An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of…

At a Meeting of the Commissioners of the United Colonies held at Boston September 9th 1675. WE having received from the Commissioners of Plymouth, a Narrative, showing the rise and several steps of that Colony, as to the present War with the Indians, which had its beginning there, and its progress into the Massachusetts, by their insolencies, and outrages, Murdering many persons, and burning their Houses in sundry Plantations in both Colonies. And having duly considered the same, do Declare, That the said War doth appear to be both just and necessary, and its first rise only a Defensive War. And therefore we do agree and conclude, that it ought now to be jointly prosecuted by all the United Colonies, and the charges thereof to be born and paid as is agreed in the Articles of Confederation. John Winthrop. James Richards. Thomas Danforth. William Stoughton. Josiah Winslow. Thomas Hinckley.

At a Meeting of the Commissioners of the United Colonies held at Boston September 9th 1675. WE having received from the Commissioners of Plimouth, a Narrative, shewing the rise and several steps of that Colony, as to the present War with the Indians, which had its beginning there, and its progress into the Massachusets, by their insolencies, and outrages, Murthering many persons, and burning their Houses in sundry Plantations in both Colonies. And having duely considered the same, do Declare, That the said War doth appear to be both just and necessary, and its first rise only a Defensive War. And therefore we do agree and conclude, that it ought now to be joyntly prosecuted by all the United Colonies, and the charges thereof to be born and paid as is agreed in the Articles of Consederation. John Winthrop. James Richards. Thomas Danforth. William Stoughton. Josiah Winslow. Thomas Hinckley.

The above expressed Letter and Narrative will (I hope) tend to remove Prejudices out of the spirits of dissatisfied persons, touching the grounds of the present War. Some have thought that if Philip (the Ring leader of all the mischief & misery which hath happened by this War ) his solemn engagement to the English, above four years before these troubles began, were published, it would farther clear the justice of the War on our part, and the more, in that he doth desire, that that Covenant might testify against him to the world, if ever he should prove unfaithful therein. I shall therefore here subjoin what was by him together with his Council, subscribed, (in the presence of sundry appertaining to this Jurisdiction) and doth still remain with their Names set to it, in the public Records of the Colonies.