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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

like Fate befell a Family at Haverhil And this year a very Good Strong Fort at Cape Nidduck owned by a Widdow was unhappily Deserted after which the Enemy came and burnt the Houses in it ARTICLE XV. The Martyrdome of Mr. Shubael Dummer with the Fate of York BUt the Winter must not pass over without a Storm of Blood The Popish Indians after long Silence and Repose in their Inaccessible Kennels which made our Frontier Towns a little Remit their Tired Vigilance did Janu. 25. 1691. Set upon the Town of York where the Inhabitants were in their unguarded Houses here and there Scattered Quiet and Secure Upon the Firing of a Gun by the Indians which was their Signal the Inhabitants looked out but unto their Amazement found their Houses to be Invested with horrid Salvages who immediately kill'd many of those unprovided Inhabitants and more they took Prisoners This Body of Indians Consisting of diverse Hundreds then sent in their Summons to some of the Garrison'd Houses and those Garrisons whereof some had no more than Two or Three Men in them yet being so well Mann'd as to Reply That they would Spend their Blood unto the last Drop e're they would Surrender these Cowardly Miscreants had not mettle enough to meddle with ' em So they Retired into their Howling Thickets having first Murdered about Fifty and Captived near an Hundred of that unhappy People In this Calamity great was the Share that fell to the Family of Mr. SHUBAEL DUMMER the Pastor of the Little Flock thus prey'd upon Those Blood-Hounds being set on by some Romish Missionaries had long been wishing that they might Em●r●e their Hands in the Blood of some New English MINISTER and in this Action they had their Diabolical Satisfaction Our Dummer the Minister of York was One of whom for his Exemplary Holin●s● Humbleness Modesty Industry and Fidelity The World was not Worthy He was a Gentleman Well-Descended Well-Tempered Well-Educated and now short of Sixty years of Age. He might have taken for his Coat of Arms the same that the Holy Martyr Hooper Prophetically did A Lamb in a Flaming Bush with Rayes from Heaven shining ●n it He had been Sollicited with many Temptations to Leave his Place when the Clouds grew Thick and Black in the Indian Hostilities and were like to break upon it but he chose rather with a paternal Affection to stay amongst those who had been so many of them Converted and Edified by his Ministry and he spent very much of his own Patramony to Subsist among them when their Distresses made them unable to support him as otherwise they would have done In a word He was one that might by way of Eminency be called A Good Man This Good Man was just going to Take Horse at his own Door upon a Journey in the Service of God when the Tygres that were making their Depredations upon the Sheep of York Siez'd upon this their Shepherd they shot him so that they left him Dead among the Tribe of Abel on the Ground Thus was he as Ambrose in his Elegant Oration De obitu Fratris Expresses it Non nobis ereptus sed periculis His Wife they carried into Captivity where through Sorrows and Hardships among those Dragons of the Desart she also quickly Dyed and his Church as many of them as were in that Captivity Endured This among other Anguishes that on the Next Lord Day one of the Tawnies chose to Exhibit himself unto them A Devil as an Angel of Light in the Cloaths whereof they had Stript the Dead Body of this their Father Many were the Tears that were dropt throughout New-England on this Occasion and These among the rest for tho' we do not as Tradition tells us the Antediluvians did use to do By the Blood of Abel yet we cannot but mournfully Sing of the Blood of such an Abel EPITAPH DVmmer The Shepherd Sacrific'd By Wolves because the Sheep he priz'd The Orphans Father Churches Light The Love of Heav'n of Hell the Spite The Countrys Gapman and the Face That Shone but knew it not with Grace Hunted by Devils but Reliev'd By Angels and on High Receiv'd The Martyr'd Pelican who Bled Rather than leave his Charge Unfed A proper Bird of Paradise Shot and Flow'n thither in a Trice Lord Hear the Cry of Righteous Dummers wounds Ascending still against the Salvage Hounds That Worry thy dear Flocks and let the Cry Add Force to Theirs that at thine Altar ly To Compleat the Epitaph of this Good man there now needs no more than the famous old Chancers Motto Mors mihi aerumnarum Requies ARTICLE XVI The