A Poem about the English

some scattered notes

on the settling

of the colonies

by the english

of the English

it was Gosnald-

was one of the first

-report on habits

disposition of the native

and mostly- products

-what products to be had

Pring  was in it

traded for  sassafras and fur

Waymouth on his ship

Archangel mapped

explored the Maine coast

taking back five -

five Indians back

back to England where...

well, 

it was

that they should speak of riches -

riches to be had

this

so money might be raised -

money to be used

to build the colonies.

      Capt Challons made the mistake

took the southern route

his ship,  taken by Spanish

never reached Virginia

Jamestown was holding

but Sagadahoc less than a year

lasted -

the death of George Popham

fire in the storehouse

no gold found

for hope

or inspiration

.......................

Harlow had it in mind

did it -

kidnapped five natives

off Martha’s Vineyard

brought them back to England

and Hunt

he took 24 to  Malago

and there

sold them

one of them Squanto

the Wampanoag

who was in later years

valuable help to the Puritans

until going too far

Massasoit asked for his head

Jamestown still held

but there was

of course

growing hostility towards

and mistrust

of

of course

the English -

the  plague was there

in 1616 - 1617

making it easier for English

interpreted by Puritan

as God

making room for His people

...................................

Wampanoag

unseen

silent at Plymouth

when Puritan came

watching

listening

seeing the English at work

Nauset

set ambush to English

in December

with no success

                         in December

it was found -

English settlement

built on the site

of Pawtuxet -

old Wampanoag village

decimated during the plague

English named this as Plymouth

by 1628

    300 at Salem

    ( Naumkeag then in name

white at Charlestown

more and more into Watertown,

Boston,

Boston growing fast -

fast because of harbor

expansion inland

in forms of trading post

trade at Matianuck    ( now as Windsor

settlement at Pyquag -

the start of Dorchester

   Saukiog became as Hartford for the white men

.............................

what started it was -

was Stone and the seven of his crew

the ones the Pequot killed

many

including Puritan

said he deserved it -

this death

but not the seven -

the dead being English

was enough

and it was revenge

that was wanted

scattered raids

as, like at Saybrook

or, say, at Wethersfield

where

after the ambush

Pequot paddled

up to Fort Saybrook

hoisting the shirts

and skirts

of the dead

as if they were English sails -

raids gave way  to war

war between Pequot and English

Mohegan in it

in it for the English

to prove loyalty

came to Saybrook

with four Pequot heads

and one -

living warrior

for him

living warrior

it was for one leg to be tied to the post

to the other, rope -

and like this

to be torn apart -

by  English

   Capt Underhill says the body

   was roasted and eaten by Mohegan

in a half hour

Mason’s  army killed

six hundred

Pequot men women and children

- this at Fort

    on Mystic River

Mason

in Puritan fashion

took not the credit

played it down

putting it -

the credit

to his god

this -

for judging the heathen

and filling the place with their bodies

Stoughten landed at Pequot Harbor

rounded up natives that remained

thirty-three women and children

given to the Narragansetts

three went to the Massachusetts

fifty-four kept for the Bay Colony itself

- the twenty - two warriors -

executed

.......................

Quinnipiac   ( New Haven

was site of battle

women children and old men

allowed to leave the swamp

warriors tried

in vain

to escape

lay huddled together to die

....................................

muskets loaded with ten to twelve balls

fired at close range

Sassacus and forty warriors

later

found by Mohegan

their heads and hands

arrived at Hartford

presentd for the English

Sassacus

       sachem was dead.