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 NEWS

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NEWS

NEW-ENGLAND,
1676.

ALBANY
PRESS OF JOEL MUNSELL.
1865.

cy
Sixty Copies Quarto, of which three are on Drawing Paper,
Reprinted for W. Elliot Woodward.
 ii;iMi^,ij;^,^^^

TD Y permiffion of Mr. Drake, feventy-five

--^ copies of this pamphlet were reprinted in
quarto. So far as the printing was concerned
the work was fairly done, and in a manner
tolerably fatisfadtory, with the fingle excep-
tion of an error in the paging. But the (heets

being entrufted for binding to a firm in Bof-

ton, the work was done in a manner fo en-
tirely unworkmanlike as to induce, or rather
compel, me to deftroy the entire edition, with
the exception of 1 5 copies, which are referved
to (how how unfaithfully and fhabbily a job
can be done.
Sixty copies are already deftroyed, fo that
the two editions confift of feventy-five copies
only.
 [the original Tradt is of
exceeding rarity ; fo much fo

that, not long (ince, but one

was known to be in this coun-
try. This is reprinted from
a copy of one in the Library
of John Carter Brown,
Efq., of Providence. To the
politenefs of that gentleman
we are indebted for permiffion
to make a tranfcript. The original is, with-
out exception, one of the worft printed Tradts
of the day in which it appeared. The type
on which it was printed was wretched, efpe-
cially the italic fome of the letters in many
;

of the words not being diftinguifliable, and

others entirely wanting. I have adhered, in
this repVint, as clofely to the original, in refpedt

to orthography, capitals, and italics, as poffible.

Of its comparative value, in an hiflorical point

of view, it is unneceflafy to remark. It is

republiftied as a curious record of one of the

moft important periods in the Hiftory of New
England. The Antiquary and Student in our
hirtory will readily perceive its value, while
to the general reader it will be almoft as un-
intelligible as though it were in an unknown
language.
To whom belongs the authorfhip we have
no data on which to found even a conjedture.
A few notes feemed neceflary. Thefe, and
the words in the text included in brackets,
. /
are added to this edition. The figures in

brackets, as [2] on page 8, denote the pages

of the original edition.]
 NEWS FROM

New-England,
BEING

A True and laft Account of the prefent Bloody

Wars carried on betwixt the Infidels, Natives,
and the Englifh Chriftians, and Converted
Indians of New-England, declaring the many
Dreadful Battles Fought betwixt them As
:

alfo the many Towns and Villages burnt by

the mercilefs Heathens. And alfo the true
Number of all the Chriftians flain fince the
beginning of that War, as it was fent over by
a Faftor of New England to 'a Merchant in
London.

Licenfed Aug. i. Roger L'EJlrange.

L O N D ON,
Printed for J. Corners, at the Sign of the Black
Raven in Duck Lane, 1676.

BOSTON, N. E.:
Reprinted for Samuel G. Drake, 56 Cornhill.
April, 1850.
 ;

A True and LaJI Accompt of the Prefent

Bloody Wars carried on betwixt the Infidel
Natives and the Englijh Chriftians and con-
verted Indians of AT^w- En gland, Gfc.

5 HOSE Coals of Difcention

which had a long time lain
^' hid under the afhes of a fecret envy
contradted by tlie Heathen Indians
of ]>ltw- England, againft the Englifh ;

and Chriftian Natives of that Country brake

out in June 1675. both Armies being at a dif-
tance without doing any thing remarkable
till the 13 of Decemher following; at which
time the Mathufets and Plymouth Company
marching from Seconk, fent out a confidera-
 News from New'-England. j

blenumber of Scouts, who kill'd & took 55.

of the Enemy, returning with no other lofs

but two of our Men difabled ; about three

days after came a perfidious Indian to our
Army pretending he was fent by the Sachems
to treat of Peace, who was indeed no other
but a Spy and was no fooner conducted out
of our Camp but we had news brought us
that 22 of our Stragling Souldiers were flain

and divers barns and out houfes, with Mr.

yer. Bulls dwelling houfe burnt by him and
his Trecherous confederates which waited for
him. The next day, as the ConneSiick Army
under the Condudl of Major Treat was
Marching Joyn with the Mathufets, and
to

Plymouth Company they were afl'aulted by

;

the Indians, but without any lofs, they taking

eleaven of the AfTailants Prifoners.
The %\th [18] of December, our whole
Army being united under the Condudt of
Major Genr : Winjlow, went to feek out the
 News from New England. 8

