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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.
March. 28. The Indians burnt about thirty Barns, and rear upon forty dwelling Houses in Rehoboth, so that thereby the dissipation and desolation of that Church is greatly threatened.
March. 28. The Indians burnt about thirty Barns, and rear upon fourty dwelling Houses in Reboboth, so that thereby the d•ssipation and des•lation of that Church is greatly threatned.
The next day they burnt about thirty houses at the town called Providence.
In the beginning of April they did some mischief at Chelmsford and Andover, where a small party of them put the town into a great fright, caused all the people to fly into Garrison houses, killed one man, and burnt one house. And to show what barbarous creatures they are, they exercised cruelty toward dumb creatures. They took a Cow, knocked off one of her horns, cut out her tongue, and so left the poor creature in great misery. They put an horse, ox &c. into an hovel, and then set it on fire, only to show how they are delighted in exercising cruelty.
In the beginning of April they did some mischief at Chelmsford and Andovor, where a small party of them put the town into a great fright, caused all the people to fly into Garison houses, killed one man, and burnt one house. And to shew what barbarous creatures they are, they exercised cruelty toward dumb creatures. They took a Cow, knocked off one of her horns, cut out her tongue, and so left the poor creature in great misery. They put an horse, ox &c. into an hovil, and then set it on fire, only to shew how they are delighted in exercising cruelty.