{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3105", "width": "2146", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "f ifoarjT of gfltt-^iTflianb \u00c2\u00a7htaxQ\\nNo. II", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CHURCH S PHILIP S WAR\\nPart I\\ni^\u00c2\u00a3^^^^:si", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Eije iii0tottj\\nKing Philipvs War\\nBy BENJAMIN CHURCH\\nWITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES\\nBy HENRY MARTTN DEXTER\\nJOHN KIMBALL WIGGIN\\nMDCCCLXV", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Xo.\\nK.iil.-ncI a. ror.liMjr to Ai t uf ..iiprss in tlu- yiiir ISIV., liy\\n.llillN K. wiia;lN\\nIn ihr Cl.rlv Drtic. 1 till- |)i tri.t loiirt ,.f tlj.- riistri. t f Mu.-snilji\\nE n I r J X\\nirti.10 ?i?untirct( ant JFifto \u00c2\u00a9opics, Small Quarto\\n2rijtvtjJ=filir, l^pyal \u00c2\u00a9uarto\\nPress ol John Wilson and Son", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "JOHN GORHAM PALFREY, D.D., LL.D.,\\nWHO ADJJS THE MINUTE AND PATIENT ACCURACY OF THE ANTK^UAKV TO llli:\\nBROAD AND PHII.OSOPHICAI. INSIGHT OF THE HISTORIAN:\\nAND WHO HAS, MORE FAITHFULLY THAN ANY OTHER WRITER. CONCEIVED\\nAND DEFINED THE REAL POSITION OCCUPIED BY THE\\nABORIGINES OF NEW ENGLAND IN THE\\nCIVIL AND SOCIAL SCALE\\nEfiis CFUition of a i}omdij Imt intialualilf ^rart.\\nHAVING LARGE REFERENCE TO THEM.\\nIs, hv Pcrjii/ssiflu. most rcspedfi/Ily I)i scribed.\\n^f^-^", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY NOTE.\\nHE need of the literal reprint of so valuable a\\ncontribution to the history of New England\\nas Church s Entertaining Passages re-\\nlating TO Philip s War, has been widely\\nfelt; and the more, because the re-issue of 1772, from\\nwhich all later editions have been copied, was defective in\\nsome important particulars affe6ling the use of the work\\nas an historical authority. Two instances of this may\\nbe here particularized; viz., where (page 18) the words\\noccurring on page 10, and of the black Rocks to the\\nSouthward of them, offering an important hint of the\\nexa6t locality of the pease-field fight, w^ere dropped out\\naltogether; and where (page 30) the words occurring on\\npage 17, in about a INIonths time, were reprinted in\\nabout three months time, thus seeming to hint an expedi-\\ntion into the Nipnuik country in March, 1676, referred to\\nby no other writer. The endeavor has accordingly been", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "P R E F A T O R V NOT E.\\nmade to put the purchaser of this edition in possession of\\nas exa6t a reproduction of the original of 1716, as it has\\nbeen possible for modern antique types and skill to do;\\nthe minuteness of the imitation having been designed to\\nbe extended to every misprint, mispun6tuation, and even\\ninverted comma, of which the word discocovered\\n(page 31, line 11 from the top), the word PI month (page\\n140, line 8 from the bottom), and very many other seem-\\ning blunders of the printers of this edition, will be found\\nto be only faithful illustrations.\\nIn the Notes, the endeavor has been made to straighten\\nthe involved and crooked chronology from other sources;\\nto identify the exa6t localities made for ever classic by\\ntheir association with this rude warfare; to efive some\\naccount, from contemporary records, of the various a6tors;\\nand, generall}^, to shed all possible light upon the narrative.\\nFamiliar with most of the country traversed over by\\nthe story, from a childhood that was fascinated by the\\ngraphic simplicity of Church s description of his cam-\\npaigns, the Editor indulges the hope that he may have\\ndone something to aid future readers of these Entertain-\\ning Passages to comprehend them in their exactness of\\ntime and place and circumstance.\\nThe original, from which this reprint is made. now\\na very rare volume, was printed in small quarto, pp. 120,\\nin Boston, in 17 16, by B. Green. A second edition,", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY NOTE.\\nitself now becoming rare, was published fifty-six years\\nafter at Newport, R.I., in 1772, by Solomon Southwick,\\nin small 8vo, pp. 199. It is made clear from the Diary*\\nof Rev. Ezra Stiles, D.D., (then Pastor of the Second\\nCongregational Church in Newport), that he aided\\nSouthwick, and really edited the volume.\\nThe following extra6ts bear upon the subject; viz,\\n1771- Dec. 1 8 Conedting the press for Col. Church s\\nHist, of K. Philip s War in 1675.\\n177^ Dec. 19 Reviewing Col. Benj. Church s History of\\nK. Philip s War, 1676, at the request of the printer adding English\\nor present Names of places written in Indian names in the Original.\\nMr. Southwick is printing a Second Edition first Edit. 171S [6 /c].\\n1772- Apr. 9 Finished writing the Life of Col. Benja-\\nmin Church, to be affixed to the new Edition of his History of the\\nIndian war, called K. Philip s War, now jDrinting. He was born 1639,\\nand died at Little Compton, Janry. 171I, .^^t. 78.\\n1772 Apr. 10 Inspecting the Press.\\nDr. Stiles appended to the volume, also, an Ode\\nHeroica, which [A^. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., xi. 155] was\\ncomposed by Benjamin Church of Boston, Vendue-\\nmaster, son of the old Colonel s son Edward, who was\\nalso a Vendue-master, as that age styled the useful\\nperson whom we call an Auctioneer, and was father of\\nDr. Benjamin, of sad Tory memory. He not only glori-\\nThis Diary is now in the Library Stiles was President at the time of\\nof Yale College, of which Rev. Dr. his death.\\nB ix", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY NOTE.\\nfied his grandfather in a tongue unknown to the brave old\\nwarrior (although, as he wrote Dr. Stiles, almost too\\nold for such juvenile attempts; being upwards of 67\\nbut furnished the Do6lor with the materials for the biog-\\nraphy of the Colonel.\\nThe glorification was as follows:\\nODE HEROIC A,\\n[a Nepote Herois composita]\\nBlOGRAPHIAE PRAECEDENTI AFFIGENDA SIT.\\n1^ TUNC permitte Nepos Lecftor, magnalia Avi ejus,\\ni- Et vitam ut breviter caneret, quoq pauca loquendo,\\nTraduce de veteri, celebrata et, versibus, ex quo\\nMagnanimusq Heros frondebat deinde locoque\\nQuo fuit intrepidus Phoenix, memorandus et ortus\\nAgricola ecce Pater manuum gaudebat in omni\\nTumve labore suo, nutritus frugibus Arvi\\nMater pauperibus curas, casusq relaxans.\\nOmnibus affli6lis passim mater fuit alma\\nNuminis arbitrioq bono, sine murmure mentis,\\nAcquievere, suis contenti sortibus ambo\\nCordibus elatis, gratiq fuere Parentes,\\nFilius ut talis mortalibus hisce daretur\\nQiii patriaeq suae perluxit gloria longe.\\nDonee ei at villus truculentae mortis ab idlu\\nDuxburiae di(5tum est, Genioq fuisse beatum\\nOppidum, et exultans, tanto quod munere Marti s\\nDistincflum fuerat Vicinis majus ab illo\\nHistoricus supra probiter canit arma virumq\\nQiiiq erat in pugna multis, magnisq periclis", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY NOTE.\\nExpositus Natos nemoris fuscosve secutus\\nArmipotens sylvas, Dumosq arbustaq densa\\nPervolitans, nigros scloppo ejus perdidit Angues\\nMonstraq quos natura parens crudelia dixit\\nVicftoriisq suis pacem stabilivit in Orbis\\nTerrarum occasu jam, jam sub vitibus omnis\\nHie sedeat salvus terrore absente Mavortis\\nMortuus est Heros Nomen sed vivet in aevum\\nSpiritus aseendit Coelos, Jesuq triumphans\\nDum latet in tumulo corpus cum pulvere mixtum\\nSic cecinU Nepos Benj. Church, Sen.\\nThis edition was also adorned with what purported to\\nbe portraits, on copper, of Colonel Church, and of King\\nPhilip, both from the graver of Paul Revere of\\nwhich more will be said in another place.\\nThe third edition of this winsome narrative was edited,\\nfifty-three years later, by Mr. Samuel Gardner Drake,\\nand was the first contribution of that since accomplished\\narchaeologist to this department of Aboriginal research;\\nin which, without injustice to others, it may safely be\\nsaid that he has no superior. Travelling through the Old\\nColony in the summer of 1824, he, for the first time, saw\\n\\\\^JV.\u00c2\u00a3. Hist, and Gen. Reg., xvii. 202], and became pos-\\nsessor of, a copy of Southwick s reprint; and, circulating\\nproposals, he obtained nearly a thousand subscribers for\\na new issue. He published in i2mo (Boston: Howe and\\nNorton, 14, State Street, 1825), pp. 304; prefixing eight\\npages of Index, and two pages of Introduction, and adding", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY NOTE.\\nan Appendix of forty pages, comprising a brief sketch of\\nthe settlement of this country, of the Indian wars, c., c.\\nIt was mainly a reprint of Southwick s edition, the editor\\nhaving then never seen the original, with the omission\\nof the Ode Heroica, and the addition of a few foot-\\nnotes. It was embellished with a fancy portrait of King\\nPhilip, decidedly more prepossessing in appearance, and\\nquite as authentic in chara6ter, as that of Paul Revere\\nof a half-century before.\\nThe success of this effort was so marked as to induce\\nMr. Drake to prepare and issue a second edition (the\\nfourth of the work), which he did, early in 1827, from\\nstereotype plates; being among the first fruits of the ste-\\nreotype press in Boston. This, also, was in i2mo, pp.\\n360. He added many more notes, and gave an Introduc-\\ntion of five pages, an Index of six pages, and an Appendix\\nof sixty-eight pages, of the same general chara6ter as that\\nof the previous edition, but rewritten and enlarged. The\\nold head, purporting to be a likeness of Church, was\\nre-engraved for this issue, and other plates were added.\\nAll the (nominally new) editions of this work, from\\nthat time to the present, have been re-issues of this last;\\nthe plates having long since passed out of Mr. Drake s\\nhands, and having been used by various publishers.\\nThe present is, therefore, the fourth reprint (fifth\\nedition) of these Entertaining Passages, and the first", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY NOTE.\\nfrom the original, as well as the first which has not\\navowedly sought to amend the text.\\nThe map has been adapted from the State map, by the\\nEditor, with great care, from his own personal knowledge\\nof the ground; and he believes it to be a thoroughly accu-\\nrate guide to all those localities which it purports to point\\nout.\\nThe dates have been suffered to stand in Old Style, as\\nwritten.\\nThe Publisher has sought to produce this copy, so far\\nas possible, m. facsimile of the original, as well as in literal\\nexa6tness; and the headings, initial letters, c., c., have\\nbeen accordingly engraved for that purpose.\\nIt only remains, here, that just thanks be given to all\\nwho have aided the Editor in his labor among whom\\nhe would gratefully mention the Hon. John Russell\\nBartlett, Secretary of State of Rhode Island; his\\nHonor, Judge William R. Staples, of Providence;\\nGeneral G. M. Fessenden, of Warren, R. L; Richard\\nSherman, Esq., of Portsmouth, R. I. Mr. Henry\\nM. Tompkins, the Town Clerk of Little Compton,\\nR. I.; Hon. Williams Latham, of Bridgewater, Mass.;\\nSamuel F. Haven, Esq., Librarian of the American\\nAntiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass. Rev. John\\nLangdon Sibley, Librarian of Harvard College and\\nMr. George H. Taber, of Fairhaven, Mass. Two gen-", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY NOTE.\\ntlemen deserve more special mention for the unwearied\\npains they have taken to aid the Editor in some portions\\nof the w^orkj viz., his friend and kinsman, Mr. Franklin\\nB. Dexter, now Tutor in Yale College, to whom he owes\\nthe extra6ls from the Diary of Dr. Stiles, the identifi-\\ncation of the site of John Cook s house in Cushnet, and\\nother kindred helps; and the Hon. J. Hammond Trum-\\nbull, Secretary of State of Conne6ticut, to whose disinter-\\nested and indefatigable aid much of what may be thought\\nto be of special value in the work will be largely due.\\nThe Editor knows nothing about the Indian tongue; and\\nthe reader is desired to take notice here, once for all, that\\nfor all the interesting and valuable suggestions having\\nreference to that, which are scattered through the book,\\nhis thanks will be wholly due to the learning and gen-\\nerosity of that eminent savan.\\nIt has not been found possible without too great\\nenlargement of the volume to insert herein the Second\\nPart of the original work, giving a further account of\\nthe Actions in the more later Wars against the Common\\nEnemy and Indian Rebels in the Eastern Parts, under the\\nCommand of the aforesaid Capt. Benj. Church; which\\nmakes sixty-six of the solidest quarto pages. That is in\\npreparation, and will follow as a separate issue.\\nH. M. D.\\nHillside, Roxbury,\\n15th July, 1865.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nN his preface to thefe Entertaining Paffages,\\nColonel Church makes the apologetic remark,\\nthat every particle of hiftorical truth is pre-\\ncious. That remark has been conftantly in\\nmind in the preparation of what follows, having refer-\\nence to events in the hiflory of this limple-hearted, yet\\nnoble-hearted man. It would be more exa6t to ftyle what\\nis here offered Materials toward a Memoir, than fuch\\na Memoir itfelf. Moft of the official records in which\\nvarious a6tions of his bufy life would naturally leave their\\nfootmarks, have been fearched, and their various references\\nto his career have been gathered together and arranged\\nchronologically here; fo as to put the reader in poffeffion\\nof thefe fragmentary, yet faithful, evidences of what he\\nwas. The man himfelf has exhaled; but fome rude im-\\npreffion of him remains in them, which may ferve as a\\nmatrix in which imagination may fhape fome image;", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nwhich, if far from being a reproduction of the perfon\\nwhom his cotemporaries knew, mufl yet have some fac-\\nfimile lineaments. The humble office of the editor is to\\nfurnifh the mould; leaving to the reader the re-creative\\nwork.\\nBenjamin Church was a fon of Richard. Richard\\ncame to Maffachufetts probably in the fleet with Gov.\\nWinthrop;* was a carpenter by trade; 19 061. 1630,\\nwas propounded to be a freeman in the Maffachufetts\\nColony; in 1630, was at Weffaguflet and Plymouth; 2\\nJan. 163! was freeman of Plymouth; 16 Feb. 163! hired\\nWilliam Baker to faw timber into boards for him; was\\nrated for public ufe \u00c2\u00a31 i6s. in March following, and\\n\u00c2\u00a31 75. the next year; married Elizabeth, daughter of\\nRichard Warren, in 1636; was often a member of the\\nGrand Enqueft, and was occafionally made referee;\\nferved as fergeant in the Pequotwar; with John Tompfon\\nhelped build the firft meeting-houfe as fuch in Ply-\\nmouth about 1637; lived at Eel-river; 9 April, 1649, fold\\nhis eftate there to Robert Bartlet for \u00c2\u00a325 was in Charlef-\\ntown in 1653, but finally fettled down in Hingham, where\\nhe made his will 25 Dec. 1668, and died two days after, at\\nDedham, leaving at leaft nine children.f\\nSavage s Geu. Dia. i 3S6; Win- N.E. Hiji. Gen. Reg. xi 154; Plym.\\nfor s Duxbiiry, 245; Deane s Scitu- Col. licc.i: 6, 8, 11, xii: 165, c. c.\\nate, 234; Mitchell s Bridge-water, 363; f Church Ipeaks {^B. C. D.\\\\: 91] of", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nBenjamin was born at Plymouth in 1639, and was bred\\nto his fathers trade. No other circumftance of his early\\nlife has found record. 26 Dec. 1667, when at the age of\\ntwenty feven or eight, he married Alice, fecond daugh-\\nter of Conftant and Elizabeth Collier Southworth, of\\nDuxbury; who was then not far from twenty-one, having\\nbeen born in 1646. It is prefumed that their early married\\nlife was pafled in Duxbury, though it is probable that he\\nwas temporarily relident in various portions of the Colony,\\nin the purfuit of his vocation. His firfl appearance upon\\nthe Plymouth Colony Records is 25 061. 