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A Farther brief and true narration of the late vvars risen in New-England occasioned by the quarrelsome disposition and perfidious carriage of the barbarous and savage Indian natives there : with an account of the fight, the 19th of December last, 1675.
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and prevent their Succouring or Harbouring the Enemy Where after some delay they were drawn to consent to our Demands promising neither to Entertain nor Assist our Enemies which they since confirmed in a Treaty with the Commissioners of the Colonies Further engaging that they would deliver all those of Philips party that upon his Rout near Scatoneck or since were fled to him but have failed in every particular You may also take notice That before any of our Souldiers marched to Mount-Hope we were very careful to understand the state of the Nipnet-Indians to prevent Philips design and secure those Indians and therefore dispatched two Messengers well known to them to certifie them of Philips motion and of our desire to keep Amity and Friendship with them according to the Covenants made with them long since no ways Violated on our part And by the said Messengers received fair returns from the most of them being in ten or twelve Plantations Some of them pretending fear of us For their further Satisfaction when our Forces were sent out against Philip we to satisfie and secure them sent them by Ephraim Curtice a Declaration under the Publick Seal that we had no Design or Intent to disturb them or any other Indians that would remain in their Plantations peaceably which Message and Messenger was evilly treated by many of them then Assembled and the Messenger much endangered by the younger Men and not with any Satisfaction by their Sachems as the Event shewed though at that present more moderately received Soon after this Dispatch and before Philips flying from Pocasset and March up towards the Nipnet Countrey some of the said Nipnet-Indians Assaulted and Slew divers of our People at Mendam whereupon Captain Hutchinson with a small Guard was sent up to the said Nipnet-Indians if possible to keep them quiet who arriving at Quabaog whereabouts was a Rendezvous of the Indians and having sent to them they promised to meet him in a certain place whither he at the time repairing found not the Indians and being encouraged by the English of Quabaog that the Indians were peaceable c. he advanced forward towards the place of the Indians Rendezvous to Treat them But in the way was by Ambuscado treacherously way-laid by which himself with several others were Wounded and Slain the English of Quabaog immediately Assaulted and the Town except one House totally destroyed at which time as we understand Philip also with his broken Party came up to the said Indians and upon the first or immediately before the arrival of the Forces we sent up for the Relief of those of Quabaog Philip and his whole Crew retreated as we then feared and afterwards were informed towards Conecticot River from whence Recruiting himself with Ammunition from Albany and with Men partly from the treacherous Indians about Hadly and Spring field he hath prosecuted his first design to Ruine and Destroy the English And notwithstanding all the Opposition of our Forces hath done much Mischief and Spoil and since the Repulse he received at Hatsfield withdrew into the Nipnet Country and since that as we understand toward the Narragansets who we do conclude have favoured abbetted and assisted him therein and by entertaining and harbouring our Enemies have dealt falsly and perfidiously with us whereby we find our selves necessarily Ingaged with the Consent Advice and Assistance of the rest of the Colonies in a War with them as well as with Philip unless they prevent the same by a timely Complyance and Performance and Security for the future for the managing and carrying on whereof we hope for and expect as we have hitherto had the Assistance of all his Majesties Subjects of this Colony in their respective Capacities in the just Defence of the Glory of God the Honour Defence and Safety of our King Countrey and our Selves from the Subtilty Rage and Treacherous Attempts of our Barbarous Enemies Dated in Boston the 7th of December Anno Christi 1675. Annoque Dommini Caroli Secundi Regis Angl. Scot. Fran. Hiber Defensoris Fidei c. 27th By the Council EDWARD RAWSON Secret THe Commissioners of the three Colonies having levied about a 1000 Men viz. 527 on the Massachusets 300 from Conecticot and 177 from Plimouth sent them all under the Command of Governour Winslow of Plymouth with Major Appleton of Ipswich in the Massachusits and Major Treat of Conecticot with ten Foot Captains and two Captains of Horse These on the 16th of December made their Rendezvous at the House now made a Garrison of one Mr. Smith Captain Prentice with a Troop of Horse Scouting to discover the posture of the Enemy discovered about 200 Indians which were supposed to be the Squaw Sachems 〈◊〉 these he immediately engaged with and slew ten of them and took about 40 Prisoners in which Combate only his Leiutenant was wounded which he brought to the English Camp and then found where the Indians had buried much Corn as their custom is in dry pits in Baskets By these and some Fugitive Indians our Forces had certain Inteligence where the Enemy lay which was about 16 miles from our quarters On the 10th although it was Sunday four Men thought they could not serve God Better then to require Justice of the Indians for the Innocent Blood which had been so oft by those Truceent Salvages shed and we were chearfully ready as so many Sampsous to forgo