King Philip (1900) (14763330284)

Identifier: kingphilip00abbo (find matches)
Title: King Philip
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot, 1805-1877.
Subjects: Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags, 1676 King Philip's War, 1675-1676 Indians of North America--Biography Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750 Wampanoag Indians--New England--History New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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reateningto knock the child in the head if she did notcease her moaning. In the evening they ar-rived at an Indian village called Wenimesset.Here, upon a luxuriant meadow upon the banksof the River Ware, within the limits of the pres-ent town of XewBraintree, the savages had es-tablished their head-quarters. It was aboutthirty-sbc miles from Lancaster. A large num-ber of savages were assembled at this place,and they remained here for several days, gath-ering around their council fires, planning newexpeditions, and inflaming their passions withwar dances and the most frantic revels. TheIndians treated their captives with comparativekindness. No violence or disrespect was ofteredto their persons. Tliey reared a rude wigwamfor Mrs. Rowlandson, where she sat for five daysand nights almost alone, watching her dyingchild. At last, on the night of the 18th ofFebruary, the little sufferer breathed her last,at the age of six years and five months. TheIndians took the corpse from the mother and
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Mrs. Rowlaxdsons Captivity. 271 Mrs. Rowlandson a slave. Reciprocal barbarity. biiried it, and then allowed her to see thegrave. When )\Irs. Rowlands on was driven from theflames of her dwelling, a Narraganset Indianw^as the first to grasp her; he consequentlyclaimed her as his property. Her children werecaught by different savages, and thus becamethe slaves of their captors. The Indians, bythe law of retaliation, were perfectly justified inmaking slaves of their captives. The humanmind can not withhold its assent from the just-ice of the verdict, an eye for an eye, and, atooth for a tooth. The English made all theircaptives slaves, and women and children weresold to all the horrors of West Indian plantation bondage. The i^arraganset Indian whoowned Mrs. Howlandson soon sold her to a cel-ebrated chieftain named Quinnapin, a Narra-ganset sachem, who had married, for one of histhree wives, Wetamoo, of whom we have here-tofore spoken. Quinnapin is represented as a young, lusty sachem, an