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Duodecennium luctuosum. The history of a long war with Indian salvages, and their directors…
Duodecennium luctuosum. The history of a long war with Indian salvages, and their directors and abettors; from the year, 1702. To the year, 1714. Comprised in a short essay, to declare the voice of the glorious God, in the various occurrences of that war, which have been thought matters of more special observation. : A recapitulation made in the audience, of his Excellency the governor, and the General Assembly of the Massachusett province; at Boston, 30. d. VII. m. 1714. : [Two lines from Livy]Duodecennium luctuosum. The history of a long war with Indian salvages, and their directors and abettors; from the year, 1702. To the year, 1714. Comprised in a short essay, to declare the voice of the glorious God, in the various occurrences of that war, which have been thought matters of more special observation. : A recapitulation made in the audience, of his Excellency the governour, and the General Assembly of the Massachusett province; at Boston, 30. d. VII. m. 1714. : [Two lines from Livy]
Boston: printed by B. Green. Sold by Samuel Gerrish, 1714
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.
AN Exact and Punctual Account of the several Depredations, with which the Wild-beasts of the Desert have broke in upon us, is not necessary to be Exhibited. Nor would it often afford more Material Passages, than those Insipid Ones, which the Funeral Orations on the Professors in the Universities are commonly Stuffed withal. But allow me to throw the Murdered and the Captived into the same List, ⟨p. 13⟩as there is too much cause to do, and I find my self able to bring in a List of near Seven Hundred Persons, whom our Offended GOD has delivered up into the dreadful Hands of the Salvages. No doubt there have been more! The Boast made by One bloody Son of Cain among them has been generally heard of! — Animus meminisse ho•et!
OFTENTIMES what the Salvages have done, has been upon one, or two, or theirs, at a time; done by a Skulking and Woiviso Adversary.
BUT Sometimes a Town has undergone a greater Effusion of Blood. Haverhil at once Loses above Thirty of it's Inhabitants; And, Poor Deerfield!— Never to be forgotten Deerfield! — An Hundred, and Perhaps twice Thirty more.