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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…
A relation of the troubles which have happened in New-England, by reason of the Indians there. From the year 1614 to the year 1675. : Wherein the frequent conspiracies of the Indians to cut off the English, and the wonderful providence of God, in disappointing their devices, is declared. : Together with an historical discourse concerning the prevalency of prayer; showing that New Englands late deliverance from the rage of the heathen is an eminent answer of prayer. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]A relation of the troubles which have hapned in New-England, by reason of the Indians there. From the year 1614 to the year 1675. : Wherein the frequent conspiracyes of the Indians to cutt off the English, and the wonderfull providence of God, in disappointing their devices, is declared. : Together with an historical discourse concerning the prevalency of prayer; shewing that New Englands late deliverance from the rage of the heathen is an eminent answer of prayer. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]
printed by John Foster, 1677
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They were therefore apprehended & kept in Dura•ce until Plymouth Court, which was held in June, 1675. and being found guilty of Sausaman's Death, they were (one of them before his execution confessing the murder) condemned and executed. And then did philip, being (as was verily supposed) privy to what Tobias (his Counsellor) and those with him had perpetrated upon John Sausaman, fall to open Rebellion and bloodshedding amongst the English at Swansea, who were his next Neighbours.
They were therefore apprehended & kept in Dura•ce untill Plymouth Court, which was held in June, 1675. and being found guilty of Sausaman's Death, they were (one of them before his execution confessing the murther) condemned and executed. And then did philip, being (as was verily supposed) privy to what Tobias (his Counsellor) and those with him had perpetrated upon John Sausaman, fall to open Rebellion and bloodshedding amongst the English at Swanzy, who were his next Neighbours.
But of the special Occurrences attending the late (and not yet ended) War between the English and the Indians, I have elsewhere given a brief account, and therefore shall not here add anything, that not comporting with my present design.
The Particulars which have been mentioned, are the chief (if not the only) Troubles which have happened by the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof by the English till the late Commotions. Some few private Murders there have been, which are not insisted on in this Narrative, as namely those at Nantucket, and that by Matoonas his Son; and that at Woburn, but the public peace was not so endangered by those clandestine Revenges, as by the Conspiracies, the •elation whereof hath been described.