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

This old Wakely was esteemed a godly Man. He would sometimes say with tears, that he believed God was angry with him, because although he came into New-England for the Gospels sake, yet he had left another place in this Country, where there was a Church of Christ, which he once was in Communion with, and had lived many years in a Plantation where was no Church nor Instituted Worship. If a Faithful Minister of Christ happened to Preach in Casco, he would with much affection entertain him, saying, Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord. After this good man was murdered by the Indians, they quickly did more mischief: so that in Falmouth there were five Houses burnt, four Men, two Women, and two Children killed, and three Children carried away Captive. After this they set upon Sacoe, where they •ew thirteen Men, and at last burnt the Town. A principle Actor in the destruction of Sacoe was a strange Enthusiastical Sagamore, called Squando, who some years before pretended that God appeared to him, in the form of a tall Man, in black Clothes, declaring to him that he was God, and commanded him to leave his Drinking of Strong Liquors, and to pray, and to keep Sabbaths, and to go to hear the Word Preached, […] which things the Indian did for some years, with great seeming Devotion and Conscience observe. But the God which appeared to him, said nothing to him about Jesus Christ; and therefore it is not to be marvelled at, that at last he discovered himself to be no otherwise then a Child of him, that was a Murderer and a Liar from the beginning. Also these enraged Barbarians, being animated with their success at Falmouth and Sacoe, they went to Black Point, and there killed six Men and a Woman, and burnt two and twenty dwelling Houses. In the mean time, the English at Kennebec endeavoured that the Indians in those parts night be kept from joining in this Insurrection, whereto they were tempted and solicited by their neighbours. The prudent endeavours of the English proved happily successful, insomuch as the Sachems there, brought Presents with great Protestations of Amity and Fidelity, and desired that no more Liquors might be sold to the Indians, professing, that that was a principle cause of the mischiefs that had been done, ⟨p. 14⟩and that they were not able to keep their men in subjection, when once they were become mad with drink.

This old Wakely was esteemed a godly Man. He would sometimes say with tears, that he believed God was angry with him, because although he came into New-England for the Gospels sake, yet he had left another place in this Country, where there was a Church of Christ, which he once was in Communion with, and had lived many years in a Plantation where was no Church nor Instituted Worship. If a Faithful Minister of Christ happened to Preach in Casco, he would with much affection entertain him, saying, Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord. After this good man was murthered by the Indians, they quickly did more mischief: so that in Falmouth there were five Houses burnt, four Men, two Women, and two Children killed, and three Children carried away Captive. After this they set upon Sacoe, where they ew thirteen Men, and at last burnt the Town. A principle Actor in the destruction of Sacoe was a strange Enthufiastical Sagamore, called Squando, who some years before pretended that God appeared to him, in the form of a tall Man, in black Cloaths, declaring to him that he was God, and commanded him to leave his Drinking of Strong Liquors, and to pray, and to keep Sabbaths, and to go to hear the Word Preached, which things the Indian did for some years, with great seeming Devotion and Conscience observe. But the God which appeared to him, said nothing to him about Jesus Christ; and therefore it is not to be marvelled at, that at last he discovered himself to be no otherwise then a Childe of him, that was a Murtherer and a Lyar from the beginning. Also these inraged Barbarians, being annimated with their success at Falmouth and Sacoe, they went to BlackPoint, and there killed six Men and a Woman, and burnt two and twenty dwelling Houses. In the mean time, the English at Kenbeck endeavoured that the Indians in those parts night be kept from joyning in this Insurrection, whereto they were tempted and sollicited by their neighbours. The prudent endeavours of the English proved happily successful, insomuch as the Sachems there, brought Presents with great Proestations of Amity and Fidelity, and desired that no more Liquors might be sold to the Indians, prosessing, that that was a principle cause of the mischiefs that had been done,