The remainder of the tribe started to fly to the Hudson River, butthey were pursuedby the white menand were nearly allslain. The last oftheir sachems wascaptured at a pointon the shore of whatis now Guilford ; hishead was cut off andset upon a pole, andthe place has eversince been called Sa-chems Head. Thusthe Pequot tribe, solong deemed invincible, was wiped out of existence, andall the other tribes were so terrified that not an Indiandared to molest a white man again for nearly forty The New Haven Colony. While this war wasgoing on, a large company, including many wealthypersons, arrived from England, under the lead of theirprincipal pastor, John Davenport. They wished to 1 From Palfreys New England, i. 466. A reduced facsimile from theoriginal drawing by Captain PLAN OF PEQUOT §§ 49,5°- NEW ENGLAND. IO5 form a little state by themselves, with no law exceptthat which could be found in the Bible; for example,they would not have trial by jury because the laws ofMoses did not have it. The Pequot war drew the atten-tion of the English to the country along the northernshore of Long Island Sound. So these new-comers, inthe spring of 1638, sailed to a pleasant harbor, wherethey founded the town of New Haven. The next yearMilford and Guilford were founded, and, in pgy^^j^1641, Stamford; and these little towns joined of the Newthemselves together in a kind of federal union as the New Haven colony. This wasthe last separate colony founded in New England. In1644, the little settlement at Saybrook was joined toConnecticut. 50. The Story in Brief of the Five New EnglandColonies. Taken all together, the colonization of NewEngland was a rather complicated affair; and now thatwe have told the st
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