Excerpt from Indian Wars of New England, Vol. 3

In Europe the war which became known in America as Queen Anne's was designated, with some degree of appropriateness, "The War of the Spanish Succession." In New England it had not attained any marked character as a cause to be maintained until the spring of that year which followed the accession of the English queen, when the depredations on the part of the French and Indians began upon the eastern New England frontier, to overlap New Hampshire, in 1704, with the massacre and destruction of Deerfield, after which the pendulum of Indian savagery swung thitherward, through the years that marked the duration of this war, with intermittent disaster to the settlers of the Connecticut Valley.

An examination into the causes of this war is historically interesting and instructive.

Charles II., of the House of Austria and monarch of Spain, was dead. By his will he had declared the Duke of Anjou, the second son of the French dauphin, the sole heir to the Spanish monarchy. He is better known in history as Philip V., of the House of Bourbon.

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