Levies on mackerel fishery and on drift whales at Cape Cod Administration of the customs The collector in Massachusetts and his duties. This involved payment for soldiers, officers, forts, and supplies Heavy expenditures in connection with Philip's war Subordination of the military to the civil power Classes which were liable to trainings and exempt from trainings Regimental trainings for horse and foot. Regulations for trainings in each of the respective colonies Constables' watches in the towns Regulations for giving alarms. No permanently organized commissariat. During the seventeenth century in no corporate colony except Stockades vs. garrison houses. Military administration . Regulated by acts of the general court Controlled by the governor, assistants, and special councils and Desolating attacks on many towns of central Massachusetts . Continued operations in the Connecticut valley, Turner's Falls Capture and death of Canonchet. Prolongation of hostilities till Treaty of Casco, 1678. Peace. The war greatly strengthened English control over the Indians INTRODUCTION DUC- It is the purpose of the author of the work, of which these INTROvolumes form a part, to trace the growth of the BritishAmerican colonies as institutions of government and as parts of a great colonial system. The beginnings of that system, in one of its phases, will be passed in review. In order properly to accomplish this task a discriminating use must be made of much known material. The political and social sciences have now reached such development that it is impossible to present in a single view all known aspects of any period of history. A choice must be made between those which are distinctly political and those that are social, and upon the one or the other the emphasis must be laid. This should be done not in a narrow or exclusive spirit, but with a due regard to the fact that political events and forms of government are very largely the product of social causes, while institutions in their turn are the avenues through which social forces act. In this work attention will be specially directed to forms of government and to the forces and events from which their development has sprung. Material of a social or economic nature will be utilized not directly for its own sake, but for a light which it may throw on political growth. In other words, an attempt will be made to interpret early American history in the terms of public law. The treatment of material will be subordinated to that end. In this fact will be found a leading justification for the existence of the book itself. General histories of the period we have, and additions to their number are not infrequently made. Constitutional histories of the United States have been written, but no one has hitherto undertaken to produce an institutional history of the American colonies. |