Enemy, whom we found (there then hapen-

ing a great fall of Snow) fecuring ihemfelves
in a difmal Swamp, fo hard of accefs that there

was but one was [way] for entrance, which

was well lin'd with Heathen Indians, who
prefently went out to aflauk us: but we fall-

ing in Pell-mell with them, with much diffi-

culty gained the Swamp where we found
about 1500 Wiggwams, and by night, had
poiTeffion [2] of the fort of which we were
difpofleft foon after by an unexpeded recruit

of frefti Indians out of an adjoyning Swamp,

but our Noble Generals infatiable defire of
vidlory prompted him to fuch brave adtions,

that we following his example to the enemies

coft, made ourielves abfolute Mafters of the
fort again.* Although we purchafed our
fuccefs at fo dear a rate that we have fmall
caufe to rejoyce at the vidlory yet when we
;

* There is a little embelliftiment here. The Englilh were at

no time driven out of the fort.

 News from New- England. 9

confider the vaft difadvantage* they had of

us in number, whom we coUedled-f- to have
4000 fighting men, and we not much more
than half fo many, we have great reafon to
blels God that we came off fo well, our dead
and wounded not a Mounting to above 220,
and the enemies by their own Confeffion to
no lefs than 600. the chief officers kild on
our fide were Capt. Davenport, Capt. Johnfon,
Capt. Marjhal, Capt. Gardner, Capt. Gallop.
Captains wounded were 4. vizt, Sealey,

Major Wats, and Bradford, Lieutenants

wounded were 4. viz. Savage, Ting, Vpham
and Wain.\
In this bloody Battle we gave fo bitter a

Relifh of our Englifh valour and our converted

Indians refolutions, that they dreaded our
neighborhood and thought themfelves unfafe

The exaft reverfe is probably meant. f Calculated.

\ Swain, very probably. There was a Lieut. Swayne, belong-

ing to Capt. Appleton's company. A Lieut. Swan is mentioned
in one of the London trails in our Old Indian Chronicle, p. 50,
no doubt the fame Lieut. Swain.

c
 News from New- England. i o

till fecur'd by fix or feaven miles diftance

from our remaining Army, where they re-

main'd near a month not attempting anything

conliderable till the firft of Feb, at which
time a certain Number of them made defpe-
rate through hungar came to Palkkfet, a
Little Town near Providence and attempted
the houfe of one Mr. Carpenter, from whom
they took 20 horfes and 50 head of Cattle and
1 80 fheep. And fet fire on a houfe at South-
bury* wherein were two Men, one Woman
and feaven Children ; on the /\.th of February
the Chriftians received private intelligence
from the Indians who had Sculked ever fince
the laft Battle in certain woods fcituate about

30 miles from Malbury, that they were drawn

up into a body, and encamped in a well for-
tified Svvamp, where, notwithstanding the
Indian\^^ aflaulted the Rear, wounded four
of our men, and we killing fo many of theirs
* Sudbury, proabably.
 1

News from New- England. 1

that they thought fit to forfake their refuge,

and leave both it and their wigwams to our

difpofal, who lodging in their Rooms that

night, fet fire to a 150 of their Wigwams
next morning, and by this light purfued them
fo clofe that we kill'd divers of them, whom
age or wounds rendered incapable [3] of
keeping up with their Companions, and re-
folving to continue the queft with all the ce-
lerity imaginable, they led us to another
Swamp whofe Rocky afcent propounded fo

great a difficulty to attain it, as would have

Staggar'd the refolution of any but a refolved
Mind ; butwe attempted it with the like re-
folution and fuccefs as we did the Laft the ;

enemy by a fpeedy flight leaving us in full

pofiTeffion of all they left behind them.
We Perfued them tvs^o dayes after this en-
counter, but then (which was on the 18//6

Febr.) finding our men wearied with Speedy

marches, our Provifion fcarce through con-
 ;

News from New-England. 1 2

tinual expence and no recruit, our horfes tir'd,

and ourfelves hopelefs of overtaking them,

who had great advantage of us in paffing
over Rocks and through Thickets, which our
Foot, not without much difficulty, could, and
our horfe were altogether incapable to do
our Commanders after a Councel of warr,
refolved to fend the Majfathufets and Ply-
mouth Company to Malbury, and the Connec-
ticksArmy to their own homes which was
accordingly done. And Major Genr. Winf-
low, only with his Troops to Bojion, leaving
the foot at Malbury and South-bury, who
came home on Munday following, and were
all difmift to their feveral habitations, except
Capt. Wadworth, who was left at Malbury in
perfuit of the Enemy, of whom he deftroyed
about 70, Old Men, Women and Children,
who wanted ftrength to follow the fugitive
Army.*
* If this be fo, who wil) wonder at the fate of Capt. Wadf-
worth and his men ?
 News from New- England. 13

