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A14203	Nevves from America; or, A new and experimentall discoverie of New England containing, a true relation of their war-like proceedings these two yeares last past, with a figure of the Indian fort, or palizado. Also a discovery of these places, that as yet have very few or no inhabitants which would yeeld speciall accommodation to such as will plant there, viz. Queenapoik. Agu-wom. Hudsons River. Long Island. Nahanticut. Martins Vinyard. Pequet. Naransett Bay. Elizabeth Islands. Puscat away. Casko with about a hundred islands neere to Casko. By Captaine Iohn Underhill, a commander in the warres there.	Underhill, John, d. 1672.; R. H., fl. 1638, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 24518; ESTC S111497	22,794	49

Lieutenant went out with tenne armed men and starting three Indians they changed some few shotte for arrowes pursuing them an hundred more started out of the ambushments and almost surrounded him and his company and some they slew others they maimed and forced them to retreat to their Fort so that it was a speciall providence of God that they were not all slaine some of their armes they got from them others put on the English clothes and came to the Fort jeering of them and calling come and fetch your English mens clothes againe come out and fight if you dare you dare not fight you are all one like women we have one amongst us that if he could kill but one of you more he would be equall with God and as the English mans God is so would hee be this blasphemous speech troubled the hearts of the souldiers but they knew not how to remedy it in respect of their weaknesse The Conetticot Plantation understanding the insolencie of the enemie to bee so great sent downe a certaine number of souldiers under the conduct of Captaine Iohn Mason for to strengthen the Fort. The enemy lying hovering about the Fort continually tooke notice of the supplies that were come and forbore drawing neere it as before and Letters were immediatly sent to the Bay to that Right worshipfull Gentleman Master Henry Vane for a speedy supply to strengthen the Fort. For assuredly without supply suddenly came ●n reason all would be lost and fall into the hands of the enemy This was the trouble and perplexity that lay upon the spirits of the poore garrisons Upon serious consideration the Governour and Councell sent forth my selfe with 20. armed souldiers to supply the necessitie of those distressed persons and to take the government of that place for the space of three moneths reliefe being come Captaine Iohn Mason with the rest of his company returned to the Plantation againe we sometimes fell out with a matter of twentie souldiers to see whether we could discover the enemy or no they seeing us lying in ambush gave us leave to passe by them considering we were too hot for them to meddle with us our men being compleatly armed with Corslets Muskets bandileeres rests and swords as they themselves related afterward did much daunt them thus we spent a matter of six weekes before we could have any thing to doe with them perswading our selves that all things had beene well But they seeing there was no advantage more to be had against the Fort they enterprized a new action and fell upon Water towne now called Wethersfield with two hundred Indians before they came to attempt the place they put into a certaine River an obscure small river running into the maine where they incamped and refreshed themselves and fitted themselves for their service and by breake of day attempted their enterprise and slew nine men women and children having finished their action they suddenly returned againe bringing with them two maids captives having put poles in their Conoos as we put Masts in our boats and upon them hung our English mens and womens shirts and smocks in stead of sayles and in way of bravado came along in sight of us as we stood upon Seybrooke Fort and seeing them passe along in such a triumphant manner wee much fearing they had enterprised some desperate action upon the English wee gave fire with a peece of Ordnance and shotte among their Conooes And though they were a mile from us yet the bullet grazed not above twentie yards over the Conooe where the poore maids were it was a speciall providence of God it did not hit them for then should we have beene deprived of the sweet observation of Gods providence in their deliverance we were not able to make out after them being destitute of meanes Boats and the like before wee proceed any further to a full relation of the insolent proceeding of this barbarous Nation give me leave to touch upon the severall accommodations that belong to this Seybrooke Fort. This Fort lyes upon a River called Conetticot at the mouth of it a place of a very good soyle good meadow divers sorts of good wood timber varietie of fish of severall kindes fowle in abundance Geese Duckes Brankes Teales Deere Roe buck Squirrels which are as good as our English Rabets pittie it is so famous a place should bee so little regarded it lyes to the Northwest of that famous place called Queenapiok which rather exceed the former in goodnesse it hath a faire River fit for harbouring of ships and abounds with rich and goodly medowes this lyes thirtie miles from