February 21. The Indians assaulted Medfield, and although there were two or three hundred Soldiers there, they burnt half the Town, killed se∣veral Men, Women and Children (about eighteen in all) amongst others their Lieutenant Adams was slain. And soon after he was killed, his Wife was casually slain by an English-man, whose Gun discharged before he was aware, and the Bullet therein passed through the Boards over-head, and mortally wounded Lieutenant Adams's Wife. It is a sign God is angry, when he turns our weapons against our selves.
A brief history of the war with the Indians in New-England, from June 24, 1675 (when the first Englishman was murdered by the Indians) to August 12, 1676, when Philip, alias Metacomet, the principal author and beginner of the war, was slain wherein the grounds, beginning, and progress of the war is summarily expressed : together with a serious-exhortation to the inhabitants of that land / by Increase Mather.
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- A brief history of the war with the Indians in New-England, from June 24, 1675 (when the first Englishman was murdered by the Indians) to August 12, 1676, when Philip, alias Metacomet, the principal author and beginner of the war, was slain wherein the grounds, beginning, and progress of the war is summarily expressed : together with a serious-exhortation to the inhabitants of that land / by Increase Mather.
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- Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
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- 1676.
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"A brief history of the war with the Indians in New-England, from June 24, 1675 (when the first Englishman was murdered by the Indians) to August 12, 1676, when Philip, alias Metacomet, the principal author and beginner of the war, was slain wherein the grounds, beginning, and progress of the war is summarily expressed : together with a serious-exhortation to the inhabitants of that land / by Increase Mather." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50189.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.