A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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broken {bins, finding no enemies in purfuit
of them, made a halt, and furnmoned
refolution enough to venture back
to their wives and children; when they
difiinctly heard from the enemy's camp
thefe words, Wight, Helderken, Dier,
'Tete. This laO: they thought meant
treaty; and plucking up courage, they
fent a triumvirate to capitulate with the
foppofed French and Indians. There
three men approached in their fhirts, and
begged to fpeak with the General; but
it being dark, and' no anfwer given, they
were forely agitated for fome time betwixt
hope and fear j at length, however,
they difcovered that the dreaded inimical
army was an artny of thirfiy frogs
going to the river for a little water.
Such an incurfion was never known
before nor fince; and yet the people of
'Windham have been ridiculed for their .
timidity on this occafion. I verily belic::-ve
an army under the Duke of Marlborough
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