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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

Command of the enemyes Block-house were at their first entrance many of them shot down although they came on with as gallant resolution as any of the rest under the conduct of their wise and valiant Leader Major Treat The brunt of the Battle or danger that day lay most upon the Commanders whose part it was to lead on their several Companies in the very face of Death or else all had been lost so as all of them with great valour and resolution of minde as not at all afraid to dy in so good a cause bravely led on their men in that desperate assault leaving their lives in the place as the best testimony of their valour and of love to the cause of God and their Country No less then six brave Captains fell that day in the assault viz. Capt. Davenport Capt. Gardner Capt. Johnson of the Massachusets besides Lieutenant Vpham who died some months after of his wounds received at that time Capt. Gallop also and Capt. Siely and Capt. Marshal were slain of those that belonged to Connecticut Colony It is usually seen that the valour of the Souldiers is much wrapped up in the lives of their Commanders yet was it found here that the Souldiers were rather enraged then discouraged by the loss of their Commanders which made them redouble their Courage and not give back after they were entred the second time till they had driven out their Enemies So as after much blood and many wounds dealt on both sides the English seeing their advantage began to fire the Wigwams where was supposed to be many of the Enemies Women and Children destroyed by the firing of at least five or six hundred of those smoaky Cells It is reported by them that first entred the Indians Fort that our Souldiers came upon them when they were ready to dress their Dinner but our sudden and unexpected assault put them besides that work making their Cookrooms too hot for them at that time when they and their Mitchin fryed together and probably some of them eat their Suppers in a colder place that night most of their Provision as well as their Hutts being then consumed with fire and those that were left alive forced to hide themselves in a Cedar Swamp not far off where they had nothing to defend them from the cold but Boughs of Spruce and Pine Trees for after two or three hours fight the English became Masters of the place but not judging it tenable after they had burned all they could set fire upon they were forced to retreat after the Day-light was almost quite spent and were necessitated to retire to their quarters full fifteen or sixteen miles off some say more whither with their Dead and Wounded men they were to march a difficulty scarce to be believed as not to be paralleld almost in any former age It is hard to say who acquitted themselves best in that dayes service either the Souldiers for their manlike valour in fighting or the Commanders for their wisdome and courage leading on in very face of death There might one have seen the whole Body of that little Regimental Army as busie as Bees in a Hive some bravely fighting with the Enemy others haling off and carrying away the Dead and Wounded Men which I rather note that none may want the due testimony of their valour and faithfulness though all ought to say not unto us but unto thy Name O Lord c. For though there might not be above three or four hundred at any time within the Fort at once yet the rest in their turns came up to do what the exigence of the service required in bringing off the Dead and Wounded men The Major of the Regiment together with Captain Mosely was very serviceable for by that means the Fort being clear of the Dead bodies it struck a greater terrour into the Enemy to see but eight or ten dead bodies of the English left then to meet with so many hundreds of their own slain and wounded Carkasses The number of the slain was not then known on the Enemies side because our Men were forced to leave them on the ground but our victory was found afterwards to be much more considerable then at the first was apprehended for although our loss was very great not only because of the desperateness of the attempt it self in such a season of the year and at such a distance from our quarters whereby many of our wounded men perished which might otherwise have been preserved if they had not been forced to march so many miles in a cold snowy night before they could be dressed yet the Enemy lost so many of their principal fighting men their Provision also was by the burning of their Wigwams so much of it spoiled at the taking of their Fort and by surprizing so much of their Corn about that time also that it was the occasion of their total ruine afterwards they being at that time driven away from their habitations and put by from Planting for that next year as well as deprived of what they had in store for the present winter What numbers of the Enemy were slain is uncertain it was confessed by one Potock a great Councellor amongst