Memorable Action at Wells A Vessel the Name whereof I know not Reader Let it be The Charity being immediately dispatched unto Sagadehock by the Charitable Compassions of the more Southward Neighbours with Effects to accomplish it happily Effected the Redemption of many that were taken Captives at York But the rest of the People in that Broken Town talking of Drawing off the Government sent Captain Convers and Captain Greenleaf with such Encouragements unto them to keep their Station as prevailed with 'em still to Stand their Ground In February Major Hutchinson was made Commander in Chief Forces under the Command of Captain Convers Captain Floyd and Captain Thaxter were by him so prudently posted on the Frontiers that by mentaining a continual Communication it became a Difficult Thing for the Enemy to make any more Approaches Lieutenant Wilson particularly hearing of a man Shot at in Quochecho-Woods went out with a Scout of about Eighteen men who came upon the Indians that had shot at the man and killed and wounded all but one of the whole Company But now Reader the Longest Day in the Year is come on and it I mistake not the Bravest Act in the War fell out upon it Modockawando is now come according to his Promise a Twelve Month ago Captain Convers was lodg'd in Storers Garrison at Wells with but Fifteen men and there came into Wells Two Sloops with a Shallop which had aboard Supplies of Ammunition for the Souldiers and Contribution for the Needy The Cattel this Day came Frighted and Bleeding but of the Woods which was a more certain Omen of Indians a coming than all the Prodigies that Livy reports of the Sacrificed Oxen. Convers immediately issued out his Commands unto all Quarters but especially to the Sloops just then arrived The Sloops were Commanded by Samuel Storer and James Gouge and Gouges being Two miles up the River he wisely brought her down undiscovered unto Storers by the advantage of a Mist then prevailing A careful Night they had on 't The next Morning before Day-Light one John Diamond a Stranger that came in the Shallop on a Visit came to Captain Conver's Garrison where the Watch invited him in but he chose rather to go aboard the Sloops which were little more than a Gun-shot off and alas the Enemy issuing out from their Lurking places immediately Siez'd him and haled

Bagatawawongo alias Sheepscoat John Phill. Ounsakis Squaw ARTICLE XX. Bloody Fishing at Oyster-River And Sad work at Groton A Years Breathing Time was a great Favour of Heaven to a Country quite out of Breath with Numberless Calamities But the Favour was not so Thankfully Enjoyed as it should have been And now The Clouds Return after the Rain The Spectre that with Burning Tongs drove Xerxes to his War upon the Graecians had not lost his Influence upon our Indians The Perfidy of the Indians appeared first in their not Restoring the English Captives according to their Covenant but the perfidious Wretches Excused this with many Protestations That which added unto our Jealousies about them was their Insolent carriage towards a Sloop commanded by Captain Wing and the Information of a Fellow called Hector That the Indians intended most certainly to break the Peace and had promised the French Priests taking the Sacrament thereupon to destroy the first English Town they could Surprize Rumours of Indians Lurking about some of the Frontier-Plantations now began to put the poor people into Consternation but upon an Imagination that they were only certain Bever Hunters the Consternation of the people went off into Security 'T is affirmed by English Captives which were then at Canada that the Desolation of Oyster-River was commonly talk'd in the Streets of Quebeck Two months before it was Effected for the Spies had found no Town so Secure as That And now what was Talk'd at Quebeck in the month of May must be Done at Oyster River in the month of July for on Wednesday July 18 1694. the Treachearous Enemy with a great Army fell upon that place about break of Day and Killed and Captiv'd Ninety Four or an Hundred persons about a Score of whom were men belonging to the Trained Band of the Town Several persons Remarkably Escaped this Bloody Deluge but none with more Bravery than one Thomas Bickford who had an House a Little Pallisado'd by the River Side but no man in it besides himself He dexterously put his Wife and Mother and Children aboard a Canoo and Sending them down the River he Alone betook himself to the Defence of his House against many Indians that made an Assault