and Nashua on the one hand, and Hudson on the other. It was from the former place [then a frontier town], it will be remembered, that the famous Captain Lovewell, with his company, marched in quest of the Indians, on the 18th of April, 1725. He was the son of "an ensign in the army of Oliver Cromwell, who came to this country and settled at Dunstable, where he died at the great age of one hundred and twenty years." In the words of the old nursery tale, written about a hundred years ago [speaking of the Captain, not the Ensign]:
He and his valiant soldiers did range the woods full wide,
And hardships they endured, to quell the Indians pride.
In the shaggy pine forest Pigwacket he met the rebel Indians and conquered them; and a remnant returned home to enjoy the fruits of their victory in the township which was granted them by the State.
the township, it became a border town between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and also a frontier settlement, liable to Indian attack. The township granted the Lovewell men was Pembroke in New Hampshire, but was granted by the Province of Massachusetts.
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