The New England historical and genealogical register . Aarons, so as muchmay be sayd and attested, as to New Englands Moses : so that we maysafely conclude, that New England prayers have, by divine grace, hadtheyr prevayling influence, in all her notable deliverances of that sort,from the very infancy of its first planting, to this very time of its riperAge ; and that such like deliverances were, in that respect, answers ofprayers, survey some particulars of former times. 1. Sure there were some godly souls, among the rest of a looser spirit,which were looking to the Hills, whence alone theyr
The New England historical and genealogical register . Aarons, so as muchmay be sayd and attested, as to New Englands Moses : so that we maysafely conclude, that New England prayers have, by divine grace, hadtheyr prevayling influence, in all her notable deliverances of that sort,from the very infancy of its first planting, to this very time of its riperAge ; and that such like deliverances were, in that respect, answers ofprayers, survey some particulars of former times. 1. Sure there were some godly souls, among the rest of a looser spirit,which were looking to the Hills, whence alone theyr help must come ;when about the yeare 1622, about 20 English came and were sent overby well minded merchants, and most of them setled about that place,which fals in our patent, now called Weimouth; when the treacherousIndians, who had been wont to trade with the English, had plotted to cutthem all off, designing the way they would take, and the day and time ofthe day they would take, to do it: when a few should come first to draw27 »_ .. -. —,.. 210 A Narrative of New Englands Deliverances. them together to truck, and then the rest should suddenly surround themarmed, and fall upon them and kill them ; only God seasonably of it, by theyr dying Sagamore to Mr. Johnson (now living at Yorkeastward, and the [relation] of it to myself) who had bestowed sundrygood things upon that sick Saggamore (which lived up further to [wards!Plimouth Patent) and by a squaw, which came the evening before to themat Weimouth, and told the same to them : so that, according to the advice, they upon the first sight of the five or six which camefirst, discharging theyr guns at them, breake theyr leaders [rib]-bone, sothat they run roaring back to theyr mates, and durst not come on uponthem : but some years after, did confess, that if they had not shot, whenthey did, they had come and crambd them all. 21y. About the yeare 1628: when those few that came out with CollonelIndeco
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