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A86661	A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607, to this present year 1677, but chiefly of the late troubles in the two last years, 1675 and 1676. To which is added a discourse about the warre with the Pequods in the year 1637. / By W. Hubbard ...; Narrative of the Indian wars in New-England	Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.	1677 (1677)	Wing H3211_pt1; ESTC W13814	141,180	176

to receive their crowns among the rest of the Martyres that have laid down or ventured their lives as a testimony to the truth of their Religion as well as love to their Country This sore defeat of Capt. Lothrop and his men was the more to be lamented in that falling out so soon after two other of the like nature it so emboldned the enemy that they durst soon after adventure upon conside●able towns though well garisoned with souldiers and gave them occasion of most insolent Braving the Garison at Dearfield the next day hanging up the garments of the English in fight of the Souldiers yet on the other side of the river However it pleased God who is alwayes wont to remember his people in their low estate to put such a restraint upon them that when they passed very near the Garison house at Dearfield wherein were not left above twenty seven souldiers their Captain using this stratagem to cause his trumpet to sound as if he had another troop near by to be called together they turned another way and made no attempt upon the house where that small number was which if they had done with any ordinary resolution so small an handfull of men could hardly have withstood the force of so many hundreds as were then gathered together What loss the Enemy sustained by the resistance of Capt. Lothrop his men who no doubt being all resolute young men and seeing they should be forced by the hard law of the sword to foregoe their lives held them at as high a rate as they could is not certainly known It hath since been confessed by some of the Indians themselves that they lost ninety six of their m●n that day Capt. Moselyes men coming suddenly upon them when they were pillaging of the dead fell upon them with such a smart assault that they drove them presently into a swamp following them so close that for seven miles together they fought them upon a march charging them through and through Perez Savage and Leiut Pickering his Leiutenants deserving no little part of the honour of that dayes Service being sometimes called to lead the Company in the front while Capt Mosely took a little breath who was almost melted with labouring commanding and leading his men through the midest of the enemy The Indians gathered together i● those parts appearing so numerous and as might justly he supposed growing more confident by some of their last successes and the number of our men being after this sad rate diminished Recruits also not being suddenly to be expected at so great a distance as an hundred miles from all supplyes the Commander in chief with the Officers saw a necessity of slighting that Garison at Dearfield imploying the Forces they had to secure and strengthen the three next towns below upon Connecticut River And it was well that counsel was thought upon for now those wretched Caitiffs begin to talk of great matters hoping that by degrees they might destroy all the towns thereabout as they had already begun Their hopes no doubt were not a little heightned by the accession of Springfield Indians to their party who had in appearance all this time stood the firmest to the interest of the English of all the rest in those parts But they all hanging together like Serpents eggs were easily perswaded to joyn with those of Hadly there being so near allyance between them for the Sachem of Springfield Indians was the father of Hadly Sachem not only by the success of their treacherous and bloud-thirsty companions but by the same inbred malice and antipathy against the English manners and Religion The Inhabitants of Springfield were not unsensible of their danger and therefore had upon the first breaking forth of these troubles been treating with their Indians and had received from them the firmest assurance and pledges of their faithfulness and friendship that could be immagined or desired both by Covenant promises and Hostages given for security so as no doubt was left in any of their minds Yet did these faithless and ungratefull Monsters plot with Philips Indians to burn and destroy all Springfield as they had done Brookfield before to that end they sent cunningly and enticed away the Hostages from Hartford where they were perhaps too securely watched over a day or two before Then receiving above three hunderd of Philips Indians into their Fort privately in the night time so as they were neither discerned nor suspected Yea so confident were such of the inhabitants as were most conversant with the Indians at their Fort that they would not believe there was any such plot in hand when it was strangly revealed by one Toto an Indian at Windsor better affected to the English about eighteen or twenty miles below Springfield upon the same River and so by Post tidings thereof brought to Springfield the night before insomuch that the Lieutenant of the town Cooper by name was so far from believing the Stratagem that in the morning himself with another would venture to ride up to the Fort to see whether things were so or no. The Fort was about a mile from the town when he came within a little thereof he met these bloudy and deceitfull Monsters newly issued out of their Equus Trojanus to act their intended mischief they presently fired upon him diverse of them and shot him in several places through the body yet being a man of stout courage he kept his horse till he recovered the next garison house his companion they shot dead upon the place by this meanes giving a sad alarm to the town of their intended mischief which was instantly fi●ed in all places where there were no Garisons The poor people having never an Officer to lead them being like sheep ready for the slaughter and no doubt the whole town had been totally destroyed but that a report of the Plot being caryed about over night Major Treat came from West field time enough in a manner for their rescue but wanting boates to transport his men could not doe so much good as he desired Major Pynchon coming from Hadly with Capt. Appleton and what Forces they could bring along with them thirty two houses being first consumed preserved the rest of the town from being turned to ashes in which the over credulous Inhabitants might now see what b●fore they would not believe at the burning Major Pynchons Barns and Stables a few dayes before to a very great damage of the Owner the faithless and deceitfull friendship amongst those perfidious cruel and hellish Monsters Amongst the ruines of the said dwellings the saddest to behold was the house of Mr. Pelatiah Glover Minister of the Town furnished with a brave Library which he had but newly brought back from a Garison wherein it had been for some time before secured but as if the danger had been over with them the said Minister a great Student and an helluo librorum being impatient for want of his Books brought them back to his

