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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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lony was devoted to theestablished church of England, and even atthis early day there were severe laws for theenforcement of conformity to its rules, andfor the punishment of dissenters. When Puritan ministers came from NewEngland into the colony in 1643, they werebanished by the colonial government, not-withstanding they had been invited intoVirginia by the Puritan settlements in thatprovince. The majority of the Virginians,with the governor at their head, were royal-ists and staunch friends of the king. 1 The Puritans living in the colony wereregarded with suspicion, and when they re-fused to conform to the established church,it was ordered that they should be banishedMany of them passed over into Marylandand settled there. With the exception of 94 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. this harmless bigotry, the colony took noshare in the great quarrel which was rendingthe mother country in twain. It was rathera gainer by it, as the troubles which encom-passed Charles I. compelled him to cease his
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INDIAN WEAPONS efforts to interfere with the trade of theolanters. The chie\ trouble of this period was withthe Indians. There had been no peace with^hem since the massacre of 1622, but fre- quent expeditions had been sent agafnstthem. In 1644, the savages, led by theirveteran chieftain Opechancanough, resolvedto make one more effort to exterminate thewhites, forgetting that in the twenty yearsthat elapsed theiienemies had grownstronger, while theyhad grown weaker.On the eighteenth ofApril the frontier set-tlements were at-tacked, and three hun«dred of the settlerswere put to death.The whites at onceinaugurated vigorousmeasures for theirdefence, and a sharpwarfare was wagedupon the savages untilOctober, 1646. It was brought to aclose by the captureof Opechancanough,who was so decrepitthat he was unable towalk, and was carriedaboutin the arms of hispeople. His flesh wasemaciated, the sinewsso relaxed, and hiseyelids so heavy thatwhenever he desiredto see they were liftedby his attenda

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