At last the colonists, driven to extremity, resolved to die like men rather than be murdered in their beds.

The house built by Petty for his agent was the largest in the place.

It stood on a rocky peninsula round which the waves of the bay broke.

Here the whole population assembled, seventy-five fighting men, with about a hundred women and children.

They had among them sixty firelocks, and as many pikes and swords.