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A88924	Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian salvages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. Faithfully composed and improved. [One line of quotation in Latin]	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Observable things.	1699 (1699)	Wing M1093; ESTC W18639	116,504	255

Dolorous Ejulations I am one that hath been Afflicted by the Rod of the Wrath of God A Great King of Persia having by Death lost the nearest Relation he had in the world and being too passionate a Mourner for his Loss an Ingenious man undertook to Raise the Dead Relation unto Life again if the King would but furnish him in one point that he apprehended necessary It was demanded What that was and it was replied Furnish me but with the Names of Three persons who have never met with any Sadness and Sorrow and by Writing those Names on the Monument of the Dead I 'l bring the Dead person to Life Truly The Ten Years of our War have set many Ten Hundreds of persons a Mourning over their Dead Friends we have seen every where The Mourners go about the Streets Now I durst make you this offer that if you can find Three persons who have met with no matter of Sadness and Sorrow in these Ten Years with the Names of them we 'l fetch your Dead Friends to Life again It 't was said in Job 21.17 God Distributeth Sorrows in His Anger You may Observe a marvellous Distribution of Sorrows made among us by the Anger of God And here first I say nothing of that Amazing Time when the Evil Angels in a praeternatural and in an unparallel'd manner being Let Loose among us God cast upon us the Fierceness of His Anger Wrath and Indignation and Trouble It was the Threatning of God against a people which He had call'd His Children in Deut. 32.23 24. I will Heap Mischiefs upon them I will Spend my Arrows upon them they shall be Devoured with a Bitter Destruction What was the Bitter Destruction thus Threatned unto an Apostatizing People I remember the famous Jew Onkelos renders it They shall be vexed with Evil Spirits and indeed that Sense well agrees with what follows I will send upon them the poison of the Serpents of the Dust Syrs For our Apostasy which is the very Sin of the Evil Spirits the God of Heaven a while ago turned in the Armies of Hell upon us and in that matchless Dispensation of God we underwent a Bitter Destruction from the poison of the Serpents of the Dust But there are other points not a few wherein the Great God hath Heaped Mischiefs upon us and fulfill'd unto us that Holy Commination Ezek. 7.26 Mischief shall come upon mischief What shall I say While the Lord of Hosts hath been against us the Hosts of Lord have been so too All the Elements have as it were been up in Arms against us Particularly You may Observe That Epidemical Sicknesses have in these years been once and again upon us wherein the Angels of Death have Shot the Arrows of Death into such as could not be reached by the Bullets of the Indian Enemy This one Town did in one year loose I suppose at least Six or Seven Hundred of its People by one contagious Mortality And tho' of about Three and Twenty Hundred men that we Employ'd in one Action we did in that Action loose hardly Thirty men yet how many Hundreds did afterwards miserably perish Again You may Observe That the Harvest hath once and again grievously failed in these years and we have been Struck thro' with the Terrible Famine almost as much as if the Indian Enemy had been all the while Skulking about our Fields The very Course of Nature hath been altered among us A Lamentable cry for Bread Bread hath been heard in our Streets The Towns that formerly Supplyed other places with Grain had now been Famished if other places had not sent in a Supply to Them and had a black prospect of being Famished notwithstanding that Supply Once more You may Observe That the Sea hath in these years been Swallowing up our Neighbours and their Estates far more than the Sword of the Wilderness Alas The Devouring Displeasure of God hath said concerning us Though they go to hide themselves from my Sight afar off upon the Sea Thence will I command the Serpent and he shall bite them And here hath it been Enough that our Vessels enough to make an huge Fleet have been taken by the French Enemy A certain Writer hath computed it That in only the First Two or Three years of the War the English Nation lost unto the French more than Fifteen Millions of Pounds Sterling But no part of the English Nation hath been more frequently or sensibly prey'd upon by the French than what hath gone out of New England ever since the War began I say Ha's this been Enough No The wrath of God said This is not Enough I appeal to you that have been Owners of Vessels or Sailors in them whether horrible Shipwracks have not been multiplied since the War began very much more than ever they were before Ah Lord How many of us have Shed Rivers of Tears over our dear Friends that have been Buried in the Ocean Moreover You may Observe That in these years those very Things which were intended for our Defence have oftentimes been so much Improved for our Damage that it was hard for us to say which was the Greater the Defence or the Damage which we had from them It was a Lamentable Time with the Jewes when that Curse came upon them That which should have been for their Welfare Let it become a Trap pour out thine