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Decemb. 18. Connecticut Forces being come, a March toward the enemy was resolved upon: Peter Indian having informed that the Body of Indians (only Ninnigret being one of their old crafty Sachems, had with some of his men withdrawn himself from the rest, professing that he would not engage in a War with the English, therefore did he go into a place more remote) was in a Fort about eighteen miles distant from the place where our Army now was. The next day, although it were the Sabbath, yet, provisions being almost spent by our Soldiers, waiting so long for Connecticut Forces, the Council of War resolved to give Battle to the enemy. The English Soldiers played the men wonderfully; the Indians also fought stoutly, but were at last beat out of their Fort, which was taken by the English, There were hundreds of Wigwams (or Indian houses) within the Fort, which our Soldiers set on fire, in the which men, women and Children (no man knoweth how many hundreds of them) were burnt to death. Night coming on, a Retreat was founded.

Decemb. 18. Connecticut Forces being come, a March toward the enemy was resolved upon: Peter Indian having informed that the Body of Indians (only Ninnigret being one of their old crafty Sachems, had with some of his men withdrawn himself from the rest, professing that he would not ingage in a War with the English, therefore did he goe into a place more remote) was in a Fort about eighteen miles distant from the place where our Army now was. The next day, although it were the Sabbath, yet, provisions being almost spent by our Souldiers, waiting so long for Connecticut Forces, the Councill of War resolved to give Battle to the enemy. The English Souldiers played the men wonderfully; the Indians also fought stoutly, but were at last beat out of their Fort, which was taken by the English, There were hundreds of Wigwams (or Indian houses) within the Fort, which our Souldiers set on fire, in the which men, women and Children (no man knoweth how many hundreds of them) were burnt to death. Night coming on, a Retreat was founded.

Concerning the number of Indians stain in this Battle, we are uncertain: only some Indians which afterwards were taken prisoners (as also a wretched English man that apostatized to the Heathen, and fought with them against his own Country-men, but was at last taken and executed) confessed that the next day they found three hundred of their fighting men dead in their Fort, and that many men, women and children were burned in their Wigwams, but they neither knew, nor could conjecture how many: it is supposed that not less then a thousand Indians Souls perished at that time. Ninnigret whose men buried the slain, affirmeth that they found twenty & two Indian Captains among the dead bodies. Of the English there were killed and wounded about two hundred and thirty, whereof only eighty and five persons are dead. But there was a solemn rebuke of Providence at this time, in that six of our Captains were stain, viz, Captain Johnson of Roxbuty, Captain Gardner of Salem, Captain Davenport of Boston (son to that Captain Davenport who did great Service in the expedition against the Indians in the Pequod war, Anno 1637.) Captain Gallop of New-London, Captain Marshal of Windsor, Captain Silly of Stratford, who dyed of his wounds some days after the fight was over. The three Captains first mentioned, belonged to Massachusetts Colony, the three last to Connecticut, of Plymouth Colony Captain Bradford (one of their faithful Magistrates, and son of him that was many years Governor there) was sorely wounded, but God had mercy on him, and on his people in him, so as to spare his life and to restore him to some measure of health, albeit the bullet shot into him is