Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…

ARTICLE. X. Harm Watched, and Catched by the Indians, and several Rare Instances of Mortal wounds upon the English, not proving Mortal.

ARTICLE. X. Harm Watch'd, and Catch'd by the Indians, and several Rare Instances of Mortal wounds upon the English, not proving Mo•tal.

That memorable Tiger, Hope-Hood, (called also, Wohawa,) finding the Coast hereabouts too hot for him, went away with his Crew, a great way to the West-ward, with a Design to Bewitch another Crew at Aquadocta in•o his Assistance. Here a party of French Indians, by a strange Mistake, supposing Hope Hood, & his Wretches, to have been the Indians, who had lately done some Spoil upon them at Canada, furiously fell upon them, and in their Blind Fury slew him, and a considerable part of his Company. So, we have now done with him! In the mean Time, some other Indians came upon an Helpless place, called, Spruce Creek, and killed an old man▪ and carried a Woman into Captivity; but tho' Captain Convers pursued 'em Three Days, they were too Nimble for him. On July, 4 Eight or Nine persons working in a Field, at a place called, Lampereel River, the Scythe of Death, unhappily mowed them down, in that Field of Blood: The Indians by Surprise, killed 'em all, and carried a Lad Captive. About this Time, a Council of War, was called, at Portsmouth, by which 'twas thought advisable, to ⟨p. 70⟩send out Captain Wiswel, with a considerable Scout for to Scour the Woods, as far as Casco: and it being Resolved, That one of the other Captains with about Fourscore Stout men should accompany Captain Wiswal in this Action, they All with such a Generous Emulation offered it, that it was necessary to determine it by a Lot, which fell upon Captain Floyd. On July 4. assisted with Lieut. Andrews, and a Detachment of Twenty Two men from Wells, they took their March from Quochecho, into the Woods. But the Day following, the Enemy set upon Captain Hilton's Garrison in Exeter, which Lieut. Bancroft, then posted at Exeter, with the loss of a few of his men, Relieved. At this Time, there happened a Remarkable Thing. I know not whether the Story told by Plato be true, That one Herus Armenius (whom Clemens will have to be Zoroaster) being Slain in War, lay Ten Days among the Dead, and then being brought away, and on the Twelfth Day laid on the Funeral Pile, he came to Life again. But it is true, that one Simon Stone being here wounded with Shot, in Nine several places, lay for Dead, (as it was Time!) among the Dead.