Increase Mather, A Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New-England (Boston: John Foster, 1676); ed. Samuel G. Drake as The History of King Philip's War (Boston, 1862)

The first history of the war, written while it was being fought by Increase Mather, minister of the Second Church in Boston and one of the colony's licensers of the press (MBR 5:4), and printed for the Massachusetts side: "Boston, Printed and sold by John Foster over against the sign of the Dove. 1676" (Evans 220). Its title runs "From June 24, 1675 ... to August 12. 1676. when Philip, aliàs Metacomet ... was slain." A London reprint followed the same year. The original is read in the John Carter Brown Library copy (above; a second JCB scan is https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofvv00math), and in Drake's annotated edition of 1862 (https://archive.org/details/historyofkingphi00math), which adds Cotton Mather's account of the war and the editor's notes. Pages below are Drake's. Mather was the brother of Timothy Mather of Dorchester; his printer, John Foster, was the son of Capt. Hopestill Foster. Drake: "There was then but one printer in Boston, — John Foster by name, — and he must print both Works. Dr. Mather's was first in the Hands of the Printer" (pp. vi-vii).

Cited for King Philip's War (research/king-philips-war/):

• Swansea, 24 June 1675: "the Indians discharged a volley ... so that there were Nine Englishmen murthered this day" (p. 54).
• Mendon, 14 July 1675: the Nipmuc under Matoonas "committed Barbarous Murders" (pp. 62-63).
• Bloody Brook, 18 Sept 1675: Lathrop "with above seventy men"; the enemy "killed Captain Lothrop, and above threescore of his men" (pp. 84-85).
• The Great Swamp Fight, 19 Dec 1675: "not lesse then a thousand Indian Souls perished"; "Of the English there were killed and wounded about two hundred and thirty, whereof only eighty and five persons are dead" (pp. 107-109). Ninigret "had with some of his men withdrawn himself from the rest, professing that he would not ingage in a War with the English" (p. 106).
• Lancaster, 10 Feb 1675/6: "kill'd and took Captive above forty persons" (p. 117). Medfield, 21 Feb: "they burnt half the Town, killed several Men, Women and Children, (about eighteen in all)" (p. 119). Weymouth, 25 Feb: "This night the Indians fired seven Houses and Barns in Weymouth" (p. 121).
• Pierce's Fight, 26 Mar 1676: "Captain Pierce was slain, and forty and nine English with him, and eight (or more) Indians who did assist the English" (p. 127). Rehoboth, 28 Mar: "about thirty Barns, and near upon fourty dwelling Houses" (p. 131); Providence "about thirty houses" (p. 132).
• Canonchet taken by "one of Ninnegret his men," so that "those three Indian Nations are become abominable to the other Indians" (p. 134); 19 Apr 1676, "The Indians killed a man at Weymouth, and another at Hingham" (pp. 134-135).
• Sudbury, 21 Apr 1676: "above fifty of ours were slain that day, amongst whom was Capt. Wadsworth and his Lieutenant Sharp" (p. 136); the same day "(as is judged fifty) Indians burnt nineteen houses and barns at Scituate" (p. 138). Bridgewater, 8 May: "About seventeen Houses and Barns" (p. 143).
• The Falls Fight, 19 May 1676: the soldiers "numbred above one hundred that lay dead upon the ground," "about an hundred and thirty" driven over the falls; in the retreat Turner and "between thirty and forty more were lost" (pp. 146-148). Hadley, 12 June (p. 155).
• James Printer comes in, 8 July 1676: "James an Indian, who could not only reade, and write, but had learned the Art of Printing" (p. 172). Talcott in Narragansett, 2 July: "killed and took an hundred and fourscore" (p. 173). Church's prisoners, "about an hundred and thirty Indians" (p. 187); Weetamoo drowned, 6 Aug (pp. 190-191); Philip killed, 12 Aug, by Alderman, "who did formerly belong to Squaw-Sachim of Pocasset" (pp. 193-194).
• From the editor and Cotton Mather: the 1675 jury "consisting half of English, and half of Indians" (p. 51); Drake's note that Sassamon witnessed the Philip-Squamaug agreement of 12 July 1670 at Hudson's Wading River farm (pp. 51-52 n.); Springfield, "Thirty-two houses, and amongst the rest, the minister's" (p. 81); Hatfield, "they confessed the town too hot for them" (p. 84); Jireh Bull's garrison, "about fourteen persons" (pp. 106-107); "the Squaw-Sachem of Saconet, with ninety of her subjects ... submitted themselves" (p. 172); and Taylor's account of Rev. Hope Atherton after the Falls Fight, "I tendered myself to them a prisoner ... they accepted not the offer" (pp. 260-261).