Produced by Juliet Sutherland, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: [See page 43 HE MANAGED TO PULL HIM UP BEHIND] STRANGE STORIES OF COLONIAL DAYS BY FRANCIS STERNE PALMER, G. T. FERRIS HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH FRANCIS S. DRAKE ROWAN STEVENS AND OTHERS ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1907, by Harper & Brothers. *** All rights reserved. Published May, 1907. CONTENTS I THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN Adventures in Early Indian History By Francis S. Drake II CORNELIS LABDEN’S LEAP A Legend of 1645 Retold By G. T. Ferris III TOMMY TEN-CANOES A Tale of King Philip’s Scouts By Hezekiah Butterworth IV JONATHAN’S ESCAPE A Young Hero of Hadley who Fought at Turner’s Falls in 1676 By Robert H. Fuller V THE CROWN OF AN AMERICAN QUEEN In the Days of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia By Sally Nelson Robins VI HOW A BLACKSMITH’S BOY BECAME A KNIGHT The Treasure-hunt of William Phipps in the late Seventeenth Century By Paul Hull VII THE GIRL CAPTAIN OF CASTLE DANGEROUS How Three Children Fought the Iroquois in 1692 By G. T. Lanigan VIII HOW MARC WAS MADE CAPTAIN A Rescue from the “Lords of the Woods” in 1695 By Francis Sterne Palmer IX CAPTAIN KIDD An Overrated Pirate By Rowan Stevens X HOWARD THE BUCCANEER A Captain of Many Ships By Rowan Stevens XI TEW, OF RHODE ISLAND A Fighter from the Seas By Rowan Stevens XII THE VROUW VAN TWINKLE’S KRULLERS A Story of Old New York By Agnes Carr Sage XIII THE SIGN OF THE SERPENT A Story of Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century By G. T. Ferris XIV A DRUMMER OF WARBURTON’S How a Boy Held Fort George at Cape Canso, in 1757 By Percie W. Hart XV ROGER’S RANGERS The Famous New Hampshire Scouts of the Old French War By Francis S. Drake XVI THE PLOT OF PONTIAC How Detroit was Saved in 1763 By Francis S. Drake ILLUSTRATIONS HE MANAGED TO PULL HIM UP BEHIND Frontispiece “MEIN VROUW! MEIN GILDREN!” THE DUTCHMAN GROANED Facing p. 16 “GOOD-BYE, TOMMY FIVE-CANOES” “ 32 THE THONGS WERE CUT “ 92 HE PLUNDERED AND BURNED “ 108 THE HELPLESS PIRATES WERE SWEPT BACK “ 122 HE WAS KNOCKED OVERBOARD BY A PIKE-THRUST “ 144 SHE ROLLED AND PITCHED LIKE A MAD THING “ 204 INTRODUCTION