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An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of…
An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of God in his late and present dispensations as ever they desire to escape another judgement, seven times greater that any thing which as yet hath been. / By Increase Mather; teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
July 25. Thirty and six English men who went out of Medfield and Dedham, ⟨image ?⟩having nine of the Praying Indians with them, pursued and overtook a party of the Enemy, killed and took alive fifty of them, without the loss of any of ours. The nine Indians stored themselves with plunder when this exploit was done: For besides Kettles, there was about half a Bushel of Wampampeag, which the Enemy lost, and twelve pound of Powder, which the Captives say they had received from Albany, but two days before. At this time, another of the Narragansett Sachems was killed, whose name was P•• ••• and his Son was taken alive, and brought Prisoner to Boston. This Pomham after he was wounded so as that he could not stand upon his legs, and was thought to have been dead, made a shift (as the Soldiers were pursuing others) to crawl a little out of the way, but was found again, and when an English-man drew near to him, though he could not stand, he did (like a dying Beast) in rage and revenge, get hold on that Soldiers head, and had like to have killed him, had not another come in to his help, and rescued him out of the enraged dying hands of that bloody Barbarian, who had been a great promoter of the Narragansett War.
July 25. Thirty and six English men who went out of Medfield and Dedbow, ⟨image ?⟩having nine of the Praying Indians with them, pursued and overtook a party of the Enemy, killed and took alive fifty of them, without the loss of any of ours. The nine Indians stored themselves with plunder when this exploit was done: For besides Kettles, there was about half a Bushel of Wampampeag, which the Enemy lost, and twelve pound of Powder, which the Captives say they had received from Albany, but two dayes before. At this time, another of the Narraganset Sachims was killed, whose name was P•• ••• and his Son was taken alive, and brought Prisoner to B•ston. This Pomham after he was wounded so as that he could not stand upon his legs, and was thought to have been dead, made a shift (as the Souldiers were pursuing others) to crawl a little out of the way, but was found again, and when an English-man drew near to him, though he could not stand, he did (like a dying Beast) in rage and revenge, get hold on that Souldiers head, and had like to have killed him, had not another come in to his help, and rescued him out of the inraged dying hands of that bloody Barbarian, who had been a great promoter of the Narraganset War.