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RED HAWK-CAPT. PIPE.

[Book V delivered at Fort Pitt agreeable to this treaty. After the hostages were delivered, Col. Bouquet remarked to them, "that though he had brought the tomahawk in his hand, yet as they had now submitted, he would not let it fall on their heads, but let it drop to the ground," and exhorted them to be kind to the prisoners, and said he should send along with them some of the friends of the captives, to aid in the collection of them. At the same time the chiefs of the other tribes present, severally addressed the Shawane chiefs, whom they called grandchildren and nephews, and urged them "to perform their promises, and be strong in doing good, that this peace might be everlasting.” These transactions occurred on the 12 November, 1764.

In the narration of the delivery of captives on the 9 of the same month, the relation of a captive was passed over, which shall here be given. A Mr. Smallman, who had been a major of Pennsylvania troops, and had been made prisoner in the summer of 1763, near Detroit, by the Wyandots, who delivered him to the Shawanese, was among those surrendered at that time. He proved of great service to the whites, as well as Indians, on this occasion, by being able to confirm much of the information given by the latter. He told Col. Bouquet that all the Indians who had heard of his demand had come on immediately with their captives. It had been reported among the Shawanese that the object of the English was to put them all to death. As soon as this news came to be circulated among them, they began to prepare to kill all the captives; and a French trader among them, who had many barrels of powder and ball, offered it all to them to go out and fight the English army. When they were about to commence murdering the prisoners, the message from the colonel was received, stating that he only wanted the captives and to make peace with them, and thus a horrid tragedy was prevented. Soon after, when many prisoners had been collected, and marched as far as Wakautamikie, news came that a soldier had been killed near the camp of the army at Muskingum. This the Indians thought would blast all their hopes of mercy, and they again resolved to put the captives to death; and when they had even got them into a small compass for that purpose, another express arrived from Col. Bouquet, which assured them that he had no suspicion that they had any knowledge of the murder, and thus a second calamity was happily averted.

Several eminent chiefs, it will have been perceived, make their appearance in this part of our work, and to them we can add the name of HOPOCAN, or CAPT. PIPE. He was one of the two Indians whom we have mentioned as having been detained as spies at Fort Pitt; the name of the other was CAPT. JOHN. These were set at liberty when the 206 captives were given up. Of the melancholy and barbarous murder of RED HAWK, notice has been taken. The causes of this war were well known in England, and the complaints of the Indians were acknowledged "to have been too well founded." They had long watched the progress of settlements upon the Susquehannah, and the building of forts in their country, against treaty stipulations. They had not only submitted to this, but to treatment the most insolent. They resolved, in the spring of 1763, to drive back their oppressors; not, however, without first remonstrating in respectful terms to the English, in one of their capitals, through a deputation of their chiefs. Here they declared that whatever deeds might be produced by one J. H. Lydias of Albany, or others, pretending to claim lands upon the Susquehannah, they were utterly false, and would not be allowed; and that they would defend them to the last extremity. The result we have seen.

Thus we have traced the events of Pontiak's war to its close-a glorious termination, inasmuch as it was a bloodless one. Many years of comparative peace ensued; indeed the troubles with the Indians were not very serious for the next ten years. Cresap's war was the next, which terminated in the sanguinary battle of Point Pleasant. Then succeeded the calamities of the Revolution, from which the Indians never recovered.

FINIS.

NOTES, ADDITIONS, AND CORRECTIONS.

P. 47. The whole of the letter of Gov. Bradstreet is now printed in the New Eng. Hist. and Genealog. Reg. ii. 150.

P. 51.-MURDER OF MISS MCCREA. Among the many versions of this tragedy, there is one in Barber's Hist. Coll. of New York, pp. 569, 570, which may be worth consulting; it would be, doubtless, had he informed us how he got his information. Perhaps from people in the neighborhood of the murder. We do not like inferences when easily avoided.

P. 69.-This early voyage to New England has been reprinted entire, in 3 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. vol. viii.

P. 83.-Respecting the visit of Sir Francis Drake to the coast of New England before the settlement of Plimouth, our account is pretty full. The conclusion there arrived at, that Drake did actually land somewhere in the neighborhood of Cape Cod, we thought our authorities clearly justified. But some critical writers since my work was published, questioning the fact, I am ready to confess that the subject is not, nor did I ever consider it, settled beyond a doubt; yet, after all, it may be quite as difficult to settle it the other way, namely, that he did not land in New England.

