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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FOREWORD TO the student of Indian history of the early New England period the catalogue of the librarian would allow one to infer that the ground had been already preempted by Mr. William Hub- bard and some other well-known writers upon the savage tragedies of the early New England days, whose labors are more famous for being a quaint reflection of the times than for comprehensive treatment of the subject at hand. Without Mr. Drake's labors, allied to those of Church and Bel- knap, the earlier story would be a meager one. It is to these authors one goes with assurance and infinite satisfaction, and one feels safe in accepting them as authorities upon the matters of which they write. Mr. Hubbard, who is most tedious in his narrative, leaves one at the threshold of Mr. Pen- hallow's Relation, which brings one to the verge of 1726; while Mr. Palfrey's consideration of the events which limit the scope of the present work is general rather than subjective. Unquestionably, Mr. Palfrey offers very little of the conflicts of the English settler with the Indians. His objective was a History of New England, to which the depredations of the savages were necessarily incidental. With Gardener's Pequod Wars and Church's Philip's War is ushered in a decade of peacefulyears, the termination of which leaves one upon the threshold of a most sanguinary conflict which broke out anew in 1688, and in which the stage of activities was shifted from the purlieus of Mount Hope1 to the northern boundaries of New Hampshire and eastward about the marshes of old Scarborough and the islands of Merry-meeting Bay. Isolate attacks were made upon the Connecticut River settlements at the outset; but with the destruction of Hadley and Deerfield, and one or two towns in the Hudson River Valley, the set...
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