Concord suffered little from the war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that troops were generally quartered here, and that it was the residence of many noted soldiers. Tradition finds another cause in the sanctity of its minister. The elder Bulkeley was gone. In 1659,[60] his bones were laid at rest in the forest. But the mantle of his piety and of the people’s affection fell upon his son Edward,[61] the fame of whose prayers, it is said, once saved Concord from an attack of the Indian.[62] A great defence undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians, until this settlement fell a victim to the envenomed prejudice against their countrymen. The worst feature in the history of those years, is, that no man spake for the Indian. When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,—an earnest minority,—to keep things from extremity. But the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den. It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town.[63] This painful incident is but too just an example of the measure which the Indians have generally received from the whites. For them the heart of charity, of humanity, was stone. After Philip’s death, their strength was irrecoverably broken. They never more disturbed the interior settlements, and a few vagrant families, that are now pensioners on the bounty of Massachusetts, are all that is left of the twenty tribes. “Alas! for them—their day is o’er, Their fires are out from hill and shore, No more for them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds; The pale man’s axe rings in their woods, The pale man’s sail skims o’er their floods, Their pleasant springs are dry.”[64] I turn gladly to the progress of our civil history. Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town,[65] so that Concord then included the greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.