The Boy Captives(被俘的男孩)

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The Boy Captives An Incident of the Indian War of 1695

The Boy Captives

An Incident of the Indian War of 1695

by John Greenleaf Whittier

The Boy Captives An Incident of the Indian War of 1695

THE township of Haverhill, even as late as the close of the

seventeenth century, was a frontier settlement, occupying an advanced

position in the great wilderness, which, unbroken by the clearing of a

white man, extended from the Merrimac River to the French villages on

the St. Francois. A tract of twelve miles on the river and three or four

northwardly was occupied by scattered settlers, while in the centre of the

town a compact village had grown up. In the immediate vicinity there

were but few Indians, and these generally peaceful and inoffensive. On

the breaking out of the Narragansett War,(1) the inhabitants had erected

fortifications, and taken other measures for defence; but, with the possible

exception of one man who was found slain in the woods in 1676, none of

the inhabitants were molested; and it was not until about the year 1689

that the safety of the settlement was seriously threatened. Three persons

were killed in that year. In 1690 six garrisons were established in

different parts of the town, with a small company of soldiers attached to

each. Two of these houses are still standing. They were built of brick,

two stories high, with a single outside door, so small and narrow that but

one person could enter at a time; the windows few, and only about two and

a half feet long by eighteen inches wide, with thick diamond glass secured

with lead, and crossed inside with bars of iron. The basement had but

two rooms, and the chamber was entered by a ladder instead of stairs; so

that the inmates, if driven thither, could cut off communication with the

rooms below. Many private houses were strengthened and fortified.

We remember one familiar to our boyhood,--a venerable old building of

wood, with brick between the weather-boards and ceiling, with a massive

balustrade over the door, constructed of oak timber and plank, with holes

through the latter for firing upon assailants. The door opened upon a

stone- paved hall, or entry, leading into the huge single room of the

basement, which was lighted by two small windows, the ceiling black with

the smoke of a century and a half; a huge fireplace, calculated for eight-

feet wood, occupying one entire side; while, overhead, suspended from the

timbers, or on shelves fastened to them, were household stores, farming

utensils, fishing-rods, guns, bunches of herbs gathered perhaps a century

ago, strings of dried apples and pumpkins, links of mottled sausages,

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TheBoyCaptivesAnIncidentoftheIndianWarof16951TheBoyCaptivesAnIncidentoftheIndianWarof1695byJohnGreenleafWhittierTheBoyCaptivesAnIncidentoftheIndianWarof16952THEtownshipofHaverhill,evenaslateasthecloseoftheseventeenthcentury,wasafrontiersettlement,occupyinganadvancedpositioninthegreatwilderness,which...

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