P. 111.-On this, and the pages immediately before and after it, notices are contained of several chiefs and others who were living between Boston and Salem when the English came. The most of them had more or less to do with all the whites who settled near them, and especially with those who settled at and about Saugus, afterwards called Lynn. This circumstance brought their history particularly under the investigation of the accomplished historian of that town, ALONZO LEWIS, ESQ. Our text was written before the appearance of his second edition, to which is added a great amount of the most valuable information, of which we were not in possession. Therefore, instead of making a long note here, of extracts, corrections, &c., we must refer our readers to the work of MR. LEWIS, where the numerous facts will be found, clothed in the easy and polished style of that writer.

P. 111.-Concerning SAGAMORE JOHN, we have a note as early as 1631. In his letter to the countess of Lincoln, Gov. Dudley says, "John is a handsome young man-conversant with vs, affecting English Aparell and howses, and speaking well of our God."—James, the brother of John, "commanded not above 30 or 40 men." Dudley, ib.

P. 122.-"The most common pronunciation of the name of Miantonomo will appear, I imagine, in the following couplet from S. Danforth's Almanack for 1649: 'And by thy fall comes in the English wo If it may be by Miantonomo.'"

MS. note by John Farmer.

P. 182.-CAPT. TOM, alias WATTASACOMPANUM. Some of the proceedings against this man have of late been brought to light. His case is one of most melancholy interest, and his fate will ever be deeply regretted; inasmuch as the proof against him, so far as we can discover, would not at any other time have been deemed worthy of a moment's serious consideration. The younger Eliot pleaded earnestly for him, that he might even have a new trial, but without avail. In our MS. "CHRONICLES OF THE INDIANS," we have this entry: "22 June, 1676. Death warrant signed for Captain Tom's execution." It is directed to "Edward Mitchelson, Marshall Generall," who is ordered to see that Captain Tom Indian and Jno. Oultuck, Indian enemys be hanged on this day after ye lecture till they be dead."

P. 183.-SAMPSON OCCOM. There was a portrait taken of this distinguished Indian while he was in England, painted by M. Chamberlain, from which a fine mezzotinto engraving was made by J. Spilsbury, and published on a folio sheet. It is thus entitled: "The Reverend Mr. Samson Occom, the first Indian minister that ever was in Europe, and who accompanied the Rev. Nath'l Whitaker, D. D., in an application to Great Britain for Charities to support y Rev. Dr. Wheelock's Indian Academy, and Missionaries among ye Native Savages of N. America." Published according to act of Parliament, Sept. 20,

1768, by Henry Parker, at No. 82 in Cornhill, London. Portrait in possession of

the author.

P. 218.-The following curious document is added, to throw some light on the Narraganset expedition of Dec. 1675 :

"Whereas at the fireinge of Major Appletons Tent at Narragansitt Diuers armes and Clothes were lost by the fire belonging to perticuler persons, a list of whom is taken and in the hands of Capt. Swayne, then Leiut. to Major Appleton, who heretofore haue rec. no satisfaction for the same, This Court [Gen. Ct. of Ms.] Doth order that repayration be made by the Country to the persons Damnifyed by the gd fire, and that the Committees of Militia in the severall Townes, doe allow Damage vpon the Accounts afforesd, and enter them amongst the Disbursements of the sd townes. The Deputyes haue past this Desiring the Consent of or Honord Magistrates hereto.

15 Sept. 1676.

William Torrey, Cleric.

Consented to by the magists. Edw. Rawson, Secrety." P. 222.-Following other printed accounts of the war, we gave the name of "Captain Crowell," which should be "Cowell." James Cowell was of Boston, before and after this war. In our MS. "CHRONICLES," above cited, we have a circumstantial account of the affair which at this time brought him to the notice of the historians. The account is by himself, as he gave it in a deposition, at the trial of Capt. Tom, and is as follows:

"As I was returning from Marlborough to Boston, in the Contoryes searvice, and had 18 men under my conduct, and about 3 miles from Sudbury wee ware Suprysed with divors hundred of Indians, whereof this Indian Tom was one, none by a grombleing sign or noyse yt he made; as in my Judgement was ye cause of our bejng ffyored vpon; at which tjme fower of my Company was killed and one wounded; beside ffive horses were disinabled, [being] shot. Vpon Capt. Wadsworth's ingadgen with [y] Indians, I wentt backe and buryed ye ffower men which ware killed, whereof was Thomas [Har] and Hopkinses son of Roxbury, Goodman, a son of Robert Wayles of Dorchister." "Sworn in Court, 19 June, 1676."

