Worcester legends : incidents, anecdotes, reminiscences, etc., connected with the early history of Worcester, Mass., and vicinity . It is said of KingPhilip that his enmitywas national, not individ-ual. He had stakedeverything on the struggleand fought to the bitteri end according to the es-tablished mode of Indianwarfare. He was opposed to theintroduction of Christian-ity among the Indians,and when Mr. Eliot, themissionary, urged the im-portance of Christianity told him he cared no more for the Gospel than he did for a buUon upon hiscoat. The war ended with the death of King Philip, in the su
Worcester legends : incidents, anecdotes, reminiscences, etc., connected with the early history of Worcester, Mass., and vicinity . It is said of KingPhilip that his enmitywas national, not individ-ual. He had stakedeverything on the struggleand fought to the bitteri end according to the es-tablished mode of Indianwarfare. He was opposed to theintroduction of Christian-ity among the Indians,and when Mr. Eliot, themissionary, urged the im-portance of Christianity told him he cared no more for the Gospel than he did for a buUon upon hiscoat. The war ended with the death of King Philip, in the summer of 1676,and found Quinsigamond occupied onlyby Indian women, children, and mentoo old to bear arms, the warriors havingeither been slain in battle or fled toCanada. On account of the threatenedIndian depredations the settlement re-mained deserted for several years, but in1684 a second attempt at settlement wasmade. The plantation was then namedWorcester, signifying war-castle, it having been known previous to that byits Indian name, Quinsigamond. The first garrison house, the Old Indian Fort, was erected betweenGrove and
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