the upper Plantations which are planted on the River Connetticot twelve miles above this Plantation is scituated a place called Aguawam no way inferiour to the forenamed places this Countrey and those parts doe generally yeeld a fertile soyle and good meadow all the Rivers along the river Conetticot is Navigable for Pinaces 60. miles it hath a strong fresh streame that descends out of the hills the tyde flowes not above halfe way up the River the strength of the freshite that comes downe the River is so strong that it stoppeth the force of the tyde The truth is I want time to set forth the excellencie of the whole Countrey but if you would know the garden of New England then must you glance your eye upon Hodsons river a place exceeding all yet named the River affords fish in abundance as Sturgeon Salmon and many delicate varieties of fish that naturally lyes in the River the onely place for Beaver that we have in those parts Long Iland is place worth the naming and generally affords most of the aforesaid accommodations Nahanticot Martins Vineyard Pequeat Narraganset Bay Elizabeth Ilands all these places are yet unhabited and generally afford good accommodation as a good soyle according as wee have expressed they are little inferiour to the former places The Narraganset Bay is a place for shipping so spacious as it will containe ten thousand sayle of ships Capcod New Plimouth Dukes bury and all those parts well accommodated for the receiving of people and yet few are there planted considering the spaciousnesse of the place The Bay it selfe although report goes it is full and can hardly entertaine any more yet there are but few townes but are able to receive more then they have already and to accommodate them in a comfortable measure The Northerne Plantations and Easterne as Puscataway would not bee neglected they are desirable places and lye in the heart of fishing Puscataway is a River navigable for a ship of a hundred tunne some six leagues up with Boats and Pinaces you may goe a great way further it is the onely key of the Countrey for safety with twelve peeces of Ordnance will keepe out all the enemies in the world the mouth of the River is narrow lyes full upon the Southeast Sea so as there is no ankoring without except 〈◊〉 hazard ship and men it is

NEVVES FROM AMERICA OR A NEW AND EXPERIMENTALL DISCOVERIE OF NEW ENGLAND CONTAINING A TRVE RELATION OF THEIR War-like proceedings these two yeares last past with a Figure of the Indian Fort or Palizado Also a discovery of these places that as yet have very few or no Inhabitants which would yeeld speciall accommodation to such as will Plant there Viz. Queenapoick Agu-wom Hudsons River Long Island Nahanticut Martins Vinyard Pequet Naransett Bay Elizabeth Islands Puscat away Casko with about a hundred Islands neere to Casko By Captaine IOHN UNDERHILL a Commander in the Warres there LONDON Printed by I.D. for Peter Cole and are to be sold at the signe of the Glove in Corne-hill neere the Royall Exchange 1638. 〈◊〉 of the Indians fort or Palizado in NEW ENGLAND 〈…〉 of the destroying 〈◊〉 C●●tayne Vnderhill 〈◊〉 Ca●tayne Mason Newes from America or a late and experimentall discoverie of New England I Shall not spend time for my other occasions will not permit to write largely of every particular but shall as briefly as I may performe these two things first give a true narration of the warre-like proceedings that hath been in New England these two years last past Secondly I shall discover to the Reader divers places in New England that would afford speciall accommodations to such persons as will Plant upon them I had not time to doe either of these as they deserved but wanting time to doe it as the nature of the thing required I shall according to my abilitie begin with a Relation of our warre-like proceedings and will inter-weave the speciall places fit for New Plantations with their description as I shall find occasion in the following discourse but I shall according to my promise begin with a true relation of the new England warres against the Block Ilanders and that insolent and barbarous Nation called the Pequeats whom by the sword of the Lord and a few feeble instruments souldiers not accustomed to warre were drove out of their Countrey and slaine by the sword to the number of fifteene hundred soules in the space of two moneths and lesse so as their Countrey is fully subdued and fallen into the hands of the English And to the end that Gods name might have the glory and his people see his power and magnifie his honour for his great goodnesse I have indevoured according to my weake ability to set forth the full relation of the Warre from the first rise to the end of the victory The cause of our war against the Block Islanders was for taking away the life of one Master Iohn Oldham who made it his common course trade amongst the Indians he comming to Block-Island to drive trade with them the Islanders came into his boate and having got a full view of commodities which gave them good content consulted how they might destroy him and his company to the end they might cloth their bloody flesh with his lawful garments The Indians having laid the plo● into the boate they came to trade as they pretended watching their opportunities knockt him in the head