OF THE GREAT INDIAN WAR OF 1675 AND 1676, COMMONLY CALLED PHILIP'S WAR. [Church Benjaming ALSO, THE OLD FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS, FROM 1689 TO 1704. The unexampled achievements of our fathers should not be forgotten. WASHINGTON. пр HARTFORD: SILAS ANDRUS & SON. 1851. $150 Eames, 17 Oct. 19.14. THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. CHURCH'S History of "King Philip's War," &c. was first published at Boston, in 1716, in quarto. It was reprinted in Newport, in 1772, in octavo. I have never met with a copy of the first edition, therefore I copy from the second. This is now very scarce and rarely to be met with. It is however preserved in some private libraries in the old colony, in the Atheneum at Boston, and other literary institutions there and elsewhere. The lamentable manner in which Hutchinson in his History of Massachusetts passed over the Indian wars, causes us much regret, and a desire to catch at every thing that can give any light upon them. He is particular in relating the witch affairs of the colony, but when we have followed him into Philip's war, being led at first with interesting particulars, he stops short and says, "It is not my design to enter into every minute circumstance of the war." But does not tell us why. This is the more to be lamented, as his means were more ample for such history than can now be had. In 1825 I published a small edition of this history, containing however but few additions to the old, which being immediately taken up, occasioned the early appearance of this. In an early period it was designed to publish the work as it now appears. Accordingly many valuable papers and rare works had been collected, but not used in the first edition, on |