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A97348	A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607, to this present year 1677, but chiefly of the late troubles in the two last years, 1675 and 1676. To which is added a discourse about the warre with the Pequods in the year 1637. / By W. Hubbard ...; Narrative of the Indian wars in New-England	Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.	1677 (1677)	Wing H3211_pt2; ESTC W13814	83,110	93

A NARRATIVE OF THE TROUBLES With the Indians in NEW-ENGLAND From Pascataqua to Pemmaquid THe Occasion Rise and Progress of the Warr with the Indians in the Southern and Western parts of New-England together with the Issue and Success thereof hath in the former part of this Narrative been already declared Before an Entrance be made into a Relation of those Troubles that befell the Eastern and Northern parts of the said Country from the Indians inhabiting those parts it will be requisite to give some general Description of the place as being less frequented and so more unknown then the other like Heraulds that use to Blazon the Field before they meddle with the Charge as an Historian once said That so the Reader may not miss the Truth in Story by being unacquainted with the places whereon the discourse proceedeth Briefly therefore that more cost and pains be not spent in the surveying a barren and Rocky Country then will quit cost The List or Border here being known to be more worth then the whole Cloth That whole Tract of Land being of little worth unless it were for the Borders thereof upon the Sea-Coast and some Spots and Skirts of more desireable Land upon the Banks of some Rivers how much soever it be valued by them that know nothing thereof but by the uncertain and fallible Reports of such as have only Sayled by the Country or viewed some of the Rivers and Havens but never passed through the heart of the Continent The whole being scarce worth half those mens lives that have been lost these two last years in hope to save it This North part of New England did first like Zarah put forth its hand thereby inviting the Adventurers to twist the Scarlet Thred of their hopes about the same by that Auspicious beginning they were ready to promise themselves great prosperity in having that Advantage before others to plant and people that part of the Country But that fair opportunity was almost quite lost by some Fatal and mischievous Accidents happening soon after that noble Enterprize was first set a foot as hath been already in part and may hereafter more fully be declared The first place that ever was possessed by the English in hope of making a Plantation in those parts was a Tract of Land on the West-side of the River of Kennibeck then called Sagatawocke since Saga-de-hocke other places adjoyning were soon after seized and improved for Trading and fishing The more remote furthest Northward at this time belonging to the English Penobsot forty years since being surprized by the French and by them held to this day is called Pemmaquid distant seven or eight Leagues from Kennibeck and is the utmost Boundary of New-England being about forty Leagues distant from the mouth of Pascataqua River That Pemmaquid is a very Commodious Haven for Ships and hath been found very Advantagious to such as use to come upon these Coasts to make fishing Voyages South West or South East from whence about six or seven Leagues lies an Island called Monhiggon of much use on the same account for fishing it lying three or four Leagues into the Sea from Damarils Cove a place of like Advantage for the Stages of Fishermen in former times There have been for a long time seven or eight considerable dwellings about Pemmaquid which is well accommodated with Pasture Land about the Haven for feeding Cattle and some Fields also for Tillage All the Land improvable for such uses being already taken up by such a number of Inhabitants as is already mentioned In the mouth of the River of Kennibeck lies a considerable Island cal●ed Aro●ck some years since purchased by Major Clarke and Capt. Lake two Merchanes of Boston on which they built several large dwelings with a Ware-house and many other Edifices near the water side 〈◊〉 being intended by the Owners for a place of Trading as well as Planting there being many of late seated there fit to carry on each designe where also was built a fort which if it had been carefully defended might have proved the defence and Security of all that side of the Country as it used to be their Magazine up higher beyond the River of Kennibeck four Leagues Eastward toward Pemmaquid in another considerable River called Ships-Coat upon the Banks of which were many scattered Planters who lately flying from their dwellings for fear of the Indians left as was judged a thousand head of neat Cattle for the use of the Indians that made the late Insurrection against the Inhabitants of those parts besides their Fields and Barns full of Corn There is another River that issues into Kennibeck a little higher up into the Country called Pegypscot that comes down from behind Casco Bay This Pegypscot is the seat of the Amoscogging Indians who have had a great if not the