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A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it…
A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it lies under, by the male-administration of their present governor, Joseph Dudley, Esq. and his son Paul, &c. : Together with several affidavits of people of worth, relating to several of the said governor's mercenary and illegal proceedings, but particularly his private treacherous correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies the French and Indians. : To which is added, a faithful, but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed upon Her Majesty's subjects, by the said French and Indians, in the east and west parts of New-England. / Faithfully digested from the several original letters, papers, and mss. by Philopolites.A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it lyes under, by the male-administration of their present governour, Joseph Dudley, Esq. and his son Paul, &c. : Together with several affidavits of people of worth, relating to several of the said governour's mercenary and illegal proceedings, but particularly his private treacherous correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies the French and Indians. : To which is added, a faithful, but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed upon Her Majesty's subjects, by the said French and Indians, in the east and west parts of New-England. / Faithfully digested from the several original letters, papers, and mss. by Philopolites.
London: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1707
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The Indians came upon the House of one Adams at Wells, and Captivated the Man and his Wife, and assassinated the Children; whereof one, who had an Hatchet struck into his Skull, and was left for dead, was strangely recovered. The Woman had Lain in about Eight Days. They dragged her out, and tied her to a Post, until the House was rifled. They then loosed her, and bid her walk. She could not stir. By the help of a Stick she got half a step forward. She looked up to God. On the sudden a new strength entered into her. She travelled that very Day Twenty Miles a Foot: She was up to the Neck in Water six times that very Day in passing of Rivers. At night she fell over head and ears, into a Slough in a Swamp, and was hardly got out alive. She got not the least Cough nor Cold by all this: She is come home alive unto us.
The Indians came upon the House of one Adams at Wells, and Captivated the Man and his Wife, and assassinated the Children; whereof one, who had an Hatchet struck into his Skull, and was left for dead, was strangely recovered. The Woman had Lain in about Eight Days. Thay drag'd her out, and tied her to a Post, until the House was rifled. They then loosed her, and bid her walk. She could not stir. By the help of a Stick she got half a step forward. She look'd up to God. On the sudden a new strength entred into her. She travelled that very Day Twenty Miles a Foot: She was up to the Neck in Water six times that very Day in passing of Rivers. At night she fell over head and ears, into a Slough in a Swamp, and was hardly got out alive. She got not the least Cough nor Cold by all this: She is come home alive unto us.
Many more such Instances might be mentioned. We will supersede them all, with a Relation of what befell Mrs. Bradley of Haverly. Ab una Disce omnes.
Many more such Instances might be mentioned. We will superfede them all, with a Relation of what befel Mrs. Bradley of Haverly. Ab una Disce omnes.