Strange Stories of Colonial Days. Various

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066142803

      Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       STRANGE STORIES OF COLONIAL DAYS

       I THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN Adventures in Early Indian History

       II CORNELIS LABDEN’S LEAP A Legend of 1645 Retold

       III TOMMY TEN-CANOES A Tale of King Philip’s Scout

       IV JONATHAN’S ESCAPE A Young Hero of Hadley who Fought at Turner’s Falls in 1676

       V THE CROWN OF AN AMERICAN QUEEN In the Days of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia

       VI HOW A BLACKSMITH’S BOY BECAME A KNIGHT The Treasure-hunt of William Phipps in the late Seventeenth Century

       VII THE GIRL CAPTAIN OF CASTLE DANGEROUS How Three Children Fought the Iroquois in 1692

       VIII HOW MARC WAS MADE CAPTAIN A Rescue from the “Lords of the Woods” in 1695

       IX CAPTAIN KIDD An Overrated Pirate

       X HOWARD THE BUCCANEER A Captain of Many Ships

       XI TEW, OF RHODE ISLAND A Fighter from the Seas

       XII THE VROUW VAN TWINKLE’S KRULLERS A Story of Old New York

       XIII THE SIGN OF THE SERPENT A Story of Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century

       XIV A DRUMMER OF WARBURTON’S How a Boy Held Fort George at Cape Canso, in 1757

       XV ROGERS’ RANGERS The Famous New Hampshire Scouts of the Old French War

       XVI THE PLOT OF PONTIAC How Detroit was Saved in 1763