principal hand in the late mischiefs Some few Leagues to the South of Kennibeck lies that famous and spacious Haven called Casco Bay The North East Cape of which is made by an Island called Saguin The Southern or opposite point of Land is called Cape Elizabeth which is in the Bosome of this Bay being about eight or nine Leagues over at the mouth of it and aboundance of small Islands many of them being inhabited by Fishermen and others one of the principal of that sort is called Jewels Island There are many places about this Bay fit to make commodious habitations and on the South side of it is a small Village called Falmouth All or most of it lately destroyed by the Indians Not far from Casco to the Southward or South-west still is a River called Spurnuik over against which lies Richmond Island not far from the main Land being divided therefrom by a small Channel foordable at Low water It hath for a long time been the Seat of Mr. Jordan in right of Mr. Winter the former if not the first promoter thereof whose daughter he married The next Plantation Southward is called Scarborough a small Village seated upon black point over against which is another point for distinction from the former called blue point This black point was lately the Seat of M. Josselin being a parcel of the Province of maine or falling within the Precincts thereof and was formerly by Patent granted to the said Josselin or his Predecessors since purchased by Mr. Scotto of Boston Saco River lies next in order to Pascataqua a Navigable River where Major Philips had a commodious Scituation ●ately at the mouth of which River lies winter Harbour encompassed on one side by a Neck of Land formerly the Propriety of one Mr. Winter whose Name it still retains but lately purchased by Major Pendleton where he enjoyed a very comfortable Seat and habitation There is another Harbour lying a little Southward of Saco made by that which is called Cape Porpuise a convenient Seat for Fishermen as are most of the other places above named Between Cape Porpuise Pascataqua there are but two small Towns

demonstrate by giving a little touch as we pass along on the several changes of Government the places forementioned have been moulded into the several Proprietours of have claimed Interest in the Land In the year 1624. A Patent was granted by the Councel of Plimouth the grand Proprietours to Captain Mason for a large Tract of Land about Pascataqua but it not being distinctly bounded himself with Sir Ferdinando Gorges obtayned a joynt Patent in the year 1629. for the Land betwixt Saga de-Hock East Naum Keag West but that also interferring with the Bounds ganted before that time to sundry Gentlemen Merchants that had obtained a Patent from the South of Charles River to the Northward of Merrimack Capt. Masons bounds were afterwards by Consent as is said of his Agent or Agents reduced to some Branches about Pascataqua River who yet could not agree with those that acted in the Name of Shrewsbury men but being wholly neglected by the pretended Proprietour or his Successours till of late dayes was by the desire of the Inhabitants yielded up to the Massachusets Government near twenty years since In the year 1630. A Patent was granted by the said Councel of Plimouth signed by the Earl of Warwick and Sir Ferdinando Gorgeri and sealed with the common Seal of the Councel aforesaid to John Dy Thomas Impe Grace Harding and John Roach of London for a large Tract of Land on the South of Saga-de Hock forty mile square by the Sea side and so up into the Country John Dy afore said and his Partners took in another as Partner and Associate with them Mr. Richard Dummer of Newbury in New-England in the year 1638. to whom they delivered the Oreginal Patent with an order from them and in their Name to take up the Land described in the Patent but he being denyed opportunity to Effect it as also a Ship formerly sent by the Patentees for that End not accomplishing their desire they not long after sold all their Interest in the said Patent to one Mr. Rigby a Lancashire Gentleman who made Mr. Cleaves his Agent to manage the business of his purchased Interest in the said Patent To whom Mr. Dummer was ordered to deliver the Original Patent which accordingly he did what trouble was occasioned soon after between the said Mr. Cleaves and Mr. Vines Agent for Sir Ferdinando Gorges is well known to the Inhabitants of the place and need not be here mentioned nor yet how the said Mr. Rigby came afterward to loose his Interest at least with the Inhabitants in the Patent In the year 1632. Sir Ferdinando Gorges not resting in the joynt Patent obtained for himself and Capt. Mason obtained a distinct Patent for himself and got it confirmed by King Charles the first of blessed and famous memory for all that large Tract of Land from Saga-de-hock to Pascataqua River and so about an hundred miles up into the Country by the Name of the Province of Maine What benefit and Improvement was ever made thereof by his Agents or Successours is best known to themselves But for the Inhabitants who upon one account or another had been induced either by any precedaneous grant or liberty from himself or his Agents to take