RNAMENTAL TITLE-PAGE. Drawn by Croome, Head-Piece to Contents. Drawn and Engraved by Ornamental Letter. Drawn by Croome, Engraved 5 པ་ Head-Piece to List of Embellishments. Croome.... Tail-Piece. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Waitt 8 Drawn and Engraved by 9 9 12 13 Ornamental Letter. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Waitt. ...... Scene, King Philip's War. Drawn and Engraved by Croome... Ornamental Letter. King Philip. Drawn and Engraved by Croome.. 13 Harvard Bequeathing his Property to the College. Drawn and En graved by Croome 14 Burning of Springfield. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Brown...... 17 Tail Piece. The Scalping-Knife. Drawn and Engraved by Croome... 21 Portrait of James II. From an English Print. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Waitt. 22 II.-2 (9) X LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Ornamental Letter. Drawn and Engraved by Croome Portrait of William III. From a French Print. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Waitt ... Ornamental Letter. Drawn and Engraved by Croome... Portrait of Queen Anne. From an English Print. Drawn by Croome, 32 Ornamental Letter. Drawn and Engraved by Croome 32 Wreck of the Fleet. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Devereux...... 34 41 Charles II. giving New Jersey to the Duke of York. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Devereux... 69 Ornamental Initial Letter, Arms of New Jersey. Drawn and Engraved by Croome Portrait of William Penn. Drawn and Engraved by Croome...... Ornamental Initial Letter, Arms of Pennsylvania. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Devereux.... ... 76 69 76 William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Drawn and Engraved by Croome.... Treaty Monument. Drawn and Engraved by Croome... Portrait of the Earl of Clarendon. From an English Print. Drawn and Engraved by Croome..... 87 Ornamental Initial Letter, Arms of Carolina. Drawn and Engraved by Croome .... 87 Tail-Piece, Southern Scenery. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Devereux 96 Portrait of General Oglethorpe. From an English Print. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Neville Johnson.... Ornamental Initial Letter. Drawn and Engraved by Croome ......... 97 Savannah, as it appeared in 1778. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Devereux. 104 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Portrait of General Wolfe. From an English Print. Drawn and En graved by Croome Ornamental Initial Letter. Drawn and Engraved by Croome Washington ordering St. Pierre to Evacuate the French Fort. xi 105 ... 105 by Croome, Engraved by Waitt Drawn ... 109 Massacre of the Prisoners taken at Fort William Henry. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Devereux 116 117 General Abercrombie's Army crossing Lake George. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Waitt.... 118 Ruins of Ticonderoga. From an English Print. Drawn by Croome, 121 General Wolfe's Army ascending the Heights of Abraham. Drawn by Croome, Engraved by Waitt.... 123 Death of General Wolfe. After West. Drawn by Croome, Engraved Stamp-Act Riot. Drawn and Engraved by Croome... Portrait of John Hancock. After Copley. Drawn and Engraved by 143 Fanueil Hall. Engraved by Waitt 145 ..... Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbour. Drawn and Engraved by 155 Portrait of Patrick Henry. From a Print. Engraved by Waitt........ 157 The Minute-Man. Drawn and Engraved by Croome.... ... 164 164 Affair at Lexington. From an Old Print. Engraved by Waitt...... 166 graved by Waitt 167 xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Battle of Breed's Hill. Drawn and Engraved by Croome ..... 172 Portrait of General Warren. After Copley. Drawn by Browne, En graved by Croome .... Siege of Boston. From a Print. Quebec. From an English Print. Engraved by Devereux Engraved by Waitt Ornamental Letter. Drawn and Engraved by Croome Portrait of General Carleton. From an English Print. Engraved by 175 181 183 183 .... 189 Medal voted by Congress to General Washington. Drawn and En- Ornamental Letter. Drawn and Engraved by Croome .. 191 .... 191: En ... 200 Washington declining to receive General Howe's Letter. Drawn by 205 Retreat from Long Island. From a Print. Engraved by Devereux.... 210 Ornamental Letter. Drawn and Engraved by Croome Tail-Piece. Drawn and Engraved by Croome.... 224 224 233 233 HE attempts to Christianize the Indians of New England have already been noticed. Many of them, by the efforts of Elliot and the Mayhews, had been won from heathenism and the customs of savage life, to a knowledge and love of the Christian religion, and a preference for some of the habits of civilization. Still the great mass of the aboriginal populaMr. Bancroft estimates the Indian population in New England, west of the St. Croix, at about thirty thousand. Of these, five thousand were in Maine, three thousand in New Hampshire, eight thousand in Massachusetts and Plymouth, and fifteen hundred in Connecticut. He supposes the white population west of the Piscataqua to tion remained heathens. |