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A63333 A True account of the most considerable occurrences that have hapned in the warre between the English and the Indians in New-England from the fifth of May 1676, to the fourth of August last : as also of the successes it hath pleased God to give the English against them : as it hath been communicated by letters to a friend in London : the most exact account yet printed. 1676 (1676) Wing T2385; ESTC R37895 15,178 13

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