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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

long We will finish it when we have Remark'd That albeit there were too much Feebleness discovered by my Countreymen in some of their Actions during this War at Sea as well as on Shore yet several of their Actions especially at Sea deserve to be Remembred And I cannot but particularly bespeak a Remembrance for the Exploit performed by some of my Neighbours in a Vessel going into Barbadoes They were in sight of Barbadoes assaulted by a French Vessel which had a good number of Guns and between Sixty and Seventy Hands Our Vessel had Four Guns and Eight Fighting Men. Truly such with two Tawny Servants The Names of these Men were Barret Sunderland Knoles Nash Morgan Fosdyke and Two more that I now forget A desperate Engagement ensued wherein our Eight Marriners managed the matter with such Bravery that by the Help of Heaven they killed between Thirty and Forty of the French Assailants without loosing one of their own little Number And they sank the French Vessel which lay by their side out of which they took Twenty Seven prisoners whereof some were wounded and all crying for Quarter In the Fight the French Pennant being by the wind fastned about the Top Mast of the English Vessel it was torn off by the sinking of the French Vessel and left pleasently flying there So they Sail'd into Barbadoes where the Assembly voted them one Publick Acknowledgement of their Courage and Conduct in this Brave Action and our History now gives them Another ARTICLE XVII The Fort at Pemmaquid HIs Excellency Sir William Phipps being arrived now the Governour of New England applyed himself with all possible Vigour to carry on the War and the Advice of a New Slaughter some time in July made by the Indians on certain poor Husband-men in their Meadows at the North Side of Merrimack River put an Accent upon the Zeal of the Designs which he was now vigorously prosecuting He Raised about Four hundred and Fifty Men and in pursuance of his Instructions from Whitehall he laid the Foundations of a Fort at Pemmaquid which was the Finest Thing that had been seen in these parts of America Captain Wing assisted with Captain Bancroft went thro' the former part of the Work and the latter part of it was Finished by Captain March His Excellency attended in this matter with these worthy Captains did in a few Months dispatch a Service for the King with a Prudence Industry and Thirftiness Greater than any Reward they ever had for it The Fort called The William Henry was built of Stone in a Quadrangular Figure being about Seven hundred and thirty seven Foot in Compass without the Outer Walls and an Hundred and Eight Foot Square within the Inner ones Twenty Eight Ports it had and Fourteen if not Eighteen Guns mounted whereof Six were Eighteen-Pounders The Wall on the South Line fronting to the Sea was Twenty Two Foot High and more than Six Foot Thick at the Ports which were Eight Foot from the Ground The Great Flanker or Round Tower at the Western End of this Line was Twenty Nine Foot High The Wall on the East line was Twelve Foot High on the North it was Ten on the West it was Eighteen It was Computed That in the whole there were laid above Two Thousand Cart-Loads of Stone It stood about a Score of Rods from High Water Mark and it had generally at least Sixty men posted in it for its Defence which if they were Men might easily have maintained it against more than Twice Six Hundred Assailants Yea we were almost Ready to flatter our selves that we might have writ on the Gates of this Fort as the French did over that of Namur yet afterwards taken by K. William Reddi non Vinci potest Now as the Architect that built the Strong Fortress at Narne in Poland had for his Recompence his Eyes put out lest he should build such another Sir William Phipps was almost as hardly Recompenced for the Building of This at Pemmaquid Although this Fort thus Erected in the Heart of the Enemies Country did so Break the Heart of the Enemy that indeed they might have call'd it as the French did theirs upon the River of the Illinois The Fort of Crevecoeur and the Tranquillity After Enjoy'd by the Country which was very much more than Before was under God much owing thereunto yet the Expence of maintaining it when we were so much impoverished otherwise made it continually complained of as one of the Countryes Grievances The Murmurings about this Fort were so Epidemical that if we may speak in the Foolish cant of Astrology and Prognosticate from the Aspect of Saturn upon Mars at its Nativity Fort William-Henry Thou hast not long to Live Before the year Ninety Six Expire thou shalt be demolished In the mean Time let us accompany Major Church going with a Company to Penobscot where he took Five Indians and afterwards to Taconet where the Indians discovering his Approach set their own Fort on fire themselves and flying from it left only their Corn to be destroy'd by him And so we come to the End of 1692. Only we are stopt a little with a very strange Parenthesis ARTICLE XVIII A Surprising Thing laid before the Reader for him to Judge if he can what to make of it REader I must now address thee with the Words of a Poet Dicam Insigne Recens adhuc Indictum ore alio