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victory was doubtful? What did he then do? What was the effect? When the sun rose, what did it show?

How many wigwams were burnt?

How many Indians were killed?

How long was the action? About an hour.

How was Mason's life wonderfully preserved from an Indian arrow? A man cut the bow-string, when the Indian was in the very act of shooting him.

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How many Pequots escaped?

How many were taken prisoners? 7.

How many English were killed? wounded!

Where were their surgeon, medicines and provisions?

How long did the officers consult on the hill after the battle? About an hour.

What most joyful sight did they see, while thus consulting?

What other discovery did they make immediately after? About 300 Pequots from the other fort.

Who attacked them? Mason with a chosen party.

With what success? He put them to a stand.

For what place, did the English then march? Pequot harbor. Where did the 300 Pequots then go? To the ruined fort.

How were they affected? They were filled with vengeance, rage and madness.

What did they do? Rushed down the hill, and most furiously pursued the English.

Who repelled them? Capt. Un

derhill.

Why did the friendly Indians then keep very close to the Eng

to leave them.

How far did the Pequots follow the English? Nearly to Pequot harbor.

With what effect? Many of the Pequots were slain; but no injury was done to the English.

When the party of Pequots returned to their fort, to what, did they charge all their misfortunes? To the misconduct and haughtiness of Sassacus.

With what, did they threaten him? Immediate death.

What induced them to spare him? The entreaties of his friends. What did the Pequots then do? Destroyed their fort, and fled in various directions.

In what direction, did most of them flee? West.

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able number? In a swamp in Fairfield.

Issue of the battle of Fairfield swamp? The Pequots were defeated, and their power destroyed. What became of Sassacus? He fled to the Mohawks.

How many fled with him? About 20.

What did the Mohawks do with them? Slew all but Mononotto.

Where did the Mohawks live? Near Albany.

What became of Mononotto's wife and children? They were captured, and most kindly treated by the English.

How many Pequot warriors were still living? About 200.

In what condition? In a very feeble, scattered state.

What offer did their chiefs make to the English at Hartford? To become their servants.

Upon what condition? That their lives should be spared.

To whom, did the English then give 100 Pequots ? To Uncas. To whom did they give 80? To Miantonimo.

To whom, 20? To Ninnigret. Who was Ninnigret? A Narraganset or rather Nihantic sachem, in alliance with the Narragansets. How were these Pequots to be regarded and treated? As Narragansets and Mohegans.

To whom, were the Pequots to pay tribute? To the English at Ct.

How was the Pequot nation nominally extinguished? It was agreed, that the Pequots should thenceforward be called Mohegans and Narragansets.

Did the Pequot nation then cease according to this agreement? By no means.

What effect had the conquest of the Pequots upon the Indians of N. E. generally? They were filled with terror and dread of the English displeasure

How long after, did peace com tinue with the Indians, with little interruption? Nearly 40 years.

How was the conquest of the Pequots celebrated through N. E. 1

CHAPTER XXXIII. p. 56.

Settlement of New Haven.

Which way is New Haver from West Point? from New York city?

Indian name of New Haven ? Quinnipiac.

What led the English to become acquainted with Quinnipiac ? In what year, did the settlement of Quinnipiac commence ? Most distinguished clerical founder?

Meaning of clerical?

Where had Mr. Davenport been a celebrated minister?

Most distinguished lay founder?
Meaning of lay?

Where did Mr. Edward Hopkins settle? At Hartford.

For what, had Mr. Eaton been distinguished in London? Ability, industry and wealth.

In what business, had he there been engaged? In trade.

In what year, had Davenport

and Eaton come from London to Boston? 1637.

Where were they greatly irged to settle? In Ms.

Why did they decline? They wished to avoid the commotions occasioned by Mrs. Hutchinson. Besides, they chose to be in a jurisdiction by themselves.

Why? They thought, they could have a church, formed more according to the perfect scripture rule.

How long was New Haven set tled after Hartford? - after Bos

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ton? after the Pequot war? Of whom did Eaton and his associates purchase the land? Momauguin, sachem of the country.

When did the three towns of Ct. become a distinct commonwealth, and adopt a constitution? Names of those towns?

How long did that constitution continue with little alteration? What were the officers of the government?

By whom elected?

Who were to send deputies to the general assembly? First governor ?

Who succeeded Gov. Haynes in 1640? Edward Hopkins.

Why was not Haynes re-elected? The constitution did not allow the same man to be governor for two years together.

Who succeeded Hopkins in 1641 Haynes.

How long did Haynes and Hopkins continue thus to succeed each other? Till the year 1654, with the exception of one year.

What other colony formed a constitution in 1639 ?

First governor of New Haven? In what year, was the charter of Maine granted?

To whom?-From whom? Limits of the territory, granted by that charter ?

What part of the present state of Maine? About a quarter. When was Maine taken under the jurisdiction of Ms. ? By whose request'

CHAPTER XXXIV. p. 58.

Union of the colonies of N. E.

In what year, was consummated the union of the colonies of N. E. 1

How long had the articles of confederation been agitated?