1668, when [P.\\nC. R. vii: 150] he is named as on a trial jury in the\\ncafe of Jofias Winflow vs. Kenelm, and in that of John\\nDoged.\\nI yune^ 1669, lefs than fix months after his father s death,\\nthe Court granted him land att Taunton River which\\nWilliam Pabodie had taken up and then furrendered,\\nC. R. y: 20] for full fatisfa6tion for all the right his\\nfather, Richard Church, deceafed, hath to land in this\\nCoUonie.\\n7 March 1670 \\\\_P. C. R. vii: 163], he was one of a petit\\njury at Plymouth for the trial of feveral a6lions. 29 May,\\n1670, [P. C. R. v: 275], his name appears upon the lift of\\nSarah, wife of James Burroughs, of publiflied lift of Richard s children which\\nBriftol, tailor, as his lifter, though no I have feen. [iV. E. Hijl. and Gen.\\nfuch name appears upon the fulleft Reg. xi 154.]\\nc xvii", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nfreemen of Duxburrow, then tranfcribed by Secretary\\nMorton.\\n5 June, 1 67 1 \\\\P. C. R. v: 54], he was Conflable of\\nDuxburro.\\n30 O^ober, 1672 [P. C. R. vii: 174], he was one of a\\ntrial jury at Plymouth, for the fecuring of juftice in\\nfeveral criminal cafes.\\n4 y^uly, 1673 \\\\_P. C. R. vii: 181], he was one of a trial\\njury at Plymouth for eight civil and criminal cafes. He\\nalio made return [P. C. R. v: 126], with John Rogers,\\nDaniell Wilcockes, Conflant Southworth, William Pa-\\nbodie and Edward Gray, that, purfuant to the order of the\\nCourt, they had bounded out the fouthfyde of thofe lands\\nformerly graunted vnto the inhabitants of Plymouth at\\nPunckateefett^ c. At the fame time [P. C. R. v: 126],\\nliberty was granted him with John Tompfon, by the Court\\nto purchafe land of Tufpaquine, the blacke fachem, and\\nWilliam his Son, for the inhabitants and propriators of the\\ntowne of Middleberry, c. The proprietors were to have\\nuntil the laft of the November following, to repay Church\\nand Tompfon, and take the land; but it appears SJbid^ 14^]?\\nthat they failed to do fo, and that the Court, 3 June, 1674,\\ngranted Church and Tompfon one third p* of the faid\\nland, for theire cecuritie and evidence. 23 July, 1673\\n^Proprietor s Records Saconef\\\\ he met with the newly\\norganized Company to purchafe and fettle the Saconet", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nlands; appearing in the right of Richard Bifhop and\\nRichard Beare. Sometime in this year his oldeft fon\\nThomas was born.\\nlo April, 1674 \\\\P. R. S\\\\ the Saconet company met\\nat Duxbury, and Church drew the lots numbered 19 and\\n29. He proceeded during the fummer following to clear\\nand ere6t buildings upon lot No. 19 (fee note 21 pq/l^.\\n2 March, 16 j ^g [P. C. R. vii: 195], he was on a trial jury\\nat Plymouth, fhowing that his removal to the very outikirts\\nof the Colony was not defigned, by him or by the Colonifts,\\nto diffociate him from their conftant fervice. Church s\\nown account of himfelf in connection with the outbreak of\\nthe war which now began to defolate the land feems to\\nbegin about 15 June, 1675 [note poJl\\\\, but the Brieff\\nNarrative of the beginning and progreffe of the pTent\\ntrouble between vs and the Indians, fubmitted to the\\nCommiffioners of the United Colonies, by the Ply-\\nmouth Commiffioners, in the November following, and\\nwhich bears the marks of having been carefully drawn,\\nfays \\\\P. C. R. x: ^d on the 7 June, Mr. Benjamine\\nChurch being on Rhod Ifland; Weetamoe and fome of her\\nCheiffe men told him that Phillip Intended a warr fpeedily\\nwith the Englifh, c. It would feem to have been about\\n15 June that he had an interview with AwaJJionks and\\nWeetamoe, as narrated in his own account, and went to\\nPlymouth to fee the Governor. The Punkatees fight was", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\n9 July; 19 July the Pocaffet Expedition began: in the laft\\nof that month, Philip got acrofs Tiiicut river in the night,\\nand fled for the Nipimik country. 27 06lober [P. C. R.\\nvii: 196], thefe warlike proceedings were interfperfed with\\na civil fuit againft Church, of Richard French of Marfh-\\nfield. Executor of the eftate of Richard Beare, claiming\\ndamages of \\\\os^ in an a6lion of debt, concerning which\\nthe record is, the jury find for the plaintiffe the coft of\\nthe fuite. The fecond week in December, Church ftarts\\nfor the war again as a Reformado with Gen. Winflow,\\nand on the 19th of that month was wounded in the\\nfamous Narraganfett fwamp fight, and carried over to\\nRhode-Ifland to be cured.\\n27 January^ 1676 (note 140, pojT)^ he flarted with the\\narmy for the Nipjnuk country; 29 Feb. (note i^z^pojl), he\\nfeems to have met with the Plymouth Council of War, at\\nMarfhfield; 11-13 March (note 159,/^), arrived at Capt.\\nAlmy s, on Rhode-Ifland, with his wife and fon Thomas;\\n12 May, his fon Conftant was born; 6 June, he arrived\\nat Plymouth by way of Wood s Hole; foon went back\\nthe fame way, faw the Saconet Indians on the rocks, and\\nprocured a formal meeting with AwaJItonks, refulting in a\\ntreaty, and, 25 June, difpatched Peter to Plymouth with\\nthe Articles met Maj. Bradford and his army, re-\\nturned to Plymouth, and went to meet AwaJJwnks at Mat-\\ntapoifett^ 8 July; was commillioned, and went out to", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\ncapture the Monpon/ets, lo July; 24 July, had his com-\\nmiffion enlarged, and ftarted to guard the carts to Taun-\\nton, whence he went to AcnJJinet^ and captured many\\nprifoners, and returned to Plymouth by way of Sippican\\n30 July, flarted for Bridgewater, chafed Philip over into\\nthe fwamps in Norton and Rehoboth, and took many prif-\\noners, with whom he got fafe back to Plymouth, 4 Au-\\nguft; 7 Auguft, he rallied for Dartmouth, and by 10\\nAuguft ftarted for Pocaffet woods, went over to the ifland,\\nand down to Maj. Sanford s to fee his wife, and next\\nmorning killed Philip in the fwamp fouth of Mount-Hope,\\nand got back to Plymouth on the 17th; early in Septem-\\nber, he fet his fuccefsful trap for Ti/paqicin, and foon\\nftarted out once more after Annawon^ whom he took on\\nthe night of 11 September. 17 October, the Maflachufetts\\nGeneral Court wrote to Plymouth [^Afa/s. Col. Rec. v: 126]\\naflcing to be afllfted againft the Eaftern Indians with fome\\nEnglifh, alfo fome of 3 our Indians, and Capt. Cluirch,\\nwhom we have fpoken with here finde him ready to\\nferve God and the country, c. i November, he was\\nappointed [P. C. R.v\\\\ 215] by Plymouth Court, with\\nWilliam Pabodie and Nathaniel Thomas, to lay out lands\\ngranted to David and Thomas Lake near Saconet and Pun-\\nkatea/l\\\\ alfo, with the fame, to lay out fome lands in aid of\\na ferry at Pocaffet; while he and John Simmons are granted\\n\\\\^Ibid. 216] a leafe for pafturage at Pocaffet. 4 November", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nC. R. xi: 242], the Court ordered as follows: Cap-\\ntaine Beniamen Church haueing; for and in the behalfe of\\nthe Collonie, engaged to feuerall Indians; about fiue or\\nsix; That incase they did carry well they fhould abide in\\nthis Jurifdi6tion; and not fold to any fforraigne p tes; ac-\\ncordingly this Court doth confeirme the faid engagement\\nand doth hereby tollarate theire ftay as aforfaid; notwith-\\nftanding any law of this Collonie to the contrary; except-\\ning; if any of them fhould appeer to haue had a hand in\\nany horred murder of any of the Englifh p^ ticularly ex-\\ncepting one Croffman; whoe is accufed to haue had a\\nfpeciall hand in the crewell murder of M Hezekiah Wil-\\nlett.\\n15 yanuary, 1677, Capt. Church was commiffioned again\\nby the Plymouth government, and went out again and\\n[p. 181,^(7/?] took divers parties of Indians. 6 March\\nC. R. v: 225], the Plymouth Court granted leave to\\neight of Church s Indian foldiers to fettle at Saconet^ he\\nfupplying them with land, on condition that they hold\\nthemfelves ready for military fervice under him, hee,\\nfatisfying the Indians, to haue the whole prophett of fuch\\nan adventure, 7 June \\\\P. C. R. v: 234], he is author-\\nized to a6f as a magiftrate to iffue warrants, c., at Saco-\\nnet and Pocajjfet 13 July [Ibid. 242], he is recognized by\\nthe Court as agent of the widow of Daniel Haward, for\\nthe management of the lands of her late hufband; 30", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\n06lober \\\\Ibid. 246; vii: 208], he was on a trial jury at\\nPlymouth.\\n5 March, 167^, he was appointed by the Court \\\\P. C. R.\\nv: 252], with John Richmond of Taunton, to divide fome\\nland at Saconet belonging to children of the late John\\nIrifh; 5 July \\\\Ibid. 265], he was empowered, by fpecial\\norder, to adminifter to John Irifh the oath to ferve as con-\\nftable at Saconet.\\n8 March, 167I \\\\P. C. R. vi: 7] he was re-appointed to\\nbe a magiftrate for Saconet and PocaJ/ct.\\n4 March, 16 jg {Briftol County {Ma/s.) Deeds, ii: 144],\\nhe buys of Arthur Hathaway of Dartmouth, for \u00c2\u00a316, one\\nfhare in Punkateajl neck, with one fhare of the Court grant\\nof which faid neck was a part; fame date \\\\Ibid. ii: 146], he\\nbuys a limilar fhare of Edward Gray of Plymouth, for \u00c2\u00a312.\\nI January, i6|f SJbid. ii: 143], he bought a fimilar fhare\\nof Richard Wright, tailor, of New Plymouth, for 40^.\\nSometime before March of this year, with feven others\\n{Proceedings of Mafs. Hijl. Soc, Sept. 1857, 238], he be-\\ncame a purchafer of Pocajfet lands, and agreed to endeavor\\nthe well fettling of a plantation there, and to joine with\\nSucconnitt Proprietors in the calling of a Gospell Mineter\\nfor his incouragfement as to his outward fubliftence\\nc. 7 July \\\\P. C. R. vi: 43], he was appointed, with\\nNathaniel Thomas and William Pabodie, to bound out\\nTatamanucke s thoufand acres of land att or about Saco-", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nnett 14 Sept. [BriJIol, R.-I., Town Records^ i: 26], he\\nfigned and fealed the Grand Articles for the fettlement\\nof Briftol, R.-I.\\nI March, 168^ [P. C. R. vi: 58], with Nathaniel Thomas\\nand Edward Gray, he petitioned to have the lines run\\nbetween their Pocajfet purchafe and the freemen s land\\nat Fall River, and the Court ordered William Pabodie to\\ndo it; 7 July, 1681 \\\\P. C. R. vi: 69], he was authorized\\nby the Court to cutt and cleare a more dire6l way from\\nMount-Hope to Bofton, there being great need of one;\\nat the fame Court [P. C. R. vii: 241], he, with others, by\\nN. Thomas, their attorney, fued David Lake for \u00c2\u00a3500, for\\ninterrupting them from quiet and peaceable poffeffion of\\ntheir Pocajfet lands i Sept. \\\\B. T. R. v. 46], the firfl pro-\\nprietors of the Mount-Hope purchafe met (76 in number,\\nCapt. Benjamin Church heading the lift), and agreed\\nthat the name of the town fhould be Briftol; 10 Nov. \\\\B.\\nT. R. w 49], with N. Byfield and Sergeant John Cary, he\\nwas appointed to make a rate upon the new town.\\n7 March, i68i \\\\P. C. R. vii: 247], he, with others, by\\nN. Thomas, attorney, fued William Earle of Dartmouth\\nfor forcibly hindering the running of the boundary line of\\nthe Pocajfet purchafe; 22 May, 1682 \\\\JB. T. R. i: 49], he\\nwas chofen Deputy to reprefent Briftol in the Colony\\nCourt, and firft Sele6tman for the year enfuing; 7 July\\n\\\\_P. C. R. vi: 93], he was commiffioned as a magiltrate.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nand authorized to folemnize marriages; 27 061. [P. C. R.\\nvii: 257], he made an official return to the Court covering\\nthe teftimony of Wayewett (^Awa/Iwjzks s hufband) and\\nthree other Saconet Indians, that to their knowledge the\\nlittle ifland of Che/fawamicke (Hog Ifland) belonged to\\nMaffafoit and his fon Wamfiitta.\\n28 May^ 1683 \\\\B. T. R. i: 51], he was re-ele6led Dep-\\nuty? 5 J^ly \\\\J^ D. ii: 146], with Wm. Pabodie of\\nLittle Compton, he agrees that the 23d lot at Saconet\\nfhould be his; 7 July \\\\P. C. R. vii: 263], John Saffin, mer-\\nchant, fues him for \u00c2\u00a3100, for daming a certain water-\\ncourfe into a coue on PoppafquafJi necke 24 061. \\\\^B. T.\\nR. i: 54], he agrees with the voters of Briftol to make\\nthree wolf-pits in a month s time, and, with others, was\\nclothed with full power in the towne s behalf in refer-\\nence to rates now due from Mr. J. Saffin 31 061. [P. C.\\nR. vii: 269], Saffin complained to the Court of him and\\nhis aflbciate raters of damage of \u00c2\u00a324 for unjuft affeffiiient,\\nbut the Court found for defendants, and affeffed Saffin \u00c2\u00a34\\n53-. cofls of Court; fame date, fame Saffin fued Church for\\n\u00c2\u00a380, for the old caufe of daming his creek, and the\\njury found for Saffin \u00c2\u00a33 and cofts.\\n3 March, i68| \\\\B. T. R. w 43], he agrees with Nathaniel\\nByfield to maintain a fence of 393 rods in length, between\\ntheir farms, each to build and keep in repair 1962 rods;\\n9 Feb. 1684 \\\\B. CD. i: 311], he bu3 s of John Walley", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nand others, for \u00c2\u00a3io, certain houfe-lots, c., c., in Briftol;\\n20 Feb. [Ibid. 309], he buys of the fame parties, for \u00c2\u00a387,\\nfeveral houfe-lots and other lands, with tV of mill, and yV\\nof the ferry farm, in Briftol 26 March \\\\BriJlol Births^\\ni: 56], his then only daughter, Elizabeth, was born; 21 May\\n[B. T. R. i: 55], he was re-chofen Deputy, and elected\\nthird Sele6lman; 16 Sept. \\\\Ibid. 57], with Capt. Walley,\\nhe was chofen for the uling endeavors to bring \u00c2\u00a35, from\\nnext 06tober Court of the Cape money for the Incourage-\\nment of a School-mafter 13 November \\\\B. CD. i: 50],\\nhe efre6ted the divifion of the Haward land in Sacenet^ to\\nwhich he had been appointed by the Court; 28 Novem-\\nber [B. C. D. w 181], he fells, for \u00c2\u00a345, to Rowland Rob-\\ninfon of Newport the 24th lot at Saconet, and 40 acres at\\nTyon/unbe.\\n23 yime, 1685 [B. T. R. i: 62], he dift)urfed 10s. to\\nhelp make up \u00c2\u00a35, to pay for the freight of the goods of\\nMr. Cobbit, the fchoolmafter 22 September \\\\_Ibid. 6t,\\\\\\nhe was chofen one of three raters, and one of a Town\\nCouncil of five, to join with the Commiffion officers ol\\nthis town by way of ordering concerns in any exegences\\nrelating to meletia affairs.\\n17 May, 1686 \\\\_Ibid. 68], he was chofen firft Sele6lman;\\nI July {Brijiol Births, c. i: 18], his third fon, Nathaniel,\\nwas born (who died 29 Feb. following) 9 November [B.\\nT. R. w 70], he engaged to deliver in four cords of fire-", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nwood for the Rev. Mr. Lee, to help make 42 cords; 18\\nNovember [B. C. D. ii: 271], he fells 20 acres of land at\\nSaconel, for \u00c2\u00a311, to William Pabodie.\\nII February, i68f [B. C. D. iii: 290], he buys ofW. Pa-\\nbodie and W. South worth of Saco7tet an i8-acre lot, for\\n\u00c2\u00a313; 4 May \\\\B. T. R. i: 72], he was chofen the firfl of\\nfour Sele6tmen at Briftol; 8 May \\\\_Rev. Dr. Shepard ^s\\nTwo Di/cour/cs, 10], he became one of the original\\neight members of the Firfl Congregational Church in\\nBriftol.