up any Land within the Bounds of the said Province They finding much inconvenience and trouble for want of an orderly and setled Government did at the last petition the general Court of the Massachusets to be taken under their Jurisdiction and Government reserving the Liberties and Priviledges of their former purchases and Grants as to Title possession and propriety to themselves which was granted them though not only and altogether upon the grounds on which it was desired by the Petitioners Yet notwithstanding all this were not things setled either to the comfort or content of the Inhabitants for sometimes some demanded Right of Jurisdiction over them by virtue of Sir Ferdinando's Patent sometimes Commissioners imployed by his Highness the Duke of York attempted to settle a Government amongst the people sometimes they tryed what might be done by Agreement amongst themselves but after their Returne for England by one means or other the Government relapsed again into the hands of the Massachusets although a Supersedeas thereunto seems to have been put by an order from his Majesty this last year By these several Vic●ssitudes and changes of Government the flourishing of the said Province hath been much obstructed which else might have been much advanced and the Inhabitants been put into a Capacity to have secured themselves against the late Barbarous Incursions of the Indians and possibly those Exorbitancies that many of the present Proprietours have run into to the just provocation of the Indians might thereby have been prevented and so the mischief also which hath ensued might thereby have been averted For a well ordered Government would never have suffered those things that now were connived at which if they had been timely lookt into by such as had absolute or positive and unquestioned power of Rule in their hands would have been otherwise ordered the present mischief that is come upon those places might thereby have been if not prevented yet more easily redressed then now is like to be As for the Tract of Land that lies Eastward beyond Kennibeck betwixt that and Pemmaquid it is said to have belonged to one Mr. Aldworth and his Successours who was Alderman of Bristol and one that had a Patent thereof and imployed some as his Agents that did sometimes reside upon the place And was lately setled in some order of Government by his Highness the Duke of Yorks Commissioners by whom also was an Agreement made betwixt the Sagamores of the Indians in those parts and the English at a Court kept by their Appointment in Kennibeck which if it had been observed might in all probability have prevented in great measure the quarrel which is now fallen out betwixt the English and the said Indians For upon some Jealousies of the Rising of those Indians about twelve or thirteen years since it was agreed that if any mischief should happen to be done by the English or Indians one against another though it were to the killing any person neither side should right themselves but complaint should be made to the Sagamores if the Indians did the wrong and to the Court if it were done by the English Both which did promise satisfaction should be made for the preventing any quarrel The Names of the Sachems as likewise of them that were in power at the Court do stil remain upon publick Record But matters of Government in those parts being since collapsed no Authority more then what was meerly voluntary and perswasive being owned Things are now brought to that miserable state which follows next to be declared Ever since the first setling of any English Plantation in those parts about Kennibeck for the space of above fifty years the Indians alwayes carryed it fair and held good Correspondence with the English until the

seen upon an Indians head not long after which made his Friends conclude what had be fallen the Owner that good man who might Emphatically be so termed in distinction from them that may truly be called Just men and no more For it seems according to the just Agreement betwixt himself and his part owner of Arowsick Island it was not his turn this year to have been upon the place but such was his goodness that he yielded to the desire of his Friend and Partner as in his room and stead to take upon himself that Service in this time of danger it is hoped his goodness in future time will not be forgotten by such as were any way concerned therein or had Advantage thereby This Island called Arowsick from an Indian so named that formerly possessed it and of whom it was purchased by one Mr. Richards who sold it to Captain Lake and Major Clarke lyes up ten miles within the mouth of Kennibeck River it is some miles in length and containeth many thousand Acres of very good Land where meadow and arable ground are in a good proportion well suited together within the Fort aforesaid were many convenient buildings for several Offices as well for wares and Trading as habitation six several Edifices are said to have been there erected The Warehouse at that time was well furnished with all sorts of goods besides a Mill and other Accommodations and dwellings within a mile of the Fort and Mansion house some of whose Inhabitants hardly made