The Defperate heathens takeing advantage

of the difmiffion of three Difbanded Com-
panies, ftudied nothing but Maffacres, out-
rages, and treacherous hoftilitie, which within
two days after Companies were
thofe faid
difperf't, they found opportunity to commit,

in a Town called Najhaway, which they fet

fire to, and burnt to the Ground, taking no

lefs than 55 Perfons into their Mercilefs cap-

tivity, and becaufe the reader (hall underftand

the Damnable antipathy they have to Reli-

gion and Piety, I would have him take notice
how they endeavor to Signalize their Cruelty,
and gratifie their enraged Spleen, chiefly on
the promoters of of thefe 55 Captives,
it ; for

the Minifter of the Town's relations made no

lefs than 1 9 of them; viz, Mrs. Rowlonfon, the
Minifters wife, and three of his Children, her
fifter and feaven Children, and her fiflier Drew
and four Children. The Minifter himfelf
with his fifters huibands returning from Bqf-
ton a little after the engagement, [4] to their

D
 News from New-England. 14

infinite grief, found their houfes burnt to tPie

ground, and their Wives and Children taken
Captive, nor was this crueltie committed, as
the extent or Nepolus Vltra of their vengance,
but rather as an earneft of their Bearbarity.
For no longer than the next day after, three
men Going out, with the Cart, were feiz'd
on by thefe Indians, one of them killed, and
the other two not to be found; the day fol-
lowing at Coxcord, [Concord?] the/ burnt
one houfe and murder'd three perfons.
In fhort, their outrages are fb many and
different, that I muft intreat the reader, fince

they will not be brought into a fluent Nar-

ration, to accept them plainly and dyurnally,
according to the time, place, and manner, as

they were committed, which is the only way

to avoid omiffions, and confequently to Satisfie

the inquifitive, who, I fuppofe, would wil-

lingly hear of all the extremities [that] have
happened to the fuffering Chriftians in this

New England War.

 News from New- England. \
5

On the 17 of Febr. therefore, ye muft

know that the Town of Medfeild was begirt
with a regiment of refoleiit Indians, who
affail'd it fo brifkly, that maugred all the re-
fiftance made by Capt. "Jacohbs, who was
then Ingarifon'd there with a hundred Soul-
diers for its fecurity, the enraged Heathens
never defifled their defperate attemps, Bat-
tering the Walls, and powering fhowers of
Arrows into the bofome of the Town, they
had deftroyed above 50 of her inhabitants,
and burnt 30 of her houfes.
The jth. of March following thefe bloody
Indians march't to a confiderable Town called

Croaton^ where firfh they fet fire to Major

Willards houfe, and afterwards burnt 65 more,
there being Seaventy two houfes at firft, fo

that there was left flanding but fix houfes of

the whole Town; the next day after, two
men coming from Malbury to Southbury were

Groton, probably. The C may be an imperfedl G in copy.

 News from New- England. i6

flain : and the Sabboth day enfuing, thefe

deftroying Indians came to Plymouth, where
fixing only on a houfe of one Mr. Clarks,
they burnt, and murthered his wife and all

his Children, himfelf Narrowly efcaping their

crueltie by happily at that Jundlure being at

a meeting.

On the fecond of April, 1676. Major

Savage, Capt. Mofeley, Capt. William Tumor,
and Captain VVhipal^ with 300. men march-
ing from Malborow to ^uabury,-^- where they
had ordered the ConneSiick Army to remain
in readinefs againft their coming, which being
effedled, accordingly they joined forces, and
began [5] their march towards Northampton,
but by the way were affaulted by the Indians,
whom they repelled without any other
damage, then only Mr. Buckly wounded, kill-

ing about 20 of the Enemies in a hot perfuit

after them.

* Probably Whipple, but hardly decjdable.

+ Quabaog. Brookfield.
 News from New-England. \j

The tenth Ditto, about 700 Indians en-

coinpaft Northampton on all fides where they

fought very refolutely for the fpace of an

hour, and then fled, leaving about 25 per-
fons dead upon the place, the Chriftians loof-

ing only 4. men and i. woman, and had lome

barnes burnt : on the 1 2th inftant they afTault-
ed Warwick with fo unhappy a fuccefs that

they burnt all the Town, except four Garri-

fon houfes which were left {landing, fix days
after, Captain Peirce, Brother to Captain
Peirce oi London, with ^^ men and 20 Chrif-
tian Indians went to feek out their Enemies,
the Indians whom according to their intelli-

gence they found rambling in an obfcure

Wood ; upon his approach they drew into
order, and received his onfet with much diffi-

culty, being in the end forced to retreat, but

itwas fo flowly that it fcarcely deferved that

name, when a frefh company of Indians came
into their affift:ance, befet the Chrifliians

E
 News from New- England. i8

round. Killed Captain Pterce and 48. of his

men, befides 8. of the Chriftian Indians.
The Fight continued about 5 hours, the
Enemy bying the Vidtory very dearly, but at
laft obtained it fo ablblutely, that they de-
prived us of all means of hearing of their lofs.

