Some meditations concerning our honourable gentlemen and fellow-souldiers, in pursuit of those barbarous natives in the Narragansit-Country; and their service there. Committed into plain verse for the benefit of those that read it. By an unfeigned friend.

People / Organizations

• Wait Still Winthrop (Author)
• Timothy Green ("printed by")

Imprint

[New London, Conn.]: Re-printed at N. London [by Timothy Green], April 4. 1721.

Publication year

1721-1721

ESTC No.

W3499

Grub Street ID

345664

Description

1 sheet ; ⁰⁰

Note

Verse, in thirty-two numbered stanzas, describing the engagement in King Philip's War usually referred to as the Swamp Fight, fought on December 19, 1675. First line: These Indians strong have waited long.

Signed and dated: W.W. December 28, 1675. Attributed to Wait Still Winthrop by Wegelin.

No copy of an earlier edition is known.

Timothy Green was the only printer active at New London in 1721.