martyred him most Barbarously to the great griefe of his poore distressed servants which by the providence of God were saved This Island lying in the rode way to the Lord Sey and the Lord Brookes plantation a certaine Sea man called to Iohn Gallop Master of the Small navigation standing along to the Mathethusis Bay and seeing a boate under saile close aboard the Island and perceiving the sailes to be unskilfully managed bred in him a jealously whether that the Island Indians had not bloodily taken the life of our Countrie-men and made themselves Master of their goods suspecting this he bore up to them and approaching neere them was confirmed that his jealousie was just seeing Indians in the boate and knowing her to be the vessel of Master Oldham and not seeing him there gave fire upon them and slew some others leaped over board besides two of the number which he preserved alive and brought to the bay The blood of the innocent called for vengeance God stirred up the heart of the honoured Governour Master Henrie Vane and the rest of the worthy Magistrates to send forth a 100. well appointed Souldiers under the conduct of Captaine Iohn Hendicot and in company with him that had command Captaine Iohn Vnderhill Captaine Nathan Turner Captaine William Ienningson besides other inferiour Officers I would not have the world wonder at the great number of Commanders ●o so few men but know that the Indians fight ●arre differs from the Christian practise for they most commonly divide themselves into small bodies so that we are forced to neglect our usuall way and to subdivide our divisions to answer theirs and not thinking it any disparagement to any Captaine to go forth against an Enemy with a squaldron of men taking the ground from the old ancient practise when they chose Captaines of hundreds and Captaine of thousands Captaines of fifties and Captaines of tens We conceive a Captaine signifieth the chiefe in way of Command of any body committed to his charge for the time being whether of more or lesse it makes no matter in power though in honour it doth Comming to an anckor before the Island we espied an Indian walking by the shore in a desolate manner as though he had received intelligence of our comming Which Indian gave just ground to some to conclude that the body of the people had diserted the Island But some knowing them for the generality to be a warlike nation a people that spend most of their time in the studie of warlike policy were not perswaded that they would upon so slender termes forsake the Island but rather suspected they might lye behind ●●anke much like the forme of a Baracado● my selfe with others rode with a Shallop made towards the shore having in the Boat a dozen ●●med souldiers drawing neere to the place of landing the number that rose from behind the Barracado were betweene 50. or 60. able fighting men men as straite as arrowes very tall and of active bodyes having their arrowes nockt they drew neere to the water side and let flie at the souldiers as though they had meant to have made an end of us all in a moment they shot a young Gentleman in the necke thorow a coller for stiffenesse as if it had beene an oaken boord and entered his flesh a good depth my selfe received an arrow through my coate sleeve a second against my Helmet on the forehead so as if God in his providence had not moved the heart of my wife to perswade mee to carrie it along with me which I was unwilling to doe I had beene slaine Give me leave to observe two things from hence first when the houre of Death is not yet come you see God useth weake meanes to keepe his purpose unviolated Secondly let no man despise advise and Counsell of his wife though shee be a woman it were strange to nature to thinke a man should

accommodated with a good soyle abundance of good timber meadowes are not wanting to the place pitty it is it hath beene so long neglected Augumeaticus is a place of good accommodation it lyes five miles from Puscataway river where Sir Ferdinand● Go●ge hath a house it is a place worthy to bee inhabited a soyle that beares good corne all sorts of g●aine ●lax hemp the Countrey generally will afford there was growne in Puscataway the last yeare and in the Bay as good English graine as can grow in any part of the world Casko hath a famous Bay accommodated with a hundred Ilands and is fit for Plantation and hath a River belonging to it which doth afford fish in abundance fowle also in great measure so full of Fowle it is that strangers may be supplyed with varietie of fowle in an houre or two after their arrivall which knew not how to be relieved before because the place in generall is so famous and well knowne to all the world and chiefly to on English Nation the most noblest of this Common-wealth I therefore forbeare many particulars which yet might be expressed 〈◊〉 in regard of many aspersions hath beene cast upon all the Countrey that it is a hard and difficult place for to subsist in and that ●●e soyle is barren and beares little that is good and that it can hardly receive more people then those that are there I will presume to make a second digression from the former matter to the end I might incourage such as desire to Plant there There are certaine Plantations Dedum Concord in the Mathethusis Bay that