This etext was produced by Gardner Buchanan with help from
Charles Franks and the distributed proofers.
WACOUSTA;
or,
THE PROPHECY.
Volume One of Three
Preface
It is well known to every man conversant with the earlier
history of this country that, shortly subsequent to the
cession of the Canadas to England by France, Ponteac,
the great head of the Indian race of that period, had
formed a federation of the various tribes, threatening
extermin ation to the British posts established along
the Western frontier. These were nine in number, and the