Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-03-16
Continuation Of Extracts from
CALLENDAR's DISCOURSE.

IOlloWS.
"In general all the English col
onies, were at the first but one interest,
in relation to the Indians, and though the
other four, called themselves the United
colonies, there was a commission from
this Colony to Mr.. Williams, and Mr..
Clark, to enter into n league offensive s
defensive with them. A few years, three
or four, before the English came to
Plymouth, the Indians had been dread
fully wasted away by devouring sickness,
from Narraganset to Penobscot, SO that
the living suffced not to bury the dead,
and the ground was covered with bones
in many places. This wonderfully made
Room for the English at Plymouth, and
Massachusetts and those colonies protec-
ted the rest
In the year 1857, the English with IL
nited forces, subdued the Pcquots, who,
had attacked their brethren in Connccti-
cut; the Narraganscts, who bordercd on
the Pequots' land ,cons cnted and assisted
in their destruction, through desire of
revenge, which is remarkable in all the
savages, though their old Sachems desir-
ed to have preserved peace. The Mar
ragansets, inhabited the lands, or gov
erned over all the Indians within the
bounds of this colony. They were nu-
merous, a rich, and powerful people, and
though they are by some said, to have
been less fierce, and warlike than the Pc
quots, yet it appears they had lately be-
fore the English came, not only increas-
ed their numbers, by receiving many who
had fled to them, from the devouring sick
ness or plague in the other parts OF the
land but they had enlarged their terrific
ries, both on the Eastern and Western
boundaries. They were reckoned 1000
fighting men. And Mr.. Williams says,
they were so populous, that a Traveller
would meet with dozen Indian towns
in twenty miles. In the midst of this
mighty and naughty people, the little
handful of helpless English ventured to
sit down; though not without taking all
possible precautions; on the one hand, tc
|, give them no just offence, and on the 9th
er hand, TO keep themselves in the bes
posture of defence their circumstances
would admit of. But the conquest ano
utter destruction of the Pcquots, had for
the present cndcarcd Englishmen to the
/ Narraganscts. And the conduct and
valor they had shown, and the wonderful
success of their expedition, had made
them a terror to all the Indian Nations
round about
1 MIR. Williams at first "madc a league
Of peaceable Ncighborhood, \ with all the
Sachems and Natives round about" In
this, Rhode-Isand was included And
on the 7th of July, 1910, Mr.. Codding-
ton, with the rest of his assistants, had a
particular treaty ofpeace and amity with
Mantonimoh and the rest of the Sa'
chems. Nevertheless, the next year,
there was a misunderstanding, and some
hostilities, occasioncd, | think, by some
of the Indians (if not Miantonmoh him
self kindling fire in MIR. Eastons
land, Lords day April 4, l61l, whereby,
an house of his was burnt. But whether
it was designcdly, or only through care
lessness don't plainly appear in the re-
cords. However, it alarmed the people
! and among other measures, they fitted
out an armed boat, to ply toward the Is
land, to keep of the Indians from landing,
and il seems in some scutile on that ac-
count, two Englishmcn were wounded,
and one Indian slain; though the orders
to the soldiers we've as mild anG prudent
as could be given. They likewise ap'
1 pointed Garrison houses, to which tho
people were to repair on an Alarm. A.
mong which find one was MIR. Lentha
the Minister. But the rupture lasted no
long, before the peace was restored. "
! "In 1913, Nliantonimoh, the great Sa
chem of the Narragansets, was taker
Prisoner by Uncas, Sachem of the Mohe
gans, and some time after slain" by tho
advice of the English commissioners a
Hartford, even after quarter and prom
isc of life was given. This excited hl'
subjects to revenge his death, but the ter
ror ofthc English at Massachusetts KEEP
them quiet. And so It's said, that sever
years after, there were some comniotion
stlllcd, by the same terror in 1903, &c.
II In 1862 when the counsel oi State con
firmed their patent, the people were pm
on some enterprises against the Dutch
at Ncw-Hork, or Ncw-N ctherlands, AM
the next year the Island sent some me-
to the assistance of their countrymcn set
tied at Long-Island, which gave grca
offence TO the towns on the main, and II
the two Dutch wars, in King Charles th
ends timc,) tho colony and Island wer
put to considerable expense and trouble
to put and keep themselves in a posture
of defence.
In 1913, Philip, king of the Wampa
noags,bcgan war against Plymouth col
ony in June, which soon spread al'nos