P. 263.-MATOONAS. The following characteristic reflections and observations of Dr. Increase Mather, which the consideration of the acts and fate of this chief seemed to excite in his mind, are extracted, as worthy of preservation in this connection :

"How often have we prayed, that the Lord would remember the cruelty, treachery, and above all the blasphemy of these heathen!-This prayer has been heard in Heaven. As for their cruelty, God hath remembered that, many of them falling into the hands of the Mohawks or other Indians, who fought in our quarrel, used their enemies after their own kind. And it hath been observed, that the vengeance from the Lord did pursue them presently upon the perpetration of some horrid acts of barbarous cruelty towards such as fell into their murderous hands. And as for their treachery, God hath retaliated that upon them; as for the perfidious Narragansets, Peter Indian was false and perfidious to them, upon a disgust received amongst them, and directed our army where to find them. Treacherous Philip, one of his own men ran away from him, and told Capt. Church where that grand enemy had hid himself, the issue of which was, another Indian shot a bullet into the treacherous heart of that covenant-breaking infidel. Yea, many of those cloudy and deceiptful Indians who were taken by Capt. Church, would frequently destroy and betray their bloudy and false-hearted comrades. Matoonas, who was the first Indian that treacherously shed innocent English blood in Massachusetts Colony, he some years before pretended to something of religion, being a professor in general (though never baptized, nor of the inchurched Indians) that so he might the more covertly manage the hellish design of revenge that was harbored in his divelish heart."

P. 263.-"The murder at Woburn here referred to by Hubbard, apparently as perpetrated a little before Philip's war, was not improbably the same as one committed in the west part of Woburn, now Burlington, the story of which has been transmitted there by tradition from time immemorial, and is briefly as follows: On a certain Sabbath, an Indian concealed himself in a hop house, the site of the kiln of which is still pointed out, about a mile from Burlington meeting-house, close to the north side of the road to Bedford, between the houses of Deacon George McIntire and of Miss Ruth Wilson. When he supposed the neighbors generally had gone to meeting, he came out from his lurking-place, and went to the house which then stood on the spot where Miss Wilson's now is. Upon entering, he asked for cider of a young woman that had been left at home.

In compliance with his request, she went to draw some; but upon her return, he knocked her in the head as she reached the top of the cellar stairs. The cellar door was dashed with her blood, the stain of which was never wiped off; and when the house came to be taken down, not far from a century ago, to build another on its site, this blood-stained door was removed as it was to the barn, and there, and at a house in the neighborhood to which it was subsequently conveyed, it continued for years to be exhibited as a memorial of this instance of savage cruelty." [Tradition in the Wilson family, &c.]-MS. Letter from Rev. Samuel Sewall, of Burlington, Ms., to the Author.

P. 264.-In the History of Framingham, Ms., by the Rev. MR. BARRY, will be found many important facts relative to the destruction of the family of Thomas Eames, of Sudbury, which that diligent author derived from original MSS. We have many others, shedding further light, in our MS. CHRONICLES above referred to, but our limits do not allow of their admission here. A few items from himself are all we can at present add.

THOMAS EAMES came to New England about 1634. He served in the Pequot war, after which he was "maimed by the hand of God in his limbs." He was born in the year 1616, and in 1668, was "the father of many children," "but had not one foote of land in ye countray of his owne," and was "very poore." His fortune seems to have been much improved not long after, for when his house was destroyed by the Indians, in 1676, he says, "Yea, I am now left destitute, and bereaved of almost all comforts of my life, and of euery bitt of my estate, which the other day amounted to no less than aboue 350 pounds. And being very lame and aged, and have half a dozen children, each under a dozen years of age." This was about the close of Philip's war, at which time he asks the General Court to grant him the land which had been possessed by those Indians that had destroyed his family; "seeing," he says, "the ten owners and inhabitants y'of are not now extant, 6 of them burned my house and family, 3 of whome haue been hanged, and the others are all fled vnto ye enemy." The government granted him 200 acres of land, but he did not live long to enjoy it. He died on the 25th of January, 1680, æt. 64. For an account of his posterity, consult the History of Framingham.

P. 280.-The treaty entered into by the chiefs of the Eastern Indians and English in the midst of Philip's war, seems not to have fallen within the notice of the chroniclers, either of that time or since. Possibly Hubbard may refer to it in his Indian Wars. It being a document of great importance, is here inserted entire, from the Massachusetts Archives.

"Pascataqua River, Cochecho, 3 July [1676.] At a meeting of ye Come appointed by ye Hond Genl. Ct. for to treat ye Inds. of the Eastern Parts in order for ye procuring an Hon" Peace with ym. Wee wth ye mut" consent of ye Sagamores Underwritten in behalfe of themselues and ye men-Indians belonging to them being about 300 in Number, have agreed as followeth :

lly. That hence forwards none of ye said Indians shall offer any violence to yo persons of any English, nor doe any Damage to theyrs Estates in any kind whatsoever. And if any Indian or Indians shall offend herein, they shall bring or cause to bee brought ye offender to some English authority, there to be prosecuted by ye English Lawes according to ye Nature of ye Offence.