Indignation upon them Truly The Indignation of God hath been poured out upon us in this Fruit of the Curse no less frequently then sensibly that some things which should have been for our Welfare have at the same time served also to Entrap the Persons and Interests of many people into sore Inconveniencies There is no need of Explaining this Article They that have been under this Indignation of God know the Explaining of it Finally You may Observe What Untimely Ends and what Surprizing Fates have come upon our Sons in these Years of the Wrath of the Right-Hand of the Most High When Craesus was in War taken by Cyrus this Captive made unto the Conqueror this Remark upon the Difference between Peace and War O Syr I see that in a time of Peace the Sons Bury their Fathers but in a Time of War the Fathers Bury their Sons Truly Sirs our Time of War has in Various Wayes of Mortality been Embittered with this Remark The Fathers have been Burying their Sons all the Countrey over Many of us have had our Sons even those very Sons of whom we said This same shall Comfort us We have had them violently snatch'd away from us and Cropt in the very Flower of their Youth and they have Left us deploring Oh my Son with all my Heart could I have Dyed for thee my Son my Son But in the midst of these Deplorable Things God hath given up several of our Sons into the Hands of the Fierce Monsters of Africa Mahometan Turks and Moors and Devils are at this Day oppressing many of our Sons with a

of it The Wretches appearing astonish'd to meet with one who would so fairly put them into a glorious way to obtain the Pardon of their Sins and yet take no Bever Skins for it in a Rapture of Astonishment they fell down on their knees and got his Hand into theirs and fell to kissing of it with an Extream show of Affection He shaking them off with dislike of their posture Bommaseen with the rest of them stood up and first lifting up his Eyes and Hands to Heaven declaring That God should be Judge of his Heart in what he said he then said Sir I thank you for these Things I Resolve to Spit up all the French Poison You shall be my Father I will be your Son I beseech you to continue to Instruct me in that Religion which may bring me to the Salvation of my Soul Now God knows what Heart this Indian had when he so Expressed himself To Him let us leave it But so much for this Digression ARTICLE XXIII More Mischiefs in Spite of Treaties EXcept it were the Falling of Two Souldiers belonging to Saco Garrison into the Hands of the Enemy who Took the one and Kill'd the other some Time in March 1695 Many Months pass'd away without any Action between Them and Us And it is Reported by Returned Captives That the Hand of God reach'd them when the Hand of Man could not find them and a Mortal Sickness did at a Strange Rate carry off multitudes of them At length upon the Mediation of old Sheepscoat John once a Praying Indian of the Reverend ELIOT's Catechmuens but after-wards a Pagan and now a Popish-Apostate a Great Fleet of Canoo's came in to an Island about a League from the Fort at Pemmaquid May 20. 1695. and after they had laid still there all the Lords-Day on Munday morning they sent unto the English for another Treaty They Declared Their Design was to Exchange Captives and Renew the Peace and condemned themselves for their Violating the Peace made near Two years ago Eight Captives they Immediately Delivered up and upon a Grant of a Truce for Thirty Days Colonel John Phillips Lieut. Colonel Hawthorn and Major Convers were sent Commissioners unto Pemmaquid for the management of that affayr Our Commissioners with Good Reason demanding a Surrender of all the English Captives according to former Agreement before they would allow any New Propositions of Peace to be offered the Indians digusted that their Idol Bommaseen was left at Boston broke off the Conference and went off in Discontent Advice was immediately dispatch'd into all parts of the Eastern Country to stand well upon their Guard notwithstanding which on July 6. Major Hammond of Kittery fell into the Hands of the Lurking Indians and the next week Two men at Exeter were kill'd by some of the same Dangerous Lurkers Major Hammond was now aboard a Canoo intending to put ashore at Saco but some of the Garrison-Souldiers there not knowing that they had such a good Friend aboard inadvertently Fired upon the Canoo and so the Indians carried him clear away They transported him at length to Canada where he met with Extraordinary Civilities Count Frontenack the Governour himself nobly purchased him of his Tawny-master and sent him home to New-England by a Vessel which also fetch'd from thence a Considerable Number perhaps near Thirty of English Prisoners In August the House of one Rogers at Billerica was plundered and about Fifteen People Kill'd and Taken by Indians which by appearing and Approaching 't is said on Horse-back were not Suspected for Indians for Who set them on Horse-back till they Surprized the House they came to And about the same Time Sergeant Haley Venturing out of his Fort at Saco Stept into the Snares of Death On Sept 9. Sergeant March with Three more were Killed by the Indians and Six more at the same Time wounded at Pemmaquid Rowing a Gondula round an high Rocky point above the Barbican On Oct. 7. the Indians entred the House of one John Brown at Newbury carrying away Nine Persons with them whereupon