Reader, We must after This, ever Now and Then, Expect, the happening of some unhappy Accident. The Blood-thirsty Salvages, not content with quaffing the Blood of Two or Three persons, found at work, in a Field at Spruce creek, on Aug. 20. & of another person at York, the same Day, (Captivating also a Lad, which they found with him;) They did on Aug. 24. Kill & Take, Eight persons at Kittery. Here, a little Girl, about Seven years old, the Daughter of one Mr. Downing, fell into their Barbarous Hands; They knocked her o' the' Head, and barbarously Scalped her, leaving her on the Cold Ground, (and it was then very Cold, beyond what use to be,) where she lay all the Night Ensuing: Yet she was found Alive the Next Morning, and Recovering, she is to this Day Alive, and well: only the place broke in her skull, will not endure to be closed up. He had another Daughter, which at the same Time, almost miraculously Escaped their Hands. But so could not at another Time, Joseph Pike, of ⟨p. 125⟩Newbury, the Deputy Sheriff of Essex, who, on Sept. 4. Travelling between Amesbury and Haverhil, in the Execution of his Office, with one Long, they both had an Arrest of Death Served upon them, from an Indian Ambuscado. Bommaseen, a Commander of prime Quality among the Indians, who had set his Hand unto the late Articles of Submission, came Nov. 19. with Two other Indians, to Pemaquid, as Loving as Bears, and as Harmless as Tigers, pretending to be just Arrived from Canada, and much Afflicted for the late mischiefs, (whereof there was witness, that he was a principal Actor,) but Captain March, with a Sufficient Activity Seized them; as Robin Doney, another famous Villain among them, with Three more, had been Seized at Saco Fort, a little before. Bommaseen, was Conveyed unto Boston, that he might in a close Imprisonment there, have Time to consider of his Treacheries, and his Cruelties, for which, the Justice of Heaven, had thus Delivered him up. When he was going to Pemaquid, he left his Company, with a Strange Reluctancy and Formality, as if he had presaged the Event; and when at Pemaquid, he found the Event of his coming, he discovered a more than ordinary Disturbance of mind: his Passions foamed and boiled, like the very Waters at the Fall of Niagara.
REader, We must after This, ever Now and Then, Expect, the happening of some unhappy Accident. The Blood-thirsty Salvages, not content with quaffing the Blood of Two or Three persons, found at work, in a Field at Spruce creek, on Aug. 20. & of another person at York, the same Day, (Captivating also a Lad, which they found with him;) They did on Aug. 24. Kill & Take, Eight persons at Kittery. Here, a little Girl, about Seven years old, the Daughter of one Mr. Downing, fell into their Barbarous Hands; They knock'd her o' th' Head, and barbarously Scalped her, leaving her on the Cold Ground, (and it was then very Cold, beyond what use to be,) where she lay all the Night Ensuing: Yet she was found Alive the Next Morning, and Recovering, she is to this Day Alive, and well: only the place broke in her skull, will not endure to be closed up. He had another Daughter, which at the same Time, almost miraculously Escaped their Hands. But so could not at another Time, Joseph Pike, of ⟨p. 125⟩Newbury, the Deputy Sheriff of Essex, who, on Sept. 4. Travelling between Amesbury and Haverhil, in the Execution of his Office, with one Long, they both had an Arrest of Death Served upon them, from an Indian Ambascado. Bommaseen, a Commander of prime Quality among the Indians, who had set his Hand unto the late Articles of Submission, came Nov. 19. with Two other Indians, to Pemmaquid, as Loving as Bears, and as Harmless as Tygres, pretending to be just Arrived from Canada, and much Afflicted for the late mischiefs, (whereof there was witness, that he was a principal Actor,) but Captain March, with a Sufficient Activity Siezed them; as Robin Doney, another famous Villain among them, with Three more, had been Siez'd at Saco Fort, a little before. Bommaseen, was Convey'd unto Boston, that he might in a close Imprisonment there, have Time to consider of his Treacheries, and his Cruelties, for which, the Justice of Heaven, had thus Delivered him up. When he was going to Pemmaquid, he left his Company, with a Strange Reluctancy and Formality, as if he had presaged the Event; and when at Pemmaquid, he found the Event of his coming, he discovered a more than ordinary Disturbance of mind: his Passions foam'd and boyl'd, like the very Waters at the Fall of Niagara.