\\n23 yamiary, i68|- [B. C. D. iii: 370], he buys of Seth\\nArnold of Duxbury, one-half of the lot in Ptinkateajl\\nneck; 19 February \\\\^Ibid, ii: 145], he exchanged with John\\nRoufe of Marfhfield the 29 lot (which was the fecond he\\noriginally drew) at Saconet for the 18 (which adjoined\\nthe 19 the firft which he originally drew, and on which\\nhe had built his houfe there); 21 May 1688 \\\\B. T. R. w\\n73], he was chofen again the firft of four Selectmen at\\nBriftol; 16 July \\\\B. C. D. v. 91], he buys for \u00c2\u00a3100, a\\nwhole fhare of land in Little Compton, of Jofiah Cook and\\nJofeph Harding of Eaflham; 29 September \\\\Ibid. 97], for\\nthe love, goodwill and alTedlion which I have and beare\\ntoward my loving friend and Brother-in-law James Bur-\\nroughs of Briftol, Tailor, and Sarah, his now wife (being\\nmy lifter) he gave his home-lot on the corner of Hope", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nand Queen Sts. in Briftol,* being 131 ft. by 59 ft, with other\\nlands enumerated; 17 06lober \\\\Ibid. vii: 572], for \u00c2\u00a333, he\\nfold to James Peckham, of Little Compton, lands in that\\ntown, and fame date [Ibid, iii: 326], bought of faid Peck-\\nham for \u00c2\u00a313, two lots in faid town; 21 November \\\\_Ibid.\\ni: 338], he bought for \u00c2\u00a36, of Samuel Sanford of Portf-\\nmouth, land at Little Compton; 28 November [Ibid, i;\\n75], he exchanged certain lots in Little Compton for cer-\\ntain other lots there owned by John Cufhen of Scituate;\\n6 December [Ibid, i: 75], he fold for \u00c2\u00a390, lands in Little\\nCompton to Peter Tailer of Newport; 26 December, [Ibid.\\n82], for \u00c2\u00a324, he fold land at Little Compton to Mathew\\nHoward of that town.\\n24 January., i68f [Ibid. 81], for \u00c2\u00a316, he fold to James Cafe\\nand Anna his wife, of Little Compton, 40 acres of land in\\nthat town; 6 February [Ibid, ix: 173], he fells, for 425-. a\\nferry lot at PocaJ/et to William Wodel; 6 September\\n[E7itertai7ii7ig Paffages, c. 56], he was commiffioned Ma-\\njor, and Commander-in-Chief, of Plymouth forces for the\\nfirft Eaftern Expedition; 7 September, 1689 [B. CD. iii:\\n368], he buys of William Fobes, for \u00c2\u00a310, a lot in Little\\nCompton; 18 September P. 59], received his infhruc-\\ntions from the Commiffioners of the United Colonies, and\\nRev. Dr. Shepard fajs, in a note corner of Thames and Conflitution\\nto his Truo Dtfcourfes, (p. 51) tradi- ftreets, the ftone chimney of which\\ntion fays that the old Talbee houfe, in only remains (1S57), was built by Col.\\nthis town, [Briftol] ftanding near to the Church.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nftarted for Cafco 2 1 September \\\\Original letter of Churchy\\nm Mafs. State Paper Offi,ce\\\\^ had an engagement with the\\nenemy, in which eleven of his foldiers were killed and ten\\nwounded; 13 November \\\\Willis s Hijl. Portland 280], he\\nhad a Council of war at Falmouth, foon after which he\\nreturned home; 25 December \\\\P. C. R. vi: 228], a com-\\nmittee was appointed by the Colony to fettle with him and\\nothers the charges of the warr, c. and the Court\\nordered him 40^. a week and \u00c2\u00a310, over, belides what he\\nmight receive from the Bay.\\n6 February^ i6|f \\\\E. P. 65], he wrote to the Governor\\nand Council of MalTachufetts appealing on behalf of the\\npoor inhabitants of Maine; 10 May, 1690 \\\\B. C. D. ii: 6G\\\\^\\nfor \u00c2\u00a37, he fells to Edward Gray of Little Compton land in\\nSapoivit neck in faid town; 30 May [Ibid. 147], he buys of\\nCaptain Chriftopher Almy of Rhode Ifland, for \u00c2\u00a311 los.,\\nfour thirtieths of lands left by the purchafers o{ PocaJ/ett, at\\nFall-river, for erecting a mill or mills; 2 September \\\\E. P.\\n69J, was Commiffioned for the fecond Eaftern Expedition; 9\\nSeptember [Ibid. 70], received his inftru6lions, and ftarted;\\nwas back to Briftol in three or four weeks 4 November\\n[P. C. R. vi: 255], was appointed by the Court to take\\ncharge of a contribution propofed in the County of Briftol\\nfor the relief of ye town of Wells parts adjacent; 27\\nNovember [E. P. 77], wrote from Briftol to the Eaftern\\nparts; 2 December [B. C. D. iii: 369; v: 521], ex-", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nchanged with W. Pabodie of Little Compton two lots in\\nfaid town.\\n8 yu7ie, 1 69 1 \\\\B. CD. i 199], he fells to Nathaniel\\nByfield, for \u00c2\u00a350, one lixteenth part of PoppafqtiaJJi neck,\\nbeing 43 acres more or lefs; 28 Auguft [Ibid, i: iii], he\\nbuys of his brother Caleb Church of Watertown, mill-\\nwright, for \u00c2\u00a3100, 132-30* of Pocajfett purchafe, being 30\\nrods in breadth, and containes y river commonly called\\ny Fall-river y* benefit of y\u00c2\u00ae ftream, and y^ ftrip of land\\ndefigned for y^ ufe of a mill, or mills, with y^ part of y^\\nfawmill, c. c. 23 September \\\\Ibid. ii: 257], he buys\\nfor \u00c2\u00a370, of N. Thomas, of Marfhfield, lands at Saconet.\\n25 ytily.1 1692 \\\\E. P. 82], he was commiffioned for the\\nthird Eaftern Expedition; 11 Auguft, had his inftru6tions,\\nand ftarted for Penobfcot, did what fervice he could\\nand returned.\\n6 March., 1693 \\\\B. C. D. vii: 154], he fells, for \u00c2\u00a321, to\\nSamuel Crandall land at Little Compton; 23 May \\\\_Idid. y:\\n11], he buys of W. Wodel, of Portfmouth, for \u00c2\u00a33, lands in\\nFall-river; i Auguft \\\\Ibid. ii: 149], he buys of Thomas\\nBurge of Little Compton, for \u00c2\u00a37 105., a meadow lot of 3\\nacres in that town; fame date [Ibid, ii: 142], he fells to\\nfaid Burge for \u00c2\u00a315, 40 rods fquare of land in the fame\\ntown.\\n29 January, 169I [Ibid, i 282], he fells, for \u00c2\u00a334, to Daniel\\nEaton of Little Compton one fhare of the undivided lands", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nin that town; i6 February \\\\Ibid.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 397], he buys of\\nBenjamin Woodworth of Little Compton, for \u00c2\u00a310, mea-\\ndow lots in that town; 20 April, 1694 \\\\Ibid. vi: 177],\\nhe buys of Gerfhom Wodel of PocaJ/et, for \u00c2\u00a33, lands at\\nFall-river; 23 July [B, T. R. w 92], Major Church was\\nchofen by the town of Briftol the firft of its 5 affefTors; 30\\nJuly \\\\B. C. D. w 97], he bought back, for \u00c2\u00a350, his home-\\nlot in Briftol which he had fold (29 Sept. 1688) to his\\nbrother-in-law, James Burroughs; 6 September [Ibid. 385],\\nhe buys of Ifrael Hubbard and Jonathan Dodfon of Scitu-\\nate, for \u00c2\u00a3150, one great lot in Freetown, being the\\nfecond lot from y Fall-river.\\n29 December, 1695 [Ibid, ii: 21], he fells to Jofeph Ta-\\nber of Tiverton 80 acres at Nomquid, with a grift mill, and\\nalfo 39 acres in Punkateajl neck, with other lots, for \u00c2\u00a3360,\\nfaid Tabor agreeing to maintain the grift-mill, as Church\\nhad done, with the agents of the proprietors of Saconet.\\n23 March, 1696 [B. T. R. i: 96], Major Church was\\nchofen Moderator of Briftol town-meeting, the laft time\\nhis name is mentioned on the records of that town, indicat-\\ning his removal very foon after to Fall-river; 2 May C.\\nD. i: 290], he depofed that in 1680 he faw Hugh Wood-\\nberry fencing the nth lot of y* freeman s land, c., in\\nFreetown; 27 July [Ibid, ii: 217], he fells, for \u00c2\u00a318, to John\\nPalmer, carpenter, of Little Compton, 40 acres of land in\\nthat town; 3 Auguft [E. P. 87], he was commiflioned to", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\ngo on the fourth Expedition eaft; 12 Auguft \\\\Ibid. 88],\\nhad his inftru6lions, and went out, returning in the Au-\\ntumn.\\n18 January, m% \\\\B. C. D. iv: 390], Major Church late\\nof Briflol now of Tiverton fhowing that he had now\\nbecome a refident of Fall-river for natural love gives\\nto his fon Thomas, of Briftol, feveral parcels of land, with\\na houfe, c.; 5 September, 1700 \\\\Ibid. iii: 183], he buys\\nof Jofeph Church of Little Compton for \u00c2\u00a3100, feveral lots\\nof land at Saconet Point; 20 December [Ibid, iii: 291], he\\nbuys of Latham Clark, of Newport, for \u00c2\u00a3140, a whole half\\nfhare of the freeman s lot at Freetown.\\n7 March, 170^ \\\\Ibid. iv: 29], he with others, deeds land\\nin Little Compton to William Hiliard; 10 December, 1701\\n[Ibid, v: 161], he buys of Henry Head of Little Compton,\\nfor \u00c2\u00a310, land in that town.\\n27 March, 1702 [Ibid, iv: 17], in confideration of nat-\\nural love and affe6lion, he deeds to his fon Edward large\\ntra6ls of land in Briftol, his houfe on Hope St. Queen\\nSt., c. c.; 7 06lober [Ibid, iv: 37], he buys of John\\nBayley of Newport, for \u00c2\u00a340, certain lands in Little Comp-\\nHis (Col. Church s) dwelling- Annawon St., near Pond St., from 50\\nhoufe ftood between the prefent dwell- to 75 ft. from the former. The late\\ning-houfe of Col. Richard Borden, and extenfion of the Old Colony and Fall\\nthat of his brother Jeflferfon, and re- River R. R. to Newport, pafles diredtlj\\nmained till within 40 years. Fowler s through the premifes. [iJ/6 letter from\\nHiji. Sketch of Fall River, p. 19 [A. D. Hon. Jefferfon Borden.]\\n1841]. This was on the fouth fide of", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nton; 30 06lober [Ibid. 100], he buys, for \u00c2\u00a34 10s. of D.\\nWilcocks of Portfmouth, John Woodman of Little Comp-\\nton, and Thomas and Roger Cory of Tiverton, lands at\\nFall-river.\\n12 Jamiary^ i7o| \\\\Ibid. 67], Lieut. Col. Church of Tiv-\\nerton, i.e. Fall River, for \u00c2\u00a33, buys of Conllant Southworth\\npart of land for a Mill at Fall-river, with of faid Fall-\\nriver; 16 January \\\\Ibid. 99], he buys of Job Almy, of Tiv-\\nerton, for \u00c2\u00a37 10^., one fhare at Fall-river for a mill, c.\\n5 February^ lyof ^-99]? Col. Church w^rote to Gov-\\nernor Dudley, offering a plan for a fifth Expedition eaft; 18\\nMarch, he was commiffioned; 4 May, received his inflruc-\\ntions, and fpent moft of the fummer on this bufinefs; 29\\nNov. [i Mafs. Hijt. Coll. ix: 205 j, a Congregational\\nChurch was formed in Little Compton which he is believed\\nto have aided to eftablilh, and of which he remained a\\nconfiftent member to his death.\\n20 November^ 1705 \\\\Little Compton Town Records i.].\\nCol. Church firft appears as if a refident for the fecond time\\nin Little Compton, confenting to changes in the roads for\\ncommon convenience; 11 April \\\\B. C, D. iv: 415], he\\ndeeds to his fon Thomas a part of his Little Compton\\nlands, with 10 cows, 100 fheep, c.; 20 July \\\\Ibid. v: 100],\\nhe deeds to my onely natural daughter Elizabeth Rofbo-\\ntham, and to my fon-in-law Capt. Jofeph Rolbotham (her\\nnow hufband) of Briftol, lands in that town.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\n5 yune, 1706 \\\\_L. C. T. R. i], he was chofen Reprefenta-\\ntive of Little Compton for the year enfuing.\\n3 February, lyof C. D. v: 142], for love, c. he\\ndeeds to his fon Charles the iSth and 19th lots at Little\\nCompton (that on which he built in 1674, with that adjoin-\\ning it, which, in 1688, he had fecured by exchange with\\nJohn Roufe), with the buildings, c. C.5 12 April, 1707\\nS^Ibid. v: 214], for love c. he deeds to his fon Conftant\\n(after his own deceafe), the mill fhares and mills in Tiver-\\nton, with lands in Freetown; 26 April \\\\B. C. D.w 162],\\nfor love c. he deeds to his fon Thomas of Briflol, his\\nhoufe (after his deceafe and that of his wife), called the\\nlittle farm, containing 120 acres, with other lands; 7 Au-\\nguft \\\\L. C. T. R. i.], he married at Little Compton, William\\nCuthbert and Mary Head; 18 September \\\\_L. C. T. R. i],\\nthe town voted him \u00c2\u00a318 7^-. out of the town rate for his\\nfervices as Reprefentative.\\n17 March, 1708 [Z. C. T. R. i.], he married Edward\\nSouthworth and Mary Fobes; 24 March \\\\_B. C. D. v:\\n343], he fold for \u00c2\u00a330, to Henry Wood, of Newport, land\\nat Little Compton; May, 1708 [L. C. T. R. i.], he married\\nWhen he went back to Little Com- The fpot is now owned bj Mr. George\\npton in 1705, or thereabouts, he built on H. Peckham. It is a little S. of W.\\nthe lots which he had long owned juft from the two _ Windmills which ftand\\nfouth of Avjayhojiks s mile fquare of near together on the road from Saconet\\nreferved territory [fee note 12 fojl^. Point to Tiverton, and is perhaps i|\\nHis houfe flood back in the field; and miles S. W. in a ftraight line, from the\\nthe well, and traces of the cellar remain. Common.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nJohn Irifh and (his fifter) Prifcilla Church; 23 June [B. C.\\nD. v: 471; vii: 241], he exchanged with Thomas Burge\\nof Little Compton lands valued at \u00c2\u00a340; 22 December [Z.\\nC. T. R. i.], he married Amos Sheffield and Sarah\\n29 y^anuary, lyof \\\\^B. C. D. v: 463], he buys of John\\nIrifh, for \u00c2\u00a315, meadow land in Little Compton; 4 April,\\n1709 [B. C. D.v. 488], at the inftance of the government,\\nhe exchanged fome lands in Little Compton, to accommo-\\ndate the Indians; 6 September [Z. C. T. R. i.], he was\\nchofen in Little Compton to the Grand Jury.\\n4 ymtuary, 17 10 [Z. C. T. R. i.], he married John Bailey\\nand Lydia 16 May [/did.], he was chofen Repre-\\nfentative of the town in the next General Court 28\\nSeptember [/did.], he married William Shaw and Content\\nIrifh.\\n24 December, 17 11 [/(5/ he was allowed \u00c2\u00a313 \\\\s. for\\nhis fervices as Reprefentative.\\n25 December, 1712 \\\\^B. C.D.xn: 462], for love, c. he\\ndeeds land in Freetown to his daughter and her hufband,\\nCapt. Jofeph Rofbotham; and, fame date, [Ibid. 463] for\\n\u00c2\u00a3100, to the fame parties more land in Freetown.\\n24 January, 17 if \\\\L. C. T. R. i], he married Samuel\\nTompkins and Sarah 23 February [B. C. D.xn:\\n583], for \u00c2\u00a315, he fold to his fon Thomas, of Little Comp-\\nton, lands in Tiverton; 18 March, 1713 [Z. C. T. R. i.], he\\nwas chofen moderator of the town meeting in Little", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nCompton; 25 September \\\\Ibid\\\\ he married William\\nBriggs, jun., and Deborah Church; 16 November \\\\_Ibid\\\\\\nhe married Jonathan Blackman and Sarah\\n14 January, 17 1| [B. C. D. vii: 480], for love c., he\\ndeeds feveral valuable tracts of land in Little Compton;\\n25 March, 17 14 \\\\^Ibid. viii: 583], he buys, for Ty 155.\\nlands in Tiverton of Samuel and Mary Snell; 31 March\\n\\\\Ibid. viii: 582], he fells, for \u00c2\u00a324, to William Wilbor,\\nlands in Little Compton; 18 November [Ibid. 583], for\\n\u00c2\u00a332 los. he fells to Richard Ward and Lion Arnold of\\nNewport, lands in Pocajfet.\\n14 Aprils 1 7 15 \\\\^Ibid. ix: 738], w^ith Conftant, he fells\\nland in Freetow^n to Thomas Turner; 7 June \\\\Ibid. 451],\\nfor \u00c2\u00a3*6, he fells his fon Thomas land in Little Compton; i\\nNovember [Z. C. T. R. i.],.he married Peter Taylor and\\nHannah Wood. During this year alfo he doubtlefs dila-\\nted to his fon Thomas his Entertaining Paflages.\\n8 April, 17 16 [Ibid.^, he married Samuel Coe and Mary\\nChadw^ick; 13 May \\\\_Ibid.^, he married Jonathan Hilliard\\nand Abigail Wilbor.\\n3 March, i7iy [^B. C. D.x.: 637], he gave lands in Free-\\ntown to his fon Conftant, referving the right to improve\\nthem during his life; 20 June, 17 17 [Z. C. T. R. i.], he\\nmarried William Wilbor and Efther Burges; 11 Septem-\\nber \\\\^BriJlol Marriages, c. ii: 23], Mr. John Sampfon\\nand Mrs. Elizabeth Rofbotham of this town (Briftol) were", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\njoined in marriage by Benjamin Church, Efq. 13 Novem-\\nber [L. C. T. R. i.], he married (his laft couple) Thomas\\nTibbets and Elizabeth Wood.\\nThe account which was given by Dr. Stiles, on the au-\\nthority of a member of the family, of the old Colonel s\\ndeath, is as follows the morning before his death, he\\nwent about two miles on horfeback to vifit his only [fur-\\nviving?] lifter, Mrs. Irifh, to fympathize with her on the\\ndeath of her only child. After a friendly and pious vifit,\\nin a moving and affe6ling manner, he took his leave of her,\\nand faid, It was a laft farewell Telling her, he was per-\\nfuaded he fhould never fee her more; but hoped to meet\\nher in heaven. Returning homeward, he had not rode\\nabove half a mile before his horfe Humbled, and threw him\\nover his head: And the Colonel being exceeding fat and\\nheavy, fell with fuch force that a blood veffel was broken,\\nand the blood gufhed out of his mouth like a torrent. His\\nwife was foon brought to him; he tried but was unable to\\nfpeak to her, and died in about twelve hours. He was car-\\nried to the grave in great funeral pomp, and was buried\\nunder arms, and with military honours.