their escape upon the first surp●izal of the Fort. All which considered the loss that befel the Proprietours at the surprizal of this Island seems to be very great valued at many thousands but those that were the Owners with others of late times have found in their own Experience what Solomon said of old There is a Time to get and a Time to loose a Time to keep and a Time to cast away A Time to break down as well as a Time to build up The persons killed and taken at Kennibeck both at Mr. Hammonds and at Arowsick are said to be fifty three Upon the Report of this sad disaster all the Plantations of the English in those parts were soon after left and forsaken by degrees All the rest of the Inhabitants of Kennibeck River Shipscot River Saga-de-hock Damanicottee fearing to be served in the same kind fled to the Islands of Cape-bonawagan and Damorils Cove On the second day at night a Post was sent to Pemmaquid to inform them of what had hapned who being but eight or ten men were minded to go to the Island called Monhiggon having secured the best of their goods but the wind taking them short they were forced to turn into Damarils Cove where they found Mr. Wiswal and Mr. Colicot there they laboured two dayes to settle a Garrison But partly by the mutinousness of the People and partly by the want of Provision nothing could be done to secure the Island so that it was presently deserted From thence they went to Monhiggon resolving there to tarry till they heard from Boston from whence Mr. Colicot and Mr. Wiswel promised to do their utmost endeavour to send help There they setled three Guards and appointed five and twenty to watch every night not knowing but that the Indians might come every hour But continuing these a Fortnight and finding no Relief like to come and seeing all the Country burned round about For after they had gotten all that could be saved from Pemmaquid they saw all the other Island Windgins Corbins sound New-Harbour Pemmaquid all on fire in two hours time then considering what was best to be done they found no Boats could be sent to sea for fear of weakning the Island and that most of those that were upon the Island were Strangers Coasters and such as came from the Mayne and were ready to be gone upon every occasion they laid an Imbargoe for one weeks time after which a Letter was received from Major Clarke defiring their Assistance for enquiring after Capt. Lake if alive saving what could be had at Kennibeck c. but intimating nothing of any help like to come besides those that brought the Letter told them it was in vain to expect any help from Boston It being questioned there what they had to do with those parts upon which the Inhabitants considered that if they should tarry there and spend all their Provision and neither be able to go to Sea nor yet to live or be safe a shore for want of help it were better for them to remove while they had something left to live upon and seek imployment else where so by Consent they resolved forthwith to Transport themselves and what they had saved of their goods to some place of Security so they took the first opportunity to set sayle some for Pascataqua some for Boston and some for Salem at one of which three places they all safely arrived Having thus escaped at first as Lot out of Sodom but not counting themselves safe in that Zoar where for a little while they made shift to hide their heads till they might escape to some surer place there waiting for better times when they may with peace and quietness return to their former habitations or seek some other else where When the foresaid Exploits were done by the Indians in and about Casco Bay several of the English removed to Jewels Island where they hoped to be more secure from the Indians but their barbarous Enemy finding so little Resistance made against them on the main Land a considerable party of them came with their Canoos to destroy that Island also about three weeks after the forementioned mischiefs There was a fortifyed house upon the said Island where the English that either kept upon the Island or repayred thither hoped to have secured themselves But at that time when the Indians assaulted the place many of the English were absent few left in the Garrison but women and Children some were gone to other places to fetch Indian Corn others were in a Boat imployed about Fish amongst whom was one Richard Pots with two more The wife of the said Pots was washing by the water side where she was surprized with her Children and carryed away in fight of her husband who was not a little distressed with that sad Spectacle but was not able to afford any Relief either to wife or Children although one of the Children espying his Father in his boat ran into the water calling out for help but an Indian ran after him to catch him up the poor man in a great Agony being within half shot was about to have fired upon the Indian but then fearing he might wound his Child which the Villain had laid hold of he forbore rather suffering him to be carryed away alive then be exposed to so manifest danger of his Life or Limbs by shooting at the Indian It is said that some of the Indians were killed by them in the Garrison