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…

And besides these things insisted on there are who have taken notice of some other specialties of Divine providence, relating to those Commotions which have been of momentous consideration, to the people inhabiting this wilderness, which it may not be amiss here to remark. It is then worthy our observation, that the guilty bloody Pequots after they had treacherously murdered Capt. Stone and his Company, brought presents of Wampum and Beaver to the English at Boston, desiring their Friendship, pleading that Stone had (who was like enough to do it) offered some abuse to them, in surprising divers Indians, and binding them, and forcing them to show him the way up the River, &c.—wherefore a peace was concluded upon condition they would suffer the English who desired to inhabit Connecticut, there quietly to live, and also deliver up those men who had been guilty of Stones death. These things were not performed by the Pequots. The Reason why they were the more willing to have peace with the English was, in that they were fallen out with the Dutch at Monhatus, as also with the Narrhagansets who were then potent and numerous; and at first they thought scorn to make Overtures of peace to them, proudly designing the subjugation of all their neighbour Indians, which wrought well for the English. Howbeit not unlike him that said,—Flectere •inequeo superos Ach•ronta movebo. When they saw they could not attain ⟨p. 52⟩their Ends with the English, except they would •et Justice have a free passage, and having Contracted fresh bleeding guilt upon themselves, by new and outrageous murders, and cruelties, they earnestly solicited the Narragansets to join with them in their wicked Confederacy against the English, Satan suggesting to them such Arguments as did almost prevail. For they told the Narragansets that if they joined with the English, they did but make way for their own Ruin, since after the Pequots were conquered, they would find an occasion to fall upon the Narragansets, and that they should not need to come to open battle with the English, only fire their Houses, and kill their Cattle, and lye in ambush to shoot them as they went about their occasions, so would they quickly be forced to leave this Country, and the Indians in the mean while not exposed to any great hazard.

And besides these things insisted on there are who have taken notice of some other specialtyes of Divine providence, relating to those Commotions which have been of momentous consideration, to the people inhabiting this wilderness, which it may not be amiss here to remark. It is then worthy our observation, that the guilty bloody Pequots after they had treacherously murthered Capt. Stone and his Company, brought presents of Wampam and Bever to the English at Boston, desiring their Friendship, pleading that Stone had (who was like enough to do it) offered some abuse to them, in surprizing divers Indians, and binding them, and forcing them to shew him the way up the River, &c.—wherefore a peace was concluded upon condition they would suffer the English who desired to inhabit Connecticut, there quietly to live, and also deliver up those men who had been guilty of Stones death. These things were not performed by the Pequots. The Reason why they were the more willing to have peace with the English was, in that they were fallen out with the Dutch at Monhatus, as also with the Narrhagansets who were then potent and numerous; and at first they thought scorn to make Overtures of peace to them, proudly designing the subjugation of all their neighbour Indians, which wrought well for the English. Howbeit not unlike him that said,—Flectere inequeo superos Achronta movebo. When they saw they could not attain