upon him They first would have perswaded him with many fair Promises and then terrified him with as many Fierce Threatnings to yield himself but he flouted and fired at them daring 'em to come if they durst His main Stratagem was to Change his Livery as frequently as he could appearing Sometimes in one Coat Sometimes in another Sometimes in an Hat and Sometimes in a Cap which caused his Beseigers to mistake this One for Many Defendents In fine The pittiful Wretches despairing to Beat him out of his House e'en left him in it whereas many that opened unto them upon their Solemn Engagements of giving them Life and Good Quarter were barborously butchered by them and the Wife of one Adams then with Child was with horrible Barbarity Ripped up And thus there was an End of the Peace made at Pemmaquid Upon this the Friends of Mrs Ursula Cutt Widow of Mr John Cutt formerly President of New-Hampshire desired her to leave her Farm which was about a Mile above the Bank Exposed unto the Enemy on the South side of Piscataqua River She Thank'd them for their Care but added that she believed the Enemy had now done their Do for this Time and however by the End of the Week her Business at the Farm would be all dispatched and on Saturday she would Repair to her Friends at the Bank But alas before the End of the week she saw the End of her Life On Saturday about one or two a Clock in the Afternoon the Business at the Farm was Dispatched sure enough The Indians Then Kill'd this Gentlewoman and Three other People a little before they had Finished a point of Husbandry then in their Hand Nor did the Storm go over so Some Drops of it fell upon the Town of Groton a Town that lay one would think far enough off the place where was the last Scene of the Tragedy On July 27. About break of Day Groton felt some Surprizing Blows from the Indian Hatchets They began their Atta●ques at the House of one Lieutenant Lakin in the out skirts of the Town but met with a Repulse there and lost one of their Crue Nevertheless in other parts of that Plantation when the Good People had been so tired out as to lay down their Military Watch there were more than Twenty persons killed and more than a Dozen carried away Mr. Gershom Hobart the Minister of the place with part of his Family was Remarkably preserved from falling into their Hands when they made themselves the Masters of his House though they Took Two of his Children whereof the one was killed and the other some Time after happily Rescued out of his Captivity I remember The Jews in their Book Taanith tell us The Elders Proclaimed a Fast in their Cities on this Occasion because the Wolves had Devoured two Little Children beyond Jordan Truly The Elders of New-England were not a little concerned at it when they saw the Wolves thus devouring their Children even on this side of Merrimack ARTICLE XXI More English Blood Swallowed but Revenged REader We must after This ever Now and Then Expect the happening of some unhappy Accident The Blood-thirsty Salvages not content with quaffing the Blood of Two or Three persons found at work in a Field at Spruce creek on Aug. 20. of another person at York the same Day Captivating also a Lad which they found with him They did on Aug. 24. Kill Take Eight persons at Kittery Here a little Girl about Seven years old the Daughter of one Mr. Downing fell into their Barbarous Hands They knock'd her o' th' Head and barbarously Scalped her leaving her on the Cold Ground and it was then very Cold beyond what use to be where she lay all the Night Ensuing Yet she was found Alive the Next Morning and Recovering she is to this Day Alive and well only the place broke in her skull will not endure to be closed up He had another Daughter which at the same Time almost miraculously Escaped their Hands But so could not at another Time Joseph Pike of Newbury the Deputy Sheriff of Essex who on Sept. 4. Travelling between Amesbury and Haverhil in the Execution of his Office with one Long they both had an Arrest of Death Served upon them from an Indian Ambascado Bommaseen a Commander of prime Quality among the Indians who had set his Hand unto the late Articles of Submission came Nov. 19. with Two other Indians to Pemmaquid as Loving as Bears and as Harmless as Tygres pretending to be just Arrived from Canada and much Afflicted for the late mischiefs whereof there was witness that he was a principal Actor but Captain March with a Sufficient Activity Siezed them as Robin Doney another famous Villain among them with Three