\\nHis monument a huge flat flone laid horizontally over\\nthe grave, fupported by ftones under each fide and end,", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nin the graveyard adjoining the Congregational Church in\\nLittle Compton ftill bears the following infcription\\nHere lyetli interred the [body]\\nof the Honourable\\nCol. Benjamin Church, Esq,\\nwho departed this life, January\\nthe 17, lyig, in y 78 yeare of\\nhis age.\\nThe Probate Record of his Eftate, is as follows\\nThe fifth day of March Administration Granted to Madam Allice\\nChurch on the Estate of ColP Benja Church deceased\\n[Bristol Co. Probate Records, iii 363.]\\nA true Inventory of Estate both Reall Personall left by the\\nHon ColP Benja Church Esq Late of Little Compton dec Taken\\nby us the subscribers the 5*^day tleb 171 7-18\\nTo his Sword and Belt 05 00 00\\nTo a Cane Gloves 00 12 00\\nTo Wearing Appai^ell 28 15 op\\nTo 2 Gold Rings i? 3 pair of Buttons i? 10: o all 02 10 00\\nTo one pair of Plate Buckles 00 15 00\\nTo one Tanker one cup one Porringer 2 salt\\nsellars plate and seven spoons all w^eighing 42\\nOunces 25 00 00\\nTo a Case of knives forks 00 08 00\\nTo Sundry Books 02 00 00\\nTo land in Tiverton one Six Score acre lot half\\nbeing 18 a [acres] 180 00 00\\nTo Two Gunns 03 00 00\\nxxxviii", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nTo one Bed 3 Blankets one Rug curtains and Vallence\\ntwo Pillows and Bedstead c 24 oo oo\\nTo one other Bed Bedstead and 4 Blankets or Cover-\\nlids Two Pillows and Curtains I S 00 00\\nTo one other Bed Bedstead Bolster 3 Blankets 1 2 00 00\\nTo 14 pair of Sheets 21 00 00\\nTo nine Pillow cases 01 16 cx)\\nTo two Doz of napkins Towels 03 12 00\\nTo 4 Table Cloathes 02 00 00\\nTo three Tables 03 10 00\\nTo one Cubboard 03 00 00\\nTo six Chests 02 02 00\\nTo seven Turkey worked chairs 04 02 00\\nTo 16 Wooden Chairs 02 08 00\\nPuter To 21 plates i 17 o To 7 platters 3 all 04 17 00\\nTo II Basons i 13 00 3 Chamber Potts S* 02 01 00\\nTinn To one Collender one Cauldion on Tea pott all 00 03 00\\nBrass To one Chaffing Dish one warmingpan 01 10 00\\nTo two Kettles and one Bellmettell skillet 06 00 00\\nIron To three Potts and one Kettle 01 10 00\\nTo one spit 3 Andirons two pair of Tongs one fire\\nshove two Trammels one hook and one frying pan\\nall 02 02 00\\nTo 8 Keelers S pails 3 Piggins 3 Trayes one Sugar\\nBox all 02 15 00\\nTo 5 Cheese fatts one churn 3 Cedar Tubs all 02 04 00\\nTo one Mealtrough Corrill one Trav all 00 06 00\\nTo 3 Bags i2f to Earthenware 6 13 Glass Bottles\\n4 all 01 02 00\\nTo two Ropes 6 to 5 old Sythes 5 To 3 old Iron\\nhopps 3 Iron Boxes 8^ all 00 19 00\\nTo a Bettle and w edges 6 3 Sythe Snaths 3 all 00 09 00\\nTo 3 hones 6 one Bill hooke 4 Axes 11 all 00 17 00\\nTo Iron ftetters horse traces one Coller Harnes old\\nIron 001400\\nxxxix", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nOne Hmmer one square oo 08 oo\\nOne old Tennant Saw 2 pair of sheers 2 p of Stel-\\nliards 00 oS 00\\nTo one girdle 3 Stirupp Irons one Lanthorn all 00 04 00\\nTo three Riddle Sives 3 14 old Cask i 08 all 01 11 00\\nTo 25 bushells of salt 3 15 2 Cheese pi csses 8 all 04 03 00\\nTo 2 pair of Spinning Wheels and one pair of Cards 00 10 00\\nTo 2 Barrills of Beef one Barrill of Pork 05 00 00\\nTo nine Cows 54 00 00\\nTo 4 heifers 20 00 00\\nTo a pair of Oxen 14 00 00\\nTo a pair of Steers 12 00 00\\nTo one Bull 02 10 00\\nTo Seven Two Year old Cattle 21 00 00\\nTo a cart and Wheels 2 Yoaks 2 Chains Clevis\\npin 04 10 00\\nTwo Iron Barrs and one Sledge 01 00 00\\nTo Yarn and flax 03 15 00\\nTo about 25 weight of Cheese 04 00 00\\nTo 13 Bushels of Barley 02 00 00\\nTo 2 old Barrills and Some Beanes 00 10 00\\nTo Twenty Bushells of Oates 02 10 00\\nTo about 40 Bushells of Indian corn 08 00 00\\nTo one Tubb Pork 04 00 00\\nTo 2 Barrills of Cider if three empty Cask 6 01 06 00\\nTo one sorild horfs 1 2 00 00\\nTo one black horfs 16 00 00\\nTo the Collafh with the Horfs saddle Brydle c 12 00 00\\nTo one Bay mare 18 00 00\\nTo 2 old ploughs and one Brake 01 05 00\\nTo ten yearling Catde 15 00 00\\nTo 5 Swine 02 10 00\\nTo a looking Glass and hour Glass 00 08 06\\nTo 3 Scivers one pair of tongs pair of Bellows all 00 05 06\\nTo one pair of holdsters an old Portmantle 00 1 2 00\\nxl", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nTo about 15 pound of Butter 00 10 00\\nTo a Negro man Clothing and bedding c 60 00 00\\nTo a Negro woman clothing Bedding c 40 00 00\\nTo a Servant Boy called William Hood 10 00 00\\nTo John Tomlin 03 00 00\\nTo three rakes and Two pitch forks 00 06 00\\nTo an Iron Bark 01 10 00\\nTo a score of Sheep 06 16 00\\nTo a Clasp Stale pan a pair of Specticles Inkhorn 00 09 00\\nTo Silver and Gold Buttons 02 02 06\\nTo Cash 02 18 06\\nTo his Right in a Small lott of land Tiverton 05 00 00\\nThis Inventory was taken the day and year\\nabove written by us JOHN WOOD\\nTHOMAS GREY Prifers\\nWILLIAAI PABODIE\\n[Bristol Co. Probate Records, iii 381, 382.]\\nTo all People to whom these presents Shall come Know Yee that\\nwe who are the Children of our Hon* ftather ColP Benjamin Church\\nlate of Little Compton in the County of Bristol in the Province of the\\nMafsachuset Bay in New England dec^ Who Dyed Intestate And\\nthat the law of this Province doth Provide that all Just Debts funerall\\nCharges shall be payd out of the Personal) Estate which will be a great\\nDamage to our Hon^*^ Mother Mrs Allice Church who is Administra-\\ntrix to said Estate\\nThese are therefore to give full power and lawfull Authority to our\\nabove named Mother as Administratrix to our above s*^ Hon^** flathers\\nEstate To Bargain Sell Alin Dispose of all our Right Title Claime\\nor Demand of one Six Score acre lot and one halfe in the Township of\\nTiverton in pocafet Purchafs the whole lot being the fourteen in num-\\nber and the half lot being the Thirteenth lot in number which lot and\\nhalf being mentioned in the Inventory of our s** tlathers estate and is\\nF xli", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nI append here fuch few fcattering genealogical fa6ls in\\nreo^ard to the defcendants of Colonel Church as have come\\nincidentally to my notice, as materials for whoever may,\\nat any future time, attempt to catalogue the complete\\ndefcent from him.\\nBENJAMIN CHURCH,^ b. at Plymouth, 1639, m. 26 Dec. 1667,\\nAlice South worth (b. Duxbury 1646, d. Little Compton 5 Mar.\\n171I, get. 73), d. 17 Jan. i7if, at Little Compton, R.-L set. 78. They\\nhad (i) Thomas,- b. Duxbury, 1674, d. Little Compton, 13 Mar. 1746,\\najt. 73; (2) Constant, b. Portsmouth, R.-L 12 May, 1676, d. 26 Mar.\\n1726? [A\\\\ E. Hist. Gen Reg. xi 155.] (3) Benjamin, b. 1678\\n(4) Edward,^ b. 1680; (5) Charles, b. 1682, d. Bristol Jan. 1747; (6)\\nElizabeth, b. 26 Mar. 1684; (7) Nathaniel,* b. i July 1686, d. 29 Feb.\\n1687 (8) Martha.\\nTHOMAS CHURCH,- m. first, 21 Feb. 169I, Sarah Hayman,\\nhad (i) Sarah, b. 15 Jan. 1700, d. 29 Aug. 1701 (2) Elizabeth, b.\\n9 Sept. 1703, d. 37 Sept. 1702; (3) Thomas, b. 30 Aug. 1704, d.\\nyoung; m. second, 16 April 1712 Edith, 2d dau. and 4th child of John\\nand Hannah [Timberlake] Woodman [b. 7 Sept. 1685, d. 3 June\\n1718], had (4) Elizabeth b. 10 Jan. 1713 (5) Hannah b. 33 Sept.\\n1714; (6) Priscilla, b. 6 Jan. 1717, d. 15 Mar. 1744; (7) Thomas b.\\nMay 1718, d. 31 Aug. 1718; m. 1719 third., Sarah had (8)\\nThomas, b. 31 May, 1730, d. 4 July, 1730; (9) Sarah, b. 15 May,\\n1731 (10) Thomas,^ b. 13 July, 1733, d. 5 061. 1733; (11) Benja-\\nmin,- b. 9 Sept. 1733, d. 37 Sept. 1733 (13) Mary,-^ b. 3 Jan. 1735\\n(13) Thomas,^- b. i Sept. 1737; (14) Benjamin,^ b. 10 Jan. 1733, d.\\n4 Aug. 1749 (15) Mercy,- b. 18 Sept. 1734.\\nCONSTANT CHURCH.^ [I have seen no trace of his family, if\\nhe had any.]\\nBENJAMIN CHURCH. [It is said died unmarried.]\\nEDWARD CHURCH Mived in Boston, where, before 1764, he had\\na place of business as vendue-master, on Newbury Street, two doors\\nsouth of the sign of the Lamb. He m. Elizabeth who d. 18\\nxliv", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nApril, 1766, \u00c2\u00a3Et. 27. He had an only son Benjamin,^ who was proba-\\nbly also a vendue-master, and the father of two sons (one of whom was\\nDr. Benjamin Church, of Tory memory in the Revolution), and a daugh-\\nter who m. Mr. Fleming, a stationer.\\nCHARLES CHURCH was High Sheriff of the County, and Rep-\\nresentative to the General Court; m. 20 May, 1708, Mrs. Hannah\\nPaine of Bristol, had (i) Constant,^ b. 12 Dec. 1708 (2) Elizabeth,=^\\nb. 24 Dec. 1710; (3) Hannah,-^ b. 20 Feb. 171^, d. Jan. 174I.\\nELIZABETH CHURCH,^ m. first, 1700? Capt. Joseph Ros-\\nBOTHAM of Bristol, had (i) Benjamin,^\u00c2\u00ae b. 21 Dec. 1701 (2) Alice,\\nb, 26 Aug. 1704 (3) Elizabeth,^^ b, 9 Sept. 1708 (4) Hannah, b. 20\\nJune, 171 1 m. second, 11 Sept. 171 7, Mr. John Sampson, of Bristol,\\n[d. 12 Jan. i73f]; had (5) John and (6) Elizabeth, (twins) b. 20\\nJan. 171I; (7) John,^ b. (at New Haven) 31 May, 1723; m. thirds\\n18 June, 1739, Capt. Samuel Woodbury.\\nNATHANIEL CHURCH,** [died an infant.]\\nMARTHA CHURCH [I find no trace of her except her signa-\\nture to the document accompanying the settlement of her father s\\nestate.]\\nSARAH CHURCH,i\u00c2\u00bb m. 29 Apr. 1742, Samuel Bailey of Little\\nCompton, had (i) William, b. 25 Aug. 1742, m. 4 Mar. 1770, Sarah\\nBriggs, d. 17 Feb. 1825 (2) Samuel,^^ b. 3 Jan. 1744, m. Elizabeth\\nChurch (3) Francis,^ b. 4 Oa. 1745 (4) Ruth,^^ 24 Apr. 1747, d.\\n6 Dec. 1771 (5) Sarah,* b. 23 Sept. 1749, m. i Mar. 1772, John Man-\\nchester (6) George,*^ b. 29 Apr. 1751, d. 27 Mar. 1764 (7) Hannah,*^\\nb. 25 July, 1760.\\nMARY CHURCH,^^ m. 31 Mar. 1748, Aaron Wilbor [3d son\\nand 6th child of John, who was 2d son and 3d child of William, an origi-\\nnal settler], had (i) Sarah,*^ b. 25 Dec. 1748; (2) Benjamin,** b. 22\\noa. 1750 (3) Aaron,* b. June, 1753 (4) Francis,*** b. 4 Aug. 1755, d.\\n15 June, 1844; (5) Thomas,*^ b. 23 Sept. 1756, d. 13 Sept. 1840; (6)\\nJohn,*-^ b. 4 May, 1762.\\nTHOMAS CHURCH,22 m. first, 31 Jan. 1748, Ruth Bailey\\n[youngest dau. and child of William, and so youngest sister of the hus-\\nband of Sarah, b. 3 Aug. 1727, d. 31 Jan. 1771], had (i) Constant,*\\nxlv", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nb. 9 May, 1748; (3) Sarah,^\u00c2\u00ab b. 13 Feb. 1750, d. 17 Nov. 1750; (3)\\nSarah,^ b. 34 May, 1751 (4) Elizabeth,^- 25 Dec. 1753 (5) Benja-\\nmin (6) Mercy b. Mar. 1756, d. 31 Mar. 1837 (7) Thomas,^^ b. 26\\nNov. 1757; (8) Obadiah,^ b. 21 Apr. 1759; (9) William,^^ b. 7 May,\\n1761 (10) Charles,^* b. 10 Mar. 1763 (11) Francis,^^ b. 19 Dec. 1764\\n(13) Thomas,\u00c2\u00ab b. 3 Mar. 1767; (13) Ruth,\u00c2\u00abi b. 5 Dec. 1768; (14)\\nMary 5 b. 30 Jan. 1771, d. i Feb. 1771 m. second, Mary Richmond,\\n[b. 36 Dec. 1735, 2d dau. and 8th child of William, oldest son of Sylves-\\nter] had (15) George,*^ b. 30 May, 1773 (16) Gamaliel, b. i Mar.\\n1775 (17) Mary, b. 13 Feb. 1777, d. 17 July, 1777.\\nMERCY CHURCH,^* m. 3 Feb. 1754, Perez Richmond [4th son\\nand 5th child of William, d. 1801], had (i) Sarah,*^b. 24 Aug. 1756 m.\\n27 Apr. 1776, Job Clapp (2) Ruth,*^^ b. 6 Sept. 1758 (3) Elizabeth,\\nb. 9 Mar. 1760; (4) Thomas, b. 5 Mar. 1764; (5) Benjamin,\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 b. 11\\nJuly, 1765 (6) Anna, i b. 34 Mar. 1767 (7) Mary ,^2 b. 5 Apr. 1770;\\n(8) Charles, b. 9 July, 1773 (9) Hannah,^ b. 17 Dec. 1775.\\nCONSTANT CHURCH, m. 20 June, 1771, Kezia Briggs [3d\\ndau. and child of Jeremiah, who was 4th son and child of Job, who was\\n4th son and 7th child of William, b. 13 Oft. 1751, d. 17 Dec. 1818.], had\\n(i) Ruth,^^ b. 19 Dec. 1771 (2) Sarah,^ b. 29 May, 1774; (3) Jere-\\nmiah Briggs,^^ b. 33 Jan. 1776; (4) Benjamin, b. 23 Jan. 1778, d. 20\\nSept. 1778; (5) Kezia, b. 14 Mar. 1780; (6) Charles,** b. 16 Mar.\\n17S2, d. 14 Sept. 1805 (7) Betsey ,\u00c2\u00abi b. 17 Sept. 1784; (8) Anna,**- b.\\nII Feb. 1787; (9) Constantine,* b. 5 Jan. 1789, d. i Nov. 1826; (10)\\nHannah, b. 9 Oa. 1781, d. 2 Sept. 1828 (11) William, b. 37 Apr.\\n1795, d. 14 oa. 1796.\\nELIZABETH CHURCH,^- m. 33 Oct. 1774, Samuel Bailey [b.\\n3 Jan. 1744, was 2d son and child of Samuel, who m. Sarah had\\n(i) Sarah,\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab b. 31 Mar. 1775 (2) Cornelius,*^ b. 8 Oa. 1776 (3) Ben-\\njamin,\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab b. 18 Aug. 1780; (4) Ruth,* b. 26 Feb. 1782; (5) Thomas,^\\n(6) Samuel, (twins), b. 6 May, 1785 (7) George, b. 26 April, 1788\\n(8) Charles, b. 5 Apr. 1790; (9) Hannah, b. i June, 1794.\\nCONSTANT CHURCH,^ of Bristol, m. 35 Jan. 173I, Mary Rey-\\nnolds, of Bristol, had (i) Peter, b. i Dec. 1737; (2) Mary, b. 2\\nApr. 1740; (3) Charles, b. 5 Nov. 1743.\\nxlvi", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.\\nPETER CHURCH 9^ [as the records seem to say] m. 22 Mar. 1764,\\nMrs. Sarah Pales, of Bristol, and, for second wife, Hannah\\nhad (i) George,** b. i Apr., 1771 (2) William, b. 5 Apr. 1776; (3)\\nPeter,^ b. 26 Apr. 1791 (4) Hannah, b. 13 Sept, 1792.\\nThis Peter^ I suppose to be the Col. Peter, now living in Bristol,\\nwhose son, Captain Benjamin, corfimanding a company in the Sth Mich-\\nigan V. M., was killed by a shot through the head, 16 June, 1862, while\\ngallantly leading a charge upon the rebels, in the battle of James Island.\\n\\\\_Stone s R.-I. in the Rebellion^ 298.]\\nxlvii", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY NOTE.\\nT had been intended to give, in this place, a\\nfull ftatiftical ftatement of the condition of\\nNew England in population, refources, towns,\\nchurches, minifters c., c., at the date of the\\nbreaking- out of thofe hoftilities which are commonly\\nknown as Philip s War; and to add a careful eftimate\\nof the caufes of that ftrife, and the efFe6ls of it upon\\nthe Colonies. But the neceffary length of fuch a ftate-\\nment and eftimate, and the unexpe6led voluminoufnefs\\nof the preceding biographical matter, compels the referva-\\ntion of that hiftorical introdu6lion until the iffue of that\\nremaining portion of thefe Entertaining PafTages, which\\nhas efpecial reference to the Eaftern Expeditions; when it\\nwill be given as preliminary to thofe brief ftatements which\\nmay be further needful to make clear the caufes and ilTues\\nof thofe later confli6ls.\\nr, xlix", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTORY NOTE.\\nMeanwhile, the reader who delires to perufe thefe ex-\\nploits and experiences of Captain Church, with the rnoft\\nintelligent comprehenlion of their relation to the general\\nmatters of the war, and the condition of the country at that\\ndate, is refpe6tfully referred to the third volume of Dr.\\nPalfrey s Hiflory of New England, where [pp. 132-239],\\nhe will find the moft lucid, careful and truthful expolition\\nof the fubje6t, which has yet been given to the prefs.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Entertaining Paflages\\nRelating to\\nm)iW WAR\\nWHICH\\nBegan in the Month of Junc, 1675.\\nAS ALSO OF\\nEXPEDITIONS\\nMore lately made\\nAgainft the Common Enemy, and ^lltriail Rebels,\\nin the Eaftern Parts of ^etO=([^nglantl\\nWITH\\nSome Account of the Divine Providence\\nTOWARDS\\nBen). Church Efqr\\nBy t. C\\nBOSTON: Printed by B. Green, in the Year, i 7 i 6.