July. 22. Some of our Companies returned from Mount-hope to […] And albeit they have not attained that which was they main end […] in their going forth so the Apprehension of Philip, nevertheless God was in a gracious measure present with them: for they killed and took about an hundred and fifty Indians in this expedition, with the lots of but one Englishman. One night they lodged very near unto Philip, but he kept himself private and still in a Swamp, ours not imagining that […] […] near as afterwards (by Indian Captives), they p•••••ed he was after this an Indian that was taken Prisoner engaged that if they would spare his life, he would forthwith being them to P•••• but our Soldiers were not able to go ⟨image ?⟩the nearest way towards him, yet in about two hours space, they came whither the Indian conducted them, and found that a great many Indians were n••ly fled, having for hast left their Kettles boiling over their fires, and their Belts, and Baskets of Wampampeag, yea and their dead unburied. At that time did the English take and kill about seventy persons: since an Indian that came into Rhode-Island, informeth, that Philip is gone to a Swamp near Dartmouth: and that when our Forces were pursuing of him, he with a few hid himself in Squanakunk Swamp, till our Soldiers were past, and then with one Indian in a Canoe crossed the river to Pocasset. It seems the body of the Indians belonging to him, went over on two Rafts, in which passage they lost several Guns, and wet much of their Ammunition. The reason why Philip fled to this place, was because if he went Northward, the Mohawks would be upon him, if Southward he was in danger of the Monhegins, and he durst not hide himself any longer about Metapoisit, because the Woods thereabouts were filled with Soldiers. This week also, Captain Church of Plymouth, with a small party consisting of about eighteen English, and two and twenty Indians, had four several engagements with the Enemy, and killed and took Captive seventy nine Indians, without the loss of so much as one of ours; it having been his manner, when he taketh any Indians by a promise of favour to them, in case they acquit themselves well, to set them an hu••ing after more of these Wolves, whereby the worst of them, sometimes do singular good service in finding out the rest of their bloody fellows.
July. 22. Some of our Companies returned from Mount-hope to 〈…〉 And albert they have not attained that which was they main end 〈…〉 in their going forth so the Apprehension of Philip, nevertheless God was in a gracious measure present with them: for they killed and took about an hundred and fifty Indians in this expedition, with the lots of but one Englishman. One night they lodged very near unto Philip, but he kept himself private and still in a Swamp, ours not imagining that 〈…〉 〈…〉 near as afterwards (by Indian Captives), they p•••••ed he was after this an Indian that was taken Prisoner engaged that if they would spare his life, he would forthwich being them to P•••• but our Souldiers were not able to go ⟨image ?⟩the nearest way towards him, yet in about two hours space, they came whither the Indian conducted them, and found that a great many Indians were n••ly fled, having for hast left their Kettles boyling over their fires, and their Belts, and Baskets of Wampampeag, yea and their dead unburied. At that time did the English take and kill about seventy persons: since an Indian that came into Rhode-Island, informeth, that Philip is gone to a Swamp near D•rtmouth: and that when our Forces were pursuing of him, he with a few hid himself in Squanakunk Swamp, till our Souldiers were past, and then with one Indian in a Canoo crost the river to Pocasset. It seems the body of the Indians belonging to him, went over on two Rafts, in which pass•ge they lost several Guns, and wet much of their Ammunition. The reason why Philip fled to this place, was because if he went Northward, the Moha•ks would be upon him, if Southward he was in danger of the Monhegins, and he dirst not hide himself any longer about Metapoisit, because the Woods thereabouts were filled with Souldiers. This week also, Captain Church of Plimo•th, with a small party consisting of about eighteen English, and two and twenty Indians, had four several engagements with the Enemy, and killed and took Captive seventy nine Indians, without the loss of so much as one of ours; it having been his manner, when he taketh any Indians by a promise of favour to them, in case they acquit themselves well, to set them an hu••ing after more of these Wolves, whereby the worst of them, sometimes do singular good service in finding out the rest of their bloody fellows.
