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Hiacoomes, the first Christian preacher on Martha's Vineyard; for a biography of whom the reader is referred to Increase Mayhew's account of the Praying Indians, 1726. The following is related of him: ‘One Lord's day, after meeting, where Hiacoomesthese Powwaws ever able to do these Christian Indians any hurt, though others were frequently hurt and killed by them.’ — Mayhew, pp. 6, 7, c. I. stood,— The wild apostle of the wood, Shook from his soul the fear of harm, And trampled on the Powwaw's Hiacoomes, the first Christian preacher on Martha's Vineyard; for a biography of whom the reader is referred to Increase Mayhew's account of the Praying Indians, 1726. The following is related of him: One Lord's day, after meeting, where Hiacoomes these Powwaws ever able to do these Christian Indians any hurt, though others were frequently hurt and killed by them. — Mayhew, pp. 6, 7, c. I. Note 16, page 363. The tooth-ache, says Roger Williams in his observations upon the language and c