our own lives to be revenged of these Philistines that had made Sport with our miseries we marched through the Snow and came to a thick Swamp i. e. a Quagmiry-Wood wherein were encamped 3500 Indians We first demanded to have Philip and his Adherents to be delivered Prisoners to us according to Articles And had no other Answer but shot then we fired about 500 Wigwams i. e. Indian Houses and killed all that we met with of them as well Squaws and Papooses i. e. Women and Children as Sanups i. e. Men. In the midst of the Wood was a plain piece of Ground on which the Indians had built a Fort the Stone-Wall whereof enclosed about four or five Acres in which Rampart was about 1000 Indians this Hold we assaulted they within on the first onset stoutly repulsed us But our God blessed for ever so prospered and encouraged the English that every one put forth his utmost Strength and on the renew â—â—g the Assault we became Masters of the place though with the loss of many of our Brave Chieftains who sold their lives at a dear rate We were no sooner entred the Fort but our Enemies began to fly and ours had now a Câ—â—â—ge rather then a Fight for every one had their fill of Blood It did greatly rejoice our Men to see their Enemies who had formerly sculked behind Shrubs and Trees now to be engaged in a fair Field where they had no defence but in their Arms or rather their Heels But our chiefest Joy was to see they were mortal as hoping their Death will revive our Tranquillity and once more restore us to a setled Peace which through the Blessing of God we have long enjoy'd This Fight and Execution continued from three a Clock in the Afternoon till night and then we left the flying Enemy to take care of our Wounded and to cary off our Dead We have slain of the Enemy about 500 Fighting Men besides some that were burnt in their Wigwams and Women and Children the number of which we took no account of also one of their Sachems is slain How many we have wounded of the Enemy we know not But of our own losses this Account was sent to the Council at Boston as followeth A List of the Number of the English slain and wounded in the Battel with the Indians on the 19th of November 1675. Of the Massachusets In the Company of Slain Wounded Major Appleton 2 22 Capt. Moseley's 9 10 Capt. Oliver's 5 10 Capt. Johnson's 3 11 Capt. Gardner's 7 11 Capt. Davenport's 4 15  30 79 Wounded whereof some are since dead Of Conecticot Major Treat's Company 20 Capt. Sealy's 20 Capt. Marshal's 14 Capt. Waite's 17  71 Of Plymonth Capt. Bradford  Capt. Corum 20 Troopers 02 Lost in the Woods 05  27 Captains Slain Capt. Davenport Capt. Johnson Capt. Gardner Capt. Marshal Capt. Gallop who Commanded Vncass's Indians Wounded Captain Bradford shot in the Eye Capt. Sealy mortally as is feared Captain Mason Capt. Waite Lieutenants Wounded Lieut. Savage Lieu. Ting Lieu. Swan Lieu. Vpham Wounded Slain in all 207. December the 20th we removed our Wounded Men to Road-Island and some of our Men are marched with Carriages to fetch to our Camp the Indians Corn which Captain Prentice discovered and they find great quantities and that some of the Barns or Cellers rather have been lately opened by some Indians December 27 the Council at Boston have ordered forthwith 1000 Men more to march to the Narraganses Country to recruit Governour Winslaw And Major Waldren commands certain Companies at the Eastward to suppress the Indians there Ninegret the old Sachem of the Narragansets is separated from his other Indians with a small Party pretending he consents not with the Englishes Enemies and that those Narragansets which now join with Philip are either under other Sachems or Rebels to him It may be of some remark to let the World know that in the year 1621 on the 21 of March Massasoiet alias Woosamequen acknowledged himself voluntarily in open Court at Plymouth to be a Subject to King James he was Grandfather to Philip. September the 25th 1639 he and his Son Mooanam did the same again to King Charles the First and his Heirs and Successors And August sixth 1662 this very Philip our most turbulent and implacable Enemy again renewed the acknowledgment of himself a Subject to our King that now is and his Heirs and Successors Kings of England and all three covenanted at the times aforesaid that they would not Sell or Give any of their Lands to any English but with the consent of the English Government first had and obtained 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-Plymouth Time the consumer of all things we hope will once more Subject this Adversary Amen FINIS
A farther Brief and True NARRATION OF THE LATE VVARS RISEN IN New-England Occasioned by the Quarrelsome Disposition and Perfidious Carriage of the Barbarous and Savage Indian Natives there With an Account of the FIGHT the 19th of December last 1675. London February 17th 1675 6. Licensed Henry Oldenburg London Printed by J. D. for M. K. and are to be Sold by the Booksellers 1676. BOSTON DECEMBER 28 th 1675. SIR T Is verily Believed with us that all Generous minds in both Englands which concern themselves to enquire after our Affairs in these parts of the World and wish us well have a longing desire the Indian Wars might be ended and we presumed e're this that the powers of perswasion or force would have made a happy Change by altering the minds or restraining the Malice of our Heathen Foes But so it is the Rod of Gods Anger is still upon us For the Pocanakit Sachem Metacom alias Philip still lives he lives to be a vexation to us in all places where he comes Yea he lives and by his subtilty proves a more forcible and perilous Enemy to us then ever we could have Imagined He hath drawn into his