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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

Etxreme Frontier of the Province and more Obnoxious than any other and more uncapable of Relief nevertheless by her presence and courage it held out all the War even for Ten Years together and the Persons in it have Enjoy'd very Eminent preservations The Garrison had been deserted if She had accepted Offers that were made her b● her Friends or Living in more safety at Portsmouth which would have been a Damage to the Town and Land but by her Encouragement this Post was thus kept and She is yet Living in much Esteem among her Neighbours II. Mrs. Sarah Gerish Daughter to Captain John Gerish of Quochecho a very Beautiful and Ingenious Damsel about Seven years of Age lodg'd at the Garrison of her affectionate Grand-father Major Waldern when the Indians brought an horrible Destruction upon it She was alwayes very Fearful of the Indians but what Fear may we think now Surprised her when they fiercely bid her go into such a Chamber and call the People out Finding only a little Child in the Chamber she got into the Bed unto the Child and hid her self in the Cloathes as well as she could The Fell Salvages quickly pull'd her out and made her Dress for a March but led her away with no more than one Stockin upon her a terrible March through the Thick Woods and a thousand other Miseries till they came to the Norway Plains From thence they made her go to the end of Winnopisseag Lake and from thence to the Eastward through horrid Swamps where sometimes they must Scramble over huge Trees fallen by Storm or Age for a vast way together and some times they must Climb up long steep tiresome and almost Inaccessible Mountains Her First Master was one Sebundowit a Dull sort of a Fellow and not such a Devil as many of 'em were but he Sold her to a Fellow that was a more harsh and mad sort of a Dragon and he carried her away to Canada A long and a sad Journey she had of it thro' the midst of an hideous Desart in the midst of a dreadful Winter And who can enumerate the Frights that she endured before the End of her Journey Once her Master commanded her to loosen some of her upper-Garments and stand against a Tree while he charged his Gun whereat the poor Child Shrieked out He 's going to kill me God knows what he was going to do but the Villian having charged his Gun he call'd her from the Tree and forbore doing her any Damage Another Time her Master ordered her to run along the Shore with some Indian Girls while he paddled up the River in his Canoo As they were upon a praecipice a Tawny Wench violently push'd her Head long into the River But it so fell out that in that very place the Bushes hung over the Water so that getting Hold of them she Recovered her self The Indians ask'd her How she became so wet but she durst not say How through Dread of the young Indians who were alwayes very Abusive to her when they had her alone Moreover once being spent with Travelling all Day and lying down Spent and Wet at Night She fell into into so profound a Sleep that in the Morning she waked not The Barbarous Indians left her Asleep and covered with Snow but at length waking what Agonies may you imagine she was in to find her self left a prey for Bears and Wolves and without any Sustenance in an howling Wilderness many Scores of Leagues from any Plantation She Ran crying after them and Providence having ordered a Snow to fall by means thereof she Track'd them until she overtook them Now the young Indians began to Terrify her with daily Intimations That she was quickly to be Roasted unto Death and one Evening much Fuel was prepared between Two Logs which they told her was for her A mighty Fire being made her Master call'd her to him and told her that she should presently be Burnt alive At first she stood Amazed afterwards she burst into Tears and then she hung about the Tygre and begg'd of him with an inexpressible Anguish that he would Save her from the Fire Hereupon the Monster so Relented as to tell her That if she would be a Good Girl she should not be Burnt At last they arrived at Canada and she was carried unto the Lord Intendants House where many Persons of Quality took much notice of her It was a Week after this that she remained in the Indian Hands before the price of her Ransome could be agreed on But then the Lady Intendant sent her to the Nunnery where she was comfortably provided for and it was the Design as was said for to have brought her up in the Romish Religion and then have Married her unto the Son of the Lord Intendant She was kindly used there until Sir William Phipps lying before Quebeck did upon Exchange of Prisoners obtain her Liberty After Sixteen Months Captivity she was Restored unto her Friends who had the Consolation of having this their Desireable Daughter again with them Returned from the Dead But coming to be Sixteen years old in the Month of July 1697. Death by a malignant Feavour more Irrecoverably took her from them ARTICLE V. New Forces Rais'd and New Actions done ON Aug. 28. 