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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 Arrâ—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-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 Pâ—omise and Agree to and wiâ—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 Indianâ— 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 â—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 Egeremeâ—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

Deerfield in the Night they presently Dispatched away Twelve men to way lay the Enemy coming up the River having first Look'd up unto the Lord Jesus Christ that they might find the Enemy and harm none but the Enemy and Rescue the Children which the Enemy had Seized upon After a Travel of near Twenty Miles they perceived the Indians in their Canooes coming up the River but on the other side of it within a Rod or Two of the opposite Shore Whereupon they so Shot as to Hitt one of the Indians and then they all Jump't out of the Canooes and one of the Boyes with them The wounded Salvage crawled unto the Shoar where his back being broken he lay in great Angush often Endeavouring with his Hatchet for to knock out his own Brains and tear open his own Breast but could not and another Indian seeing the Two Boyes getting one to another design'd 'em a Shot but his Gun would not go off Whereupon he followed 'em with his Hatchet for to have knock'd 'em on the Head but just as he come at 'em one of our men sent a Shot into him that Spoilt his Enterprize and so the Boyes getting together into one Canooe brought it over to the Friends thus concerned for them These good men seeing their Exploit performed thus far Two Indians destroy'd and Two Children delivered they fell to Praising of God and one young man particularly kept thus Expressing himself Surely T is God and not we that have wrought this Deliverance But as we have sometimes been told That even in the Beating of a Pulse the Dilating of the Heart by a Diastole of Delight may be turned into a contracting of it with a Systole of Sorrow In the Beating of a few Pulse after this they sent five or six men with the Canooe to fetch the other which was lodged at an Island not far off that they might pursue the other Indians when those two Indians having hid themselves in the High-grass unhappily Shot a quick Death into the young man whose Expressions were but now recited This Hopeful young mans Brother-in-Law was intending to have gone out upon this Action but the young man himself importuned his Mother to let him go which because he was an only Son she denyed but then fearing she did not well to withold her Son from the Service of the Publick she gave him leave saying See that you do now and as you go along Resign and give up your self unto the Lord and I desire to Resign you to Him So he goes and so he dies And may he be the last that falls in a Long and Sad War with Indian Salvages ARTICLE XXVIII The Epilogue of a Long Tragaedy FOr the present then the Indians have Done Murdering They 'l Do so no more till next Time Let us then have done Writing when we have a little informed our selves what is become of the chief Murderers among those Wretches for whom if we would find a Name of a Length like one of their own Indian Long-winded words it might be Bombardo-gladio-fun-hasti-flammi-loquentes Major Convers and Captain Alden in pursuance of Instructions Received from the Lieut. Governour and Council arriving at Penobscet on Oct. 14. 1698. were there informed That Madockawando the noted Sagamore with several other Sachims of the East were lately Dead And six days after this the chief Sachims now Living with a great Body of Indians Entertained them with a Friendly Discourse wherein they said That the Earl of Frontenac had sent them word there was a Peace concluded between the Kings of France and England and that one of the Articles in the Peace was for Prisoners on both sides to be Returned and they were Resolved to obey the Earl of Frontenac as their Father and accordingly such Prisoners of ours as they had now at hand might immediately Return if we could perswade them for They would not Compel them When our English Messengers argued with them upon the perfidiousness of their making a New War after their Submission the Indians replied That they were Instigated by the Erench to do what they did against their own Inclinations adding That there were two Jesuites one toward Amonoscoggin the other at Narridgaway both of which they desired the Earl of Bellomont and the Earl of Frontenac to procure to be Removed otherwise it could not be expected that any Peace would continue long The Indians also and the English Prisoners gave them to understand that the last Winter many both Indians and English Prisoners were Starved to Death and particularly Nine Indians in one company went a Hunting but met with such hard circumstances that after they had Eat up their Dogs and their Coats they Dyed horribly Famished And since the last Winter a grievous and unknown Disease is got among them which consumed them wonderfully The Sagamore Saquadock further told them That the Kennebeck Indians would fain have gone to War again this last Summer but the other Refused whereupon they likewise Desisted And they Resolved now to Fight no more but if any Ill Accident or Action should happen on either side he did in the Name of the Indians Desire That we would not presently make a War upon it but in a more amicable way compose the Differences That the Indian Affayrs might come to be yet more exactly understood the General Assembly of the Province Employ'd Colonel John Phillips and Major Convers to Settle them These Gentlemen took a Difficult and a Dangerous Voyage in the Depth or Winter unto the Eastern parts in the Province-Galley then under the Command of Captain Cyprian Southack and the principal Sagamores of the Indians there coming to them did again Renew and Subscribe the Submission which they had formerly made in the year 1693. With this Addition unto it And whereas notwithstanding the aforesaid Submission and Agreement the said Indians belonging to the Rivers aforesaid or some of them thro' the ill counsel and instigation of the French have perpetrated sundry Hostilities against His Majesties Subjects the English and have not Delivered and Returned home several English Captives in their Hands as in the said Submission they Covenanted Wherefore we whose Names are hereunto Subscribed Sagamores Captains and principal men of the Indians belonging unto the Rivers of Kennebeck Ammonoscoggin and Saco and parts adjacent being sensible of our great Offence and Folly in not complying with the aforesaid Submission and Agreement and also of the Sufferings and Mischiefs that we have hereby exposed our selves unto Do in all Humble and most Submissive manner cast our selves upon His Majesties Mercy for the pardon of all our Rebellions Hostilities and Violations of our promises praying to be Received into His Majesties Grace and protection And for and on behalf of our selves and of all other the Indians belonging to the several Rivers and places aforesaid within the Soveraignty of His Majesty of Great Britain do again acknowledge and profess our Hearty and Sincere Obedience unto the Crown of

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