An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

In the next place, we shall take notice of some Remarkable Preservations which sundry in Windsor in New-England have experienced; the Persons concerned therein being desirous ⟨p. 35⟩that the Lords goodness towards them may be ever had in Remembrance: wherefore a faithful hand has given me the following account. January 13. 1670, Three Women, viz. the Wives of Lieut. Filer, and of John Drake, and of Nathaniel Lomas, having crossed Connecticut River upon a necessary and neighbourly account, and having done the work they went for, were desirous to return to their own Families; the River being at that time partly shut up with Ice old and new, and partly open. There being some pains taken aforehand to cut a way through the Ice, the three Women abovesaid got into […] Canoe, with whom also there was NathanielBissel, and an Indian. There was likewise another Canoe with two men in it, that went before them to help them in case they should meet with any distress, which indeed quickly came upon them; for just as they were getting out of the narrow passage between the Ice, being near the middle of the River, a great part of the upper Ice came down upon them, and struck the end of their Canoe, and broke it to pieces; so that it quickly sunk under them: the Indian speedily got upon the Ice, but Nathaniel Bissel, and the abovesaid Women were left floating in the Middle of the River, being cut off from all manner of ⟨p. 36⟩humane help besides what did arise from themselves, and the two men in the little Canoe, which was so small that three persons durst seldom, if ever, venture in it, they were indeed discerned from one shore, but the dangerous Ice would not admit from either shore, one to come near them.

In the next place, we shall take notice of some Remarkable Preservations which sundry in Windsor in New-England have experienced; the Persons concerned therein being desirous ⟨p. 35⟩that the Lords goodness towards them may be ever had in Remembrance: wherefore a faithful hand has given me the following account. January 13. 1670, Three Women, viz. the Wives of Lieut. Filer, and of John Drake, and of Nathaniel Lomas, having crossed Connecticut River upon a necessary and neighbourly account, and having done the work they went for, were desirous to return to their own Families; the River being at that time partly shut up with Ice old and new, and partly open. There being some pains taken aforehand to cut a way through the Ice, the three Women abovesaid got into Canoo, with whom also there was NathanielBissel, and an Indian. There was likewise another Canoo with two men in it, that went before them to help them in case they should meet with any distress, which indeed quickly came upon them; for just as they were getting out of the narrow passage between the Ice, being near the middle of the River, a great part of the upper Ice came down upon them, and struck the end of their Canoo, and broke it to pieces; so that it quickly sunk under them: the Indian speedily got upon the Ice, but Nathaniel Bissel, and the abovesaid Women were left floating in the Middle of the River, being cut off from all manner of