.MTAxNg.NjcyNzk: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
27 | 27 | ||
into the woods & swamps, where they had advantage & opportunity enough in Ambushment to have slayne many of the English soldiers without any great hazard to themselves, & severall of these young indians inclined to it. | into the woods & swamps, where they had advantage & opportunity enough in Ambushment to have slayne many of the English soldiers without any great hazard to themselves, & severall of these young indians inclined to it. But the sachem, wanalanset by his Authority & wisdom restraind his men & suffered not an indian to appear or shoot a gun. They | ||
were very neare the english & yet though they were provoked by the english who Burnt their wigwams & destroyd some dryd fish, yet no ones gun was shot at any english man. | |||
This act speaks much for him which himselfe & some of his men had related to some of his english friends sinse his return Besides hee had messengers sent to him more than | |||
once from the enimy soliciting him to joyne with them, but he always refused, and after hee understood by messengers sent to him by MajR Richard waldron that hee might | |||
come into the english with safety hee complied with it & came in with his Relations, to cochecho, where maj waldron livd & was instruementall to bring in others & now hee is | |||
returned again under the english protection, to his own place neare chelmsford | |||
Revision as of 15:08, 29 March 2022
27 into the woods & swamps, where they had advantage & opportunity enough in Ambushment to have slayne many of the English soldiers without any great hazard to themselves, & severall of these young indians inclined to it. But the sachem, wanalanset by his Authority & wisdom restraind his men & suffered not an indian to appear or shoot a gun. They were very neare the english & yet though they were provoked by the english who Burnt their wigwams & destroyd some dryd fish, yet no ones gun was shot at any english man. This act speaks much for him which himselfe & some of his men had related to some of his english friends sinse his return Besides hee had messengers sent to him more than once from the enimy soliciting him to joyne with them, but he always refused, and after hee understood by messengers sent to him by MajR Richard waldron that hee might come into the english with safety hee complied with it & came in with his Relations, to cochecho, where maj waldron livd & was instruementall to bring in others & now hee is returned again under the english protection, to his own place neare chelmsford