Captain Greenlief nimbly pursuing the Murderers did unhappily so Stumble on them in the Night that they wounded the good man and made their Escape over the River The Captain Retook all the Captives but the Indians in their going off Strook them all so Violently on the Head with the Clubs which I remember a French Historian somewhere calls by the frightful Name of Head-breakers that they afterwards all of them Dyed Except a Lad that was only hurt in the Shoulder Some of them Lingred out for half a year and some of them for more than a whole year but if the Doctors closed up the wounds of their Heads they would grow Light headed and Faint and Sick and could not bear it So at last they Dyed with their very Brains working out at their Wounds But having thus run o●er a Journal of Deaths for the year 1695. Let us before the year be quite gone see some Vengeance taken upon the Heads in the House of the Wicked Know then Reader That Captain March petitioning to be Dismiss'd from his Command of the Fort at Pemmaquid one Chub Succeeded him And this Chub found an Opportunity in a pretty Chubbed manner to kill the famous Egeremet and Ahenquid a couple of Principal Sagamores with one or Two other Indians On a Lords-day the Sixteenth of February Some that well enough liked the Thing which was now done did not altogether like the manner of doing it because there was a pretence of Treaty between Chub and the Sagamores whereof he took his Advantage to lay violent Hands on them If there were any unfair Dealing which I know not in this Action of Chub there will be another February not far off wherein the Avengers of Blood will take their Satisfaction ARTICLE XXIV Still Mischief upon Mischief THe Next whole year namely 1696. had it not been for the Degree of a Famine which the Alteration of the course of Nature in these as well as other parts of the world threatned us withal would have been a Year of Less Trouble than some of the rest in our Troublesome Decad. The most uneasy Accident of this year shall be told when we arrive unto the Month of August but in the mean Time it was a matter of some Uneasiness that on May. 7. one John Church of Quochecho who had been a Captive Escaped from the Hands of the Indians almost Seven years before was now Slain and Stript by their Barbarous Hands And on Jun. 24. one Thomas Cole of Wells and his wife were Slain by the Indians returning home with two of his Neighbours and their Wives all three Sisters from a Visit of their Friends at York And on Jun. 26. at several places within the Confines of Portsmouth Several Persons Twelve or Fourteen were Massacred with some Houses Burnt and Four Taken which yet were soon Retaken among whom there was an Ancient Women Scalpt for Dead and no doubt the Salvages

'T is This In Obedience to the Instructions which the French have given them they would have Prayers in their Family no less than Thrice Every Day In the Morning at Noon and in the Evening nor would they ordinarily let their Children Eat or Sleep without first saying their Prayers Indeed these Idolaters were like the rest of their whiter Brethren Persecutors and would not endure that these poor Women should Retire to their English Prayers if they could hinder them Nevertheless the poor Women had nothing but fervent Prayers to make their Lives Comfortable or Tolerable and by being daily sent out upon Business they had Opportunities together and asunder to do like another Hannah in Pouring out their Souls before the Lord Nor did their praying Friends among our selves forbear to Pour out Supplications for them Now they could not observe it without some wonder that their Indian Master sometimes when he saw them Dejected would say unto them What need you Trouble your self If your God will have you delivered you shall be so And it seems our God would have it so to be This Indian Family was now Travelling with these Two Captive Women and an English youth taken from Worcester a year and half before unto a Rendezvouz of Salvages which they call a Town somewhere beyond Penacook and they still told these poor Women that when they came to this Town they must be Stript and Scourg'd and run the Gantlet through the whole Army of Indians They said This was the Fashion when the Captives first came to a Town and they derided some of the Faint hearted English which they said fainted and swooned away under the Torments of this Discipline But on April 30. While they were yet it may be about an Hundred and Fifty Miles from the Indian Town a little before Break of Day when the whole Crew was in a Dead Sleep Reader see if it prove not So one of these Women took up a Resolution to Imitate the Action of Jael upon Sisera and being where she had not her own Life secured by any Law unto her she thought she was not Forbidden by any Law to take away the Life of the Murderers by whom her Child had been butchered She heartened the Nurse and the Youth to assist her in this Enterprize and all furnishing themselves with Hatchets for the purpose they struck such Home Blows upon the Heads of their Sleeping Oppressors that e're they could any of them Struggle into any Effectual Resistence at the Feet of those poor Prisoners they bowed they fell they lay down at their feet they bowed they fell where they bowed there they fell down Dead Only one Squaw escaped sorely wounded from them in the Dark and one Boy whom they Reserved Asleep