Being engaged in a profitable traffic with the Indians, he preferred to let them slaughter the people on the frontier, rather than to allow his business to be interfered with.

Berkeley's tyranny was carried to such an extreme, that rebellion was the natural consequence.

Rebellion always follows some injury or misplaced confidence in the powers of the government.

This rebellion came a "century too soon," being just one hundred years before the great revolution, which set at liberty all the colonies of North America.
In this story we take up John Stevens and his son Robert, the son and grandson of Philip Stevens, whose story was told in "Pocahontas." The object has been to give a complete history of the period and to depict home life, manners and customs of the time in the form of a pleasing story.

It remains for the reader to say if the effort has been a success.
JOHN R.MUSICK.
KIRKSVILLE, MO., August 1st, 1892.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.