Decennium Luctuosum.  
AN HISTORY OF Remarkable Occurrences, In the Long WAR, WHICH NEW-ENGLAND hath had with the Indian Savages,  
From the Year, 1688.  
To the Year, 1698.  
Faithfully Composed and Improved.  Infandum, .... Jubes Renovare Dolorem. 
BOSTON in New-England.  
Printed by B. Green, and J. Allen, for Samuel Phillips, at the Brick Shop near the Old-Meeting-House. 1699.   

The Dedication. TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW-ENGLAND.  
SIRS,  
YOU are Welcome unto the History of a Tedious War, and unto a Period of that War so far in prospect, as to render its History Seasonable.  
Every Reasonable man will readily allow, that ●t is a Duty to God, and a Service to the World, ●or to preserve, the Memory of such matters, as ●ave been the more Memorable Occurrences in the War, that has for Ten Years together, been multiplying Changes and Sorrows upon us. And the Author, in whose Historical Writings, the most Inquisitive Envy, has never to this Hour detected, so much as one Voluntary and Material Mistake, or one farthing paid unto the Readers in the Coin of Candia, has now chosen to preserve the Memory of these matters, while they are Fresh & New, and one hath not Fifty years, which is the Channel of the River of Oblivion, to pass over unto them. This Expedition is used in the publication of our Decennium Luctuosum, in hope that if any mistake, worth Noting, do appear in these Writing●, it may, Like and perhaps With, a Second Edition, be Corrected and Amended.  
He Expects no Thanks for his Essays to Do Good, in this way, or any other, unto any part of his Country, to whom he would gladly devote all his Talents, if he were a Thousand Times better Talented than he is; and though the most Ungrateful Trea●s Imaginable (which are too well known by the Name of Country-pay) should be given him, he would still be of that Opinion, Recte fecisse Merces est, If a man may Do Good, it is enough.  
All the Favour he desires of you, is, That you would not Inquire after him; or ask, who he is? but that, as he is at best, but an Obscure Person, he may continue in yet more Obscurity: which will be a greater pleasure to him than to be placed among the Great men of Achaia.  
For indeed, He hath often thought on a passage written by Holy Mr. Row, to his Excellent Son, I pray, That God would make use of myself and you, in such a way, as that God only may be seen, and we not be taken notice of at all; that He may have the Glory, and we may not be seen.  
Can he have invited His EXCELLENCY unto such a glorious Table, as that in a certain Cabinet at Florence, which is furnished with Birds and Flowers, all consisting of Nea●ly polished Jewels it laid into it; a Work Fifteen years in making, and worth an Hundred Thousand Crowns: or could he have written a Book, worthy to be laid up in the Cabinet of Darius: the Author might have been under a Temptation to have had his Name Engraved upon his Work. But a little Boiled Indian Corn in a Trey, is as much as our Best History of an Indian War, composed perhaps in fewer Days, than there were Years in the War, may presume to be compared unto And since our History will not afford such a Diversion unto His Excellency, under the Indispositions of His Health, as those of Livy & Curtius did unto the Princes that Recovered their lost Health by Reading them; nor can any any passage here be so happy, as That which cured Laurentius Medici's of a Malady, by having it Read unto him it will require no more than a Nameless Writer, to Assure that Great Person on this Occasion, That all the Good People of New-England, make their Fervent Vows unto the Almighty, For His Excellency's Prosperity, and the Welfare of His Excellent Lady, and of His Noble and Hopeful Offspring.  
And the Naming of the Author, is as little Necessary to Qualify him, that he may pay public Acknowledgements unto the Honourable, the Lieutenant Governor; not only for his Cares about the Public, while it was Tempestuated, with the Indian War, which now makes an History; but chief for his more than ordinary Tenderness of that Society, which has been the very, Decus ac Tutamen, of New England. The Nameless Writer of this History, may Report, that with a Greater Expense, than that of the First-Founder, this Honourable Person proves, that he Loves our Nation, by Building us another Edifice, for the Supply of all our Synagogues, and STOUGHTON-HALL, out shines HARVARD-COLLEDGE: and he speaks Kinder Language, as well as Better Latin, than that Eminent Statesman in Flanders, whose Answer to a Petition for the privileges of an University there to be restored, was, Non curamus vostros privilegios. This Report may he give, without being obliged for to Confess any other Name than this, which he Readily Confesses; One that was once a Member of Harvard-Colledge.  
I pray, Sirs, Ask no further; Let this Writing be, like that on the Wall to Belshazzar, where the Hand only was to be seen, and not who's it was. The History is compiled with Incontestable Veracity; and since there is no Ingenuity in it, but less than what many Pens in the Land might Command, he knows not why his Writing Anonymously may not Shelter him, from the Inconveniencies of having any Notice, one way or other, taken of him. Though among his other small Furniture, he hath not left himself unfurnished with skill in the Spanish Language, yet he never could bring himself to the Belief of the Spanish Proverb, Quien no parece, perece; i. e. He that appears not, perishes; He that Shows not himself to the world, is undone. At Milan, there is an Academy of Sensible Persons, called The Nascosti, or, Hidden men; At Venice, there is one of such persons, called, The Incogniti; and at Parma, there is one of them, called, The Innominatis. If there were nothing else Disagreeable in them, the Author of this History, would be glad of an Admission into such an Academy.  
The History is indeed of no very Fine Thread; and the Readers, who every where Fish for nothing but Carp, and who Love, like Augustus to Tax all the World, may find Fault enough with it. Nevertheless, while the Fault of an Untruth can't be found in it, the Author pretends, that the famous History of the Trojan War itself, comes behind our little History of the Indian War; For the best Antiquaries, have now confuted Homer; the Walls of Troy were it seems, all made of Poet's Paper; and the Siege of the Town with the Tragedies of the Wooden Horse, were all but a piece of Poetry.  
And if a War between Us, and an Handful of Indians, do appear no more than a Batrachomyomachie, to the World abroad yet unto us at home, it hath been considerable-enough, to make an History. Nor is the Author afraid of promising, that of all the Thirty Articles which make up this History, there shall not be One, without something in it, that may by ourselves be justly thought Considerable.  
Should any Petit Monsieur complain (as the Captain, that found not himself in the Tapestry Hang, which Exhibited the Story of the Spanish Invasion in 1588.) that he don't find himself mentioned in this History, the Author has his Apology. He has done as well and as much as he could, that whatever was worthy of a mention, might have it; and if this Collection of Matters be not complete, yet he supposes it may be more complete, than any one else hath made; and now he hath done, he hath not pulled up the Ladder after him; others may go on, as they please, with a completer Composure.  
If the Author hath taken Delight, in this History, and at all Times, to Celebrate the Merits, of such as have Deserved well of his Country, [which he has here done it may be, for some that never could afford him a good word!] Especially, if he do Erect Statues for Dead Worthies, when there is no Room Left for Flattery, [for who will bestow paint upon a Dead Face!] And if he do all this, with all possible concern, to avoid casting Aspersions upon others: Why should any betray such Ili Nature, as to be angry at it? My Good Country, forgive him this Injury!  Huic Uni forsan poteram Succumbere culpae. 
But, whatever this History be, it aims at the Doing of Good, as well as the Telling of Truth; and if its Aim shall be attained, That will be a sufficient Reward for all the Trouble of Writing it. When he Desires any more, he'll give you his Name; In the mean Time, as a far greater man once was called, Ludovicus Nihili, which you may make, Lewis of Nothingham; so the Author will count himself not a little favoured, if he may pass for one of no more Account, than a, No body; which would certainly make a very Blameless person of him.  
However, that the History may not altogether want a Subscription; the Author, finding it a Custom among the Christian Writers of the Orient, when they have written a Treatise, to Subscribe it after this manner; Scriptum per Servum vilem pauperem, omnibus Justitiis privatum, peccatorem magis quam omnis Caro; Or, Scripsit hoc pauper N. N. Or, Est Scriptura servi pauperis, et qui Benevolentia Dei indiget, et miserationibus; he will accordingly Subscribe himself, The Chief of Sinners. Nevertheless, he will humbly Lay claim to the Words, used by the Nameless Author of a Treatise, Entitled, The Faithful Steward: Tho' I am worse than they speak of me, who cast Disgrace upon me, and I can Espy Ten Faults in myself, where they can discern One, yet I can, through Grace, Appeal to Thee, O Lord, with some Comfort, that I am Displeased with myself for my Sins, and would fain please Thee, in all Things, at all Times, in all places, and in every Condition.   

Decennium Luctuosum. OR, The Remarkables of a long WAR WITH Indian-Salvages.  
INTRODUCTION.  
TWenty Three Years have Rolled away since the Nations of Indians within the Confines of New England, generally began a Fierce War, upon the English Inhabitants of that Country. The Flame of War than Raged through a great part of the Country, whereby many whole Towns were L●id in Ashes, and many Lives were Sacrificed. Bu● in little more than one years' Time, the United-Colonies of Plymouth, Massachuset, and Conne●ticut, with the●r United Endeavours, bravely C●●quered the Savages. The Evident Hand of Heaven appearing on the Side of a people whose Hope and Helpe was alone in the Almighty Lord of Hosts, Extinguished whole Nations of the Savages at such a rate, that there can hardly any of them, now be found under any Distinction upon the face of the Earth. Only, the Ear of our Northern and Eastern Regions in that War, wa● ve●y different ●●om that of the rest. The Desolations of the War had overwhelmed all the Settlements to the North-East of west's. And when the Time arrived, that all hands were weary of the War, a sort of a Peace was patched up, which Left a Body of Indians, not only with Horrible Murders Unrevenged, but also, in the possession of no little part of the Country, with circumstances which the English might think, not very Honourable. Upon this Peace, the English returned unto their Plantations; their Number increased; they Stocked their Farms, and Sowed their Fields; they found the Air as Healthful; as the Earth was Fruitful; their Lumber and their Fishery became a considerable Merchandise; continual Accessions were made unto them, until Ten or a Dozen Towns, in the Province of Main, and the County of Cornwall, were suddenly Started up into something of Observation.  
But in the Year, 1688. the Indians which dwelled after the Indian manner among them, Commenced another War upon these Plantations, which hath broke them up, and strangely held us in play for Ten Years together. In these Ten Years, there hath been a variety of Remarkable Occurrences; and because I have supposed that a Relation of those Occurrences may be Acceptable and Profitable to some of my Country men, I shall now with all Faithfulness Endeavour it. With all Faithfulness, I say; because tho' there should happen any Circumstantial Mistake in our Story, (for 'tis a rare thing for any Two men, concerned in the same Action, to give the Story of it, without some Circumstantial Difference,) yet even thi● also, I shall be willing to Retract and Correct, if there be found any just occasion: But for any one Material Error, in the whole Composure, I challenge the most Sagacious Malica, upon Earth to detect it, while matters are y●● so fresh, as to allow the Detection of it. I disdain to make the Apology, once made by the Roman Historian; Nemo Historicus non aliquid mentitus, et habiturus sum mendaciorum Comites, quos Historiae et eloquentiae miramur Authores. No, I will write with an Irreproachable and Incontestable Veracity; and I will write not one Thihg, but what I am furnished with so good Authority for, that any Reasonable man, who will please to Examine it, shall say, I do well to insert it as I do: And I will hope, that my Reader hath not been Studying of Godefridus de Valle's Book, De Arte nihil Credendi; About, The Art of Believing nothing. Wherefore, having at the very Beginning thus given such a Knock upon thy Head, O malice; that thou canst never with Reason Hiss at our History, we will proceed unto the several Articles of it.  

ARTICLE. I. The Occasion and Beginning of the WAR.  
IF Diodorus Siculus had never given it as a great Rule of History, Historiae primum Studium, primariaque consideratio esse videtur, insoliti gravisque Casus principio causas investigare, Yet my Reader would have expected, that I should Begin the History of our War, with an History of the Occurrences and Occasions which did Begin the War. Now, Reader, I am at the very first fallen upon a Difficult Point; and I am in danger of pulling a War upon myself, by Endeavouring of thy Satisfaction. In Truth, I had rather be called a Coward, than undertake myself to Determine the Truth in this matter: but having Armed myself with some good Authority, for it, I will Transcribe Two or Three Reports of the matter, now in my Hands, and Leave it unto thy own Determination.  
One Account, I have now lying by me, Written by a Gentleman of Dover; in these Terms.  
The Eastern Indians, and especially those of Saco, and Ammonoscoggin, pretend many Reasons, for the late Quarrel against the English, which began this long and bloody War.  
1. Because the English refused to pay that yearly Tribute of Corn, agreed upon, in the Articles of Peace, formerly concluded with them, by the English Commissioners  
2. Because they were Invaded in their Fishery, at Saco River, by certain Gentlemen, who stopped the Fish, from coming up the River, with their Nets, and Sains. This they were greatly Affronted at; saying, They thought (though the English had got away their Lands as they had, yet) the Fishery of the Rivers had been a privilege Reserved Entire unto themselves.  
3. Because they were Abused by the English, in Suffering, if not Turning, their  over to a certain Island to destroy their Corn.  
4. But the Fourth, and Main, provocation was, The Granting, or Pattenting of their Lands, to some English; at which they were greatly Enraged; threatening the Surveyor, to knock him on the Head, if he came to lay out any Lands there.  
5. To these may be added, the Common Abuses, in Trading; viz. Drunkenness, Cheating, etc. which such as Trade much with them, are seldom Innocent of.  
Doubtless, these Indian Allegations may be answered with many English Vindications. But I shall at present Intermeddle no further, than to offer another Account, which also I have in my Hands, written by a Gentleman of Casco.  
It runs in such Terms as these.  
Many were the Outrages and Insulting of the Indians upon the English, while Sir E. A. was Governor. At North Yarmouth, and other places at the Eastward, the Indians killed sundry , came into Houses, and threatened to knock the people on the Head; and at several Times gave out Reports, that they would make a War upon the English, and that they were animated to do so, by the French. The Indians behaving themselves so insultingly, gave just occasion of great suspicion. In order for the finding out the Truth, and to Endeavour the preventing of a War, Capt. Blackman, a Justice of Peace, with some of the Neighbourhood, of Saco River, Seized several Indians that had been bloody murderous Rogues, in the first Indian War; being the chie● Ring Leaders, and most capable to do mischief. The said Capt. Blackman Seized to the Number of between Sixteen and Twenty, in order for their Examination, and to bring in the rest to a Treaty. The said Blackman soon sent the said Indians, with a Good Guard, to Falmouth, in Casco-bay, there to be Secured, until orders could come from Boston, concerning them. And in the mean Time, the said Indians, were well provided with Provisions, and Suitable Necessaries. The rest of the Indians Robbed the English, and took some English Prisoners: Whereupon Post was sent to Boston. Sir Edmond Andross being at New-York, the Gentlemen of Boston sent to Falmouth, some Soldiers for the Defence of the Country, and also the Worshipful Mr. Stoughton, with others, to Treat with the Indians, in order for the Settling of a Peace, and getting in of our English Captives. As soon as the said Gentlemen arrived at the Eastward, they sent away one of the Indian Prisoners, to the rest of the Indians, to Summon them, to bring in the English they had taken; Also, that their Sachims' should come in, to treat with the English, in order that a Just Satisfaction should be made on both sides. The Gentlemen waited the Return of the Indian Messenger; and when he Returned, he brought Answer, That they would meet our English at a place, called, Macquoit, and there they would bring in the English Captives, and Treat with the English. And although the place appointed by the Indians, for the Meeting, was some Leagues distant from Falmouth, yet our English Gentlemen did condescend to it, in hope of getting in our Captives, & putting a stop to further Trouble. They Dispatched away to the place, and carried the Indian Prisoners with them, and stayed at the place appointed, expecting the coming of the Indians, that had promised a Meeting. But they like false perfidious Rogues, did not appear. Without doubt they had been counselled what to do, by the French, and their Abettors; as the Indians did declare afterwards; and that they were near the place, and saw our English, that were to Treat with them, but would not show themselves, but did Endeavour to take an Opportunity to Destroy our English, that were to Treat them. Such was their Treachery! Our Gentlemen stayed days to wait their coming; but seeing they did not appear at the place appointed, they Returned to Falmouth, and brought the Indian Prisoners; expecting that the other Indians would have sent down some Reason, why they did not appear at the place appointed, and to make some excuse for themselves. But instead of any compliance; they fell upon North Yarmouth, and there killed several of our English. Whereupon the Eastern parts were ordered to get into Garrisons, and to be upon their Guard, until further Orders from Sir Edmond Andros; and that the Indian Prisoners should be sent to Boston; which was done with great care, and not one of them hurt; and care taken daily for provision. But Sir E. A. Returning from New York, set them all at Liberty; not so much as taking care to Redeem those of our English for them, that were in their hands. I had kept one at Falmouth, a Prisoner to be a Guide into the Woods, for our English, to find out the Haunts of our Heathen Enemies. But Sir E. A sent an Express to me, that upon my utmost peril I should set the said Indian at Liberty, and take care that all the Arms, that were taken from him, and all the rest of those Capt. Blackman had Seized, should be delivered up to them, without any Orders to Receive the like of ours from them.  
It will be readily Acknowledged, that here was enough done, to render the Indians Inexcusable, for not coming in, upon the Proclamation, which Sir Edmond Andros, than Governor of New-England, immediately Emitted thereupon, requiring them, to Surrender the Murderers, now among them. A Spaniard, that was a Soldier, would say, That if we hav● a Good Cause, the smell of Gunpowder in the Field is as sweet as the Incense at the Altar. Let the Reader judge after these things, what scent there was in the Gunpowder spent for Nine or Ten years together in our War with the Indian Savages.  
Now, that while we are upon this Head, we may at once dispatch it, I will unto these Two Accounts, add certain passages of one more; which was published in September. 1689.  
Such were the Obscure Measures taken at that Time of Day, that the Rise of this War, hath been as dark as that of the River Nilus; only the Generality of Thinking People through the Country, can Remember When, and Why, every one did foretell, A War. If any Wild English (for there are such as well as of another Nation,) did then, Begin to Provoke and Affront the Indians, yet those Indians had a fairer way to come by Right, than that of Blood shed; nothing worthy of, or calling for, any Such Revenge was done unto them. The most Injured of them all, (if there were any Such) were afterwards dismissed by the English, with Favours, that were then Admirable even to Ourselves; and These too, instead of Surrendering the Persons, did increase the Numbers, of the Murderers. But upon the REVOLUTION of the Government [April 1689.] the State of the War, became wholly New: and we are more arrived unto Righteousness as the Light, and Justice as the Noon day. A great Sachim of the East, we then immediately Applied ourselves unto, and with no small Expenses to ourselves we Engaged Him, to Employ his Interest for a Good Understanding between us, & the party of Indians then in Hostility against us. This was the Likely, the Only way, of coming at those Wand'ring Savages: But That very Sachim now treacherously, of an Ambassador became a Traitor, and annexed himself, with his People, to the Herd of our Enemies, which have since been Ravaging, Pillaging, and Murdering at a rate, which we ought to count, Intolerable. The Penacook Indians, of whom we were Jealous, we likewise Treated with; and while we were, by our Kindnesses and Courtesies Endeavouring to render them utterly Inexcusable, if ever they sought our Harm: Even Than did These also, by some Evil Instigation (the Devils, no doubt!) quickly Surprise a Plantation, where they had been Civilly treated a Day or Two before, & Commit at once, more Plunder and Murder, than can be heard with any patience.  
Reader, Having so placed these Three Accounts as to defend my Teeth, I think, I may safely proceed with our Story. But because Tacitus teaches us, to distinguish between, the mere Occasions, and the real Causes, of a War, it may be some will go a little Higher up in their Inquiries: They will Inquire, whether no body Seized a parcel of Wines, that were Landed at a French Plantation to the East ward? Whether an Order were not obtained from the King of England, at the Instance of the French Ambassador, to Restore these Wines? Whether upon the Vexation of this Order, we none of us ran a New Line for the Bounds of the Province? Whether we did not contrive our New Line, so as to take in the Country of Monsieur St. Casteen? Whether Monsieur St. Casteen flying from our Encroachments, we did not Seize upon his Arms, and Goods, and bring them away to Pemmaquid? And, Who, were the We, which did these things? And whether, the Indians, who were Extremely under the Influence of St. Casteen, that had Married a Sagamores Daughter among them, did not from this very Moment begin to be obstreperous? And, whether all the Sober English in the Country, did not from this very Moment, foretell a War? But for any Answer to all these Inquiries, I will be myself a Tacitus.   

ARTICLE. II. The first Acts of Hostility, between the Indians, and the English.  
WHen one Capt. Sargeant had Seized some of the principal Indians about Saco, by order of Justice Blackman, presently the Indians fell to Seizing as many of the English, as they could catch. Capt. Rowden, with many more, in one place, and Capt. Gendal, with sundry more, in another place, particularly fell into the Hands of these desperate Man catchers. Rowden, with many of his Folks, never got out of their Cruel Hands: but Gendal with his, got a Release, one can scarce tell, How, upon the Return of those which had been detained in Boston. Hitherto there was no Spilling of Blood! But some Time in September following, this Capt. Gendal, went up, with Soldiers and others, to a place above Casco, called, North Yarmouth; having Orders to build Stockadoes, on both sides the River, for Defence of the place, in case of any Sudden Invasion. While they were at work, an English Captive came to 'em, with Information, that Seventy or Eighty of the Enemy were just coming upon 'em: and he advised 'em, To yield quietly, that they might Save their Lives. The Soldiers that went thither from the Southward, being terrified at this Report, Ran with an Hasty Terror to get over the River; but with more Hast, than Good Speed; for they ran directly into the Hands of the Indians. The Indians dragging along these their Prisoners with 'em, came up towards the Casconians; who, having but a very Little Time to Consult, yet in this Time Resolved; First, That they would not be Seized by the Savages; Next, That they would free their Friends out of the Hands of the Savages, if it were possible; Thirdly, That if it were possible, they would use all other Force upon the Savages, without coming to down right Fight. Accordingly, They laid hold on their Neighbours, whom the Savages had Seized, and this with so much Dexterity, that they cleared them all, Except one or Two; whereof the whole Number was about a Dozen. But in the Scuffle, one Sturdy and Surly Indian, held his prey so fast, that one Benedict Pulcifer, gave the Mastiff a Blow, with the Edge of his Broad Axe upon the Shoulder, upon which they fell to't with a Vengeance, and Fired their Guns, on both sides, till some on both sides were Slain. These were, as one may call them, The Scower-pit, of a long War to follow. At last, the English, Victoriously chased away the Savages and Returned safely unto the other side of the River. And Thus was the Vein of New England first opened, that afterwards Bled for Ten years together! The Skirmish being over, Capt. Gendal, in the Evening, passed over the River, in a Canoe, with none but a Servant; but Landing where the Enemy lay hid in the Bushes, they were both Slain immediately. And the same Evening, one Ryal, with another man, fell unawares into the Hands of the Enemy; Ryal was afterwards Ransomed, by Monsieur St. Casteen, but the other man, was barbarously Butchered. Soon after this, the Enemy went Eastward, unto a place called, Merry-Meeting, (from the Concourse of divers Rivers there,) where several English had a Sad Meeting with them; for they were killed, several of them even in Cold Blood, after the Indians had Seized upon their Houses & their Persons. And about this Time, the Town called Sheepscote, was entered by these Rapacious Wolves; who burned all the Houses of the Town, save Two or Three. The People saved themselves by getting into the Fort, all but one Man, who going out of the Fort, for to Treat with 'em, was Treacherously Assassinated. Thus the place, which was counted, The Garden of the East, was infested by Serpents; and a Sword Expelled the poor Inhabitants. Little more Spoil was done by the Savages before Winter, Except only, that at a place called Kennebunk, near Winter harbour, they cut off Two Families, to wit, Barrows, and Bussies; but Winter coming on, the Serpents retired into their Holes. When Summer comes, Reader, look for Tornadoes enough to over-set a greater Vessel, than little New-England.   

ARTICLE. III. The First Expedition of the English, against the Indians.  
WHen the Keeper of the Wild Beasts, at Florence, has entertained the Spectators, with their Encounters on the Stage, he has this Device to make 'em Retire into the several Dens of their Seraglio. He has a fearful Machine of Wood, made like a Gre●t Green Dragon, which a man within it rolls upon Wheels, and holding out a Couple of Lighted Torches at the Eyes of it, frights the fiercest Beast of them all, into the Cell that belongs unto him. Sir Edmond Andros, the Governor of New-England, that he might Express his Resolutions, to force the Wild Beasts of the East into order, in the Winter now coming on, turned upon them as Effectual a Machine, as the Green Dragon of Florence; that is to say, An Army of near a Thousand men. With this Army, he marched himself in Person, into the Caucasaean Regions, where he built a Fort at Pemmaquid, and another Fort at Pechypscot Falls, besides the Fort at Sheepscote. He, and his Army, underwent no little Hard ship, thus in the Depth of Winter to Expose themselves unto the Circumstances of a Campaign, in all the Bleak Winds and Thick Snows of that Northern Country. But it was Hoped, That Good Forts, being thus Garrisoned with Stout Hearts, in several Convenient places, ●he Indians might be kept from their usual Retreats, both for Planting, and for Fishing, and lie open also to perpetual Incursions from the English, in the fittest seasons thereof: And it was Thought by the most sensible, this method would in a little while compel the Enemy to Submit unto any Terms: albeit others considering the Vast Woods of the Wilderness, and the French on the back of these Woods, fancied, that this was but a project to Hedge in the Cuckoo. However, partly the Army, and partly the Winter, frighted the Savages, into their Inaccessible Dens: & yet not one of the Indians was killed; but Sickness, & Service, killed it may be more of our English, than there were Indians then in Hostility against them. The News of matters approaching towards a REVOLUTION in England, caused the Governor to Return unto Boston in the Spring; & upon his Return, there fell out several odd Events, with Rumours, whereof I have now nothing to say, but, That I love my Eyes too well, to mention them. Some of the Soldiers, took Advantage, from the Absence of the Governor, to desert their Stations in the Army; and tho' this Action, was by Good men generally condemned, as an Evil Action, yet their Friends began to gather together here and there in Little Bodies, to protect them from the Governor, concerning whom, abundance of odd Stories than buzzed about the Country made 'em to imagine, that he had carried 'em out, only to Sacrifice 'em. Some of the principal Gentlemen in Boston, consulting what was to be done, in this Extraordinary Juncture, They Agreed, that altho' New-England had as much to Justify a Revolution as old, yet they would, if it were possible, extinguish all Essays in the people, towards an Insurrection; in daily hopes of Orders from England for our Safety: but that if the Country people, by any unrestrainable Violences pushed the business on so far, as to make a Revolution unavoidable, Then, to prevent the Shedding of Blood by an ungoverned Mobile, some of the Gentlemen present, should appear at the Head of it, with a Declaration accordingly prepared. He that Reads the Narrative of Grievances under the Male Administrations of the Government then Tyrannising. Written and Signed by the Chief Gentlemen of the Governors' Council, will not wonder at it, that a Revolution was now rendered indeed unavoidable. It was a Government whereof Ned Randolph, a Bird of their own Feather, confessed, as we find in one of his published Letters, That they were as Arbitrary as the Great Turk. And for such a Government, a better Similitude cannot perhaps be thought on, than that of Monsr Souligne; 'Tis like the Condition of persons possessed with Evil Spirits, which will go an Hundred Leagues in less time than others can Ten; but at the Journeys End find themselves to be so Bruised that they never can Recover it. The Revolution, (and, ye Tories, a Just one) was accordingly Made, on the Eighteenth of April; which Their Majesties, then happily Seated on the British Throne, kindly Accepted and Approved. The Governor and Magistrates of the Massachusetts Colony, which were in power Three years and Half before, [a period often observed!] did some Time after this Resume their places, and apply themselves to such Acts of Government, as Emergencies made necessary for them, Fortified with a Letter from the King, to Authorise and Empower them in their Administrations. Thus they waited for further Directions from the Authority of England, and such a Settlement, as would most Conduce (which were the words of the King's Letter, bearing Date, Aug. 12 1689.) to the Security and Satisfaction of the Subjects in that Colony.   

ARTICLE. iv A Flame Spreading, upon the best Endeavours to Quench it.  
IT was hoped, the War would now come to an Immediate End; but the Great God, who Creates that Evil, had further Intentions to Chastise a Sinful People, by those who are not a People. The Government sent Capt. Greenleaf, to treat with the Indians at Penacook, who answered him with fair pretences and Promises of Amity. They procured an Interview, with some of the more Eastern Sagamores, who not only promised Friendship themselves, but also undertook to make our Enemies become our Friends. They sent unto the Soldiers, yet remaining at Pemmaquid, for to keep their Post, Engaging to them that they should not want their Pay. But all this care, was defeated by Methods of Mischiefs, too deep for our present penetration. The Savages, began to Renew their Hostilities, at Saco Falls, in the Beginning of April, on a Lords day morning, some while before the Revolution. The Penacook Indians, were all this while peaceably Conversant at Quochecho; and so long as that Conversation continued, the Inhabitants were very Secure, of any Danger, not only from those Cutthroats, but also from their Brethren. Happy had it been for those Honest People, if their Fear, had made so much Hast, as my Pen has done, to call 'em Cut throats! For, the Penacookian joining with the Saconian Indians, hovered about Quochecho, where one Mesandowit, a Sagamore, being that Night kindly Entertained by Major Richard Waldein, horribly betrayed his kind Host, with the Neighbours into the hands of Murderers. Above an Hundred, some say Five Hundred of the Indians, about break of Day, having Surprised the Secure and Silent English, they particularly rushed into the Garrison of the Generous Major, which was by Sinon Mesandowit (for, bestowing a Heathen Name upon him, we'll now call him so,) opened for them, and having first barbarously Murdered the Old Gentleman, who was Equivalent unto Two and Twenty, they then Murdered Two and Twenty more, and Captived Nine and Twenty of the People; burnt four or five of the best Houses, took much Plunder, and so drew off: but killed Mr. John Broughton in their drawing off: while Mr. John Emmerson, a worthy Preacher at Barwick, by declining to lodge at the Hospitable Majors, that Night, when strongly Invited, received a remarkable Deliverance. Hereupon, Forces were dispatched for the Relief of what Remained in Quochecho; Capt. Noyes also with more Forces, visited Penacook, where though the Men escaped him, he destroyed the Corn of our New Enemies: but the Skulking Enemies, at the same Time Slew several Persons at an out-farm, on the North-side of Merrimack River. A party of men, were soon after sent out of Piscataqua, under the Command of Capt. Wincal, who went up to Winnopisseag ponds, (upon Advice of one John Church, who ran from them, that the Indians were there:) where they killed One or Two of the Monsters they Hunted for, and cut down their Corn. Four young men of Saco, desirous to join with them, went into the woods to Seek their Horses, and Found their Deaths, by an Ambush of Indians. Twenty Four Armed men, going forth from Saco Falls, to bury the Slain, had a brisk Encounter with the Indians, whom they pursued into a Vast Swamp, until a Greater Number of Indians pouring in upon them, obliged 'em with the loss of about Five or Six more, to Retire from any further Action. But before the Dog days were out, there was more Bleeding still, that proved fatal to us. On Aug. 2. One Starky, going early in the Morning, from the Fort at Pemmaquid, unto New Harbour, fell into the Hands of the Indians, who to obtain his own Liberty, informed Them, That the Fort had at that Instant, but Few men in it: and that one Mr. Giles, with Fourteen men, was gone up to his Farm, and the rest Scattered abroad, about their Occasions The Indians hereupon divided their Army; Part going up to the Falls, killed Mr. Giles, and others; Part, upon the Advantage of the Tide, Snapped the rest, before they could Recover the Fort. From a Rock near the Fort, which inconveniently over looked it, the Assailants now over looked it, as over Lincoln, and grievously galled the Defendants. Capt. Weems, had but few with him, that were able to Fight; and his own Face, was in the Fight by an Accident, horribly Scorched with Gun Powder. Wherefore, the day following, they Surrendered the Fort, upon Capitulations for Life and Liberty; which yet the Indians broke, by Butchering and Captiving many of them. Capt. skinner & Capt. Farnham, repairing to the Fort, from an Island about half a Mile distant from it, were both Slain, as they Landed on the Rocks; and Mr. Patishal, as he lay with his Sloop in the Barbican, was also taken and Slain. This, together with more Spoil done by the Indians on the English, at Sheepscote, and Kennebeck, and other places Eastward, caused the Inhabitants to draw off unto Falmouth as fast as they could: and, Well if they could have made Good their Standing there!  

