i' Chap. III. <if the E N G L I S 
forier •, but having the good Fortune to be tranfported to 
I Canada^ he was very civilly treated by Count Front enac^ 
who bought him or his Fidiun Ivlafter, and fent him to 
i Bofion hjd. Veffel that came to ^^ehec for exchange of 
I Prifoners. In Augufl a Party oi Indians came down to 
! Belkrica on Horfeback ; this v/as pretty far within the 
’ Majfacbufets. They killed and took fifteen Perfons, and 
I, plundered Mr. Rogers's Ploufe. This was the firft Time 
I the Indians ever made ufe of Horfes. They took nine 
People out of Newhury in EJfex, and being clofely pur- 
: fried by Captain Grsenleaf^ a valiant and diligent Of- 
' freer, they fo wounded them when they found they could 
: not keep them, that they all died except one Lad, which 
I was a fignal Proof of their Barbarity. 
! Captain March, Governor of Pemmaquid Fort, defir- 
i ing to lay down his Commiffion towards the latter End 
I of the Year, he was fucceeded in it by Captain Chiih. He 
; fhewed the Bafenefs of his Spirit, as well as the Weaknefs 
j: of his Underflanding, in one of his firft Exploits, after 
; he had the Command of this Garrifon, by murdering 
i Edgeremet and Ahenquid, and two other principal Sega- 
; mores, who had figned thelaft Treaty, and came to him 
i on Affufance of Security, to confer about a new one. In 
i Auguji the French landed fome Soldiers out of a Man 
I of War, the Newport, which they had taken from the 
I Englijh to aflift the Indians in his Neighbourhood. 
This News fo frightened the Traitor Chub, that he fur- 
: rendered the new and ftrong Fort of Pemmaquid, with- 
^ out the firing one Gun, v/ithin or without, though he 
had near one hundred Men in it double-armed. The 
: furprizing News of this Lofs caufed a mighty Confterna- 
' tion at Bofio7j, and all over New-England. Governor 
, Stoughton, and the Council, immediately ordered three 
j Men of War in purfuit of the French, though it was not 
i probable that thefe Ships could be fitted for that Service 
time enough to come up with the Enemy, who having 
I done their Bufinefs at Pemmaquid better than they could 
: hope for, were gone far enough out of the reach of the 
Englijh. Colonel Gedney marched with five hundred Men 
to the Eaft, but the Indians were gone home, and he 
could do nothing but ftrengthen the Garrifons there. The 
Savages, before their Retreat, killed five Soldiers belong- 
ing to Saco Fort, who muft not be with their Garrifon. 
And one may obferve, that the greateft Mifchief the Indi- 
ans do, is by thefe Ambufhes and Surprizes, which, con- 
fidering how they were almoft intermixed with them, it 
is ftrange they fhould not be aware of, and guard againft ; 
for the Country muft by this Time, and this Means, be, 
in a M.4nner, as well known to them as to the Savages. 
Colonel Gedney arrefted Chub, and brought him to Bof- 
ton but nothing treafonable being proved againft him, 
the Government only took aw^ay his Commiffion, and 
fent him thence to his Houfe at Andover, in EJfex County. 
Some Time after this the Indians entered Haverhill, 
and carried off thirty Captives, one of which was Han- 
nah Dujlan, a Woman of a mafeuline Spirit. She had 
lain in not above a Week, yet fhe and her Nurfe walked 
one hundred and fifty Miles on Foot, to the Town where 
the Indian fhe was to ierve lived. This Woman being 
after Vv'ards to travel with her Mafter and his Family to a 
Rendezvous of the Army of the Savages, where, accord- 
ing to the diabolical Cuftom of them,, ffie, her Nurfe, 
and other Englijh Prifoners, were to run the Gantlet-, 
Hamiah watched her Opportunity in the Night, and hav- 
ing animated her Nurfe, and an Englijh Boy who was 
with her, they three killed ten of the Indians with their 
own Weapons, and made their Efcapes for which 
Adlion they received a Reward of fifty Pound from the 
General Affembly, and Prefents from particular Perfons 
to a good Value. The Indians continuing their Inroads 
killed a Man at Tork, another at Hatfield, a third at 
Groton, and a fourth at Exeter which fhews us that the 
New England People were in conftant Danger, and harraff- 
ed on every Side. The Indians grew every Day more 
barbarous and more implacable, as having the Intrigues 
of the Jefuits added to their own Fiercenefs and Thirft of 
Blood. 
