Identifier: kingphilip00abbo (find matches)
Title: King Philip
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot, 1805-1877.
Subjects: Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags, 1676 King Philip's War, 1675-1676 Indians of North America--Biography Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750 Wampanoag Indians--New England--History New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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n these excursions he had become acquaintedwith the Leonards. They had treated him andhis followers with uniform kindness, repairingtheir guns, and supplying them ^^ith such toolsas the Indians highly prized. Philip had be-come exceedingly attached to this family, andin gratitude, at the commencement of the war,had given the strictest orders that the Indiansshould never injure a Leonard. Apprehendingthat in a general assault upon the town hisfriends the Leonards might be exposed to dan-ger, he spread the shield of his generous protec-tion over the whole place. This act certainlydevelops a character of more than ordinarymagnanimity. On the 18th of April an immense band ofsavages, five Iiundred in number, made an im-petuous assault upon Sudbury. The inhabit-ants, warned of their approach, had abandonedtheir homes and taken refuge in tlieir garrisons.The savages set fire to several of the dwellings,and were dancing exultingly around the flames,when a small band of soldiers from Watertown
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1677.) The Indians Victorious. 313 Captain Wadsworth. Attempt to save Sudbury. came to the rescue, and the inmates of the gar-rison, sallying forth, joined them, and drove theIndians across the river. Captain Wadsworth, from Boston, chancedto be in the vicinity with about seventy men.Hearing of the extreme peril of Sudbury, al-though he had marched all the day and all thenight before, and his men were exhausted withfatigue, he instantly commenced his march forthat place. Painfully toiling on through thenight by the road leading from Marlborough,early on the morning of the 19th he arrivedwithin a mile and a half of the town. Herethe Indians, who by their scouts had kept them-selves informed of his approach, ■ prepared anambush. As the English were marching alongwith great caution, *a band of about a hundredIndians crossed their path some distance in ad-vance of them, and fled, feigning a panic. TheEnglish pursued them impetuously about a mileinto the woods, when the fugitives made a

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