them afterwards taken at Road-Island and put to Death at Boston that the Indians lost seven hundred fighting men that day besides three hundred that dyed of their Wounds the most of them the number of old men women and children that perished either by fire or that were starved with hunger and cold none of them could tell There was above eighty of the English slain and a hundred and fifty wounded that recovered afterwards There were several circumstances in this Victory very remarkable First The meeting with one Peter a fugitive Indian that upon some discontent flying from the Narrhagansets offered himself to the service of the English and did faithfully perform what he promised viz. to lead them to the Swamp where the Indians had seated themselves within a Fort raised upon an Island of firm Earth in the midst of a Swamp whither none of the English could have Piloted them without his assistance the place being near eighteen miles from the place where they were quartered Secondly There being by a special providence directed just to a place where they found so easie entrance which if they had missed they could never have made a way through the Hedge with which they had surrounded the Pallizadoes of the Fort in half a dayes time And Thirdly If they had entred by the way left by the Indians for passage they might have been cut off before they could have come near their Fortification Lastly In directing their motion to begin the Assault just at the day they did for if they had deferred but a day longer there fell such a storm of Snow the next day that they could not have passed through it in divers weeks after And then on the sudden there fell such a Thaw that melted away both Ice and Snow

his pride sometime threatned against Jerusalem but was by the remarkable providence of God so confounded within a few months after that he was bereft of his four hundred and fourscore of which he now boasted and only with a few more Bragadozio's like himself Sagamore Sam old Jethro and the Sagamore of Quobaog were taken by the English and was seen not long before the writing of this marching towards the Gallows through Boston Streets which he threatned to burn at his pleasure with an Halter about his neck with which he was hanged at the Towns end September 26. in this present year 1676. So let thine Enemies perish O Lord and such contempt be poured on all them that open their mouthes to blaspheme thy holy Name Things looked with a pritty sad face about those parts at this time yet though the Righteous fall seven times let not their Enemies rejoyce for the Righteous shall rise again but their wicked Enemies shall fall into mischief and rise no more It was ebbing water with New-England at this time and a while after but God shall turn the stream before it be long and bring down their Enemies to lick the dust before them After this April 17. Captain Sill being appointed to keep Garison at Groton some Indians coming to hunt for Swine three Indians drew near the Garison house supposing it to have been deserted were two of them slain by one single shot made by the Captains own hands and the third by another shot made from the Garison The danger which these inland Towns were like to be exposed unto from the Enemy after they were driven out of the Narrhaganset Country was foreseen by the Council of the Massachusets yea they had some intimation thereof from the Enemy themselves but they were not well able to prevent it in that unseasonable time of the year no way fit for marching of Souldiers and transporting of Provisions the Winter then beginning to break up in this Country for while our Forces were up in the Narrhaganset Country in the Winter a couple of Christian Indians were sent as Spyes into the Nipnet and Narrhaganset Country through the Woods in the depth of Winter when the wayes were impassable for any other sort of people these two by name James and Job ordered their business so prudently as that they were admitted into those Indian habitations as Friends and had free liberty of Discourse with them they were at the first a little jealous of them but by the means of one eyed John a great Captain of the Indians that afterward led them that spoiled Groton who having been a Companion of one of the said Spyes both in Hunting and in fighting against the Mohawks formerly so esteemed of him that he would not suffer any of the rest to touch him they passed through all the Indian Towns lying thirty miles distant from Quobaog and twenty miles northward of the Road to Connecticut one of the said Spyes returned about Jan. 24. informing those that sent him what he had observed both the number of the Indians about three hundred in all also their several Towns and what provision they had plenty of Venison much Pork from the English mens Hogs which they had taken they confessed likewise that he and some of his party had killed the People at Nashaway the last year suspected to have been done by the Indians of Malberough he told them also they intended to burn Lancaster