great sorrow fit for a Bonfire for the proud insulting enemy Of all the mischiefs done by the said enemy before that day the burnof this town of Springfield did more then any other discover the said Actors to be the children of the Devill full of all subtlety and malice there having been for about forty years so good correspondence betwixt the English of that town and the neighbouring Indians But in them is made good what is said in the Psalm that though their words were smoother then oyle yet were they drawn swords After some little time spent in garisoning the place and helping the Inhabitants to secure what they had left the English souldiers most of them returned back to Hadly their head-quarters and Major Pynchon being so full of incumbrances by reason of the late spoyls done to himself and his neighbours at Springfield could not any longer attend the Service of commanding in Chief as he had done before wherefore being according to his earnest Request to the Council eased of that burden Capt. Samuel Appleton was ordered to succeed in taking the charge of the Souldiers left in those upper towns by whose industry skill and courage those towns were preserved from runing the same fate with the rest wholy or in part so lately turned into ashes For the enemy growing very confident by the late successes came with all their fury the nineteenth of October following upon Hatfield hoping no less then to doe the like mischief to them they had newly done to Springfield But according to the good providence of Almighty God Major Treat was newly returned to Northampton Capt. Mosely and Capt. Poole were then garisoning the said Hatfield and Capt. Appleton for the like end quartering at Hadly when on the sudden seven or eight hundred of the enemy came upon the town in all quarters having first killed or taken two or three of the Scouts belonging to the town and seven more belonging to Capt. Mosely his Company But they were so well entertained on all hands where they attempted to break in upon the town that they found it too hot for them Major Appleton with great courage defending one end of the town and Capt. Mosely as stoutly maintaining the middle and Capt. Poole the other end that they were by the resolution of the English instantly beaten off without doing much harm Capt. Appletons Sergeant was mortally wounded just by his side another bullet passing through his own hair by that whisper telling him that death was very near but did him no other harm Night coming on it could not be discerned what loss the enemy sustained diverse were seen to fall some run through a small river others cast their guns into the water it being their manner to venture as much to recover the dead bodyes of their friends as to defend them when alive At last after the burning of some few barns with some other buildings the enemy hasted away as fast as they came on leaving the English to bless God who had so mercifully delivered them from the fury of their merciless foes who had in conceit without doubt devoured them all But this resolute and valiant repulse put such a check upon the pride of the enemy that they made no further attempt upon any of those towns for the present but winter drawing on they retired all of them to their general rendezvouze at Narhaganset where we shall leave them for the present plotting their general design of accomplishing their intended mischief against the English the next Spring Our Western Plantations upon Connecticut River were the stage whereon were acted the most remarkable passages of this barbarous War hitherto which was soon after removed into many other places of the Country in the Winter and Spring following whither our discourse must in the next place pursue it There was not any great matter acted by the Enemy amongst the Plantations upon the great River during the Winter after the assault made upon Hatfield October 19. It is evident that the body of them returned to Narrhaganset upon the approach of the Winter which set in more early then it used in other years where Philip did bestow himself in the winter season is not so certain some say that he repaired further wellward to try his fortune with those Indians that ●ly towards Albany near the Dutch River others more probably conceive that he lay hid in some part of the Narrhaganset Country for though he was not certainly known to be about the Fort at Narrhaganset when it was taken by our Forces in the winter yet as soon as ever they were driven out of the Country in February he was found amongst them that did the mischief at Lancaster in that month Some stragling parties of them remained about North-Hampton West field Springfield some time after their defeat at Hatfield seven or eight of the Inhabitants of North-Hampton in the end of October venturing to fetch in some of their Harvest that was left somewhere out of the Town were in danger of being surprised having laid their Arms under their Cart so as being destitute of means to make their defence they were glad to fly away with the Horses out of their Cart leaving what they were about to the pleasure of the Indians that assaulted Major Treat upon the hearing the Alarm presently repaired thither but could not come time enough to destroy any of the Enemy nor yet to prevent their burning of four or five Houses with two or three Barns that stood somewhat out of the Town Within a little time after they kill'd three of the same Town as they were at work in a Meadow not far from the Town they intended also to have burned the Mill but it was too well guarded by two files of Musketiers lodged there for the purpose who put them beside their intent Six or seven of Springfield soon after going to the Mill at Westfield that which belonged to their own Town being burned October 5 th and venturing without Arms three of them were killed by some of the Enemy who took the advantage also to burn four or five Houses that belonged to the said West field but by the end of November the coast was pritty clear of them unless some few of them that lay lurking in the Swamps thereabouts all the winter doing some small mischief upon some out-dwellings of Springfield The expedition into the Narrhaganset Country follows in order in the next place to be related but before we come thither a little notice must be taken by the way of an unsuccessful attempt upon the Indians about Hassanemesit Poppachuog whither Capt. Henchman was sent in the beginning of November where also Captain Sill was ordered to meet him with another Company from Cambridge with intent to have bear up the Indians quarters in those parts they being known to have had an hand in the outrages committed upon those that belonged to Malberough and Menaham cutting off the scalp of a millers Boy