A relation of the troubles which have happened in New-England, by reason of the…A relation of the troubles which have hapned in New-England, by reason of the…

May. 15. 1637. Some of Uncas his men being then at Saybrook, in order to assisting the English against the Pequots, espied seven Indians, and slyly encompassing them, slew five of them, and took one Prisoner, and brought him to the English Fort, which was great satisfaction and encouragement to the English, who before that exploit had many fears touching the fidelity of the Moheag Indians. He whom they took Prisoner, was a perfideous Villain, one that could speak English well, having in times past lived in the fort, and knowing all the English there, had been at the slaughtering of all the English that were slaughtered thereabouts; He was a continual spy about the fort, informing Sassacus of what he saw or could learn. When this bloody traitor was executed, his limbs were by violence pulled from one another, and burned to ashes; some of the Indian executioners barbarously taking his flesh, they gave it to one another, and did eat it, withal singing about the fire.

May. 15. 1637. Some of Uncas his men being then at Saybrook, in order to assisting the English against the Pequots, espyed seven Indians, and slily encompassing them, slew five of them, and took one Prisoner, and brought him to the English Fort, which was great satisfaction and encouragement to the English, who before that exploit had many fears touching the fidelity of the Moheag Indians. He whom they took Prisoner, was a perfideous Villain, one that could speak English well, having in times past lived in the fort, and knowing all the English there, had been at the slaughtering of all the English that were slaughtered thereabouts; He was a continual spy about the fort, informing Sassacus of what he saw or could learn. When this bloody traitor was executed, his limbs were by violence pulled from one another, and burned to ashes; some of the Indian executioners barbarously taking his flesh, they gave it to one another, and did eat it, withall singing about the fire.

It is also reported that before the Mystic fight, a friendly Indian ⟨p. 47⟩that was sent thither as a secret spy, brought word that the Pequots were singing, and dancing, and be••ing their God, in that they supposed the English were gone from them; and that in the ight the English came upon them, they were fallen into a deep sleep, by reason of their long dancing the night before, and their sentinel was gone out of his place to light a […] of Tobacco, just as the English surprised them, and when our soldiers gave fire there was not one that missed; the Pequots so alarumed, in horror and amazement, crying Wannocks Wannocks, i.e. Englishmen, Englishmen; some of the old men taking hold of others that were willing to run away, and saying, as we have lived together, so let us die together, the Wigwam which was first set on fire, being to the windward side carried all before it, (as is in the Narrative intimated) At that time there were two English men slain, (one of which was thought to be shot by an English man) and twenty four wounded, whereof one dyed within few days. Also forty Indians that were friends to the English were hurt in that engagement. It was supposed that no less then five or six hundred Pequot souls were brought down to Hell that day. Moreover, […] therein added, that as the English marched towards their vessels in the River, still as they came near any swamp, they sent in a volley of shot lest the enemy should haply he in ambush in those dark places of the earth, and some Indians have related that the English did by that means kill more men of war in their marching away, then in the fight at the Fort, whereby also Sassacus his plot to cut off the English as they passed by swampambushments was utterly and happily frustrated.