MANTISSA.  
THE Foregoing Article of our Tragaedies, hath Related the Taking of Quochecho! The Condition of Two persons, under and after the Fate of Quochecho, may have in it, an Entertainment Aceeptable for some sort of Readers. It shall be in this place Reported, from the Communications of Mr. John Pike, the worthy Minister of Dover; to whom I have been beholden, for Communicating to me, many other passages also, which occur in this our History.  
I. Mrs. Elizabeth Herd, a Widow of a Good Estate, a Mother of many Children, and a Daughter of Mr. Hull, a Reverend Minister formerly Living at Piscataqua, now Lived at Quochecho. Happening to be at Portsmouth, on the Day before Quochecho was cut off, She Returned thither in the Night, with one Daughter, and Three Sons all masters of Families. When they came near Quochecho, they were astonished, with a prodigious Noise of Indians, Howling, Shooting, Shouting, and Roaring, according to their manner in making an Assault. Their Distress for their Families carried them still further up the River, till they Secretly and Silently passed by some Numbers of the Raging Savages. They Landed about an Hundred Rods from Major Walderns Garrison; and running up the Hill, they saw many Lights in the Windows of the Garrison, which they concluded, the English within had set up, for the Direction of those who might seek a Refuge there. Coming to the Gate, they desired entrance; which not being readily granted, they called Earnestly and bounced, and knocked, and cried out of their unkindness within, that they would not open to them in this Extremity. No Answer being yet made, they began to doubt, whether all was well; and one of the young men then climbing up the Wall, saw a horrible Tawny in the Entry, with a Gun in his Hand. A grievous Consternation Seized now upon them; and Mrs. Herd, sitting down without the Gate, through Dispair and Faintness, unable to Stir any further, charged her Children to Shift for themselves, for She must unavoidably There End her Days. They finding it impossible to carry her with them, with heavy hearts forsook her; but then coming better to herself, she fled and hid among the Barberry-Bushes in the Garden: and then hastening from thence, because the Daylight advanced, She sheltned herself (though seen by Two of the Indians,) in a Thicket of other Bushes, about Thirty Rods from the House. Here she had not been long, before an Indian came towards her, with a Pistol in his Hand: The Fellow came up to her, and Stared her in the Face, but said nothing to her, nor she to him. He went a little way back, and came again, and Stared upon her as before, but said nothing; whereupon she asked him, What he would have? He still said nothing, but went away to the House, Co hooping, and Returned unto her no more. Being thus unaccountably preserved, She made several Essays to pass the River; but sound herself unable to do it; and finding all places on that side the River, filled with Blood and Fire, and hideous Out cries, thereupon she Returned to her old Bush, and there poured out her ardent Prayers to God, for help in this Distress. She continued in the Bush, until the Garrison was Burnt, and the Enemy was gone; and then she Stole along by the River side, until she came to a Boom, where she passed over. Many sad Effects of Cruelty, she Saw left by the Indians, in her way; until arriving at Captain Gerrishes Garrison, she there found a Refuge from the Storm; and here she soon had the Satisfaction, to understand, that her own Garrison, though one of the first that was assaulted, had been bravely Defended and mentained, against the Adversary. This Gentlewoman's Garrison, was the most Etxreme Frontier of the Province, and more Obnoxious than any other, and more uncapable of Relief; nevertheless, by her presence and courage, it held out all the War, even for Ten Years together; and the Persons in it, have Enjoyed very Eminent preservations. The Garrison had been deserted, if She had accepted Offers that were made her b● her Friends, or Living in more safety at Portsmouth; which would have been a Damage to the Town and Land: but by her Encouragement this Post was thus kept; and She is yet Living in much Esteem among her Neighbours.  
II. Mrs. Sarah Gerish, Daughter to Captain John Gerish of Quochecho, a very Beautiful and Ingenious Damsel about Seven years of Age, lodged at the Garrison of her affectionate Grandfather, Major Waldern, when the Indians brought an horrible Destruction upon it. She was always very Fearful of the Indians; but what Fear may we think now Surprised her, when they fiercely bid her go into such a Chamber, and call the People out? Finding only a little Child in the Chamber, she got into the Bed unto the Child, and hid herself in the , as well as she could. The Fell Savages quickly pulled her out, and made her Dress for a March, but led her away with no more than one Stockin upon her, a terrible March, through the Thick Woods, and a thousand other Miseries, till they came to the Norway Plains. From thence they made her go to the end of Winnopisseag Lake, and from thence to the Eastward, through horrid Swamps, where sometimes they must Scramble over huge Trees fallen by Storm or Age, for a vast way together, and some times they must Climb up long, steep, tiresome, and almost Inaccessible Mountains. Her First Master was one Sebundowit, a Dull sort of a Fellow, and not such a Devil as many of 'em were; but he Sold her, to a Fellow that was a more harsh, and mad, sort of a Dragon; and he carried her away to Canada.  
A long and a sad Journey she had of it, through the midst of an hideous Desert, in the midst of a dreadful Winter: And who can enumerate the Frights, that she endured, before the End of her Journey? Once her Master commanded her to loosen some of her upper-Garments, and stand against a Tree, while he charged his Gun; whereat the poor Child Shrieked out, He's going to kill me! God knows what he was going to do; but the Villian having charged his Gun, he called her from the Tree, and forbore doing her any Damage. Another Time, her Master ordered her to run along the Shore with some Indian Girls, while he paddled up the River in his Canoe. As they were upon a precipice, a Tawny Wench violently pushed her Head long into the River: But it so fell out, that in that very place, the Bushes hung over the Water; so that getting Hold of them, she Recovered herself. The Indians asked her. How she became so wet? but she durst not say, How; through Dread of the young Indians, who were always very Abusive to her, when they had her alone. Moreover, once being spent with Travelling all Day, and lying down Spent and Wet at Night, She fell into into so profound a Sleep, that in the Morning she waked not. The Barbarous Indians left her Asleep, and covered with Snow; but at length waking, what Agonies may you imagine she was in, to find herself left a prey for Bears and Wolves, and without any Sustenance, in an howling Wilderness many Scores of Leagues, from any Plantation? She Ran crying after them; and Providence having ordered a Snow to fall, by means thereof, she Tracked them until she overtook them. Now the young Indians began to Terrify her, with daily Intimations, That she was quickly to be Roasted unto Death; and one Evening, much Fuel was prepared, between Two Logs, which they told her, was for her. A mighty Fire being made, her Master called her to him, and told her, that she should presently be Burnt alive. At first, she stood Amazed; afterwards she burst into Tears; and then she hung about the Tiger, and begged of him, with an inexpressible Anguish, that he would Save her from the Fire. Hereupon the Monster so Relented, as to tell her, That if she would be a Good Girl, she should not be Burnt.  
At last, they arrived at Canada, and she was carried unto the Lord Intendants House, where many Persons of Quality took much notice of her. It was a Week after this, that she remained in the Indian Hands, before the price of her Ransom could be agreed on. But then the Lady Intendant sent her to the Nunnery, where she was comfortably provided for; and it was the Design, as was said, for to have brought her up, in the Romish Religion, and then have Married her unto the Son of the Lord Intendant. She was kindly used there, until Sir William Phipps lying before Quebeck, did upon Exchange of Prisoners, obtain her Liberty. After Sixteen months' Captivity, she was Restored unto her Friends; who had the Consolation of having this their  Daughter again with them, Returned from the Dead; But coming to be Sixteen years old, in the Month of July 1697. Death, by a malignant , more Irrecoverably took her from them.    

ARTICLE. V New Forces Raised, and New Actions done.  
ON Aug. 28. 1689. Major Swain with Seven or Eight Companies raised by the Massachusett Colony, marched Eastward; and soon after, Major Church with a party of English, and Christian-Indians, raised in Plymouth Colony, followed them. While these were on their March, the Indians, that lay Skulking after the Indian-fashion in the Thick Woods, took notice how many men, belonged unto Lieut. Huckins' Garrison: and seeing 'em all go out unto their daily work, nimbly ran so between them and the Garrison, as to kill 'em all (about Eighteen) but one, who being accidentally gone over the River, escaped them. They then Attacked the Garrison, in which there now were only Two Boys, (and one of them Lame) with some Women and Children; but these Two Boys, very Manfully held 'em in play a Considerable while, and wounded several of them, and kept 'em off, till the Assailants had found a way to set the House on a Light Fire over their Heads. They then urging 'em to Surrender, for the sake of the Goods, the Boys, [Brave Boys, truly!] would not, until they had Solemnly promised 'em their Lives: but the perfidious Wretches broke their promise, for they presently killed Three or Four of the Children: however one of these Minutius', the Day after, very happily got out of thei● Clutches. It was by a particular Accident, that these Indians, were delivered from falling into the Hands of Capt. Garner, who pursued 'em Vigorously. But while the Forces now gone into the East, were Settling of Garrisons in convenient places, a huge Body of Indians, fell upon Casco, where one of their first Exploits, was their kill of Capt. Bracket. Nevertheless, Capt. Hall, (a valiant Soldier in the Former War, and a valiant Commander in This) with his Vigorous Lieutenant Dawes, just then arriving with his Company, the English hotly Engaged them for several Hours; and after a deal of true English Valour discovered in this Engagement, and the loss of Ten or a Dozen men, the Indians Ran for it, with What loss on their part, we do not know: that with Some we Do. Presently after this, Major Swain, passing through Extreme Difficulties to get at it, gave some Relief to a Garrison at Blue point, which was beset by the Indians; who still Fled into their Inaccessible Swamps, when our Bullets began to be Hailed upon them. It was judged, That here one or Two Opportunities, of bringing the War unto an End, were strangely missed, and lost: but where the mismanagement lay, I cannot Remember: nor what were the Faux Pas of the Actors. Our Honest Major will clear himself, who Returning then to his Head Quarters at Berwick, sent abroad Scouts, to Learn, if it were possible, where they might have the best Game, at the Chasse a La Bete noire, then to be followed. Capt. Wiswel having with him, a party of Indian Auxiliaries, they were sent out, under the Conduct of Lieu. Flag: but coming to Winnopisseag, these Indians, had a Consult in their own Language, and Sending back their Lieutenant, with Two Indians, Nineteen of them Stayed in that Country Eleven Days, not having any English with them: at which the Major was justly, and greatly offended. It was then Suspected, and afterwards (by Escaped Captives) Asserted, that these Wretches, found the Enemy, and Lodged with 'em Two Nights, and told 'em what they knew of the English Numbers and Motions. The Enemy then Retired into the howling Deserts, where there was no Coming at them: & no Endeavours being able to reach them, the Army, in the Month of November following was Dismissed: only some Soldiers were left in Garrison at Wells, at York, at Barwick, and at Quechecho, for the Assistence of the poor Inhabitants, against any more Invasions. There has been little Doubt, That our Northern Indians are Originally Scythians, and it is become less a Doubt, since it appears from later Discoveries, That the pretended Straits of Anian are a Shame; for Asia and America, it seems, are there Contiguous. Now of these our Scythians in America, we have still found, what Julius Caesar does report concerning Them of Asia; Difficilius Invenire quam Interficere:  
It is harder to Find them, than to Foil them.  

A Digression, Relating some Wonderful Judgements of God.  
BEfore we pass to another year, Stand still, Reader, and Behold some Wonderful Events, proper here to be Introduced. The Relation thereof shall be given, as I have Received it.  
Portsmouth Feb. 27. 1698, 9  
MOnsieur Vincelotte of Quebeck, arrived here, the 25th. of the last Month, and since Embarked for France, by way of Bilboa, as Agent to Represent the Affairs of Canada.  
He says, That about Nine or Ten years since, the Earl of Frontenac, Governor of that place (who died last November,) did personally Attempt to Subdue, the Maquas, etc. having no less than Fifteen Hundred Soldiers in his Army.  
After a few Day's March, they (being much Wearied and very Thirsty) came unto a certain small Well, of which they drank very plentifully. But in a few Hours after, sundry complained of much Illness, and according to their various Constitutions fell Sick (as it seemed) of different Distempers; which occasioned so great Disorder and Confusion in the Army, that no less than Four well men, for a while, were Engaged in taking care of every one that was Sick. About Three Days after, the Maqua Scout, narrowly observing the Motions of the French, rallyed together, as many as possible, to give a Check unto their Undertaking; which they soon accomplished, with very considerable Advantage. But the French appearing so Numerous, forced them to Retreat, and in pursuit of them, took and ransacked a Small Town.  
The Sickness by this Time increased unto so great an Height, as to occasion a Council of War, which ordered their speedy Return; and in a short Time, no Less than Eight Hundred persons Died out of the Army.  
Now about Three Years ago, a certain Soldier, who belonged at that Time to the Army, went into France. In a short Time after his Arrival, he Robbed one of the Churches, of a considerable value of Plate; but being soon discovered, he was Sentenced to be Burnt: He then sent unto sundry Father-Confessors, unto whom he acknowledged his many Sins; particularly, that Fact for which he was Condemned. But he therewithal said, That he had something else of more considerable moment to Impart, which did much afflict his Conscience; Namely, an Action of his, about Seven Years before committed, when Listed under the Conduct of the Earl of Frontenac, in an Enterprise against the Sennakers and Maquas '; For, said he) I was the only person at that Time Instrumental to the Death of near Eight Hundred Souls. Having Received some Affront, from some of the Officers, I was prompted to seek some speedy Revenge, which my own corrupt Nature with the Instigation of Satan, did instantly accomplish; for being plentifully stored with some Rank poison upon another account, I threw it all into a Well, of which the Thirsty Army drank freely, and in the Event it proved so fatal unto them.  
For the further Confirmation of this Report Monsieur Vincelotte at the same Time told me, That he was himself Wounded in the Engagement, and should continue Lame to his Dying Day.  
Reverend Sir, Your most Humble Servant, S. Penhallow.    

ARTICLE. VI New Assaults from the Indians, with some Remarkables of Captives taken in those Assaults.  
THE Sun, and the War, be again Returning! The year 1690. must begin, very Inauspiciously. In February, the French, with Indians, made a Descent from Canada, upon a Dutch Town called Schenectada, Twenty Miles above Albany under the Government of New York; and in that Surprising Incursion, they killed about Sixty Persons, whereof one was their Minister, and carried about Half as many into Captivity; but the People there, assisted by the Maquas, pursued them, and Recovered some of their Captives from them. Upon the Advice of this Mischief in the West, order was dispatched unto Major Frost, in the East, that the Towns there should stand upon their Guard. The Major did his Duty; but they did not Theirs: They Dreamt that while the Deep Snow of the Winter continued, they were Safe enough; but this proved as Vain as a Dream of a Dry Summer. On March 18th. the French, with Indians, being Half one, Half t'other, Half Indianized French, and Half Frenchified Indians, commanded by Monsieur Artel, and Hope-hood, fell Suddenly upon Salmon Falls, destroying the best part of the Town, with Fire and Sword. Near Thirty Persons were Slain, and more than Fifty were led into what the Reader will by'nd by call, The worst Captivity in the World. It would be a Long Story to tell, what a particular Share in this Calamity, fell to the Family of One Clement Short; This Honest Man, with his Pious Wife, and Three Children, were killed; and Six or Seven of their Children, were made Prisoners: the most of which arrived Safe to Canada, through a thousand Hardships; and the most of these were with more than a Thousand Mercies afterwards Redeemed from Canada, unto their English Friends again. But my Readers, will be so Reasonable, as to Excuse me, if I do not mention the Fate of every Family, that hath Suffered a Share in the Calamity of this grievous War; for 'tis impossible that I should Know All that hath happened; and it would be improper for me to Write All that I know: And very little is the Advantage of having a Name Standing upon Record, only among unhappy Sufferers. About Seven Score English went out after 'em, and came up with 'em: nevertheless, through the Disadvantages of their Feet by the Snow, they could make no Hand on it. Four or Five of ours were killed, and as many of the Enemy; but the Night put an End unto the Action. Ours took one Prisoner, a French man, who Confessed, that they came from Canada, where both French and Indians, were in Pay, at Ten Livers Per Month, and he particularly Declared the State of Canada. This Prisoner met with such kind usage from us, that he became a Freeman of Christ, and Embraced and Professed the Protestant Religion. But of the Prisoners, which the Enemy took from us, there were Two which immediately met with a very Different Fate. Three Indians hotly pursued one Thomas Toogood, and One of them overtaking him, while the rest perceiving it, stayed behind the Hill, he yielded himself a Prisoner. While the Savage was getting Strings to bind him, he held his Gun under his Arm; which Toogood Observing, Suddenly plucked it from his Friend Stark Naught, Threatening and Protesting, that he would Shoot him down, if he made any Noise; and so, A●ay he ran with it, unto Quochecho. If my Reader be inclined now to Smile, when he thinks, how Simply poor Isgrim looked, returning to his Mates behind the Hill, without either Gun, or Prey, or any thing but Strings, to Remember him of his own Deserts; the Smiles will all be presently turned into Tears. The Indians had now made a Prisoner of one Robert Rogers, and being on their Journey, they came to an Hill, where this man, being through his Corpulency, (for which ●he was usually Nicknamed, Robin Pork) and an Insupportable and Intolerable Burden laid upon his Back, not so able to Travel as the rest, he Absconded. The Wretches missing him, immediately went in pursuit of him; and it was not long before they found his Burden cast in the way, and the Track of his going out of the way, which they followed, until they found him hidden in an Hollow Tree. They Took him out, they Stripped him, they beat him, and pricked him, and pushed him forward with their Swords, until they were got back to the Hill; and it being almost Night, they fastened him to a Tree, with his Hands behind him, and made themselves a Supper, Singing, Dancing, Roaring, and Urtering many Signs of Joy, but with Joy little enough to the poor Creature, who foresaw, what all this Tended unto. They then cut a parcel of Wood, and bringing it into a plain place, they cut off the Top of a small Red Oak Tree, Leaving the Trunk for a Stake, whereto they bond their Sacrifice. They first made a Great Fire near this Tree of Death, and bringing him unto it, they bid him take his Leave of his Friends; which he did in a doleful manner; no Pen, though made of an Harpies Quill, were able to describe the Dolour of it! They then allowed him a little Time, to make his Prayers, unto Heaven; which he did with an Extreme Fervency and Agony: Where-upon they bond him to the Stake, and brought the rest of the Prisoners, with their Arms tied each to other, so setting them round the Fire. This being done, they went behind the Fire, and thrust it forwards upon the man, with much Laughter and Shouting; and when the Fire had burnt some while upon him, even till he was near Stifled, they pulled it again from him. They Danced about him, and at every Turn, they did with their knives, cut collops of his Flesh, from his Naked Limbs, & throw them with his Blood into his Face. When he was Dead, they set his Body down upon the Glowing Coals, and left him Tied with his Back to the Stake; where the English Army soon after found him. He was left for Us, to put out the Fire with our Tears!  
Reader, Who should be the Father of these Myrmidons?   

ARTICLE. VII. The Condition of the Captives, that from time to time fell into the Hands of the Indians: with some very Remarkable Accidents.  
WE have had Some Occasion, and shall have More, to mention Captives, falling into the Hands of the Indians. We will here, without any thing worthy to be called A Digression, a little Stand Still, and with mournful Hearts, look upon the Condition of the Captives in those cruel Hands. Their Condition truly might be Expressed in the Terms of the ancient Lamentations, (thus by some Translated,) Lam 4 3. The Daughter of my People, is in the Hands of the Cruel, that are like the Ostrich in the Wilderness. Truly, the Dark places of New England, where the Indians had their Unapproacheable Kennels, were Habitations of Cruelty: and no words can Sufficiently describe the Cruelty undergone by our Captives in those Habitations. The Cold, and Heat, and Hunger, & Weariness, and Mockings, and Scourge, and Insolences, Endured by the Captives, would enough deserve the Name of Cruelty; but there was this also added unto the rest, that they must ever now and then have their Friends made a Sacrifice of Devils before their Eyes, but be afraid of dropping a Tear from those Eyes, lest it should, upon that provocation, be next their own Turn, to be so Barbarously Sacrificed. Indeed some few of the Captives, did very happily Escape from their Barbarous Oppressors, by a Flight wisely managed: and many more of them, were Bought by the French, who treated them with a Civility ever to be acknowledged, until care was taken to fetch 'em home. Nevertheless, many Scores of them Died among the Indians; and what usage they had, may be gathered from the following Relations, which I have obtained from Credible Witnesses.  

RELATION. I.  
JAmes Key, Son to John Key of Quochecho, was a Child of about Five years of Age, taken Captive, by the Indians at Salmon Falls; and that Hellish Fellow, Hope-Hood, once a Servant of a Christian Master in Boston, was become the Master of this Little Christian. This Child, Lamenting with Tears the want of his Parents, his ●aster Threatened him with Death, if he did not Refrain his Tears; but these Threaten could not Extinguish the Natural Affections of a Child. Wherefore, upon his Next Lamentations, this Monster Stripped him Stark Naked, and lashed both his Hands round a Tree, and Scourged him, so that from the Crown of his Head unto the Sole of his Foot, he was all over Bloody and Swollen: and when he was Tired with laying on his Blows, on the Forlorn Infant, he would lay him on the Ground, with Taunts remembering him of his Parents. In this misery, the poor Creature lay horribly Roaring for divers Days together, while his Master, gratifyed with the Music, lay contriving of New Torments, wherewith to Martyr him. It was not long, before the Child had a Sore Eye, which his Master said, proceeded from his Weeping on the Forbidden Accounts: Whereupon, laying Hold on the Head of the Child with his Left Hand with the Thumb of his Right, he forced the ball of his Eye quite out; therewithal telling him; That when he heard him Cry ag●●● he would Serve t●othe● so too, and leave him 〈◊〉 an Eye to ●eep withal About Nine or Ten Day● after, his Wretch had Occasion to Remove, with his Family, about Thirty Miles further: and when they had gone about Six Miles of the Thi●ty, the Child being Tired and Faint, sat him down to rest, at which, this Horrid Fellow, being provoked, he Buried the Blade of his Hatchet, in the Brains of the Child, and then chopped the Breathless Body to pieces before the rest of the Company, & threw it into the River. But for the s●ke of these and other such Truculent Things done by Hope Hood, I am Resolved, that in the course of our Story, I will watch to see what becomes of that hideous Loup garou, if he come to his End, as I am apt to think he will, before the Story.   

RELATION. II.  
MEhetabel Goodwin, being a Captive among the Indians, had with her a Child about Months old; which through Hunger & Hardship, she being unable to nourish, it often made most grievous Ejulations. Her Indian Master told her, that if the Child were not quiet, he would soon dispose of it; which caused her to use all possible means, that his Netop-ship might not be offended; and sometimes carry it from the Fire, out of his Hearing, where she sat up to the waist, in Snow and Frost, for several Hours, until it was Lulled asleep. She thus for several days preserved the Life of her Babe, until he saw cause to Travel with his own Cabs farther afield; and than lest he should be Retarded in his Travel. He violently Snatched the Babe out of its Mother's Arms, and before her Face knock out its Brains, and stripped it of the Few Rag it had hitherto Enjoyed, and ordered her the Task, to go wash the B●oody . Returning from this Melancholy Task, She found the Infant hanging by the Neck, in a Forked Bough of a Tree. She desired leave to lay it in the Earth; but he said, It was better as it was, for now the Wild Beasts would not come at it, [I am sure, they had been at it!] and she might have the Comfort of seeing it again, if ever they came that way. The Journey now before them, was like to be very long, even as far as Canada, where his purpose was to make Merchandise of his Captive, and glad was the Captive of such happy Tidings. But the Desperate length of the way, and want of Food, and grief of Mind, wherewith she now encountered, caused her within a few Days to faint under her Difficulties. When at length, she far down for some Repose, with many Prayers, and Tears unto God, for the Salvation of her Soul, she found herself unable to Rise, until she espied her Furious Executioner coming towards her, with Fire in his Eyes, the Devil in his Heart, and his Hatchet in his Hand, ready to bestow a Mercy-Stroke of Death upon her. But then, this miserable Creature, got on her Knees, and with Weeping and Wailing & all Expressions of Agony and Entreaty, prevailed on him, to spare her Life a little, and she did not question but God would enable her to Walk a little faster. The merciless Tyrant was prevailed withal, to spare her this Time; nevertheless her former Weakness quickly Returning upon her, he was just going to Murder her; but a Couple of Indians, just at that Instant, coming in, suddenly called upon him to Hold his Hand; whereat such an Horror Surprised his Guilty Soul, that he ran away. But hearing them call his Name, he Returned, and then permitted these his Friends, to Ransom his prisoner from him. After this, being Seated by a River side, they heard several Guns go off, on the other side; which they concluded, was from a party of Albany Indians, who were Enemies unto these: whereupon this Bold Blade, would needs go in a Canoe, to discover what they were. They Fired upon him, and shot through him, and several of his Friends, before the Discovery could be made unto Satisfaction. But some Days after this, divers of his Friends, gathered a party to Revenge his Death, on their Supposed Enemies; with whom they joined Battle, and fought several Hours, until their Supposed Enemies, did Really put 'em to the Rout. Among the Captives, which they left in their Fight, one was this poor Goodwin, who was Over joyed in seeing herself thus at Liberty; but the Joy did not last long, for these Indians were of the Same Sort with the other, and had been by their own Friends, thus through a strange Mistake set upon. However, this crew, proved more Favourable to her, than the former, and went away Silently with their Booty, being loath to have any Noise made of their foul Mistake. And yet, a few Days after, such an other Mistake happened; for, meeting with another party of Indians, which they imagined in the English Interests, they furiously engaged each other, and many were killed and wounded on either side: but they proved a party of the French Indians, who took this poor Goodwin, and presented her to the French Captain, by whom she was carried unto Canada; where she continued Five years, & then was brought safe Back into New-England.   

RELATION. III.  
Marry Plaisted, the Wife of Mr. James Plaisted, was made a Captive by the Indians, about Three Weeks, after her Delivery of a Male Child. They then Took her, with her Infant, off her Bed, and forced her to Travel in this her Weakness, the best part of a Day, without any Respect or Pity. At Night, the Cold Ground, in the Open Air, was her Lodging; and for many a Day, she had no Nourishment, but a little Water, with a little Bears-flesh: which rendered her so feeble, that she, with her Infant, were not far from totally Starved. Upon her Cries to God, there was at length, some Supply sent in, by her Masters taking a Moose, the Broth whereof Recovered her. But she must now Travel, many Days, through Woods, and Swamps, and Rocks, and over Mountains, and Frost and Snow, until she could stir no farther. Sitting down to Rest, she was not able to Rise, until her Diabolical Master helped her up; which when he did, he took her Child from her, and carried it unto a River, where stripping it of the few Rags it had, he took it by the Heels, and against a Tree dashed out its Brains, and then flung it into the River. So he Returned unto the miserable Mother, telling her, She was now eased of her Burden, and must walk faster than she did before!   

RELATION. iv  
Marry Ferguson, taken Captive by the Indians at Sa●mon Falls, declares, that another Maid, of about Fifteen or Sixteen years of Age, taken at the same Time, had a Great Burden Imposed on her. Being over born with her Burden, she burst out into Tears telling her Indian Master, That she could go no further. Whereupon he immediately took off her Burden, and leading her aside into the Bushes, he cut off her Head, and Scalping it, he ran about Laughing and Bragging, what an Act he had now done and showing the Scalp unto the rest, he told them, They should all be Served so; if they were not patiented.  
In fine; when the Children of the English Captives Cried at any Time, so that the were not presently quieted, the manner of the Indians was, to dash out their Brains against a Tree.  
And very often, when the Indians were on, or near the Water, they took the Small Childre●, and held 'em under Water, till they had near Drowned them; and then gave 'em unto their Distressed Mothers to quiet 'em.  
And the Indians in their ●rolicks, would Whip and Beat the Small Children, until they set 'em into grievous out cries, and then throw 'em to their Amazed Mothers, for them to quiet 'em again, as well as they could.  
This was Indian Captivity!  
Reader, A Modern Traveller assures us, that at the Villa Ludovisia, not far from Rome, t●e●e is to be seen the Body of a Petrified Man; and that he himself saw, by a piece of the man's Leg, Broken for Satisfaction both the Bone, and the Stone Crusted over it. All that I will say, is, That if thou canst Read these passages without Relenting Bowels, thou thyself art as really Petrified, as the man at Villa Ludovisia.  
Nescio tu quibus es, Lector, Lecturus Ocellis;  
Hoc Scio quod Siccis Scribere non potui.    

ARTICLE VIII. A Little Account of the Greatest Action, that ever New England Attempted.  
I have Read or Herd, That when the Insufferable Abuses, which the English Nation suffered from the Abbeys, were in the Parliament complained of, the Total Dissolution of those Abbeys, was much forwarded, by a Speech of a Gentleman in the House of Commons, to this purpose; That his own House had been much annoyed by Rooks building in a Tree, near unto it, and that he had used many ineffectual ways to disturb, and disroost these mischievous Rooks: until at Last, he found out an infallible way to be delivered from the Rooks, and that was to cut down the Tree that Lodged 'em. The Distresses into which New-england was now fallen, made this very comparison to be thought of. The Indian Rooks grievously infested the Country; and while the Country was only on the Defensive Part, their Men were Thinned, their Towns were Broken, and their Treasures consumed, without any Hope of seeing an End of these Troublesome Tragedies. The French Colonies to the Northward, were the Tree, in which those Rooks had their Nests; and the French having in person first fallen upon the English of New-England, it was thought that the New-Englanders might very justly take this Occasion, to Reduce those French Colonies under the English Government, and so at once take away from all the Rooks for ever, all that gave 'em any Advantage to Infest us. Accordingly, a Naval Force, with about Seven Hundred men, under the Conduct of Sr. William Phips, was dispatched away to L'accady, and Nova Scotia. This Fleet, setting Sail from New-England, April 28. 1690. in a Fortnight Arrived at Port-Royal, and Sir William having the Fort Surrendered unto him, took Possession of that Province, for the Crown of England. But this was only a step towards a far greater Action! There was no Speech about the Methods of Safety made, which did not conclude, with, a, Delenda est Carthago. It was become the concurring Resolution, of all New-England, with New-York, that a vigorous Attack should be made upon Canada, at once, both by Sea, and Land. A Fleet of Thirty Two Sail, under the Command of Sr. William Phips, was Equipped at Boston, and began their Voyage, Aug. 9 and the whole Matter was put into Form, with so much Contrivance and Caution, and Courage, that nothing but an Evident Hand of Heaven, was likely to have given such a Defeat unto it, as has been indeed generally and Remarkably given unto all the Colonies of America, when they have Invaded one another. If this Expedition did miscarry, and if Canada proved unto New England, what it proved unto the Spaniards, when at their Deserting it, they called it, Il Capo de Nada or, The Cape of Nothing (whence the Name Canada) there is no New Englander, but what will mentain, that it was with a less Disgraceful miscarriage, than what baffled, every one of those, that were made in this War, against the French Islands, by more powerful Fleets of those, who were forward Enough to Reproach New-England. I am sure, he that Reads the Account of what was done at Martineco, in the Relation of the Voyage of M. de Gennes, lately published, must be very easy in his Reflections upon what was done at Canada. And I will add, That if the New-England men returned re infecta from Canada, yet they did not leave Two Hundred men behind them to the mercy of the French, as they who most Reproached New England, soon after did at Guadalupa.  
The fuller Narrative of these memorable Things, the Reader may find written, in, The Life of Sir William Phipps, lately published; of wh●ch I must here give this Attestation, That as my Acquaintance with the Author, gives me Assurance, of his being as Willing to Retract a Mistake, as unwilling to Commit one, and of his Care in whatever he writes, to be able to make the profession of Oecolampadius, Nolui aliquid Scribere, quod improbaturum putem Christum: So I have Compared this Narrative with the Journals of the Expedition, and I find the most Contested passages of the Story (nor did I ever hear of any more than one or two little circumstantial passages contested, as carrying a sound a little too Rhetorical; but, I say, I find them) to be the very Express Words thereof, contained in those Journals; and more than so, that very credible Persons, concerned therein, have readily offered their Depositions upon Oath, to the Truth of what is Written. So I take my leave of that History, and of Sir William Phipps, the Memorable Subject of that History, whom I leave under this  

EPITAPH. Bonus non est, qui non ad Invidiam usque Bonus est. [A Digression.]  
REader, since we can give no better an Account, of the Last English Expedition to Canada, why may we not for a Minute or Two, Refresh ourselves, with a Story of an Old one.  
In the very year, when the Massachusett-Colony began, the English Attempted the Conquest of Canada, and though the First Attempt miscarried, the Second prospered. The Story of it, makes a Chapter, in Father Hennepins Account of the Vast Country lately discovered, betwixt Canada, and Mexico: and this is the Sum of it.  
While a Colony was forming itself at Canada, an English Fleet was Equipped, in the year, 1628. under the Command of Admiral Kirk, with a Design to take Possession of that Country. In their Vogage, having taken a French Ship, at the Isle Percee, they Sailed up the River, as far as Tadousac, where they found a Bark, in which they set ashore some Soldiers, to Seize on Cape Tourment. And here a Couple of Savages discovering them, ran away to advise the people of Quebeck, that the English were approaching. When the Fleet arrived, the Admiral Summoned the Town to Surrender by a Letter to Monsieur Champelin, the Governor; But the Governor notwithstanding his being so Surprised with the Invasion, made such a Resolute Answer, that the English, (though as the Historian says, they are a People that will sooner Die than quit what they once undertake) did conclude the Fort Quebeck, was in a much better Condition for Defence than it really was; and therefore desisting from any further Attempt at this Time, they returned into England, with Resolution further to pursue their Design at a more favourable Opportunity.  
Accordingly, on July 19 1629. in the Morning, the English Fleet appeared again, over against the Great Bay of Quebeck, at the point of the Isle of Orleans; which Fleet Consisted of Three men of War, and Six other Vessels. Admiral Kirk sending a Summons formed in very Civil Expressions, for the Surrender of the Place, the miserable State of the Country, which had been by the English Interceptions, hindered of Supplies from France, for Two years together, obliged the Sieur Champelin to make a softer Answer, than he did before. He sent Father Joseph Le Charon, aboard the Admiral to treat about the Surrender, and none of his Demands for Fifteen Days, and then for Five Days, Time to Consider on't, could obtain any longer Time, than till the Evening, to prepare their Articles. Upon the Delivery of this Message, a Council was held, wherein some urged, that the English had no more than Two Hundred men, of Regular Troops aboard, and some others which had not much of the Air of Soldiers; and that the Courage of the Inhabitants was much to be relied upon, and therefore it was best for to run the risk of a Siege: But Monsieur Champelin, apprehending the Bravery of the English, remonstrated unto the Council, that it was better to make a Surrender on Good Terms, than be all out in pieces by an unreasonable Endeavour to Defend themselves. Upon this, the Articles regulating all matters, were got ready, and Father Joseph had his Commission, to carry them aboard the English Admiral, where the Signing of them was deferred until To Morrow. On July 20. the Articles of Capitulation were Signed, on both sides, and the English being Landed, were put in possession of Canada, by the Governor of it. The French Inhabitants, who were then in the Country, had twenty Crowns a piece given them, the rest of their Effects remained unto the Conquerors, but those who were willing to stay, were favoured by the English with great Advantages. The Fleet set Sail again for England, Sept. 14. and arrived at Plymouth, Octo. 18. in that year.    

ARTICLE. IX. Casco Lost.  
WHen the Indians at last perceived that the New Englanders were upon a Likely Design to Swallow up the French Territories, the Prospect of it began to have the same Operation upon them, that the Success of the Design, would have made Perpetual; that is, to Dispirit them, for giving the New Englanders any further Molestations. Nevertheless, Before and Until, they were thoroughly Advised of what was a doing, and likely to be done, they did molest the Country with some Tragical Efforts of their Fury. Captain James Convers was Marching through the vast Wilderness, to Albany, with some Forces, which the Massachusets Colony were willing to send by Land (besides what they did send by Sea unto Quebeck,) for the Assistence of the Army, in the West, that was to go from thence over the Lake, and there fall upon Mount Real: but unhappy Tidings out of the East required the Diversion of those Forces thither. About the Beginning of May, the French and Indians, between Four and Five Hundred, were seen at Casco, in a great Fleet of Canoes passing over the Bay: but not Seeing or Hearing any more of them, for Two or Three Weeks together, the Casconians flattered themselves with Hopes, That they were gone another way. But about May 16 those Hopes were over; For one Gresson, a Scotchman, then going out Early, sell into the mouths of these Hungry Savages. It proved no kindness to Casco, tho' it proved a great one to himself, that a Commander so qualified, as Captain Willard, was called off, Two or Three Days before. But, The Officers of the place, now concluding, that the whole Army of the Enemy, were watching for an Advantage to Surprise the Town, Resolved that they would keep a Strict watch, for Two or Three days, to make some further Discovery, before they Salleyed forth. Notwithstanding this, one Lieut. Clark, with near Thirty of their Stoutest young men, would venture out, as far as the Top of an Hill, in the Entrance of the Wood, half a mile distant from the Town. The outlet from the Town to the Wood, was through a Lane, that had a Fence on each side, which had a certain Block-house at one End of it: and the English were Suspicious, when they came to Enter the Lane, that the Indians were lying behind the Fence, because the  stood staring that way, and would not pass into the Wood as they use to do. This mettlesome Company, than ran up to the Fence, with an, Huzzab! thinking thereby to discourage the Enemy, if they should be lurking there: but the Enemy were so well prepared for them, that they answered them with an horrible Vengeance, which killed the Lieutenant, with Thirteen more upon the Spot, and the rest escaped with much ado unto one of the Garrisons. The Enemy then coming into Town, beset all the Garrisons at once, Except the Fort; which were manfully Defended, so long as their Ammunition lasted; but That being spent, without a prospect of a Recruit, they quitted all the Four Garrisons, and by the Advantage of the Night, got into the Fort. Upon this, the Enemy Setting the Town on Fire, bend their whole Force against the Fort, which had hard by it, a deep Gully, that contributed not a little unto the Ruin of it: For, the Besiegers getting into that Gully, lay below the Danger of our Guns. Here the Enemy began their Mine, which was carried so near the Walls, that the English, who by Fight Five Days and Four Nights, had the greatest part of their men killed and wounded, (Captain Laurence mortally, among the rest,) began a parley with them. Articles were Agreed, That they should have liberty to March unto the Next English Town, and have a Guard for their Safety in their March; and the French Commander, lifting up his Hand, Swore by the Everlasting God, for the performance of these Articles. But the Agreement was kept, as those that are made with Hugonots use to be: The English being first Admonished, by the French, that they were all Rebels, for proclaiming the Prince of Orange their King, were Captived, and many of them cruelly Murdered by the Indians: Only some of them (and particularly, Major Davis,) were Carried unto Canada, where the Gentry, very civilly Treated them. The Garrisons at Papoodack, Spurwink, Black Point, and Blue Point, were so disanimated at these Disasters, that, without Orders they drew off immediately, to Saco, Twenty miles, within Casco, and from Saco in a few Days also they drew off to Wells, Twenty miles within the said Saco; and about Half Wells drew off as far as Lieut. Storers. But the Arrival of Orders and Soldiers from the Government, stopped them from Retiring any further, and Hope Hood, with a party that stayed for further mischief, meeting with some Resistance here, turned about, and having first had a skirmish with Captain Sherborn, they appeared the Next Lord's day at Newichawannick, or, Barwick, where they Burnt some Houses, and Slew a man. Three Days alter, they came upon a Small Hamlet, on the South side of Piscataqua River, called, Fox Point, and besides the Burning of several Houses, they Took Half a Dozen, and killed more than a Dozen, of the too Securely Ungarrisoned People: which it was as easy to do, as to have Spoilt an ordinary Hen Roost. But Captain Floyd, and Capt. Greenleaf, coming upon those Indians, made some Slaughter among them, Recovered some Captives, with much Plunder, and bestowed a Good wound upon Hope-Hood, who left his Gun, 
[Villian! Thou shalt not escape so: There must quickly be another stroke upon thee!]  (which was next his Life) in this Action.  
All that shall further belong to this Paragraph of our Story, is, That when the Indians were got into the Woods, they made one Goody Stockford their messenger, to her Neighbours, whose Charity she so well Solicited, that she got a Shalop full of it unto Casco, where the Indians permitted us to Redeem several of the Prisoners.   