Confederacy all Indians from Cape Sables Eastward to the Mowhauks which is about 300 Miles or upwards And our Fears are which would to God they were but Fears that some Traders of Europe for love of gain have from time to time supplyed them with Ammunition At the Eastward the Indians have ruined Falmouth black point and Saco and slain in those Towns 30 Persons some they took alive and sat them upright in the Ground using this Sarchasm You English since you came into this Countrey have grown exceedingly above Ground let us now see how you will grow when Planted into the Ground At Ketterey they have slain fourteen Persons and Burnt Sundry Houses At Dover they also have killed some and Fired two or three Houses Our Enemies proudly exult over us and Blaspheme the name of our Blessed God Saying Where is your O God taunting at the Poor Wretches which to make themselves Sport with they cruelly Torture to Death But our Affiance is in the God that made Heaven and Earth who when he Arises will Scatter our Enemies It hath been the great care of our Council to distinguish between Friends and Enemies for most of our mischiefs have flowed from pretended Friends who have Demeaned themselves exceeding fairly with us till they have had the opportunity secretly and suddainly to endamage us and then they fly to our avowed Adversaries Many of our Commonalty would have all Indians quatenus such declared Enemies But our Soberest Sort justly fear to Condemn the Innocent with the Guilty knowing that Justitia est firmitas Regni not would they draw on themselves the guilt of blotting out the Interest of the Gospel amonst the Indians remembring New-England was Originally a Plantation more famous for Religion than Trade And to this day the Massachusets in the impress of their Publick Seal have an Indian Engraven with these Words Come over and Help us Alluding to Act. 16.9 Much Intestine Heart-Burnings and Complainings not to say Mutinies have been about these matters to quiet which eleven of the most notorious with whom some English plunder was found were Arraigned six whereof being evidently found Guilty were soon after Executed and at the Desire of the Honestest of them all the professing Indians are placed and provided for on certain Islands where they are out of Harms way And by an Act of the General Court which is our Parliament there 'T is Death for any of them to come oft thence without License from the Magistrate Our People since the loss of Captain Lathrop of Beverly with about 60 Men by Surprize and the Burning of Spring field are grown not less valourous but more cautious Experience is the Mother of Prudence and little good comes of dispising an Enemy Yet let not the World censure too much Captain Lathrop he in the Pequot Wars had done Exploits not in this would have been behind-hand if the Narrow Passage or Causey where his unexpected Enemies set on him would have given him leave to have drawn up his Men but however this may be said to use the Words of a Wise Man There was never Censor that Judged Senator that Ordered General that Commanded Council that Executed Orator that Perswaded nor any other Mortal Man but sometimes he committed Errors Let such as are too apt to censure the Conduct of some Affairs here Remember this On the 19 of October Philip Assaulted Hatsfield a Town on Connecticot-River with about 800 Men But there were 200 of ours then in the Town which in two Hours space with the loss of one Man only put the Indians to a total flight and killed about 100 of them 60 of whose dead Bodies the Indians carried with them on Horses c. for they had several Horses amongst them After which Philip and the Nipnet Indians fled to the Narragansits which caused the Council of the Massachusets to publish in print this Manifesto To our Brethren and Friends the Inhabitants of the Colony of the Massachusets Aâ—though you cannot be Ignorant how studious this Government hath been to preserve Peace in this Colony and have taken up and Compromised diverse Quarrels that have Risen between our Selves our Neighbours and the Indians And thereby at several times prevented those Calamities wherewith we are now Pressed Yet to satisfie you that the same Mind and the same Endeavours are continued in the present Government we have thought it necessary to let you understand the Rise and Progress of our present Troubles with our Endeavours to have prevented the same IN June last we were Certified by our Friends and Confederates of Plimouth that Philip the Sachem of Mount-Hope was in Arms and had Solicited all the Indians to joyn with him against the English and withal they desired our Assistance to Suppress him which we by the Articles of Confederation could not deny and therefore applied our selves to Raise some Force for their Assistance but were still desirous to prevent a War with the Indians and therefore upon a former Experience of a good Effect wrought upon the said Philip We resolved to use the same Means viz. sending Messengers from hence to Philip to Treat with him hoping of the like Issue which upon the like case about four Years since we by Good Hand obtained But our Messengers arriving at Swanzy in their way towards Philip found divers English Murthered on the Road and were informed by the English there of divers Hostilities of the Indians which rendred our Design and their Negotiation hopeless Vpon which they returned and informed us as abovesaid Whereupon our Forces began their March in Aid of our Friends at Plymouth and having driven Philip from his Countrey we being informed that the Narragansets harboured his Women and aided him with Men We ordered our Souldiers to March to Narraganset in order to keep them quiet