within three weeks after that time which accordingly they did much about the same time adding moreover that some Frenchmen were with them at Pocomptuck encouraging of them to go on with their designs promising them assistance which made some ready to think the Indians were stirred up by the French to do all this mischief but more of that afterwards what might be gathered from the foresaid premises is easie to conceive whereupon new Forces with as much speed as the season would allow were raised and sent up into those parts under the command of Major Savage in chief they were dispatched away in the beginning of March and appointed to meet with such as should be sent from Connecticut Colony which they did about Quabaog and so intended to march directly up to those Indian Towns about Watchuset Hill to the Northwest but the Indians were gone and our Forces in the pursuit of them taking the wrong path missed of them yet ranging through those woods they were at one time sudenly assaulted by a small party of Indians firing upon them wounding Mr. Gershom Bulkly by a shot in his Thigh and killing one of their Souldiers after which as they marched along they accidentally fell upon another small party of the Enemy of whom they slew some and took others to the number of sixteen yet could not meet with the main Body of the Enemy who it seems had passed over a great River by Rafts so our men could follow them no further wherefore turning down towards Hadly and North-hampton whether it was supposed the Indians intended to pass They came very seasonably to the relief of the said Towns which else had been in danger of being lost For March 14. The Enemy fell upon North-Hampton and in three places broke through the Fortification of Palizadoes set up round about the Town a little before for their better security but the Town being at that time full of Souldiers they were quickly repulsed after they had killed four men and two women and fired four or five dwelling houses and as many barns with the loss of many of their lives as was supposed While our Forces under Major Savage continued on that side of the Country a sad accident fell out at Springfield the certainty of which it is judged meet here to relate to prevent mistakes the matter having through a great oversight been otherwise represented then indeed it was not only to the prejudice of Truth but to the disadvantage of some persons concerned therein While the Souldiers were quartered amongst the several Towns upon Cinnecticut River a party of the Troop were quartered at a place belonging to Springfield called the Long Meadow three miles from the Town below toward Windsor several of the Inhabitants having most of the Winter kept from the publick meeting on the Lords dayes for fear of the Enemy were incouraged to adventure to the Assembly on the 26 of March riding in the company of the Troopers but having heard of no Indians thereabouts a good while were more secure then they had cause for riding some of them with women behind them and some with their Children in their Arms yet not so careful as to keep in the middle but rather in the Rear and at a pretty distance stragling from the rest of the Company a party of Indians lying in the Bushes as they rode along fired upon the hindmost and killed two and wounded others those in the Front having also Women and Maids behind some of them were at a stand to know what to do

with the spoils of of his Enemy The like subtle device was used by another of the Cape Indians at the same time being one of them that went out with Capt. Pierce for being in like manner pursued by one of Philips Indians as the former was he nimbly got behind the but end of a Tree newly turned up by the roots which carried a considerable breadth of the surface of the Earth along with it as is very usual in these parts where the roots of the Trees ly very fleet in the ground which stood up above the Indians height in form of a large Shield only it was somewhat too heavy to be easily weilded or removed the Enemy Indian lay with his Gun ready to shoot him down upon his first disserting his station but a subtle wit taught our Christian Netop a better device for boring a little hole through this his broad Shield he discerned his enemy who could not so easily discern him a good Musketier need never desire a fairer mark to shoot at whereupon discharging his Gun he shot him down what can be more just then that he should himself be killed who lay in wait to kill another man neque enim Lex jnstior ulla est Quàm necis Artifices arte perire suâ Instances of this nature shew the subtlety and dexterousness of these Natives if they were improved in feats of Arms and possibly if some of the English had not been too shye in making use of such of them as were well affected to their interest they need never have suffered so much from their enemies it having been found upon late experience that many of them have proved not only faithful but very serviceable and helpful to the english they usually proving good