They furprized and fhot Major Froji, and his two 
Sons, at Berwick, as they were coming from Church one 
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Sunday, and going to his own Houfe about five Miles 
off. Two Men that rid Poft to carry this unwelcome News' 
to the Governor of PFells, tell into an Ambufeade as they 
were returning, and were killed, as were three Men near 
Nechawannic, and a dreadful Defolation threatened ths- 
whole Province ; certainly more for want of Manage- 
ment than of Power. The Savages roafted a Man to 
Death a .Mile and a half from Wells. Three Soldiers, at 
Saco Fort, as they were cutting Fire-wood for the Fort at 
Caco If and, v/ere fhot dead, while Lieutenant^ Fletcher, 
with his two Sons, who were appointed for their Guard, 
w'ere a fowling in the Vfoods : But the Lieutenant and 
his Sons paid dearly for their Negligence, for they 
fell into an Ambufeade as they returned, and were all' 
three taken Prifoners. The Father, and one of his Sons, 
died in Captivity, and the other made his Efcape. ' 
In the Beginning of 1697 the Government of New 
England was alarmed with Advice that the French in Ca- 
jiada intended to make a Defcent there that a Squadron 
of Men of War was come from France to fupport the 
Army of the Indians and French, that was to attack the 
Englijh by Land. The Lieutenant-Governor, and Coun- 
cil, prepared for a vigorous ' Defence j the Forts about 
Bofton were repaired •, the Militia throughout the whole 
Province were raffed and well difeiplined. Major March 
was ordered to the Eaft, with five hundred, to fcour the 
Woods the Indians, who v/ere gathering together about 
Cajeo Bay, retired as he approached them ; but the Major 
having put his Men aboard fome Ships, failed up among 
the Eaftern Hands, and landed on the Banks of Damaf- 
catos Pdver a very prudent Meafure, for he could not 
have overtaken the Indians by Land, before they had 
been got into their Faftneffes. The Indians feeing this, fell 
upon his Men as they were getting afhore, but could not 
hinder their Landing ; upon which a ffiarp Engagement 
enfued, and the Englijh drove the Enemy to their Canoes, 
a Fleet of which was in the River to receive them. The 
EngliJlj had about twelve Men killed, and as many 
wounded ; the Enemies Lofs was much greater ; but the 
main Advantage to the Englijh v/as, preventing the Indians 
joining the French, who were approaching with the Ships 
of War and Tranfports for a Defcent •, but hearing of the 
Rout of their Confederates, they made the beft of their 
Way home to Europe, with the French Troops on board, 
to their no fmall Difcredit. 
A Party of Savages made an Incurfion into Middlefex, 
and plundered Lancafter, killing twenty Men, among 
whom was the Reverend Mr. John Whiting, the Mi- 
nifter, and carried five into Captivity. A Month after 
they killed a poor Man in the Woods, near Oyfler River. 
In the Beginning of the next Year they made a Defcent 
upon Andover, and killed Captain Chub and his Family. 
They alfo killed Colonel Dudley Bradftreet, took his whole 
Family, and were carrying them off ; but being clofely 
purfued, they releafed them without doing them any Mif- 
chief. The Savages were now in Motion to the Weft- 
ward, and killed a Man and a Boy in the Meadows near 
Hatfield. They were purfued by a Party of Englifi from 
Deerfield, of which one was killed by the Indians, who, 
after that, ran to the Woods. They had attempted Deer- 
field on ComeSlicut River, but were beaten off by the In- 
habitants, headed by their Miniffer, Mr. John Willtams. 
Thefe fmall A6Hons feeraed to prefage the End of this 
War, of which the Savages were as weary as the Englijh, 
and had no Profpedt of making any thing of it againft 
a People fo much fuperior to them in Numbers, Arms 
and Stores but they ended it with the better Grace, by 
Means of the Peace of Ryfwick, between England and 
France. Upon which Count Frontenac fent to the Sa- 
chem of the Hurons, and told them he was no longer to 
fupport them in their War againft the Englijh, and ad- 
vffed them to make the beft Term.s they could for them- 
felves. 
The Earl of Bellamqnt was by this Time arrived at New 
Tork, and a Treaty ot a Peace with the Indians being fee 
on Foot, he difpatched Major Convers, and Colonel Phi- 
lips, to confer with the Indian Sachems at • Penabjeot. 
They began the Conferences October the 6th, in which 
the Sachems exciifed themfeives for breaking the Peace, 
4 1 feying. 
