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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Title: 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.
Author: Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
Publication: London :: Printed for Richard Chiswell,; 1676.
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February 25. This night the Indians fired seven Houses and Barns in Weymouth.

In the beginning of March, another small Army was sent out from Boston, under the conduct of that expert Soldier and Commander Major Savage, to seek out the Enemy. Connecticut Forces met with ours at Qu••baog, and they marcht together, but not following the direction of the (Natick) Pray∣ing Indians, who were sent as Pilots, the Army mist their way, and was be∣wildred in the Woods. On a sudden when they thought on on such thing, a party of Indians fired upon them and killed one man, and wounded Mr. Gershom Bulkly, who is Pastor of the Church in Wethersfield; whereupon those Indians were immediately pursued, who hastned towards Northampton. The Army following them thither, mist of the main body of Indians. Never∣theless, there was a singular Providence of God ordering this matter, for the relief of those Western Plantations, which otherwise in probability had been cut off.

For upon the fourteenth of March a multitude of Indians fell upon North∣hampton, broke through their Fortification in three places, burnt five houses, and five barns, and killed four Men and one Woman: but the Town being full of Soldiers, the Enemy was quickly repulsed, with the loss of many of their lives.