A NARRATIVE HISTORY

OF

KING PHILIP'S WAR

AND THE

Indian Troubles in New England.

BY

RICHARD MARKHAM.

NEW YORK:

DODD, MEAD & COMPANY,

PUBLISHERS.

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PREFACE.

THE reader of this history will speedily discover for himself that I make no pretence to original investigation in the field of Colonial history. I have simply collected my facts from many and widespread sources, and have put them in order, aiming to give an idea of the manners of our forefathers and the social relations of the day, as well as to picture the state of public feeling aroused by savage warfare.

To this end I have not hesitated to quote often and at length from the early chroniclers, whose quaint narratives have all the savor of antiquity and at the same time the freshness to be attained by those only who have been actors in the scenes they describe.

NEW YORK, May, 1883.

R. M.