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A34383 A Continuation of the state of New-England being a farther account of the Indian warr, and of the engagement betwixt the joynt forces of the United English collonies and the Indians on the 19th of December 1675 ... Together with an account of the intended rebellion of the Negroes in the Barbadoes. 1676 (1676) Wing S119A; Wing C5971; ESTC R29328 14,477 22

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and witnessed unto by sundry other of his chief men Witness John Sousamen The Mark E of Francis the Sachem of Nauset The Mark P of Philip alias Metacom Likewise in the year 1621. several of the Indian Sachems besides Massasoiet before-named came unto the Government of New Plimouth and acknowledged themselves to be the Loyal Subjects of our Soveraign Lord King James and subscribed unto a writing to that purpose with their own hands the tenour of which said writing followeth with their names annexed thereunto some judicious persons conceive it may be of use in succeeding Ages if not in ours I think it convenient here to insert it September the 13th 1621. Know all men by these Presents that we whose Names are under written do acknowledge our selves to be the Loyal Subjects of King James King of Great Brittain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. In Witness whereof and as a Testimonial of the same we have Subscribed our Names or Marks as followeth Obqnamebud Gawnacome Obbatinua Nattawahunt Counbatant Chikkatabak Quadaquinta Huttamoiden Apannow The Original Instruments signed with their own hands and the chief of their men still remain on Record in the Register of the Court of New Plimouth In the said year 1621. the Narroganset Indians sent a Messenger to the Governour of Plimouth with a bundle of Arrows tyed together with a Snakes skin which he understood was a threatning and a challenge Upon which the Governour sent them this Answer That if they loved War rather than Peace they might begin when they would he had done them no wrong neither did he fear them nor should they find him unprovided and by another Messenger sent the Snakes skin back with Bullets in it but they would not receive them but sent them back again but the Indians were better advised than to quarrel with the English at that time BARBADOES Spickes-Bay November the 30th 1675. MY last to you was an information of a bloody Tragedy intended against his Majesties Subjects here in this Island by the Heathen the Negroes which was by the Providence of God miraculously discovered eight days before the intended Murder should have been acted The manner of the discovery was thus A Negroe man belonging to Mr. Hall Senior being absented from his said Master among several other Negroes who had a hand in the Plot In a Councel among them they did contrive that the Negroes belonging to each several Plantation should in the dead time of the Night fall on at the sound of the Allarm which was to be given in one hour and at several places through the Island which Negroes so allotted was to kill their Master and Mistresses with their Overseers this foresaid Negroe of Mr. Halls though one of the chief Plotters yet having a respect to his Master would by no means consent to the killing of his Master and upon refusal was much threatned and being afraid of his Life makes his escape and returns home and one day which was a little before the prosecution of the murder was over-heard telling the Plot to his Country-men by a Negro Woman who waited and attended on her Mistress which the Negro Woman immediately reveals The Negroe man being taken to examination confest the whole truth which was immediately told the Governour who appointed some Captains to raise their Companies for depressing the Rebels which accordingly was done and abundance taken apprehended since put to death and the rest kept in a more stricter manner yet Jethuran like we have kicked against God and slighted the mercy of so great a deliverance The manner of their proceedings I wrote to your more at large and as the Lord did deliver us from the Tyranny and barbarous cruelty of Savage Heathens and we still remaining obstinate refusing to return to him by Repentance the Lord hath taken us into his own hand to chastise us which chastilements lyeth very heavy on the poorer sort and none of the Rich excepted Sir upon the last day of August last about six of the Clock in the Afternoon there did arise a Violent Storm of Wind Rain out of the North West and continuing between the North and the South so violent that before the hour of Twelve at Night there was not twenty Houses standing in our Parish in which there is above three hundred Families and those that did stand much damnified our Neighbouring Parishes tasting of the same Cup. There is kill'd out-right by the falling of Houses in this Parish thirty seven and many more is since with the violence of the wind and cold dead and many lying in their beds of sickness and as to our Ships all drove Ashore to pieces except one of the Kings Men of War which went to Sea and returning next day after the Storm was ceased did protest to the Governour that twenty Leagues off there was no Storm for he carried his Top sail half Mass high Our fellow-subjects in new-New-England have the 28th of the same month tasted of the same Cup and was very hard put to it this last Summer by one King Philip an Indian King who hath Revolted without cause given him by the English neither will he shew any reason why but being by an Embassador from the Governour of Boston demanded why he would maintain the War refused to Treat with the Embassador telling him The Governour was but a Subject and that he would not Treat except his Brother King Charles of England were there There is abundance of Families destroyed besides those kill'd in the War but it is very much hoped this Winter they will be Routed the reason is because they have no Woods nor Bushes to shelter in which is a great help to a Flying-Army such as they are for they will not bide any pitch Battel Our Brethren in Virginia had been hard put to it this last Summer if it had not been for the Relief of New-England and New York which makes it the harder with us here pray God mend it By the tempestuous Wind and the violent raging of the Sea which hath much over-flowed our banks and incroacht upon the Land here are many Houses lost among which mine was in number where I saved nothing to cover us from the violence of the Storm but what was on our backs Pray God that I may make a sanctified use of the Chastisement because the Lord hath not given over our Life to Death So having no more at present but my Service to your self and good Lady I rest Your humble Servant G. W. I forbear to tell or to write to you of the strange Accidents as the removing of whole Frames great timber Trees many yards from their proper stations by the violence of the Storm if I should it would be counted Ridiculous but I leave it to the Relation of others Wind-mills down in this Parish 16. much damnified 12. indeed none standing but stone mills in the Parish but what must be pull'd down Churches down 9. Such another blow will bring Barbadoes near the Horizon FINIS
