HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. 



within what is now Rhode Island, six;* within what is 

 now Connecticut, twenty-three, f Vermont, as yet, was 

 not. It is probable that the entire population of New 

 England at this time, excluding Indians, was not far from 

 eighty thousand. J 



The best computation suggests, on the same territory, 

 at the same time, not far from 10,500 Indians, distributed 

 among the tribes as follows: — 



Pequots 1,200 



Narragansetts 4,000 



Pokanokets, Nausets, &c 700 



Massachusetts 1,200 



Pautuckets 1 ,000 



Nipmuks 2,400 



10,500 



When the war broke out, Josias Winslow was Governor 

 of Plymouth Colony — where William Bradford had been 

 dead seventeen years; Miles Standish, eighteen; Edward 

 Winslow, nineteen; and William Brewster, thirty; and 

 where John Rowland had been dead scarcely one year. 



Marlborough, Hadley, Hatfield, Dart- New Haven, Guilford, Saybrook, Mil- 

 mouth, Swansea, Amesbury, Beverly, ford, Fairfield, Stratford, Greenwich, 

 Milton, Wrentham, Lancaster, Mendon, Stamford, Branford, Farmington, New 

 Deerfield, Brookfield, Sherborn, Edgar- London, Simsbury, Middleton, Nor- 

 town, and Tisbury. walk, Stonington, Norwich, Killing- 

 * Providence, Newport, Portsmouth, worth, Lyme, Haddam, and Walling- 

 Warwick, Westerly, and New Shore- ford. 



ham (Block Island). $ See estimate of 78, 416 in Coll. Am. 



t Wethersfield, Hartford, Windsor, Slatis. Assoc. i : 141. 



