In the other about forty five, the most of which probably were women and children, but being all young Serpents of the same brood, the subduing or taking so many, ought to be acknowledged as another signal victory and pledge of Divine favour to the English. But to return, it was not without the special direction of Providence that those Hartford Forces were sent to those Western Towns a week before those of the Massachusetts could get thither; for other wise one or more of those Towns might have been lost; seeing that on the twelfth of June, soon after, if not the next day, after they arrived there; The Enemy, as if resolved to try the utmost of their power, violently assaulted the Town of Hadly, with a body of about seven hundred men, at five or six in the morning, laying an Ambush at o
