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sence they confiscated his personal belongings and burned his 

 cabin. Potter says that Christo subsequently returned and for- 

 gave the whites for this cruel injury. Other accounts, more in 

 consonance with the Indian character, say that he openly joined 

 the Arosagunticooi<s and became an active and implacable foe. 

 This little trout-stream is now hidden beneath the surface by 

 the march of improvement, for nearly a mile of its course, and 

 the generation to come will know neither name nor place. 



Plausawa had also been an occasional visitor at Amoskeag, 

 accompanied by another drunken brave called Sabbatis, a name 

 representing his baptism into Christianity, literally St. Baptiste, 

 These Indian thieves and murderers, after the commission of a 

 series of outrages in Canterbury, Salisbury and Warren, as well 

 as in this neighborhood, were finally killed in Boscawen by one 

 Peter Bovven. The full details of this affair are given in Little's 

 History of Warren. 



Upon the authority of certain early historians we are asked to 

 believe that upon the death of the great chief of the Micmacs 

 or Taratines, a powerful and warlike tribe in the Province of 

 Maine, to whom the Penacooks were subject, a war of succes- 

 sion arose, which resulted in the choice of Passaconaway to 

 succeed the dead Bashaba, who had been slain in battle. This 

 war for supremacy became general and involved all the tribes 

 from New Brunswick to the Hudson river and from Massachu- 

 setts to Canada. The exact limits were not known and proba- 

 bly can never be determined. The numbers engaged were large, 

 the war continued for years ; it is said to have been conducted 

 with great ferocity and to have been especially disastrous to the 

 coast tribes, who were no match for the hardy inland hunters. 

 Many of the names preserved to us are those of chiefs and war- 

 riors who had become famous in this great war, which was the 

 most sanguinary and relentless ever waged among the Indians 

 of the east. The great plague, to which nearly all the earlier 

 accounts refer, raged among the Nipmucks towards the close of 