intending to bring him away with them suddenly wak'd and skuttled away from this Desolation But cutting off the Scalps of the Ten Wretches they came off and Received Fifty Pounds from the General Assembly of the Province as a Recompence of their Action besides which they Received many presents of Congratulation from their more private Friends but none gave 'em a greater Tast of Bounty than Colonel Nicholson the Governour of Maryland who hearing of their Action sent 'em a very generous Token of his Favour ARTICLE XXVI Remarkable Salvations and some Remarkable Disasters BEsides a man Taken at York in May and another man kill'd at Hatfield in June and a Third kill'd at Groton and a Fourth with Two Children carried Captives there fell out more Mischief with no small Mercy on Jun. 10. at Exeter The Day before some Women Children would needs ramble without any Guard into the Woods to gather Straw-berries but some that were willing to Chastise them with a Fright for their presumption made an Alarm in the Town whereupon many came together in their Arms. The Indians it seems were at this very Time unknown to the English lying on the other side of the Town ready to make a Destructive Assault upon it but Supposing this Alarm to be made on their Account they therefore supposed themselves to be discovered Wherefore they laid aside their purpose of attempting the Destruction of the Town and contented themselves with Killing one man Taking another and Wounding a Third But on July 4. Lords Day Major Charles Frost who had been a Person of no little Consequence to our Frontiers Returning from the Publick Worship of God in Berwick to repair unto which about Five Miles from his own House he had that Morning express'd such an Earnestness that much Notice was taken of it pass'd several more Dangerous places without any Damage but in a place on a little plain by the Turn of a Path where no Danger was Expected the Adder in the path Surprized him the Indians having Stuck up certain Boughs upon a Log there mortally Shot him with Two more while his Two Sons that were in the Front of the Company happily escaped And the Two young men that Rode Post unto Wells with these Tidings in their going back had their own Death added for another Article of such unhappy Tidings About the latter End of this Month also Three Men Mowing the Meadowes at Newichawannic were themselves Cut down by the Indians tho' one of the Mowers bravely Slew one of the Murtherers But the most Important Action of this Year was a little further off About the beginning of July Major March was Employ'd with about Five Hundred Souldiers not only to Defend the Frontiers but also to seek out and Beat up the Enemies Quarters In the mean time the Lieutenant Governour apprehending an Invasion from a Formidable French Fleet on the Coast of New-England with his accustomed prudence and vigour applied himself to put the whole Province into a posture of Defence And the Militia with the several Forts especially that of Boston very much through the Contrivance and Industry of Captain Fairweather were brought into so good a posture that some could hardly forbear too much Dependence on our Preparations But it being more particularly Apprehended that in the Intend●d Invasion the Indians assisted by the French would make a Descent upon our Frontiers by Land Major March was advised therefore to Employ some of his Forces in Scouting about the Woods Before the Major arrived at York a party of the Enemy kill'd a man that stood Centinel for some of his Neighbours at Work in the Marsh at Wells and catching another Alive they carried him a mile and half off and Roasted him to Death But Captain Brackett that followed him quite as far as Kennebunk did but almost overtake them For truly Reader our Souldiers cannot as Antiquity Reports the old Graecian and Roman Souldiers could march at a Running pace or tro● heavily Loaded five and twenty miles in four Hours but rather suspect whether those Reports of Antiquity be not Romantick Three Souldiers of Saco Fort after this cutting some Fire-wood on Cow-Island for the use of the Fort were by the Indians cut off

it self against them And that the Venome of this Pamphlet might be Improved unto the Heighth of Slanderous Wickedness there hath been since added unto it in another Pamphlet a parcel of Ingredients compounded for mischief as if by the Art of the Apothecary None but he whom the Jewes in their Talmuds call Ben-tamalion could have inspired such a Slanderer Have the Quakers ever yet Censured this their Author for holding forth in his Alcoran pag. 221. That the Devil Sin Death and Hell are but Nothing they are but a Non-Entity And pag. 183. That all men who have a Body of Sin remaining in them are Witches I have cause to believe that they never did Nor that they ever advised him to pull in his Horns from goring the sides of New-England with such passages as those in pag. 195. the same horrible Pamphlet God hath well Rewarded the Inhabitants of New-England for their Unrighteous Dealings towards the Native Indians whom now the Lord hath suffered to Rew●r● the Inhabitants with a double measure of Blood by Fire and Sword c. And those Unrighteous Dealings he Explains to be the Killing of the Indians or Murdering of them by the Old Planters of these Colonies in their First Settlement Thus are the Ashes of our Fathers vilely staled upon by one who perhaps would