N01117:85
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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Here in the Night she found her self ill, and having the help of only one Woman, who got a little Hemlock to lay about her, and with a few sticks made shift to blow up a little Fire, she was in half an Hour Delivered of the Infant, that she had hitherto gone withal. There she lay till the next Night, with none but the Snow under her, and the Heaven over her; in a misty and rainy Season. She sent then unto a French Priest, that he would speak unto her Squaw Mistress, who then, without Condescending to look upon her, allowed her a little Birch-Rind, to cover her Head from the Injuries of the Weather, and a little bit of dried Moose, which being boiled, she drunk the Broth, and gave it unto the Child.
Here in the Night she found her self ill, and having the help of only one Woman, who got a little Hemlock to lay about her, and with a few sticks made shift to blow up a little Fire, she was in half an Hour Delivered of the Infant, that she had hitherto gone withal. There she lay till the next Night, with none but the Snow under her, and the Heaven over her; in a misty and rainy Season. She sent then unto a French Priest, that he would speak unto her Squa Mistress, who then, without Condescending to look upon her, allow'd her a little Birch-Rind, to cover her Head from the Injuries of the Weather, and a little bit of dried Moose, which being boiled, she drunk the Broth, and gave it unto the Child.
In a Fortnight she was called upon to Travel again, with her Child in her Arms; every now and then, a whole day together, without the least Morsel of any Food, and when she had any, she fed only on Ground-nuts and Wild-onions, and Lilly-roots. By the last of May they arrived at Cowesick, where they Planted their Corn; wherein she was put unto a hard Task, so that the Child extremely Suffered. The Salvages would some times also please themselves, with casting hot Embers into the Mouth of the Child, which would render the Mouth so sore, that it could not Suck for a long while together. So that it Starved and Dy'd.
In a Fortnight she was called upon to Travel again, with her Child in her Arms; every now and then, a whole day together, without the least Morsel of any Food, and when she had any, she fed only on Ground-nuts and Wild-onions, and Lilly-roots. By the last of May they arrived at Cowesick, where they Planted their Corn; wherein she was put unto a hard Task, so that the Child extreamly Suffered. The Salvages would some times also please themselves, with casting hot Embers into the Mouth of the Child, which would render the Mouth so sore, that it could not Suck for a long while together. So that it Starv'd and Dy'd.