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "f\\nTO TH E\\nREADER\\nTH E fitbj eH: of this following Narrative offer-\\ning itfelf to your friendly Perufal relates to\\nthe Former ajid Later Wars of New-Eng-\\nland, which I my f elf was not a little concerned\\nin For iii the Year, 1675. that tmhappy\\nand bloody Indian War broke out in Plymouth Colony, where\\nI was then buildiftg, and beginni?tg a Plantation, at a Place\\ncalled by the Indians Sekonit; and fine e by the Englifh, Lit-\\ntle Compton. was the firfl Englifh Man that built up07t\\nthat Neck, which was full of In6ii2ins. My head and hands\\nwere full about Settling a New Plantation, where nothing\\nwas brought to no preparation of Dwelling Houfe, or Out-\\nHoufing or Fencing made. Horfes and Cattel were to be\\nprovided, Groiuid to be clear d aftd broken up and the utter-\\nmoft", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "TO THE READER.\\nmojl caution to be u/ed, to keep my felf free from off eliding\\nfny Indian Neighbours all round about me. While I was\\nthus bufily Employed, and all my Time and Strength laid\\nout in this Laborious Undertaking I Received a Commiffion\\nfrom the Government to engage in their Defence. And with\\nmy Commiffion I received another heart inclining me to put\\nforth my Strength in Military Service. And through the\\nGrace ofGODI ivas Spirited for that work., and Direc-\\ntion in it was renewed to tne day by day. And althd many\\nof the Anions that I was concerned in, ivere very Difficult\\nand Dangerous yet my felf and thofe that went with me\\nVoluntarily in the Service, had our Lives, for the moff part,\\nwonderfully preferved, by the over-ruling Hand of the Al-\\nmighty, from firff to laff zvhich doth aloud befpeak our\\nPraifes And to declare His Wonderful Works, is our\\nLndifpenffble Duty. I was ever very fenfible of my ozvn\\nLittlenefs and Unfitnefs, to be imployed in fuch Great\\nServices but calling to mind that GOD is STRONG,\\nEndeavoured to put all my Confidence in Him, and by His\\nAlmighty Power zvas carried through every difficult Aflio7i\\nand my dcfire is that His Name may have the Praife.\\nLt was ever my Intent having laid my felf under a Solemn\\npromife, that the many and Repeated Favours ofGOD to\\nmy felf and thofe with me in the Service, might be publiffied\\nfor Generations to come. And now my great Age requiring\\nmy D if miff 071 from Service in the Militia, and to put off my\\nArmour I am willing that the Great and Glorious works\\nof", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "TO THE READER.\\nof Almighty GOD, to us Childre^i of Meii^JJiould appear\\nto the World and having my Minutes by me my Son has\\ntaken the care and pains to Colleft from them, the Infuing\\nNarrative of many paffages relatijig to the Former and\\nL ater Wars which I have had the perufal of and fi7id\\nnothing a-mifs, as to the Truth of it and with as little\\nReflection upon any particular perfo7i as might be, either\\nalive or dead.\\nAnd feeing every particle of hiflorical Truth is precious\\nI hope the Reader will pafs a favourable Ce^ifure upon an\\nOld Sozildier, telling of the ma7ty Ran-Counters he has had,\\nand yet is come off alive. It is a pleafure to Remember what\\na great Number of Families in this and the Neighbouring\\nProvinces in New-England did during the War, enjoy a\\ngreat meafure of L iberty and Peace by the hazardous Sta-\\ntions and Marches of thofe Engaged in Military Exercifes,\\nwho were a Wall unto them on this flde and on thatflde. I\\ndefire Prayers that I may be enabled Well to accompli/Ji my\\nSpiritual Warfare, and that I may be more than Conquer-\\notir through JESUS CHRIST loving of me.\\nBenjamin Church.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "I\\nEntertaining Paflages\\nRelating to\\n^|)lltp 6 WAR^ which began in the Year, 1675,\\nWith the Proceedings of\\nBenj. Cliurcli Efqr;\\nIN the Year 1674, Mr. Benjamin Church oi Duxbury\\nbeing providentially at Plymouth in the time of the\\nCourt,^ fell into acquaintance with Capt. John\\nAlmy of Rhode- IJla7id. Capt. Almy with great im-\\nportunity invited him to ride with him, and view\\nthat part of Plymouth Colony that lay next to Rhode-IJlandy\\n1 See Introdudlion, for fome account\\nof the origin of this ftruggle.\\n2 See Introdudlorj Memoir, for fadts\\nin the early life of Mr. Church.\\n3 The Court of His Majeftie met\\nat Plymouth 4 March, 3 June, 7 July,\\nand 27 Odlober, in 1674. {^Plymouth\\nColony Records, vol. v.]\\nJohn Almy was in Plymouth, in\\n1643 married Mary, daughter of James\\nCole removed to Portfmouth, R.-I.\\nloft a horfe in the fervice of the Rhode-\\nIfland Colony by making great expedi-\\ntion in watching a Dutch man-of-war,\\nfor which in 1666 he was paid \u00c2\u00a37 23\\nJuly, 1667, was appointed Lieftenant\\nof a troope of horfe 24 July, 1671,\\nwas a witnefs of the articles of agree-\\nment made between the Court of New\\nPlymouth and Awafhonks, Squaw-\\nSachem of Sogkonate; 14 June, 1676,\\nwas appointed, with Mr. Thomas Bor-\\nden, to take an inventory of goods of\\nThomas Lawton died before Nov.\\n1676, at which time Plymouth Court\\ngave his widow power to adminifter on\\nhis eftate within the Colony jurifdiAion.\\n[Savage s Gen. Did. i 45 Rhode-IJl-\\nand Colonial Records, ii 184, 214,\\n544; Plym. Col. Rec. v: 75, 212.]", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "I\\nknown then by their Indian Names oiPocaJfet^ Sogko7tate!^\\nAmong other arguments to perfwade him, he told him, the\\nSoil was very rich, and the Situation pleafant. Perfwades\\nhim by all means, to purchafe of the Company fome of the\\nCourt grant rights J He accepted his invitation, views the\\ns Now mainly Tiverton, R.-I. in-\\ncluding the eaftern ihore of Mount-\\nHope bay from ^uequechan river (Fall\\nRiver) on the north to Pachet brook on\\nthe fouth. As to the meaning of the\\nname Pocajfet, Mr. Trumbull fays,\\nA half-dozen good enough etymolo-\\ngies prefent themfelves but as I do not\\nknow which is right, and have not\\nmuch confidence in either, I let the\\nname pafs.\\nExtending from Pachet brook to the\\nocean now mainly Little Compton,\\nR.-I. Dr. Ulher Parfons fays the word\\nSogkonate is compounded of Seki^\\nblack, kojik, goofe, and the fyl-\\nlable et as a locative thus Scki-konk-et,\\nScconknet, Secoiiet, equivalent to\\nblack-goofe-place. \\\\^India?i Names\\nof Places in R.-I. p. 5.] But Mr.\\nTrumbull fays: If hotick means\\ngoofe, why fhould an Indian prefix the\\nadjedlive black, as defcriptive of the\\nonly goofe he knew anything about.\\nThen Sucki does not mean black,\\nbut purple, i.e., black inclining to\\nblue, as we fee it in the inner margin of\\na quahaug fhell. Then, again, the In-\\ndian never made ufe of what we call\\nnames of places, but dej cribed his lo-\\ncalities never calling a given fituation\\nblack-filh or black-goofe, and\\nmuft have violated the genius of his\\nlanguage to have done fo. Then,\\nfurther, Sucki-honck, or its plural, Sucki-\\nhonck-aog, (for it is hardly probable that\\none black goofe would defignate the\\nplace,) can hardly have been twifted\\ninto Sogkonate or Saconet, or (as Pref-\\nident Stiles writes and marks the name\\nin 1760) Sattconcf. As to the real\\nmeaning of the word, Mr. T. adds,\\nI am troubled by the embarras de\\nrichejfes. It might mean Sokkaiiun-et,\\nthe conquered territory or Sovjan-\\nokquan-et, at the fouth point or\\nSowanolikit \\\\^Eliot, Gen. xxiv. 62\\nJofh. XV. 19], the fouth country\\neither of which might eafily be corrupt-\\ned into Sauconet. And fo on.\\nIt was a common provifion in the\\nindentures of fervants in the Plymouth\\nColony, that they fliould have land af-\\nfigned them when their term of fervice\\nexpired. In 1633-4, d for fuch ufe\\nwas fet apart in Scituate. In 1636 the\\namount of five acres was fixed upon\\nas that which they were to receive. 4\\nJune, 1661, liberty was granted to thofe\\nwho were formerly fervants, who have\\nland due them by covenant, to nominate\\nfome perfons to be deputed in their be-\\nhalf to purchafe a parcel of land for\\ntheir accommodation at Saconet. Fur-\\nther order to fecure the right of thefe\\nperfons to take up land at Saconet was\\nmade by the Court, 7 June, 1665. 4\\nJuly, 1673, the following Court order was", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "I\\nCountry, was pleafed with it; makes a purchafe,^ fettled\\npafled Whereas there is a tradte of\\nland graunted to the old fervants, or fuch\\nof them as are not elfewhere fuppljed,\\nIjing att Saconett, the Court doe de-\\ntermine the bounds thereof to be from\\nthe bounds of the graunt made to Plym-\\nouth att Punckateefett and the bounds\\nof Dartmouth, and foe all lands fouth-\\nerly Iving between that and the fea the\\nCourt haue likewife giuen them order,\\nor fuch as thej Ihall appoint, to make\\npurchafe thereof in theire behalfe as oc-\\ncation fhall require, and that all fuch\\np fons as haue right vnto the faid graunt\\nas old fervants att Saconett fhall make\\ntheir appeerance att Plymouth on the\\ntwenty fecond of this p fent July, then\\nand theire to make out theire right, and\\nalfoe pay fuch disburfments as fhall nef-\\nfefarily be required, or otherwife loofe\\ntheire right.\\nAgreeably to this order the following\\n29 perfons appeared at Plymouth, on\\nfaid 22 July, viz Jofiah Winflow,\\nEfq. Mr. Conftant Southworth Dan-\\niel Willcox; Hugh Cole (in right of\\nJames Cole, fen.) Nicolas Wade and\\nJohn Cufliing, both in right of faid\\nNicolas Wade Thomas Williams\\nBenjamitt Church (in right of Richard\\nBifhop and alfo in right of Richard\\nBeare) John Roufe, jr. (in right of\\nSamuel Chandler) William Sherman,\\nfen. Jofeph Church (in right of John\\nSmalley, and alfo in right of George\\nVicory) John Rogers, jun. (in right\\nof William Tubbs) William Merrick\\nMartha Dean (in right of Joseph Bee-\\ndie) Simon Roufe (in right of John\\nRoufe, fen.) William Pabodie (in right\\nof Abraham Samfon) Edward Fobes\\n(in right of John Fobes) John Irilb,\\njun. (in right of John Irifh, fen.)\\nPeter Colomore Daniel Hayward (in\\nright of John HayAvard, fen.) Jofiah\\nCook John Wafhburne, fen., as a\\nFirft iffued in 1716, and probably\\ndictated by Col. Church to his fon\\nThomas not long before that time, it\\nwill not feem furprifing that flight in-\\naccuracies fliould occafionally be found\\nin this narrative of what took place\\nmore than 40 years before. There is\\nfome evident confufion here. The orig-\\ninal MS. Proprietors Records prove\\nthat Church had bought the rights of\\nRichard Bilhop and Richard Beare to\\nSaconet previous to 22 July, 1673 a\\ncourfe which he here feems to reprefent\\nhimfelf as taking in the following year.\\non Capt. Almy s urgency. Unlefs the\\nmeeting of court to which he refers (fee\\nnote 3) was the firft for that year, he\\nmuft not only have purchafed thefe\\nrights, but have received his aflignment\\nof lots No. 19 and No. 29, before the\\nviewing the country here referred to.\\nI think, in point of fatJt, he bought\\nthe rights on fpeculation, and went down\\nwith Capt. Almy to look at his two\\nlots, and liked them fo well as to con-\\nclude to fettle upon them; but became\\nconfufed in his memory of the order of\\nevents.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "I\\na Farm, found the Gentlemen of the Ifland^ very Civil\\nobliging. And being himfelf a Perfon of uncommon\\nfreeman Thomas Pope John Rich-\\nmond (in right of John Price) Walter\\nWoodworth (in right of Thomas Si-\\nmons) Nathaniel Thomas (in right of\\nNicolas Preflong) Ephraim Tinkham\\nThomas Pinfon; and William Shirt-\\nlife. They proved their rights, and\\nagreed,\\n1. That all were equal proprietors\\nof the granted premifes, that is to fay,\\nto have and pay alike, according to\\neach man s proportion.\\n2. That all lands on their grant at\\nSaconet that fliall any way become\\nalienated from the Indians, and appro-\\npriated to the EnglilTi, fhall belong and\\nbe to the aforefaid proprietors.\\n3. That one equal (hare (hall be ap-\\npropriated to the ufe of the miniftry,\\nand fo to remain fucceflively forever.\\n4. That no perfon fhall appropriate\\nto himfelf more than tivo /hares at Sa-\\nconet, on penalty of forfeiture to the\\ncompany of all fuch overplus.\\n5. That no proprietor Iball alienate\\nany of his land to one not related to\\nhim by affinity or blood, without con-\\nfent of the major part of the company,\\nor their committee.\\n6. That any proprietor not paying,\\nby the laft of Oftober next, for his part\\nof what might have been purchafed by\\nthe laft of September next, with his\\nproportion of charges, fhall forfeit his\\nfhare to the other proprietors.\\n7. That at any meeting of the com-\\npany duly warned, the major part of\\nthem that fhall appear fhall have full\\npower to adl for all, except to difpofe\\nof any of the lands.\\n8. That William Pabodie fhall be\\ntheir clerk.\\n9. That Mr. Conftant Southworth,\\nWilliam Pabodie, and Nathaniel Thom-\\nas, fhall be a committee to adl for them\\nin purchafing of the Indians, calling\\nmeetings, and fuch other occafions as\\nmay concern.\\nHaving now authority to extinguifh\\nthe Indians titles at Saconet, the Com-\\nmittee proceeded to the work; 31 July,\\npurchafing of Awafhonks, Squaw-Sa-\\nchem, for \u00c2\u00a375, the land from Pachet\\nbrook on the north, to a landing-place\\ncalled Toot/ios, and a white-oak tree in\\nTompe fwamp (in the range of what is\\nnow called Taylor s Lane fee map),\\non the Ibuth with a depth, from the bay\\non the weft, of one mile inland. There\\nfeems, however, to have been a queftion\\nof ownerfhip long unfettled among the\\nIndians for in 1662 \\\\^Plym. Col. Rec. iv\\n16] Tatacomuncah, and a Squaw-Sa-\\nchem called Namumpam (Weetamoe,\\nof Pocaffet) came to Plymouth with\\ncomplaints againft Wamfutta, for fell-\\ning Saconet neck, which was claimed\\nby them. So, to make a fure thing of\\nit, the Committee, i Nov. 1673, re-\\npurchafed of Mamanuah (who could\\n9 The ifland of Rhode-Ifland; in plain fight acrofs the Eaft PafTage.\\n4", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Activity and Induftry, he foon ere6led two buildings upon\\nhis Farm, and gain d a good acquaintance with the\\nNatives: got much into their favour, and was in a Httle\\ntime in great efleem among them.\\nThe next Spring advancing,^*^ while Mr. Church was dili-\\ngently Settling his new Farm, flocking, leafing difpofing\\nof his Affairs, and had a fine profpeft of doing no fmall\\nthings; and hoping that his good fuccefs would be inviting\\nunto other good Men to become his Neighbours; Behold!\\nthe rumour of a War between the EngliJJi and the Na-\\ntives gave check to his proje6ls. People began to be very\\njealous of the Indimis, and indeed they had no fmall reafon\\nto fufpe6t that they had form d a defign of War upon the\\nE^igliJJi}^ Mr. Church had it daily fuggefled to him that\\nthe Indians were plotting a bloody defign. That Philip\\nthe great Mount-hope Sachem was Leader therein: and\\nfo it prov d, he was fending his MefTengers to all [2] the\\nfhow an agreement, of date ii Mar. the whole number. Benjamin Church\\n1672, from his brothers Ofomehew and drew Nos. 19 and 29. \\\\^Plym. Col,\\nPofotoquo, and from Pacuftcheft, Num- Rcc. i: 23, 44; iii 316; iv: 97; v:\\npouce, and Joham, who were nearly 125. Original MS. Records of the\\nrelated, empowering him to fell), Ofo- Proprietors of Saconet.~\\\\\\nmehew, Suckqua, and Anumpafh, for The fpring of 1675, foon after\\n\u00c2\u00a335, the fame territory, with a fmall the murder of Saflamon.\\naddition. n The many friendly and Chriftian\\n10 April, 1674, the company met Indians in their intercourfe with their\\nat Duxbury, divided this land into 32 favage acquaintances came to the knowl-\\nftiares, and drew lots for them. There edge of many fufpicious circumftances,\\nwere 29 proprietors Benjamin Church and it was their teftimony as well as\\nand his brother Jofeph had each a double what the fettlers themfelves obferved,\\nright, and the loth lot was agreed upon which now began to excite their solici-\\nas to be the minifter s lot making tude for the future.