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

ARTICLE. XIII. A Flag of Truce.

New-England was now quite out of Breath! A tedious, lingering, expensive Defence against an Ever Approaching, and Unapproachable Adversary had made it so. But nothing had made it more so, than the Expedition to Canada, which had Exhausted its best Spirits, and seemed its Ultimus Conatus. While the Country was now in too Great Amazements to proceed any farther in the War, the Indians themselves Entreat them to proceed no farther. The Indians came in to Wells, with a Flag of Truce: and there Ensued some Overtures, with the English Commissioners, Major Hutchinson, and Captain Townsend sent from Boston, to join with some others at Wells. At length a meeting was Appointed and obtained at Sagadehock, Nov. 23. Where the Redemption of Ten English Captives was accomplished; one of whom, was one Mrs. Hull, whom the Indians were very loath to part withal, because being able to Write well, they made her serve them in the Quality of a Secretary: Another was named Nathanael White, whom the Barbarous Cannibals had already tied unto a Stake, & cut off one of his Ears, and made him Eat it Raw, and intended for to have Roasted the rest of him alive: The poor ⟨p. 80⟩man, being astonished at his own Deliverance! At last, they Signed Articles, Dated, Nov. 29. 1691. wherein they Engaged, That no Indians, in those parts of the World, should do any Injury, to the Persons or Estates, of the English, in any of the English Colonies, until the First of May, next Ensuing; And that on the said First of May, they would bring in to Storer's Garrison at Wells all the English Captives in their Hands, and there Make, and Sign, and Seal Articles of Peace with the English; and in the mean time give seasonable Advice of any Plots, which they might know the French to have against them. To this Instrument were set the Paws, of Edgeremet, and Five more of their Sagamores, and Noblemen.