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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

from the foresaid Rocks and pursued them almost as far as Quabog in which pursuit we killed about 60. or 70. of them and found many of the Matts scattered in the way with which they cover their Houses which we suppose they could not carry with them by reason of our close pursuit Some Prisoners taken from them inform us that their body consists of 4000. whereof 1800. were Fighting Men half of which wanted Arms that they were in great want of Powder and greater want of Provisions Provision growing scarce in our Army and the Enemy having cleansed the Country of things that might tend to our Relief our General resolved to pursue them no farther but to hasten homewards which accordingly was done with what speed we could but the scarcity of Victuals daily encreasing we were forced to kill several of our Horses for our Sustenance Our General dismist the Connecticot-Men and sent them home the nearest way and Old Unkus and his Indians along with them They proved very faithful in our Service and were well treated by us Our General having left 60. men in Garrison at Mr. Smiths House at Narraganset where the Fight was on the 19th of December came home by the way of Malborough Many of our Souldiers are troubled with the Flux of which our General is one King Philip hath not yet been at Narraganset as we feared but is retired with his Men near Albany where he hath kept his Winter Quarters We very much fear the Indians falling on our Out-Towns this Spring which if they should would extreamly damnifie us Our Friend Mr. H. O. went out again into the Army before he was cured of his old wound and hath received another on his Elbow-joynt which we fear will cause him to lose his Arm if not his Life Our Enemies are yet very Unmerciful sparing no persons life that they can Master I see no likelihood of any Peace but much fear our Wars are far from an end Our Trade to Virginia is quite decayed not one Vessel having gone from hence thither since the Wars began but by a small Vessel Arrived here from thence we are informed that the Indians have fallen unexpected on the English and destroyed many of them and done much harm with very little loss to themselves but this report finds very little credit with us by the next Shiping I shall God willing give you a farther Account of our Affairs and in the mean time shall neglect no opportunity of informing my self of the transactions of these Parts being sensible how much you have obliged Your Friend to his Power N. S. POST-SCRIPT I Thought it needful to acquaint you that on the 21th day of March Anno. 1621. the English made a League of Peace with Massasoiet who was Grand father to the present King Philip on the following Terms and Conditions 1. That neither he nor any of his should injure or do hurt to any of our people 2. That if any of his did any harm to any of ours that then he should send the Offender unto us for punishment 3. That if any English took any Goods belonging to the said Massasoit or any of his Indians they should restore them again and he obliged himself to do the like 4. That if any of the Neighbours of the said Massasoiet should make war against him the English should assist him and he obliged himself to assist the English on the like occasion 5. That he should inform his Neighbours and Confederates of these Covenants that they might be careful of wronging either party 6. That where any of his Indians came amongst the English they should have no Bows or Arrows or any other Arms with them 7. That in so doing our Soveraign Lord King James should esteem him as his Friend and Ally These Articles were agreed on to the good satisfaction and content of both Parties and Massasoiet was content to become the Subject of our Soveraign Lord King James his Heirs and Successors and gave to the English all the Lands adjacent and to their Heirs for ever On the 25th day of September in the year 1639. this great Sachem Massasoiet with Moanam his Son came personally to the Court held at Plimouth in new-New-England and desired that the League and Confederacy formerly made with the Government of Plimouth might stand and remain inviolable and the said Massasoiet and his Son Moanam did faithfully promise to keep and observe the Covenants and Conditions therein expressed and contained and that neither of them should needlesly or unjustly raise any quarrel or do any wrong to other Natives or provoke them to War against them and that neither of them should give sell or convey any of their Lands Territories or Possessions whatsoever to any person or persons whomsoever without the privity and consent of the Government of Plimouth All which conditions the said Massasoiet and Moanam his Son for themselves and their Successors did then faithfully promise to observe and keep and the whole Court in the name of the whole Government for each Town respectively did then ratifie and confirm the aforesaid ancient League and Consederacy and also did further promise to the said Massasoiet and to Moanam his Son that they shall and will from time to time defend them and their Successors when need and occasion shall require against all such as shall rise up against them to wrong or oppress them unjustly Anno. 1662. There being occasion of some suspition of a Plot intended by the Indians against the English Philip the Son of the aforesaid Moanam and Grandson of Massasoiet and now the implacable Enemy of the English made his personal appearance at the Court held at Plimouth August the 6th and did there earnestly desire the continuance of that amity and friendship that had formerly been between the Governours of Plimouth and his Deceased Father and Grand-father and for that end the said Philip doth for himself and his Successors desire that they might for ever remain subject to the King of England his Heirs and Successors and doth faithfully promise and engage that he and his will truly and exactly observe and keep inviolable such conditions as have formerly been by his Predecessors made and particularly that he will not at any time needlesly or unjustly provoke or raise war with any of the Natives nor at any time give sell or any way dispose of any Lands to him or them appertaining to any Strangers or to any without our privity or appointment but will in all things endeavour to carry it peaceably inoffensively towards the English And the said Court did then also express their willingness to continue with him and his the abovesaid Friendship and do on their part promise that they will afford them such friendly assistance by advice and otherwise as they justly may and we will require our English at all times to carry it friendly towards them in witness whereof the said Philip the Sachem hath set to his hand as also his Unkle

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