Identifier: newenglandhumani00john (find matches)
Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e of them. At the time that Burgoyne made his invasion fromCanada, Pittsfield had for its minister Fighting Par-son Allen. He went with the Berkshire troops toBennington as chaplain, and when the battle beganmounted a stump and exhorted the enemy to laydown their arms. He received only the spiteful re-sponse of musketry, and he left the stump, seized agun, and did valiant duty with the rest of the troops. Not far from Pittsfield is beautiful Lake Onata. Beautiful Berkshire 139 Once a dweller on its shore, while out with his dog,hunting, saw a fine white deer stooping to drink at themargin of the lake. He raised his gun to fire, but,before he could pull the trigger, his dog howled, andthe deer faded away. There is a Mohegan legend ofsuch a deer that came each spring with the openingof the cherry blossoms to drink from this lake. Itwas the Indian behef that, so long as the snow-whitedoe came there to drink, their harvest would not failthem, or pestilence destroy them, or fires lay waste
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Pontoosuc Lake near Pittsfield their country. They never molested the creature.However, at last, a Frenchman from Canada, who visited 140 New England them, induced a warrior, by a gift of fire-water, tokill the gentle deer. He set out for Montreal withthe skin, but was slain on the journey. Never after that did thingsgo well withthe Indians. The town ofStockbridgewas originallylaid out fortheir accom-modation, andin 1737 achurch andschoolhousewere built forthem there.The settlementgradually in-creased in sizeuntil the In-dians num-bered nearlyfive hundred. They were Christianized by JohnSargent, who came into the wilderness of southernBerkshire at the age of twenty-four, mastered theirlanguage, and preached three or four sermons a weekto them. In 1751 Jonathan Edwards settled in Stock-bridge to assist in the task of converting the red

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