Horat. But with Truths more confirmed than what uses to come from the Pen of a Poet. The Story of the Prodigious War made by the Spirits of the Invisible World upon the People of New England in the year 1692. hath Entertain'd a great part of the English World with a just Astonishment and I have met with some Strange Things not here to be mentioned which have made me often think that this inexplicable War might have some of its Original among the Indians whose chief Sagamores are well known unto some of our Captives to have been horrid Sorcerers and hellish Conjurers and such as Conversed with Daemons The Sum of that Story is Written in The Life of Sir William Phipps with such Irreproachable Truth as to Defy the utmost Malice and Cunning of all our Sadducees to Confute it in so much as one Material Article And that the Balant and Latrant Noises of that sort of People may be forever Silenced the Story will be abundantly Justifyed when the further Account written of it by Mr. John Hale shall be published For none can suspect a Gentleman so full of Dissatisfaction at the proceedings then used against the Supposed Witchcraft as Now that Reverend Person is to be a Superstitious Writer upon that Subject Now in the Time of that matchless War there fell out a Thing at Glocester which falls in here most properly to be related a Town so Scituated Surrounded and Neighboured in the County of Essex that no man in his Witts will imagine that a Dozen French men and Indians would come and

more had been Siez'd at Saco Fort a little before Bommaseen was Convey'd unto Boston that he might in a close Imprisonment there have Time to consider of his Treacheries and his Cruelties for which the Justice of Heaven had thus Delivered him up When he was going to Pemmaquid he left his Company with a Strange Reluctancy and Formality as if he had presaged the Event and when at Pemmaquid he found the Event of his coming he discovered a more than ordinary Disturbance of mind his Passions foam'd and boyl'd like the very Waters at the Fall of Niagara But being thus fallen upon the mention of that Vengeance wherewith Heaven pursued the chief of the Salvage Murderers it may give some Diversion unto the Reader in the midst of a long and a sad Story to insert a Relation of an Accident that fell out a little after this Time The Indians as the Captives inform us being hungry and hardly bestead passed through deserted Casco where they spied several Horses in Captain Brackets Orchard Their famished Squa's beg'd them to Shoot the Horses that they might be revived with a little Roast meat but the young men were for having a little Sport before their Supper Driving the Horses into a Pound they took one of them and furnished him with an Halter suddenly made of the Main and the Tail of the Animal which they cut off A Son of the famous Hegon was ambitious to mount this Pegasaean Steed but being a pittiful Horseman he ordered them for fear of his Falling to Ty his Legs fast under the Horses Belly No sooner was this Beggar Set on Horse back and the Spark in his own opinion throughly Equipt but the Mettlesome Horse furiously and presently ran with him out of Sight Neither Horse nor Man were ever seen any more the astonish'd Tawnies howl'd after one of their Nobility disappearing by such an unexpected Accident A few Dayes after they found one of his Legs and that was All which they buried in Captain Brackets Cellar with abundance of Lamentation ARTICLE XXII A Conference with an Indian-Sagamore BUt now Bommaseen is fallen into our Hands let us have a little Discourse with him Behold Reader the Troubles and the Troublers of New-England That thou mayst a little more Exactly Behold the Spirit of the matter I 'l Recite certain passages occurring in a Discourse that pass'd between this Bommaseen who was one of the Indian Princes or Chieftanes and a Minister of the Gospel in the year 1696. Bommaseen was with some other Indians now a Prisoner in Boston He desired a Conference with a Minister of Boston which was granted him Bommaseen with the other Indians assenting and asserting to it then told the Minister That he pray'd his Instruction in the Christian Religion inasmuch as he was afraid that the French in the Christian Religion which they taught the Indians had Abused them The Minister Enquired of him What of the Things taught 'em by the French appear'd most Suspicious to ' em He said The French taught 'em That the Lord JESUS CHRIST was of the French Nation That His Mother the Virgin Mary was a French Lady That they were the English who had Murdered him and That whereas He Rose from the Dead went up to the Heavens all that would Recommend themselves unto His Favour must Revenge His Quarrel upon the English as far as they can He ask'd the Minister whether these Things were so and pray'd the Minister to Instruct him in the True Christian Religion The Minister considering that the Humour and Manner of the Indians was to have their Discourses managed with much of Similitude in them Look'd about for some Agreeable object from whence he might with apt Resemblances Convey the Idae's of Truth unto the minds of Salvages and he thought none would be more Agreeable to them than a Tankard of Drink which happened then to be standing on the Table So he proceeded