As the English villages now grew nearer and nearer to them, their hunting-grounds were put under culture, their natural parks turned into pastures, their best fields for planting corn were gradually alienated, their fisheries impaired by more skilful methods, till they found themselves deprived of their broad acres, and by their own legal contracts driven, as it were, into the sea.
Mutual distrusts and collisions were the inevitable consequence.

There is no authentic evidence of a deliberate conspiracy on the part of all the tribes.

Bancroft, who is, perhaps, the best authority on all colonial matters, says the commencement of the war was accidental, and that "many of the Indians were in a maze, not knowing what to do, and ready to stand for the English." There were many grievances among the Indians.

The haughty chieftain, who had once before been compelled to surrender his "English arms," and pay an onerous tribute, was summoned to submit to an examination, and could not escape suspicion.
The wrath of his tribe was roused, and the informer was murdered.

In turn the murderers were identified, seized, tried by a jury of which one-half were Indians, and on conviction were hanged.