The war was ended by a treaty at Portsmouth, July 11, 1713. (Mass. Archives, xxix. p. 1; N. H. Hist. Soc. Coll., i. p. 83; N. H. Prov. Papers, iii. 543; Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., vi. 250; Penhallow, 78; Williamson’s Maine, ii. 67.)
There was a conference with five of the leading eastern Indians at Boston, Jan. 16, 1713-14, and this treaty is in the Mass. Archives, xxix. 22. A fac-simile of its English signatures is annexed. Another conference was held at Portsmouth, July 23-28, 1714; and this document is also preserved. (Mass. Archives, xxix. 36; Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., vi. 257.)
Dr. Shea (Charlevoix, v. 267) says that no intelligent man will believe that the Indians understood the law-terms of these treaties, adding that Hutchinson (ii. 246) admits as much.
The papers by Frederick Kidder in the Maine Hist. Soc. Collections (vols. iii. and vi.) were republished as Abnaki Indians, their treaties of 1713 and 1717, and a vocabulary with an historical introduction, Portland, 1859. (Field, Indian Bibliog., no. 829; Hist. Mag., ii. p. 84.) It gives fac-similes of the autographs of the English signers and witnesses; and of the marks or signs of the Indians.
A later conference to ratify the treaty of 1713 was published under the title of Georgetown on Arrowsick island, Aug. 9, 1717.... A conference of Gov. Shute with the sachems and chief men of the eastern Indians, Boston, 1717. (Harvard Col. library, no. 5325.24; Brinley, i. no. 431.) This tract is reprinted in the Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., iii. 361, and in the N. H. Prov. Papers, iii. 693. See further in Penhallow, p. 83; Niles, in Mass. Hist. Coll., xxxv. 338; Hutchinson, ii. 199; Williamson’s Maine, ii. 93; Belknap’s New Hampshire, ii. 47; Shea’s Charlevoix, v. 268; Palfrey’s New England, iv. 420.
Shute was accompanied to Arrowsick by the Rev. Joseph Baxter, and his journal of this period, annotated by Elias Nason, is printed in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1867, p. 45.
Of chief importance respecting this as well as other of the wars, enumerated in this section, are the documents preserved in the State House at Boston. The Mass. Archives, vol. xxix., covers Indian conferences, etc., from 1713 to 1776; vol. xxxiv. treaties with the Indians from 1645 to 1726; and vols. xxx. to xxxiii. elucidate by original documents relations of all sorts with the Indians of the east and west, as well as those among the more central settlements between 1639 and 1775.
The chief English authority for Queen Anne’s and Lovewell’s wars is The History of the wars of New England with the eastern Indians, or a narrative of their continued perfidy from the 10th of August, 1703, to the peace renewed 13th of July, 1713; and from the 25th of July, 1722, to their submission, 15th December, 1725, which was ratified August 5th, 1726. By Samuel Penhallow. Boston, 1726. The author was an Englishman, who in 1686, at twenty-one, had come to America to perfect his learning in the college at Cambridge, designing to acquire the Indian tongue, and to serve the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians. Trade and public office, however, diverted his attention, and he became a rich tradesman at Portsmouth and a man of consideration in the public affairs of New Hampshire. His book is of the first value to the historian and the object of much quest to the collector, for it has become very rare. Penhallow died Dec., 1726, shortly after its publication. It has been reprinted in the first volume of the N. H. Hist. Society’s Collections, and again in 1859 at Cincinnati, with a memoir and notes by W. Dodge.[931]
SIGNERS OF THE CONFERENCE.
(January 16, 1713-14.)