NEWS FROM New-England, BEING A True and last Account of the present Bloody Wars carried on betwixt the Infidels, Natives, and the English Christians, and Converted Indians of New-England, declaring the many Dreadful Battles Fought betwixt them: As also the many Towns and Villages burnt by the merciless Heathens. And also the true Number of all the Christians slain since the beginning of that War, as it was sent over by a Factor of New-England to a Merchant in London.  Licenced by Roger L' Estrange. 
LONDON, Printed for J. Coniers at the Sign of the Black Raven in Ducklane, 1676.   

A True and Last Account of the Present Bloody Wars carried on betwixt the Infidel Natives and the English Christians and converted Indians of New England, etc.  
THOSE Coals of Dissension which had a long time lain hid under the ashes of a secret envy; contracted by the Heathen indians of New- England, against the English; and Christian Natives of that Country broke out in June 1675. both Armies being at a distance without doing any thing remarkable till the 13 of December following; at which time the Siath●se●s and plymouth Company marching from Sycock, sent out a cons derable number of Scouts, who killed and took 55. of the Enemy, returning with no other loss but two of our Men disabled, about three days after came a perfidious Ind●a● to our Army pretending he was sent by the Sachems to treat of Peace, who was indeed no other but a Spy and was no sooner conducted out of our Camp but we had news brought us that 22 of our Straggling Soldiers were Slain and divers barn● and out houses, with Mr. ●er. ●ulls dwelling house burnt by him and his Treacherous confederates which wai●ed for him. The next day as the ●on e●ick Army under the Condu●t of Major 〈◊〉 was Marching to Join with the Ma●●uset●, and lymouth Company; they were assaulted by the indian's, but without any los, they taking eleven of the Assailants Prisoners.  
The 8●●●. of De●ember, our whole Army being united under the Conduct of Major, 〈◊〉 W. s●●, w●nt to seek out the Enemy whom we found (there then hapening a great fall of Snow) securing themselves in a dismal Swam●, so hard of access that there was but one wa● for entrance which was well lined with Heathen In ●ans, who presently went out to assault us▪ but we falling in Pelmell with them; with much difficulty gained the Swamp where we found above 1500 Wig●wams and by night, had possession of the fort; of which we were dispossessed soon after by an unexpected recruit of fresh ●ndian●, out of an adjoining Swamp, but our Noble Generals insatiable desire of victory prompted him to such brave actions, that we following his example to the enemy's cost, made ourselves absolute Masters of the fort again, Although we purchased our success at so dear a rate that we have small cause to rejoice at the victory; yet when we consider the vast disadvantage they had of us in number, whom we collected to have 4000 fight men, and we no● much more than half so many, we have great reason to bless God we came of so well, our dead and wounded not a Mounting to above 220, and the enemies by their own Confession to no less than 600. the chief officers killed on our side were Capt. Dav nport, Capt. Johns●n, Capt. Marshal, Capt. Gardener. Capt. Gallop.  
Captains Wounded were 4 vi●t, Sealey, Major Wats, and B●ad●o●d, Leiutenants wounded were 4 v●z. Savage, T●n●, Vpham and Wa●●.  
In this bloody Battle we gave so bitter a Relish of our English valour and our converted Indians resolutions, that they dreaded our neighbourhood and thought themselves unsafe ti●l secured by six or seven mile's distance from our remaining Army, where they remained near a month not attempting any thing considerable till the first of Feb. at which time a certain Number of them made desperate through hunger came to Fal●k●e, a Little Town near Providence, and attempted the house of one Mr. Carpenter, from whom they took 20 horses 50 head of Cattle and 180 sheep And set fire on a house at South-bury wherein were two Men, one Woman and seven Children, on t e 41●. of Fe ruary the Christians received private intelligenc● from the nd●a● who had Skulked ever since the last Battle in certain woods situate a●out 30 miles from Mal●u●●, that they were drawn up into a body and encamped in a well fortified Swamp, where, notwithstanding the Indi●n a saulted the Rear, wounded four of our men, and we killing so many of theirs that they thought fit to forsake their r fuge and leave both it and their Wigwams to our disposal, who lodging in their Rooms that night set fire to a 150 of their Wigwams next morning, and by this light pursued them so lose that we ●ill'd divers of them whom age or Wounds rendered incapable of keeping up with their Companions, and resolving to continue the quest with all the celerity immaginable, they led us to another Swamp whose Rocky ascent propounded so great ● difficulty to attain it, as would have Staggared the resolution of any but a resolved Mind; but we attempted it with the like resolution and success as we did the Last; the enemy by a speedy flight leaving us in full possession of all they left behind them.  
