Tag: early American history
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Captain Church in Philip’s War
The colonists had not learned how to fight the Wampanoag and Narragansett Indians, who moved swiftly from place to place, and hid themselves in the darkest swamps. But at last the man was found who could battle with the American Indians in their own way. This was Captain Benjamin Church. Church could not only fight…
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Metacomet (King Philip)
When the Pilgrims first came to New England, they found that the nearest tribe of American Indians, the Wam-pa-no’-ags of which Massasoit was chief, had been much reduced in number by a dreadful sickness. The bones of the dead lay bleaching on the ground. The next neighbors to the Wampanoags were the Narragansetts. The Narragansetts…
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The Coming of the Quakers and Others to the Jerseys and Pennsylvania
Before the Dutch colony of New Netherland was conquered by the English, in 1664, it was given by Charles II to his brother, the Duke of York, who afterward became King of England as James II. James kept that portion of it that is now called New York to himself. What we call New Jersey…
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Captain Myles Standish
Thirteen years after the first settlement at Jamestown, a colony was planted in New England. We have seen that the rough-and-ready John Smith was the man negotiated best with the American Indians in Virginia. So the first colony in New England had also its soldier, a brave and rather hot-tempered little man — Captain Myles…