文档介绍：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
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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 pact 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 pany 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