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Gallup's Recapture of Oldham's Boat - Beginning of the Pequot War

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Identifier: homeschoolofamer00morr (find matches)
Title: Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
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Publisher: Chicago, C. F. Beezley & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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g out of his hiding-place, he was confronted by a white soldier and afriendly Indian. The gun of the former missed fire, whereupon the Indianleveled his musket and shot the Wampanoag leader dead. The war ended afew months later. During its continuance, six hundred Avhite men were killedand many more wounded; thirteen towns were destroyed and five hundred build-ings burned, but the Indian power in southern New England was shatteredforever. THE WITCHCRAFT DELUSIO.V. One of the most fearful delusions recorded in history is that of the generalbelief in witchcraft which prevailed in Europe down to the seventeenth cen-tury. Its baleful shadow all too soon fell upon New England. Massachusettsand Connecticut made laws against witchciaft and hanged a number of personson the charge of being witches. In 1692 the town of Salem went crazy overthe belief that the diabolical spirits were at work among them. Two little girls,who were simpletons that ought to have been spanked and put to bed, declared
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GALLUPS RECAPTURE OF OLDHAMS BOAT Which had been li.ken by Ibe Iiidi:iiis from the Puritan exiles in 1636. Steer straight f»r the vess,: opened fire on the Indians. Every time his gun flashed some one vwas the beginning of the Pequot War, elf at the boM THE CONNECTICUT COLONY. 59 witli bulging eyes that different persons had taken the form of a black cat andjiinched, scratched, and bitten them. The people, including the great preacherCotton Mather, believed this stufl, and the supjwsed wizards and witches werepunished with fearful severity. Susjucion in many cases meant death; evil mendisposed of their creditors and enemies by charging them with witchcraft; fami-lies were divided and the gentlest and most irreproachable of women suffereddisgraceful death. Everybody, including ministers and judges, lost their wits.The magistrates crowded the jails, until twenty had been ))ut to death and fifty-tive tortured before the craze subsided. Then it becanie clear that no one, nomatter what h

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