27 Increase Mather

A Brief History of the war with the Indians in New-England, from June 24, 1675, (when the First Englishman was Murdered by the Indians) to August 12, 1676, when Philip, alias Metacomet, the Principal Author and Beginner of the War, was Slain. London: Richard Chiswell, 1676.

With Samuel Penhallow's The History of the Wars of New-England, With the Eastern Indians. Boston: Fleet, Gerrish and Henchman, 1726 and the earliest American edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana: or the Ecclesiastical History of New England. Hartford: Andrus, 1820 (from the London, 1702 edition) including Mather's early account of Hannah Duston. "A Notable Exploit: Dux Faemina Facti" (see item 54). Also with Samuel Drake's Boston, 1850 reprint in regular and large paper issues of News From New-England, Being a True and Last Account of the Present Bloody Wars Carried on Betwixt the Infidels, Natives and the English Christians and Converted Indians of New-England, originally printed in London in 1676.

28 Peter Williamson

The Life and Adventures of Peter Williamson. Liverpool: T. Troughton, 1807.

"a native of Aberdeen, giving an account of the numerous vicissitudes he had experienced, particularly during his captivity among the Indians, in America, and his sufferings during that time." From a footnote in the narrative: "A tomahawk is a kind of hatchet; made something like our plaisterers' hammer, about two feet long, handle and all. To take up the hatchet (or tomahawk) among them, is to declare war. They generally use it after firing their guns, by rushing on their enemies, and fracturing or cleaving their skulls with it, and very seldom fail of killing at the first blow."

With Edinburgh (1768) edition: The Travels of Peter Williamson.