7. News from New England, 1676 (6 pages). Sabin only records one copy; and of a second edition, 1676, there are copies in the British Museum and Carter-Brown libraries.
8. The War in New England visibly Ended, 1677 (6 pages), containing news of the death of Philip, brought by Caleb More, master of a vessel newly arrived from Rhode Island.
[These tracts are all in the Carter-Brown Catalogue, vol. ii., and several are in Mr. Deane’s collection, and in Harvard College Library. Rich supposed that nos. 1, 3, and 4 were written by the same person. Five of them were reprinted by S. G. Drake in his Old Indian Chronicle in 1836, and again in 1867, with new notes; and no. 7 was reprinted in 1850 by Drake, and in 1865 by Woodward. Sabin, xiii. 321, 322.
These tracts are priced at twelve and eighteen shillings, and at similarly high sums, even in Rich’s catalogues of fifty years ago. Whenever they have occurred in sales of late years they have proved the occasion of much competition and unusual prices. Cf. Stevens’s Hist. Coll., i. 1523, 1524.
Another contemporary account by a Rhode Island Quaker, as it is thought, John Easton, was printed at Albany in 1858, as a Narrative of the Causes which led to Philip’s War. Cf. Palfrey, iii. 180; Field, Indian Bibliography, p. 479.
Mr. Drake, whose name is closely associated with our Indian history, was one of the foremost of American antiquaries for many years. There is a memoir of him by W. B. Trask in Potter’s American Monthly, v. 729; and another in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1863, by J. H. Sheppard, also separately issued. In 1874 he printed Narrative Remarks, anonymously, embodying some personal grievances and notes of his career, not pleasantly expressed. For his publications, see Sabin’s Dictionary, v. 526, and Field’s Indian Bibliography, p. 452.—Ed.]
[616] John Foster had now set up a press in Boston, for the history of which and its successors see Memorial History of Boston, i. 453.
[617] [Rich in 1832, no. 368, priced it, either edition, at eighteen shillings. It was a quarto of 51 pages. Cf. Carter-Brown Catalogue, ii. 1,150; Field’s Indian Bibliography, 1,022; Brinley Catalogue, 948, 5,531. It has of late years brought about $80. S. G. Drake included this and the section of the Magnalia on the war in his History of King Philip’s War, 1862. Another book by Mather, A Relation of the Troubles which have hapned in New England, etc., was also printed in 1676, and traces the Indian wars from 1641, including the causes of Philip’s War. Drake also reprinted this in 1864, as the Early History of New England.—Ed.]
[618] [King Philip’s War, which was but the beginning of a long series of wars which devastated the frontiers, may be said properly to end with the treaty of Casco, April 12, 1678, which is preserved in the Massachusetts Archives; though a continuation of hostilities intervened till the treaty of Portsmouth, Sept. 8, 1685. Cf. Belknap’s New Hampshire, p. 348.—Ed.]