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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96298	A thankefull remembrance of Gods mercy to several persons at Quabaug or Brookfield partly in a collection of providences about them, and gracious appearances for them: and partly in a sermon preached by Mr. Edward Bulkley, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Concord, upon a day of thanksgiving, kept by divers for their wonderfull deliverance there. Published by Capt. Thomas VVheeler. [Five lines from Psalms]	Wheeler, Thomas, ca. 1620-1676.; Bulkley, Edward, d. 1696.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1600; ESTC W35426	40,779	64

come to the house and understood though at first they knew not they were English who were in the house but thought that they might be Indians and therefore were ready to have shot at us till we discerning they were English by the Majors speaking I caused the Trumpet to be sounded that the said Captain Hutchinson my self and Company with the Towns Inhabitants were there but the Indians also discerned that there were some come to cur Assistance whereupon they spared not their shot but poured it out on them but through the Lords goodness though they stood not farr asunder one from another they killed not one man wounded only two of his Company and killed the Majors Sons horse after that we within the house perceived the Indians shooting so at them we hastened the Major and all his Company into the house as fast as we could and their horses into a little yard before the house where they wounded five other horses that night After they were come into the house to us the Enemies continued their shooting some Considerable time so that we may well say had not the Lord been on our side when these Cruel Heathens rose up against us they had then swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us But wherein they dealt proudly the Lord was above them When they saw their divers designes unsuccessful and their hopes therin disappointed they then fired the houss barne wherein they had before kept to lye in wait to surprize any coming to us that by the Light thereof they might the better direct their shot at us but no hurt was done thereby praised be the Lord. And not long after they burnt the Meeting house wherein their Fortifications were as also the Barne which belonged to our house and so perceiving more strength come to our Assistance they did as we suppose despaîr of effecting any more mischief against us And therefore the greatest part of them towards the breaking of the day August the fifth went away and left us and we were quiet from any further molestations by them and on that morning we went forth of the house without danger and so daily afterward only one man was wounded about two dayes after as he went out to look after horses by some few of them sculking thereabouts We cannot tell how many of them we killed in all that time but one that afteewards was taken confessed that there were killed and wounded about eighty men or more Blessed be the Lord God of our Salvation who kept us from being all a prey to their Teeth But before they went away they burnt all the Town except the house we kept in and another that was not then finished They also made great spoyle of the Cattel belonging to the Inhabitants and after our Entrance into the house and during the time of our Confinement there they either killed or drove away almost all the horses of our Company We Continued there both well and wounded towards a Fortnight and August the thirteenth Captain Hutchinson and my self with the most of those that had escaped without hurt and also some of the wounded came from thence my Son Thomas and some other wounded men came not from thence being not then able to endure Travel so farr as we were from the next Town till about a Fortnight after We came to Marlborough on August the Fourteenth where Captain Hutchinson being not recovered of his wound before his coming from Brookfield and overtyred with his long Journy by Reason of his weakness quickly after grew worse and more dangerously ill and on the nineteenth day of the said moneth dyed and was there the day after buried the Lord being pleased to deny him a return to his own habitation and his near Relations at Boston though he was come the greatest part of his Journy thitherward The Inhabitants of the Town also not long after men women and Children removed safely with what they had left to several places either where they had lived before their planting or sitting down there or where they had Relations to receive and entertain them The Honoured Major Willard stayed at Brookfield some weeks after our coming away there being several Companies of Souldiers sent up thither and to Hadly and the Towns thereabouts which are about Thirty Miles from Brookfield whither also the Major went for a time upon the Service of the Country in the present warr and from whence there being need of his presence for the ordering of matters concerning his own Regiment and the safety of the Towns belonging to it he through Gods goodness and mercy returned in safety and health to his house and dear Relations at Groaton Thus I have Indeavoured to set down and declare both what the Lord did against us in the Loss of several persons Lifes and the wounding of others some of which wounds were very painful in dressing and long ere they were healed besides many dangers that we were in and fears that we were exercised with and also what great things he was pleased to do for us in frustrating their many Attempts and vouchsafing such a Deliverance to us The Lord avenge the Blood that hath been shed by these Heathen who hate us without a Cause though he be most Righteous in all that hath befallen there and in all other parts of the Country He help us to humble our selves before him and with our whole hearts to return to him and also to improve all his mercies which we still enioy that so his anger may cease towards us and he may be pleased either to make our Enemies at peace with us or more destroy them before us I tarried at Marlborough with Captain Hutchinson until his death and came home to Concord August the 21. though not throughly recovered of my wound and so did others that went with me But since I am Reasonable well though I have not the use of my hand and Arm as before My Son Thomas though in great hazard of Life for some time after his return to Concord yet is now very well Cured and his strength well restored Oh that we could praise the Lord for his great goodness towards us Praised be his Name that though he took away some of us yet was pleased to spare so many of us and adde unto our dayes He help us whose Souls he hath delivered from Death and Eyes from Tears and Feet from falling to walk before him in the Land of the Living till our great Change come and to sanctifie his Name in all his wayes about us that both our Afflictions and our mercies may quicken us to live more to his glory all our dayes THE SERNON Psal 116.12 What shall I Render unto the Lord for all his Benefits towards me THere is no Condition of men here below so good but there is need of duty There is none so bad as to be past duty In all Estates we must be doing no Providence exempts from duty yet several