Thomas Church, Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War (1716), as The History of King Philip's War, ed. Samuel G. Drake (1825)

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.