This  will  show  that  they  were  not  unmindful  of  the  advan-
tages of  a  Gospel  ministry,  and  that  they  were  williing  to  sup-
port it,  amid  all  their  accumulated  burdens,  arising  out  of  their
pecuhar  circumstances. It  was  at  this  time,  Commissioners
arrived  at  Boston  from  the  crown  of  England,  making  demands
precisely  of  the  same  nature,  with  those  which  one  hundred
years  afterwards,  produced  the  war  of  the  revolution,  and  they
were  equally  resisted  m  the  first  instance,  as  in  the  second. In
1675,  the  ever  memorable  war  with  Phillip  commenced,  which
involved  the  dearest  interests  of  Connecticut,  as  well  as  those
of  all  the  other  Colonies  in  New  England. This  celebrated  chief
had  his  principal  seat  at  Mount  Hope,  in  the  eastern  part  of  the
town  of  Bristol,  in  Rhode  Island,  and  he  had  the  temerity  to
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conspire  the  destruction  of  all  the  Colonies  in  New  England^
For  this  purpose, he  drew  into  his  scheiues  all  the  principal  chiefs
and  tribes  in  the  region,  and  with  all  possible  secrecy, proceeded
to  execute  his  diabolical  Avork. Swanzey,  a  frontier  town  of
Plymouth  Colony,  was  the  first  to  experience  the  vengeance
of  the  Indians. This  electrified  each  Colony,  and  Connecticut
sent  troops  immediately  to  Stonington,  for  the  defence  of  that,
and  the  neighboring  towns. But  notwithstanding  all  that  the
colonies  could   do  this   year,  the  Indians  triumphed. Brook-
field,  Iladley,  Deerfield,  Northfield,  and  Springfield,  were  all
attacked. Houses  and  barns  were  burned,  cattle  killed,  grain
destroyed,  and  many  of  the  inhabitants  were  either  massacred,
or  carried  into  a  terrible  captivity. Connecticut  raised  sixty
dragoons  in  each  county,  for  the  defence  of  the  Colonies :  all
towns  were  put  in  the  best  state  to  repel  an  attack,  and  in  No-
vember, they  sent  three  hundred  of  their  own  men,  and  a
hundred  and    fifty  Mohegans  to  cooperate  with  troops  from
Massachusetts,  and  Plymouth  against  the  Narragansetts. This
expedition  was  successful  in  destroying  the  NaiTagansett  fort,
and  dispersing  the  Indians,  but  it  was  a  dear  bought  victory  I
Of  the  300  regular  troops  from  Connecticut,  eighty  were  either
killed  or  wounded. But  in  the  summer  of  1670,  Philip  himself
fell  in  battle,  and  with  him  expired  the  hope  of  the  Indians,  and
peace  was  the  result. 