The Pocanokets and the Narragansetts had shared the fate of the Pequods; the country of the Pocanokets was annexed to Plymouth, though sixty years afterwards it was transferred to Rhode Island; the Narragansett territory was for long a disputed possession. The few Indians of these tribes who still remained, removed to the west and north. They were no longer a nation. After this the work of conversion went on with renewed vigour. A second edition of the Indian Old Testament, which, as if an evidence of the spirit which influenced the whites towards them, was more in request than the New, was published; but at this day not an individual remains to whom it can be useful. The converted or praying Indians, as they were called, suffered much; by their forest brethren they were hated as Christians, by the Christians suspected as Indians. Four only, of their fourteen towns, remained to them; but Eliot continued to be the “faithful shepherd of these, his poor, despised flock in the wilderness,” and braved many dangers and hardships on their account. Various romantic incidents occurred in this war, two of which we will relate. The escape of Anne Brackett, the grand-daughter of George Cleves, the first settler of Portland, was the marvel of that day. “Her family had been taken captive at the sack of Falmouth. When her captors hastened forward to further ravages on the Kennebec, she was able to loiter behind, and, discovering the wreck of a birchen bark, she repaired it by means of needle and thread, which she found in a deserted house. Then with her husband, a negro servant and her infant child, she confided herself to the sea in this frail bark, which was like a feather on the waves. And thus she crossed Casco Bay and arrived at Black Point, where she feared to find Indians. Indians however there were none, but to her joy a vessel from Piscataqua, on board which she was received, together with those so dear to her, whose lives she had saved.” Again, on one occasion, “some fugitive Indians who had taken refuge in Canada descended the Connecticut, and falling upon a party assembled at Hadley, at a house-raising, carried off twenty persons. The husbands of two of the female captives proceeded to Canada, by way of Albany and Lakes George and Champlain, guided by a Mohawk Indian—the first recorded journey made in this direction—and by the intervention of the French government the captives were redeemed.” CHAPTER XVI. THE CHARTER OF MASSACHUSETTS ANNULLED. But with the conclusion of the Indian war the troubles of Massachusetts were not at an end. The merchants of London, jealous of the rising commercial power of New England, complained of her total disregard of the laws of trade, and the Navigation Act was attempted to be enforced with renewed vigour.