ARTICLE. X. Harm Watched, and Catched by the Indians, and several Rare Instances of Mortal wounds upon the English, not proving Mortal.  
THat memorable Tiger, Hope-Hood, (called also, Wohawa,) finding the Coast hereabouts too hot for him, went away with his Crew, a great way to the Westward, with a Design to Bewitch another Crew at Aquadocta into his Assistence. Here a party of French Indians, by a strange Mistake, supposing Hope Hood, & his Wretches, to have been the Indians, who had lately done some Spoil upon them at Canada, furiously fell upon them, and in their Blind Fury slew him, and a considerable part of his Company. So, we have now done with him! ●n the mean Time, some other Indians came upon an Helpless place, called, Spruce Creek, and killed an old man, and carried a Woman into Captivity; but tho' Captain Convers pursued 'em Three Days, they were too Nimble for him. On July, 4 Eight or Nine persons working in a Field, at a place called, Lampereel River, the Scythe of Death, unhappily mowed them down, in that Field of Blood: The Indians by Surprise, killed 'em all, and carried a Lad Captive. About this Time, a Council of War, was called, at Portsmouth, by which 'twas thought adviseable, to send out Captain Wiswel, with a considerable Scout for to Scour the Woods, as far as Casco: and it being Resolved, That one of the other Captains with about Fourscore Stout men should accompany Captain Wiswal in this Action, they All with such a Generous Emulation offered it, that it was necessary to determine it by a Lot, which fell upon Captain Floyd. On July 4. assisted with Lieut. Andrews, and a Detachment of Twenty Two men from Wells, they took their March from Quochecho, into the Woods. But the Day following, the Enemy set upon Captain Hiltons' Garrison in Exeter, which Lieut. Bancroft, then posted at Exeter, with the loss of a few of his men, Relieved. At this Time, there happened a Remarkable Thing. I know not whether the Story told by Plato be true, That one Herus Armenius (whom Clemens will have to be Zoroaster) being Slain in War, lay Ten Days among the Dead, and then being brought away, and on the Twelfth Day laid on the Funeral Pile, he came to Life again. But it is true, that one Simon Stone being here wounded with Shot, in Nine several places, lay for Dead, (as it was Time!) among the Dead. The Indians coming to Strip him, attempted, with Two several Blows of an Hatchet at his Neck, to cut off his Head, which Blows added, you may be sure, more Enormous wounds unto those Portholes of Death, at which the Life of the poor man, was already running out, as fast as it could. Being charged hard by Lieut. Bancroft, they left the man, without Scalping him; and the English now coming to Bury the Dead, one of the Soldiers perceived this poor man to fetch a gasp: whereupon an Irish Fellow then present, advised 'em, to give him another Dab with an Hatchet, and so Bury him with the rest. The English detesting this Barbarous Advice, lifted up the wounded man, and poured a little Fair Water into his Mouth, at which he Coughed; then they poured a little Strong Water alter it, at which he opened his Eyes. The Irish Fellow was ordered now to hale a Canoe ashore, to carry the wounded men up the River, unto a Cheirurgeon; and as Teague was foolishly pulling the Canoe ashore, with the Cock of his Gun, while he held the Muzzle in his Hand, his Gun went off, and broke his Arm, whereof he remains a Cripple to this Day: But Simon Stone was thoroughly cured, and is at this Day a very lusty man, and as he was Born with Two Thumbs on one Hand, his Neighbours have thought him to have at least as many Hearts as Thumbs!  
Reader, Let us Leave it now unto the Sons of Aesculapius, to Dispute out the Problem, What Wounds are to be Judged Mortal? The Sovereign Arbiter of Life and Death, seems to have determined it, That no Wounds are Mortal, but such as He shall in His Holy Providence Actually make so. On the one side, Let it be Remembered, That a Scratch of a Comb has proved Mortal; That the Incomparable Anatomist Spigelius, at the Wedding of his Daughter, gathering up the Relics of a Broken Glass, a Fragment of it scratched one of his Fingers; and all his Exquisite Skill in Anatomy, could not prevent its producing an Empyema, that Killed him: That Colonel Rossiter, cracking a Plumbstone with his Teeth, broke his Tooth, and Lost his Life; That the Lord Fairfax, cutting a Corn, in his Foot, Cut asunder the Thread of his Life; That Mr. Fowler, a Vintner, playing with his Child, received a little scratch of a Pin, which turned unto a Gangrene, that Cost him his Life. And, Reader, Let the Remembrance of such Things, cause thee to Live, preparing for Death continually. But then, on the other side, That nothing may be Despaired of, Remember Simon Stone. And besides him, I call to Remembrance, That the Indians making an Assault upon Deerfield in this Present War, they struck an Hatchet some Inches into the Skull of a Boy there, even so deep, that the Boy felt the Force of a Wre●ch used by 'em to get it out. There he lay a long while Weltering in his Blood; they found him, they Dressed him, considerable Quantities of his Brain came out from time to time, when they opened the Wound; yet the Lad Recovered, and is now a Living Monument of the Power and Goodness of God. And in our Former War, there was one Jabez Musgrove, who tho' he were Shot by the Indians, with a Bullet, that went in at his Ear, and went out at his Eye, on the other side of his head; and a Brace of Bullets, that went in to his Right Side, a little above his Hip, and passing through his Body within the Back Bone, went out at his Left Side; yet he Recovered, and Lived many years after it.   

ARTICLE XI. A Worthy Captain Dying in the Bed of Honour.  
ON July 6. Lord's Day, Captain Floyd, and Captain Wiswell, sent out their Scouts, before their Breakfast, who immediately returned, with Tidings of Breakfast enough provided for those, who had their Stomach sharp set for Fight: Tidings of a considerable Track of the Enemy, going to the Westward. Our Forces vigorously followed the Track, till they came up with the Enemy, at a place called Wheelrights Pond; where they Engaged 'em in a Bloody Action for several Hours. The manner of the Fight here, was as it is at all times, with Indians; namely what your Artists at Fight do call, A la disbandad: And here, the Worthy Captain Wiswel, a man worthy to have been Shot (if he must have been Shot,) with no Gun interior to that at Florence, the Barrel whereof is all pure Gold, behaving himself with much Bravery, Sold his Life, as dear as he could; and his Lieutenant Flag, and Sergeant Walker, who were Valiant in their Lives, in their Death were not divided. Fifteen of ours were Slain, and more Wounded; but how many of the Enemy, 'twas not exactly known, because of a singular care used by them in all their Battles, to carry off their Dead, tho' they were forced now to Leave a good Number of them on the Spot. Captain Floyd maintained the Fight, after the Death of Captain Wiswal, several Hours, until so many of his Tired and Wounded men Drew off, that it was Time for him to Draw off also; for which he was blamed perhaps, by some that would not have continued at it so long as he. Hereupon Captain Convers repaired, with about a score Hands to look after the Wounded men, and finding seven yet Alive, he brought 'em to the Hospital, by Sun-rise the next morning. He then Returned with more Hands, to Bury the Dead, which was done immediately; and Plunder left by the Enemy at their going off, was then also taken by them. But the same Week, these Rovers made their Descent as far as Amesbury, where Captain Foot being Ensnared by them, they Tortured him to Death; which Disaster of the Captain, was an Alarm to the Town, and an Effectual Word of Command, causing 'em to Fly out of their Beds into their Garrisons; otherwise they had all undoubtedly before the next morning Slept their last: their Beds would have been their Graves. However, the Enemy Killed Three Persons, Burnt Three Houses, Butchered many ; and so, that Scene of the Tragedy being over, away they went.  
In fine; From the First Mischief done, at Lampereel River, to the Last at Amesbury, all belonged unto one Indian Expedition, in which, though no English Places were taken, yet Forty English People were cut off.   

ARTICLE XII. An Indian Fort or Two, taken, and some other Actions.  
REader, I remember the prolixity of Guicciardine, the Historian, gave such Offence, that Boccalini, brings in an Offender at Verbosity, Ordered for his punishment by the Judges at Parnassus, to Read that punctual Historian; but the poor Fellow begged rather to be Flayed alive, than to be Tortured with Reading an Historian, who in relating the War between the Florentines and Pisans, made longer Narrations, about the Taking of a Pigeon House, than there needed of the most Fortified Castle in the World. For this cause, let me be excused, Reader, if I make short Work; in our Story, and Leave the Honest Actors themselves to Run over Circumstances more at large, with their Friends by the Fireside.  
The Enemy appearing a Little Numerous and Vexatious, the Government sent more Forces to break up the Enemy's Quarters; and Auxiliaries both of English and Indians, under the Command of Major Church, assisted the Enterprise. About Three Hundred Men, were dispatched away upon this Design, in the Beginning of September, who Landed by Night in Casco Bay, at a place called, Macquoit, and by Night Marched up to Pechypscot Fort; where, from the Information of some Escaped Captives, they had an Expectation to meet with the Enemy; but found that the Wretches were gone farther a field. They then marched away for Amonoscoggin Fort, which was about Forty Miles up the River, and Wading through many Difficulties, whereof one was a Branch of the River itself, they met with Four or Five Savages, going to their Fort, with two English Prisoners. They Saved the Prisoners, but could not catch the Savages; however, on the Lordsday they got up to the Fort undiscovered, where to their Sorrowful Disappointment, they found no more than one and Twenty of the Enemy, whereof they Took and Slew Twenty. They found some Considerable Store of Plunder, and Rescued Five English Captives, and laid the Fort in Ashes: but one Disaster they much Complained of; That the Captain of the Fort, whose Name was Agamcus, alias, Great Tom, slipped away from the Hands of his too Careless keepers. But if this piece of Carelessness did any Harm, there was another which did some Good: For, Great Tom having terribly Scared a party of his Countrymen, with the Tidings of what had happened; and an English Lad in their Hands also telling some Truth unto them, they betook themselves to such a Flight, in their Fright, as gave one Mr. Anthony Bracket, than a Prisoner with 'em, an Opportunity to Fly Fourscore miles another way. Our Forces returning to Mackquoit, one of our Vessels was there Carelessly run a ground, and compelled thereby to stay for the next Tide: and Mr. Bracket, had been miserably a ground, if it had not so fell out; for he thereby got thither before she was afloat; otherwise he might have perished, who was afterwards much Improved in Service against the Murderers of his Father. Arriving at Winter Harbour, a party of men were sent up the River, who coming upon a parcel of the Mankeen Wolves, then hunted for, killed some of them, and Siezed most of their Arms, and Stores, and Recovered from them an English man, who told them, that the Enemy were intending to Rendezvous on Pechypscot Plain, in order to an Attempt upon the Town of Wells. Upon this, they Re embarked for Macquoit, and repaired as fast as they could unto Pechypscot Plain, and being Divided into Three parties, they there waited for the Approach of the Enemy. But being tired with one of the Three Italian miseries, Waiting for those who did not come, they only possessed themselves of more Plunder there hid by the Enemy, and returned unto Casco-Harbor. The Enemy it seems dogged their Motions; and in the Night they made a mischievous Assault upon such of the English Army, as were too Remiss, in providing for their own Safety, in their going ashore; Killing, Five of our Plymouth-Friends, who had Lodged themselves in an House, without Commanders or Sentinels. The English as soon as the Light of the Day, (which was the Lordsday, Sept. 21.) gave 'em leave, quickly Ran upon the Enemy, and Eased the world of some of them, and made the rest Scamper from that part of the world, and got many of their Canoes, and not a little of their Ammunition, and their best Furniture for the Winter. The Army was after this Dismissed; only an Hundred men, were left, with Captain Convers, and Lieutenant Plaisted, who spent their Time, as profitably as they could, in Scouting about the Frontiers, to prevent Surprisals, from an Enemy which rarely did Annoy, but when they could Surprise.   

ARTICLE. XIII. A Flag of Truce.  
NEw-England was now quite out of Breath! A tedious, lingering, expensive Defence against an Ever Approaching, and Unapproachable Adversary had made it so. But nothing had made it more so, than the Expedition to Canada; which had Exhausted its best Spirits, and seemed its Ultimus Conatus. While the Country was now in too Great Amazements to proceed any farther in the War, the Indians themselves Entreat them to proceed no farther. The Indians came in to Wells, with a Flag of Truce: and there Ensued some Overtures, with the English Commissioners, Major Hutchinson, and Captain Townsend sent from Boston, to join with some others at Wells. At length a meeting was Appointed and obtained at Sagadehock, Nou. 23. Where the Redemption of Ten English Captives was accomplished; one of whom, was one Mrs. Hull, whom the Indians were very loath to part withal, because being able to Write well, they made her serve them in the Quality of a Secretary: Another was named Nathanael White, whom the Barbarous Cannibals had already tied unto a Stake, & cut off one of his Ears, and made him Eat it Raw, and intended for to have Roasted the rest of him alive: The poor man, being astonished at his own Deliverance! At last, they Signed Articles, Dated, Nou. 29. 1691. wherein they Engaged, That no Indians, in those parts of the World, should do any Injury, to the Persons or Estates, of the English, in any of the English Colonies, until the First of May, next Ensuing; And that on the said First of May, they would bring in to Storers Garrison at Wells all the English Captives in their Hands, and there Make, and Sign, and Seal Articles of Peace with the English; and in the mean time give seasonable Advice of any Plots, which they might know the French to have against them. To this Instrument were set the Paws, of Edgeremet, and Five more of their Sagamores, and Noblemen.  
But as it was not upon the Firm Land, but in their Canoes upon the Water, that they Signed and Sealed this Instrument; so Reader, we will be Jealous, that it will prove but a Fluctuating, and Unstable sort of a Business; and that the Indians will Do a , as they use to do. However, we will Dismiss all our Soldiers to their several Homes, Leaving only Captain Convers to keep Wells in some Order, until the First of May, do show, whether any more than a mere Flag of Truce be yet shown unto us.   

ARTICLE. XIV. Remarkable Encounters.  
AT the Day appointed, there came to the place, Mr. Danforth, Mr. Moodey, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Brattle, and several other Gentlemen, guarded with a Troop, to see how the Frenchified Indians, would keep their Faith with the Heretics of New-England. The Indians being poor Musicians for keeping of Time, came not according to their Articles, and when Captain Convers had the courage to go fetch in some of them, they would have made a Lying Excuse, That they did not know the Time. They brought in Two Captives, and promised. That in Twenty Days more, they would bring in to Captain Convers all the rest: but finding that in Two and Twenty Days they came not, with much concern upon his Mind, he got himself Supplied, as fast as he could, with Five and Thirty men, from the County of Essex. His men were not come half an Hour to Storers House, on June 9 1691. nor had they got their Indian Weed fairly lighted into their Mouths, before Fierce Moxus, with Two Hundred Indians, made an Attacque upon the Garrison. This Recruit of Men, thus at the very Nick of Time, Saved the place; For Moxus meetting with a brave Repulse, drew off; and gave Modockawando cause to say, (as a Captive afterwards related it) My Brother Moxus ba's missed it now, but I will go myself the next year, and have the Dog Convers out of his Hole. About this Time, the Enemy Slew Two men at Berwick, Two more at Exeter, and the biggest part of Nine, loading a Vessel at Cape Nidduck. But about the latter End of July, we sent out a small Army, under the Command of Captain March, Captain King, Captain Sherburn, and Captain Walton, (Convers lying Sick all Summer, had this to make him yet more Sick, that he could have no part in these Actions,) who landing at Macquoit, Marched up to Pechypscot, but not finding any signs of the Enemy, Marched down again. While the Commanders were waiting ashore, till the Soldiers were got aboard, such Great Numbers of Indians poured in upon them, that tho' the Commanders wanted not for Courage or Conduct, yet they found themselves obliged, with much ado, (and not without the Death of Worthy Captain Sherburn) to retire into the Vessels, which then lay aground. Here they kept pelting at one another all night; but unto little other purpose, than this, which was indeed Remarkable: That the Enemy was at this Time Going to Take the Isle of Shoales, and no doubt, had they gone, they would have Taken it, but having Exhausted all their Ammunition on this Occasion, they desisted from what they designed. For the Rest of the Year, the Compassion of Heaven towards Distressed New-England, kept the Indians under a Strange Inactivity; only, on Sept. 28. Seven persons were Murdered and Captived, at Berwick; and the Day following, Thrice Seven, of Sandy-Beach: On Octob. 23. One Goodridge, and his Wife, were Murdered at Newberry, and his Children Captived: and the Day following, the like Fate befell a Family at Haverhil. And this year, a very Good Strong Fort, at Cape Nidduck, owned by a Widow, was unhappily Deserted; after which, the Enemy came, and burned the Houses in it.   

ARTICLE. XV. The Martyrdom of Mr. Shubael Dummer, with the Fate of York.  
BUt the Winter must not pass over, without a Storm of Blood! The Popish Indians, after long Silence and Repose, in their Inaccessible Kennels, which made our Frontier Towns, a little Remit their Tired Vigilance, did, Janu. 25. 1691. Set upon the Town of York, where the Inhabitants were in their unguarded Houses, here and there Scattered, Quiet and Secure. Upon the Firing of a Gun by the Indians, which was their Signal, the Inhabitants looked out, but unto their Amazement, found their Houses to be Invested with horrid Savages, who immediately killed many of those unprovided Inhabitants, and more they took Prisoners. This Body of Indians, Consisting of divers Hundreds, then sent in their Summons, to some of the Garrisoned Houses; and those Garrisons whereof some had no more than Two or Three Men in them, yet being so well Manned, as to Reply, That they would Spend their Blood unto the last Drop,  they would Surrender; these Cowardly Miscreants had not mettle enough to meddle with 'em. So they Retired into their Howling Thickets, having first Murdered about Fifty, and Captived near an Hundred, of that unhappy People. In this Calamity, great was the Share, that fell to the Family of Mr. SHUBAEL DUMMER, the Pastor of the Little Flock thus preyed upon Those Bloodhounds, being set on by some Romish Missionaries, had long been wishing, that they might Em●r●e their Hands, in the Blood of some New English MINISTER; and in this Action, they had their Diabolical Satisfaction. Our Dummer, the Minister of York, was One, of whom, for his Exemplary Holiness, Humbleness, Modesty, Industry, and Fidelity, The World was not Worthy. He was a Gentleman Well-Descended, Well-Tempered, Well-Educated; and now short of Sixty years of Age. He might have taken for his Coat of Arms, the same that the Holy Martyr Hooper Prophetically did, A Lamb in a Flaming Bush, with Rays from Heaven shining ●n it. He had been Solicited with many Temptations, to Leave his Place, when the Clouds grew Thick and Black, in the Indian Hostilities, and were like to break upon it; but he chose rather, with a paternal Affection to stay amongst those, who had been, so many of them, Converted and Edified by his Ministry; and he spent very much of his own Patramony to Subsist among them, when their Distresses made them unable to support him, as otherwise they would have done. In a word, He was one that might, by way of Eminency, be called, A Good Man. This Good Man was just going to Take Horse, at his own Door, upon a Journey in the Service of God, when the Tigers, that were making their Depredations upon the Sheep of York, Seized upon this their Shepherd; & they shot him so, that they left him Dead among the Tribe of Abel, on the Ground. Thus was he, as Ambrose in his Elegant Oration, De obitu Fratris, Expresses it, Non nobis ereptus, sed periculis. His Wife they carried into Captivity, where through Sorrows and Hardships among those Dragons of the Desert, she also quickly Dyed; and his Church, as many of them, as were in that Captivity, Endured This, among other Anguishes, that on the Next Lord Day, one of the Tawnies, chose to Exhibit himself unto them, [A Devil as an Angel of Light!] in the , whereof they had Stripped the Dead Body of this their Father. Many were the Tears, that were dropped throughout New-England, on this Occasion; and These among the rest: for, tho' we do not, as Tradition tells us, the Antediluvians did use to do, By the Blood of Abel, yet we cannot but mournfully, Sing of the Blood of such an Abel.  

EPITAPH.  

DVmmer, The Shepherd Sacrificed,  
By Wolves, because the Sheep he prized.  
The Orphan's Father, Church's Light,  
The Love of Heaven, of Hell the Spite.  
The Countries Gapman, and the Face,  
That Shone, but knew it not, with Grace.  
Hunted by Devils, but Relieved  
By Angels, and on High Received.  
The Martyred Pelican, who Bled  
Rather than leave his Charge Unfed.  
A proper Bird of Paradise,  
Shot, and flown thither in a Trice.   

Lord, Hear the Cry of Righteous Dummers' wounds  
Ascending still against the Savage Hounds,  
That Worry thy dear Flocks; and let the Cry  
Add Force to Theirs, that at thine Altar lie.   
To Complete the Epitaph of this Good man, there now needs no more, than the famous old Chancers Motto, Mors mihi aerumnarum Requies.    

ARTICLE. XVI. The Memorable Action at Wells.  
A Vessel, the Name whereof I know not, [Reader, Let it be, The Charity,] being immediately dispatched unto Sagadehock, by the Charitable Compassions of the more Southward Neighbours, with Effects to accomplish it, happily Effected the Redemption of many that were taken Captives at York. But the rest of the People in that Broken Town, talking of Drawing off, the Government sent Captain Convers and Captain Greenleaf, with such Encouragements unto them, to keep their Station, as prevailed with 'em still to Stand their Ground. In February Major Hutchinson, was made Commander in Chief, & Forces under the Command of Captain Convers, Captain Floyd, and Captain Thaxter, were by him so prudently posted, on the Frontiers, that by mentaining a continual Communication, it became a Difficult Thing for the Enemy to make any more Approaches. Lieutenant Wilson particularly hearing of a man Shot at, in Quochecho-Woods, went out with a Scout of about Eighteen men, who came upon the Indians that had shot at the man; and killed and wounded all but one, of the whole Company. But now, Reader, the Longest Day in the Year is come on, and, it I mistake not, the Bravest Act in the War, fell out upon it. Modockawando is now come, according to his Promise a Twelve Month ago. Captain Convers, was lodged in Storers Garrison at Wells, with but Fifteen men; and there came into Wells, Two Sloops, with a Shallop, which had aboard Supplies of Ammunition for the Soldiers, and Contribution for the Needy. The  this Day came Frighted, and Bleeding but of the Woods, which was a more certain Omen of Indians a coming, than all the Prodigies that Livy reports of the Sacrificed Oxen. Convers immediately issued out his Commands unto all Quarters, but especially to the Sloops just then arrived. The Sloops were Commanded by Samuel Storer, and James Gouge, and Gouges being Two miles up the River, he wisely brought her down undiscovered, unto Storers, by the advantage of a Mist then prevailing. A careful Night, they had on't! The next Morning, before Daylight, one John Diamond, a Stranger that came in the Shallop on a Visit, came to Captain Conver's Garrison, where the Watch invited him in; but he chose rather to go aboard the Sloops, which were little more than a Gun-shot off; and, alas, the Enemy issuing out from their Lurking places, immediately Seized him, and haled him away by the Hair of the Head, (in spite of all Attempts used by the Garrison, to Recover him) for an horrible Story, to be told by'nd by concerning him. The General of the Enemy's Army was Monsieur Burniff; and one Monsieur Labrocree was a principal Commander; (the Enemy said, he was Lieutenant General:) There were also Divers other Frenchmen of Quality; Accompanied with Modockawando, and Moxus, and Egeremet, and Warumbo, and several more Indian Sagamores; The Army made up in all, about Five Hundred Men, or Fierce Things in the Shape of Men; all, to Encounter Fifteen Men, in one little Garrison, & about Fifteen more Men, [worthily called Such!] in a Couple of open Sloops. Diamond having informed 'em, How 'twas, in all points, (only that for Fifteen, by a mistake he said, Thirty,) they fell to Dividing the Persons and Plunder, and Agreeing, that such an English Captain, should be Slave to such a one, and such a Gentleman in the Town should serve such a one, and his Wife be a Maid of Honour, to such or such a Squaw proposed, and Mr. Wheelright (instead of being a Worthy Counsellor of the Province, which he Now is!) was to be the Servant of such a Netop; and the Sloops, with their Stores, to be so and so parted among them. There wanted but One Thing to Consummate the whole matter, even, the Chief Thing o● all, which I suppose they had not thought of; That was, For Heaven to Deliver all this prize into their Hands: But, Aliter Statutum est in Caelo! A man Habited, like a Gentleman, made a Speech to them in English; Exhorting 'em to Courage, and Assuring 'em, that if they would Courageously fall upon the English, all was their own. The Speech being Ended, they fell to the Work, and with an horrid Shout and Shot, made their Assault, upon the Feeble Garrison: but the English answered with a brisk Volley, and sent such a Leaden Shower among them, that they retired from the Garrison to spend the Storm of their Fury upon the Sloops. You must know, That Wells-Harbour is rather a Creek than a River, for 'tis very Narrow, and at low water, in many places Dry: nevertheless, where the Vessels ride, it is Deep enough, and so far off the Bank, that there is from thence not Leaping aboard. But our Sloops were sorely incommoded, by a Turn of the Creek, where the Enemy could lie out of danger, so near 'em, as to throw Mud aboard with their Hands. The Enemy was also privileged with a Great Heap of Plank, lying on the Bank, and with an Hay Stock, which they Strengthened with Posts, and Rails; and from all these places, they poured in their Vengeance upon the poor Sloops, while they so placed Smaller parties of their Savages, as to make it impossible for any of the Garrisons, to afford 'em any relief. Lying thus, within a Dozen yards of the Sloops, they did with their Fire Arrows, divers times desperately set the Sloops on Fire: but the brave Defendants, with a Swab, at the End of a Rope, tied unto a Pole, and so dipped into the Water, happily put the Fire out. In brief the Sloops gave the Enemy so brave a Repulse, that at Night they Retreated: when they Renewed their Assault, finding that their Fortitude would not assure the Success of the Assault unto them, they had recourse unto their Policy. First, an Indian comes on, with a Slab, for a Shield, before him; when a Shot from one of the Sloops, pierced the Slab, which fell down, instead of a Tombstone with the Dead Indian under it: on which, as little a Fellow as he was, I know not whether some will not reckon it proper to inscribe the Epitaph, which the Italians use to bestow upon their Dead Popes; When the Dog is Dead, all his Malice is Dead with him. Their next Stratagem was This: They brought out of the Woods, a kind of a Cart, which they Trimmed, and Rigged, and Fitted up into a Thing, that might be called, A Chariot: whereon they built a platform, shot-proof in the Front, and placed many men upon that platform. Such an Engine they understood how to Shape, without having Read, (I suppose) the Description of the Pluteus in Vegetius! This Chariot they pushed on, towards the Sloops, till they were got, it may be, within Fifteen yards of them; when, lo, one of the Wheels to their Admiration Sunk into the Ground. A Frenchman Stepping to heave the Wheel, with an Helpful Shoulder, Storer Shot him down; Another Stepping to the Wheel, Storer with a well placed Shot, sent him after his Mate: So the Rest thought, it was best let it stand as it was. The Enemy kept Galling the Sloops, from their Several Batteries, and calling 'em to Surrender, with many fine promises to make them Happy, which ours answered with a just Laughter, that had now and then a mortiferous Bullet at the End of it. The Tide Rising, the Chariot overset, so that the men behind it lay open to the Sloops, which immediately Dispensed an horrible Slaughter among them; and they that could get away, got as fast, and as far off, as they could. In the Night, the Enemy had much Discourse with the Sloops; they Enquired, Who were their Commanders? and the English gave an Answer, which in some other Cases, and Places, would have been too true, That they had a great many Commanders: but the Indians Replied, You lie, you have none but Convers, and we will have him too before Morning! They also knowing, that the Magazine was in the Garrison, lay under an Hill-Side, Pelting at That, by Times; but Captain Convers, once in the Night, sent out Three or Four of his men, into a Field of Wheat, for a Shot, if they could get one. There seeing a Black Heap lying together, Ours all at once let Fly upon them, a Shot, that Slew several of them that were thus Caught in that Corn, and made the rest glad, that they found themselves Able to Run for it. Captain Convers was this while in much Distress, about a Scout of Six men, which he had sent forth to Newichawannick, the Morning before the Arrival of the Enemy, ordering them to Return the Day following. The Scout Returned, into the very Mouth of the Enemy, that lay before the Garrison; but the Corporal, having his Wits about him, called out aloud, (as if he had seen Captain Convers making a Salley forth upon 'em,) Captain, Wheel about your men round the Hill, and we shall Catch 'em, there are but a Few Rogues of 'em! Upon which the Indians imagining, that Captain Convers had been at their Heels, betook themselves to their Heels; and our Folks got safe into another Garrison. On the Lord's Day Morning, there was for a while, a Deep Silence among the Assailants; but at length getting into a Body, they marched with great Formality towards the Garrison, where the Captain ordered his Handful of men to lie Snug, and not make a Shot, until every Shot might be likely to do some Execution. While they thus beheld a Formidable Crew of Dragons, coming with open mouth upon them, to Swallow them up at a Mouthful, one of the Soldiers began to speak of Surrendering; upon which the Captain Vehemently protested, That he would lay the man Dead, who should so much as mutter that base word any more! and so they heard no more on't: But the Valiant Storer was put upon the like protestation, to keep 'em in good Fight trim, aboard the Sloops also. The Enemy now Approaching very near, gave Three Shouts, that made the Earth ring again; and Crying out, in English, Fire, and Fall on, Brave Boys! the whole Body, drawn into Three Ranks, Fired at once. Captain Convers immediately ran into the several Flankers, and made their Best Guns Fire at such a rate, that several of the Enemy fell, and the rest of 'em disappeared almost as Nimbly, as if they had been so many Spectres. Particularly, a parcel of them got into a small Deserted House; which having but a Board-Wall to it, the Captain sent in after them, those Bullets of Twelve to the Pound, that made the House too hot, for them that could get out of it. The Women in the Garrison, on this occasion took up the Amazonian Stroke, and not only brought Ammunition to the Men, but also with a Manly Resolution fired several Times upon the Enemy. The Enemy finding that Things would not yet go to their minds, at the Garrison, drew off, to Try their Skill upon the Sloops, which lay still abrest in the Creek, lashed fast one to another. They built a Great Fire Work, about Eighteen or Twenty Foot Square, and filled it up with Combustible matter, which they Fired; and then they set it in the way, for the Tide now to Float it up, unto the Sloops, which had now nothing but an horrible Death before them. Nevertheless, their Demands, of both the Garrison, and the Sloops, to yield themselves, were answered no otherwise than with Death upon many of them, Spit from the Guns of the Besieged. Having towed their Firework, as far as they durst, they committed it unto the Tide; but the Distressed Christians that had this Deadly Fire, Swimming along upon the Water towards 'em, committed it unto God: and God looked from Heaven upon them, in this prodigious Article of their Distress. These poor men Cried, and the Lord, heard them, and saved them out of their Troubles; The Wind, unto their Astonishment, immediately Turned about, and with a Fresh Gale drove the Machine ashore on the other side, and Split it so, that the Water being let in upon it, the Fire went out. So, the Godly men, that Saw God from Heaven thus Fight for them, Cried out, with an Astonishing Joy, If it had not been the Lord, who was on our Side, they had Swallowed us up quick; Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us a prey to their Teeth; our Soul is Escaped, as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowlers! The Enemy were now in a pitiful pickle, with Toiling, and Moiling in the Mud, & black'ned with it, if Mud could add Blackness to such Miscreants: and their Ammunition was pretty well Exhausted: So that now they began to Draw off, in all parts, and with Rafts get over the River; some whereof breaking, there did not a few Cool their late Heat by falling into it. But first, they made all the Spoil they could, upon the  about the Town; and giving one Shot more at the Sloops, they killed the only Man, of ours, that was killed aboard 'em. Then, after about Half an Hours Consultation, they send a Flag of Truce to the Garrison, advising 'em with much Flattery, to Surrender; but the Captain sent 'em word, That he wanted for nothing, but for men to come, and Fight him. The Indian replied unto Captain Convers, Being you are so Stout, why don't you come, and Fight in the open Field, like a Man, and not Fight in a Garrison, like a Squaw? The Captain rejoined; What a Fool, are you? Do you think, Thirty men a Match for Five Hundred? No, (says the Captain, counting as well he might, each of his Fifteen men, to be as Good as Two!) Come with your Thirty men upon the Plain, and I'll meet you with my Thirty, as soon as you will. Upon this, the Indian answered; Nay, me own, English Fashion is all one Fool; you kill me, me kill you! No, better lie some where, and Shoot a man, and he not see! That the best Soldier! Then they fell to Coaksing the Captain, with as many Fine Words, as the Fox in the Fable had for the Allurement of his Prey unto him; and urged mightily that Ensign Hill, who stood with the Flag of Truce, might stand a little nearer their Army. The Captain, for a Good Reason, to be presently discerned, would not allow That: whereupon they fell to Threatening, and Raging, like so many Defeated Devils, using these Words, Damn ye, we'll cut you as small as Tobacco, before to morrow Morning. The Captain, bid 'em to make Hast, for, he wanted work; So, the Indian throwing his Flag on the Ground, ran away, and Ensign Hill nimbly Stripping his Flag ran into the Valley, but the Savages presently Fired, from an Ambushment behind an Hill, near the place, where they had urged for a Parley.  
And now for poor John Diamond! The Enemy Retreating (which opportunity the Sloops took, to Burn down the Dangerous Hay-Stock,) into the plain, out of Gun-shot, they fell to Torturing their Captive John Diamond, after a manner very Diabolical. They Stripped him, they Scalped him alive, and after a Castration, they Finished that Article in the Punishment of Traitors upon him; They Slit him with Knives, between his Fingers and his Toes; They made cruel Gashes in the most Fleshy parts of his Body, and stuck the Gashes with Firebrands, which were afterwards found Sticking in the wounds. Thus they Butchered One poor Englishman, with all the Fury that they would have spent upon them all; and performed an Exploit, for Five Hundred Furies to brag of, at their coming home. Ghastly to Express! what was it then to Suffer? They Returned then unto the Garrison, and kept Firing at it now and then, till near Ten a Clock at Night; when they all marched off, leaving behind 'em some of their Dead; whereof one was Monsieur Labocree, who had about his Neck, a Pouch with about a Dozen Relics ingeniously made up, and a Printed Paper of Indulgences, and several other Implements: but it seems, none of the Annulets about his Neck, would save him from a Mortal Shot in the Head. Thus in Forty Eight Hours, was Finished an Action as Worthy to be Related, as perhaps any that occurs in our Story. And it was not long before the Valiant Gouge, who bore his part in this Action, did another that was not much inferior to it, when he suddenly Recovered from the French a valuable prey, which they had newly taken upon our Coast.  
I doubt, Reader we have made this Article of our History a little too long. We will finish it, when we have Remarked, That albeit there were too much Feebleness discovered by my Countrymen, in some of their Actions, during this War, at Sea, as well as on Shore, yet several of their Actions, especially at Sea, deserve to be Remembered. And I cannot but particularly bespeak a Remembrance, for the Exploit performed by some of my Neighbours, in a Vessel going into Barbadoes They were in sight of Barbadoss assaulted by a French Vessel, which had a good number of Guns, and between Sixty and Seventy Hands. Our Vessel had Four Guns, and Eight Fight Men. [Truly such!] with two Tawny Servants. The Names of these Men, were Barret, Sunderland, Knoles, Nash, Morgan, Fosdyke, and Two more, that I now forget. A desperate Engagement ensued: wherein our Eight Mariners managed the matter with such Bravery, that by the Help of Heaven, they killed between Thirty and Forty of the French Assailants, without losing one of their own little Number: And they sank the French Vessel, which lay by their side, out of which they took Twenty Seven prisoners, whereof some were wounded, and all crying for Quarter. In the Fight the French Pennant, being by the wind fastened about the Top Mast of the English Vessel, it was torn off by the sinking of the French Vessel, and left pleasently flying there. So they Sailed into Barbadoes; where the Assembly voted them one Public Acknowledgement, of their Courage and Conduct, in this Brave Action, and our History now gives them Another.   

