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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.
The Dedication. TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW-ENGLAND.
SIRS,
YOU are Welcome unto the History of a Tedious War, and unto a Period of that War so far in prospect, as to render its History Seasonable.
Every Reasonable man will readily allow that it is a Duty to God, and a Service to the World, for to preserve the Memory of such matters, as have been the more Memorable Occurrences in the ⟨p. 4⟩War, that ha's for Ten Years together, been multiplying Changes and Sorrows upon us. And the Author, in whose Historical Writings, the most Inquisitive Envy, ha's never to this Hour detected, so much as one Voluntary and Material Mistake, or one •art•ing paid unto the Readers in the Co•• of Candia, ha's now chosen to preserve the Memory of ••ese matters, while they are Fresh & New, and one hath not Fifty years, which is the Channel of the River of Oblivion, to pass over unto them. This Expedition is used in the publication of our Decennium Luct•osm in hope that if any mistake, worth Noting, do appear in these Writings, it may, […] and perhaps With, a Second Edition, be Corrected and Amended.