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "2\\nNeighbouring Sachems, to ingage them in a Confederacy\\nwith him in the War.\\nAmong the reft he fent Six Men to AwaJ]io7iks Squaw-\\nSachem of the Sogkonate Indians/^ to engage her in his\\nInterefts: AwaJIionks fo far Hftened unto them as to call\\nher Subje6ls together, to make a great Dance, which is\\nthe cuftom of that Nation when they advife about Mo-\\nmentous Aftairs. But what does Awajlw^iks do, but fends\\naway two of her Men that well underftood the EngliJJi\\nLanguage {Sajfamon and George^^ by Name) to invite Mr.\\ni A-i-vaJkotiks firft appears 24 July,\\n1671, when Ihe agrees with Plymouth\\nCourt to fubmit herfelf and her people,\\nand to give up their arms. In Auguft\\nfollowing (he affixed her mark to a letter\\nwritten to Gov. Prince in reference to\\nthis agreement. 20 June, 1672, Ihe\\nagreed to fet off fome land in mortgage\\nto Plymouth Court, in fatisfa 5lion of a\\ndebt due to Mr. John Almj. 7 May,\\n1673, fhe is named among Sachems to\\nbe treated with by the Rhode-Illand\\nAffembly to confult and agree of fome\\nway to prevent the extreme excefs of\\nthe Indians drunkennefs. 31 July,\\n1673, fhe fold a large portion of the ter-\\nritory claimed by her, to the committee\\nof Saconet proprietors. 7 July, 1674,\\nfhe is complained of at Plymouth Court\\nby Mamanuah, Chieffe propriator of\\nthe lands of Saconett, for forcably\\ndetaining fome of his land, and hinder-\\ning him from giving pofTefTion of it to\\nthe Englifli to whom he had fold the\\nfame and their refpedtive rights to the\\nland were made the fubjeifl of jury trial.\\nto her difcomfiture. 29 May, 1675,\\nfhe had three quarters of a mile fquare\\nfet off to her by the Saconet proprietors,\\non the fhore immediately fouth of the\\nfouth line of their firfl: purchafe. In\\nJuly, 1683, Ihe, her daughter Betty, and\\nher fon Peter, were examined at Plym-\\nouth Court on fufpicion of having\\nmurdered a child of faid Betty; but\\nwere difmiffed for want of proof. Her\\nhusband s name was Wetvayevjttt. She\\nhad, befides Peter and Betty above\\nnamed, a fon, William Mommyneivit,\\nwho was put to Grammar fchool and\\nlearned Latin, defigned for college, but\\nwas feized with the palfy. [Drake s\\nBook of the Indians, 250; I Mafs.\\nHijl. Coll. x: 114; R.-I. Col. Rec. ii\\n4S7; Plym. Col. Rec. v: 75; vi 113;\\nvii 191. AIS. Rec. Prop. Saconet.\\nSajfamoti (^Saujaman) was one of\\nthe forty-tAvo Saconet Indians, who, 24\\nJuly, 167 1, figned a paper approving the\\nlubmifTion which Azvajhonks had made.\\nGeorge proved himfelf a friend to the\\nEnglifh. [Drake s Indian Biog., 250.]", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "2\\nChurch to the Dance. Mr. Church upon the Invitation,\\nimmediately^* takes with him Charles Hazelto7t^^ his Ten-\\nnants Son, who well underflood the Indiaii Language, and\\nrid down to the Place appointed: Where they found\\nhundreds of Ijidians gathered together from all Parts of\\nher Dominion. AwaJIionks her felf in a foaming Sweat was\\nleading the Dance. But fhe was no fooner fenfible of Mr.\\nChurches arrival, but fhe broke off, fat down, calls her\\nNobles round her, orders Mr. Church to be invited into\\nher prefence. Complements being paft, and each one tak-\\ning Seats. She told him. King Philip had fent Six Men\\nof his with two of her People that had been over at\\nMount-hope} to draw her into a confederacy with him in\\n1* It would feem to be fettled bj what\\nfollows, that this was in the early part of\\nthe week preceding the firft outbreak,\\nwhich would afTign it to 14-17 June,\\n1675. Blifs {_HtJi. Rehoboth, 75] fays\\nit was on the 15th.\\n15 I find no trace of this name in the\\nPlymouth Colony at this date. There\\nwas a Charles Hazelton at Ipfwich,\\n1661-6. Probably this Tennant\\nmight have come from Rhode-Illand.\\nA Charles Haftleton was Grand\\nJuror at a Qiiarter Seflions held at Roch-\\nefter, for Rhode-Illand and Providence\\nPlantations, in September, 1688. [Sav-\\nage s Gen. Did. ii 395 R.-I. Col.\\nRec. iii 243.]\\n1** Mount-Hope was the eafy and in-\\nevitable Anglicifm of Alontop {Mon-\\ntaup), which was the Indian name of the\\nhill on the eaftern fhore of what is\\nnow Briftol, R.-I., fronting Tiverton.\\nMount-Hope neck included the land\\nrunning down into the bay, fhaped\\nby Kikemuit river on the eaft and\\nnorth, and Warren (or Sotvams river\\non the weft; being fome nine miles in\\nlength by from two miles to one in\\nwidth, including the prefent towns of\\nWarren and Briftol, R.-I. On this\\nneck were then three Indian villages,\\nMontaup., near the hill Kikemuit.,\\naround the fpring of that name and\\nSorvams, on the fpot where the village\\nof Warren now ftands. Sotvams was\\nthe chief feat of MalTafoit Philip feems\\nto have more identified himfelf with\\nMontaup. [Feffenden s Warreti, R.-I.\\n13. 27, 65.]\\nThe name Montop (^Montaup is better\\nIndian), Mr. Trumbull fays, has pof-\\nfibly loft an initial fyllable. Ontop, or\\nOntaup, in compound words, means\\nhead, fummit. If the name, as", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "2\\na War with the Englifh. Defirlng him to give her his ad-\\nvice in the cafe, and to tell her the Truth whether the\\nUmpame^ Men (as Philip had told her) were gathering a\\ngreat Army to invade Philips Country. He allured her\\nhe would tell her the Truth, and give her his befl advice.\\nThen he told her twas but a few days fince he came from\\nPlymouth^ and the EngliJJi were then making no Prepara-\\ntions for War; That he was in Company with the Prin-\\ncipal Gentlemen of the Government, who had no Dif-\\ncourfe at all about War; and he believ d no tho ts about\\nit^^ He ask d her whether fhe tho t he would have\\nbrought up his Goods to Settle in that Place, if he ap-\\nprehended an entering into War with fo near a Neigh-\\nbour. She feem d to be fome-what convin d by his talk,\\nand faid fhe believ d he fpoke the Truth.\\nThen fhe called for the Mount-hope Men Who made a\\nformidable appearance, with their Faces Painted, and their\\nHair Trim d up in Comb-fafhion, with their Powder-\\nwritten, nearly reprefents the Indian, iscalledftillby the natives of il/ z^//^e.\\nit is unqueftionablj derived from mooi^ [2 Mafs. Hijl. Coll. iii 175.]\\nblack (or dark-colored), and otitup, i** This was true. The authorities\\nhead inoo-ontop, black head were very flow to believe in the danger\\nas rvompont-up (ufed by Eliot, with the of an Indian uprifing, even after they\\nparticipial aflix, as in Levit. xix. 32), had been warned by friendly Indians,\\nfor white head, hoary head. One and were witnefs to fome of Philip s\\nmay readily fuppofe that, when this fufpicious movements. The Governor\\nbeautiful fummit was thickly wooded, ordered a military watch to be kept up\\nthis name would be a natural one among in every town, but took no other notice\\nthe Indians for it. of the condud; of the Indians, hoping\\nUmpaine, written Apautn in the that the ftorm would blow over, as it\\nColony Records, is the name of Plym- had feveral times done before. \\\\_Gov^\\nouth in Church s Hiftory; and fo it ernors of New Plymouth., 182.]", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "[3\\nhorns, and Shot-bags at their backs; which among that\\nNation is the pofture and figure of preparednefs for War.\\nShe told Mr. Church, thefe were the Perfons that had\\nbrought her the Report of the EngliJJi preparation for\\nWar: And then told them what Mr. Church had faid in\\nanfwer to it.\\nUpon this began a warm talk among the Indians, but\\ntwas foon quafh d, and Awa/Jionks proceeded to tell Mr.\\nChurch, that Philips Meffage to her was, that unlefs fhe\\nwould forth-with enter into a confederacy with him in a\\nWar againfl the E^igliJIi, he would fend his Men over\\nprivately, to kill the EngliJJi Cattel, and burn their Houfes\\non that fide the River, which would provoke the EngliJJi\\nto fall upon her, whom they would without doubt fup- [3]\\npofe the author of the Mifchief Mr. CJiurcJi told her\\nhe was forry to fee fo threatning an afpeft of Affairs; and\\nfleping to the Mount-Jiopes, he felt of their bags, and find-\\ning them filled with Bullets, ask d them what those Bul-\\nlets were for: They fcoffingly reply d to fhoot Pigeons\\nwith.\\nThen Mr. CJiurcJi turn d to AwaJJionJzs, and told her,\\nif PJiilip were refolv d to make War, her beft way would\\nbe to knock thofe Six Momit-Jiopes on the head, and fhelter\\nher felf under the Prote6tion of the EngliJJi upon which\\nthe Mount-Jwpes were for the prefent Dumb. But thofe\\ntwo of AwaJJionJ^s Men who had been at Mount-Jiope ex-\\nprefs d themfelves in a furious manner againft his advice.\\n2 9", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "[3\\nAnd Little Eyes^^ one of the Queens Council joyn d with\\nthem, and urged Mr. Church to go afide with him among\\nthe bufhes that he might have fome private Difcourfe\\nwith him, which other Indians immediately forbid being\\nfenfible of his ill defign: but the Indians began to fide\\nand grow very warm. Mr. Church with undaunted Cour-\\nage told the Mou7tt-hopes they were bloody wretches, and\\nthirfted after the blood of their EngliJJi Neighbours, who\\nhad never injur d them, but had always abounded in their\\nkindnefs to them. That for his own part, tho he delired\\nnothing more than Peace, yet if nothing but War would\\nfatisfie them, he believed he fhould prove a fharp thorne in\\ntheir fides; Bid the Company obferve thofe Men that\\nwere of fuch bloody dispofitions, whether Providence\\nwould fuffer them to Live to fee the event of the War,\\nwhich others more Peaceably difpofed might do.\\nThen he told AwaJJwnks he thought it might be moft\\nadvifable for her to fend to the Governour of Plymouth^\\nand fhelter her felf, and People under his Prote6tion. She\\nlik d his advice, and defired him to go on her behalf to\\nthe PlymotUh Government, which he confented to And at\\n1^ Little Eyes with his family deferted 1673, and Jofias Winflow was chofen\\nthe Saconets when they made friends his fucceflbr in the following June. He\\nwith Plymouth. He was taken prifoner was the only fon of the firft Governor\\nduring the progrefs of the war, when Winflow by his fecond marriage; in\\nCapt. Church was urged to take revenge 1652, had military command in Marfh-\\nfor the hoftility here difplayed, but re- field 1658, was Major, then Command-\\nplied that it was not Englifhmen s falli- er; 1675, General-in-Chief againft\\nion to feek revenge, and gave him the Philip. \\\\_Govs. New Plym. 175-196;\\nfame good quarter with the reft. N. R. Hijl. and Gen. Reg. iv 297.]\\nGov. Prince died in the fpring of", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "[3\\nparting advifed her what ever fhe did, not to defert the\\nEnglijli Interefl, to joyn with her Neighbours in a Rebel-\\nlion which would certainly prove fatal to her. [He\\nmov d none of his Goods from his Houfe that there might\\nnot be the leaft umbrage from such an A6lion.] She\\nthank d him for his advice, and fent two of her Men to\\nguard him to his Houfe which when they came there,\\nurged him to take care to fecure his Goods, which he re-\\nfufed for the reafons before mentioned. But delired the\\nIndiaiis^ that if what they feared, fhould happen, they\\nwould take care of what he left, and diredled them to a\\nPlace in the woods where they fhould difpofe them;\\nwhich they faithfully obferved.\\nHe took his leave of his guard, and bid them tell their\\nMiftrefs, if fhe continued fteady in her dependence on the\\nEnglijh, and kept within her own limits of Sogkonate^ he\\nwould fee her again quickly; and then haftned away to\\nPocajfet^ where he met with Peter Nunmdt^ the Husband\\n21 Situated on lot No. 19, which was examination of the Proprietors and\\n629 rods fouth of Pachet brook; be- early town records, and of the original\\ning the farm in Little Compton now deeds from the Indians, I think that\\nowned and occupied by Mr. John B. Awallionks s territories centered about\\nRowland, on the weft fide of the road, Tompe fwamp, lying along the weft-\\noppofite to the fchool-houfe, nearly ern Ihore of the peninfula of Saconet,\\ntwo miles fouth of the prefent Tiverton from the fouth fide of Windmill hill\\nline. to what is now the Breakwater.\\n22 It is difficult to make out the ex- 23 YhAS Indian s name was Petono-Mo-\\na6l limits of the fmall Sachemdoms -wet, or Pe-tan-a-nuct, which the Eng-\\nwhich divided between them what is lifh corrupted eafily into Pf^criVwwww//\\nnow Little Compton and Tiverton, 8 May, 1673, he, with two other In-\\nR.-I. It is doubtful if thofe limits were dians, fold a lot of land in Swanfey to\\never very well defined. But from an Nathaniel Paine and Hugh Cole, for", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "[4]\\nof the Queen of Pocaffet^ who was juft then come over\\nin a Canoo from Motint-Jwpe. Peter told him that there\\nwould certainly be War; for PJiilip had held a [4] Dance\\nof feveral Weeks continuance, and had entertain d the\\nYoung Men from all Parts of the Country: And added\\nthat Philip expe6led to be fcnt for to Plymouth to be exam-\\nined about Safamoii^^ death, who was Murder d at AJfa-\\n^35 S-^* ^Is was, about the fame time,\\na witnefs in regard to a land cafe on\\nTaunton river. In Philip s war he for-\\nfook his wife and fought with the Eng-\\nHfh. In 1676 (ordered by the Council,\\n22 July, and confirmed by the Court,\\nI November) he, with Numpas and\\nIfacke, was made infpeftor of Indian\\nprifoners who had applied for accept-\\nence to mercye from the weftermoft\\nfyde of Sepecan Riuer, and foe weft-\\nward to Dartmouth bounds. He was\\nthen ftyled Sachem Bc7i Petananuctt.\\n[Drake s Book of Ind. i8S; Plym. Col.\\nRec. v: 210, 215.]\\nThis was Weefamoe, (or Namiim-\\npam), who had been the wife of Philip s\\nelder brother WamJ ittta, or Alexander.\\nThe author of the Old Ifidian Chron-\\nicle [p. 8] intimates that fhe believed\\nher husband had been poifoned by the\\nEnglifh, and that this made her more\\nwilling to liften to Philip. In 0(5tober,\\n1659, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0^^^s at Plymouth to fecure the\\nthird part of the pay for fome land which\\nAlexander had fold and acknowledged\\nthe receipt of the fame. 3 June, 1662,\\nfhe complained, at Plymouth, of fome\\ninfringement on her rights in Wamfut-\\nta s fale of Saconet. At the fame time\\nadvice was given to her and her huf-\\nband, Alexander, (here called ^uiquc-\\nquanchctt,) in reference to difficulties\\nexifting between them and Philip in\\nregard to the entertaining of fome Nar-\\nraganfett Indians againft Philip s good-\\nwill. Weetamoe did not follow her fec-\\nond husband, as he appears to have ex-\\npe6ted fhe would, to the Englilb. She\\nunited her fortunes to thofe of Philip,\\nand miferably perifhed, when her head\\nwas cut off and fet on a pole at Taun-\\nton. [Drake s Book of Ind. 187; Plym.\\nCol. Rec. iv: 17, 24, 186.]\\nSaffanion (or Wujfaufmoti) was born\\nin the neighborhood of Dorchefter, be-\\ncame a convert and was educated, and\\nemployed as a fchoolmafter at Natick,\\nand is faid to have aided John Eliot in\\ntranflating the Indian Bible. Aftef a\\ntime he left the Englilh and became\\nPhilip s fecretary, and, as fuch, privy to\\nhis defigns. Subfequently he returned\\nto his Chriftian faith, and became teach-\\ner to the Nemaskets, whofe chief, Wa-\\ntufpaquin, gave him a houfe-lot in Af-\\nfawompfett neck (Middleborough), with\\none alfo to his fon-in-law. He revealed\\nPhilip s plot to the government at Plym-\\nouth, and not long after (29 Jan.