in this Method with ' em He told ●hem still with proper Actions painting and pointing out the Signs unto them That our Lord JESUS CHRIST had given us a Good Religion which might be Resembled unto the Good Drink in the Cup upon the Table That if we Take this Good Religion even that Good Drink into our Hearts it will do us Good and preserve us from Death That Gods Book the Bible is the Cup wherein that Good Drink of Religion is offered unto us That the French having the Cup of Good Drink in their Hands had put Poison into it and then made the Indians to Drink that Poisoned Liquor whereupon they Run mad and fell to killing of the English though they could not but know it must unavoidably issue in their own Destruction at the Last That it was plain the English had put no Poison into the Good Drink for they set the Cup wide open and invited all men to Come See before they Tast even the very Indians themselves for we Translated the Bible into Indian That they might gather from hence that the French had put Poison into the Good Drink inasmuch as the French kept the Cup fast Shut the Bible in an Unknown Tongue and kept their Hands upon the Eyes of the Indians when they put it unto their mouths The Indians Expressing themselves to be well-Satisfied with what the Minister had hitherto said pray'd him to go on with showing 'em what was the Good Drink and what was the Poison which the French had put into it He then set before them distinctly the chief Articles of the Christian Religion with all the Simplicity and Sincerity of a Protestant Adding upon each This is the Good Drink in the Lords Cup of Life And they still professed That they liked it all Whereupon he demonstrated unto them how the Papists had in their Idolatrous Popery some way or other Depraved and Altered every one of these Articles with Scandalous Ingredients of their own Invention Adding upon each This is the Poison which the French have put into the Cup. At last he mentioned this Article To obtain the Pardon of your Sins you must confess your Sins to God pray to God That He would Pardon your Sins for the sake of Jesus Christ who dyed for the Sins of His People God Loves Jesus Christ infinitely and if you place your Eye on Jesus Christ only when you beg the Pardon of your Sins God will Pardon them You need confess your Sins to none but God Except in cases where men have known your Sins or have been Hurt by your Sins then those men should know that you confess your Sins but after all none but God can Pardon them He then added The French have put Poison into this Good Drink They tell you that you must confess your Sins to a Priest and carry skins to a Priest and Submit unto a Penance enjoyned by a Priest and this Priest is to give you a Pardon There is no need of all This 'T is nothing but French Poison all

that case Minister You will compel me I see I say then The Scripture saies He that says I know Him and keeps not His Commandments is a Lyar and the Truth is not in him 'T is in 1 Joh. 2.4 Quaker And what then Minister Why this then He that says I know Jesus Christ and yet keeps not the Commandments of Jesus Christ is a Lyar and the Truth is not in him You say You know Jesus Christ But you must give me leave to say That you Keep not the Commandments of Jesus Christ Therefore pray Syrs do you help out the Conclusion I am loth to speak it You know what it is Quaker Yes yes We know well enough what Conclusion thou wouldest be at Thou wouldest say That we are Lyars and that the Truth is not in us Minister Right Since it must be so Quaker But what Commandment of Jesus Christ is there that we don't keep Minister The Commandment of Jesus Christ is For His Disciples to be Baptised with Water But you Qua●kers do not keep that Commandment of Jesus Christ Quaker How dost thou prove that Jesus Christ commanded Baptism with Water Minister I know you must have the word Water or nothing will content you Else I would have urged for a Sufficient proof our Lords Commanding His Ministers to Baptise men Matth. 28.19 This Command Expresses our Duty 'T is not our Duty to Baptise men with the Holy Spirit This belongs not unto Us but unto Him who 's that Holy Spirit is You will not say we Sin if we don't Baptise the Disciples in all Nations with the Holy Spirit So then it must be a Baptism with Water which is there Commanded by our Lord. But as I said you must have the word Water you shall have it The Apostle Peter said Quaker The Apostle Peter The Apostle Peter Thou wast to prove that Jesus Christ Commanded Baptism with Water And now Thou art come to the Apostle Peter Minister Stay Friend not so fast Will you say then that the Commandments brought by the Apostle Peter as the Commandments of Jesus Christ are not the Commandments of Jesus Christ But however I 'le mend the Expression The Spirit of Jesus Christ in the Apostle Peter Now I hope it fits you Quaker J. S. Thou art a Monster all Mouth and no Ears Minister Prethee talk Civilly Don't make me Believe that I am at Ephesus If I were in one of your Houses I would not give you such Language you had but now a greater liberty to use your Mouth than I have hitherto taken and my Ears were patient But you foresee my Argument is going to pinch you 'T is but Civility to let me Finish it Quaker Thou wast to