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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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accustomed homes, and menaced with total destruction by the superior race. Opechancanough, though outwardly friendly to the colonists, now secretly resolved upon their destruction, and sought to accomplish this by treachery. There were about five thousand Indians, of whom fifteen hundred were warriors, within sixty miles of Jamestown, and the whites in the same region numbered in all about four thousand. These were scattered in fancied safety along both sides of the James [River] and for some distance into the interior. A plot was organized by the Indian leaderfor the extermination of every settler iuthe colony. At noon on a designated day every settlement was to be surprised and all the inhabitants murdered. The savages in the meantime kept up their pretence 01 friendship. Opechancanough declared with fervor, Sooner shall the sky fall than my friendship for the English should cease. So unsuspicious were the English that to thft very last moment they received the savages amongst them without fear of harm, and ift
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MASSACRE OF SETTLERS BY INDIANS. PROGRESS OF THE VIRGINIA COLONY. 91 jnany places the latter were then in the housesof the people they meant to destroy. On the twenty-second of March, 1622, agenei al attack was made by the savages uponall the settlements of the colony. On theprevious night the plot had been revealed toa converted Indian named Chauco, who atonce hastened to Jamestown and gave warn-ing of the danger. The alarm spread rapidlyto the nearest settlements, but those at a distance could not be reached in time to avert their fate. Those settlements which had been warned were able to offer a successful resistance to their assailants, and some of those which were surprised beat off the Indians ; but the number of victims, men women and children, who fell this day amounted to three hundred and forty-seven. All these were slain, and their fate would have been shared by the whole colony but for the warning of the friendly Indian. Terrible Destruction. The effect upon the colony was appalling

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