1689. Major Swayn with Seven or Eight Companies raised by the Massachusett Colony marched Eastward and soon after Major Church with a party of English and Christian-Indians raised in Plymouth Colony follow'd them While these were on their March the Indians that lay Skulking after the Indian-fashion in the Thick Woods took notice how many men belong'd unto Lieut. Huckins's Garrison and seeing 'em all go out unto their daily work nimbly ran so between them and the Garrison as to kill 'em all about Eighteen but one who being accidentally gone over the River escaped them They then Attacqued the Garrison in which there now were only Two Boyes and one of them Lame with some Women and Children but these Two Boyes very Manfully held 'em in play a Considerable while and wounded several of them and kept 'em off till the Assailants had found a way to set the House on a Light Fire over their Heads They then urging 'em to Surrender for the sake of the Goods the Boyes Brave Boyes truly would not until they had Solemnly promised 'em their Lives but the perfidious Wretches broke their promise for they presently kill'd Three or Four of the Children however one of these Minutius's the Day after very happily got out of thei● Clutches It was by a particular Accident that these Indians were delivered from falling into the Hands of Capt. Garner who pursued 'em Vigorously But while the Forces now gone into the East were Settling of Garrisons in convenient places a huge Body of Indians fell upon Casco where one of their first Exploits was their killing of Capt. Bracket Nevertheless Capt. Hall a valiant Souldier in the Former War and a valiant Commander in This with his Vigorous

Connecticut but Advice being dispatch'd unto the Towns upon Connecticut-River a party immediately Salley'd out after the Spoilers and leaving their Horses at the Entrance of a Swamp whither by their Track they had followed them they come upon the Secure Adversary and kill'd the most of them and Recovered the Captives with their Plunder and Returning home had some Reward for so brisk an Action But now the Indians in the East probably Disheartened by the Forts Erecting that were like to prove a sore Annoyance to them in their Enterprizes and by the Fear of wanting Ammunition with other Provisions which the French were not so Able just now to dispence unto them and by a presumption that an Arr●y of Maqua's part of those Terrible Cannibals to the West-ward whereof 't is affirm'd by those who have published the Stories of their Travels among them That they have destroy'd no less than Two Million Salvages of other Nations about them through their being Supplyed with Fire-Arms before Hundreds of other Nations lying between them the River Meschasippi was come into their Country because they found some of their Squa's killed upon a Whortle berry Plain and all the Charms of the French Fryar then Resident among them could not hinder them from Suing to the English for Peace And the English being so involved in Debts that they Scarce knew how to prosecute the War any further took some Notice of their Suit Accordingly a Peace was made upon the Ensuing Articles Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England The Submission and Agreement of the Eastern Indians at Fort William Henry in Pemmaquid the 11th day of August in the Fifth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord and Lady William and Mary by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King and Queen Defenders of the Faith c. 1693. WHereas a Bloody War ha's for some years now past been made and carryed on by the Indians within the Eastern parts of the said Province against Their Majesties Subjects the English through the Instigation and Influences of the French and being sensible of the Miseries which we and our People are reduced unto by adhearing to their ill Council We whose names are hereunto Subscribed being Sagamores and Chief Captains of all the Indians belonging to the several Rivers of Penobscote and Kennebeck Amanascogin and Saco parts of the said Province of the Massachusetts Bay within Their said Majesties Soveraignty Having made Application unto his Excellency Sir William Phipps Captain General Governour in Chief in and over the said Province that the War may be put to an end Do lay down our Arms and cast our selves upon Their said Majesties Grace and Favour And each of us respectively for our selves and in the Name with the free consent of all the Indians belonging unto the several Rivers aforesaid and of all other Indians within the said Province of and from Merrimack River unto the most Easterly Bounds of the said Province hereby acknowledging our hearty Subjection and Obedience unto the Crown of England and do solemnly Covenant P●omise and Agree to and wi●h the said Sir William Phipps and his Successors in the place of Captain General and Governour in Chief of the aforesaid Province or Territory on Their said Majesties behalf in manner following viz. That at all time and times for ever from and after the date