Five reasons for the raid…
Category Archives: 1600-1699
Hannah Dustin in the Snow
A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre…
Hannah Dustin (1697)
“Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)
Sabbath Hawks (Weare)
What a difference a century of Holy Sundays can make!
Journal of Martin Pring (cover + intro)
1603: Here’s a color cover image of Pring’s young guiternist…
Pring 16 ~ “Wee did behold to burne”
1603: The crew of Martin Pring’s last ship watch the New England coast go up in flames…
Goody Cole, Witch of Hampton (Guest Post)
Here’s one from the COMICS WORKSHOP archives — an old mini-comic by Emma (grade 4) starring the only NH woman ever to be convicted of witchcraft:
Pring 15 ~ Final Fire
1603: The dogs save the fort, communications break down, and the expedition heads for home in this EXCITING CONCLUSION of Martin Pring’s Journal!
Pring 14 ~ Two Shots
Pring’s last ship fires the first warning shots of a coming conflict …
Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest
Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…
Pring 12 ~ As The Land is Full
Wherein we can perhaps glimpse the little gold “crownes” in Pring’s eyes as he ogles the natives’ pelts …
Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest
Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …
Live Free and Draw 