not stick at the Villany of doing as much upon their Baptism it self I must tell you Friends that if you don 't publickly give forth a Testimony to Defy Tom Maule and his Works it will be thought by some who it may be don't wish you so well as I do that you own this Bloody Stuff which doubtless you 'l not be so ill advised as to do But certainly if the good people of New-England now make it not a proverb for a Lyar of the First Magnitude He is as very a Lyar as TOM MAULE they will deprive their Language of one Significant Expression which now offers it self unto them Let us now Leave our Friend Maules Works as a fit Volumn to be an Appendix unto the famous Tartaretus and worthy of a Room in Pantagruels Library The fittest way to answer him would be to send him to Boston Woods In the mean Time I owe unto the Publick a piece of History which it may be for the Safety of our Northern Towns to be acquainted withal Know Sirs That once the famous George Keith undertook to be the Champion of our New-English Quakers and bid fair to be the very Dalae or Prester John of all the English Tartars but a Minister of Boston upon that occasion publishing a Book Entituled Little Flocks guarded against grievous Wolves could not but complain of it as a very Scandalous Thing in George Keith to maintain the points of the Foxian Quakerism while he really differed from them All this while George Keith was admired by our Quakers as an Apostle or an Oracle but he finding it impossible to mentain the gross Tenets of the common Quakers preach'd unto them the Necessity of Believing on a Christ without as well as a Christ within Hereupon there grew such alienations between him and the other Quakers who had been taught by George Fox to say The Devil is in them who say they are Saved by Christ without them that he not only ha's written diverse Learned Books to confute those very Doctrines of the Common Quakers which the Pastors of New-England had upon his Provocation Written against but also ha's therefore undergone a Storm of Persecution from the Friends in Pensylvania Yea 't is verily thought that poor George would have been made a Sacrifice to Squire Samael Jennings and the rest of the Pensylvanian Dragons and that since a crime which their Laws ha● made Capital was mention'd in the Mittimus whereby Keith was committed they would have Hang'd him if a R●volution upon their Government had not set him at liberty Being by the Fines and Gaols and Fierce Usages of the Quakers in Pensylvania driven over to England the Wonderful Hand of God hath made this very man I think I may say incomparably the greatest Plague that ever came upon that Sect of Energumens Although he do himself still retain the Name of a Quaker yet he hath in one Treatise after another Earnestly called upon the Divines throughout the Nation more Vigorously to Employ their Talants against the Quakers as a more Dangerous Generation of People than they are well aware and he did in the year 1696. with the leave of the Lord Mayor Challenge the Quakers to make their Appearance at Turners Hall in the chief City of Europe where he proved unto the Satisfaction of a vast Assembly that the chief Writers of the Quakers assert Christ neither to be God nor Man and that they deny Christ to be pray'd unto and that they had affirm'd Christs outward Blood shed on the Ground to be no more than the Blood of another Saint and that they had charged him with New-Doctrine for directing to Faith in Christ without us as well as within us and that at their Meetings they had censured him for saying That Christs Body came out of the Grave which they say It never did And many more such horrid matters To confirm these things Besides the grievous Bites which Francis Bugg one of their late Friends hath given them one Daniel Leeds without wholly casting off the Profession of a Quaker hath lately Printed a Book wherein he produces above Threescore Instances of the Flat Contradictions which he hath observed in the Books of the Friends that have most pretended unto Infallibility and he demonstrates from evident matter of East that though they declared unto the World That their Sufferings had been greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Jesus and His Apostles yet they themselves were no sooner mounted into the Seat of Government than they fell to Persecuting as bad as any in the World Albeit Fox writes They that cause People to be put in Prison and have their Goods taken away are Disorderly Teachers and shall be rooted out Nevertheless Leeds proves by many Exemples that the Pensylvanians did it even upon their own Friends for meer Scruples of their Consciences 'T is reported The Quakers are so confounded at this Book of Leeds that they have been at the charge to buy up the whole Impression of it and so to Stiffle and Smother it If it be so I hope 't will but produce a New Impression of so rare a Book The Marvellous Providence of our Lord Jesus Christ having thus employ'd the Pens of the Quakers themselves to warn you that you beware of Quakerism it will be a marvellous Infatuation in any of you after this to be led away with that Error of the Wicked Reader make a Pause and here Admire the Marvellous Providence of our Lord Jesus Christ The first and great Apostle of the Quakers even George Fox the Shoe-maker in his Great Mystery Pag. 94. Excludes from the Church of Christ Those who are not Infallible