Seconds though they have not ordinarily confidence enough to make the first Onset But to return to the proceeding of the Indians toward Plimouth Feb. 25. They assaulted Weymouth and burned seven or eight houses barns there which Weymouth is a town lying towards Plimouth Colony March 12. following They assaulted the house of one Mr. Clark in Plimouth cruelly murthering eleven persons that belonged to two Families that lodged therein and then fired the house The cruelty towards these persons was the more remarkable in that they had often received much kindness from the said Clarke It is the usual custome of such Debtors to use them worst of whom they have taken up much kindness upon trust before hand March 17 th Another party of them fell upon Warwick a place beyond Philips Land toward the Narrhaganset Country where they burnt down to the ground all but a few houses left standing as a Monument of their barbarous fury The like mischief was acted by them upon the houses of the English remaining in the Narrhaganset Country This 26 of March being the first day of the week as the first of the year after our Julian account seemed ominous at the first on sundry accounts threatning a gloomy time yet proved in the issue but as a louring morning before a lightsome day For besides the burning of Marlburrough at least a great part of it on the same day a very sad accident fell out the same time at Springfield as shall he specified hereafter besides that which befell Captain Pierce which is already related with whom fell so many of his Souldiers on the same day also yet had the Enemy no cause to boast being forced by the valour of the English to give so many of their own lives in exchange some few made their escape as is said by subtle devices besides the three forementioned another by a like shift not only saved himself but helped an English man to escape also whom he ran after with his Hatchet in his hand as if he were about to kill him whereby both of them made a shift to get away the rest were all lost the unfaithfulness of the Messenger being as was intimated before the cause of their slaughter unto a few that hardly escaped by the advantage of the bushes giving them opportunity to pass unseen yet was it confessed by a Prisoner of the enemy taken afterward by the English that they lost an hundred and forty in that encounter And had not the said English by wading after the enemy over a River made their amunition useless there had not half so many of them been cut off From thence they turned back towards Rehoboth near Swanzy where on March 28. they burnt thirty Barns and near upon forty dwelling houses thereby as it were threatning the utter desolation of that poor town and so proceeding on that side the Country they burnt the very next day about thirty houses in Providence in the way toward Narrhaganset But it was now full sea with Philip his affairs for soon after the tide of his successes began to turn about the Sea coast which made way for the falling of the water up higher in the Country For about this time newes came to Boston that our neighbours and friends of Connecticut Colony hearing of the attempts of the enemy on that side of the Country sent a party of their Souldiers under the Command of Capt. George Denison with some friendly Indians part Mohegins and Pequods part Nianticks belonging to Ninigret a Narrhaganset Sachem who never engaged in this quarrell against the English who in pursuit of the enemy meeting with a considerable part of them about the Narrhaganset Country killed and took forty and five of them without the loss of one of their own men This Victory was the more considerable in that several of the chief Captains of the enemy were at this time killed or taken amongst whom was Canonehet who came down to got seed-corn to plant at Squakheag he was the chief Sachem of all the Narrhagansets the son of Miantonimoh and the heir of all his fathers pride and insolency as well as of his malice against the English a most perfidious villain who had the last October been at Boston pretending to make a firm peace with the English but never intending to keep one Article thereof Therefore as a just reward of his wickedness was he adjudged by those that took him to dye which was accordingly put in execution at Stonington whither he was carryed There his head being cut off was carried to Hartford The Mohegins and Pequods that had the honour to take him prisoner having the honour likewise of doing justice upon him that by the prudent advice of the English Commanders thereby the more firmly to engage the said Indians against the treacherous Narrhagansets There are differing reports about the manner of his taking and by whom whither the Indians or the English first took him however it was sufficient matter of rejoycing to all the Colonyes of the English that the Ring-leader of almost all this mischief and great Incendiary betwixt the Narhagansets and us dyed himself by that sword of warre which he had drawn against others Not long after Capt.