prove that Jesus Christ Commanded Baptism with Water And thou hast not proved it And therefore thou Speakest Falsely Minister What do you mean These little Shuffles won't help you I say The Spirit of Jesus Christ in the Apostle Peter after our Lords Ascension when it was Impossible for Johns Baptism which was into the Messiah Suddenly to come not already come should have place did say in Act. 10 47. Can any man Forbid Water that these should not be Baptised which have Received the Holy Ghost Quaker How does this prove That Jesus Christ Commanded these to be Baptised with water Minister Thus If Jesus Christ had not Commanded Baptism with Water any man might have then Forbid it But no man could Forbid it Therefore Jesus Christ Commanded it Quaker Therefore Therefore Argo Argo Why Dost thou think Religion is to be proved by thy Th●●efore's by thy Argo's Minister Friend I perceive the word Therefore is a ver● dead doing sort of a Word to yee I 'le dismiss this Terrible Word I 'le only say The Reason why none could forbid Believers to be Baptised with Water was meerly Because Jesus Christ Commanded it Quaker BECAUSE Why the word Because is as bad as the word Therefore Minister Smiling It may be so But in the mean time you are wonderfully unreasonable I say why could none forbid Water for the Faithful to be Baptised Quaker Who sayes None could Forbid Water 'T is only said Can any man Forbid Water Minister I pray Syrs And is not this None can But I 'l bring the matter to bear upon you without those two Dangerous words THEREFORE and BECAUSE at which you are so terrified I will put the matter into the Form of a Question And your Answer to this Question shall put an End to our present Velitations Quaker What have we to do to Answer thy Questions Minister My Question is Whether a man might not forbid in the Worship of Jesus Christ what Jesus Christ Himself hath no way Commanded You can Answer this Question if you will I desire I demand your Answer Quaker What For us to answer thy Questions That would be to Ensnare our selves Minister I am very sensible of That Therefore take Notice You are Ensnared in the Toyls of your own miserable Delusions But still I say Answer my Question Quaker Do you see Neighbours Friend M. was to prove that Jesus Christ commanded Baptism and now he 's come to a Question Minister So I am Truly And I see 't is a Question that puts you into a Sweat I beseech you to Answer it I Require you to Answer it What shall I say I Defy you to Answer it Pardon my Cogency You Force me to ' t Quaker I say How does a Question prove That Jesus Christ commanded Baptism with Water And why dost thou Baptise Infants Minister Nay I 'le keep you to the Question Your Answer to the Question will prove it I am designing to make you your selves prove it And Sirs I do here offer to you That I will give the best Answer I can to any Question in the world that you shall put unto me why are you so loath to Answer one short Question of mine Quaker I be not obliged to Answer thy Question Minister I must contrive some fair way to Compel some Answer unto this one Question Give me leave therefore to tell you That if you do not Answer this Question you go away conquered and confounded Yea Sirs I must in Faithfulness tell you That you carry away the dreadful Mark of Hereticks upon you Even To be Condemned in your own Conscience You go away Self-Condemned That you don't keep the Commandments of Jesus Christ and Therefore That you are what you Remember the Apostle John said concerning you Quaker I don't condemn Thee for using Baptism with Water Minister This is no Answer to the Question still For you don't observe it your self neither you nor any Quakers under Heaven Wherefore I still urge for an Answer Quaker Thou art not Civil to us Is this thy Civility to Strangers We have heard a Great Fam● of thee for thy Civil and obliging carriage towards others that are not of thy perswasion But now thou are uncivil to us That which I have to say is I will

44.10 They are not Humbled even unto this Day VIII In the WAR that hath been upon us Whoso is Wise may Observe the Compassions of God wonderfully Exercised and Manifested and Magnified in the midst of our Confusions There was a Time when a Bush Burned with Fire and yet the Bush was not consumed whereupon said Moses in Exod. 3.3 I will now Turn aside and see this Great Sight Sirs I am now to call upon you O Turn aside and see such a Great Sight as that Indeed in the midst of all our Lamentations we must own with the Church in Lam. 3 22. It is of the Lords Mercies that we are not Consumed because His Compassions fail not But there are many Particular and Astonishing Articles of Mercy which we have seen in this Tedious War Sirs Come now to Observe some of those Things with prepared Hallelujahs It was the Petition in Hab. 3.2 O Lord In Wrath Remember Mercy New England Thy God hath heard this Petition for thee in very wonderful Instances For First After a very Amazing manner ha's Mercy been Remembred in the midst of Wrath when we have been Rescued by the Mercy of God at the very point of our being else Ruined by His Wrath. Lord Thou hast shewed thy People hard Things and made us Drink the Wine of Astonishment But our Extremity hath been Gods Opportunity to Relieve us Several