of these Presents we will cease and forbear all acts of Hostility towards the Subjects of the Crown of England and not offer the least hurt or violence to them or any of them in their Persons or Estate But will henceforward hold and maintain a firm and constant Amity and Friendship with all the English Item We abandon and forsake the French Interest will not in any wise adhere to joyn with aid or assist them in their Wars or Designs against the English nor countenance succour or conceal any of the Enemy Indians of Canada or other places that shall happen to come to any of our Plantations within the English Territory but secure them if in our power and deliver them up unto the English That all English Captives in the hands or power of any of the Indians within the Limits aforesaid shall with all possible speed be set at liberty and returned home without any Ransome or Payment to be made or given for them or any of them That Their Majesties Subjects the English shall and may peaceably and quietly enter upon improve and for ever enjoy all and singular their Rights of Lands and former Settlements and possessions within the Eastern parts of the said Province of the Massachusetts-Bay without any pretentions or claims by us or any other Indian● and be in no wise molested interrupted or disturbed therein That all Trade and Commerce which hereafter may be allowed between the English and Indians shall be under such Management and Regulation as may be stated by an Act of the General Assembly or as the Governour of the said Province for the time being with the Advice and Consent of the Council shall see cause to Direct and Limit If any controversy or difference at any time hereafter happen to arise between any of the English and Indians for any ●eal or supposed wrong or injury done on one side or the other no private Revenge shall be taken by the Indians for the same but proper Application be made to Their Majesties Government upon the place for Remedy thereof in a due course of Justice we hereby submitting our selves to be ruled and governed by Their Majesties Laws and desire to have the benefit of the same For the more full manifestation of our sincerity and integrity in all that which we have herein before Covenanted and Promised we do deliver unto Sir William Phipps Their Majesties Governour as aforesaid Ahassombamett Brother to Edgeremett Wenong ahewitt Cousin to Madockawando and Edgeremett and Bagatawawongon also Sheepscoat John to abide and remain in the Custody of the English where the Governour shall direct as Hostages or Pledges for our Fidelity and true performance of all and every the foregoing Articles reserving Liberty to exchange them in some reasonable time for a like number to the acceptance of the Governour and Council of the said Province so they be persons of as good account and esteem amongst the Indians as those which are to be exchanged In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our several Marks and Seals the Day and Year first above written The above written Instrument was deliberately read over and the several Articles and Clauses thereof Interpreted unto the Indians who said they well understood and consented thereto and was then Signed Sealed Delivered in the Presence of us John Wing Nicholas Manning Benjamin Jackson Egereme●t Madockawando Wessambomett of Navidgwock Wenohson of Teconnet in behalf of Moxis Ketterramogis of Narridgwock Ahanquit of Penobscot Bomaseen Nitamemet Webenes Awansomeck Robin Doney Madaumbis Paquaharet alias Nathaniel Inrerpreters John Hornybrook John

Slavery wherein they Wish for Death and cannot find it a Slavery from whence they cry and write unto us It had been Good for us that we had never been Born Quis talia fando Temperet a Lacrymis Thus as Job sometimes complained Chap. 10.17 Thou Renewest thy Witnesses against me and increasest thine Indignation upon me Changes and War are against me Thus in our Long War we have seen those Changes on all Hands and in all Kinds which have witnessed against us the Dreadful Indignation of God God Threatned His people so I read it Amos 2.13 Behold I will press your place as a full Cart presses the Sheaf 'T is an Allusion to the old way of Threshing the Corn by drawing a Loaden Cart with Wheels over the Corn. 9. d. You shall undergo Tribulation Ah New-England Thou hast been under such a Tribulation Syrs Have you not Observed these things But you must wisely Observe them And a wise Observation of these things will cause you to see That the War which hath been upon us hath been a War of GOD. The Indians have been but a small part of those Armies which the Great GOD hath been bringing out against us for Ten Years together and we may conclude that all the Land have been more or less concerned in those Crimes for which the Almighty GOD hath been with these Armies managing His Controvesy with us Our Confession must be Peccavimus omnes We have all gone astray But shall we not upon this Observation take up some Resolution If we are Wise we fhall thus Resolve 'T is Time 'T is Time 