Pike and Hutchinson’s instructions for making a truce, Nov. 9, 1690, are given in James S. Pike’s New Puritan (p. 128), and (p. 131) the agreement at Wells, May 1, 1691.
Sewall (Letter Book, p. 119) writes Aug. 1, 1691, “The truce is over and our Indian war renewed. The enemy attempted to surprise Wells, but were disappointed by a party of ours [who] got into the town but about half an hour before.”
Submission and agreement of eastern Indians at Fort William Henry, in Pemaquid, Aug. 11, 1693. (Mass. Archives, xxx. 338; Mather’s Magnalia; New Hampshire Provincial Papers, ii. 110; Johnston’s Bristol, Bremen, and Pemaquid, p. 193.)
Accounts of the French capturing vessels in Massachusetts Bay (1694-95), correspondence between Stoughton and Frontenac (1695), and various plans for French expeditions to attack Boston (1696-97, 1700-1704), are in Collection de manuscrits relatifs à l’histoire de la Nouvelle France (Quebec, 1884), vol. ii.
A bill to encourage the war against the enemy is in the Mass. Archives, xxx. 358. Details of Church’s expedition in 1696 to Nova Scotia are given in Murdoch’s Nova Scotia, i. 233. Cf. also J. S. Pike’s Life of Robert Pike, the New Puritan.
Nicholas Noyes, New England’s Duty and Interest to be a Habitation of Justice and a Mountain of Holiness, an election sermon, Boston, 1698 (Sabin’s Dictionary, xiii. no. 56,229; Haven’s list in Thomas’s History of Printing, ii. p. 343; Carter-Brown, ii. 1,546), has in an appendix (pp. 89-99) an account of a visit of Grindall Rawson and Samuel Danforth to the Indians within the province, in 1698.
Submission of the eastern Indians at Pejebscot (Brunswick), Jan. 7, 1699. (New Hampshire Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. 265; N. H. Provincial Papers, ii. 299; E. E. Bourne’s Wells and Kennebunk, ch. xv.; Mass. Archives, xxx. 439.)
Submission of the eastern Indians, Sept. 8, 1699. (Mass. Archives, xxx. 447.)
Various documents concerning the making of a treaty with the eastern Indians, 1700-1701, are also in Mass. Archives, vol. xxx.
The events of this war are covered in Cotton Mather’s Decennium Luctuosum, an history of remarkable occurrences in the long war ... from 1688 to 1698, Boston, 1699. (Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, iii. p. 67.) It was reprinted in the Magnalia.