few more shot made without doing harm retired and made no further assault upon them being the same Party of Indians which the day before had burned some part of Chelmsford Soon after this Village was deserted and destroyed by the enemy yet was it a special providence that though the carts were guarded with so slender a Convoy yet there was not any considerable loss sustained The Surprizall of Groton was after this manner On March 2. The Indians came in the night and rifled eight or nine houses and carried away some cattle and alarmed the Town On March 9. About ten in the morning a parcel of Indians having two dayes lurked in the town and taken possession of three out-houses and feasted themselves with corn divers swine and poultry which they there seized laid an ambush for two Carts which went from their garison to fetch in some hay attended with four men two of which espying the enemy made a difficult escape the other two were set upon and one of them slain stript naked his body mangled and dragged into the high-way and laid on his back in a most shamefull manner the other taken Captive and after sentenced to death but the enemy not concuring in the manner of it execution was deferred and he by the providence of God escaped by a bold attempt the night before he was designed to slaughter and fled to the Garison at Lancaster the cattle in both towns wounded and five of them slain outright March 13. Was the day when the enemy came in a full body by there own account 400. and thought by the Inhabitants to be not many fewer The town was at this time having been put into a fright by the sad Catastrophe of Lancaster the next bordering town gathered into five Garisons four of which were so near together as to be able to command from one to the other between which were the cattle belonging to those Families driven into pastures which afterward proved their preservation the other was near a mile distant from the rest This morning the Indians having in the night placed themselves in several parts of the town made their Onset which began near the four Garisons for a body of them having placed themselves in Ambuscado behind a hill near one of the Garisons two of them made discovery of themselves as if they had stood upon discovery At this time divers of the people nothing suspecting any such matter for the day before many had been upon discovery many miles and found no signs of an Enemy being so near were attending their occasions some foddering their cattle some milking their Cows of whom the Enemy might easily have made a seizure but God prevented they having another design in hand as soon after appeared These two Indians were at length espyed and the Alarm given whereupon the most of the men in the next Garison and some also of the second which was about eight or nine pole distant drew out and went to surprize these two Indians who kept their station till our men reached the brow of the hill then arose the ambush and discharged a volley upon them which caused a disorderly retreat or rather a rout in which one was slain and three others wounded mean while another ambush had risen and come upon the back side of the Garison so deserted of men and pulled down the Palizadoes The Souldiery in this rout retreated not to their own but passed by to the next Garison the women and children mean while exposed to hazard but by the goodness of God made a safe escape to the other fortified house without any harm leaving their substance to the enemy who made a prey of it and spent the residue of the day in removing the corn and houshold-stuff in which loss five Familyes were impoverished and firing upon the other Garison here also they took some Cattle No sooner was the signal given by the first volley of shot but immediately in several parts of the town at once did the smoakes arise they firing the houses In the afternoon they used a stratagem not unlike the other to have surprised the single Garison but God prevented An old Indian if an Indian passed along the street with a black sheep on his back with a slow pace as one decrepit They made several shot at him but missed him at which several issued out to have taken him alive but the Watchman seasonably espying an ambush behind the house gave the signal whereby they were prevented The night following the enemy lodged in the town some of them in the Garison they had surprized but the Body of them in an adjacent valley where they made themselves merry after their savage manner The next morning they gave two or three Volleyes at Capt. Parkers Garison so marched off fearing as was thought that supply might be nigh at hand This assault of theirs was managed with their wonted subtlety and barbarous cruelty for they stript the body of him whom they had slain in the first onset and then cutting off his head fixed it upon a pole looking towards his own land The corpse of the man slain the week before they dug up out of his grave they cut off his head and one leg and set them upon poles and stript off his winding sheet An Infant which they found dead in the house first surprised they cut in pieces which afterward they cast to the swine There were about forty dwelling houses burnt at that time besides other buildings This desolation was followed with the breaking up of the town and scattering of the Inhabitants and removal of the Candlestick after it had been there seated above twelve years Concerning the surprizing of Groton March 13. There was not any thing much more material then what is already mentioned save only the insolency of John Monoco or one eyed John the chief Captain of the Indians in that design who having by a sudden surprizal early in the morning seized upon a Garison house in one end of the Town continued in it plundering what was there ready at hand all that day and at night did very familiarly in appearance call out to Capt. Parker that was lodged in another Garison house and entertained a great deal of Discourse with him whom he called his old Neighbour dilating upon the cause of the War and putting an end to it by a friendly peace yet oft mixing bitter Sarcasmes with several blasphemous scoffs and taunts at their praying and worshipping God in the meeting house which he deridingly said he had burned Among other things which he boastingly uttered that night he said he burnt Medfield though it be not known whither he was there personally present or no Lancaster and that now he would burn that Town of Groton and the next time he would burn Chelmsford Concord Watertown Cambridge Charlstown Roxbury Boston adding at last in their Dialect What Me will Me do not much unlike the proud Assyrian if his power had been equal to