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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
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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 ⟨image ?⟩still in his body. 'Also Captain Goram of Barnstable in Plymouth Colony •el sick of a fever whereof he dyed.
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 bodyes. 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 Siely of Stratford, who dyed of his wounds some dayes after the fight was over. The three Captains first mentioned, belonged to Mattachusets Colony, the three last to Connecticut, of Plimouth Colony Captain Bradford (one of their faithfull Magistrates, and son of him that was many years Governour 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