ARTICLE. XVII. The Fort at Pemmaquid.  
HIs Excellency Sir William Phipps, being arrived now the Governor of New England, applied himself, with all possible Vigour, to carry on the War: and the Advice of a New Slaughter some time in July made by the Indians, on certain poor Husbandmen, in their Meadows, at the North Side of Merrimack River, put an Accent upon the Zeal of the Designs, which he was now vigorously prosecuting. He Raised about Four hundred and Fifty Men, and in pursuance of his Instructions from Whitehall, he laid the Foundations of a Fort at Pemmaquid, which was the Finest Thing that had been seen in these parts of America. Captain Wing, assisted with Captain Bancroft, went through the former part of the Work; and the latter part of it was Finished by Captain March. His Excellency, attended in this matter, with these worthy Captains, did, in a few Months, dispatch a Service for the King, with a Prudence, & Industry, and Thirftiness, Greater than any Reward, they ever had for it. The Fort, called, The William Henry, was built of Stone, in a Quadrangular Figure; being about Seven hundred and thirty seven Foot in Compass, without the Outer Walls, and an Hundred and Eight Foot Square, within the Inner ones. Twenty Eight Ports it had; and Fourteen (if not Eighteen) Guns mounted, whereof Six were Eighteen-Pounders. The Wall, on the South Line, fronting to the Sea, was Twenty Two Foot High, and more than Six Foot Thick at the Ports, which were Eight Foot from the Ground. The Great Flanker, or Round Tower, at the Western End of this Line, was Twenty Nine Foot High. The Wall on the East line, was Twelve Foot High, on the North it was Ten, on the West it was Eighteen. It was Computed, That in the whole, there were laid above Two Thousand Cart-Loads of Stone. It stood about a Score of Rods from High Water Mark; and it had generally at least Sixty men posted in it, for its Defence, which if they were Men, might easily have maintained it against more than Twice Six Hundred Assailants. Yea, we were almost Ready to flatter ourselves, that we might have writ on the Gates of this Fort, as the French did over that of Namur, (yet afterwards taken by K. William) Reddi, non Vinci potest. Now, as the Architect, that built the Strong Fortress at Narne in Poland had, for his Recompense, his Eyes put out, lest he should build such another; Sir William Phipps was almost as hardly Recompensed, for the Building of This at Pemmaquid. Although this Fort thus Erected in the Heart of the Enemy's Country, did so Break the Heart of the Enemy, that indeed they might have called it, as the French did theirs upon the River of the Illinois, The Fort of Crevecoeur; and the Tranquillity After Enjoyed by the Country, (which was very much more than Before,) was, under God, much owing thereunto: yet the Expense of maintaining it, when we were so much impoverished otherwise, made it continually complained of, as one of the Country's Grievances. The Murmur about this Fort, were so Epidemical, that, if we may speak in the Foolish cant of Astrology, and, Prognosticate from the Aspect of Saturn upon Mars, at its Nativity, Fort William-Henry, Thou hast not long to Live! Before the year Ninety Six Expire, thou shalt be demolished. In the mean Time, let us accompany Major Church going with a Company to Penobscot, where he took Five Indians; and afterwards, to Taconet, where the Indians discovering his Approach, set their own Fort on fire themselves, and flying from it, left only their Corn to be destroyed by him. And so we come to the End of 1692. Only we are stopped a little, with a very strange Parenthesis.   

ARTICLE. XVIII. A Surprising Thing, laid before the Reader, for him to Judge, (if he can) what to make of it.  
REader, I must now address thee, with the Words of a Poet: 
Dicam Insigne Recens, adhuc  
Indictum ore alio. Horat.   
But with Truths more confirmed, than what uses to come from the Pen of a Poet. The Story of the Prodigious War, made by the Spirits of the Invisible World, upon the People of New England, in the year, 1692. hath Entertained a great part of the English World, with a just Astonishment: and I have met with some Strange Things, not here to be mentioned, which have made me often think, that this inexplicable War, might have some of its Original among the Indians, whose chief Sagamores are well known unto some of our Captives, to have been horrid Sorcerers, and hellish Conjurers, and such as Conversed with Daemons. The Sum of that Story is, Written in, The Life of Sir William Phipps; with such Irreproachable Truth, as to Defy the utmost Malice and Cunning of all our saducees, to Confute it, in so much as one Material Article: And that the Balant, and Latrant Noises of that sort of People, may be forever Silenced, the Story will be abundantly Justified, when the further Account written of it, by Mr. John Hale shall be published: For none can suspect a Gentleman, so full of Dissatisfaction, at the proceed then used against the Supposed Witchcraft, as Now that Reverend Person is, to be a Superstitious Writer upon that Subject.  
Now in the Time of that matchless War, there fell out a Thing at Gloucester, which falls in here most properly to be related: a Town so Situated, Surrounded, and Neighboured, in the County of Essex, that no man in his Wits, will imagine, that a Dozen French men and Indians, would come, and alarm the Inhabitants for Three weeks together, and Engage 'em in several Skirmishes, while there were two Regiments Raised, and a Detachment of Threescore men sent unto their Succour, and not one man Hurt in all the Actions, & all End unaccountably. And because the Relation will be Extraordinary, I will not be myself the Author of any one clause in it; but I will Transcribe the words of a Minister of the Gospel, who did me the Favour, with much critical Caution to Examine Witnesses, not long after the Thing happened, and then sent me the Following Account.  
A Faithful Account of many Wonderful and Surprising Things, which happened in the Town of Gloucester, in the Year, 1692.  
EBenezer Bapson, about midsummer, in the Year, 1692. with the rest of his Family, almost every Night heard a Noise, as if persons were going and running about his House. But one Night being abroad late, at his Return home, he saw Two men come out of his Door, and run from the end of the House into the Corn. But those of the Family told him, there had been no person at all there; where upon he got his Gun, and went out in pursuit after them, and coming a little Distance from the House, he saw the Two men start up from behind a Log, and run into a little Swamp, saying to each other, The man of the House is Come, now Else we might have taken the House. So, he heard, nor saw, no more of them.  
Upon this, the whole Family got up, and went with all speed, to a Garrison near by; and being just got into the Garrison, they heard men Stamping round the Garrison. Whereupon Bapson took his Gun, and ran out, and saw Two men again Running down an Hill into a Swamp. The next Night but one, the said Bapson going toward a fresh Meadow, saw Two men, which looked like French men, one of them having a Bright Gun upon his Back, and both running a great pace towards him, which caused him to make the best of his way to the Garrison, where being come several heard a Noise, as if men were Stamping and Running, not far from the Garrison. Within a Night or two after this, the persons in the Garrison, heard a Noise, as if men were throwing Stones against the Barn. Not long after this, Bapson, with John Brown, saw Three men, about a Gunshot off the Garrison, which they endeavoured to Shoot at, but were disappointed by their Running to and fro, from the Corn into the Bushes. They were seen Two or Three Nights together; but though the abovesaid strove to shoot at them, they could never attain it. On July. 14. Bapson, and Brown, with the rest of the men in the Garrison, saw within Gun-shot, half a dozen men; whereupon all the men, but one, made Hast out of the Garrison, marching towards them. Bapson presently overtook two of them, which run out of the Bushes, and coming close to them, he presented his Gun at them, and his Gun missing Fire, the Two men Returned into the Bushes. Bapson then called unto the other persons, which were on the other side of the Swamp, and upon his call, they made Answer, Here they are! Here they are! Bapson then running to meet them, Saw Three men walk softly out of the Swamp by each others Side; the middlemost having on a white Wast coat. So, being within Two or Three Rod of them, he Shot, and as soon as his Gun was off, they all fell down. Bapson then running to his supposed prey, cried out unto his Companions, whom he heard on the other side of the Swamp, and said, He had killed Three! He had killed Three! But coming almost unto them, they all risen up, and one of them Shot at him, and hearing the Bullet whyss by him, he ran behind a Tree, and Loaded his Gun; and seeing them lie behind a Log, he crept toward them again, telling his Companions, they were here! So, his Companions came up to him, and they all Ran directly to the Log, with all speed; but before they got thither, they saw them start up, and run every man his way; One of them run into the Corn, whom they pursued, and hemmed in; and Bapson seeing him coming toward himself, Shot at him, as he was getting over the Fence, and saw him fall off the Fence on the Ground, but when he came to the Spot, he could not find him. So they all searched the Corn; and as they were searching; they heard a great Discoursing in the Swamp, but could not understand what they said; for they spoke in an unknown Tongue. Afterwards, looking out from the Garrison, they saw several men Skulking among the Corn, and Bushes, but could not have a Shot at them.  
The next morning, just at Day break, they saw one man come out of the Swamp, not far from the Garrison, and stand close up against the Fence, within Gun shot. Whereupon Isaac Prince, with a long Gun, shot at him with Swan-shot, and in a moment he was gone out of sight, they saw him no more. Upon this, Bapson went, to carry News to the Harbour; and being about Half a mile in his way thither, he heard a Gun go off, and heard a Bullet whyss close by his Ear, which Cut off a Pine bush just by him, and the Bullet lodged in an Hemlock Tree. Then looking about, he saw Four men Running towards him, one with a Gun in his Hand, and the other with Guns on their Shoulders. So he ran into the Bushes, and turning about, shot at them, and then ran away, & saw them no more. About Six men returned from the Harbour with him, searching the woods as they went; and they saw, where the Bullet had cut off the Pine bush, and where it was lodged in the Hemlock Tree, and they took the Bullet out, which is still to be seen. When they were come to the Garrison, they went to look for the Tracks of the Strange men, that had been seen, and saw several Tracks; and whilst they were looking on them, they saw one, which looked like an Indian, having on a Blue coat, and his Hair Tied up behind, Standing by a Tree, and looking on them. But as soon as they spoke to each other, he ran into a Swamp, and they after him, and one of them shot at him; but to no purpose. One of them also saw another, which looked like a French man, but they quickly lost the sight of him.  
July 15. Ezekiel Day, being in Company with several others, who were ordered to Scout the woods, when they came to a certain Fresh Meadow, two miles from any House, at some Distance from the said Meadow, he saw a man, which he apprehended to be an Indian, clothed in Blue; and as soon as he saw him start up and run away, he shot at him; whereupon he saw another rise up a little way off, who also run with speed; which together with the former, were quickly out of sight; and though himself, together with his Companions, diligently sought after them, they could not find them. The same Day, John Hammond, with several other persons, Scouting in the woods, saw another of these Strange men, having on a blue Shirt, and white Breeches, and something about his Head; but could not overtake him.  
July 17. Three or Four of these Unaccountable Troublers, came near the Garrison; but they could not get a shot at them. Richard Dolliver, also, & Benjamin Ellary, creeping down an Hill, upon Discovery, saw several men come out of an Orchard, walking backward and forward, and striking with a stick upon John Row's Deserted House, (the Noise of which, was heard by others at a Considerable Distance;) Ellery counting them, to be Eleven in all; Dolliver Shot at the midst of them, where they stood Thickest, and immediately they dispersed themselves, and were quickly gone out of sight.  
July 18. Which was the Time, that Major Appleton sent about Sixty men, from Ipswich, for the Towns Assistance, under these inexplicable Alarms, which they had suffered Night & Day, for about a Fortnight together; John Day testifies, that he went in Company with Ipswich and Gloucester Forces, to a Garrison, about Two miles and an Half, from the Town; and News being brought in, that Guns went off, in a Swamp not far from the Garrison, some of the men, with himself, ran to discover what they could; and when he came to the Head of the Swamp, he saw a man with a Blue Shirt, and bushy black Hair, run out of the Swamp, and into the Woods; he ran after him, with all speed, and came several Times within shot of him; but the woods being Thick, he could not obtain his Design of Shooting him; at length, he was at once gone out of sight, and when afterwards, he went to look for his Track, he could find none, though it were a low miry place, that he ran over.  
About July 25. Bapson went into the Woods, after his , and saw Three men stand upon a point of Rocks, which looked toward the Sea. So he crept among the Bushes, till he came within Forty yards of them; and then presented his Gun at them, and Snapped, but his Gun missed Fire; and so it did above a Dozen Times, till they all Three came up towards him, walking a slow pace, one of them having a Gun upon his Back. No● did they take any more Notice of him, than just to give him a Look; though he snapped his Gun at them, all the while they walked toward him, and by him; neither did they quicken their pace at all, but went into a parcel of Bushes, and he saw them no more. When he came home, he snapped his Gun several Times, sometimes with but a few Corns of Powder and yet it did not once miss Fire. After this, there occurred several Strange Things; but now concluding they were but Spectres, they took little further Notice of them.  
[Several other Testimonies, all to the same Effect, with the Foregoing, my Friend has added, which for brevity I omit; and only add, The most considerable of these passages, were afterward Sworn, before one of Their Majesty's Council.]  
Reverend and truly Honoured Sir, According to your Request, I have Collected a brief Account of the Occurrences, remarked in our Town, the last year. Some of them are very Admirable Things, and yet no less True than Strange, if we may Believe the Assertions of Credible persons. Tho' because of Great Hast, it is a rough Draught, yet there is nothing written, but what the persons mentioned, would, if duly called, confirm the Truth of, by Oath.  
I might have given you a larger Account; only several who Saw and Herd some of the most Remarkable things, are now beyond Sea. However, I hope, the Substance of what is written, will be enough to Satisfy all Rational Persons, that Gloucester was not Alarmed last Summer, for above a Fortnight together, by real French and Indians, but that the Devil and his Agents, were the cause of all the Molestation, which at this Time befell the Town; in the Name of whose Inhabitants, I would take upon me, to Entreat your Earnest Prayers to the Father of Mercies, that those Apparitions may not prove, the sad Omens of some future, and more horrible Molestations to them.  
May 19 1693. SIR, Your very Humble Servant, J. E.  
NOW, Reader, albeit that passage of the Sacred Story, 2 Chron. 20.22. The Lord set Ambushments against the Children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, and they were Smitten: is by the best Expositors thus understood; That there was the Ministry of the Holy Angels wondrously Employed in this matter; the Angels in the Shape of Moabites and Ammonites, fell upon them of Mount Seir, and upon this apprehended provocation they then all fell upon one another, until the whole Army was destroyed: Nevertheless, I entirely refer it unto thy Judgement (without the least offer of my own,) whether, Satan did not now Set Ambushments against the Good People of Gloucester, with Daemons, in the Shape of Armed Indians and Frenchmen appearing to considerable Numbers of the Inhabitants, and mutually Firing upon them, for the best part of a Month together. I know, the most Considerate Gentlemen in the Neighbourhood, unto this Day, Believe this whole matter to have been a Prodigious piece of the Strange Descent from the Invisible World, then made upon other parts of the Country. And the publication of this Prodigy among other Wonders of the Invisible World among us, has been Delayed until Now, that so the Opinion of our most considerate Gentlemen about it, might have Time for a thorough Concoction: and that the Gentlemen of the Order of St. Thomas, may have no Objection to make against it. But, be it what it will, they are not a few profane Squibs from the Sons of the Extravagant Bekker, that will be a fit Explication, for Things thus Attested, and so very Marvellous.   

ARTICLE. XIX. PACEM, Te Poscimus Omnes.  
IN the year, 1693. His Excellency sent away Captain Convers, to draw off the fittest of the Officers and Soldiers, quartered in the East, for a March, and causing about Three Hundred and Fifty more to be Levied, gave him, what he had merited above a year ago; even a Commission of Major and Commander in Chief over these Forces. While Major Convers was at Wells, hearing of some Indians, that were seen in the Woods, he Surprised them all, and finding that they had cut off a poor Family at Oyster River, he gave the chief of them, something of what they also had merited. Going to Pemmaquid; after some service there, they Sailed up Sheepscote River, & then marched through the Woods to Taconet, which being Deserted by the Indians, they ranged through many other Woods; but could meet with none of their Enemies. Repairing then to Saco, they began another Fort, which was carried on by that worthy Gentleman Major Hook, and the truly commendable Captain Hill, and proved a matter of Good Consequence unto the Province. While these Things were doing, some time in July, the Straggling Indians did some Spoil, upon Quaboag, a remote Village, in the Road unto Connecticut; but Advice being dispatched unto the Towns upon Connecticut-River, a party immediately Salleyed out after the Spoilers, and leaving their Horses at the Entrance of a Swamp, whither by their Track they had followed them, they come upon the Secure Adversary, and killed the most of them, and Recovered the Captives, with their Plunder; and Returning home, had some Reward for so brisk an Action.  
But now, the Indians in the East, probably Disheartened by the Forts Erecting that were like to prove a sore Annoyance to them, in their Erterprises; and by the Fear of wanting Ammunition, with other Provisions, which the French were not so Able just now to dispense unto them; and by a presumption that an Arr●y of Maqua's, [part of those Terrible Cannibals to the Westward, whereof 'tis affirmed by those who have published the Stories of their Travels among them, That they have destroyed no less than Two Million Savages of other Nations about them, through their being Supplied with Fire-Arms, before Hundreds of other Nations, lying between them, & the River Meschasippi,] was come into their Country, because they found some of their Squas killed upon a Whortle berry Plain; and all the Charms of the French Friar then Resident among them, could not hinder them, from Suing to the English for Peace. And the English, being so involved in Debts, that they Scarce knew how to prosecute the War any further; took some Notice of their Suit. Accordingly, a Peace was made, upon the Ensuing Articles.  
Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England. The Submission and Agreement of the Eastern Indians, at Fort William Henry in Pemmaquid the 11th. day of August, in the Fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady, William and Mary, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King and Queen, Defenders of the Faith, etc. 1693.  
WHereas a Bloody War has for some years now past been made and carried on by the Indians within the Eastern parts of the said Province, against Their Majesty's Subjects the English, through the Instigation and Influences of the French; and being sensible of the Miseries which we and our People are reduced unto, by adhering to their ill Council: We whose names are hereunto Subscribed, being Sagamores and Chief Captains of all the Indians belonging to the several Rivers of Penobscote and Kennebeck, Amanascogin, and Saco, parts of the said Province of the Massachusetts Bay, within Their said Majesty's Sovereignty: Having made Application unto his Excellency Sir William Phipps, Captain General & Governor in Chief in and over the said Province, that the War may be put to an end; Do lay down our Arms, and cast ourselves upon Their said Majesty's Grace and Favour. And each of us respectively for ourselves, and in the Name & with the free consent of all the Indians belonging unto the several Rivers aforesaid, and of all other Indians within the said Province of and from Merrimack River, unto the most Easterly Bounds of the said Province; hereby acknowledging our hearty Subjection and Obedience unto the Crown of England: and do solemnly Covenant, Promise's and Agree to and wi●h the said Sir William Phipps, and his Successors in the place of Captain General and Governor in Chief, of the aforesaid Province or Territory, on Their said Majesty's behalf, in manner following, viz.  
That at all time and times for ever, from and after the date of these Presents, we will cease and forbear all acts of Hostility towards the Subjects of the Crown of England, and not offer the least hurt or violence to them or any of them in their Persons or Estate: But will henceforward hold and maintain a firm and constant Amity and Friendship with all the English.  
Item. We abandon and forsake the French Interest, & will not in any wise adhere to, join with, aid or assist them in their Wars, or Designs against the English, nor countenance, succour, or conceal any of the Enemy Indians of Canada or other places, that shall happen to come to any of our Plantations within the English Territory, but secure them if in our power, and deliver them up unto the English.  
That all English Captives in the hands or power of any of the Indians within the Limits aforesaid, shall with all possible speed be set at liberty, and returned home without any Ransom or Payment to be made or given for them or any of them.  
That Their Majesty's Subjects the English, shall and may peaceably and quietly enter upon, improve, and for ever enjoy, all and singular their Rights of Lands, and former Settlements and possessions within the Eastern parts of the said Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, without any pretensions or claims by us or any other Indian●, and be in no wise molested, interrupted, or disturbed therein.  
That all Trade and Commerce which hereafter may be allowed between the English and Indians, shall be under such Management and Regulation as may be stated by an Act of the General Assembly, or as the Governor of the said Province for the time being, with the Advice and Consent of the Council shall see cause to Direct and Limit.  
If any controversy, or difference, at any time hereafter happen to arise between any of the English and Indians for any ●eal or supposed wrong or injury done on one side or the other, no private Revenge shall be taken by the Indians for the same, but proper Application be made to Their Majesty's Government, upon the place, for Remedy thereof in a due course of Justice, we hereby submitting ourselves to be ruled and governed by Their Majesty's Laws, and desire to have the benefit of the same.  
For the more full manifestation of our sincerity and integrity in all that which we have herein before Covenanted and Promised, we do deliver unto Sir William Phipps, Their Majesty's Governor as aforesaid, Ahassombamett Brother to Edgeremett; Wenong ahewitt Cousin to Madockawando, and Edgeremett, and Bagatawawongon; also Sheepscoat John, to abide and remain in the Custody of the English, where the Governor shall direct as Hostages or Pledges, for our Fidelity, and true performance of all and every the foregoing Articles, reserving Liberty to exchange them in some reasonable time for a like number, to the acceptance of the Governor and Council of the said Province, so they be persons of as good account, and esteem amongst the Indians, as those which are to be exchanged. In Testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our several Marks and Seals, the Day and Year first above written.  
The above written Instrument was deliberately read over, and the several Articles and Clauses thereof Interpreted unto the Indians, who said they well understood, and consented thereto, and was then Signed, Sealed, & Delivered in the Presence of us,  


John Wing.  
Nicholas Manning.  
Benjamin Jackson.  
Egereme●t  
Madockawando.  
Wessambomett of Navidgwock.  
Wenohson of Teconnet in behalf of Moxis.  
Ketterramogis of Narridgwock.  
Ahanquit of Penobscot.  
Bomaseen.  
Nitamemet.  
Webenes.  
Awansomeck.  
Robin Doney.  
Madaumbis.  
Paquaharet, alias Nathaniel.  


Inrerpreters.  
John Hornybrook,  
John Bagatawawongo alias Sheepscoat John.  
Phill. Ounsakis Squaw.       

ARTICLE. XX. Bloody Fishing at Oyster-River. And Sad work at Groton.  
A Years Breathing Time, was a great Favour of Heaven to a Country, quite out of Breath, with Numberless Calamities: But the Favour was not so Thankfully Enjoyed, as it should have been. And now, The Clouds Return after the Rain. The Spectre that with Burning Tongues drove Xerxes to his War upon the Grecians, had not lost his Influence upon our Indians. The Perfidy of the Indians appeared first, in their not Restoring the English Captives, according to their Covenant; but the perfidious Wretches Excused this, with many Protestations. That which added unto our Jealousies about them, was, their Insolent carriage towards a Sloop, commanded by Captain Wing; and the Information of a Fellow called Hector, That the Indians intended most certainly to break the Peace, and had promised the French Priests, taking the Sacrament thereupon, to destroy the first English Town they could Surprise. Rumours of Indians Lurking about some of the Frontier-Plantations, now began to put the poor people into Consternation; but upon an Imagination, that they were only certain Beaver Hunters the Consternation of the people went off into Security. 'Tis affirmed by English Captives, which were then at Canada, that the Desolation of Oyster-River was commonly talked in the Streets of Quebeck, Two months before it was Effected; for the Spies had found no Town so Secure as That. And now, what was Talked at Quebeck in the month of May, must be Done at Oyster River in the month of July; for on Wednesday, July 18 1694. the Treachearous Enemy, with a great Army fell upon that place, about break of Day, and Killed and Captived, Ninety Four, (or, an Hundred) persons; about a Score of whom, were men belonging to the Trained Band, of the Town. Several persons Remarkably Escaped this Bloody Deluge, but none, with more Bravery, than one Thomas Bickford, who had an House, a Little Pallisadoed, by the River Side; but no man in it besides himself. He dexterously put his Wife, and Mother, and Children aboard a Canoe, and Sending them down the River, he Alone, betook himself to the Defence of his House, against many Indians, that made an Assault upon him. They first would have persuaded him, with many fair Promises, and then, terrified him with as many Fierce Threaten, to yield himself; but he flouted and fired at them, daring 'em, to come if they durst. His main Stratagem was, to Change his Livery as frequently as he could; appearing Sometimes in one Coat, Sometimes in another, Sometimes in an Hat, and Sometimes in a Cap; which caused his Besiegers, to mistake this One for Many Defendants. In fine, The pitiful Wretches, despairing to Beat him out of his House, even left him in it; whereas many that opened unto them, upon their Solemn Engagements of giving them Life and Good Quarter, were barborously butchered by them; and the Wife of one adam's, then with Child, was with horrible Barbarity Ripped up. And thus there was an End of the Peace, made at Pemmaquid! Upon this, the Friends of Mrs Ursula Cutt, (Widow of Mr John Cutt, formerly Precedent of New-Hampshire,) desired her, to leave her Farm, which was about a Mile above the Bank Exposed unto the Enemy, on the South side of Piscataqua River. She Thanked them for their Care, but added, that she believed, the Enemy had now done their Do for this Time; and however, by the End of the Week, her Business at the Farm would be all dispatched, and on Saturday, she would Repair to her Friends at the Bank. But, alas, before the End of the week, she saw the End of her Life: On Saturday, about one or two a Clock, in the Afternoon, the Business at the Farm was Dispatched, sure enough! The Indians Then Killed this Gentlewoman, and Three other People, a little before they had Finished a point of Husbandry, then in their Hand. Nor did the Storm go over so: Some Drops of it fell upon the Town of Groton, a Town that lay, one would think, far enough off, the place, where was the last Scene of the Tragedy. On July 27. About break of Day, Groton felt, some Surprising Blows, from the Indian Hatchets. They began their Atta●ques, at the House of one Lieutenant Lakin, in the out skirts of the Town: but met with a Repulse there, and lost one of their Crew. Nevertheless, in other parts of that Plantation, (when the Good People had been so tired out, as to lay down their Military Watch,) there were more than Twenty persons killed, and more than a Dozen carried away. Mr. Gershom Hobart, the Minister of the place, with part of his Family, was Remarkably preserved, from falling into their Hands, when they made themselves the Masters of his House; though they Took Two of his Children, whereof the one was killed, and the other some Time after happily Rescued out of his Captivity.  
I remember, The Jews, in their Book Taanith, tell us, The Elders Proclaimed a Fast in their Cities, on this Occasion, because the Wolves had Devoured two Little Children beyond Jordan. Truly, The Elders of New-England, were not a little concerned at it, when they saw the Wolves thus devouring their Children, even on this side of Merrimack!   

ARTICLE. XXI. More English Blood, Swallowed, but Revenged.  
REader, We must after This, ever Now and Then, Expect, the happening of some unhappy Accident. The Bloodthirsty Savages, not content with quaffing the Blood of Two or Three persons, found at work, in a Field at Spruce creek, on Aug. 20. & of another person at York, the same Day, (Captivating also a Lad, which they found with him;) They did on Aug. 24. Kill & Take, Eight persons at Kittery. Here, a little Girl, about Seven years old, the Daughter of one Mr. Downing, fell into their Barbarous Hands; They knocked her o' th' Head, and barbarously Scalped her, leaving her on the Cold Ground, (and it was then very Cold, beyond what use to be,) where she lay all the Night Ensuing: Yet she was found Alive the Next Morning, and Recovering, she is to this Day Alive, and well: only the place broke in her skull, will not endure to be closed up. He had another Daughter, which at the same Time, almost miraculously Escaped their Hands. But so could not at another Time, Joseph Pike, of Newbury, the Deputy Sheriff of Essex, who, on Sept. 4. Travelling between Amesbury and Haverhil, in the Execution of his Office, with one Long, they both had an Arrest of Death Served upon them, from an Indian Ambascado. Bommaseen, a Commander of prime Quality among the Indians, who had set his Hand unto the late Articles of Submission, came Nou. 19 with Two other Indians, to Pemmaquid, as Loving as Bears, and as Harmless as Tigers, pretending to be just Arrived from Canada, and much Afflicted for the late mischiefs, (whereof there was witness, that he was a principal Actor,) but Captain March, with a Sufficient Activity Siezed them; as Robin Doney, another famous Villain among them, with Three more, had been Seized at Saco Fort, a little before. Bommaseen, was Conveyed unto Boston, that he might in a close Imprisonment there, have Time to consider of his Treacheries, and his Cruelties, for which, the Justice of Heaven, had thus Delivered him up. When he was going to Pemmaquid, he left his Company, with a Strange Reluctancy and Formality, as if he had presaged the Event; and when at Pemmaquid, he found the Event of his coming, he discovered a more than ordinary Disturbance of mind: his Passions foamed and boiled, like the very Waters at the Fall of Niagara.  
But being thus fallen upon the mention of that Vengeance, wherewith Heaven pursued the chief of the Savage Murderers, it may give some Diversion unto the Reader, in the midst of a long and a sad Story, to insert a Relation of an Accident that fell out a little after this Time.  
The Indians, (as the Captives inform us) being hungry and hardly bestead, passed through deserted Casco; where they spied several Horses in Captain Brackets Orchard. Their famished Squas begged them to Shoot the Horses, that they might be revived with a little Roast meat; but the young men, were for having a little Sport before their Supper. Driving the Horses into a Pound, they took one of them, and furnished him with an Halter, suddenly made of the Main and the Tail of the Animal, which they cut off. A Son of the famous Hegon, was ambitious to mount this Pegasaean Steed; but being a pitiful Horseman, he ordered them, for fear of his Falling, to Tie his Legs fast under the Horse's Belly. No sooner was this Beggar Set on Horse back, and the Spark in his own opinion throughly Equipt, but the Mettlesome Horse furiously and presently ran with him out of Sight. Neither Horse nor Man, were ever seen any more; the astonished Tawnies howled after one of their Nobility, disappearing by such an unexpected Accident. A few Days after they found one of his Legs, (and that was All,) which they buried in Captain Brackets Cellar, with abundance of Lamentation.   

ARTICLE. XXII. A Conference with an Indian-Sagamore.  
BUt now Bommaseen is fallen into our Hands, let us have a little Discourse with him.  
Behold, Reader, the Troubles, and the Troublers of New-England! That thou mayst a little more Exactly Behold the Spirit of the matter, I'll Recite certain passages, occurring in a Discourse that passed between this Bommaseen (who was one of the Indian Princes, or, Chieftanes,) and a Minister of the Gospel, in the year. 1696.  
Bommaseen, was, with some other Indians, now a Prisoner, in Boston. He desired a Conference with a Minister, of Boston, which was granted him. Bommaseen, with the other Indians assenting and asserting to it, than told the Minister, That he prayed his Instruction in the Christian Religion; inasmuch as he was afraid, that the French, in the Christian Religion, which they taught the Indians, had Abused them. The Minister Enquired of him, What of the Things taught 'em by the French, appeared most Suspicious to 'em? He said, The French taught 'em, That the Lord JESUS CHRIST, was of the French Nation; That His Mother, the Virgin Mary, was a French Lady; That they were the English who had Murdered him; and, That whereas He Risen from the Dead, & went up to the Heavens, all that would Recommend themselves unto His Favour, must Revenge His Quarrel upon the English, as far as they can. He asked the Minister, whether these Things were so; and prayed the Minister to Instruct him in the True Christian Religion. The Minister considering, that the Humour and Manner of the Indians, was to have their Discourses managed, with much of Similitude in them, Looked about for some Agreeable object, from whence he might with apt Resemblances Convey the Idae's of Truth unto the minds of Savages: and he thought, none would be more Agreeable to them, than a Tankard of Drink, which happened then to be standing on the Table. So he proceeded in this Method with 'em.  
He told ●hem, [still with proper Actions painting, and pointing out the Signs unto them,] That our Lord JESUS CHRIST, had given us, a Good Religion, which might be Resembled unto the Good Drink in the Cup, upon the Table.  
That if we Take this Good Religion, (even that Good Drink,) into our Hearts, it will do us Good, and preserve us from Death.  
That God's Book, the Bible, is the Cup, wherein that Good Drink, of Religion is offered unto us.  
That the French, having the Cup of Good Drink, in their Hands, had put Poison into it; and then made the Indians to Drink that Poisoned Liquor, whereupon, they Run mad, and fell to killing of the English, though they could not but know, it must unavoidably issue in their own Destruction at the Last.  
That, it was plain, the English had put no Poison, into the Good Drink; for they set the Cup wide open, and invited all men, to Come & See before they Taste; even, the very Indians themselves; for we Translated the Bible into Indian. That they might gather from hence, that the French had put Poison into the Good Drink; inasmuch, as the French kept the Cup fast Shut, (the Bible in an Unknown Tongue,) and kept their Hands upon the Eyes of the Indians, when they put it unto their mouths.  
The Indians Expressing themselves to be well-Satisfied, with what the Minister had hitherto said, prayed him, to go on, with showing 'em, what was the Good Drink, and what was the Poison, which the French had put into it.  
He then set before them distinctly the chief Articles of the Christian Religion, with all the Simplicity and Sincerity of a Protestant: Adding upon each, This is the Good Drink, in the Lord's Cup of Life: And they still professed, That they liked it all.  
Whereupon, he demonstrated unto them, how the Papists had in their Idolatrous Popery, some way or other Depraved, and Altered, every one of these Articles; with Scandalous Ingredients of their own Invention; Adding upon each, This is the Poison which the French have put into the Cup.  
At last, he mentioned this Article.  
To obtain the Pardon of your Sins, you must confess your Sins to God; & pray to God, That He would Pardon your Sins, for the sake of Jesus Christ, who died for the Sins of His People: God Loves Jesus Christ infinitely, and if you place your Eye on Jesus Christ only, when you beg the Pardon of your Sins, God will Pardon them. You need confess your Sins to none but God, Except in cases, where men have known your Sins, or have been Hurt by your Sins; & then those men should know that you confess your Sins; but after all, none but God can Pardon them.  
He then added; The French have put Poison into this Good Drink; They tell you, that you must confess your Sins to a Priest, and carry skins to a Priest, and Submit unto a Penance enjoined by a Priest; and this Priest is to give you a Pardon. There is no need of all This: 'Tis nothing but French Poison, all of it.  
The Wretches appearing astonished, to meet with one who would so fairly put them into a glorious way to obtain the Pardon of their Sins, and yet take no Beaver Skins for it: in a Rapture of Astonishment, they fell down on their knees, and got his Hand into theirs, and fell to kissing of it with an Extreme show of Affection.  
He shaking them off, with dislike of their posture, Bommaseen with the rest of them stood up; and first lifting up his Eyes, and Hands, to Heaven; declaring, That God should be Judge of his Heart in what he said; he then said, Sir, I thank you for these Things; I Resolve to Spit up all the French Poison; You shall be my Father; I will be your Son; I beseech you, to continue, to Instruct me, in that Religion, which may bring me to the Salvation of my Soul!— Now, God knows, what Heart this Indian had, when he so Expressed himself: To Him let us leave it.  
But so much for this Digression.   

