Charles H. Lincoln, ed., Narratives of the Indian Wars, 1675-1699 (New York, 1913): Cotton Mather, Decennium Luctuosum (1699)

Read in the archive.org full text for the Hatten research (Patricia Hatten's Browne–Chapin side: the pedigree, notable ancestors and famous kin, October 2026). Mather wrote within a few years of the events; the editor's notes identify the people.

• p. 227 (1691): the garrison at Wells "were left, with Captain Converse, and Lieutenant Plaisted"; the editor's note: "James Converse of Woburn; Ichabod Plaisted of Kittery."
• pp. 232-238, the defence of Storer's garrison at Wells (the editor dates it "June 10 and 11, 1692, old style; June 20 and 21, new style"): "But now, Reader, the Longest Day [of] the Year is to come on, and if I mistake not, the Bravest Act in the War, fell out upon it ... Captain Converse was lodged in Storer's Garrison at Wells, with but Fifteen men ... The Army made up in all, about Five Hundred Men, or Fierce Things in the Shape of Men, all to Encounter Fifteen Men in one little Garrison, and about Fifteen more Men ... in a Couple of open Sloops."
• In the night the besiegers called to the sloops, "Who were their Commanders? ... the Indians Replied, You ly, you have none but Converse, and we will have him too before Morning!"
• When "one of the Soldiers began to speak of Surrendring ... the captain Vehemently protested, That he would lay the man Dead, who should so much as mutter that base word any more!"
• At the end, offered terms under a flag of truce, "the Captain sent 'em word, That he wanted for nothing, but for men to come, and Fight him." Challenged to fight "in the open Field, like a Man, and not ... in a Garrison, like a Squaw," he answered: "what a Fool are you? do you think, Thirty men a Match for Five Hundred? ... Come with your Thirty men upon the Plain, and I'le meet you with my Thirty, as soon as you will."

For King Philip's War (research/king-philips-war/), the same volume's earlier narratives, read in the archive.org full text:

• John Easton, "A Relacion of the Indyan Warre" (pp. 7-17), written by the deputy governor of Rhode Island, a Quaker, and dated "5th: 12m: 1675" (5 Feb 1675/6); first printed in 1858. Increase Mather called it the work of "a Quaker in Road Island, who pretends to know the Truth of Things," "fraught with worse Things than meer Mistakes" (p. 5). At Trip's Ferry in June 1675 Philip's council told Easton that the English "wold have English Arbetrators"; that "if 20 of there onest indians testefied that a Englishman had dun them rong, it was as nothing"; that "now thay had not so much land or muny, that thay wear as good be kiled as leave all ther liveflyhode" (p. 9); and that "the English Catell and horses still incresed that when thay removed 30 mill from wher English had anithing to do, thay Could not kepe ther coren from being spoyled" (p. 11). Weetamoo "had practised much the quarell might be desided without war" (pp. 12-13); of "about a 150 indians" who came in, "Plimoth authority sould all for slafes (but about six of them)" (p. 13); and the Narragansett jurisdiction quarrel, "we have Case to think it was the greatest Case of the war against them" (pp. 16-17). The editor's notes: the jury at Sassamon's murder trial, "four Indians and twelve whites" (p. 8 n.), and the treaty forced on the Narragansett, 15 July 1675 (p. 13 n.).
• The London tracts (pp. 19-106): "above Eight Hundred" English dead and at least "Six Thousand" Indians "killed, taken, sent away, and now of Late come in" (pp. 97-98), with the editor's note on News from New England (1676), "444 killed and 55 taken"; New York keeping the Mohawk from Philip (p. 97); and R.H.'s Warr Visibly Ended on Philip's death (pp. 104-105).
• Mary Rowlandson's narrative: Lancaster, 10 Feb 1675/6, "Of thirty seven persons who were in this one House, none escaped ... save only one ... There were twelve killed" (p. 120); the letter asking "20 pound in goods" for her ransom, whose scribe the editor names as Peter Jethro (pp. 151-152 n.); "an Indian called James the Printer" (p. 157).
• J. Franklin Jameson's introduction on Hubbard's map (pp. v-vi), of which the volume's frontispiece is a facsimile: two states, "The White Hills" and, "by error of the engraver, 'The Wine Hills'"; "only four copies" of the White Hills map known; "most likely that Mr. Hubbard himself drew the map, and ... almost certain that the White Hills issue was engraved by John Foster."