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Humiliations followed with deliverances. A brief discourse on the matter and method, of that…Humiliations follow'd with deliverances. A brief discourse on the matter and method, of that…
Humiliations followed with deliverances. A brief discourse on the matter and method, of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity. : Accompanied and accommodated with a narrative, of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives, from the hands of cruel Indians. And some improvement of that narrative. : Whereto is added a narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.Humiliations follow'd with deliverances. A brief discourse on the matter and method, of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity. : Accompanied and accomodated with a narrative, of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives, from the hands of cruel Indians. And some improvement of that narrative. : Whereto is added a narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.
printed by B Green for Samuel Phillips, 1697
Appendix: APPENDIX. A NARRATIVE of Hannah Swarton, Containing Wonderful Passages, relating to her…
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APPENDIX. A NARRATIVE of Hannah Swarton, Containing Wonderful Passages, relating to her Captivity, and her Deliverance.
I Was taken by the Indians, when Cask Fort was taken, (May) 1690. My Husband being slain, and Four Children taken with me. The Eldest of my Sons they killed, about two Months after I was taken, and the rest Scattered from me▪ I was now left a Widow, and as Bereaved of my Children; though, I had them alive, yet it was very seldom that I could see them, and I had not Liberty to Discourse with them, without Danger either of my own Life, or the•r•; for our Condoling each others Condition, and showing Natural Affection, was so displeasing to our Indian Rulers, unto whose Share we fell, that they would threaten to kill us, if we cried each to ⟨p. 52⟩other, or discoursed much together. So that my Condition was like what the Lord threatened the Jews, in Ezek. 24.22, 23. We du•st not Mourn or Weep, in the sight of our Enemies, lest we lost our own Lives. For the first Times while the Enemy feasted on our English Provisions, I might have had some with them: but then I was so fi•led with Sorrow and Tears, that I had little Stomach to Eat; and when my Stomach was come, our English Food was spent, and the Indians wanted themselves, and we more: So that then I was pined with want. We had no Corn, or Bread, but sometimes Groundnuts, Acorns, Pursl•in, Hogweel, Weeds, Roots, and sometimes Dogs Flesh, but not sufficient to satisfy Hunger wi•h these; having but little at a Time. We had no success at Hunting; save that one Bear was killed, which I had part of; and a very small part of a Turtle I had at other time, and once an Indian gave me a piece of a Moses iver, which was a sweet Morsel to me; and Fish, if we could catch it. Thus I continued with them, hurried up and down the Wilderness, from May 20. till the middle of