ARTICLE. XXIII. More Mischiefs, in Spite of Treaties.  
EXcept it were the Falling of Two Soldiers belonging to Saco Garrison, into the Hands of the Enemy, who Took the one, and Killed the other, some Time in March. 1695 Many Months passed away, without any Action between Them and Us; And it is Reported by Returned Captives, That the Hand of God, reached them, when the Hand of Man could not find them, and a Mortal Sickness, did at a Strange Rate carry off multitudes of them. At length, upon the Mediation of old Sheepscoat John, once a Praying Indian, of the Reverend ELIOT's Catechmuens, but afterwards, a Pagan, and now a Popish-Apostate, a Great Fleet of Canoes came, in to an Island, about a League from the Fort at Pemmaquid, May 20. 1695. and, after they had laid still there, all the Lordsday, on Monday morning they sent unto the English, for another Treaty. They Declared, Their Design was to Exchange Captives, and Renew the Peace, and condemned themselves for their Violating the Peace made near Two years ago. Eight Captives, they Immediately Delivered up; and upon a Grant of a Truce for Thirty Days, Colonel John Phillips, Lieut. Colonel Hawthorn, and Major Convers, were sent Commissioners unto Pemmaquid, for the management of that affayr. Our Commissioners, with Good Reason, demanding a Surrender of all the English Captives, according to former Agreement, before they would allow any New Propositions of Peace to be offered, the Indians, digusted that their Idol Bommaseen was left at Boston, broke off the Conference, and went off in Discontent. Advice was immediately dispatched into all parts of the Eastern Country, to stand well upon their Guard: notwithstanding which, on July 6. Major Hammond of Kittery, fell into the Hands of the Lurking Indians; and the next week, Two men at Exeter were killed by some of the same Dangerous Lurkers. Major Hammond was now aboard a Canoe, intending to put ashore at Saco; but some of the Garrison-Souldiers there, not knowing that they had such a good Friend aboard, inadvertently Fired upon the Canoe; and so, the Indians carried him clear away. They transported him at length to Canada; where he met with Extraordinary Civilities; Count Frontenack, the Governor himself, nobly purchased him, of his Tawny-master; and sent him home to New-England, by a Vessel, which also fetched from thence a Considerable Number, (perhaps near Thirty) of English Prisoners. In August, the House of one Rogers at Billerica, was plundered, and about Fifteen People Killed and Taken, by Indians, which, by appearing and Approaching, 'tis said, on Horseback, were not Suspected for Indians, [for, Who set them on Horseback?] till they Surprised the House they came to. And about the same Time, Sergeant Haley, Venturing out of his Fort, at Saco, Stepped into the Snares of Death. On Sept 9 Sergeant March, with Three more, were Killed by the Indians, and Six more, at the same Time wounded at Pemmaquid, Rowing a Gondula, round an high Rocky point, above the Barbican. On Oct. 7. the Indians entered the House of one John Brown at Newbury; carrying away Nine Persons with them; whereupon Captain Greenlief, nimbly pursuing the Murderers, did unhappily so Stumble on them in the Night, that they wounded the good man, and made their Escape over the River. The Captain Retook all the Captives; but the Indians, in their going off, Struck them all so Violently on the Head, with the Clubs, which I remember a French Historian somewhere calls by the frightful Name of Head-breakers, that they afterwards all of them Died, Except a Lad that was only hurt in the Shoulder. Some of them Lingered out for half a year, and some of them for more than a whole year; but if the Doctors closed up the wounds of their Heads, they would grow Light headed, and Faint, and Sick, and could not bear it; So at last, they Died, with their very Brains working out at their Wounds.  
But having thus run o●er a Journal of Deaths, for the year, 1695. Let us before the year be quite gone, see some Vengeance taken upon the Heads in the House of the Wicked. Know then, Reader, That Captain March petitioning to be Dismissed from his Command of the Fort at Pemmaquid, one Chubb Succeeded him. And this Chubb, found an Opportunity, in a pretty Chubbed manner, to kill, the famous Egeremet, and, Ahenquid, a couple of Principal Sagamores, with one or Two other Indians; On a Lordsday, the Sixteenth of February. Some that well enough liked the Thing, which was now done, did not altogether like the manner of doing it, because there was a pretence of Treaty, between Chubb, and the Sagamores, whereof he took his Advantage to lay violent Hands on them. If there were any unfair Dealing (which I know not) in this Action of Chubb, there will be another February, not far off, wherein the Avengers of Blood, will take their Satisfaction.   

ARTICLE. XXIV. Still, Mischief upon Mischief.  
THe Next whole year, namely, 1696. had it not been for the Degree of a Famine, which the Alteration of the course of Nature in these, as well as other parts of the world, threatened us withal, would have been a Year of Lesle Trouble, than some of the rest, in our Troublesome Decad. The most uneasy Accident of this year, shall be told, when we arrive unto the Month of August; but in the mean Time, it was a matter of some Uneasiness, that on May. 7. one John Church of Quochecho who had been a Captive, Escaped from the Hands of the Indians, almost Seven years before, was now Slain, and Stripped, by their Barbarous Hands: And, on Jun. 24. one Thomas Cole, of Wells, and his wife, were Slain by the Indians, returning home with two of his Neighbours, and their Wives, all three Sisters, from a Visit, of their Friends at York: And, on Jun. 26. at several places within the Confines of Portsmouth, Several Persons, Twelve or Fourteen, were Massacred, (with some Houses Burnt,) and Four Taken, which, yet were soon Retaken; among whom, there was an Ancient Women Scalpt for Dead, and no doubt the Savages upon producing her Scalp, received the Price of her Death, from those that hired them, and yet she so Recovered, as to be still Alive. Moreover, on July 26. the Lords Day, the People at Quochecho, returning from the Public Worship of God, Three of them were killed, Three of them were wounded, and Three of them were carried away Prisoners to Penobscut; which last Three, were nevertheless in less than Three weeks returned. But now we are got into fatal August; on the Fifth or Sixth Day of which Month, the French having Taken one of the English Men of War, called, The Newport, and Landed a few men, who joined with the Indians, to pursue their Business, Chubb, with an unaccountable Baseness, did Surrender the Brave Fort at Pemmaquid into their Hands. There were Ninety Five men double Armed, in the Fort, which might have Defended it against Nine Times as many Assailants; That a Fort now should be so basely given up! Imitating the Style of Homer and Virgil, I cannot forbear crying out, O merae Novanglae, neque enim Novangli! And yet if you read the Story written by the Sieur Froger, how poorly St. James' Fort, in Africa, was given up to the French in the year, 1695. You'll say, the Things done in America, are not so bad, as what have been done in either parts of the World. The Enemy having Demolished so fair a Citadel, now grown mighty Uppish, Triumphed, as well they might, Exceedingly; and Threatened, that they would carry all before them. The Honourable Lieutenant Governor Stoughton, who was now Commander in Chief, over the Province, immediately did all that could be done, to put a Stop unto the Fury of the Adversary. By Sea, he sent out Three Men of War, who, disadvantaged by the Winds, came not soon Enough to engage the French. By Land, the Indians being so Posted in all quarters, that the People could hardly Stir out, but about half a Score of the poor People in their Fields here and there were picked off, he sent Colonel Gidney with Five Hundred men; who perceiving the Savages to be drawn off, only Strengthened the Garrisons, and Returned. The Lieutenant Governor, that he might not in any other point be wanting, to the Public Safety, hereupon dispatched, Colonel Nawthorn, with a Suitable Number of Soldiers, and Frigates unto St. John's, with orders to fetch away some Great Guns that were lying there, & join with Major Church who was gone with Forces that way, to attack the Fort at St. John's, which was the Nest of all the Wasps that Stung us: but the Difficulty of the Cold Season so discouraged our men, that after the making of some few Shot, the Enterprise found itself under too much Congelation to proceed any further. So we will afflict ourselves no further for this year; Except only with mentioning the Slaughter of about Five poor Soldiers, belonging to Saco-Fort, Oct. 13. who had a Discovery of the Enemy, Seasonable Enough, to have made their Escape; yet, not Agreeing about the way of making it, as it led by some Fatality to their Destruction, or, as if they had been like the Squirrels, that must run down the Tree, Squeaking and Crying, into the mouths of the Rattle-Snakes, that fix their Eyes upon them; they went back in to the very path, where the Indian Ambush was lying for them.   

ARTICLE. XXV. A Notable Exploit; wherein, Dux Faemina Facti.  
ON March 15. 1697. the Savages made a Descent upon the Skirts of Haverhil, Murdering and Captiving about Thirty Nine Persons, and Burning about Half a Dozen Houses. In this Broil, one Hannah Dustan, having lain in about a Week, attended with her Nurse, Mary Neff, a Widow, a Body of Terrible Indians drew near unto the House, where she lay, with Designs to carry on their Bloody Devastations. Her Husband, hastened from his Employments abroad, unto the Relief of his Distressed Family; and first bidding Seven of his Eight Children (which were from Two to Seventeen years of Age) to get away as fast as they could, unto some Garrison in the Town, he went in, to inform his Wife, of the horrible Distress come upon them,  she could get up, the fierce Indians were got so near, that utterly despairing to do her any Service, he ran out after his Children; Resolving, that on the Horse, which he had with him, he would Ride away with That, which he should in this Extremity, find his Affections to pitch most upon, and leave the Rest, unto the care of the Divine Providence. He overtook his Children about Forty Rod from his Door; but then, such was the Agony of his Parental Affections, that he found it impossible for him to Distinguish any one of them from the rest; wherefore he took up a Courageous Resolution to Live and Die with them all. A party of Indians came up with him; and now, though they Fired at him, and he Fired at them, yet he manfully kept at the Rear of his Little Army of Unarmed Children, while they Marched off, with the pace of a Child of Five years old; until, by the Singular Providence of God, he arrived safe with them all, unto a place of Safety, about a Mile or two from his House. But his House must in the mean Time, have more dismal Tragaedies acted at it. The Nurse trying to Escape, with the Newborn Infant, fell into the Hands of the Formidable Savages; and those furious Tawnies coming into the House, bid poor Dustan, to Rise Immediately. Full of Astonishment, she did so; and sitting down in the Chimney, with an Heart full of most fearful Expectation, she saw the Raging Dragons riffle all that they could carry away, and set the House on Fire. About Nineteen or Twenty Indians, now led these away, with about Half a Score other English Captives; but e'er they had gone many Steps, they dashed out the Brains of the Infant, against a Tree; and several of the other Captives, as they began to Tyre in their sad Journey, were soon sent unto their Long Home; the Savages would presently bury their Hatchets in their Brains, and leave their Carcases on the Ground, for Birds and Beasts to feed upon. However, Dustan (with her Nurse) notwithstanding her present Condition, Traveled that Night, about a Dozen Miles; and then kept up with their New Masters, in a long Travel of an Hundred and Fifty Miles, more or less, within a few Days Ensuing, without any sensible Damage, in their Health, from the Hardships, of their Travel, their Lodging, their Diet, and their many other Difficulties. These Two poor Women, were now in the Hands of those, whose Tender Mercies are Cruelties; but the Good God, who hath all Hearts in His own Hands, heard the Sighs of these Prisoners, and gave them to find unexpected Favour from the Master, who laid claim unto them. That Indian Family consisted of Twelve Persons; Two Stout men, Three Women, and Seven Children; and for the Shame of many an English Family, that has the Character of, Prayerless, upon it, I must now Publish what these poor Women assure me: 'Tis This; In Obedience to the Instructions, which the French have given them, they would have Prayers in their Family, no less than Thrice Every Day: In the Morning, at Noon, and in the Evening; nor would they ordinarily let their Children Eat or Sleep, without first saying their Prayers. Indeed these Idolaters, were like the rest of their whiter Brethren, Persecutors; and would not endure, that these poor Women should Retire to their English Prayers, if they could hinder them. Nevertheless, the poor Women, had nothing but fervent Prayers, to make their Lives Comfortable, or Tolerable; and by being daily sent out, upon Business, they had Opportunities together and asunder, to do like another Hannah, in Pouring out their Souls before the Lord: Nor did their praying Friends among ourselves, forbear to Pour out Supplications for them. Now, they could not observe it without some wonder, that their Indian Master, sometimes, when he saw them Dejected, would say unto them; What need you Trouble yourself? If your God will have you delivered, you shall be so! And it seems, our God would have it so to be. This Indian Family, was now Travelling with these Two Captive Women, (and an English youth, taken from Worcester, a year and half before,) unto a Rendezvouz of Savages, which they call, a Town, somewhere beyond Penacook; and they still told these poor Women, that when they came to this Town, they must be Stripped, and Scourged, and run the Gauntlet through the whole Army of Indians. They said, This was the Fashion, when the Captives first came to a Town; and they derided some of the Faint hearted English, which, they said, fainted and swooned away under the Torments of this Discipline. But on April. 30. While they were yet, it may be, about an Hundred and Fifty Miles from the Indian Town, a little before Break of Day, when the whole Crew was in a Dead Sleep; (Reader, see if it prove not So!) one of these Women, took up a Resolution, to Imitate the Action of Jael upon Sisera; and being where she had not her own Life secured by any Law unto her, she thought she was not Forbidden by any Law, to take away the Life of the Murderers, by whom her Child had been butchered. She heartened the Nurse, and the Youth, to assist her in this Enterprise; and all furnishing themselves with Hatchets for the purpose, they struck such Home Blows, upon the Heads of their Sleeping Oppressors, that e'er they could any of them Struggle into any Effectual Resistance, at the Feet of those poor Prisoners, they bowed, they fell, they lay down; at their feet they bowed, they fell; where they bowed, there they fell down Dead. Only one Squaw escaped sorely wounded from them, in the Dark, and one Boy, whom they Reserved Asleep, intending to bring him away with them, suddenly waked, and skuttled away from this Desolation. But cutting off the Scalps of the Ten Wretches, they came off, and Received Fifty Pounds from the General Assembly of the Province, as a Recompense of their Action; besides which they Received many presents of Congratulation from their more private Friends, but none gave 'em a greater Taste of Bounty, than Colonel Nicholson, the Governor of Maryland, who hearing of their Action, sent 'em a very generous Token of his Favour.   

ARTICLE. XXVI. Remarkable Salvations; and some Remarkable Disasters.  
BEsides a man Taken at York, in May, and another man killed at Hatfield, in June, and a Third killed at Groton; and a Fourth with Two Children carried Captives: there fell out more Mischief, with no small Mercy, on Jun. 10. at Exeter. The Day before, some Women & Children, would needs ramble without any Guard, into the Woods, to gather Strawberries; but some that were willing to Chastise them with a Fright, for their presumption, made an Alarm in the Town; whereupon many came together in their Arms. The Indians it seems, were at this very Time, unknown to the English, lying on the other side of the Town ready to make a Destructive Assault upon it; but Supposing this Alarm to be made on their Account, they therefore supposed themselves to be discovered. Wherefore they laid aside their purpose of attempting the Destruction of the Town; and contented themselves, with Killing one man, Taking another, and Wounding a Third. But on July. 4. Lord's Day, Major Charles Frost, who had been a Person of no little Consequence to our Frontiers, Returning from the Public Worship of God, in Berwick, (to repair unto which, about Five Miles from his own House, he had that Morning expressed such an Earnestness, that much Notice was taken of it,) passed several more Dangerous places, without any Damage; but in a place, on a little plain by the Turn of a Path, where no Danger was Expected, the Adder in the path Surprised him; the Indians having Stuck up certain Boughs upon a Log, there mortally Shot him, with Two more, while his Two Sons, that were in the Front of the Company happily escaped: And the Two young men, that Road Post unto Wells, with these Tidings, in their going back, had their own Death added for another Article of such unhappy Tidings. About the latter End of this Month also, Three Men Mowing the Meadows at Newichawannic, were themselves Cut down by the Indians; tho' one of the Mowers bravely Slew one of the Murderers. But the most Important Action of this Year, was a little further off. About the beginning of July, Major March was Employed, with about Five Hundred Soldiers, not only to Defend the Frontiers, but also to seek out, and Beat up, the Enemy's Quarters. In the mean time, the Lieutenant Governor, apprehending an Invasion from a Formidable French Fleet on the Coast of New-England, with his accustomed prudence and vigour, applied himself to put the whole Province into a posture of Defence: And the Militia, with the several Forts, especially that of Boston, (very much through the Contrivance and Industry of Captain Fairweather,) were brought into so good a posture, that some could hardly forbear too much Dependence on our Preparations. But, it being more particularly Apprehended, that in the Intended Invasion, the Indians, assisted by the French, would make a Descent upon our Frontiers by Land, Major March was advised therefore to Employ some of his Forces, in Scouting about the Woods. Before the Major arrived at York, a party of the Enemy killed a man that stood Centinel for some of his Neighbours at Work in the Marsh at Wells; and catching another Alive, they carried him a mile and half off, and Roasted him to Death: But Captain Brackett, that followed him quite as far as Kennebunk, did but almost overtake them: For truly, Reader, our Soldiers cannot, as Antiquity Reports, the old Grecian, and Roman Soldiers could, march at a Running pace or tro●, heavily Loaded, five and twenty miles in four Hours; but rather suspect whether those Reports of Antiquity be not Romantic. Three Soldiers of Saco Fort, after this cutting some Firewood, on Cow-Island, for the use of the Fort, were by the Indians cut off; while that Lieutenant Fletcher with his Two Sons, that should have Guarded them, went a Fowling; and by doing so, they likewise sell into the Snare. The Indians carrying these Three Captives down the River in one of their Canoes, Lieutenant Larabe, that was abroad with a Scout, waylaid them; and Firing on the Foremost of the Canoes, that had Three men in it, they all Three fell and sank in the River of Death. Several were killed aboard the other Canoes; and the rest ran their Canoes ashore, and Escaped on the other side of the River: and one of the Fletcher's, when all the Indians with him were killed, was Delivered out of the Hands which had made a prisoner of him: though his poor Father afterwards Dyed among them. Hereupon Major March, with his Army, took a Voyage farther Eastward; having several Transport Vessels to accommodate them. Arriving at Casco-Bay, they did, upon the Ninth of September, come as occult as they could, further East among the Islands, near a place called, Corbins' Sounds; and Landed before Day, at a place called, Damascotta River: where, before Half of them were well got ashore, and drawn up, the scarce-yet-expected Enemy, Entertained them with a Volley, and an Huzza! None of ours were Hurt; but Major March, Repaid 'em in their own Leaden Coin; and it was no sooner Light, but a Considerable Battle Ensued. The Commanders of the Transport-Vessels, were persons of such a mettle, that they could not with any patience, forbear going ashore, to take a part of their Neighbours Far; but the Enemy seeing things operate this way, fled into their Fleet of Canoes which hitherto Lay out of sight, and got off as fast, and as well, as they could, leaving some of their Dead behind them; which they never do, but when under extreme Disadvantages. Our Army thus beat 'em off, with the Loss of about a Dozen men: whereof One was, the worthy Captain Dymmock of Barnstable: and about as many Wounded, whereof one was Captain Phillips of, Charlstown; and in this Action, Captain Whiteing a young Gentleman of much Worth, and Hope, Courageously acting his part, as Commander of the Forces, the Helpers of the War, which the Colony of Connecticut had Charitably lent unto this Expedition, had his Life remarkably rescued, from a Bullet grazing the Top of his Head. But there was a Singular Providence of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the whole of this matter. For by the seasonable Arrival and Encounter of our Army, an horrible Descent of Indians, which probably might have laid whole Plantations Desolate, was most happily Defeated And at the same Time, the Signal Hand of Heaven, gave a Defeat unto the purposes of the French Squadrons at Sea, so that they had something else to do, than to Visit the Coast of New-England.   

ARTICLE. XXVII. The End of the Year, and we hope of the War.  
O Thou Sword of the Wilderness; When wilt thou be quiet? On Sept. 11. A party of the Enemy came upon the Town of Lancaster, then prepared for Mischief by a wonderful Security, and they did no little Mischief unto it. Near Twenty were killed, and among the rest, Mr. John Whiteing, the Pastor of the Church there: Five were carried Captive; Two or Three Houses were burnt, and several Old People in them. Captain Brown, with Fifty men, pursued them, till the Night Stopped their pursuit: but it seems, a Strange Dog or two, unknown to the Company, did by their Barking, alarm the Enemy, to Rise in the Night, and Strip and Scalp an English Captive-Woman, and fly so far into the Woods, that after Two Days Bootless Labour, our men Returned. November arrived, before any farther Blood shed; and then, 'twas only of one man, in the Woods, at Oyster-River. December arrived with the welcome Tidings, of a Peace concluded between England and France; which made us Hope, that there would be little more of any Blood shed at all. The Winter was the Severest, that ever was in the memory of man. And yet February must not pass, without a Stroke upon Pemmaquid Chubb, whom the Government had mercifully permitted after his Examination, to Retire un●o his Habitation in Andover. As much out of the way as to Andover, there came above Thirty Indians, about the middle of February, as if their Errand had been for a Vengeance upon Chubb, whom (with his Wife) they now Massacred there. They Took Two or Three House, and Slew Three or Four Persons; and Mr. Thomas Barnard, the worthy Minister of the place, very narrowly Escaped their Fury. But in the midst of their Fury; there was one piece of Mercy, the like whereof had never been seen before: For, they had got Colonel Dudley Bradstreet, with his Family into their Hands; but perceiving, the Town Mustering to follow them, their Hearts were so changed, that they dismissed their Captives without any further Damage unto their Persons. Returning back by Haverhil, they killed a couple and a couple they Took, with some Remarkable circumstances, worthy to be made a distinct History. But, Reader, we are now in Hast, for to have our present History come unto an End: and though the end of this Year did not altogether prove the end of the War; for, on May 9 1698. the Indians Murdered an old man, at Spruce-Creek, and carried away Three Sons, of that old man; and wounded a man at York: yet we were not without prospect of our Troubles growing towards a period: and even in that very Murder at Spruce-creek there fell out one thing that might a little encourage our Hopes concerning it. The Murderer was a famous kind of a Giant among the Indians; a Fellow Reputed Seven Foot High: This Fellow killed the poor old man in cold Blood, after he had Surrendered himself a Prisoner: But behold, Before many Hours were out, this famous and bloody Fellow accidently Shot himself to Death, by his Gun going off, when he was foolishly pulling a Canoe to the Shore with it.  
The last Bloody Action, that can have a Room in our Story is This  
The Indians, (though sometimes, it hath been much doubted, What Indians!) have in this War, made several Descents upon some of the upper Towns, that were our most Northerly Settlements upon Connecticut River. But the Pious, and Honest People in those Towns, have always given them a brave Repulse, and had a notable Experience of the Divine Favour to them, in their preservations. Deerfield has been an Extraordinary Instance of Courage, in keeping their Station, though they have lived all this while in a very Pihahiroth; and their worthy Pastor, Mr. John Williams, deserves the Thanks of all this Province, for his Encouraging them all the ways Imaginable, to Stand their ground. Once the Enemy was like to have Surprised them into a grievous Desolation; but he, with his Praying, and Valiant, little Flock, m●st happily Repelled them. And now, about the middle of July, 1698. a little before Sun set, Four Indians, killed a Man and a Boy, in Hatfield Meadows; and carried away Two Boys, into Captivity. The Advice coming to Deerfield in the Night, they presently Dispatched away Twelve men, to way lay the Enemy coming up the River; having first, Looked up unto the Lord Jesus Christ, that they might find the Enemy, and harm none but the Enemy, and Rescue the Children which the Enemy had Seized upon. After a Travel of near Twenty Miles, they perceived the Indians, in their Canoes coming up the River, but on the other side of it, within a Rod or Two, of the opposite Shore: Whereupon they so Shot, as to Hitt one of the Indians, and then they all Jumped out of the Canoes, and one of the Boys with them. The wounded Savage crawled unto the Shoar; where, his back being broken, he lay in great Angush, often Endeavouring with his Hatchet, for to knock out his own Brains, and tear open his own Breast, but could not: and another Indian seeing the Two Boys getting one to another, designed 'em a Shot, but his Gun would not go off: Whereupon he followed 'em with his Hatchet, for to have knocked 'em on the Head; but just as he come at 'em, one of our men sent a Shot into him, that Spoiled his Enterprise; and so the Boys getting together, into one Canooe, brought it over to the Friends thus concerned for them. These good men, seeing their Exploit performed thus far; Two Indians destroyed, and Two Children delivered, they fell to Praising of God; and one young man particularly, kept thus Expressing himself; Surely, 'tis God, and not we, that have wrought this Deliverance! But, as we have sometimes been told. That even in the Beating of a Pulse, the Dilating of the Heart, by a Diastole of Delight, may be turned into a contracting of it, with a Systole of Sorrow: In the Beating of a few Pulse, after this, they sent five or six men, with the Canooe, to fetch the other, which was lodged at an Island not far off, that they might pursue the other Indians: when those two Indians having hid themselves in the High-grass, unhappily Shot a quick Death, into the young man, whose Expressions were but now recited. This Hopeful young man's Brother-in-Law, was intending to have gone out, upon this Action; but the young man himself importuned his Mother to let him go: which, because he was an only Son, she denied; but then, fearing she did not well to withhold her Son from the Service of the Public, she gave him leave: saying, See that you do now, and as you go along, Resign, and give up yourself unto the Lord; and I desire to Resign you to Him! So he goes, and so he dies; And may he be the last, that falls in a Long and Sad War, with Indian Savages!   

ARTICLE XXVIII. The Epilogue of a Long Tragedy.  
FOr the present then, the Indians have Done Murdering; They'll Do so no more till next Time. Let us then have done Writing; when we have a little informed ourselves what is become of the chief Murderers among those Wretches, for whom if we would find a Name of a Length like one of their own Indian Longwinded words, it might be, Bombardo-gladio-fun-hasti-flammi-loquentes.  
Major Convers, and Captain Alden, in pursuance of Instructions Received from the Lieut. Governor and Council, arriving at Penobscet, on Oct. 14. 1698. were there informed, That Madockawando, the noted Sagamore, with several other Sachims' of the East, were lately Dead. And six days after this, the chief Sachims' now Living, with a great Body of Indians, Entertained them with a Friendly Discourse; wherein they said, That the Earl of Frontenac had sent them word, there was a Peace concluded between the Kings of France and England, and that one of the Articles in the Peace was, for Prisoners on both sides to be Returned, and they were Resolved to obey the Earl of Frontenac as their Father; and accordingly such Prisoners of ours, as they had now at hand, might immediately Return, if we could persuade them, for They would not Compel them. When our English Messengers argued with them, upon the perfidiousness of their making a New War, after their Submission, the Indians replied, That they were Instigated by the Erench to do what they did, against their own Inclinations; adding, That there were two Jesuits, one toward Amonoscoggin, the other at Narridgaway, both of which, they desired the Earl of Bellomont, and the Earl of Frontenac, to procure to be Removed; otherwise it could not be expected, that any Peace would continue long. The Indians also, and the English Prisoners, gave them to understand, that the last Winter, many, both Indians, and English Prisoners, were Starved to Death; and particularly, Nine Indians, in one company went a Hunting, but met with such hard circumstances, that after they had Eat up their Dogs, and their Coats, they Died horribly Famished: And since the last Winter, a grievous and unknown Disease is got among them, which consumed them wonderfully. The Sagamore Saquadock, further told them, That the Kennebeck Indians, would fain have gone to War again, this last Summer, but the other Refused, whereupon they likewise Desisted: And they Resolved now, to Fight no more; but if any Ill Accident or Action, should happen on either side, he did in the Name of the Indians Desire, That we would not presently make a War upon it, but in a more amicable way compose the Differences.  
That the Indian Affairs might come to be yet more exactly understood, the General Assembly of the Province, Employed Colonel John Phillips, and Major Convers, to Settle them. These Gentlemen, took a Difficult and a Dangerous Voyage, in the Depth or Winter, unto the Eastern parts, in the Province-Galley, then under the Command of Captain Cyprian Southack; and the principal Sagamores of the Indians there coming to them, did again Renew, and Subscribe the Submission, which they had formerly made in the year 1693. With this Addition unto it.  
And whereas, notwithstanding the aforesaid Submission and Agreement, the said Indians belonging to the Rivers aforesaid, or some of them, through the ill counsel and instigation of the French, have perpetrated sundry Hostilities against His Majesty's Subjects, the English, and have not Delivered and Returned home several English Captives in their Hands, as in the said Submission they Covenanted.  
Wherefore, we whose Names are hereunto Subscribed, Sagamores, Captains, and principal men of the Indians belonging unto the Rivers of Kennebeck, Ammonoscoggin, and Saco, and parts adjacent, being sensible of our great Offence and Folly, in not complying with the aforesaid Submission and Agreement, and also of the Sufferings and Mischiefs, that we have hereby exposed ourselves unto; Do, in all Humble and most Submissive manner, cast ourselves upon His Majesty's Mercy, for the pardon of all our Rebellions, Hostilities, and Violations of our promises, praying to be Received into His Majesty's Grace, and protection; And for, and on behalf of ourselves, and of all other the Indians, belonging to the several Rivers and places aforesaid, within the Sovereignty of His Majesty of Great Britain, do again acknowledge, and profess our Hearty and Sincere Obedience, unto the Crown of England, and do solemnly Renew, Ratify, and Confirm all and every of the Articles and Agreements, contained in the aforesaid Recited Commission. And in Testimimony thereof, we, the said Sagamores, Captains, and principal men, have hereunto set our several Marks and Seals, at Casco Bay, near Mares-point, the Seventh Day of January, in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty, King WILLIAM the Third; Annoque Domini, 1698, 9  
Subscribed, by, Moxus, and a Great Number more. In the presencee of 

James Convers,  
Cyprian Southack.  
John Gills, Interpreter,  
And Scodook, alias Samson.    
At this Time also, the Indians Restored as many of the English Captives, in their Hands, as were able to Travel above an Hundred Miles in this terrible Season of the year, from their Headquarters, down to the Seaside; giving all possible satisfaction, for the Restoration of the rest, as Early in the Spring, as there could be any Travelling.  
The Condition of these Captives, has afforded many very Remarkable Things, whereof 'tis a thousand pities that so many are lost. But because one of the Two Gentlemen Employed as Commissioners for the Treaty with the Indians, took certain Minutes of Remarkable Things from some of the Captives, I am willing to give the Reader a Taste of them.  
At Mare's point in Casco-Bay, Jan. 14. 1698, 9  
THe Captives informed me, That the Indians have Three Forts, at Narridgawog, and Narrackomagog, and Amassacanty. And at each of these Forts, they have a Chapel, and have Images in them.  
They informed me, That Three Captives in one Wigwam, were Starved to Death last Winter.  
Marry Fairbanks, and Samuel Hutching, and some other Captives, told me, That Jonathan Hutching, belonging to Spruce-Creek, a Lad fourteen years old; They met him crying for want of Victuals, for in Two or Three Days he had nothing to Eat. Afterward, as he was going to fetch some Wood, he felt something hard in his Bosom. He put in his Hand, and unto his Astonishment, he found there Two Great, Large Ears of Indian Corn, which were very well Roasted. He Eat them, and knew not how they came unto ●im.  
Some other of the Captives told me, That one Mary Catter, (which person we now brought home with us, belonging to Kittery) her Master and many other Indians, came down to Casco-Bay. There seeing some Sloops, or Shallops, they thought they were the English coming upon them, and ran away, into the Woods, and left the said Mary Catter very Sick in the Wigwam, without any thing at all to Eat. They stayed away many days; but left a Fire in the Wigwam. She Lay wishing for something to Eat, and at length in came a Turtle. She got That, and Eat it; but afterwards began to Despair of out living the Famine, which was Returned upon her. At length, when she was very Hungry, in came a Partridge; She took a Stick, and Struck it, and Dressed it, and Eat it. And by that Time she was Hungry again, her Master came to look after her.  
They tell of several of the Indians, that have killed themselves, with their own Guns, in taking them out of their Canoes.  
Assacombuit scent Thomasin Rouse, a Child of about Ten years old, unto the Waterside, to carry something. The Child cried: He took a Stick, and struck her down: She lay for Dead: He took her up, and Threw her into the water: Some Indians, not far off, ran in, and fetched her out. This Child we have now brought Home with us.  
This Assacombuit hath killed and Taken this War, (they tell me) an Hundred and Fifty Men, Women, and Children. A Bloody Devil.  
Thus the Paper of Minutes.  
The Reader now has nothing but Peace before him. Doubtless he comforts himself with Hopes, of Time's better to Live in, than to Writ of!  
BUt that which yet more assures a Break of Day after a long and sad Night unto us, is, That the Best King at this Day upon Earth, and the Greatest Monarch, that ever Swayed the Sceptre of Great Britain, hath Commissioned a Noble Person, who hath in him an Illustrious Image of His own Royal Virtues, to take the Government of these Provinces; and he is accordingly Arrived now near our Horizon. When the Schools of the Jews delivered, That there were Three Great Gifts of the Good God unto the world, The Law, the Rain, and the Light; R. Zeira added, I pray, let us take in Peace for a Fourth. All these Four Gifts of God, are now Enjoyed by New-England: But I must now ask, That our Hope of a Fifth may be added unto the Number; which is, A GOVERNOR, of Signalised Virtues. To the truly Noble Earl of BELLOMONT, the whole English Nation must own itself Indebted, while it is a Nation, for the most Generous and Successful Zeal, with which he Laboured for those Acts of Parliament; by Assenting whereunto, the Mighty WILLIAM, hath Irradiated England, with Blessings, that it never saw before His Happy Reign: Blessings richly worth all the Expenses of a Revolution. England owes no less Immortal Statues, unto the Earl of Bellomont, than Ireland, unto his Illustrious Ancestors. But the Continent of America, must now Share in the Influences of that Noble Person, whose Merits have been Signalised on the most famous Islands of Europe; and the Greatest Person, that ever set foot, on the English Continent of America, is now Arrived unto it. We are now satisfying ourselves in the Expectations of the Great and Good Influences, to be derived from the Conduct of a Governor, in whom there will meet, — Virtus et Summa potestas.  
And now, Reader, I will conclude our History of the Indian War, in Terms like those used by the Syrian Writer at the Conclusion of his Book;  
Finis, per Auxilium Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, mense Duodecimo, per manus peccatoris pauperis et Errantis.   