'T is High-Time for us to make our Peaee with God Oh Let us not go on to Harden our selves against God we are not Stronger than He But let us all Fly to the Lord Jesus Corist who is our Peace and so lay down the Arms of Rebellion that God may be Reconciled unto us VII In the WAR that hath been upon us Whoso is wise may Observe those Dispensations of Heaven towards us that have carryed more than Ordinary Humiliations in them It was said concerning Miriam the Type of the Now Leprous and out-cast Church of Israel The Lord hasten that Seventh Day wherein it shall be Restored Numb 12.14 If her Father had Spit in her Face should she not be Ashamed Ah New England Thy Father hath been Spitting in thy Face with most Humbling Dispensations God hath been bringing of thee down to Sit in the Dust When the War commenced New-England might say My God will Humble me For First Shall our Heavenly Father put a Rod into the Hands of base Indians and bid Them to Scourge His Children Oh! the Humiliation of such Rebellious Children Oh! the Provocation that certainly such Sons and such Daughters have given Him It was a very Humbling thing that the Lord Threatned unto His Provoking Sons Daughters in Deut. 32.21 I will move them to Jealousy with those which are not a People I will provoke them to Anger with a Foolish Nation Should a Child of yours be Refractory and you Sir should bid a Negro or an Indian Slave in your House Go Take that Child and Scourge him till you fetch Blood of him Surely this would be to Humble him unto the Uttermost Thus doth thy God Humble thee O New-England by putting thee over into the Vile Hands of those which are not a People but a Foolish Nation Again Who are they by whose means we are now crying out We are Brought very Low When the most High God was determined Effectually to Humble His People he said in Jer. 37.10 Though ye had Smitten the whole Army of the Caldeans that fight against you and there remained but wounded men among them yet should they Rise up every man in his Tent and burn this City with Fire Truly we had Smitten the whole Army of the Indians that Fought against us Three and Twenty years ago from one end of the Land unto the other only there were left a few Wounded men among them in the East and now they have Risen up every man and have set the whole Country on Fire Certainly A more Humbling matter cannot be Related Moreover Is it not a very Humbling Thing That when about an Hundred Indians durst Begin a War upon all these Populous Colonies an Army of a Thousand English raised must not kill one of them all but instead thereof more of our Souldiers perish by Sickness and Hardship than we had Enemies then in the world Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humbling Thing That when the Number of our Enemies afterwards Increased yet an Handful of them should for so many Summers together continue our Unconquered Spoilers and put us to such Vast Charges that if we could have Bought them for an Hundred Pound an Head we should have made a Saving Bargain of it Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humbling Thing That we should have had several fair Opportunities to have brought this War unto a Final Period but we should still by some fatal Oversight let Slip those Opportunities Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humling Thing That whatever Expeditions we have undertaken for the most part we have come off Loosers and indeed but plunged our selves into deeper Straits by our Undertakings Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humbling Thing That more than One or Two of our Forts have been Surrendred and one of them that was almost Impregnable given away with a most Shameful Surrender by one that hath since Received Something of what he Deserved Thus Our God ha's Humbled us Is it not a very Humbling Thing That we should have Evil pursuing of us at such a rate that in other Lands afar off and on the Exchange in London Strangers have made this Reflection Doubtless New-England is a Countrey in Ill Terms with Heaven But so Our God has Humbled us What shall I say Is it not a very Humbling Thing That when Peace is Restored unto the whole English Nation and when Peace is Enjoy'd by all America poor New-England should be the Only Land still Embroil'd in War But thus Our God Thou hast Humbled us and shown us great and sore Troubles and brought us down into the Depths of the Earth O my dear People How can I Observe these Things and not like Joshua now fall to the Earth on my Face before the Lord and say What shall I say But if you will wisely observe these Things you will now get up and Sanctify your selves and put away the accursed thing from among you O New-English Israel Certainly The High and Lofty One who dwells in the High and Holy place Expects that we should be a very Humbled People I beseech you Sirs Observing these Things let us in all the Methods of Repentance Humble our selves under the Mighty Hand of God After such Humbling Things as have befallen us God forbid that it should be said of us as in Jer.