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that the enemy | that the enemy "went down the wind amain", after Sudbury fight as the author observes is strikingly evident from some letters which their chief captains caused to be written & sent in to their enemies. They did not despair immediately , for as one author says "so insolent were they grown upon their first success against Capt. Wadsworth that they sent us word to provide store of good cheer for they intended to dine with us upon the election day." | ||
In less than three months their bravadoes were turned into unfeigned supplications: "July the 6, an Indian Post with a white flag, was sent from Sagamore [?Sam?] of Nashua (a proud Salvage, who two months since insulted over the English & said if the English would first beg peace of him, he would let them have peace but that he would never ask it of them"). with letters as follows: | |||
"Mr John Leveret, my Lord , Mr. Waban & all the chief men ( printed in Book Inds iii 83) | |||
Latest revision as of 04:28, 16 March 2021
page 113, n. 3 that the enemy "went down the wind amain", after Sudbury fight as the author observes is strikingly evident from some letters which their chief captains caused to be written & sent in to their enemies. They did not despair immediately , for as one author says "so insolent were they grown upon their first success against Capt. Wadsworth that they sent us word to provide store of good cheer for they intended to dine with us upon the election day."
In less than three months their bravadoes were turned into unfeigned supplications: "July the 6, an Indian Post with a white flag, was sent from Sagamore [?Sam?] of Nashua (a proud Salvage, who two months since insulted over the English & said if the English would first beg peace of him, he would let them have peace but that he would never ask it of them"). with letters as follows: "Mr John Leveret, my Lord , Mr. Waban & all the chief men ( printed in Book Inds iii 83)