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MYLES STANDISH AND THE INDIANS . 59
sent to England and exchanged for whatever the settlers might need .
A few years after the Pilgrims settled Plymouth people began to settle near them , and in 1630 there came over a large number of people , who founded Boston and other Massachusetts towns . Captain Standish lived to be more than seventy years old and to see many thousands of people in New England . He owned a place at Duxbury, just across the bay from Plymouth. He died there in 1656. The hill which he owned is still called " Captain's Hill. "
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Witch ' -craft, the use of charms or ceremonies in order to persuade the spirits to do some wonderful thing. Pow ' -wow, mysterious cere monies practiced by the Indians . Shrimp , a creature resembling a lob ster, but smaller ; a little wrinkled man . Sig ' - nal , a sign given to another.
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How the Indians tried to get rid of the white men.
How the first Indian came to Plymouth .
About Squanto.
About Massasoit.
About the Narragansetts .
How and why Standish killed certain Indians.
About the beginning of Boston . XI.
William Penn .
WILLIAM PENN , who founded Pennsylvania, was born in London , England , in 1644. He was the only son of Admiral William Penn. Admiral Penn had become a captain before he was twenty , and had distinguished himself in naval bat
