N01117:88
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 French being thought more Civil to the English than to the Indians, her Mistress thereat Provoked, resolved, that she would never Sell her to the French. Accordingly she kept her a Twelve-month with her, in her Squalid Wigwam: Where, in the following Winter, she fell sick of a Fever; but in the very height and heat of her Paroxysms, her Mistress would compel her sometimes to Spend a Winters-night, which is there a very bitter one, abroad in all the bitter Frost and Snow of the Climate. She recovered; but Four Indians died of the Fever, and at length her Mistress also. Another Squaw then pretended an Heirship unto her, with whom she lived, and saw many more strange Deliverances. They had the Small-Pox in the Family; but she never had it. She was made to pass the River on the Ice, when every step she took, she might have struck through it if she pleased Many more such Preservations might come into her Story.
The French being thought more Civil to the English than to the Indians, her Mistress thereat Provoked, resolved, that she would never Sell her to the French. Accordingly she kept her a Twelve-month with her, in her Squalid Wigwam: Where, in the following Winter, she fell sick of a Feavour; but in the very heighth and heat of her Paroxysms, her Mistress would compel her sometimes to Spend a Winters-night, which is there a very bitter one, abroad in all the bitter Frost and Snow of the Climate. She recovered; but Four Indians died of the Feavour, and at length her Mistress also. Another Squa then pretended an Heirship unto her, with whom she lived, and saw many more strange Deliverances. They had the Small-Pox in the Family; but she never had it. She was made to pass the River on the Ice, when every step she took, she might have struck through it if she pleased Many more such Preservations might come into her Story.
At Last, there came to the sight of her a Priest from Quebec, who had known her in her former Captivity at Naridgewock. He was very Civil to Her, and made the Indians Sell her to a French Family, for Fourscore Livers, where tho' she wrought hard, she Lived more comfortably and contentedly.
At Last, there came to the sight of her a Priest from Quebeck, who had known her in her former Captivity at Naridgewock. He was very Civil to Her, and made the Indians Sell her to a French Family, for Fourscore Livers, where tho' she wrought hard, she Lived more comfortably and contentedly.