Samuel G. Drake here presents Increase Mather's _A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New England_ which was first published in late 1676, just a few months after the end of the war, along with the account of the same war written about twenty years later by Cotton Mather, as it was published as the seventh part of the latter's history of New England, _Magnalia Christi Americana_ in 1702. Drake, who was a founder of the New England Historic...