Account : of Capt. Lovewell's fight at Pigwacket, 1725 May 8.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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Melvin, Eleazar, fl. 1725.

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Captain John Lovewell of New Hampshire was one of New England's most famous frontiersmen and scalp hunters. During Dummer's War in the spring of 1725, Lovewell recruited forty-six men to raid the Indian town of Pigwacket, also a tribe of the Abenaki confederacy. Upon approaching Pigwacket on May 8, Lovewell and his men encountered a much larger Indian force than expected. Capt. Lovewell was mortally wounded at the first fire and only eighteen of his men survived the day-...

Lovewell, John, 1691-1725

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