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A Narrative of the Causes Which Led to Philip's Indian War, of 1675 and 1676 John Easton No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 12 - English the first in doing rong, saied when the English first Came their kings father was as a great man and the English as a litell Child, he Constraened other indians from ronging the English and gave them Coren and shewed them how to plant and was free to do them ani good and had let them have a 100 times more land...
Page 4 - Sausimun2 and a Christian that could read and write, report was he was a bad man that king Philop got him to write his will and he made the writing for a gret part of the land to be his but read as if it had bine as Philop wold, but it Came to be knone and then he run away from him.
Page 17 - By this Time the Indians have killed several of our Men, but the first that was killed was June 23, a Man at Swansey, that he and his Family had left his House amongst the Rest of the Inhabitants; and adventuring with his Wife and Son, (about twenty Years old) to go to his House to fetch them Corn, and such like Things: He having just before sent his Wife and Son away, as he was going out of the House, was set on and shot by Indians; his Wife being not far off, heard the Guns go off, went back...
Page xii - Things whatfoever ye would that Men Ihould do to you, do ye even fo to them," with all the additional Obligation that a previous Performance of this Duty could impofe.
Page 147 - if they desire it, be admitted with their wives and children, to plant upon this Island, but nowhere else, if they remove; and that it be upon the north point of the Island near Spuyten Duyvel.
Page 5 - So; Philip kept his Men in Armes. Plimoth Gouerner required him to difband his Men, and informed him his Jealoufy was falce. Philip anfwered he would do no Harm, and thanked the Governer for his Information.1 The three Indians wer hunge, to the laft denied the FacT: ; but one broke the Halter as it is reported, then...
Page 31 - ... pouer in oposition to him. I am so perswaided of new England prists thay ar so blinded by the spiret of persecution and to maintaine to have hyer, and to have rume to be mere hyerlings that thay have bine the Case that the law of nations and the law of arems have bine voiolated in this war, and that the war had not bine if ther had not bine a hyerling that for his maneging what he Caleth the gospell, by voiolenc to have it Chargabell for his gaine from his quarters and if ani in magestrasy be...
Page 7 - Your governor is but a subject of King Charles * of England. I shall not treat with a subject. I shall treat of peace only with the king, my brother. When he comes, I am ready.
Page 58 - Colony, hath op? cafioned myhaftening to vifite thefe Parts and to take Order in any Thing that may bee wanting for their Security : To which End I am proceeding as farre as South and Eaft Hampton. But left you and yor Neighbo" of Nantuckett bee not furnifht with Ammunicon, and thereby fuffer by the faid Indyans Irruptions, I have without Delay, defpatcht this Sloope wth Ammunicon, and to inquire of yor State, to wit, for you one Barrell of Powder, ffifteen Muiketts, and foure Skeynes of Match.
Page 167 - Indyans that will come in and fubmit, fhall bee received to live under the Protection of the Government, and that the Governor will bee there as afore, where any of them may freely come and I 1 68 :] fpeake with him, and returne againe as they fee Caufe without Moleftation.
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| Title | A Narrative of the Causes which Led to Philip's Indian War, of 1675 and 1676 A Narrative of the Causes which Led to Philip's Indian War, of 1675 and 1676: With Other Documents Concerning this Event in the Office of the Secretary of State of New York, Franklin Benjamin Hough Issue 2 of Munsell's historical series |
| Author | John Easton |
| Contributor | Franklin Benjamin Hough |
| Publisher | J. Munsell, 1858 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Dec 4, 2006 |
| Length | 207 pages |
| Subjects | › HISTORY / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / General |
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