The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886

The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886

WILLIAMS COLLEGE. THE HUNTING OF THE STAG OF NO. WEBSTER'S VINDICATION. HAWTHORNE'S LAST SKETCH. ON HOOSAC MOUNTAIN. A VERITABLE TRADER. LYDIA MARIA CHILD. BONNIE HAREBELLS. MYTH IN AMERICAN COINAGE. AN INCIDENT OF PORT HUDSON. LUCY KEYES. EDITOR'S TABLE. HISTORICAL RECORD. NECROLOGY. LITERATURE. INDEX TO MAGAZINE LITERATURE. Williams College has something peculiar and romantic in its history, as well as in its site amid the beautiful hills of Berkshire. It had its birth upon the very frontiers of civilization, and amid the throes of that struggle which was to decide finally whether the control of this continent, and the permanent shaping of its institutions and its destiny were to be French or English. The nascent colleges of Colorado, Dakota, and Oregon are relatively to-day in the position held by Williams when it was founded. Col. Ephraim Williams, from whom the college takes its name, had been an active participant in the struggle to which we have alluded. He had been commissioned by the General Court of Massachusetts to construct and command a line of forts along the northern border of settlements from the Connecticut River on the east to the valley of the Hoosac on the west. This line coincided nearly with the northern boundary of Massachusetts; all above, to the borders of Canada, being then a wilderness, through which the roaming savages often burst with sudden violence upon the settlements of the English colonists. The westernmost of the line of forts was not far from what is now the site of the college, and this, being the most exposed and most important, Williams commanded in person. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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