are newly erected that doe afford large accommodation and will containe abundance of people but I cease to spend time in matters of this nature since my discourse tends to warlike story but I crave pardon for my digression I told you before that when the Pequeats heard and saw Seabrooke Fort was supplied they forbore to visit us But the old Serpent according to his first malice stirred them up against the Church of Christ and in such a furious manner as our people were so farre disturbed and affrighted with their boldnesse that they scarce durst rest in their beds threatning persons and cattell to take them as indeed they did so insolent were these wicked imps growne that like the divell their commander they runne up and downe as roaring Lyons compassing all corners of the Countrey for a prey seeking whom they might devoure It being death to them for to rest without some wicked imployment or other they still plotted how they might wickedly attempt some bloody enterprise upon our poore native Countrey-men One Master Tillie master of a Vessell being brought to an ankor in Conetticot River went ashore not suspecting the bloody-mindednesse of those persons who fell upon him and a man with him whom they wickedly and barbarously slew and by relation brought him home tied him to a stake flead his skin off put hot imbers betweene the flesh and the skinne cut off his fingers and toes and made hatbands of them thus barbarous was their cruelty would not this have moved the hearts of men to hazard blood and life and all they had to overcome such a wicked insolent Nation but Letters comming into the Bay that this attempt was made upon Wethersfield in Conetticot river and that they had slaine nine men women and children and taken two maids captives the Councell gave order to send supply In the meane while the Conetticot Plantations sent downe 100. armed souldiers under the conduct of Captaine Iohn Mason and Leiutenant Seily with other inferiour officers who by Commission were bound for to come to randivou at Seabrooke Fort and there to consult with those that had command there to enterprize some stratagem upon these bloody Indians The Conetticot company having with them threescore Mohiggeners whom the Pequeats had drove out of their lawfull possessions These Indians were earnest to joyne with the English or at least to bee under their conduct that they might revenge themselves of those bloody enemies of theirs the English perceiving their earnest desire that way gave them liberty to follow the company but not to joyne in confederation with them the Indians promising to be faithfull and to doe them what service lay in their power But having imbarqued their men and comming downe the River there arose great jealousie in the hearts of those that had chiefe oversight of the company fearing that the Indians in time of greatest tryall might revolt and turne their backs against those they professed to be their friends and joyne with the Pequeats this perplexed the hearts of many very much because they had had no experience of their fidelity but Captaine Mason having sent downe a Shallop to Seybrooke Fort and sent the Indians over land to meet and randivou at Seabrooke Fort themselves came downe in a great massie Vessell which was slow in comming and very long detained by crosse winds the Indians comming to Seabrooke were desirous to fall out on the Lords day to see whether they could find any Pequeats neere the Fort perswading themselves that the place was not destitute of some of their enemies but it being the Lords day order was given to the contrary and wished them to forbeare untill the next day giving them liberty they fell out early in the morning and brought home five Pequeats heads one prisoner and mortally wounded the seventh This mightily incouraged the hearts of all and wee tooke this as a pledge of their further fidelity my selfe taking boat rode up to meet the rest of the forces lying a boord the vessell with my boat the Minister one Master Stone that was sent to instruct the Company was then in prayer solemnly before God in the midst of the souldiers and this passage worthy observation I set downe because the providence of God might be taken notice of and his name glorified that is so ready for to honour his owne ordinance the hearts of all in generall being much perplexed fearing the infidelity of these Indians having not heard what an exploit they had wrought it pleased God to put into the heart of master Stone this passage in prayer while my selfe lay under the vessell and heard it himselfe not knowing that God had sent him a messenger to tell him his prayer was granted O Lord God if it be thy blessed will vouchsafe so much favour to thy poore distressed servants as to manifest one pledge of thy love that may confirme us of the fidelity of these Indians towards us that now pretend friendship and service to us that our hearts may be incouraged the more in this worke of thine immediately my selfe stepping up told him that God had answered his desire and that I had brought him this newes that those Indians had brought in ●●ve Pequeats heads one pri●on●r and wounded one mo●●ally which did much incourage the h●arts of all and replenished them exceedingly and gave them all occasion to rejoyce and bee