How many colonies were uni ́ted? What colonies?

Under what denomination? What dangers urged to this union? Dangers from the Indians and from the Dutch.

What particularly increased their danger from the Indians?

What did each colony retain ty these articles ?

What was necessary, in order to receive any other colony into the confederacy?

Meaning of confederacy?

How many commissioners did each elect?

How often did they meet?

At what places? At Boston, Plymouth, Hartford and New Ha

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How? Ms. was unwilling to unite upon equal terms; and the rest were unwilling to unite upon those that were not equal.

What affairs were the commissioners to determine ?

In case one colony should be attacked, what duty did it devolve upon the rest?

How many men was each colony to send in such cases? Ms. 100 and each of the rest 45.

How long did this union continue with little interruption? By what was it dissolved?

What other colony petitioned to be admitted into the union?

Why? To defend them from the Narragansets, from whom they

had received very great injuries. | In what year, was this request made?

On what condition, might R. I. have been received?

Why did the other colonies require this condition? They considered R. I. as being within the patent of Plymouth.

What was the result?
Effects of this union?

Conduct of several chiefs on its completion?

To whom else did the colonies become more formidable?

To whose civil and religious improvement, was it made subservient?

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Conversion of the Indians.

Greatest object of our forefathers, in relation to the natives of this country? To convert them to Christianity.

What did Mr. Robinson say,

when he heard of the death of Pecksuot and others?

Most distinguished missionary to the Indians in this country? John Eliot.

What honorable title is often given him? Apostle to the Indians.

In what country was he born? In England.

In what year? 1604. Where was he educated? At the university of Cambridge in England.

Which way is Cambridge from

London?

Whom did he regard, as the means of his conversion? Mr. Thomas Hooker.

What had before prevented the fathers of N. E. from making any considerable efforts for the conversion of the natives? The peculiar

cares, hardships and difficulties of their situation in a new country.

Did these things excuse their neglect? Not altogether.

What might have been the consequence, if they had exerted themselves to the utinost, to convert the Indians? Indian wars and the destruction of the Indians might have been in a great measure, prevented. What act did the general court of Ms. pass relating to this subject in 1646? An act for the encour agement of attempts to win over the natives to the faith of Christ." In what year, did Eliot com. his missionary labors ?

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1646.

Where? In Newton, within a few miles of his house at Roxbury. How old was he then?

In what manner, did Eliot commence his instructions to the Indians? After a short prayer, he explained the commandments, described the character and sufferings of Christ, the judgment day and its consequences, and exhorted them to receive Christ, and pray to God. He then desired them to ask any question that occurred, and con

versed with them in a familiar manner.

By whom, was Eliot violently opposed? The sachems and powahs.

Why were they peculiarly opposed to the gospel? Because it opposed the tyranny and oppression, which they exercised over their men.

With what did they threaten him, if he should continue to preach among them? Every evil, that they could inflict.

What did he reply? "I am

about the work of the Great God, and my God is with me, so that I neither fear you, nor all the sachems in the country. I will go on, and do you touch me, if you dare."

How often did he make a missionary tour? Once a fortnight.

How old was he in 1666 ?

What event most interesting to him, took place in that year? The first Indian church was established in this country.

Where? At Natic.

Name, given to Indian converts? Praying Indians.

How many villages of praying Indians was he enabled to establish within 14 years after the formation of Natic church? 14. How many Indian preachers did he live to see? 24.

What most important book did Eliot translate into Indian? The bible.

In what language, was the bible first printed in America? In the Indian.

In what year? 1664. How old was Eliot then? Who commenced his missionary labors among the Indians, on the same year with Eliot ? Mayhew, jun.

At what age? 26.

Thomas

In what year, was he born?
Where did he labor?

on Martha's Vineyard.

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How many hopeful Indian converts did Mayhew live to see? Two or three hundred.

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What is he generally called? Gov. Mayhew.

Why? He was governor of M.'s V. and the neighboring islands. How far did he sometimes walk, to preach to the Indians? Nearly 20 miles.

How long continued the ministry of Gov. Mayhew? 23 years.

At what age, did Gov. Mayhew close his ministry and his life?

Number of Indian converts in M.'s V. and Nantucket in the year 1695?

Miscellaneous Questions

No. 3.

To whom, did James I. grant a patent of New England in 1620 ? In what year was Boston settled?

In what year did emigration to N. England almost entirely cease? Where did Endicott settle?

In what year, did nearly 100 of the planters of Ct. return to Ms.?

Who had resided some time in Shawmut, before Gov. Winthrop &c. settled there?

Who sent 20 men, to build a fort at the mouth of Ct. river?

In what town, did the Indians murder nine persons in 1637? Who was John Eliot?

In what year, was Salem settled by Mr. Endicott?

What colony was settled mostly by Roman Catholics?

Previous name of Trimountain? In what year, did persecution cease in England?

What became of John Oldham ?
Who was John Gallop?

Of what most important expedition, was John Mason the commander ?

Who was Capt. Underhill?
What colony was refused admit.

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