The Magazine of History With Notes and Queries: Comprising the Expeditions of Captain John Lovewell and His Encounters With the Indians; Account of ... Fighter, at Pigwacket (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Magazine of History With Notes and Queries: Comprising the Expeditions of Captain John Lovewell and His Encounters With the Indians; Account of Lovewell's Expeditions; John Chamberlain, the Indian Fighter, at Pigwacket

But there are lingering among us a few aged persons who well remember, that, in the days of their childhood, while the family were gathered for a winter evening around the ample hearths of that period, some old man told the story of the brave Captain Lovewell and his company, their successes and misfortunes, till it awakened such an intense interest in their breasts, that the listeners were ahnost carried back to the scene of the encounter, and started as the winter blast swept round the house, almost expecting to hear the whoops of the savage, and to see the forms of Paugus and his warriors. They can also call to mind how they have listened to hear their grandmothers sing one of the rude songs of that day, of which those heroes were the theme.

But the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the succeeding events of the Revolution, threw Captain Lovewell and Paugus into the shade, and they are now only to be heard of on the pages of history.

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