We Pursued them two days after this encounter, but then (which was on the 18th Febr.) finding our men wearied with speedy marches, our provision scarce through continual expense and no recruit, our horses tired, and ourselves hopeless of overtaking them who had great advantage of us in passing over Rocks and through Thickets, which our Foot not without much difficulty could, and our horse were altogether incapable to do; our Commanders after a Council of war, resolved to fend the Massathusers and Plymouth Company to Mal●ur● and the Connect●cks Army to their own homes which was accordingly done. And Major Genr. Wins●ow, only with two Troops to Boston leaving the foot at Malbury and S●ut●●bury, who came home on Monday following and were all dismissed to their several habitations except Capt. Wadworth who was left at Mu●bury in pursuit of the Enemy, of whom he destroyed about 70 Old Men Wom●n and Children who wanted strength to follow the fugitive Army.  
The Desperate heathens taking advantage of the dismission of three Disbanded Companies, studied nothing but Massacres outrages, and treacherous hostility, which within two days after those said Companies were dispersed they found opportunity to commit in a Town called Nas●away which they set fire to and burnt to t e Ground taking no less than 55 Persons into their Merciless captivity, and because the reader shall understand the Damnable antipathy they have to Religion and Piety, I would have him take notice how they endeavour to Signallize their Cruelty and gratify their enraged Spleen chief on the promoters of it; for of these 55 Captives the Minister of the Towns relations made no less than 19 of them viz. Mrs. Ro●lo●son the Minister's wife and three of his Children, her sister and sea●en children, and her sister Dr●w and four Children. The Minister himself with his sister's husbands returning from Bo●ton a little after the engagement to their infinite grief found their houses burnt to the ground, and their Wives and Children taken Captive, nor was this cruelty committed, as the extent or N●polus Vltra of their vengeance, but rather as an earnest of their future Bearba●ity For no longer than the next day after three men Going out, with the Cart were seized on by these Indians, one of them killed, and the other two not to befound, the day following at Cox●ord, they burned one house and murdered three persons.  
In short, their outrages are so many and different, that I must entreat the reader since they will not be brought into afluent Narration, to accept them plainly and dyurnully according to the time, place, and manner as they were committed, which is the only way to avoid omissions, and consequently to Satisfy the inquisitive, who I suppose would willingly hear of all the extremities have happened to the suffering Christians in this New England War.  
On the 17 of Febr. therefore ye must know that the Town of Medfeied was begirt with a regiment of resoleut Indian, who assailed it so briskly, that maugred all the resistance made by Captain ●acobbs who was then Engarrisoned there with a hundred Soldiers for its security, the enraged Heathens never desisted their desperate attempts, Battering the Walls, and powering showers of Arrows into the bosom of the Town, they had destroyed above 50 of her inhabitants and burnt 30 of her houses.  
The 7th. of March following these bloody Indians marched to a considerable Town called Croa●on where first they set fire to Major Willards house, and afterwards burned 65 more there being Seaventy two houses at first so that there was left standing but six houses of the whole Town, the next day after two men coming from Ma●bury to Southlury were slain: ●nd the Sabbath day ensuing, these destroying Ind an● came to Plym●u●h where fixing only on a house of one Mr. Clarks they burned, and murdered his wife and all his Children, himself Narrowly escapeing their cruelty by happily at that Juncture being at a meeting.  