2ly. That none of said Indians shall entertain at any time any of our enemies, but shall giue psent notice to ya Comte when any come among them, ingaging to goe forth with ye English against them (if desired) in order to ye seizing of them. And if any of sd Indians shall themselues at any time bring such or Enemies vnto vs, they shall for their reward haue £3. for each they shall so bring in.

3ly. The Indians performing on their part, as is before expressed, wee yo comittee doe ingage in ye behalfe of ye English not to offer any violence to any of their persons or estates, and if any injury be offered to said Indians by any English, they [their] complaints to Authority, ye offender shall be prosecuted by English Lawes according to y' nature of ye offence. In witness to each and all ye prmises we haue mutually shaken hands and subscribed our names.

WANALANSET, Sagamore
SAMPSON ABOQUACEMOKA

X MR. WM. SAGAMORE
SQUANDO Sagamore

DONY

SEROGUMBA

SAM" NUMPHOW

The markWAROCKOMEE.

P. 303.-A more precious document than the subject of this note, we seldom have the satisfaction of laying before the public. It elucidates a passage in New England's history of the deepest interest; and had we space, much explanatory matter might be given.

"Honoured Mother

After my duty and my wifes presented to yourselfe these may inform you of [our] present health of our present being when other of our friends are by the barbarous heathen cut off from having a being in this world The Lord [of] late hath renewed his witnesses against vs, and hath dealt very bitterly with us in that we are deprived of the societie of our nearest friends by the breaking in of the adversarie against vs; On Friday last in the morning your own son with your two sons in Law Anthony and Thomas Bracket and their whole families were killed and taken by the Indians, we know not how, tis certainly known by us that Thomas is slain and his wife and children carried away captiue, and of Anthony and his family we haue no tidings and therefore think that thay might be captivated the night before because of the remoteness of their habitation from neighborhood, Gm Corban and all his family Gm Lewis and his wife, James Ross and all his family, Gm Durham, John Munjoy, and Daniel Wakely, Benjamin Hadwell and all his family are lost, all slain by sun an hour high in the Morning and after, Gm Wallis his dwelling house and none besides his is burnt there are of men slain 11, of women and children 23 killed and taken, we that are alive are forced upon Mr. Andrews his Island to secure our own and the liues of our families we haue but little provision and are so few in number that we are not able to bury the dead till more strength come to us, the desire of the people to your selfe is that you would be pleased to speak to Mr. Munjoy and Deacon Philips that they would entreat the Governour that forthwith aid might be sent to vs either to fight the enemie out of our borders that our English Corn may be inned in whereby we may comfortably liue or remoue vs out of Danger that we may provide for our selues elsewhere having no more at present but desiring your prayers to God for his preservation of us in these times of danger, I rest Your dutifull Son

Thaddeus Clark. remember my Love to my Sister &c.

ffrom Casco-bay 16. 6. 76. These ffor his honoured Mother Mris Elizabeth Harvey living in Boston." P. 312.-"I have understood that the town of Moultonborough was named in honor of Gen. Jonathan Moulton, of Hampton, who was a principal proprietor." MS. note of John Farmer in a copy of the 3d Ed. of the BooK OF THE INDIANS.

P. 313.-PROF. UPHAM, of Bowdoin College, is the author of the ballad there given. Farmer, as above cited.

P. 522.-CAPT. WHITEEYES. In the Narrative of Richard Bard's Adventures among the Indians will be found some interesting details for an enlargement of the life of this chief. See Loudon's Selection of Ind. Nars. ii. 57–71.

P. 531.-HALFKING. Besides the different Indian names which we have given for this chief, another has been published in the "History of Western Pennsylvania." He is there called Tanacharison, where it is also stated that he died at Harris Ferry, (Harrisburg,) Oct. 1st, 1754. In another part of the same. work, (p. 71,) it is stated that he died at the house of John Harris, of that place, and was buried by him.

P. 572.-Note . In the Boston Courier of 31th August, 1843, it is mentioned that the Capt. Newman, who fell in St. Clair's defeat, was of Boston; that he was of the class of 1766, in the Latin school, while of the same class were Isaac Coffin, since Admiral Sir Isaac, Dr. Jona. Homer, late of Newton, Dr. James Freeman, &c.

P. 683. In our note stating the age and death of Daniel Boone, we have made an alteration in conformity to information received from Rev. J. M. PECK. It now agrees with what he has since published in his excellent life of the old Pioneer, and corresponds very nearly with the facts in Niles's Register, printed at the time.