[120]. The consternation which the war with Black Hawk spread over the western country the last year, may give some faint idea of the horrors of an Indian warfare in the early days of the colonies.
[121]. See Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, at January term, 1832, in the Cherokee case.
[122]. There is a strange confusion in the statements of different authors respecting the time of Mr. Williams’ banishment, and of the settlement of Providence. The above date is unquestionably correct, for reasons which will hereafter be presented.
[123]. Letter to Major Mason.
[124]. Letter of Roger Williams.
[125]. Letter to Major Mason.
[126]. Key, chap. ii.
[127]. The venerable Moses Brown assures me, that he has ascertained this fact, to his own satisfaction.
[128]. William Harris, John Smith (miller), Joshua Verin, Thomas Angell and Francis Wickes. R. I. Register, 1828, article written by Moses Brown.
[129]. Equivalent to the modern How do you do?