Thomas Church, Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War (1716), as The History of King Philip's War, ed. Samuel G. Drake (1825)
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- Thomas Church, Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War (1716), as The History of King Philip's War, ed. Samuel G. Drake (1825)
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- 1716; this edition 1825
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- https://archive.org/details/khistkingphilips00churrich
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Benjamin Church's own narrative of King Philip's War, written up by his son Thomas and first printed in 1716. Used for the summer 1676 raid in which Philip's people fled into a swamp, leaving "their kettles boiling, and meat roasting upon their wooden spits": Church "sent Mr. Isaac Howland with a party on one side of the swamp" while he ran the other, and at the far end many of the enemy "stood still and let the English come and take the guns out of their hands, when they were both charged and cocked" (1825 ed. p. 91). The narrative names Church's lieutenant as "Mr. Jabez Howland, who was now, and often, his Lieutenant," not Isaac.
For King Philip's War (research/king-philips-war/). Church's narrative is the war on Plymouth's side as
he remembered it; his son wrote it up and Bartholomew Green printed it,
"Boston: Printed by B. Green in the year, 1716." (Evans 1800). Three editions are cited:
- This edition (Drake, 1825): Church's terms of service from late July 1676, "that the country should find them ammunition and provision, and half the prisoners and arms they took. The Captain and his English soldiers to have the other half of the prisoners and arms, and the Indian soldiers the loose plunder" (p. 74); and the swamp action with Isaac Howland, "Captain Church and Mr. Howland soon met at the further end of the swamp" (pp. 90-92).
- Henry Martyn Dexter's edition, The History of King Philip's War (Boston, 1865), https://archive.org/details/historyofkingphi00chur: Awashonks and the Sakonnet (pp. 7-11, 80-85); the Dartmouth people who surrendered on promises "were carry'd away to Plymouth, there sold, and transported out of the Country; being about Eight-score Persons. An action so hateful to Mr. Church, that he oppos'd it" (pp. 45-46), with Dexter's notes citing Thacher that "one hundred and seventy-eight [Indians] had recently been shipped on board of Captain Sprague, for Cadiz," and the Rhode Island terms of 14 Aug 1676, "All under 5 years of age ... till they were 30" (p. 46 n.); "Philip's Wife, and Son of about Nine Years Old" taken, 1 Aug 1676 (p. 126), and Dexter's note on the boy's fate, the ministers' opinion that children of "notorious traitors" might "be adjudged to death," and John Cotton to Increase Mather, 20 Mar 1677, "Philip's boy goes now to be sold" (pp. 126-127 n.); and Dexter's dating of Annawon's capture to 11 Sept 1676 by John Foster's almanac, against Drake's 28 Aug (pp. 153-154 n.).
- The Newport edition, The Entertaining History of King Philip's War ("Newport, Rhode-Island: Reprinted and Sold by Solomon Southwick, in Queen-Street, 1772"), https://archive.org/details/entertaininghist00chur_0, edited by Ezra Stiles, with "Portraits of Benjamin Church and King Philip engraved by Paul Revere" (John Carter Brown Library catalogue); Church's is "copied, with the addition of a powder-horn, from that of the poet Charles Churchill."
---title: "Thomas Church, Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War (1716), as The History of King Philip's War, ed. Samuel G. Drake (1825)"type: bookdate: 1716; this edition 1825url: "https://archive.org/details/khistkingphilips00churrich"seen: originalaccess: public---Benjamin Church's own narrative of King Philip's War, written up by his son Thomas and first printedin 1716. Used for the summer 1676 raid in which Philip's people fled into a swamp, leaving "theirkettles boiling, and meat roasting upon their wooden spits": Church "sent Mr. Isaac Howland with aparty on one side of the swamp" while he ran the other, and at the far end many of the enemy "stoodstill and let the English come and take the guns out of their hands, when they were both charged andcocked" (1825 ed. p. 91). The narrative names Church's lieutenant as "Mr. Jabez Howland, who wasnow, and often, his Lieutenant," not Isaac.For King Philip's War (`research/king-philips-war/`). Church's narrative is the war on Plymouth's side ashe remembered it; his son wrote it up and Bartholomew Green printed it,"Boston: Printed by B. Green in the year, 1716." (Evans 1800). Three editions are cited:- This edition (Drake, 1825): Church's terms of service from late July 1676, "that the country should findthem ammunition and provision, and half the prisoners and arms they took. The Captain and his Englishsoldiers to have the other half of the prisoners and arms, and the Indian soldiers the loose plunder" (p.74); and the swamp action with Isaac Howland, "Captain Church and Mr. Howland soon met at the further endof the swamp" (pp. 90-92).- Henry Martyn Dexter's edition, *The History of King Philip's War* (Boston, 1865),https://archive.org/details/historyofkingphi00chur: Awashonks and the Sakonnet (pp. 7-11, 80-85); theDartmouth people who surrendered on promises "were carry'd away to Plymouth, there sold, and transportedout of the Country; being about Eight-score Persons. An action so hateful to Mr. Church, that he oppos'dit" (pp. 45-46), with Dexter's notes citing Thacher that "one hundred and seventy-eight [Indians] hadrecently been shipped on board of Captain Sprague, for Cadiz," and the Rhode Island terms of 14 Aug 1676,"All under 5 years of age ... till they were 30" (p. 46 n.); "Philip's Wife, and Son of about Nine YearsOld" taken, 1 Aug 1676 (p. 126), and Dexter's note on the boy's fate, the ministers' opinion that childrenof "notorious traitors" might "be adjudged to death," and John Cotton to Increase Mather, 20 Mar 1677,"Philip's boy goes now to be sold" (pp. 126-127 n.); and Dexter's dating of Annawon's capture to 11 Sept1676 by John Foster's almanac, against Drake's 28 Aug (pp. 153-154 n.).- The Newport edition, *The Entertaining History of King Philip's War* ("Newport, Rhode-Island: Reprintedand Sold by Solomon Southwick, in Queen-Street, 1772"), https://archive.org/details/entertaininghist00chur_0,edited by Ezra Stiles, with "Portraits of Benjamin Church and King Philip engraved by Paul Revere"(John Carter Brown Library catalogue); Church's is "copied, with the addition of a powder-horn, from thatof the poet Charles Churchill."