The History of King Philip's War, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The History of King Philip's War, Vol. 1

The need of the literal reprint of so valuable a contribution to the history of New England as Church's "Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War," has been widely felt; and the more, because the re-issue of 1772, from which all later editions have been copied, was defective in some important particulars affecting the use of the work as an historical authority. Two instances of this may be here particularized; viz., where (page 18) the words occurring on page 10, "and of the black Rocks to the Southward of them," offering an important hint of the exact locality of the "pease-field fight," were dropped out altogether; and where (page 30) the words occurring on page 17, "in about a Months time," were reprinted "in about three months' time," thus seeming to hint an expedition into the Nipmuk country in March, 1676, referred to by no other writer.

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