A Continuation Of the STATE of NEW-ENGLAND Being a Farther ACCOUNT of the Indian Warr And of the Engagement betwixt the Joynt Forces of the United English Collonies and the Indians on the 19th of December 1675. With the thue Number of the Slain and Wounded and the Transactions of the English Army since the said Fight With all other Passages that have there Hapned from the 10th of November 1675. to the 8th of February 1675 6. Together with an Account of the intended Rebellion of the Negroes in the Barbadoes Licensed March 27. 1676. Henry Oldenburg DIEV ET MON DROIT C. R. HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE LONDON Printed by T. M. for Dorman Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultry 1676. ERRATA PAge 1. line 9. read Nipnet ibid. l. 26. r. Original pag. 6. l. the last r. Wigwams p. 7. l. 7. r. December p. 13. l. 11. r. Wigwams p. 14. l. 1. r. went home ibid. l. 10. r. incommoded BOSTON February the 9th 1675. SIR MY last to you was of the 10th of November past which in regard we have had much Westerly Winds since I hope ere this time you have received according to the best Information I had or could procure I made bold to acquaint you with sundry Passages that before the date thereof came to pass amongst us I also sent you two of our Orders in Print by Order of the Council here The one for the Confinement of our Neetop i. e. Friend Indians the other for a general Fast throughout this Collony By the one you may see the great Care our Authority hath as well to make a distinction visible betwixt our Friends the Christian Indians and our Enemies the Heathens as also to secure the one from injuries and to lay the other open and make them liable to the hand of Justice By the other you may see what sence of the immediate hand of God upon us our Magistrates have and truly Sir we have great cause to bless the Lord for that we have such Magistrates and Councellers that we are so well assured do aime at the Glory of God and the peace and welfare of his people in this Wilderness that however the mighty hand of God is lifted up upon us and he hath given Commission to the Sword to destroy yet we are well satisfied there is nothing wanting that lyeth within the reach of their wisdom or strength Wherefore in the midst of our troubles we comfort our selves in this that we are satisfied they do what in them lyeth I hope in some short time I may hear of your receipt thereof Sir In my last I also gave you at first an Account of the Reasons of the Rise and Origin of these unhappy Wars in which my Information was not so perfect but that there was somewhat amiss although at that time the Account thereof was generally receiv'd and the alteration is not much only in some few particular circumstances Wherefore that you might be the more certain thereof I shall give you an account wherein I missed Thus About six years since one Sosoman an Indian-Schollar and Minister having spent some years in the Study of Divinity being by that time judged capable of Preaching the Gospel was by the Authority of Plymouth sent to Preach to King Philip he with some seeming-kind of Devotion heard him for a while at several times and however his Zeal was in outward appearance yet all that time and a good while before he with several of his own men had a Conspiracy to cut off the English thereabouts and scrupled not to make the business known to Sosoman as supposing he might be of great use to him in the carrying on that bloody design whereupon this Sosoman soon after makes this thing known to the Governor of New-Plymouth-Collony Josiah Winslow Esq King Philip suspecting he either would divulge or had already made known this secret to the English took Councel to kill this Sosoman wherefore in order thereunto one day as he sat fishing by a River-side two or three Indians came and barbarously Murthered him in the place whereupon as soon as the Governor and Councel of Plymouth heard thereof sent and took the said Murtherers as also a small Party went to King Philip and brought him and most of his chief men to Plymouth and there Examined them and had several meetings in Consultation about the business but King Philip behaved himself very uncivilly like a Heathen however due proof could not be produced against him and he nor his Men not having yet shed any English Blood after his entring into a League of Peace with the English was dismist only the Murtherers after a legal Condemnation were Hanged Here lies the occasion of our present difference which I have made bold to acquaint you of Sir Towards the close of my last to you I gave you an Account of what was done at Hatfield the 19th of Octob. last in which Fight the Heathens were so put to it that they were forced to go to their last refuge that is the Narragansets who I wrote you word we feared every day more and more would prove perfidious to us wherefore the Authority of the United Collonies having Intelligence that King Philip with his whole retinue as well Women and Children c. did harbor themselves under the protection of Ninicroft who is the King of the Narragansets as also hearing that that same Sachem that came to Boston about the end of September last being Ninicroft's Eldest Son is since Marryed to the Squaw Sachem which Marriage doth signifie a near Alliance and also seeing that what that Sachem did agree unto with our Authority when in Boston is not at all regarded by them for that Sachem sent word when he came home into his own Country that Ninicroft would not agree to what he had done these things so falling out near the same time put our Authority then in Councel upon some necessity of finding out a speedy way to remedy the same But notwithstanding their perfideousness hitherto yet about three weeks after five Sachems came together from Ninicroft to Boston and engaged that our Enemies entertained by them should be delivered up instantly but nothing being done of what they promised the Commissioners of the United Collonies sitting in Councel here the several consid erations here exprest with others moveing them thereto in the first place published this following Remonstrance here inserted verbatim and ordered a Body of Souldiers Horse and Foot to march hence in order thereunto on the 10th of this Instant December six Companies of Foot and Horse marched hence unto Seaconck The number of the Souldiers were thus Of Massachusetts and Plimouth Collonies 700. Foot and 200. Horse and Connecticot Collony having 300. Foot and 100. Horse ready to meet them at New London whereof Governour Josiah Winslow is gone out General From Massachusetts Collony is gone out in Command Major Appleton of Ipswich Captain James Oliver Captain Samuel Moseley and Capt.