ARTICLE XXIX. Quakers Encountered.  
FOr the present then, we have done with the Indians: But while the Indians have been thus molesting us, we have suffered Molestations of another sort, from another sort of Enemies, which may with very good Reason, be cast into the same History with them. If the Indians have chosen to prey upon the Frontiers, and Out-Skirts, of the Province, the Quakers have chosen the very same Frontiers, and, Out-Skirts, for their more Spiritual Assaults; and finding little Success elsewhere, they have been Labouring incessantly and sometimes not unsuccessfully, to Enchant and Poison the Souls of poor people, in the very places, where the Bodies and Estates, of the people have presently after been devoured by the Savages. But that which makes it the more agreeable, to allow the Quakers, an Article in our History of the Indians, is, That a certain silly Scribbler, the very Firstborn of Non-sensicality, (and a Firstborn too, that one might Salute as the Martyr Polycarp once did the wicked Martion,) One Tom Maule; at this Time Living in Salem, hath exposed unto the Public, a Volumn of Nonsensical Blasphemies and Heresies, wherein he sets himself to Defend the Indians, in their Bloody Villainies, and Revile the Country for Defending itself against them. And that the Venom of this Pamphlet might be Improved unto the Height of Slanderous Wickedness, there hath been since added unto it, in another Pamphlet, a parcel of Ingredients compounded, for mischief, as if by the Art of the Apothecary. None but he, whom the Jews, in their Talmuds call, Ben-tamalion could have inspired such a Slanderer! Have the Quakers ever yet Censured, this their Author, for holding forth in his Alcoran, [pag. 221.] That the Devil, Sin, Death, and Hell, are but Nothing, they are but a Nonentity: And, [pag. 183.] That all men who have a Body of Sin remaining in them, are Witches? I have cause to believe, that they never did! Nor that they ever advised him to pull in his Horns, from goring the sides of New-England, with such passages as those, in [pag. 195.] the same horrible Pamphlet: God hath well Rewarded the Inhabitants of New-England, for their Unrighteous Deal, towards the Native Indians, whom now the Lord hath suffered to Rew●r● the Inhabitants, with a double measure of Blood, by Fire and Sword, etc. And those Unrighteous Deal, he Explains, to be the Killing of the Indians, (or Murdering of them) by the Old Planters of these Colonies, in their First Settlement. Thus are the Ashes of our Fathers vilely staled upon, by one, who perhaps would not stick at the Villainy of doing as much upon their Baptism itself. I must tell you, Friends, that if you done't publicly, give forth a Testimony to Defy, Tom Maule, and his Works, it will be thought by some, who it may be don't wish you so well, as I do, that you own this Bloody Stuff: which, doubtless you'll not be so ill advised as to do. But, certainly, if the good people of New-England, now make it not a proverb for a Liar of the First Magnitude, He is as very a Liar as TOM MAULE; they will deprive their Language of one Significant Expression, which now offers itself unto them.  
Let us now Leave our Friend Maules' Works, as a fit Volumn to be an Appendix unto the famous Tartaretus, and worthy of a Room in Pantagruels Library. The fittest way to answer him, would be to send him to Boston Woods!  
In the mean Time, I own unto the Public, a piece of History, which it may be for the Safety of our Northern Towns, to be acquainted withal. Know, Sirs, That once the famous George Keith, undertook to be the Champion of our New-English Quakers; and bid fair to be the very Dalae, or Prester John, of all the English Tartars; but a Minister of Boston, upon that occasion, publishing a Book, Entitled, Little Flocks guarded against grievous Wolves, could not but complain of it, as a very Scandalous Thing, in George Keith, to maintain the points of the Foxian Quakerism, while he really differed from them. All this while, George Keith was admired by our Quakers, as an Apostle, or, an Oracle: but, he finding it impossible to mentain the gross Tenets of the common Quakers, preached unto them the Necessity of Believing on a Christ without, as well as a Christ within. Hereupon, there grew such alienations between him, and the other Quakers, (who had been taught by George Fox, to say, The Devil is in them, who say, they are Saved by Christ without them:) that he not only has written divers Learned Books, to confute those very Doctrines of the Common Quakers, which the Pastors of New-England had, upon his Provocation, Written against, but also has therefore undergone a Storm of Persecution, from the Friends in Pensylvania: Yea, 'tis verily thought, that poor George would have been made a Sacrifice to Squire Samael Jennings, and the rest of the Pensylvanian Dragons, and that, since a crime which their Laws ha● made Capital, was mentioned in the Mittimus whereby Keith was committed, they would have Hanged him, if a Revolution upon their Government had not set him at liberty. Being by the Fines, and Gaols, and Fierce Usages of the Quakers in Pensylvania, driven over to England, the Wonderful Hand of God, hath made this very man, I think I may say, incomparably the greatest Plague, that ever came upon that Sect, of Energumen. Although he do himself still retain the Name of a Quaker, yet he hath in one Treatise after another, Earnestly called upon the Divines, throughout the Nation, more Vigorously to Employ their Talants, against the Quakers, as a more Dangerous Generation of People than they are well ware; and he did in the year 1696. with the leave of the Lord Mayor, Challenge the Quakers, to make their Appearance at Turner's Hall, in the chief City of Europe; where he proved unto the Satisfaction of a vast Assembly, that the chief Writers of the Quakers, assert Christ neither to be God, nor Man; and that they deny Christ to be prayed unto; and that they had affirmed, Christ's outward Blood, shed on the Ground, to be no more than the Blood of another Saint; and that they had charged him with New-Doctrine, for directing to Faith in Christ without us, as well as within us; and that at their Meetings, they had censured him, for saying, That Christ's Body came out of the Grave, which they say, It never did: And many more such horrid matters. To confirm these things, Besides the grievous Bites which Francis Bugg, one of their late Friends, hath given them, one Daniel Leeds, without wholly casting off the Profession of a Quaker, hath lately Printed a Book, wherein he produces above Threescore Instances, of the Flat Contradictions, which he hath observed in the Books of the Friends, that have most pretended unto Infallibility; and he demonstrates from evident matter of East, that though they declared unto the World, That their Sufferings had been greater, and more unjust, than the Sufferings of Jesus, and His Apostles; yet they themselves were no sooner mounted into the Seat of Government, than they fell to Persecuting as bad as any in the World. Albeit Fox writes, They that cause People to be put in Prison, and have their Goods taken away, are Disorderly Teachers, and shall be rooted out: Nevertheless Leeds proves by many Exemples, that the Pensylvanians did it, even upon their own Friends, for mere Scruples of their Consciences. 'Tis reported, The Quakers are so confounded at this Book of Leeds, that they have been at the charge to buy up the whole Impression of it, and so to Stifle and Smother it: If it be so, I hope 'twill but produce a New Impression of so rare a Book. The Marvellous Providence of our Lord Jesus Christ, having thus employed, the Pens of the Quakers themselves, to warn you, that you beware of Quakerism, it will be a marvellous Infatuation in any of you, after this, to be led away with that Error of the Wicked. Reader, make a Pause, and here Admire the Marvellous Providence of our Lord Jesus Christ! The first and great Apostle of the Quakers, even George Fox, the Shoemaker, in his, Great Mystery, Pag. 94. Excludes from the Church of Christ, Those who are not Infallible, in Discerning the Hearts of other men. Whereas now in Spite of all their Infallibility, such Friends as Keith (and Leeds) whom they once admired, profess that they never in their Hearts Believed, as the Common Foxian Quakers do; and Quakerism Suffers from none in the world more than these. But that I may a little Suggest unto you, certain Methods of Encountering those Adversaries of your Faith, which go about, seeking whom they may deceive, and whom I do here offer to prove as horrid Idolaters, as even those that worshipped the Rats of Egypt, if it be fairly demanded of me, I will first Recite unto you, certain passages, of a Discourse, which a Minister of Boston, had with a very Busy and Noisy Teacher among the Quakers, (and another of the Friends,) in his Return from his Visitation unto some of our Northern Towns, where the Giddy People, had cried him up for a None-Such.  Quaker. 
We are come to give thee a Friendly Visit.  Minister. 
I am glad to see you, at my House; you shall be welcome to the best Entertainments, my House can afford you.  
But will you do me the Favour, to let me understand, the Designs upon which you visit these parts of the Country?  Quaker. 
I come to preach Jesus Christ.  Minister. 
Excuse me— What Christ, I pray?  Quaker. 
The same Christ, that appeared unto Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob; and that appeared unto Moses in the Bush, and that was with Israel in the Wilderness.—  Minister. 
I would interrupt you. I perceive, that we shall be drawn into some Discourse. Matter of Argument will occur, I foresee, in our Discourse. Argument sometimes does draw forth Words that may have too much Warmth in them. I purpose none such. But if you are sensible, that I do let fall any one such word, in our Disputation, do me the favour, to take notice of it unto me, and I'll immediately correct it. Now, if you please;—  Quaker. 
Thou speakest very well. This is but according to the Good Report we have heard of thee.  Minister. 
Friend, I am sensible, that you are come among us, to preach a Religion, different from that which is commonly Preached, Professed, & Practised in the Country. If you approve the Religion of the Country, I can't see, where's the Sense of it, for you to take such tedious Journeys for our Illumination. I pray, be so kind as to let me know, what point in our Holy Religion, you do not Approve?  Quaker. 
'Tis not my Business here to Inquire into thy Religion. I am come to preach the Religion of Jesus Christ; the same that the Holy Prophets and Apostles believed; even the Inward manifestation of Christ in our Hearts,—  Minister. 
To make short work on it; I perceive you both to be that sort of people, we call Quakers. Now, there is among the Quakers, that extreme Uncertainty, Variety, and Contradiction, that no man, can say what you hold, any further than each Individual Person, will confess his own Tenets. I must therefore, pray the favour of you, to tell me; Do you own George Fox's Book, Entitled, The Great Mystery?  Quaker. 
'Tis none of our Business, to tell what Books we own, and what we do not own: And it is none of thy Business to Ask us. I say, We own Jesus Christ, and His Inward Manifestation in our Hearts. And that's Enough!  Minister. 
You'll Excuse me: I do again ask, whether you do own George Fox's Book, of, The Great Mystery? Because doubtless you have Read it. And if you'll ask me, as much concerning any Book under Heaven, (that I have Read,) Whether I own it, or, How much I own of it, I'll answer you with all the Freedom in the world.  Quaker. 
I say, What hast thou to do with George Fox? or, to Examine me?  Minister. 
Yes, Friend, I do, and must, and will Examine You. For you are come to Hold Forth unto as many of my Flock, as you can. And the Word of God bids me to Try you. And, I have to do with George Eox too: because George Fox, in his Writings, has to do with me. And if you will sincerely tell me, whether you own George Fox, or no, I shall more probably tell, who you are. In short; If you'll say, you Deny and Renounce George Fox, than I must go another way to work with you. If you'll say you own him, than I must endeavour to Save you, from some of his Damnable Heresies.  Quaker. 
What Heresies?  Minister. 
Numberless. But I do at this Time call to mind Three of them.  
First. That the Soul of man, is without Beginning, and Infinite. This is, if I forget not, in the 90th page of that Book.  
Secondly. That it is not contrary to the Scripture, That God the Father took upon Him Humane Nature. And, That the Scripture does not tell people of a Trinity, nor Three Persons in God; but that these Three Persons were brought in by the Pope.  
This is in pag. 246.  
Thirdly. That they that are not complete in Sanctification, are not complete in Justification.  
This is in, pag. 284. Now,  
What say ye, Sirs?  Quaker. 
What hast thou to do, to Rake into the Ashes of the Dead? Let George Fox alone. Hast thou any thing to charge upon me?  Minister. 
I shall know, if you'll tell me, whether you own George Fox or no. And you can tell me, if you will. I would be more civil to you, Sirs.  Quaker. 
I never saw that Book of George Fox.  
[And so said, the other Quaker, that was with him.]  Minister. 
Sirs, you astonish me! What? Never see George Foxes Book, of, The Great Mystery! 'Tis impossible! This Thing is to me, a Mystery! Sirs, That Book is the very Bible of Quakerism. 'Tis Essential unto a Quaker, at least, unto a Teaching Quaker, as you are, to be Indoctrinated from that Book. Never see it, man!— However, if you say so, I must Believe it.  Quaker. 
[Fell into an Harangue, Repeating what he had Preached abroad, about the Country; which, because I would misrecite nothing, I dare not undertake exactly to Recite in this place.]  Minister. 
I perceive our Conversation, will be to little Advantage, except we get a little closer to some certain point, which I have hitherto Endeavoured but ineffectually.  
Sirs, There are several points, which I would willingly bring you to. And there happening to be several of my Honest Neighbours at hand, I have prayed them (with your leave,) to walk in, that they may be Witnesses of what passes between us.  
First, I'll begin, if you please, with This.  
I told you at the Beginning, I would not willingly Treat you, with one Hard word. There is an Hard word, which will presently occur, by the unavoidable course of Disputation. I would pray you, to ease me of the Trouble of speaking it. You shall yourself have the speaking of it.  Quaker. 
What's that?  Minister. 
I pray, Friend, what doth the Scripture say, of them that say, They know Jesus Christ, and yet keep not His Commandments?  Quaker. 
Nay, What dost thou say, the Scripture says in that case?  Minister. 
You will compel me, I see.— I say then: The Scripture says, He that says, I know Him, and keeps not His Commandments, is a Liar, and the Truth is not in him. 'Tis in 1 Joh. 2.4.  Quaker. 
And what then?  Minister. 
Why this then. He that says, I know Jesus Christ, and yet keeps not the Commandments of Jesus Christ, is a Liar, and the Truth is not in him.  
You say, You know Jesus Christ. But you must give me leave to say, That you Keep not the Commandments of Jesus Christ.  
Therefore,— pray Sirs, do you help out the Conclusion. I am loath to speak it. You know what it is.  Quaker. 
Yes, yes. We know well enough what Conclusion, thou wouldst be at: Thou wouldst say, That we are Liars, and that the Truth is not in us.  Minister. 
Right! Since it must be so.  Quaker. 
But what Commandment of Jesus Christ, is there, that we don't keep?  Minister. 
The Commandment of Jesus Christ, is, For His Disciples to be Baptised with Water; But you, Qua●kers, do not keep that Commandment of Jesus Christ.  Quaker. 
How dost thou prove, that Jesus Christ commanded Baptism with Water?  Minister. 
I know, you must have the word, Water, or nothing will content you. Else I would have urged, for a Sufficient proof, our Lords Commanding His Ministers, to Baptism men, [Matth. 28.19.] This Command Expresses our Duty. 'Tis not our Duty to Baptism men with the Holy Spirit. This belongs not unto Us, but unto Him, who's that Holy Spirit is. You will not say, we Sin, if we don't Baptism the Disciples in all Nations, with the Holy Spirit. So then, it must be a Baptism with Water, which is there Commanded by our Lord. But, as I said, you must have the word, Water; & you shall have it.  
The Apostle Peter said,—  Quaker. 
The Apostle Peter! The Apostle Peter! Thou wast to prove that Jesus Christ Commanded Baptism with Water. And now, Thou art come to the Apostle Peter!  Minister. 
Stay, Friend; not so fast! Will you say then, that the Commandments brought by the Apostle Peter, as the Commandments of Jesus Christ, are not the Commandments of Jesus Christ? But however, I'll mend the Expression,—  
The Spirit of Jesus Christ in the Apostle Peter, (Now, I hope, it fits you!)—  Quaker. 
[J. S.] Thou art a Monster, all Mouth, and no Ears,—  Minister. 
— Prithee, talk Civilly, Don't make me Believe, that I am at Ephesus. If I were in one of your Houses, I would not give you such Language; you had but now, a greater liberty to use your Mouth, than I have hitherto taken; and my Ears were patiented. But, you foresee my Argument, is going to pinch you. 'Tis but Civility to let me Finish it.  Quaker. 
Thou wast to prove, that Jesus Christ Commanded Baptism with Water. And thou hast not proved it. And therefore thou Speakest Falsely.  Minister. 
What do you mean? These little Shuffles won't help you.  
I say, The Spirit of Jesus Christ, in the Apostle Peter, after our Lord's Ascension, when it was Impossible for John's Baptism (which was into the Messiah Suddenly to come, not, already come,) should have place, did say, in Act. 10 47. Can any man Forbidden Water, that these should not be Baptised, which have Received the Holy Ghost?  Quaker. 
How does this prove, That Jesus Christ Commanded these to be Baptised with water?  Minister. 
Thus;—  
If Jesus Christ had not Commanded Baptism with Water, any man might have then Forbidden it.  
But, no man could Forbidden it.  
Therefore Jesus Christ Commanded it.  Quaker. 
Therefore! Therefore! Argo, Argo! Why, Dost thou think, Religion is to be proved by thy Th●●efore's, by thy Argo's?  Minister. 
Friend, I perceive, the word, Therefore, is a ver● dead doing sort of a Word to ye. I'll dismiss this Terrible Word. I'll only say, The Reason, why none could forbid Believers to be Baptised with Water, was merely Because Jesus Christ Commanded it.  Quaker. 
BECAUSE; Why, the word, Because is as bad as the word, Therefore.  Minister. 
[Smiling.] It may be so. But in the mean time, you are wonderfully unreasonable! I say, why could none forbid Water, for the Faithful to be Baptised.  Quaker. 
Who says, None could Forbidden Water? 'Tis only said, Can any man Forbidden Water?  Minister. 
I pray, Sirs; And is not this, None can.  
But I'll bring the matter to bear upon you, without those two Dangerous words, THEREFORE, and BECAUSE; at which you are so terrified.  
I will put the matter into the Form of a Question: And your Answer to this Question, shall put an End, to our present Velitations.  Quaker, 
What have we to do to Answer thy Questions?  Minister. 
My Question is,  
Whether a man might not forbid in the Worship of Jesus Christ, what Jesus Christ Himself hath no way Commanded?  
You can Answer this Question, if you will; & I desire, I demand your Answer.  Quaker. 
What? For us to answer thy Questions! That would be, to Ensnare ourselves.  Minister. 
I am very sensible of That. Therefore, take Notice, You are Ensnared, in the Toils of your own miserable Delusions. But still, I say, Answer my Question.  Quaker. 
Do you see, Neighbours? Friend M. was to prove, that Jesus Christ commanded Baptism, and now, he's come to a Question!  Minister. 
So I am Truly. And, I see 'tis a Question, that puts you into a Sweat. I beseech you to Answer it. I Require you to Answer it. What shall I say? I Defy you to Answer it. Pardon my Cogency; You Force me to ' t!  Quaker. 
I say, How does a Question prove, That Jesus Christ commanded Baptism with Water? And why dost thou Baptism Infants?  Minister. 
Nay, I'll keep you to the Question. Your Answer to the Question, will prove it; I am designing to make you yourselves prove it. And, Sirs, I do here offer to you, That I will give the best Answer I can, to any Question in the world, that you shall put unto me: why are you so loath to Answer one short Question of mine?  Quaker. 
I be not obliged to Answer thy Question?  Minister. 
I must contrive some fair way, to Compel some Answer unto this one Question. Give me leave therefore to tell you, That if you do not Answer this Question, you go away conquered and confounded. Yea, Sirs, I must in Faithfulness tell you, That you carry away, the dreadful Mark of Heretics, upon you, Even, To be Condemned in your own Conscience. You go away, Self-Condemned, That you don't keep the Commandments of Jesus Christ; and Therefore, That you are,— what, you Remember, the Apostle John said concerning you.  Quaker. 
I don't condemn Thee, for using Baptism with Water.  Minister. 
This is no Answer to the Question still: For you don't observe it yourself; neither you, nor any Quakers under Heaven. Wherefore I still urge for an Answer.  Quaker. 
Thou art not Civil to us. Is this thy Civility to Strangers? We have heard a Great Fam● of thee, for thy Civil, and obliging carriage, towards others that are not of thy persuasion. But now thou are uncivil to us. That which I have to say, is, I will keep to that Book, the Bible, and I will preach what is in that Book.  Minister. 
[Taking up the Bible,] Friend, you pretend then to understand this Book. I do here make you this offer; That I will immediately Turn you to Ten several places, in one Book of this Holy Bible, [the Chronicles,] And if you can give me a Tolerable Solution of any one of them, I'll acknowledge that you are worthy to preach out of it.  Quaker. 
Canst thou do it thyself?  Minister. 
I Humbly Hope, I can.  Quaker. 
How dost thou know that I can't?  Minister. 
I say, you can't. Now do you Accept my offer: If you can, I'll own, that I have wronged you.  Quaker. 
What's that to thee, what I can do?  Minister. 
Look you, Neighbours: I think, 'tis to no purpose, to proceed unto any other points, with such unreasonable Folks as these. You see, how ‛ Tis. If you desire it, I'll proceed.  Neighbours. 
No, Sir, 'Tis to no purpose, they are a people of no Reason.  Quaker. 
Nay, Friend M.— I would not have thee to be so Hard upon us. I mean Thee no Harm. I hear, thou takest a great deal of pains for the good of thy people. And they will do well, to Harken to Thee. I have Rebuked some of them for speaking Evil of thee. Yea, It is my Judgement, That thou, and other such Ministers as Thou art, ought Honourably to be maintained by the people.  Minister. 
You differ from all your Friends, methinks. What? Would you have us to be Hirelings? 'Tis very strange to hear a Quaker plead for the Maintenance of our Ministry. But for your satisfaction, I'll tell you, The people whom I Serve, I never once in all my Life Asked for any Maintenance or Salary; and I never made any Agreement with them about any Salary, in all my Life.  Quaker. 
I say, I would not have Thee too Hard upon us. New England has Persecuted our Friends at a grievous Rate.—  Minister. 
Nay, Friends, Be not you too Hard upon me, about that matter. I Approve Persecution, as Little as any of you all. I abhor it; I have Preached against it, I have Writ against it, I have Bewailed the mistakes that some Good men have committed in it. I would have you Treated with all the Civility, imaginable. I would not have the Civil Magistrate inflict up on you, the Damage of one Farthing for your Consciences.  Quaker. 
But now, you may see, how the Judgements of God, are come upon the East Country, by the Indians for your Persecution.  Minister. 
I can't tell That neither. For tho' I am sorry at my Heart, that ever you were Persecuted: Yet, I can't say, That because Boston was guilty of Persecution, therefore Newichawannic, and Casc● Bay, (places in other Provinces,) that never had any such thing in it, must be cut off.  Quaker. 
Yes, they Persecuted at the East ward. There were Two Women, of our Friends, cruel●y Scourged there.  Minister. 
I suppose, you refer to a Story, published by one George Bishop, a Quaker: He Complains bitterly, of the New England Persecution, because there came Two Quaker women Stark Naked, into our Public Assemblies, and they were carried unto the Whipping post for it. This was in the Northern parts of the Country, as I have been told. These Baggages, I believe, were the persecuted women, you talk of!  Quaker. 
Well, and what if they did appear Naked, to show the People the Nakedness of their Sins?  Minister. 
For Shame, Sirs, let us have no more of This Talk.  Quaker. 
Why didst thou treat George Keith so hardly?  Minister. 
He deserved it, when I so Treated him. And you Quakers, have since Treated him Ten Times worse than ever I did. You writ whole Books of Railing against him. I never got him into Goals, and under Fines. I should have been Troubled at any that would have done so. But you have done it. Therefore, I believe, 'tis best for you to leave that Subject.  
And so after a few other small Pulls, the Saw stood still. The Conference ended.  
There are Five or Six witnesses, which I have to attest unto the Truth of this Relation, which I have here given, of a Conference, with a Quaker, which had all the Friends far and near wondering (as well as wand'ring) after him. And yet these Cretians boasted among their Friends, how much they had confounded the Minister in this Conference.  
All that I would presume now to Commend unto those Towns, which have such Quakers annoying of them, is This Brethren, carry it well, even with all convenient Civility & Humanity, towards this Poor Deluded People; while you Charge your Children and Servants, that they do not go unto their Meetings: and cast not yourselves also into Temptation, by needlessly being There. But after all, yea, before all, make an Experiment, which the Good People at Lyn made a little while ago, with a Success truly observable and memorable.  
The Quakers made a more than ordinary Descent upon the Town of Lyn, and Quakerism suddenly spread there, at such a rate as to Alarm the Neighbourhood. The Pastor of the Church there, Indicted a Day, for Prayer with Fasting, to Implore the Help of Heaven against the unaccountable Enchantment; and the Good People presented accordingly, on July 19 1694. their fervent Supplications, unto the Lord, that the Spiritual Plague might proceed no further. The Spiri● of our Lord Jesus Christ gave a Remarkable Effect, unto this Holy Method of Encountering the Charms of Quakerism: It proved a Better method, than any Coercion of the Civil Magistrate: Quakerism in Lyn received (as I am informed) a Death-Wound, from that very Day; The Number of Quakers in that place hath been so far from Increasing, that I am told, it hath since rather Decreased notably. Now let other Endangered Plantations; Go, and do likewise.  
The Quakers, are such Enemies, to the Holy Religion, which is the Life of New England, That you must Excuse my concern to have you Fortified against their Attempts also, while I am giving you an History of your other Enemies. What all of them would be at, methinks, was a little intimated by what One of them once Declared. The Globe Tavern was near our Public and Spacious Meetinghouse at Salem: and a Noted Quaker there caused a paper to be set up on the Door of that Meetinghouse, which had such Stuff as this written in it.  
Beware, Beware, and Enter not:  
But rather to the Globe, and spend a Pot.  
This is but like a passage mentioned in the Life, of that Excellent man Mr. P. Henry, lately published. A Debauched Gentleman, in his Revels, Drinking and Swearing, at Malpas, was Reproved by a Quaker, then in his Company. Why, said the Gentleman, I'll ask thee one Question; Whether it is better for me to follow Drinking and Swearing, or to go and Hear Henry? The Quaker answered; Nay, of the Two, rather follow thy Drinking and Swearing. Behold, the Spirit of Quakerism! When I once compelled a Quaker to confess, that the Body of Jesus of Nazareth risen from the Grave, and went up into the Heavens, he begged me that I would not improve his confession, as if made on the behalf of all his Friends. And another of them, as, I hear, publicly Held Forth by one of his late Stercorations, That the Husks of the Swine, on which the Prodigal fed in the Parable, were, The Bread and Wine, in that which People call, The Sacrament.  
But what will become of those Forlorn Villages, that shall Resign themselves to the conduct of that Light within; which our Sacred Scriptures indeed never expressly mention but once or twice, and then call it, Real Darkness; and which may lead men to all this wickedness? There was among the Mahometans in the Eastern parts of the World, a Sect called Batenists, from the Arabic, Baten, which signifies within:) who were Enthusiasts that followed, The Light within, like our Quakers; and on this principle, they did such Numberless Villainies, that the World was not able to bear them. None of all their Diabolical Raveries which I know I am now pulling on myself, and which I value no more, than if they came from the Pouliats of Malabar, shall frighten me from soliciting your Christian Cares & Prayers, That you be not overrun with English Batenists. And I must solicitously make the Observation, That although such a Number of Quakers in our Nation, be a dreadful Judgement of God upon men, smiting them with Spiritual Plagues for their Unfruitfulness and Unthankfulness under the Gospel; nevertheless, of a special Favour of God, that the Number of Quakers is no Greater; for if they should multiply, not only would Christianity be utterly Extinguished, ●ut Humanity itself Exterminated. It is well known, That when a Quaker had Stolen an Hourglass, their Mahomet, George Fox of whom Sol. Eccles, in a Sheet called, The Quakers Challenge, pag. 6. says, He was the Christ,) thus vindicated it [Great Mist. pag. 77.] As for any being moved of the Lord, to take away your Hourglass from you, by the Eternal Power it is owned. Reader, Dost not thou even Tremble to think, what a Dark Land, we should have, if it should ever be filled with these pretended followers of the Light; who wear the Name of Tremblers? In Truth, I know not unto what better one might compare them, than unto the Macheveliers growing upon St. Lucia; Trees which bear Apples of such an Odour and Colour as invites people to Eat thereof; but it is horribly Dangerous to do so; for there is no Antidote that can secure a man from speedy Death, who hath once tasted of them. The Leaf of the Trees, makes an Ulcer on any place touched with it; the Dew that falls from them fetches off the Skin; the very Shadow swells a man, so as to kill him, if he be not speedily helped.   

ARTICLE XXX. Things to Come.  
FRom Relating of Things past, it would not doubt, be very Acceptable to the Reader if we could pass to Foretelling of Things to come Our Curiosity in this point may easily come to a, Degree Culpable, and Criminal. We must be Humbly content, with what the God in whose Hands are our Times, hath Revealed unto us.  
Two Things we will venture to Insert.  
First, For ourselves, at home, Let us Remember an awful Saying of our Goodwin, quoted by my Reverend Friend, Mr. Noyes, in his late Excellent Sermon at our Anniversary Election.  
As you Look for Storms in Autumn, and Frosts in Winter, so Expect Judgements, where the Gospel hath been Preached; for the Quarrel of the Covenant must be Avenged.  
Secondly. For the Church abroad, I am far from deserting, what was Asserted, in the Sermon Preached at our Anniversary Election, in the year, 1696. The Tidings which I bring unto you, are, That there is a Revolution, and a Reformation, at the very Door, which will be vastly more wonderful, than any of the Deliverances yet seen by the Church of God, from the Beginning of the World. I do not say, That the Next year will bring on this Happy Period: but this I do say, The Bigger part of this Assembly, may, in the course of Nature, Live to see it. These Things will come on, with horrible Commotions, and Concussions, and Confusions: The mighty Angels of the Lord Jesus Christ, will make their Descent, and set the World a Trembling at the Approaches of their Almighty Lord: They will Shake Nations, and Shake Churches, and Shake mighty Kingdoms, and Shake once more, not Earth only, but Heaven also.  
Unto these Two Things, my Reader will not misimprove it, I hope, if I add a Third, lately fallen into my Hands; and never yet so Exposed unto the Public.  
A Wonderful Matter Incontestably Demonstrated, and much Desired by some Good men, to be in this place Communicated.  
MR. John Sadler, a very Learned and a very Pious man, and a most Exemplary Christian, Lay Sick in his Bed, at his Manor, of Warmwell in : In the year, 1663. In the Time of his Illness, he was visited by Mr. Cuthbert Bound, the Minister of Warmwell  
Mr. Sadler then desired his man, (one Thomas Grace,) to see that there should be no body else in the Room, and Lock the Door, and give him the Key.  
He then Sat up in his Bed, and asked Mr. Bound and the Attendent Grace; Whether the● Saw no body? and, whether they did no● hear, what a person said, that stood at the corner of the Chamber? They Replied, No. H● wondered at it, and said, The man spoke so loud that the whole Parish might hear him.  
Hereupon, calling for a Pen and Ink, h● wrote what was told him, and made Them le● their Hands to it; For he told them, the ma● would not be gone, till he had seen that done.  
The Articles written down, were;  
I. That there would, after so many months be a Plague in London, whereof so many woul● Dye: [Naming the Number.]  
II. That the greatest part of the City woul● be Burnt, and Paul's, he particularly show'● him, Tumbled down into Ruins, as if Beate● down with Great Guns.  
III. That there would be Three— So● Height between the English and the Dutch.  
iv That there would appear Three Blazi●● Stars; the Last of which, would be terrible t● behold. [He said, the man showed him th● Star.]  
V That afterwards, there would come Thr●● small Ships, to Land in the West of Weymout● which would put all England in an uproar, b●● it would come to nothing.  
VI That in the year 1688. there would come to pass such a Thing in the Kingdom as all the world would take notice of.  
VII. That after this, and after some further Disturbance, there would be Happy Times: And a Wonderful Thing would come to pass, which he was not now to Declare.  
VIII. That he, and his man (Grace) should Die, before the Accomplishment of these things; but Mr. Bound should Live to see it.  
IX. For the confirmation of the whole, the man thus appearing, told him, That he should be well the next Day; and there would come There men to visit him, One from Ireland, One from Guernsey, and his Brother Bingham.  
Accordingly, The Day following Mr. Sadler went abroad: And this Day, there accidentally met at his House, and so Dined with him, first, the Lord Steel, who had been Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and now returning from thence, in his way to London, came to see Mr. Sadler: Secondly, Monsieur de la Marsh, a French Minister from Guernsey, and Lastly, his Brother Bingham.  
Mr. Bound, and Grace, within Three Days after this, made Affidavit of it, before Colonel Giles Strangewayes, and Colonel Cocker, who is yet alive.  
Mr. Daniel Sadler, and Mr. John Sadler, the Sons of this old Mr. Sadler, very serious and worthy Christians, are at this Time Living in Rotterdam; one of them, is His Majesty's Agent for Transportation.  
Mr. Daniel Sadler, making his Applications to Mr Bound, for his Testimony about this matter, the said Old Mr. Bound, in a Letter, dated, Warmwell, Aug. 30th. O. S. 1697. asserts the matter at large ●nto him; and Subscribes, This I shall testify before the King himself, if occasion be; when he comes into England.  
Yours, Cuthbert Bound, yet Minister of Warmwell.  
Mr. Daniel Sadler, has this Testimony further fortified, by a Letter from One Mr. Robert Loder, telling him, That he had met with an Old Copy of the Depositions aforesaid; which accordingly he transcribes for him; and several yet living in Dorchester affirmed unto him, the Truth of the Story.  
The Copies of these Letters are now in Boston in New-England.  
Mr. John Sadler, adds his Testimony, That his Father told unto his Mother, and himself, That he had been told of Remarkable Things to come to pass, particularly, the Burning of London, and Paul's. But that they were not acquainted with all the matters, he foretold unto Mr. Bound, and Grace. Only he Remembers well, They Two were with him in his Chamber alone; and his Father went abroad within a day or two; and that, (according to the Sign he had given to them,) the Three Persons aforesaid visited him. He adds, That his Father spoke of leaving in Writing, the things that had been Shown to him; and that a little after, he saw once a Thin Octavo Manuscript in his Father's Study, which he believed had those things in it: but after that, he could never find it. This Testimony, is Dated, in October. 1697.  
A Worthy and a Godly Gentleman, at this Time, Living in Rotterdam, and well-acquainted, with both Mr. Daniel, and Mr. John Sadler, Sends this to Mr. Increase Mather, in New-England; with a Letter Dated, 26. March. 1698.  
REader, I am not Ignorant, that many Cheats and sham's, have been Imposed upon the World, under the Notion of Communications from the Invisible World; and, I hope, I am not becoming a Visionary. But Fancies, and Juggles, have their Foundation laid in Realities: there would never have been Impostures of Apparitions, and of Communications from the Invisible World, if there never had been Really some such things, to be Counterfeited and Imitated. Wise men therefore, will count it a Folly in its Exaltation and Extremity, to Deride all Instances, of Strange Things arriving to us, from the Invisible World, because that Some Things have been Delusions. No, 'tis a Wisdom, that is pleasing to God, and useful to the World, for a due Notice to be taken, of Rare Things; wherein we have Incontestable Proofs, of an Invisible World, and of the Interest it hath in Humane Affairs. The Narrative of Mr. Sadler, is advantaged with such Incontestable Proofs, and contains in it such Notable passages, that, I believe, I do well to lay it before Serious Men; and, I believe, no Serious Men, will play the Buffoon upon it. By no means pretend I to pass any Judgement upon this Remarkable Narrative; by no means do I presume to tell what I think it, any more than this, that it is Remarkable. Nevertheless, for the Caution of unwary Readers, I will annex the words of an Excellent Writer upon Divine Providence.  
Watch against an Unmortified Itch, after Excentrical, or Extraordinary Dispensations of Providence. Luther said, The Martyrs, without the Apparition of Angels, being confirmed by the word of God alone, died for the Name of Christ; and why should not we acquiesce? And he observeth, how the Devil hath greatly deluded parties who have been gaping after Visions.  
Nor will it be unprofitable, to Recite the words of another Author, whom I must quote, as R. David Kimchi, did use to quote R. Joseph Kimchi, under the Title of, Adoni Avi.  
Evil Angels do now appear, more often than Good Ones. 'Tis an unwarrantable, and a very Dangerous Thing, for men to wish, that they might see Angels, and converse with them. Some have done so; and God hath been provoked with them for their Curiosity and Presumption, and hath permitted Devils to come unto them, whereby they have been Deceived and Undone.  