\\n1674-5) w^s found dead, under the ice\\non Affawompfett pond, with marks of", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "[4]\\nwomJe^-Fonds knowing himfelf guilty of contriving that\\nMurder. The fame Pe/er told him that he faw Mr. James\\nBrow7i^ of Swanzey^^ and Mr. Samuel Gortoii^ who was\\nan Interpreter, and two other Men who brought a Letter\\nfrom the Governour of Plymouth to Philip. He obferv d\\nto him further, that the Young Men were very eager to\\nbegin the War, and would fain have kill d Mr. Brozvn, but\\nPhilip prevented it; telling them, that his Father had\\ncharged him to Ihew kindnefs to Mr. Brown.^ In fhort,\\nviolence. Three Indians were tried and\\nexecuted for his murder, there being\\nlittle doubt that it had occurred by\\nPhilip s command. [Mather s Rclatioji,\\n74; Hubbard s Narrative., 14; N. E.\\nHiji. and Gen. Reg. xv 43, 149.]\\nAJfawomffctt (^So-Mamfijit, Sotvam-\\nfef) fo7id is, with its conne(5ling ponds,\\nthe largeft fheet of water in Plymouth\\nCounty not merely, but in Maflachu-\\nfetts being fome fix miles long by a\\nwidth varying from four miles to a few\\nrods. It lies partly in Rochefter, more in\\nMiddleborough, moft in the new town\\nof Lakeville. Prefident Stiles, on the\\nauthority of Jonathan Butterworth, cet.\\n63, of Rehoboth, in 1762, fays that\\nAflawampfett is fo called from a place\\nor patch of beech-trees, called in Indian\\nfa-cvamfs; so AJ/a7vafnf/ctt, Satvainp-\\nJctt, both names of the fame place.\\nBut he adds, Sotvampjit fignifies a\\n/mall pond cticompajfcd ivith trees\\nfovjamps., beech-trees and putting both\\ntogether, fignifies a pond of xvater -Mt tk\\nbeech-trees groxvirtg around it. Mr.\\nTrumbull comments, I don t believe\\na word of this but as Prefident Stiles is\\nrefpedlable authority, and Butterworth\\ncan t be impeached, I give it, for what\\nit is worth. Sozvams, Sotvamps Savj-\\nhatnes bay.^ Winthrop s yourttal, ii\\n121, note) is the fignificant word; the\\nct marking the locative.\\n2 James Brown was born probably in\\nEngland; was the fon of John, eminent\\nin the Colony, being feventeen years\\nAffiftant and many years Commiflioner\\nof the United Colonies. James was alfo\\nAffiftant in various years from 1665 to\\n1684. He died at Wannamoi/ ctt, in\\nSwanfey, 29 Odt. 1710, aged 87, leav-\\ning two fons, James and Jabez, and one\\ndaughter, Dorothy Kent. [Baylies s\\nPlym. Col. iv: iS; Blifs s Rehoboth,\\n53 75. 78.]\\n28 Swanfey then included Somerfet,\\nMafs., and Barrington, R.-I., with a\\nportion of Warren, R.-I., befides the\\nprefent town of Swanfey. [Blifs s Re-\\nhoboth, I.]\\n29 The man of that name famous in\\nthe early controverfies of New Eng-\\nland.\\nMr. John Brown, father of this\\nMr. Brown, was a man of great kind-\\n13", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "[4]\\nPhilip was forc d to promife them that on the next Lords-\\nDay when the EngliJJt were gone to Meeting they fhould\\nrifle their Houfes, and from that time forward kill their\\nCattel.\\nPeter delir d Mr. Church to go and fee his Wife, who\\nwas but up the hill;^^ he went and found but few of her\\nPeople with her. She faid they were all gone, againft her\\nWill to the Dances; and flie much fear d there would be a\\nWar. Mr. Church advis d her to go to the Ifland^^ and\\nfecure her felf, and thofe that were with her; and fend to\\nthe Governour oi Plymouth who flie knew was her friend;\\nand fo left her, refolving to haften to Plymouth, and wait\\non the Governour: and he was fo expeditious that he\\nwas with the Governour early next Morning,^ tho he\\nwaited on fome of the Magifl;rates by the way, who\\nwere of the Council of War,^* and alio met him at the\\nnefs of heart, a friend of toleration, Rhode-Ifland.\\nand the firft of the Plymouth magif- The diftance making allowance\\ntrates who doubted the expediency of for the indiredlnefs of the Indian paths\\ncoercing the people to fupport the min- could not have been lefs, probably, than\\niftry. Thefe qualities would naturally forty-two miles from Pocaflet, and nearly\\nendear him to Maflafoit, to whom he fifty from Church s houfe at Saconet.\\nwas a neighbor, and lead that good old The date of his arrival was Wednefday,\\nchief to give the charge which Philip i6 June, 1675. \\\\_N. E. Hijl. and Gen.\\nmentions, in reference to his family. Reg. -sx 260.]\\nMr. James Brown, indeed, feems to The Council of War was a body\\nhave inherited his father s difpofition, which was empowered to adl fpecially\\nand it was at his urgent folicitation that on military queftions, and was compofed\\nthis letter was fent to promote peace, of the Governor and Affiftants ex officio.,\\n[Blifs s /?c// J(! 75.] and of others fpecially appointed. The\\n3^ Tiverton heights, which the upper laft record of election previous to Phil-\\nroad to Fall River climbs almoft imme- ip s war was, 7 July, 1671, when Capt.\\ndiately after leaving the Stone bridge. Mathew Fuller, Leift. Ephraim Mor-\\n14", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "[4\\nGovernours. He gave them an account of his obferva-\\ntions and difcoveries, which confirmed their former intel-\\nligences, and haftned their preparation for Defence.\\nPhilip according to his promife to his People, permitted\\nthem to March out of the Neck^ on the next Lords-\\nDay,^ when they plundred the neareft Houfes^ that the\\nInhabitants had deferted:^ but as yet offer d no violence\\nto the People, at left none were killed. However the\\nalarm was given by their Numbers, and hoftile-Equipage,\\nand by the Prey they made of what they could find in the\\nforfaken Houfes.\\nAn exprefs came the fame day^ to the Governour, who\\nimmediately gave orders to the Captains of the Towns to\\nton, Enfign Mark Eames, Cornett Rob-\\nert Studfon, Mr. Jofias Winflow, fen.,\\nSec. Nathaniel Morton, and Meffrs.\\nJames Walker, Thomas Huckens, and\\nIfacke Chettenden, were chofen by the\\nCourt, and fvvorn. \\\\_Plym. Col. Rcc. v\\n73-]\\nThe narrow ftrip between Kike-\\nmuit and Warren rivers, by which the\\npeninfula of Mount-Hope, or Pock-\\nanocket, was joined to the main-land\\nat Swanfey.\\n36 20 June, 1675. [Trumbull s Hijl.\\nCotm. I 327.]\\nThefe were probably the houfes\\nwhich Judge Davis refers to where he\\nfays, There was a fettlement within\\nMount-Hope neck appertaining to\\nSwanfey. It contained eighteen houfes,\\nall deftroyed. [Davis s Morton s Me-\\nmorial, 463.] This was in the north-\\nern part of what is now Warren, R.-I.\\nTenantlefs for the time, in con-\\nfequence of their occupants being ab-\\nfent at church. [Feflenden s Warren,\\n66.] Mr. Drake fuggefts \\\\_Notes on the\\nIndian Wars in N. E., in N. E. Hi/I.\\nand Gen. Reg. xv 154], on the author-\\nity of Winflow s and Hinckley s Nar-\\nrative of the Beffinning and Progrejs\\nof the Prefent Troubles, that the people\\nhad deferted them through fear.\\nThe melTenger reached Plymouth\\nat break of day, Monday morning.\\n[Barry s Ma/s. i 410.] Befides fend-\\ning expreffes to the Captains of the\\ntowns, the Court, on Tuefday, ifTued a\\nproclamation for a faft on the next\\nThurfday. That proclamation was as\\nfollows [Blifs s Rehoboth, 79]\\nThe Council of this Colony, taking\\ninto their feriousconfideration the awe-\\nful hand of God upon us, in permitting\\nthe heathen to carry it with infolency\\n15", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "[4\\nMarch the greateft Part of their Companies, and to ran-\\ndezvous at Taunton, on Moitday Night, where Major Brad-\\nford was to receive them, and difpofe them under Capt.\\n(now made Major) Cutwortk^^ of Situate. The Govern-\\nand rage againft us, appearing in their\\ngreat hoftile preparations, and alfo\\nfome outrageous carriages, as at other\\ntimes, fo in fpecial, the laft Lord s\\nday to fome of our neighbours at\\nSwanfej, to the apparent hazard if\\nnot real lofs of the lives of fome al-\\nready; do therefore judge it a folemn\\nduty, incumbent upon us all, to lay to\\nheart this difpenfation of God, and\\ndo therefore commend it to all the\\nchurches, minifters, and people of this\\ncolony to fet apart the 24 day of this\\ninftant, June, which is the 5 day of\\nthis week, wherein to humble our\\nfelves before the Lord for all thofe\\nfins whereby we have provoked our\\ngood God fadly to interrupt our peace\\nand comfort, and alfo humbly to feek\\nhis face and favour in the gracious\\ncontinuance of our peace and privi-\\nleges, and that the Lord would be en-\\ntreated to go forth with our forces,\\nand blefs, fucceed and profper them,\\ndelivering them from the hands of his\\nand our enemies, fubduing the heathen\\nbefore them, and returning them all\\nin fafety to their families and relations\\nagain; and that God would prepare\\nall our hearts humbly to fubmit to his\\ngood pleafure concerning us.\\nBy orders of the Court of N. P.\\nNathaniel Morton, Secretary.\\nPlymouth, June 22, 1675.\\nBefides the 12 churches and min-\\nifters of the Standing Order, there\\nwas then one Baptift church, formed in\\nRehoboth in 1663, of which Rev. John\\nMyles was Paftor, to accommodate\\nwhich with a place where they might\\nnot prejudice any exifting church,\\nthey had been incorporated, in 1667, as\\nthe town of Swanfey. This, of courfe,\\nwas the neareft church to the fcene of\\nthe breaking out of Philip s war, and it\\nwas, doubtlefs, to their meeting-houfe\\nwhich ftood a few rods fouth of the\\nfouth line of Rehoboth, on the road\\nleading to the houfe of the late Mr.\\nSquire Allen, about fifteen or twenty\\nrods from the main road leading from\\nWarren to Seekonk and Providence\\nthat the fettlers had gone, on Lord s Day,\\nJune 20, when their houfes were plun-\\ndered by the Indians in the firft allault.\\n\\\\_BaptiJt Memorial^ iv 227.]\\nWilliam Bradford^ fecond fon of\\nGov. William, of imperilhable mem-\\nory, was born 17 June, 1624, and was,\\nnext to Miles Standifh, a chief foldLer of\\nthe Colony. He was Afllftant Treafurer\\nand Deputy Governor from 16S2 to\\n16S6, and from 1689 to 1691, and in the\\nlatter year one of the Council of Mafla-\\nchufetts. He married (i) Alice Rich-\\nards, (2) Widow Wifwall, (3) Widow\\nHolmes lived in what is now Kingfton,\\non the fouth fide of Jones s river, and\\ndied 20 Feb. 1703-4, aged nearly So.\\n{^N. E. Hiji. and Gen. Reg. iv 45.]\\nI yatnes Cicdxvorth was in Scituate\\nin 1634, lived for a time in Barnftable,\\n16", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "[5\\nour defired Mr. Church to give them his Company, and\\nto ufe his intereft in their behalf with the Gentlemen of\\nRhode-I/land} He comply d with it, and they March d\\nthe next day.^^ Major Bradford defired Mr. Church with\\na commanded party conlifting oi EngliJJi and fome Friend-\\nI7idia7ts, to March in the Front at fome diftance from the\\nMain body. Their orders were to keep fo far before, as\\nnot be in light of the Army. And fo they did, for by the\\nway, they killed a Deer, [5] flead, roafted, and eat the\\nmoft of him before the Army came up with them. But\\nthe Plymouth Forces foon arriv d at Swanzey, and were\\nbut returned to Scituate was Deputy\\nfor feveral years Captain of the mili-\\ntia, 1652 Afliftant, 1656-8 was de-\\nprived of his command and offices and\\ndiffranchifed, 1658-73, being a friend\\nof toleration, and fo judged an oppof-\\ner of the Government. In 1674 he\\nwas chofen Affiftant, and in 1675 Gen-\\neral and Commander in Chief for\\nPhilip s war. In 1682 he went to Eng-\\nland for the Colony, to obtain a new\\nCharter, where he took the fmall-pox\\nand died. He was paft feventy when\\nhe took the field at this time againft\\nPhilip. [Deane s Scituate, 245-251.]\\nTo underftand this expreffion it is\\nneedful to remember that Rhode-Illand\\nhad been excluded from the Confederacy\\nof the Colonies formed for mutual de-\\nfence in 1643: on account of her\\nheretical toleration of religious freedom,\\nand her open advocacy of liberty of con-\\nfcience, fays the Editor of Eafton s\\nNarrative upon grounds which re-\\n3\\nfle6l no credit upon the Puritan con-\\nfederates, says Arnold becaufe they\\nhad not been able to inftitute a govern-\\nment, fuch as could be relied on for the\\nfulfilment of the ftipulations mutually\\nmade by the Four Colonies, with more\\njuftice, fays Palfrey. Thus ftanding by\\nthemfelves, no claim for aid could be\\nmade upon her citizens, while the facft\\nthat their interefts were, in the refpe6ls\\nnow involved, one with thofe of the\\nConfederacy, made it probable, that, if\\nfuitably approached by one of their\\nfriends, as Church was they would\\nfurnifh fuch aid as might be in their\\npower. Eafton fays that the Governor\\nof Plymouth wrote them at this junc-\\nture, to defier our Help with fum\\nBoats if they had fuch Ocation, and for\\nus to looke to our felfs. [Eafton s\\nNarrative, vi, 16 Arnold s Hijl.\\nRhode- IJland, i: 115; Palfrey s HiJl.\\nNevj England, i 629.]\\n*3 Tuefday, 22 June, 1675.\\n17", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "[S\\npolled at Major Browns and Mr. Miles s Garrifons*^ chiefly;\\nand were there foon joyned*^ with thofe that came from\\nMajffachufetts^ who had entred into a Confederacy with\\ntheir Plymouth Brethren, againft the Perfidious Heathen.\\nThe Enemy who began their Hoflilities with plundring\\nand deftroying Cattel, did not long content themfelves\\nwith that game. They thirfled for EngUJJi blood, and they\\nfoon broach d it;*^ killing two Men in the way not far\\nMyles s Garrifon was the fortified\\nhoufe of the Rev. John Myles, paftor of\\nthe Baptifl: Church in Swanfey [fee note\\n39, ante\\\\ which is fuppofed to have\\nftood in what is now Barnejville, about\\n75 rods a little north of due weft from\\nMiles s bridge, which croffes Palmer\\n(or Warren) river about three miles\\nnorth of Warren, R.-I. Mr. Myles\\nwas put to fo much expenfe by the war,\\nthat, 25 Feb. 1679, it was voted by the\\ntown that Mr. John Myles fhall have\\nthe houfe built for him to indemnify him\\nfor debts due him in the time of the In-\\ndian war, in full of his demands, etc.\\n\\\\^MS. Haile Records, 42.] The po-\\nlition of Maj. Brown s [fee note 27, antc\\\\\\ngarrifon has not been exadlly identified,\\nbut it is fuppoied to have been in the fame\\npart of Swanfey with Myles s garrifon.\\nThe Plymouth forces probably\\nreached Swanfey on the afternoon of\\nTuefday, 22 June, or, at furtheft, on\\nWednefday, 23 June while the firft of\\nthe Maflachufetts forces left Bofton on\\nSaturday, 26 June, and all of them ar-\\nrived at Swanfey on Monday, 28 June.\\n[FefTenden s Warren, 66, 69.]\\nThe MafTachufetts forces, on this\\noccafion, confifted of a troop of horfe\\nunder Capt. Thomas Prentice, one of\\nfoot imder Capt. Daniel Henchman,\\nand one hundred and ten volunteers\\nunder Capt. Samuel Mofley. Mofley\\nhad been a Privateer at Jamaica,\\nand his volunteers included ten or\\ntwelve pirates under fentence of death,\\nwho were taken out of jail to join the\\ncommand, and promifed life on good\\nbehavior. Three Chriftian Indians\\nJames and Thomas ^uattnafokuit and\\nZechary Abram were attached to\\nCapt. Prentice s troop as guides. Sev-\\neral dogs to be ufed in hunting the\\nIndians were with Mofley s company.\\n[Drake s Hift. of BoJIoti, i 402 N. E.\\nHijl. and Gen. Reg. xv 262 Tranfac-\\ntions Amer. Attiiquarian Society, ii\\n441.]\\nIt is very difficult to harmonize the\\nvarious conflicting authorities fo as to\\nbe certain when, or in what manner, the\\nfirft blood was drawn. Rev. Abiel\\nFiflier, in his hiftory of the Firft Baptift\\nChurch in Swanfey, fays that Eldad\\nKingfley one of its members was\\nthe firft man fiain, on Faft-day, the 24th,\\nat Swanfey. The Breiff Narratiue", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "[5\\nfrom Mr. Miles Garrifon. And foon after, eight more\\nat Mattapoifet Upon whofe bodies they exercifed more\\nthan brutifh barbarities beheading, dif-membring and\\nmangling them, and expofing them in the moft inhumane\\nmanner, which gafh d and ghoftly obje6ts flruck a damp\\non all beholders.