King Philip

Preface

Few, even of our most intelligent men, if we except those who are devoted to literary pursuits, are acquainted with the adventures whick our forefathers encountered in the settlement of New England. The claims of business are now

so exacting, that those whose time is engrossed by its cares have but little leisure for extensive reading, and yet there is no American who does not desire to be familiar with the early history of his own country. The writer, with great labor, has collected from widely-spread materials, and condensed into this narrative of the career of King Philip, those incidents in our early history which he has:supposed would be most interesting and instructive to the general reader. He has spared no pains in the endeayor to be accurate. In the rude annals of those early days there is often obscurity, and somevill PREFACE.

times contradiction, in the dates. Such dates have been adopted as have appeared, after careful examination, to be most reliable.

The writer can not refrain, in this connection, from acknowledging the obligations he is under to his friend and neighbor, John M‘Keen, Esq., to whose extensive and accurate acquaintance with the early history of this country he is indebted for many of the materials which have aided him in the preparation of this work.

Joun §, C, ABBOTT.

Brunswick, Maine, 1857.

Contents

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Vv. COMMENCEMENT OF THE REIGN OF KING PHILIP 156