More Particular Prognostications, upon the Future State of NEW-ENGLAND.  
BUt, Oh, my dear NEW-ENGLAND, Give one of thy Friends Leave, to utter the Fears of thy best Friends concerning thee; and consider, what Fearful cause there may be for thee to expect sad Things to Come? If every Wise man be a Prophet, there are some yet in thee, that can Prophecy. Predictions, may be formed out of these  

¶ Reasonable Expectations.  
I. Where Schools are not Vigorously and Honourably Encouraged, whole Colonies will sink apace into a Degenerate and Contemptible Condition, and at last become horribly Barbarous: And the first Instance of their Barbarity will t●● that they will be undone for want of Men, but not see and own, what it was that undid them.  
II. Where Faithful Ministers, are Cheated and Grieved, by the Sacrilege of people that Rebel against the Express Word of Christ, Let him that is Taught in the Word, Communicate unto him that Teacheth in all Good Things, the Righteous Judgements of God will Impoverish that people; The Gospel will be made Lamentably Unsuccessful unto the Souls of such a people; The Ministers will either be fetched away to Heaven, o● have their Ministry made woefully Insipid by their Encumbrances on Earth.  
III. Where the Pastors of Churches in a Vicinity, despise or neglect Form Associations for mutual Assistence in their Evangelical Services, Woe to him that is alone. 'Tis a sign, either that some of the Pastors want Love to one another, or that others may be conscious to some Fault, which may dispose them to avoid Inspection; but fatal to the Churches will be the Tendency of either.  
IU. Where Churches, have some Hundreds o● Souls under their Discipline; but the single Pastors, are not strengthened, with Consistories o● Elders, or, an Agreeable Number of wise and good and grave men chosen to join with th● Pastor, as their President, in that part of hi● Work, which concerns the Well Ruling of the Flock, there Discipline will by Degrees be utterly Lost; The Grossest Offenders, will by degrees, and through parties, be scarce to be dealt withal.  
V Where Pastors, do not Quicken Orderly Private Meetings of both Elder and Younger Christians, for Exercises of Religion, in their Neighbourhood, the Power of Religion will observably Decay, among those Christians; the Seed sown in the Public, will not so much prosper, for want of being watered in private: And when the Pastor shall fall sick, there will not be so much as one company of Christians in all his Flock, that can come together, to pray for his Life.  
VI Where Churches professing a Great Reformation, shall in their Constitution cease to Represent unto the World, the Holiness of the Lord Jesus Christ, and of His Heavenly Kingdom; they will become Loathsome to that Holy Lord; their Glory is gone, and their Defence goes with it: the dreadful Wrath of Heaven, will Astonish the World, with the Things which it will do unto them.  
VII. Where Churches are Loath to give unto Councils regularly upon Complaints Enquiring into their Administrations, an Account thereof, 'tis much to be suspected, that they are Chargeable with maladministrations; and if the Advice of Regular Councils come once to be trod under foot, by any Particular Churches, all serious men will be afraid of joining to such Unaccountable Societies.  
VIII. Where a mighty Body of people in a Country, are violently set upon running down the ancient Church State in that Country, and are violent for the Hedge about the Communion at the Lords-Table to be broken down, and for those who are not Admitted unto the Communion, to stand on equal Terms in all Votes with them that are; the Churches there are not far from a tremendous Convulsion, and they had need use a marvellous Temper of Resolution with Circumspection to keep it off.  
IX. Where Churches are bend upon Backsliding, and carried away with a strong Spirit of Apostasy, whatever Minister shall set himself to withstand their Evil Bends, will pull upon himself an inexpressible contempt and hatred; Be his merits never so Great, a Thousand Arts will be used for to make him Little; He had need be a man of Great Faith and Great Prayer; But God will at length Honour such a man, with wonderful Recompenses.  
X. Where a Fountain shall become Corrupt, there the Streams will no longer Make Glad the City of God.  
XI. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have with much expense, lately sent unto several of our Southern Plantations: If it be Rejected, there are Terrible Things to come upon them; 'twere better to have Lived in Sodom, than in one of those Plantations.  
XII. God prepare our dear Brethren, in Connectecut, for certain Changes that are Impending over them.  
Finally; There was a Town called, Amyciae, which was Ruined by Silence. The Rulers, because there had been some false Alarms, forbade all people under pain of Death to speak of any Enemies approaching them: So, when the Enemies came indeed, no man durst speak of it, and the Town was Lost. Corruptions will grow upon the Land; and they will gain by Silence: 'Twill be so Invidious to do it, No man will dare to speak of the Corruptions; and the Fate of Amyc●e will come upon the Land.  
Reader, I called these things Prophecy; But, I wish, I be not all this while Writing History.    

Now, if any Discerning persons, apprehend any Dangers to Impend over New-England, from any of the Symptoms mentioned, it is to be hoped, they will Employ their best Thoughts, how to Anticipate those Dangers. And whereas, 'tis the sense of all men, who discern any thing, that it is in vain to hope for any Good, until a Spirit of Grace, be poured out from Heaven, to dispose men unto it, I beg them to consider, whether the only way to obtain that Spirit of Grace, be not, Humbly to Ask it, by Prayer with Fasting before the God of Heaven.  
It was therefore an Article in an Advice agreed, by some of the principal Ministers in this Province; and with the mention of that Advice, (which doubtless, all but the Sleeping will follow) I'll conclude; Solemn Days of Prayer with Fasting, celebrated in our Churches, to Implore the Grace of God, for the Rising Generation, would probably be of blessed consequence, for the Turning of our Young people, unto the God of our Fathers. The more there is this way ascribed unto Grace, the more the Grace of God is like to be communicated; and there is in this way, a natural and a plentiful Tendency to Awaken our Unconverted Youth, unto a sense of their Everlasting Interests: Which were it generally accomplished, a Remarkable Reformation where therein Effected.     

Observable Things.  
THE HISTORY OF Ten Years Rolled away under the great Calamities of A WAR, WITH Indian-Salvages: Repeated and Improved, in a SERMON, at Boston-Lecture. 27 d. 7 m. 1698.  Judg. VI 3, 5, 6. 
The Children of the EAST came up against them; and they Entered into the Land, to Destroy it; and Israel was greatly Impoverished.  
Boston, Printed for Samuel Phillips, at the Brick Shop. 1699.   

PREFACE.  
WHen the Israelites were Engaged in a WAR, they made choice of a Priest among them, to Serve some of their greatest Occasions in it, and after a Sacred Unction bestowed upon him, we are told by Maimonides, he was called Mashuach Milchamah, that is to say, Unctus Belli; which was as much as to say, The Priest of the War.  
To bring unto a People profitable Advices & Reflections upon a WAR, wherein they are Engaged, and sound the Silver Trumpet, of the Gospel, with agreeable Notes unto them in it, is to do in some sort, the Office of the Mashuach Milchamah; and this Office the Ensuing Discourse presumes to do, with Endeavours that the Voice of Heaven by the Trumpet of our late War, may he heard giving a certain Sound, in these Echoes of it.  
The History of a long War, hath, with all possible care of Truth, been given you. The Author Earnestly prays, that if the least material Mistake have happened in the History, He may be Advised, & It may be corrected. The Noise that may be made, by a few Sordid People, here & there, in a Room Tophetized with Smoke, and Rhum, and Spittle, and Malice, and Lies, crying out concerning the most Conscientious Essays, to preserve Memorable Truths, They are a parcel of Lie! He values not. But he now tenders to the Acceptance of the more Civilised Readers, an Improvement of Memorable Truths, which it was His Duty to make, & it will be Theirs to mind.   

THE REMARKEABLES of a long WAR, Collected and Improved. Boston-Lecture, 27 d. 7 m. 1698.  
IF a Book of some Consequence, be laid open before one that cannot Read, he may Look, and Gaze upon it; but unto what purpose, as long as he cannot understand it? This very Comparison, is by the Great Austin well applied unto, The Judgements of God. And I will therefore so far Improve the Comparison, as to observe, That the Judgements of God, under which we have been Languishing for Ten years together, are a sort of a Book put into our Hands; a Book indeed all written in Blood; a Book yet full of Divine Lessons for us. But can every man Read this Terrible Books? No, Methinks, I see the Book managed like the Book brought unto the Blessed Prophet of old, in Isa. 29.12. The Book is delivered unto him that is not Learned, Saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not Learned. It will certainly be a work, well becoming a Minister of the Gospel, and every Serious Christian will be glad of seeing the Work done; To take this Book, and help you, as well as we can to Spell the Divine Lessons contained in it  
Christians, Let us now do a work, for which the Great God hath given us, that Warrant, and that Command, in  PSAL. CVII. 43. 
Who is Wise, and will observe these Things?  
THe various and marvellous Dispensations of the Divine Providence, towards the Children of men, are in this Elegant Psalm admirably set before us. Among those Dispensations, there is a particular mark set upon this, That the God of Heaven Turns a Fruitful Land into Barrenness, for the Wickedness of them which dwell therein; & tho●gh men have Sown Fields there and have multiplied greatly, yet they are again Diminished, & brought Low through Oppression, Affliction, and Sorrow. Of such Dispensations, is this passage to be understood, as a Quaestion, Who is wise, and will observe these things? But if you will rather take it as a Sentence, it still comes to the same sense, Whose is wise, will oserve these Things. And the French Version very Expressively intimates the Design, as well as the Event of this Observation; That so they may consider the Favours of the Lord. No Less than Ten years have Rolled away, since we have been plunged into the Distresses of a WAR, with a Barbarous Enemy. In this WAR, we have seen the Fruitful Land of almost one whole Province, and another whole County turned into Barrenness; doubtless, not without provocations of Wickedness in them, who dwelled therein; Men had Sown Fields there along the Shore in Settlements for an Hundred miles together, and had Multiplied Greatly into a Cluster of Towns (besides Lesser Villages,) that might Challenge the Name of a, Decapolis; but in this WAR, we have seen them Diminished again and brought Low, through Oppression, Affliction, and Sorrow. I am to Led you this day through a Spacious Country, which has been on many Accounts, the most Charming part of New-England; and I must herewithal say, Come, Behold the works of the Lord, what Desolations He has made in that Land. Sirs, 'Tis time for us, to Observe these Things; and this, not with a mere Athenian, but with a more profitable Observation. I must not be Discouraged from this Holy Service, by the vain Scoffs of those that Blaspheme all Attempts to Consider the Wondrous Works of God, as if it were nothing but a Telling of News in the Pulpit. The Biggest part of the Holy Bible, which is but a Relation of such Wondrous Works, would be Scoffed by such profane men, if they might not thereby become Obnoxius. No: If Whoso is wise, will observe these things; Then let no man call it Folly to make the Observation. A Long WAR, is the Text, which I am now to insist upon: And, if we would approve ourselves Wise, after all the Stripes, that have in this WAR been given us, these things will occur to our Observation in it.  

I. In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is Wise, may observe the Consequence of Entertaining the Gospel of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and Obtaining and Mentaining the Ordinances of that Glorious Gospel. The Gadarens of old, were loath to have any thing of CHRIST in their Coast: And anon comes a Roman War which distressed all the Land: But the woeful Town of Gadara was the very first place besieged in that War, and Sad Things were done unto it. Alas, How little of an Evangelical Church-State, was there to be seen among all our Eastern Settlements! It hath been for the want of this, that the Judgements of God, have more than once forbidden them to be called Settlements. The Towns were generally without Preachers of CHRIST, and much more generally without Churches of CHRIST, for to Irradiate 'em: Yea, not one of the Towns, that are utterly broken up, had any Minister in it, for a long while before their Final Darkness came upon them. Such a Way of Living did content many of them, that it were horrible to Tell, what Ignorance of CHRIST they were thereby sunk into. I would never have told you, That some young men, twenty years old, in this Land, never so much as once heard the Name of CHRIST, in all their Lives, if I did not think, that the God of Heaven required us, all to mourn before Him, for such an Horrible Thing in the Land. Indeed the Strange Disasters which attended the First Essays, to Settle that Good Country, made many people, Imagine the Indian Sorcerers had Enchanted the Ground so that no English could Thrive on such an Enchanted Soyl. But had they carried the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ with them, doubtless they had confuted that vain Imagination; all the Spells of Hell would have been insignificant; there would not have prevailed any Enchantment against a Gods-Spel which we have in our Gospel. The Original Design of NEW-ENGLAND, was to Settle Congregations, wherein the Lord Jesus Christ, should be known and served according to His Gospel; and Instruct Families, that should be the Nurseries of those Congregations. The Plantations of the East, had little of this Illustrious Design in their Eye; The Enjoyments of Gadarens did seem too much to Satisfy too many of them. For This cause, we may Believe it is, that our Lord JESUS CHRIST looking down from Heaven upon these Unchristian Undertake, Thunderstruck them with His Indignation: He saw the Foolish taking Root, but suddenly He Cursed their Habitation. When some of our Eastern People have been Pining away under the Fatigues of their Captivity among the Indians, who had Stripped them of all they had, Then they cried out, Now, Now the Lord is punishing of us, for our Leaving of His Ordinances, and removing to a place of no Gospel for larger Accommodations in the World, and Exposing our Children to be bred up like the very Indians, into whose Hands we are fallen! That which Invites one to think, it may be For this Cause, is the Singular Distinction and Protection, which the CHURCHES of our Lord, have Enjoyed, throughout the whole progress of our Calamity. No places that have had CHURCHES gathered in them, have all this while been broken up, however some of them have had much Bread of Adversity, and Water of Affliction. The Enemy that have come in upon our Land Like a Flood, carried all before them as an Irresistible Torrent, until they came to places that have CHURCHES as it were to Garrison them. There the Almighty Lord hath checked the Proud Waves, and said, Hitherto ye shall come, and no further! But here let me add a very observable Thing: The Lord had some of His Elect among our Eastern People; but He has brought those Elect Home unto Himself, by burning them out of their Homes and Habitations. The Indians have driven 'em hither, and here they have met with the Gospel of Christ, and been effectually Called unto the Lord, and Joined unto our Churches, and Blessed the Name of God for bringing them unto these Churches. Periissent nisi Periissent! Now, Whoso is Wise, and will observe these things, cannot but wish, That the Folly of Erecting Plantations, without the worship of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, may be no more committed among us. It was wholesome Council, Given, and usually Taken, in the Beginning of New-England; Let Christians no where sit down without Good Ministers, but let them rather tarry where they are, as Ezra tarried by the River Ahava, till he had got some Levites to go with them. And it was even Then observed, That places which made Beginnings any long while without Ministers, were with miserable Unsettlements broken all to pieces. I suppose, our Eastern Country, will shortly again be peopled: But let the people which intent there to Settle themselves, in the Fear of God Remember this Admonition; Don't venture to form Towns without the Gospel in them any more. If the Lamentable Experience which you have more than once had, of a Blast from Heaven upon Erterprises to Live without the Gospel of the Son of God, will not inspire you with more of Wisdom for the future, I will foretell your Fate, in those awful words, Psal. 28.5. Because they regard not the Works of the Lord, nor the Operation of His Hands, He shall destroy them, and not Build them up. Yea, But let all New-England at the same Time Learn, what the Welfare of the Ruin, of all, will Turn upon. The whole World was made for our Lord-Messiah, and the Curse of God will more or less plague the World, according to the Respects, which that Second Adam, our Lord Messiah finds in it. But New-England, is by a more Eminent Profession that Immanuels Land, Let the Interests of the Christian Religion in Reformed Churches, be pursued and preserved among us; Then, All will go well! Our Acknowledgement of our Lord JESUS CHRIST in CHURCHES, that shall be so ordered, as to Represent Him, and His Kingdom, unto the World; This will be our Glory; and this Glory will be our Defence; or, as 'tis promised, in Isa. 4.5. Upon all the Glory shall be a Defence. But if once the Spirit of this World, Eat out the Spirit and Power of Religion, and the Order of our Churches, and men's value for a Room in the Churches, be lost, Then, writ, Ichabod, upon all our Glory; and let us expect, that our Holy Lord will Spew us out of His Mouth.   

II. In the WAR that hath been upon us whoso is wise, may observe, in the very Instruments of our Calamity, shroud Intimations of the provoking Evils, for which the Righteous God hath Chastised us, by such Instruments.  
When the Miseries of the Sword are inflicted on a people, it becomes them to consider what Provocations they have given to the Almighty God, who makes peace, and creates Evil; for 'tis He, the Lord, who doth all these things. The Sword by which we have been so grievously harassed, hath been in the Hands of God: and if our Father had not been very Angry, would He have taken a Sword into His Hands? We are Blind before Lightning, we are Deaf unto Thunder, if we do not sensibly perceive the Anger of God, in the Tremendous Rebukes that we have suffered: And we are unaccountably, and inexcusably stupid, if we do not Inquire, What means the Heat of this Anger? It was once the Commirration of God, in Ezek. 7.24, 27. I will bring the worst of the Heathen, and they shall possess their Houses, and the Hands of the people of the Land shall be Troubled: Such Trouble hath come upon us, from the worst of the Heathen! But what was the cause of all? It follows, I will do unto them after their way, and I will judge them according to their Deserts, and they shall know that I am the Lord. It is but seasonable for us now to Look back upon our own way, and see how much we have Deserved all this Vengeance, by going out of the way. Two persons in their Travels beholding the horrid Ruins of Germany, one of them said, Hic fuit Hostilitas; Behold the Fruit of Hostility! his Friend answered, Hic fuit Iniquitas; Behold the Fruit of Iniquity! If you will Travel over our East Country, how frequent, how dismal occasions will you see, to Sigh, See what has been done by Hostility! But there will be as many occasions for a sadder Sigh than that; Namely, See the sad Effects of Iniquity! Now, in this Contemplation, I do not go to charge them that were once Inhabitants of the Now Ruined Plantations, with any Sins, but what are more or less to be found in all our Colonies. I ask no more from our Brethren who yet Survive the Desolations that have come upon their Estates and Neighbours in those Plantations, but that they join with the rest of us all, in Searching and Trying of our ways, and in Judging of ourselves. For, alas, Every mouth must be stopped, and all the Land is become Guilty before God Let us all then Inquire, What may have been those provoking Evils, for which the Holy and Blessed God, hath given the Sword a Commission so dreadfully to devour us? But then, Let us be sure to Inquire wisely concerning that matter. And here, I will not Inquire, whether those that went before us, might never be too forward in any Unjustifyable Encroachments, to possess and command those Lands, which have since proved so Expensive unto us? Older men than I, are best able to manage that Enquiry, though I also have heard it made. But that whereupon I rather bespeak your Thoughts, is This: Will you please to Inquire into the Properties and Qualities, of our Adversaries? 'Tis possible, that in their Properties and Qualities, we may read something of those Miscarriages, for which our God, hath Raised them up to be our Adversaries. It hath been commonly seen, That when the people of God have sinfully come to Imitate the Evil manners of other Nations, God hath made those very Nations to be a so●e scourge unto them. And the sense of This was that which long ago caused many sensible persons, to foretell, which of the Neighbour Nations, would bring our dear England Low. Now, since the INDIANS have been made by our God. The Rod of His Anger, 'tis proper for us to Inquire, whether we have not in some Instances too far Imitated the evil manners of the Indians? The Indians are Infamous especially for Three Scandalous Vices. First, They are Liars of the first magnitude; One cannot believe a word they speak. Secondly, They are Sluggards to a proverb; they are for any way of Living rather than work. Thirdly, They are abominably Indulgent unto their Children; there is no Family Government among them. Will you now Inquire, Sirs, how far we have Indianized in every one, but especially, the last of these Evil Manners? If we find these Indian-Vices to grow Epidemical among us, Oh! don't wonder, that our God hath been with Indian Hatchets cutting down the Tree, that brings forth Fruits thus disagreeable to Him that Planted it.  
Now, Whoso is wise, will Observe these things. And yet the Observation may Extend itself a little further. Sometimes, the Sovereign God chooses a Nation Remarkably laudable, for some Good Thing, to punish His own people, for the want of that Thing. Thus, when the Christian Churches fell into Idolatry, God sent the Mahometans upon them, to Torment them with one Woe a●ter another horribly; and the Mahometans are very Remarkable for this, That they are Great Haters of Idolatry, and wherever they come, they destroy those Idols, and works of men's Hands, which are Adored in the Antichristian Apostasy. Well, But can any Good Thing be reported of our Indian Invaders? Yes, there is one Good Thing which the French have taught them; There is Family-Prayer among them, a daily Family-Worship upheld among them. I Fear, I Fear, this is more than can be said of many English Sufferers, that have been annoyed by those Indian-Invaders. It may be, the Wretched Indians have cut off multitudes of Families, to whom they might have said, These Families never Prayed unto God once in a Month, and we have done it every Day! And many of our poor Folks, never heard any Family-Prayer in their Lives, till they were dragged into the forlorn and howling Wigwams, of those wretched Savages. I have hea●d it said, That in a Town or it may be more than Seventy Families, there have not been Twice Seven Families, that have had any constant Invocation of God in them. If it be so, then hear the Voice of God in it, when He sent those Monstrous and Furious Barbarians, to burn down such Prayerless Houses: The Voice of Heaven in it, is, If Indians Will pray in their Families more than English, then let Indians destroy those English Families. It was once the direful Imprecation, in Jer. 10.25. Pour out thy Great Wrath upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the Families that call not on thy Name. Truly, God has used a Sort of Heathen, to Pour out His Great Wrath upon Families, which in this one point, were worse than those Heathen, that they did not call on His Name. For God's Sake, be so Wise as to Observe these things, and let Family Prayer, be not where neglected throughout the Land, lest while God is punishing us by the Pagans, we become worse than Pagan's. Let me faithfully and solemnly advise you, Sirs; A Prayerless Family is a Pagan Family. Do not now imagine, That it is only the more Strict and Severe Doctrine of a Nonconformist that now Smites your Consciences; it is the Doctrine of a Christian; and it may be 'twill have the more Force upon some of you, if I tell you, that the late Archbishop of Canterbury, in a Book on that Subject, has this passage; That Constant Family-Worship is so Necessary to keep alive a sense of God and Religion, in the minds of men, that he sees not, how any Family that Neglects it can in Reason be Esteemed a Family of Christians, or indeed to have any Religion at all. I will add but this word unto all the rest: If after this there be a Prayerless Family, among us, I would, if I could, Writ upon their Door; Lord Have Mercy upon us; for there is a Plague in that Pagan Family.   

III. In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whose is Wise, may observe, That the very Objects, of our Sins, have been made the very Engines of our Plagues. It is a thing Extraordinarily Observable, though it ordinarily happens; That, In quo quis peccat, in eo punitur; Men are Plagued by those very Things, with which they have Sinned. If an Eli omit his Duty towards his Children, it follows, in 1 Sam. 2.33. Those very Children, shall consume thine Eyes, and grieve thine Heart. I am very much mistaken, if our Eyes have not been consumed, and if our Hearts not grieved, by those, to whom we have omitted our Duty Exceedingly. The Grand crime of the Jews, was in relation to the Romans, and God made the Romans the Destroyer's of the Jews. You will now demand of me, Whether I think, that we are chargeable, with any Crime, relating to the Indians, which have been so bloodily Destroying of us. I must freely tell you, I Think, we are, The old Britons, did not what they should have done, to Convert the Saxons unto Christianity; and when the Britons were afterwards fearfully Destroyed by the Saxons, their famous Countryman Gildas told them, This is the Vengeance of God upon you, because you did no more, for the Conversion of those Miserable Heathen. And I admire, that the English Protestants in Ireland, after such Massacres from the Irish Papists, do no more Effectually make this Reflection. But that which I am now to Reflect upon, is This: Had we done, but half so much as the French Papists have done, to Proselyte the Indians of our East, unto the Christian Faith, instead of being, Snares and Traps unto us, and Scourges in our Sides, and Thorns in our Eyes they would have been, A wall unto us, both by Night and Day. What a Sting was there in those words, which the Indians have used unto some of our Captives, Had the English been as careful to Instruct us, as the French, we had been of your Religion! Indeed, it can Scarce, without an harsh Catechresis, be called, The Christian Faith, which the French Papists have made the Savages to Swallow: But it the Savages had been Enlightened with The Christian Faith, f●om us, the French Papists could never have instilled into them those French Poisons, that have made such Raging Devils of them. Through the Blessing of God, upon the Endeavours of Good men, in this one Massachuset Province, the Indians have mostly Embraced the Christian Religion. 
[* Of that matter see a Printed Account, at the end of Mr. Noyes' Election-Sermon; whereto I have here this to add, That an Hopeful and Worthy Young man, Mr. Experience Mayhew, omitted in that Printed Journal, merely because he was more largely mentioned in the annexed Proposals of the Gentlemen that made it, which are not Printed with it, must now have the Justice done him, of this Character, That in the Evangelical Service of the Lord Jesus Christ, among the Indians, there is no man that Exceeds tha● Mr. Mayhew, if there be any that Equals him. So I am informed concerning him.]  There are, I suppose, more than Thirty Congregations of Indians, and many more than Thirty Hundred Indians, in this one Province, calling on God in Christ, and Hearing of His Glorious Word. Whoso is wise, will observe a Notable Smile of God upon those that have Worthily Encouraged and prosecuted this Evangelical Work. But shall we not, at the same Time Observe, how Signally the Wrath of God hath fallen upon the Persons, or Estates, of them that have Debauched the Indians, by Selling of Drink unto them. The Trading Houses, where the Indians of the East, had so much, of their Drink and Bane, what is become of them, Every one of them? The Sword has been Drunk with the Blood, of the English, in the Hands of those very Indians, which have been so often Drunk among them. And these Bloody Merchants of the Souls of the Indians, when they have Summed up all their Gains, the Foot of the Account has been this, Woe to him that gives his Neighbour Drink, that puts the Bottle to him, to make him Drunk. Those Men, are not Wise but Mad, who can Observe these things, and now dare to Repeat this Iniquity, or dream that any Gains are to be got by feeding the Indian Lust of Drunkenness.   

iv In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is wise, may observe the Loud Calls of Heaven to All Ranks of men, in the sharp Strokes of Heaven on All Ranks of men. As it was said, in Mic. 6.9. The Lord's voice crieth unto the City, and the man of Wisdom shall see thy Name; Hear ye the Rod: So I say, There has been a voice of God unto all the Country in that Indian Rod, which hath been used upon us: and Men of Wisdom, in all Ranks of men, will Observe, and See, and Hear, the meaning of this Rod; inasmuch as all Ranks of men have smarted under it; yea, it has fetched Blood from all Ranks of men among us. We will a little particularise 'em. And first of all, You that are our Honoured Shepherds; Will you Observe how many of our Shepherds have been worried unto Death, by the Scythian Wolves of our Wilderness? Two of our MAGISTRATES, have been Treacherously and Barbarously Killed by the Indian Murderers: They whom God Entrusted with the Sword of Justice have had their Lives taken away by the Sword of the Wicked. I persuade myself, that the rest will be so wise as to Observe these things, and Observe how to answer the just Expectation of God, in their Administrations. After this, Oh! Why should not our Civil Rulers, with more zeal than ever set themselves to ponder, How may I most Glorify God, and Christ,, and Serve his dear people with my Opportunities!  
Two of our MINISTERS, have been Struck down into the Earth by the Indian Dragons. They that have used nothing but the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, for the Saving of all about them, have had the Destroyer's coming upon them, and have been Waited for of the Sword. I assure myself, that the rest will be so wise, as to Observe these things, and Observe how to fulfil our Ministry, with a very Excited Watchfulness. May all our Settled Pastors, upon such a thing befalling our Brethren, Resolve with themselves; Am unworthy I spared? I will do more for my Lord, and more for my Flock, and more for all the Churches, than ever I did.  
We will pass on, There have been some Rich men, that were finely Situated, and had all things Richly to Enjoy: But this War has reduced them to such Necessity, that within Less than One year, they have come to Beg their Bread: All their Treasures have been Treasures of Snow; One Summer has melted all away to Nothing. I Remember, the Jewish Talmuds tell us, of a Gentlewoman, who had a Thousand Thousand pieces of Gold. given with her, at her Marriage, by her Father Nicodemus, for her Portion; and yet she was reduced unto such penury, that she picked Barley-Corns out of the Cattles Dung for her Food. Have not we seen almost such Vicissitudes? Rich men, If you are Wise, (which the Rich are not always!) You will Observe these things, and upon the Observation say, Well, What man in his Right Wits, will now set his Heart upon such Transitory, as all Sublunary Vanities! Oh! my Soul, Do thou make sure of a Better and a Lasting Substance in Heaven; for Earthly Riches, take themselves Wing, and flee away towards Heaven.  
Again, There have been abundance of Poor men, who have been by this War plunged still into deeper Poverty: They have gone without a Bit of Bread, for many days together The Straits, the Wants, the Cares of Widows, and Orphans, or of those that have had many mouths to Feed, especially in our Exposed Frontiers; None can Express them, None can Conceive them, but They, (Nor They!) who did Endure them all. Poor men, If you are wise, (which the Poor may be!) You will Observe these things, and upon the Observation, says: Well, I had need make sure that my Soul may not be Starved by wanting the Bread of Life, and that my Soul may not be Naked without the Garments of Righteousness; How dolefully am I circumstanced, if I go down from one Hell unto another at the Last!  
Once more; How many Women have been made a prey to those Brutish men, that are Skilful to Destroy? How many a Fearful Thing has been suffered by the Fearful Sex, from those men, that one would Fear, as Devils rather than men? Let the Daughters of our Zion think with themselves, what it would be, for fierce Indians to break into their Houses, and brain their Husbands and their Children before their Eyes, and Led them away a Long Journey into the Woods; and if they began to fail and faint in the Journey, then for a Tawny Savage to come with Hell fire in his Eyes, and cut 'em down with his Hatchet; or, if they could miraculously hold out, then for some Filthy and ugly Squaws to become their insolent Mistresses, and insolently to abuse 'em at their pleasure a thousand inexpressible ways; and, if they had any of their Sucking Infants with them, then to see those Tender Infants handled at such a rate, that they should beg of the Tigers, to dispatch 'em out of hand. Such things as these, I tell you, have often happened in this Lamentable War. And now, O ye Handmaids of the Lord; will you not be so wise, as to Observe these things? But upon the Observation, say, Well, I will Bless God, for my Enjoyments; my Afflictions, be they never so many, are not such as my Neighbours have seen: My Enjoyments are more than my Afflictions. But, Oh! Let me Love and Serve the Good God, that has distinguished me with His Mercies.  
It is to be added; We have had our Old men whose Grey Hairs have not come down to the Grave in peace. Young Indians have with grievous Flouts and Wounds, Butchered many of our Old English men. The Grey Hairs of our Old men, have been Died Red with their own Blood; and their Carcases have been thrown unto the Swine, to mangle them. Old men, If you are Wise men, you will Observe these things; but Observing of them, say, Oh! Let my Hoary Head be found in the way of Righteousness!  
But our Young men are they whom the Fury of War, hath been chief poured out upon Alas, Alas, for our Young men! They are the persons, with whom, it seems to have been the very Errand of this War, to manage the terrible Controversy of God. New-England sets a peculiar Accent of Grief upon this, among all her Lamentations; The Lord has trodden under foot my mighty men in the midst of me, He hath called an Assembly against me, to crush my young men. Come then, My Young men; Be so Wise, as to Observe these things; and upon the Observation, say, Lord, Let not me, and the rest of my Generation, continue among the Generation of thy Wrath. Yea, to have done; Children also have not been Excused from a snare in the Blows of this hideous War. Little Boys and Girls, even these Little Chickens, have been Siezed by the Indian Vultures. Our Little Birds have been Spirited away by the Indian Devourers, and brought up, in a vile Slavery, till some of them have quite forgot their English Tongue, and their Christian Name, and their whole Relation. Yea, Those Babylonians, have Dashed out the Brains of our Little Ones against the Stones. And our Little Ones have been hideously whipped unto Death, by those Merciless Tigers, whose Tender Mercies are Cruelty. Children, God make you so wise, as to Observe these things; and upon the Observation, Oh! See that you become Serious, Pious, Orderly Children; Obedient unto your Parents, Conscientious to keep the Lords Day, and afraid of committing any Wickedness.  
Upon the whole; when a Dead man was thrown into the Grave of Elisha, a Touch from the Bones of the Prophet in the Grave Raised him from the Dead. I am desiring, that Religion may be Revived out of the Death which has too much Enfeebled it among us. Behold, Sirs, I have now cast you into the Graves of our Dead Friends; It may be, by wisely observing of them, and the things that have befallen them, we may be somewhat Raised out of our Deadly Security. Let our Observation of these things, give some Life to the practice of Religion among us.   