On the second of ●pr l 1676. Major Savage, Captain Mosele●, Captain W●l●●am T●r●or, and Captain Veb pal, with 300. men marching from Malb●row to Q●●bury, where they had ordered the Conne●●●●e● Army to remain in readiness against their ●oming, whi●h being effected, accordingly they joined forces, and began their march towards Northampton, but by the way were assaulted by the Indians, whom they repelled without any other damage, then only Mr. ●ue●ly wounded, killing about 20 of the Enemies in a hot pursuit after them.  
The tenth Ditto, about 700 Indians encompassed Northamp●on on all sides where they fought very resolutly for the space of an hour, and then fled, leaving about 25 persons dead upon the place, the Christians losing only 4. men and 1. woman, and had some barns burnt, on the 12th instant they assaulted Warwick with so unhappy a success that they burned all the Town except four Garrison houses which were left standing, six days after Captain Peirce Brother to Captain Pe rce of London, with 55 men and 20 Christian Indians went to seek out their Enemies, the Indians whom according to their Intelligence they sound rambling in an obscure Wood, upon his approach they drew into order, and received his onset with much difficulty, being in the end forced to retreat, but it was so slowly that it scarcely deserved that Name, when a f●esh company of Indians came into their assistance, beset the Christians round, Killed Captain Pierce. and 48. of his men, besides 8. of the Christian Indians. The Fight continued about 5 hours, the Enemy buying the Victory very dearly, but at last obtained it so absolutely that they deprived us of all means of hearing of their loss.  
At Mal●row on the 12th Ditto, were several houses burnt whilst the miserable inhabitants were at a meeting, and at Springfield the same Lord's day, these devilish Enemies of Religion seeing a man, woman, and their Children, going but towards a meetinghouse, Slew them (as they said) because they thought they Intended to go thither.  
The 28th, of the same instant April last, Captain Denison collecting a Regiment of 500 and 200 English Paquet Nimerass Indians marched out of New London in search of that Grand somenter of this Rebellion. Anthony the Se. ham whom at last near the Town call d Providence he recovered, and a●ter a hot dispute wherein he killed 45 of the Sechems men, Took him their Commander Prisoner with several of his Captains, whom they immediately put to death but were at strong debate whether they should send him to Boston, but at length they carried him to New London and began to examine him why he did foment that war which would certainly be the destruction of him and all the Heathen Indians in the Country, to which and many other interogatories he made no other reply but that [he was born a Prince, and if Princes came to speak with him, he would answer them, But none of those present being Princes, he thought himself obliged on honour to hold his Tongue] This Answer though it might Challenge their admiration, was not so prevalent as to obtain their pity.  
Notwithstanding the Surviveing Sechems were not long in revenging his death, for on the Sixth of May, they burned all ●albor●w except three Garrison houses, killed Capt. Jacobson and Lieutenant Prat, and two days after burnt 24 houses in ●outh●ury, kill d several of the inhabitants who vainly expected Capt. H●dworth and Capt. Br●okwel to their Relief; for these unfortunate Gentlemen were intercepted by 700 Moo● with whom they fought for the space of 4 hours till not only they two but Capt. Sharp, and 51 Christians more lay dead upon the place.  
At Woodcock 10 miles from S●co●ch on the 16th M y was a little S●irmage betwixt the Moo●s and Christians, wherein there was of the later three slain and two wounded, and only two Indians Killed.  
May 28. 1676. Capt. Denison and Capt. Evr● with 50 English and about 150 Paquet Indians Scouting among the Woods in 8 days space killed 25 Indians and took 51 prisoners, one whereof was Grandchild to Dunham who was killed by Capt. Peirce in the engagement on the 26 May.  
The number of Christians slain since the be inning of the late Wars in New England, are 444. Taken Prisoner, 55  
The number of Indian's Slain in this war is uncertain because they burn their Dead, keeping their Death as a Secret from the Christians knowledge, but the number mentioned herein is 910.  
We have Received very late news that the Christians in New Engl and have had very great Victory over the Infidel Natives.  
FINIS.