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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.
RELATION. I.
James Key, Son to John Key of Qu•checho, was a Child of about Five years of Age, taken Captive by the Indians at Salmon Falls; and that Hellish Fellow, Hope-Hood, once a Servant of a Christian Master in Boston, was become the Master of this Little Christian. This Child, Lamenting with Tears the want of his Parents, his Master Threatened him with Death, if he did not Refrain his Tears; but these Threatenings could not Extinguish the Natural Affections of a Child. Wherefore, upon his Next Lamentations, this Monster Stripped him Stark Naked, and lashed both his Hands round a Tree, and Scourged him, so that from the Crown of his Head unto the Sole of his Foot, he was all over Bloody and Swollen: and when he was Tired with laying on his Blows, on the Forlorn Infant, he would lay him on the Ground, with Taunts remembering him of his Parents. In this misery, the poor Creature •ay horribly Roaring for diverse Days together, while his Master, gratified with the Music, lay contriving of New Torments, wherewith to Martyr him. It was not long, before the Child had a Sore Eye, which his Master said, proceeded from his Weeping on the Forbidden Accounts: Whereupon, laying Hold on the Head of the Child ⟨p. 52⟩with his Left Hand, with the Thumb of his Right, he forced the Ball of his Eye quite out; there withal telling him, That when he heard him Cry again▪ he would Serve t'other so too, and leave him never an Eye to Weep withal. About Nine or Ten Days After, this Wretch had Occasion to Remove, with his Family, about Thirty Miles further; and when they had gone about Six Miles of the Thirty, the Child being Tired and Faint, sat him down to rest, at which, this Horrid Fellow, being provoked, he Buried the Blade of his Hatchet, in the Brains of the Child, and then chopped the Breathless Body to pieces beore the rest of the Company, & threw it into the River. But for the sake of these and other such Truculent Things, done by Hope-Hood, I am Resolved, that in the course of our Story, I will watch to see what becomes of that hideous Loup garou, if he come to his End, as I am apt to think he will, before the Story.