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II. The Historians, 1607–1783.

§ 11. Narratives of the Indian Wars.

New England did not have the only Indian wars in America, but she alone had worthy historians of them. The struggles of 1622 and 1642 in Virginia, the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, and the Yemassee War in South Carolina, to say nothing of the wars of the Iroquois in New York, were as worthy of historical description as the struggle known as King Philip’s War in New England, but they found no pen to describe them for the contemporary public. Bacon’s rebellion in Virginia was well narrated for posterity, but the narratives long remained in manuscript; and the important struggles between South Carolina and Georgia on the one side and Spanish Florida on the others have not to this day been made the subjects of adequate treatment in a readable form.