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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

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-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

poor Inhabitants Little more Spoil was done by the Salvages before Winter Except only that at a place called Kennebunk near Winter harbour they cut off Two Families to wit Barrows and Bussies but Winter coming on the Serpents retired into their Holes When Summer comes Reader look for Tornadoes enough to over-set a greater Vessel than little New-England ARTICLE III. The First Expedition of the English against the Indians WHen the Keeper of the Wild Beasts at Florence ha's entertain'd the Spectators with their Encounters on the Stage he ha's this Device to make 'em Retire into the several Dens of their Seraglio He ha's a fearful Machin of Wood made like a Gre●t Green Dragon which a man within it roules upon Wheels and holding out a Couple of Lighted Torches at the Eyes of it frights the fiercest Beast of them all into the Cell that belongs unto him Sir Edmond Andros the Governour of New-England that he might Express his Resolutions to force the Wild Beasts of the East into order in the Winter now comeing on turned upon them as Effectual a Machin as the Green Dragon of Florence that is to say An Army of near a Thousand men With this Army he marched himself in Person into the Caucasaean Regions where he built a Fort at Pemmaquid and another Fort at Pechypscot Falls besides the Fort at Sheepscote He and his Army underwent no little Hard ship thus in the Depth of Winter to Expose themselves unto the Circumstances of a Campaign in all the Bleak Winds and Thick Snows of that Northern Country But it was Hop'd That Good Forts being thus Garrison'd with Stout Hearts in several Convenient places ●he Indians might be kept from their usual Retreats both for Planting and for Fishing and lye open also to perpetual Incursions from the English in the fittest seasons thereof And it was Thought by the most sensible this method would in a little while compel the Enemy to Submit unto any Terms albeit others considering the Vast Woods of the Wilderness and the French on the back of these Woods fancied that this was but a project to Hedge in the Cuckow However partly the Army and partly the Winter frighted the Salvages into their Inaccessible Dens yet not one of the Indians was killed but Sickness Service kill'd it may be more of our English than there were Indians then in Hostility against them The News of matters approaching towards a REVOLUTION in England caused the Governour to Return unto Boston in the Spring upon his Return there fell out several odd Events with Rumours whereof I have now nothing to say but That I love my Eyes too well to mention them Some of the Souldiers took Advantage from the Absence of the Governour to desert their Stations in the Army and tho' this Action was by Good men generally condemned as an Evil Action yet their Friends began to gather together here and there in Little Bodies to protect them from the Governour concerning whom abundance of odd Stories then buzz'd about the Country made 'em to imagine that he had carried 'em out only to Sacrifice ' em Some of the principal Gentlemen in Boston consulting what was to be done in this Extraordinary Juncture They Agreed that altho' New-England had as much to Justify a Revolution as old yet they would if it were possible extinguish all Essayes in the people towards an Insurrection in daily hopes of Orders from England for our Safety but that if the Country people by any unrestrainable Violences pushed the business on so far as to make a Revolution unavoidable Then to prevent the Shedding of Blood by an ungoverned Mobile some of the Gentlemen present should appear at the Head of it with a Declaration accordingly prepared He that Reads the Narrative of Grievances under the Male Administrations of the Government then Tyrannizing Written and Signed by the Chief Gentlemen of the Governours Council will not wonder at it that a Revolution was now rendred indeed unavoidable It was a Government whereof Ned Randolph a Bird of their own Feather confess'd as we find in one of his published Letters That they were as Arbitrary as the Great Turk And for such a Government a better Similitude cannot perhaps be thought on than that of Monsr Souligne 'T is like the Condition of persons possessed with Evil Spirits which will go an Hundred Leagues in less time than others can Ten but at the Journies End find themselves to be so Bruised that they never can Recover it The Revolution and ye Tories a Just one was accordingly Made on the Eighteenth of April which Their Majesties then happily Seated on the British Throne kindly Accepted and Approved The Governour and Magistrates of the Massachusetts Colony which were in power Three years and Half before a period often observed did some Time after this Resume their places and apply themselves to such Acts of Government as Emergencies made necessary for them Fortifyed with a Letter from the King to Authorize and Empower them in their Administrations Thus they waited for further Directions from the Authority of England and such a Settlement as would most Conduce which were the words of the Kings Letter bearing Date Aug. 12 1689. to the Security and Satisfaction of the Subjects in that Colony ARTICLE IV. A Flame Spreading upon the best Endeavours to Quench it IT was hop'd the War would now come to an Immediate End but the Great God who Creates that Evil had further Intentions to Chastise a Sinful People by those who are not a People The Government sent Capt. Greenleaf to treat with the Indians at Penacook who answered him with fair pretences and Promises of Amity They procured an Interview with some of the more Eastern Sagamores who not only promised Friendship themselves but also undertook to make our Enemies become our Friends They sent unto the Souldiers yet remaining at Pemmaquid for to keep their Post Engaging to them that they should not want their Pay But all this care was defeated by Methods of Mischiefs too deep for our present penetration The Salvages began to Renew their Hostilities at Saco Falls in the Beginning of April on a Lords day morning some while before the Revolution The Penacook Indians were all this while peaceably Conversant at Quochecho and so long as that Conversation continued the Inhabitants were very Secure of any Danger not only from those Cut-throats but also from their Brethren Happy had it been for those Honest People if their Fear had made so much Hast as my Pen ha's done to call 'em Cut throats For the Penacookian joining with the Saconian Indians hovered about Quochecho where one Mesandowit a Sagamore being that Night kindly Entertained by Major Richard Waldein horribly betray'd his kind Host with the Neighbours into the hands of Murderers Above an Hundred some say Five Hundred of the Indians about break of Day having Surprized the Secure and Silent English they particularly rushed into the Garrison of the

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