Very little is known about the nature of Philip’s designs ... 212

The meeting at Taunton ... 213

Sausamon informs against Philip ... 213

And is murdered ... 214

Massacres at Swanzey and Dartmouth ... 214

Murder of Captain Hutchinson ... 215

Attack on Brookfield, which is relieved by Simon Willard ... 216

Fighting in the Connecticut valley; the mysterious stranger at Hadley ... 217, 218

Ambuscade at Bloody Brook ... 219

Popular excitement in Boston ... 220

The Narragansetts prepare to take the war-path ... 221

And Governor Winslow leads an army against them ... 222, 223

Storming of the great swamp fortress ... 224

Slaughter of the Indians ... 225

Effect of the blow ... 226

Growth of the humane sentiment in recent times, due to the fact that the horrors of war are seldom brought home to everybody’s door ... 227, 228

Warfare with savages is likely to be truculent in character ... 229

Attack upon Lancaster ... 230

Mrs. Rowlandson’s narrative ... 231-233

Virtual extermination of the Indians (February to August, 1676) ... 233, 234

Death of Canonchet ... 234

Philip pursued by Captain Church ... 235

Death of Philip ... 236

Indians sold into slavery ... 237

Conduct of the Christian Indians ... 238

War with the Tarratines ... 239

Frightful destruction of life and property ... 240

Henceforth the red man figures no more in the history of New England, except in frontier raids under French guidance ... 241

CHAPTER VI.

The tyranny of Andros.

Romantic features in the early history of New England ... 242

Captain Edward Johnson, of Woburn, and his book on “The Wonder-working
Providence of Zion’s Saviour in New England” ... 243,244

Acts of the Puritans often judged by an unreal and impossible standard ... 245

Spirit of the “Wonder-working Providence” ... 246

Merits and faults of the Puritan theocracy ... 247

Restriction of the suffrage to church members ... 248

It was a source of political discontent ... 249

Inquisitorial administration of justice ... 250

The “Half way Covenant” ... 251

Founding of the Old South church ... 252

Unfriendly relations between Charles ii and Massachusetts ... 253

Complaints against Massachusetts ... 254

The Lords of Trade ... 255

Arrival of Edward Randolph in Boston ... 256

Joseph Dudley and the beginnings of Toryism in New England ... 257, 258

Charles ii. erects the four Piscataqua towns into the royal province of
New Hampshire ... 259