Times in the late years of our Affliction we have been brought unto a dismal Non-plus in our Affayrs and we would scarce imagine it possible for us to subsist any longer But just Then the Bowels of our Compassionate God have been moved for us He hath said How shall I give thee up O New-England How shall I give thee up O Massachusetts And so He would not Execute upon us the Fierceness of His Anger but with some unexpected Succours from the Machin of Heaven He hath Relieved us We have several times been Like a Little Vessel in a Storm the Swelling Waves have Dashed Raged and Roared the Rude Billows have been going over us and we have been ready to Sink But just Then Our Compassionate Lord Jesus Christ hath Awaked for our Safety and marvellously calmed our Circumstances O thou Land strangely Saved by the Lord say now as in Psal 136.23 O Give thanks unto the Lord who Remembred us in our Low Estate because His Mercy Endureth for ever When our Debts have become Insupportable God has then Remembred us in our Low Estate because His Mercy Endureth for ever and strangely Extricated us When our Foes have been as an Overflowing Scourge like to carry all before them God has then Remembred us in our Low Estate because His Mercy Endureth for ever and strangely Lifted up a Standard against them When fearful Divisions have arisen among us and horrid Convulsions have been ready to pull all to pieces I don't care to Remember them any farther than to say God has then Remembred us in our Low Estate because His Mercy Endureth fer ever and strangely healed those Breaches that set the Land a Trembling Moreover It hath been a very Strange Thing and a Wondrous Remembrance of Mercy in the midst of Wrath That the Indians have been ●naccountably Restrained from giving us an Hundredth part of the Trouble which they might have done had they but known or us'd their own Advantages This One Thing Whosoever does wisely Observe it must needs ascribe it unto a Special Operation of that God who Forms the Spirit of man within him It was the promise of God unto His people Exod. 34.24 No man shall Desire thy Land when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God The Faithful God strangely Fulfilled this promise for many Hundreds of years together No Enemy desired the Land of that people at the Time of their going up to Worship the Lord in His Temple And whereas the Roman Enemy did at length Desire their Land at the Time of their going up to the Passover this one Thing was enough to prove that the Messiah was come and the Passover no longer commanded It shows That there is a Strange Operation of God upon the minds of men to curb and check and blind the Evil-minded Well We have had our Frontier Towns in many of which the Lord Jesus Christ hath been Worshipped and Sought and Serv'd continually Had the Lurking Enemy done as they might have done how easily might one dozen of them have kept the Towns in such perpetual and perplexing Alarms as would have caused them even to have broken up And what unknown mischiefs might a few more of 'em have brought upon our Scattered Plantations I do again and again say This is from the Strange Operation of God upon the Minds of the Enemy that they have no more Disturbed our Land For my own part I will observe it and Admire it in such Terms as Austin used upon a Remarkable Providence Quisquis non videt Caecus Quisquis videt nec Laudat Ingratus Quisquis Laudanti reluctatur Insanus They are Blind and Mad that are Insensible of it Yet again Have not our English Prisoners been favoured with such a Remembrance of Mercy in the midst of Wrath as ought never to be Forgotten The Mercy of God inclined the French to Buy 'em out of the Hands of the Indians and use them with an Exemplary Humanity and Civility The Mercy of God preserved many of them alive under prodigious and incredible Hardships and at length Returned many scores of them Home And may not our English Women that were Prisoners take Notice of one Singular Mercy shown by God unto them in preserving them from Violations by the Outrageous Lusts of the Salvages This One Thing will be thought by some almost as Great and Strange an Instance of an Immediate Interposition of the Angels of God as the muzzling of the Lions in the Den of Daniel O ye Redeemed of the Lord you whom He hath Redeemed from the Hand of the Enemy Give Thanks to the Lord for He is Good Charge your own Souls That you never forget His Benefits Ask your own Souls What you shall render to the Lord for all His Benefits and Remember that Admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ unto you Sin no more Lest a worst thing do come unto thee Furthermore Who could not see Mercy Remembred in the midst of Wrath when God hath put it into the Hearts of His people in the Southern parts of the Countrey to make Liberal Contributions of Money and Corn and Men for the Relief of the Northern parts More than once has the Noble Charity of our Brethren in Plymouth and in Connecticut as well as of this Town been Expressed in such Contributions Their Alms are Gone up for a Memorial before the Lord The Blessing of many that have been Ready to perish hath come upon you O ye Merciful Children of God and you shall obtain mercy from Him Once more Was ever Mercy Remembred in the midst of Wrath