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Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian savages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. / Faithfully composed and improved. ; [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Particularly; You may Observe, That Epidemical Sicknesses, have in these years, been once ⟨p. 229⟩and again upon us; wherein […] Angels of Death, have Shot the Arrows of Death, into such as could not be reached by the Bullets of the Indian Enemy. This one Town, did in one year, loose, I suppose, at least Six or Seven Hundred of its People, by one contagious Mortality. And tho' of about Three and Twenty Hundred men, that we Employed in one Action, we did, in that Action, loose hardly Thirty men, yet how many Hundreds did afterwards miserably perish?
Particularly; You may Observe, That Epidemical Sicknesses, have in these years, been once ⟨p. 229⟩and again upon us; wherein 〈…〉 Angels of Death, have Shot the Arrows of Death, into such as could not be reached by the Bullets of the Indian Enemy. This one Town, did in one year, loose, I suppose, at least Six or Seven Hundred of its People, by one conragious Mortality. And tho' of about Three and Twenty Hundred men, that we Employ'd in one Action, we did, in that Action, loose hardly Thirty men, yet how many Hundreds did afterwards miserably perish?
Again; You may Observe, That the Harvest, hath once and again grievously failed in these years; and we have been Struck through' with the Terrible Famine, almost as much as if the Indian Enemy had been all the while Skulking about our Fields. The very Course of Nature hath been altered among us; A Lamentable cry for, Bread, Bread! hath been heard in our Streets: The Towns that formerly Supplied other places with Grain, had now been Famished, if other places had not sent in a Supply to Them, and had a black prospect of being Famished, notwithstanding that Supply.
Again; You may Observe, That the Harvest, hath once and again grievously failed in these years; and we have been Struck thro' with the Terrible Famine, almost as much as if the Indian Enemy had been all the while Skulking about our Fields. The very Course of Nature hath been altered among us; A Lamentable cry for, Bread, Bread! hath been heard in our Streets: The Towns that formerly Supplyed other places with Grain, had now been Famished, if other places had not sent in a Supply to Them, and had a black prospect of being Famished, notwithstanding that Supply.