At Malbrow on the iith Ditto, were feve-

ral houfes burnt whilft the miferable inhab-
itants were at a meeting, and at Springfield
the fame Lords day, thefe devilifh Enemies
of Religion feeing a man, woman, and their
Children, going but towards a meeting- houfe,
Slew them (as they faid) becaufe they thought
they intended to go thither.
The 28//6 of the fame inftant, AprilX^A,
Captain Denifon collecting a Regiment ot 500,
and 200 Rnglijh Paquet Nime afs Indians,
marcht out of New London in fearch of that
Grand fomenter of this Rebellion. Anthony"^

* Nanunteno, unqueftionably, is intended ; but what is meant

by Nimerafs is beyond my comprehenfion, unlefs the Niantich
are meant.
 News from New-England. 19

the Secham, whom at laft near the Town

call'd Providence he recovered, and after a hot
difpute, wherein he kill'd 45 of the Sechems
men, Took him their Commander Prifoner,
with feveral ^f his Captaines, whom they im-
mediately put to death ; but were at ftrong
debate whether they fliould fend him to
Bojlon, but at length they carried him to [6|
New London, and began to examine him, why
he did foment that war which would cer-
tainly be the diftrudtion of him and all the
Heathen Indians in the Country, to which,
and many other interogatories he made no
other reply, but that *[he was born a Prince,
and if Princes came to fpeak with him, he
would anfwer them. But none of thefe pref-
ent being Princes, he thought himfelf oblig'd
in honour to hold his Tongue.] This Anfwer,
though it might challenge their admiration,

was not fo prevalent as to obtain their pitty.

* The printer's quotation marlc.

 News from New-England. 20

Notwithftanding, the Surviveing Sechems

were not long in revenging his death, for, on
the Sixth of May, they burnt all Malborow,
except three Garrifon houfes, kill'd Capt.
Jacobfon and Lieutenant Prat, and two dayes
after burnt 24 houfes in Southbury, kill'd

feveral of the inhabitants who vainly expected

Capt. Wedworth and Capt. Brookwel'^ 10

their Relief for thefe unfortunate Gentlemen

were intercepted by 700 Moors, with whom
they fought for the fpace of4 not hours, till

only they two, but Capt. Sharp and 51

Chriftians more lay dead upon the place.
At Woodcocliys^ 10 miles from Seconch, on
the i6th May was a little Skrimage betwixt
the Moors and Chriftians, wherein there was
of the later three flain and two wounded, and
only two Indians Kild.
May 28. 1676. Capt. Denifon and Capt.

The printer was probably puzzled to make anything of his

copy. BrocUebank is the name.
 ;

News from New-England. z r

Every [Avery] with 50 Englifli and about

150 Paquet Indians, Scouting among the
Woods, in 8 days fpace kill'd 25 Indians,
and took 5 1 prifoners ; one whereof was
Grand-child to Dunhani^ who was kill'd by
Capt. Peirce in the engagement on the 26
May.
The number of Chriftians flain fince the
beginning of the late Wars in New England,
are 444. Taken Prifoner, 55.
The number of Indians Slain in this war
is uncertain, becauf'e they burn-f- their Dead,
keeping their Death as a Secret from the
Chriftians knowledge, but the number men-
tioned herein is 910.
We have Received very late news that the
Chriftians in New England have had very
great Vidiory over the Infidel Natives.
There has been a Treaty between them
* Perhaps Pumham.

f This is new and untrue.

 ;

News from New -England. 22

the Indians proffer to lay down their Armes

but the Englijh are not wiUing to agree to it,

except they will give up their Armes, and go

as far up into the Country, as the Court of
Bojion {hall think fit.*

* Some copies of the original traft have not this laft paragraph.
Mr. Brown's copy has it, but that in Harvard College Library is

vifithout it. By comparing the proofs of this edition with that

belonging to the College, feveral corrections have been made, and
uncertain words made out, which could not have been done by
the other copy. And here we would return our thanks to the

obliging Librarian, for his kindneis in affording us an opportunity

to make our copy more perfeft than either of the others.

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