Soldiers in King Philip's war. Containing lists of the soldiers of ...

NO. XIII.
THE NARRAGANSET CAMPAIGN TO THE CLOSE OF
THE "GREAT SWAMP" BATTLE.
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The above picture, representing the present appearance of the site
of the old "Swamp Fort" of the Narragansetts, destroyed by the
forces of the United Colonies, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Plymouth,
December 19th, 1075, was published several years since in
a book called "Picturesque Rhode Island." Saving the changes
incident upon the clearing and cultivation of contiguous land, the
place could be easily identified as the battlefield, even if its location
were not put beyond question by traditions and also by relics found
from time to time upon the place. It is now, as then, an "island of
four or five acres," surrounded by swampy land, overflowed except
in the dryest part of the year. The island was cleared and plowed
about 1775, and at that time many bullets were found deeply bedded
in the large trees ; quantities of charred corn were plowed up in
different places, and it is said that Dutch spoons and Indian arrowheads,
etc., have been found here at different times. There is no