V In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is Wise, may Observe, those Tragical Things undergone by many in Captivity, that are full of Admonition unto us, that have never felt the Tragaedies of such a Captivity. Several Hundreds of our Neighbours, first and last, have been carried into Captivity, by the most Beastly and Bloody things that ever wore the Shape of men, in the World. New-England makes that moan, in Lam. 1.18. Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my Sorrow; my Virgins and my Young men are gone into Captivity. But Oh! the prodigious, and stupendous Things, that they have undergone in this Captivity! What weary Days and Nights have rolled over the miserable Captives, while they have not had a Bit of Meat allowed 'em, Except what a Dog would hardly meddle with! While they have sometimes been pinched with the Bitter Frost without Rags to cover their Nakedness, and sometimes been Parched with the Burning Heat, without any Cordial or Shelter to Refresh them: While they have seen their nearest Relations torn in pieces alive before their Eyes, and yet those Eyes afraid of dropping a Tear at the mournful Sight: Yea, while they have every Hour, looked when they should be themselves Roasted alive to make a Feast, and a Sport for the horrid Cannibals! Need I tell you, That those Devils Incarnate, have Tied their Captives unto Trees, and first cutting off their Ears, have made them to Eat their own Ears, and then have broiled their whole Bodies, with slow Fires, dancing the mean while about them, and cutting out Collops of their Flesh, till with lingering Tortures they have Martyred them to Death! Such Things have been done, by the Inhuman Savages upon our Captives, that is a sort of Inhumanity barely to mention them. Now, shall we be Wise, to Observe these things? The Observation must be made, with that Admonition, in Luk. 13.4, 5. Think ye, that these were Sinners above all men? I tell you, Nay; but Except ye Repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Wherefore, let us penitently Confess, That we have All deserved those Miserable Things, wherewith Some have been so marked out, by the Sovereignty of Heaven. In the Things that have been done to our Captives, the Great Lord of Hosts, hath dealt with us as Generals use to do, upon the Sedition and Mutiny of Military Legions: He makes a sort of Decimation among the Offenders, and by what He does to some, He declares what He might justly do to all the rest. We must all ascribe it unto the mere Sovereign mercy of God, that we are not every one of us, broken in the place of Dragons, as these desolate Captives were. That which the Scripture calls, The place of Dragons, I Remember one of the Jewish Rabbi's Expounds, A Wilderness. Truly our Wilderness hath been, The place of Dragons. But, while we Observe these things, we shall not be Wise, if we do not Learn, Oh! what an Evil and a bitter thing is our Sin! And what horrendous miseries must we Expect among the Devils, if we die with our Sin impardoned!   

VI In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is wise, may observe, a Work, a Strange Work of Heaven, as it were Devising of ways, very strangely to Distress all sorts of people, in all sorts of Interests. Truly the very Character of our Calamity, hath all along been This; The Great God has written still upon it, we may Read upon it in a very Legible Character, those words, in Jer. 18.11. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I Frame Evil against you, I devise a Device against you. It hath been, as if ways had been deliberately, and tightly Studied, and as if with much Contrivance plotted for to bring us all within the Reach of the general Calamity. We have now Languished through Ten Years, which have been the Saddest, and the Darkest, and the Stormiest Years, that ever we saw. If the History of these Ten Years were to be written, I am thinking, What should be the Title; Truly, It might be Entitled, as Ezekiels Roll was, Lamentation, and Mourning, and Wo. Yea, you shall now have the History of these Ten Years written for you; I'll give it you, in as Expressive words as can be; even in those words, 2 Chron. 15.5, 6. In those Times, there was no peace to him that went out, nor him that came in, but great Vexations were upon all the Inhabita●●● of the Countries, for God did vex them with an Adversity. There is a Variety of Adversity, with which the tedious War itself hath vexed us. The General Fate of the War, hath involved Numberless Families in several circumstances of Adversity; and the Expensive part of the War hath been an heavy Scourge of Adversity upon those that could not be reached by the Destructive part of it, You could not but Observe these things: But then, have you not observed, what a further variety of Adversity hath been Contemporary with this Vexatious War. Alas, There hath been such a Complication of other Distresses added unto the War, in the Time of it,, that nobody, No, I say, Nobody hath been left free from those Dolorous Ejulations, I am one that hath been Afflicted by the Rod of the Wrath of God.  
A Great King of Persia, having by Death lost the nearest Relation he had in the world, and being too passionate a Mourner for his Loss, an Ingenious man undertook, to Raise the Dead Relation, unto Life again, if the King would but furnish him in one point, that he apprehended necessary; It was demanded, What that was? and it was replied, Furnish me but with the Names of Three persons, who have never met with any Sadness and Sorrow, and by Writing those Names on the Monument of the Dead, I'll bring the Dead person to Life. Truly, The Ten Years of our War have set many Ten Hundreds of persons a Mourning over their Dead Friends; we have seen every where, The Mourners go about the Streets: Now, I durst make you this offer; that if you can find Three persons, who have met with no matter of Sadness and Sorrow in these Ten Years, with the Names of them, we'll fetch your Dead, Friends to Life again. It 'twas said, in Job 21.17. God Distributeth Sorrows in His Anger. You may Observe a marvellous Distribution of Sorrows made among us, by the Anger of God.  
And here, first, I say nothing of that Amazing Time, when the Evil Angels in a preternatural and in an unparallelled manner being Let Lose among us; God cast upon us the Fierceness of His Anger, & Wrath and Indignation and Trouble. It was the Threatening of God against a people, which He had called His Children; in Deut. 32.23, 24. I will Heap Mischiefs upon them, I will Spend my Arrows upon them, they shall be Devoured with a Bitter Destruction; What was the Bitter Destruction thus Threatened unto an Apostatising People? I remember, the famous Jew Onkelos renders it, They shall be vexed with Evil Spirits; and indeed, that Sense well agrees with what follows, I will send upon them the poison of the Serpents of the Dust. Sirs, For our Apostasy (which is the very Sin of the Evil Spirits!) the God of Heaven, a while ago turned in the Armies of Hell upon us; and in that matchless Dispensation of God, we underwent a Bitter Destruction, from the poison of the Serpents of the Dust.  
But there are other points, not a few, wherein the Great God hath Heaped Mischiefs upon us; and fulfilled unto us that Holy Commination, Ezek. 7.26. Mischief shall come upon mischief. What shall I say? While the Lord of Hosts hath been against us, the Hosts of Lord have been so too; All the Elements have as it were been up in Arms against us.  
Particularly; You may Observe, That Epidemical Sicknesses, have in these years, been once and again upon us; wherein the Angels of Death, have Shot the Arrows of Death, into such as could not be reached by the Bullets of the Indian Enemy. This one Town, did in one year, lose, I suppose, at least Six or Seven Hundred of its People, by one contagious Mortality. And tho' of about Three and Twenty Hundred men, that we Employed in one Action, we did, in that Action, lose hardly Thirty men, yet how many Hundreds did afterwards miserably perish?  
Again; You may Observe, That the Harvest, hath once and again grievously failed in these years; and we have been Struck through with the Terrible Famine, almost as much as if the Indian Enemy had been all the while Skulking about our Fields. The very Course of Nature hath been altered among us; A Lamentable cry for, Bread, Bread! hath been heard in our Streets: The Towns that formerly Supplied other places with Grain, had now been Famished, if other places had not sent in a Supply to Them, and had a black prospect of being Famished, notwithstanding that Supply.  
Once more; You may Observe, That the Sea hath in these years been Swallowing up our Neighbours, and their Estates, far more than the Sword of the Wilderness. Alas, The Devouring Displeasure of God, hath said concerning us, Though they go to hid themselves from my Sight afar off upon the Sea, Thence will I command the Serpent, and he shall by't them. And here, hath it been Enough, that our Vessels, enough to make an huge Fleet, have been taken by the French Enemy? A certain Writer hath computed it, That in only the First Two or Three years of the War, the English Nation lost unto the French, more than Fifteen Millions of Pounds Sterling. But no part of the English Nation hath been more frequently or sensibly preyed upon, by the French, than what hath gone out of New England, ever since the War began. I say, Has this been Enough? No, The wrath of God said, This is not Enough! I appeal to you, that have been Owners of Vessels, or Sailors in them, whether horrible Shipwrecks have not been multiplied since the War began, very much more than ever they were before? Ah, Lord! How many of us, have Shed Rivers of Tears, over our dear Friends that have been Buried in the Ocean!  
Moreover; You may Observe, That in these years, those very Things which were intended for our Defence, have oftentimes been so much Improved for our Damage, that it was hard for us to say, which was the Greater, the Defence, or the Damage, which we had from them. It was a Lamentable Time with the Jews, when that Curse came upon them, That which should have been for their Welfare, Let it become a Trap, & pour out thine Indignation upon them. Truly, The Indignation of God hath been poured out upon us, in this Fruit of the Curse, no less frequently then sensibly, that some things which should have been for our Welfare, have at the same time, served also to Entrap the Persons, and Interests of many people, into sore Inconveniencies. There is no need of Explaining this Article; They that have been under this Indignation of God, know the Explaining of it!  
Finally, You may Observe, What Untimely Ends, and what Surprising Fates, have come upon our Sons, in these Years of the Wrath of the Right-Hand of the Most High. When Croesus was in War taken by Cyrus, this Captive made unto the Conqueror, this Remark upon the Difference between Peace and War; O Sir, I see, that in a time of Peace, the Sons Bury their Fathers, but in a Time of War, the Fathers Bury their Sons, Truly, Sirs, our Time of War has in Various Ways of Mortality, been Embittered with this Remark, The Fathers have been Burying their Sons, all the Country over! Many of us, have had our Sons, even those very Sons, of whom we said, This same shall Comfort us! We have had them violently snatched away from us, and Cropped in the very Flower of their Youth; and they have Left us deploring, Oh, my Son, with all my Heart could I have Dyed for thee, my Son, my Son! But in the midst of these Deplorable Things, God hath given up several of our Sons, into the Hands of the Fierce Monsters of Africa. Mahometan Turks and Moors, and Devils, are at this Day oppressing many of our Sons, with a Slavery, wherein they Wish for Death, and cannot find it; a Slavery, from whence they cry and write unto us, It had been Good for us, that we had never been Born.  
— Quis talia fando  
Temperet a Lacrymis?—  
Thus, as Job sometimes complained, Chap. 10.17. Thou Renewest thy Witnesses against me, and increasest thine Indignation upon me; Changes and War are against me: Thus, in our Long War, we have seen those Changes on all Hands, and in all Kind's, which have witnessed against us, the Dreadful Indignation of God. God Threatened His people, (so I read it,) Amos 2.13. Behold, I will press your place as a full Cart presses the Sheaf: ['Tis an Allusion to the old way of Threshing the Corn, by drawing a Loaden Cart with Wheels, over the Corn. 9 d. You shall undergo Tribulation.] Ah, New-England, Thou hast been under such a Tribulation.  
Sirs, Have you not Observed these things? But you must wisely Observe them. And a wise Observation of these things, will cause you to see, That the War which hath been upon us, hath been a War of GOD. The Indians have been but a small part of those Armies, which the Great GOD, hath been bringing out against us, for Ten Years together; and we may conclude, that all the Land have been more or less concerned in those Crimes, for which the Almighty GOD, hath been with these Armies managing His Controvesy with us: Our Confession must be, Peccavimus omnes; We have all gone astray! But shall we not upon this Observation, take up some Resolution? If we are Wise, we fhall thus Resolve; 'Tis Time, 'Tis Time, 'Tis High-Time for us, to make our Peaee with God, Oh, Let us not go on to Harden ourselves against God; we are not Stronger than He: But let us all Fly to the Lord Jesus Corist, who is our Peace, and so lay down the Arms of Rebellion, that God may be Reconciled unto us.   

VII. In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is wise, may Observe those Dispensations of Heaven towards us, that have carried more than Ordinary Humiliations in them. It was said concerning Miriam, (the Type of the Now Leprous and out-cast Church of Israel; The Lord hasten that Seventh Day, wherein it shall be Restored!) Numb. 12.14. If her Father had Spit in her Face, should she not be Ashamed? Ah New England, Thy Father hath been Spitting in thy Face, with most Humbling Dispensations; God hath been bringing of thee down to Sat in the Dust. When the War commenced, New-England might say, My God will Humble me!  
For, First; Shall our Heavenly Father put a Rod into the Hands of base Indians, and bid Them to Scourge His Children! Oh! the Humiliation of such Rebellious Children! Oh! the Provocation, that certainly such Sons and such Daughters have given Him! It was a very Humbling thing, that the Lord Threatened unto His Provoking Sons & Daughters, in Deut. 32.21. I will move them to Jealousy, with those which are not a People; I will provoke them to Anger with a Foolish Nation. Should a Child of yours be Refractory, and you, Sir, should bid a Negro or an Indian Slave in your House, Go, Take that Child, and Scourge him till you fetch Blood of him! Surely, this would be to Humble him unto the Uttermost. Thus doth thy God Humble thee, O New-England, by putting thee over, into the Vile Hands of those which are not a People, but a Foolish Nation.  
Again; Who are they, by whose means we are now crying out, We are Brought very Low? When the most High God, was determined Effectually to Humble, His People, he said, in Jer. 37.10. Though ye had Smitten the whole Army of the Chaldeans, that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they Rise up every man in his Tent; and burn this City with Fire. Truly, we had Smitten the whole Army, of the Indians that Fought against us Three and Twenty years ago, from one end of the Land unto the other; only there were left a few Wounded men among them in the East; and now, they have Risen up every man, and have set the whole Country on Fire. Certainly, A more Humbling matter cannot be Related!  
Moreover; Is it not a very Humbling Thing, That when about an Hundred Indians durst Begin a War, upon all these Populous Colonies, an Army of a Thousand English raised, must not kill one of them all; but instead thereof, more of our Soldiers perish by Sickness and Hardship than we had Enemies then in the world? Our God has Humbled us!  
Is it not a very Humbling Thing, That when the Number of our Enemies afterwards Increased, yet an Handful of them should, for so many Summers together continue our Unconquered Spoilers, and put us to such Vast Charges, that if we could have Bought them, for an Hundred Pound an Head, we should have made a Saving Bargain of it? Our God has Humbled us!  
Is it not a very Humbling Thing, That we should have had several fair Opportunities, to have brought this War unto a Final Period, but we should still by some fatal Oversight let Slip those Opportunities? Our God has Humbled us.  
Is it not a very Humling Thing, That whatever Expeditions we have undertaken, for the most part we have come off Loser's, and indeed but plunged ourselves into deeper Straits, by our Undertake? Our God has Humbled us!  
Is it not a very Humbling Thing, That more than One or Two of our Forts have been Surrendered, and one of them that was almost Impregnable, given away with a most Shameful Surrender, by one that hath since Received Something of what he Deserved? Thus, Our God has Humbled us.  
Is it not a very Humbling Thing, That we should have Evil pursuing of us at such a rate, that in other Lands afar off, and on the Exchange in London, Strangers have made this Reflection, Doubtless, New-England is a Country in Ill Terms with Heaven? But so, Our God has Humbled us.  
What shall I say? Is it not a very Humbling Thing, That when Peace is Restored unto the whole English Nation, and when Peace is Enjoyed by all America, poor New-England should be the Only Land still Embroiled in War? But thus, Our God, Thou hast Humbled us, and shown us great and sore Troubles, and brought us down into the Depths of the Earth.  
O my dear People; How can I Observe these Things, and not like Joshua now fall to the Earth on my Face before the Lord, and say, What shall I say? But if you will wisely observe these Things, you will now get up, and Sanctify yourselves, and put away the accursed thing from among you, O New-English Israel!  
Certainly, The High and Lofty One, who dwells in the High and Holy place, Expects that we should be a very Humbled People. I beseech you, Sirs, Observing these Things, let us in all the Methods of Repentance Humble ourselves under the Mighty Hand of God. After such Humbling Things, as have befallen us, God forbidden, that it should be said of us, as in Jer. 44.10. They are not Humbled, even unto this Day!   

VIII. In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is Wise, may Observe the Compassions of God, wonderfully Exercised, and Manifested, and Magnified, in the midst of our Confusions. There was a Time, when a Bush Burned with Fire, and yet the Bush was not consumed: whereupon said Moses, in Exod. 3.3. I will now Turn aside and see this Great Sight! Sirs, I am now to call upon you, O Turn aside, and see such a Great Sight as that!  
Indeed, in the midst of all our Lamentations, we must own, with the Church, in Lam. 3: 22. It is of the Lords Mercies, that we are not Consumed, because His Compassions fail not. But there are many Particular and Astonishing Articles of Mercy, which we have seen in this Tedious War. Sirs, Come now to Observe some of those Things, with prepared Hallelujahs!  
It was the Petition, in Hab. 3.2. O Lord, In Wrath Remember Mercy. New England, Thy God hath heard this Petition for thee, in very wonderful Instances!  
For, First, After a very Amazing manner has Mercy been Remembered in the midst of Wrath, when we have been Rescued by the Mercy of God, at the very point of our being else Ruined by His Wrath. Lord, Thou hast showed thy People hard Things, and made us Drink the Wine of Astonishment. But our Extremity hath been God's Opportunity, to Relieve us. Several Times in the late years of our Affliction, we have been brought unto a dismal Nonplus in our Affairs, and we would scarce imagine it possible for us to subsist any longer. But just Then! the Bowels of our Compassionate God have been moved for us; He hath said, How shall I give thee up, O New-England? How shall I give thee up, O Massachusetts? And so, He would not Execute upon us the Fierceness of His Anger, but with some unexpected Succours from the Machine of Heaven He hath Relieved us. We have several times been, Like a Little Vessel in a Storm; the Swelling Waves have Dashed, & Raged, and Roared; the Rude Billows have been going over us, and we have been ready to Sink. But just Then! Our Compassionate Lord Jesus Christ, hath Awaked for our Safety, and marvellously calmed our Circumstances. O thou Land, strangely Saved by the Lord, say now, as in Psal. 136.23. O Give thanks unto the Lord, who Remembered us in our Low Estate, because His Mercy Endureth for ever. When our Debts have become Insupportable, God has then Remembered us in our Low Estate, because His Mercy Endureth for ever, and strangely Extricated us. When our Foes have been as an Overflowing Scourge, like to carry all before them, God has then Remembered us in our Low Estate, because His Mercy Endureth for ever, and strangely Lifted up a Standard against them. When fearful Divisions have arisen among us, and horrid Convulsions have been ready to pull all to pieces,— I don't care to Remember them, any farther than to say, God has then, Remembered us in our Low Estate, because His Mercy Endureth for ever, and strangely healed those Breaches, that set the Land a Trembling.  
Moreover; It hath been a very Strange Thing, and a Wondrous Remembrance of Mercy in the midst of Wrath; That the Indians have been unaccountably Restrained, from giving us, an Hundred part of the Trouble, which they might have done, had they but known, or used their own Advantages. This One Thing, Whosoever does wisely Observe it, must needs ascribe it unto a Special Operation of that God, who Forms the Spirit of man within him. It was the promise of God, unto His people, Exod. 34.24. No man shall Desire thy Land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God. The Faithful God strangely. Fulfilled this promise, for many Hundreds of years together; No Enemy desired the Land of that people, at the Time of their going up to Worship the Lord in His Temple. And whereas, the Roman Enemy, did at length Desire their Land, at the Time of their going up to the Passover, this one Thing, was enough to prove, that the Messiah was come, and the Passover no longer commanded. It shows, That there is a Strange Operation of God, upon the minds of men, to curb and check, and blind the Evil-minded. Well; We have had our Frontier Towns, in many of which, the Lord Jesus Christ hath been Worshipped, and Sought, and Served continually. Had the Lurking Enemy done as they might have done, how easily might one dozen of them, have kept the Towns in such perpetual and perplexing Alarms, as would have caused them, even to have broken up! And what unknown mischiefs might a few more of 'em, have brought upon our Scattered Plantations! I do again, and again say, This is from the Strange Operation of God, upon the Minds of the Enemy, that they have no more Disturbed our Land. For my own part, I will observe it, and Admire it, in such Terms as Austin used upon a Remarkable Providence; Quisquis non videt, Caecus; Quisquis videt, nec Laudat, Ingratus; Quisquis Laudanti reluctatur, Insanus: They are Blind, and Mad, that are Insensible of it!  
Yet again, Have not our English Prisoners been favoured with such a Remembrance of Mercy, in the midst of Wrath, as aught never to be Forgotten? The Mercy of God, inclined the French to Buy 'em out of the Hands of the Indians, and use them with an Exemplary Humanity and Civility. The Mercy of God preserved many of them alive, under prodigious and incredible Hardships, and at length Returned many scores of them Home. And may not our English Women, that were Prisoners, take Notice of one Singular Mercy shown by God unto them, in preserving them from Violations by the Outrageous Lusts of the Savages? This One Thing will be thought by some, almost as Great and Strange an Instance of an Immediate Interposition of the Angels of God, as the muzzling of the Lions in the Den of Daniel! O ye Redeemed of the Lord, you, whom He hath Redeemed from the Hand of the Enemy; Give Thanks, to the Lord, for He is Good? Charge your own Souls, That you never forget His Benefits; Ask your own Souls, What you shall render to the Lord for all His Benefits: and Remember that Admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ unto you, Sin no more, Lest a worst thing do come unto thee.  
Furthermore; Who could not see Mercy Remembered, in the midst of Wrath, when God hath put it into the Hearts of His people in the Southern parts of the Country, to make Liberal Contributions of Money, and Corn, and Men, for the Relief of the Northern parts? More than once, has the Noble Charity, of our Brethren in Plymouth, and in Connecticut, as well as of this Town, been Expressed in such Contributions. Their Alms are Gone up for a Memorial before the Lord! The Blessing of many that have been Ready to perish, hath come upon you, O ye Merciful Children of God, and you shall obtain mercy from Him.  
Once more: Was ever Mercy Remembered in the midst of Wrath, more conspicuously than when powerful Adversaries Designing Inroads upon us, have been Diverted wonderfully. Advice hath been seasonably Dispatched unto us, of the Intentions in our Enemies to fall upon our Frontiers, and this Advice hath proved our Safety. Yea, sometimes when we have had no Advice, a Strange Direction from Heaven has Led us to those Actions, which have as much defeated the Intentions of our Enemies, as if we had Received the fullest Advice in the world: Besides this, Boston, and Salem, and Portsmouth especially: Will they ever forget the Last year? It was a Year of Salvations; yea, It was a Year of Miracles! Never, Never such a Year passed over us. The Almighty showed that Favour to His people of old, Zech. 9.8. I will Encamp about my House, because of the Army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that Returneth. Alexander in an Expedition to the Southward did pass by the Land of Israel, and he did Return again to the Northward, without Hurting that Land, that had the House of God in it. Formidable French Squadrons, have more than once passed by, to the Southward, and have Returned again to the Northward, intending doubtless a Destroying Visit into this Land by the way; but Our Lord Jesus Christ hath Encamped about His House here, because of the Navy. Yea, once, O New-England, the Lord thy God, He that would be the Holy One of New-England, gave Carthagena for thy Ransom, He gave men for thee, and Spaniards for thy Life. Another Time, when a Force likely enough to have carried all before them, were almost arrived unto us, we are advised, that God sent such a sudden, and such a wasting Sickness among them, as to make them for want of Hands, to desist from their Attempt. These were Illustrious Deliverances! And yet give me leave to say, We did the last year, see another Deliverance, that for aught I know, may be equal to any of the rest. There was an English Fleet of our Good Friends with a direful Plague aboard 'em, intending Hither. Had they Come, as they intended, what an horrible Desolation had cut us off, Let the Desolate places that some of you have seen in the Colonies of the South, declare unto us; And that they did not come, it was the Signal Hand of Heaven, by which the Go of men are ordered.  
In Fine; Because God, being full of Compassion, would not Stir up all His Wrath, He hath Remembered Mercy to us, in the midst of Wrath, by Raising us up Generous Benefactors, who have been able and willing to oblige us, with their Benefits. It must be with shame acknowledged, Our Usage of our Public Servants has commonly been such, that for any Thinking man, to be willing at all to Serve the Public, seems to be a Mark and Fruit of no little Generosity. Nevertheless, we have had persons of Exemplary Patience, and Prudence, and Self denial, Sitting at the Helm of our Government, all this while that the Horrible Tempest hath been enough to make any man living Sick of being there. We have had persons, who have Disbursed and Expended of their Estates, and considerably Damnified their Interests for us, in our Distresses, when yet they foreknew what pay they should have after all. Yea, we have had, and still have, [I can at this moment fasten my Eye upon some of them, in the Assembly where I am now speaking,] Brave men, who have Bravely Jeoparded their Lives in the High places of the Field, for our Defence. O Treat 'em not with vile Ingratitude, after all the Service they have done: Prefer them on all fit occasions, while they Live, Embalm their Memories, and Requite their Families, when they are Dead. But while we are Thankful to Them, Let us much more give Thanks to God for Them, even, for such Gifts of Heaven as we have Enjoyed in them.  
Well; Will you Wisely Observe these Things? Wisely! That is to say, Thankfully, and Fruitfully. It may be, If more Distinct and Solemn THANKSGIVINGS, were made unto God our Saviour, for these things, the Relics of our Enemies would quickly feel the Rebukes of God upon them; not unlike those, in 2 Chron. 20.22. When they began to Sing and to Praise, the Lord set Ambushments against their Enemies, and they were Smitten.   

IX. In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is Wise, may Observe those things, that may Mightily Encourage our Prayer, and our Faith, for a Total Ruin, to be hastened on the Remainders of our Enemies.  
There yet Remains a Knot of our Enemies, in those Inaccessible Thickets, where we Despair ever to Find 'em out; but I will Read their Doom, from Psal. 21.8, 9, 10 Thine Hand, O Lord, shall Find out all thine Enemies, Thy Right Hand shall Find out th●se that Hate thee; The Lord shall Swallow them up in His Wrath, and the Fire shall Devour them; Their Fruit shalt thou Destroy from the Earth, and their Seed from among the Children of men. What Remains for Us, is, That we do by Prayer and Faith, put our Enemies over, into those Omnipotent Hands, that can Find them out, and cut them off. Oh! Let us keep our Hands Lifted up in Prayer, for a Total Dissipation of those Amalekites, which have thus long and thus far prevailed against us! We have already had many Notable Answers of Prayer, in this our War: Every one of our Deliverances have been very Notably Such! We cannot say, How many particular Persons, have Received Answers of Prayer, in the particular Troubles, which this Evil Time hath Ensnared them withal. Doubtless, many a Christian, has in this Time, had opportunity to say, This poor man cried, and the Lord Herd him, and Saved him out of all his Troubles! And several Towns, that have had a Remarkable Protection of God upon them, in this long Time of Danger, they have had a Praying People in them, and that Praying People have been the Chariots and the Horse men thereof. Why else does Deerfield Stand? How should our Prayer be Quickened by such Experiences! But there is this further Quickening for it, That with the Cry of our Prayer, there will go up unto the Lord, the Cry of Blood; much Innocent, & Righteous, & Precious Blood, Cries to Heaven, from the Ground against those Bloody and Crafty men, that have Treacherously shed it. Certainly, They must not Live out all their Days! And we have this prevailing plea against them, in the Court of Heaven! That they have most Falsely Broken their Covenants, in their Outrages. We may venture, to present our Memorials, in the Court of Heaven, against these Covenant Breakers, who are Implacable and Unmerciful; and we may use the words of Jephtah, against his Heathen Adversaries, The Lord the Judge, be Judge between us and them! We may use the words of Jehoshaphat against his Heathen Adversaries, O our God, wilt thou not Judge them? Vladislaus, the King of Hungary, Scandalously breaking his League, with Amurath the Turkish Emperor, brought an Army into the Field against him. The Turkish Army being horribly Broke, and Slain, and almost Vanquished by the Hungarian, Amurath in his Anguish, took out of his Bosom, the written League, that Vladi slaves had made with him, and holding it up in his Hands, with his Eyes to Heaven, he Cried out, Behold, O Crucified Christ, the League which thy Christians in thy Name have made with me, and now without cause do Violate; If thou be a God, Revenge the Wrong that is now done unto thy Name, and show thy power upon a Perjurious People, who in their Deeds Deny their God Immediately the Course of the Battle turned; and Perjurious King was killed; and the Turks w●n a most unexpected Victory. Truly we may in like manner now take the Instrument of the Submission and Agreement of the Eastern Indians, which Thirteen of their Chief Commanders did Sign more than Five years ago; and Holding it up to Heaven, we may Cry out, Ah, Lord God of Truth, wilt thou not be Revenged upon the False Wretches that have broken this League! Doubtless, our God will Execute a dreadful Vengeance upon them, if we Humbly make our Suit unto Him for it; and He has ways for His Vengeance to come at them, which We cannot Imagine. 'Tis affirmed, That several Times in this War, our Enemies, have in the Woods met with Parties of Indians, which were their own Friends, but by a mistake apprehending each to be Enemies unto each other, they have hotly fallen upon one another, and many have been killed oh both Sides before the mistake was discovered. Yea, 'Tis affirmed, that not a few of the Chief Murderers among our Enemies, have accidentally killed themselves; the most Murderous Indians, have in a little while been their own Executioners. Who can tell, what Strange Ways, the God unto whom Vengeance belongeth, hath to inflict it, on a Generation of His Curse?  
Only, Let us Remember to plead the Sacrifice of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, in our Prayer, with our Faith, for the Perfection of our Deliverance. Our Lord JESUS CHRIST, hath been a Sin-Offering for the Congregation, and a Sacrifice pleadeable, not only for Persons, but also for Peoples that belong unto Him. We read in 1 Sam. 7.9, 10. Samuel Offered a Burnt-Offering wholly unto the Lord, and Samuel Cried unto the Lord of Israel, and the Lord heard him; and the Lord Thundered with a Great Thunder on that Day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them. When we Cry to the Lord, Let us plead the Burnt-Offering of the Lord Jesus Christ, & plead, That God has more Glorified His Justice in the Sufferings of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, than if our Houses were all Filled with the Cries of our People Massacred by Indian Savages. Then will our God Thunder with a Great Thunder of His Consuming Wrath upon our Indian Philistines! That Note, which the Great Calvin has above an Hundred Times over, in his Commentaries on the Psalms, Nunquam Irritas fore preces, Or, Prayers will never be lost! Prayers will never he lost! It will much oftener be Repeated in our Blessed Experience, if our Prayers do present before God that Blessed Sacrifice, of which He says, 'Tis a Sweet odour to Me!   

X. In the WAR that hath been upon us, Whoso is Wise, may Observe those Loud Calls to a Reformation of our Miscarriages, which 'tis a Dangerous and a Desperate thing to neglect any longer. It was the Voice of the Blessed God, in Psal. 81.13, 14. O That my People had harkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! I should soon have Subdued their Enemies, and turned my Hand against their Adversaries. Ah, New-England; Thy God hath not soon Subdued thine Enemies, nor soon turned His Hand against thine Adversaries: but let 'em Vex thee for Ten years together. Surely, Thou hast not harkened unto Him, nor Walked in His Ways! In that which was called, The Holy War, the Ambassadors of a Saracen Prince, demanded of a Famous Christian General, How he came to have, Manus tam Doctas ad Praeliandum, Hands that were so Able to Fight? The Christian General replied, Quia Manus Semper habui puras, Because I never defiled my Hands, with any Notorious Wickedness. Alas, our Hands have made but poor work at Fight. 'Tis Time for us, then to Reform all the Notorious Wickedness in our Hands! Do we Dream that the Almighty hath spent all His Arrows? No, after, all that for Ten years together have been spent upon, us there are yet more Arrows, and Judgements left in the Quiver of God: And Except we Turn unto Him, who can say, What Arrows He may next ordain against us? The Roman Emperor Upbraided his General Terentius, for Losing a Battle; but the General, having too much occasion to say so much, replied, Sir, I must tell you, that it is you that Lost the Day for us, by your open Fight against the God of Heaven as you do. If it be asked, How 'tis come to pass, that we have Sped so Ill in many a Battle, since this War began? Some will blame one, and some will blame another: but I will take Leave to tell all them that Led an Ungodly Life, Sirs, 'Tis to you, that we own all our Ill Success! I need not quote one of the Ancients, namely, Ambrose, for that Observation, Graviores Inimici sunt mores pravi, quam Hostes Infensi: We have had enough in our own Experiments to convince us, That our worst Enemies are our Vices, which provoke Heaven to Chastise us with all our other Enemies: And indeed, If our Ways did please the Lord, our Enemies would be at peace with us. Observe wisely, and you cannot but Observe, the Language of Heaven, in the Circumstances through which we have passed for a whole Decad of years together, to be That, in Leu. 26.23, 24. If ye will not be Reform by me, by these things, but will walk contrary unto me, Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and I will punish you yet seven Times for your Sins. And that the Demand of REFORMATION may be Loud enough, it arrives to us now with a more than Ordinary Accent of Authority upon it. We have seen, and, Blessed be God, that we have seen, the Greatest Monarch that ever Sat upon the British Throne, Issuing Out His Royal Proclamation, upon the Pious Address of the Commons of England, assemble in Parliament; a Proclamation, wherein that Illustrious Prince declares His Royal Resolution to Discountenance all Vice whatsoever, and requires all Officers whatsoever to be vigilant, in the Discovery, Prosecution, and Punishment thereof. We have seen a most Excellent GOVERNOR, who is the Greatest Person that ever set Foot on the English Continent of America, beginning His Government, with proclaiming for the Suppression of all Vice in One of His Provinces: That Noble Person has therein done, Like a Vicegerent of GOD! His very Honourable Lieutenant, hath worthily done His part, with the Advice of His Council, in another of His Provinces. If these things prove but mere Formalities, among a people, Hating to be Reform after all, what will they be, but more Terrible Prognostics of Tremendous and Amazing Desolations at hand, than so many Blazing Stars on Fire, in Heaven over us. It is to be hoped, the Ministers of the Gospel, will do what belongs to Them, for the Assistence of all Holy Essays about Reformation; and their Churches, if called upon, will join with them, in the Methods of Covenant, and of Discipline, for the promoting of it. Yea, It is to be Hoped, That we shall all Zealously in our several Stations, do all that we can, for the pleasing of God, and for the Correction, and Suppression, and Reformation of the Sin that may be displeasing to Him. It is a Thing very notorious unto us, That Idleness, Drunkenness, Uncleanness, Cheating, Lying, Profane Swearing, and above all, that which is the Root of all, the Profanation of the Lordsday, gains ground upon us. Let all that have any Power in their Hands, unto the utmost of their power, Endeavour to keep under those Enormities. But Last of all, Nay, I should rather say, First of all, O let every man set upon Self-Reformation, with all his might! I Remember, that passage, in Prov. 18.17. He that is first in his own Cause, seemeth right, is translated by the Vulgar Latin, so as to carry a further, and an useful Admonition in it; Justus primus est Accusator sui, A Just man, before he meddles with the Reproof of others, will first Accuse himself, and search the State of his own Soul, and Life, and faithfully Reform it. Oh! That very much of This might be done among us! How doth an Army of Thrice Ten Thousand men, presently Turn from East to West, because Every One Turns One? Sirs, We have Wisely Observed the Things that have in our Afflicted years befallen us, and we have now to good purpose heard a Sermon of Observations upon those things, if we will now Retire, and ponder seriously with ourselves, What is there amiss, in my own Heart, and in my own Life, and in my own Family and by what Reformation of myself may I best answer the Expectation of the God, who has Chastised us all?  
We have been under the Lamentable Punishments of our Sins, for two Lustres of years together; 'Tis time for every man, and for all of us, as one man, to say, as in Lam. 3.40. Let us Search and Try our Ways, and Turn again unto the Lord.    
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ERRATA.  
REader, Carthagena was of the mind, that unto those Three Things, which the Ancients held Impossible, there should be added this Fourth; To find a Book Printed without Erratas. It seems the Hands of Briareus, and the Eyes of Argus will not prevent them. I take Notice of a few in this Book; and those few are Scarce worth having any Notice taken of them. e. g.  
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