An incident respecting the Indians, about a year before the settlement of Lynn, is related by Rev. thomas Cobbett, in a letter to Increase Mather;

"About the year 1628, when those few that came over with Colonel Indicot and begun to settle at Nahumnkeeck, now called Salem, and in a manner all so sick of their journey, that though they had both small and great guns, and powder and bullets for them, yet had not strength to manage them, if suddenly put upon it; and tidings being certainly brought them, on a Lord's day morning, that a thousand Indians from Saugust, (now called Lyn) were coming against them to cut them off, they had much ado amongst them all to charge two or three of theyre great guns, and traile them to a place of advantage, where the Indians must pass to them, and there to shoot them off; when they heard by theyre noise which they made in the wods, that the Indians drew neare, the noise of which great artillery, to which the Indians were never wonted before, did occasionally, by the good hand of God, strike such dread into them, that by some lads who lay as scouts in the woods, they were heard to reiterate that confused outcrie, ( O Hobbamock, much Hoggery,) and then fled confusedly back with all speed, when none pursued them. One old Button, lately living at Haverhill, who was then almost the only haile man left of that company, confimed this to be so to me, accordingly as I had been informed of it."

This old Button was Matthias Button, a Dutchman, who lived in a thatched house in HAverhill, in 1670, says Joshua Coffin. [And this same Button is acknowledged to have communicated to Mr. Cobbett a part of the interesting facts supplied to Dr. Increase Mather, regarding the early difficulties with the Indians. He came over with Endicot, in 1628, and died in 1672]