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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
d as far as the rich meadows of Deerfield and Northfield; but to the west, Berkshire was a wilderness; Westfield was the remotest plantation. Between the towns on Connecticut River and the cluster of towns near Massachusetts Bay, Lancaster and Brookfield were the solitary abodes of Christians in the desert. The government of Massachusetts extended to the Kennebeck, and included more than half the population of New England; the confederacy of the colonies had also Hazard II. 511 been renewed, rest, that protected the ambush of the Indians, secured their retreat. They hung upon the skirts of the English villages, like the lightning on the edge of the clouds. Washington Irving. What need of repeating the same tale of horrors? Brookfield was set on fire, and rescued only to be Aug 2. abandoned; Deerfield was burned Hadley, surprised Sept. 1 during a time of religious service, was saved only by the Chap. XII.} 1675. daring of Goffe, the regicide, now bowed with years, a heav