Author: Denise Janet ChoppinPublisher: Markham, Ont. : Stewart Pub. & Print.
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Godfrey Nims
Author: Denise Janet ChoppinPublisher: Markham, Ont. : Stewart Pub. & Print.
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Deerfield Massacre
Author: James L. SwansonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501108166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England-the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade-known to early Americans as "The Old Indian Door"-constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the flailing tomahawk blades of several attacking native tribes, is the sole surviving artifact from the most dramatic moment in colonial American history: Leap Year, February 29, 1704, a cold, snowy night when hundreds of native Americans and their French allies swept down upon an isolated frontier outpost and ruthlessly slaughtered its inhabitants. The sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of adventure, survival, sacrifice, family, honor, and faith ever told in North America. 112 survivors, including their fearless minister, the Reverand John Williams, were captured and led on a 300-mile forced march north, into enemy territory in Canada. Any captive who faltered or became too weak to continue the journey-including Williams's own wife and one of his children-fell under the knife or tomahawk. Survivors of the march willed themselves to live and endured captivity. Ransomed by the King of England's royal governor of Massachusetts, the captives later returned home to Deerfield, rebuilt their town and, for the rest of their lives, told the incredible tale. The memoir of Rev. Williams, The Redeemed Captive, became the first bestselling book in American history and published a few years after his liberation, it remains a literary classic. The old Indian door is a touchstone that conjures up one of the most dramatic and inspiring stories of colonial America-and now, finally, this legendary event is brought to vivid life by popular historian James Swanson"--
History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Author: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deerfield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association; 1870-1879
Author: Pocumtack Valley Memorial AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Eleanor E. HawkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
Book Description
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316659
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association; 1870-1879
Author: American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: M.A. GilkeyPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description