\\nThe Enemy flufh d with thefe exploits, grew yet bolder,\\nand skulking every where in the bufhes, fhot at all PafTen-\\ngers, and kill d many that ventured abroad. They came\\nfo near as to fhoot down two Sentinels at Mr. Miles\\\\\\nprefented by the Pl_vmouth Colony to\\nthe Commiffioners of the United\\nColonies, which feems to have been\\nprepared with minute care, mentions as\\nthe firft perfon killed, on the 24\\nThomas layton was flaine att the fall\\nRiuer. Hubbard and moft writers\\nname the 24th, Thurfday, the day of\\nFaft. But the anonj mous author of the\\nPrejent State of Ncxv England -ivitk\\nrcfpedl to the Indian War [p. 5] fays\\nthat the firft that was killed was June\\n23* while Baylies {^Hijl. New Plym.\\nCol. iii 33] feems to fpecify the 22d.\\n[See Blifs s Rehobotk, 80-84; Baftijl\\nMemorial, iv 232 Feflenden s War-\\nren, 68, 69; Eafton s Narrative, 17;\\nPlym. Col. Rec. x 364 Drake s Notes\\non the Indian Wars, in N. E. Hijl. and\\nGen. Reg. xv 156, etc., for various\\nparticulars bearing on the queftion.]\\nNiles \\\\^HiJl. of Indian and French\\nWars, 3 Mafs. Hifl. Coll. vi 178, etc.]\\ncareleflly defcribes all thefe occurrences\\nas being in 1674, inftead of 1675.\\nMattapoifet {Mattapoyfett Mcta-\\npoifet, Matapuyfi, Mattapoife), was the\\nfmall peninfula running into Mount-\\nHope bay oppofite the fouthweftern ex-\\ntremity of Somerfet, having Cole s river\\non the weft, and Lee s river on the eaft;\\nnow called Gardner s neck. Parfons\\n{^Indian Names of Places in R.-I. 16]\\nfays the word means crying chief.\\nTrumbull fays it does not mean cry-\\ning chief. The Indians never gave\\nnames of pctfons, or animate objci^s to\\nplaces, unlefs with an adjeAive or verb\\ncompounded, to mark the relation of\\nperfon to thing, e. g. a pond might be\\ncalled a fifhing-place for pickerel, or\\na hill the camping place of Sofo, but\\nnever pickerel, or Sofo. Alctapoi-\\nfet, or Matapyfl, feems to be identical\\nwith Matabefet {Mattapcafet, Mat-\\ntabejick), the name of Middletown,\\nConn. This name looks like a deriva-\\ntive of mattappu, he fits down or\\nrefts, and I know of no other word\\nfrom which it can be derived. But I\\nam by no means confident that it is\\nfrom this.\\n19", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "[5\\nGarrifon, under the very Nofes of moll of our Forces.\\nThefe provocations drew out the refentments of fome*^ of\\nCapt. Prentices^ Troop, v^ho defired they might have\\nliberty to go out and feek the Enemy in their own quar-\\nters. Quarter Maflers Gill^^ Belcher^ commanded the\\nParties drawn out, who earneftly delired Mr. Churches\\ncompany: They provided him a Horfe and Furniture (his\\nown being out of the way) he readily comply d with their\\ndelires, and was foon Mounted.\\nThis party were no fooner over Miles Bridge, but\\nwere fired on by an Ambufcado of about a dozen Indians^\\nas they were afterwards difcovered to be. When they\\ndrew off, the Pilot was Mortally wounded, Mr. Belcher\\n*3 Hubbard fays twelve of the\\nTroop. \\\\_Narrative, i8.] He fixes\\nthe time alfo as on the day of the arri-\\nval of the troop, viz Monday, 28 June.\\nCaJ f. Thomas Prentice was born\\nin England in 1620-1 came over,\\n1648-9; fettled in the eafterly part\\nof Cambridge was chofen Lieut, of\\nTroopers in 1656, and in 1662 Cap-\\ntain was Deputy, 1672 was appointed\\nto remove the Natick Indians to Deer\\nIfland, which he did; fucceeded Maj.\\nGookin as magiftrate to advife the\\nChriftian Indians; died 6 July, 1710.\\nThere is a tradition that he ferved un-\\nder Cromwell. [Jackfon s H(/i. ofNc^v-\\nt07i, 3S9, 469-475-]\\n61 Mr. Drake fuppofes his Chriftian\\nname to have been John. \\\\_HiJl. Bojl.\\ni 403.] In which cafe he was prob-\\nably that John who lived on Milton hill,\\nwho joined the church in Dorchefter,\\n1640, and petitioned for the incorpora-\\ntion of Milton in 1662. He died in\\n1678, and left a daughter, who married\\nRev. Jofeph Belcher, third minifter of\\nDedham. of Dorchejler, 120.]\\n62 Mr. Drake \\\\_HiJi. Boji. i: 403]\\nfuppofes this to be Andrew Belcher\\n(father of Gov. Jonathan), who was\\nnow a little more than 28 years of age.\\n63 Hubbard fays, killing one Wil-\\nliam Hammond. \\\\^Narrative, 18.]\\nThis was probably Wm. Hammon,\\nwhofe mark was aflixed as a witnefs to\\nPhilip s quitclaim of the eight miles\\nfquare purchafe in Rehoboth, of date\\n30 March, 1668; who was doubtlefs the\\nfame William Hamon who had a\\ndaughter Elizabeth born at Rehoboth,\\n24 Sept. 1661. Savage doubts, be-\\ncaufe this man was of the troop of\\nCapt. Prentifs, which muft, we fuppofe,\\nhave chiefly been compofed of volun-", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "[5\\nreceived a fhot in his knee, and his Horfe was kill d under\\nhim, Mr. Gill was ftruck with a Musket-ball on the fide of\\nhis belly; but being clad with a buff Coat^ and fome\\nthicknefs of Paper under it, it never broke his skin. The\\nTroopers were furprized to fee both their Commanders\\nwounded, and wheel d off. But Mr. Church perfwaded, at\\nlength ftorm d and ftampt, and told them twas a fhame to\\nrun, and leave a wounded Man there to become a Prey to\\nthe barbarous Enemy. For the Pilot yet fat his Horfe,\\ntho fo maz d with the Shot, as not to have fenfe to guide\\nhim. Mr. Gill feconded him, and offer d, tho much dif-\\nenabled, to affift in bringing him off. Mr. Church asked\\na Stranger who gave them his company in that action, if\\nhe would go with him and fetch off the wounded Man:\\nHe readily confented, they with Mr. Gill went, but the\\nwounded Man fainted and fell off his Horfe before they\\ncame to him but Mr. Church and the Stranger difmounted,\\ntook up the Man dead, and laid him before Mr. Gill on\\nteers of Cambridge, and the neighbor- in Gardener s Pcquot Warycs as killed\\ning town of Dedham. But Jackfon in that war, was an anachroniftic ren-\\n\\\\^HiJl. Newt. 471] fays this Hammond, dering of this occurrence. But Gar-\\nhere killed, was not of Cambridge, dener wrote in 1660, fifteen years be-\\nand Church fays he was the pilot of fore this Swanfey skirmilb. [Blifs s\\nthe party, (Mather [_Brief Hijiory, 4] Rekoboth, 66 Plym. Col. Rcc. viii 52\\nfays the Indians Ibot the Pilot who was Gen. Did. ii 34S; 3 Mafs. Htjl. Coll.\\ndirecting our Souldiers in their way to iii 130, 157.]\\nPhilip s Country, who would moft m u ^-loCg military outer garment,\\nnaturally be not of the troop, but a refi- with ftiort fleeves, and laced tightly over\\ndent of the neighborhood, familiar with the cheft, made of buffalo-skin, or other\\nthe wood-paths and the enemy. Savage thick and elaftic material, worn by fol-\\nfurther fuggests that the ftory of Wil- diers in the feventeenth century as a\\nliam Hamman of the Bay, mentioned defenfive covering. Webjler.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "[6\\nhis Horfe. Mr. Church told the other two, if they would\\ntake care of the dead Man, he would go and fetch his\\nHorfe back, which was going off the Caffey^^ toward [6]\\nthe Enemy; but before he got over the Caffey he faw the\\nEnemy run to the right into the Neck. He brought\\nback the Horfe, and call d earneftly and repeatedly to the\\nArmy to come over fight the Enemy; and while he\\nflood calling perfwading, the skulking Enemy return d\\nto their old ftand, and all difcharged their Guns at him at\\none clap, tho every fhot mifs d him\\\\ yet one of the Army\\non the other fide of the river received one of the balls in\\nhis foot. Mr. Church now began (no fuccour coming to\\nhim) to think it time to retreat: Saying, The Lord have\\nMercy on us, if fuch a handful of Indians fliall thus dare\\nfuch an Army!^*^\\nUpon this twas immediately refolv d,^^ and orders were\\ngiven to March down into the Neck, and having pafled\\nThis is a truer fpelling than the weather was fuch, as that nothing could\\nmodern caufeway, iince the word be done againft the enemy; this man\\ncame into our language from the French was poffeffed with a ftrong conceit, th-at\\nchaujfee, a way paved with limeftone. God was againft the EngUJh where-\\nThe road adjacent to the bridge was upon he immediately ran diftradled, and\\nhere evidently banked up to give dry fo was returned home a lamentable\\npaffage over the marfh skirting the Spedlacle. IBn cf Htjiory, 4.] Mr,\\nftream. Drake, in his late valuable reprint of\\n66 Mather fays a Souldier (a ftout Mather, makes it probable that this\\nman) who was fent from ]Vater-to7vti, man s name was William Sherman, jr.\\nfeeing the Englijk Guide flain, and [p. 58.]\\nhearingmany profane oaths amongfome Hubbard fays the next morn-\\nof our Souldiers (namely thofe Priva- ing which would be Tuefday, 29\\nteers, who were alfo Volunteers) and June. \\\\_Nan-ative, 18.]\\nconfidering the unfeafonablenefs of the", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "[6]\\nthe Bridge, and Caffey, the direction was to extend both\\nwings, which being not well headed, by thofe that remain d\\nin the Center, fome of them miftook their Friends for\\ntheir Enemies, and made a fire upon them on the right\\nwing, and wounded that noble Heroick Youth Enfign\\nSavage^^ in the thigh; but it happily prov d but a flefh\\nwound. They Marched until they came to the narrow\\nof the Neck, at a Place called Keekkamuit^ where they\\nPerez Savage, fourth fon of Thom-\\nas, who came in the Planter from Lon-\\ndon, April, 1635, was born 17 Feb. 1652,\\nand Avas now, therefore, in his 24th\\nyear, though Hubbard calls him that\\nyoung Martial Spark fcarce twenty\\nyears of age. He was wounded again\\nin the fwamp fight in the following\\nDecember, when he was Lieut, of the\\nfame corps. He went to London in\\n1690, to carry on trade with Spain\\nwas taken captive by the Turks and\\ndied at Mequinez, in Barbarj during\\n1694. Some curious particulars about\\nhis wills are mentioned y Savage.\\n[G Di^. iv 25, 26.] Hubbard\\n{^Narrative, 19] fays he had one bul-\\nlet lodged in his Thigh, another Ihot\\nthrough the brim of his hat, by ten or\\ntwelve of the Enemy difcharging upon\\nhim together, while he boldly held up\\nhis Colors in the Front of his Compa-\\nny. Church, as on the ground,\\nthough di6tating this account forty\\nyears after the occurrence, is the more\\ntruftworthy authority as to the fource of\\nthe wound, and the fadl of the blunder,\\nwhich he alone narrates.\\nChurch s language would lead one\\nto fuppofe that they iinmediaiely con-\\ntinued their march. But Hubbard fays,\\nthe weather not fuffering any further\\nadlion at that time, thofe that were thus\\nfar advanced, were compelled to retreat\\nback to the main Guard and adds\\nthat Major Savage, Commander-in-\\nChief of the Maffachufetts forces, arrived\\nthat night, and the next day the whole\\nbody intended to march into Mount-\\nHope, but the weather being doubt-\\nful, our Forces did not march till near\\nnoon. This interpofes more than\\ntwentv-four hours between the skirmifh\\nin which Enfign Savage was wounded,\\nand what Church next proceeds to nar-\\nrate. \\\\_Narraiive, 19.] So that the\\nacJtual march into the neck was on\\nWednefday, 30 June.\\nThe narroweft part of the neck\\nbetween Warren and Kikemuit rivers\\nis a little north of the line which divides\\nBrift:ol from Warren, The name Kcek-\\nkamuit was appropriated to an Indian\\nvillage that fl:ood around a fpring of that\\nname, in this narrow of the neck.\\nThis is fome four miles from Miles s\\nbridge. This accords with what Hub-\\nbard fays: After they had marched\\n23", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "[6]\\ntook down the heads of Eight Engli/7t Men that were kill d\\nat the head of Metapoi/et-NQc\\\\i, and fet upon Polls, after\\nthe barbarous manner of thofe Salvages. There Philip\\nhad ftaved all his Drums,^^ and conveyed all his Canoo s\\nto the Eafl-fide of Metapoifet-WvM^xF- Hence it was con-\\ncluded by thofe that were acquainted with the Motions of\\nthofe People, that they had quitted the Neck. Mr. CImrch\\ntold em that Philip was doubtlefs gone ever*^^ to Pecaffet\\nfide, to ingage thofe Indians in Rebellion with him: which\\nabout a mile a half, thej pafled by\\nfome Houfes newlj burned, c. two\\nor three miles further they came up\\nwith fome Heads, Scalps and Hands\\ncut oft from the bodys of fome of the\\nEnglilTi, and ftuck upon Poles near the\\nHighway, in that barbarous and inhu-\\nmane manner bidding us Defyance.\\n[^Narrath e, 19.]\\nParfons \\\\^Indian Names, etc. 14] fays\\nKikcmuit means a back river. Mr.\\nTrumbull fays no; it has loft an ini-\\ntial fyllable. To-Hkonunu-it (^Tokke-\\nI om, Eliot) fignifies at the fpring, or\\nwater-fource. This name agrees\\nwith Rev. Samuel Deane s clear\\nfpring [2 Mafs. Hijl. Coll. x: 174],\\nthough it has nothing to do with Kike-\\ngat day, or clearnefs. Another deri-\\nvation is poflible Nkeke (Nekik) figni-\\nfies otter [7?.-/. Hiji Coll. i: 95],\\nand may path whence Nk\u00e2\u0082\u00acke-7nay-\\nit would mean the otter path. The\\nformer derivation is the more probable.\\nMany Indian names, have, in like man-\\nner fuftered mutilation.\\nI Roger Williams faid, in 1643, that\\nthe New England Indians originally had\\nno drums or trumpets, though he had\\nknown a native make a very good drum\\nin imitation of the Englifh. [7?.-/. HiJi.\\nColl. i: 38, 149.] The North Ameri-\\ncan Indians, in general, however, appear\\nto have ufed the drum (and without\\nany hint that it was borrowed from the\\nwhites) in their religious dances, and in\\ntheir ceremonies when beating up re-\\ncruits for war. [De Foreft s Hijl. In-\\ndians of Conn. 29; Schoolcraft s Hijl.\\nof Indian Tribes, ii 60; alfo Ibid.\\nplate 75, where reprefentations of In-\\ndian drums are given. See alfo, i 425,\\nand plate 68.] Philip had probably\\nemployed their aid in raifing volunteers,\\nand as his tallies now led him to defert\\nhis own village, and he did not wifh to\\nencumber himfelf with them in adlual\\nwarfare, he ftaved and threw them\\naway here.\\nNow known as Lee s river; fepa-\\nrating Gardner s neck from the fouthern\\nextremity of Somerfet.\\n^3 Mifprint for over, as Pecaffet\\nis for Pocaffet.\\n24", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "[6]\\nthey foon found to be true. The Enemy were not really\\nbeaten out of Motmt-Jiope Neck, tho twas true they fled\\nfrom thence yet it was before any purfu d them. Twas\\nbut to ftrengthen themfelves, and to gain a more advanta-\\ngious Poll. However, fome and not a few pleafed them-\\nfelves with the fancy of a Mighty Conqueft.*^\\nA grand Council was held, and a Refolve paft, to build a\\nFort there to maintain the firft ground they had gain d, by\\nthe Indians leaving it to them.^ And to fpeak the Truth,\\nit muft be faid. That as they gain d not that Field, by their\\nSword, nor their Bow; fo twas rather their fear than their\\ncourage, that oblig d them to fet up the marks of their Con-\\nqueft. Mr. Church look d upon it, and talk of it with\\ncontempt, and urged hard the purfuing the Enemy on Po-\\ncajjet lide, and with the greater earneftnefs, becaufe of his\\npromife made to AwaJJwnks, before mentioned.^^ The\\nCouncil adjourned themfelves from Mount-hope to Re-\\nhoboth^ where Mr. Treafurer Southworth^ being weary\\nHubbard and Mather fo thought. Seepage ii, ante.\\n\\\\^Narrafivc, 19; Magnalta, (ed. 1853,) Hubbard fays Seacotike, or Re-\\nii 562.) hobot/i, a town within fix miles of Swati-\\n65 The fite of this fort has been iden- zy. \\\\_Narrative, 20.] The exadl lo-\\ntified by Mr. FelTenden as being oppo- cality referred to here would feem to be\\nfite the narrow entrance to Kikemuit one of the three houfes which were\\nriver from Mount-Hope bay, on the ufed as garrifons by the inhabitants of\\ntop of the moft fouthweftern of feveral Rehoboth and Swanfey during Philip s\\nhills on the north fide of a cove. The war, viz that which ftood on the fouth\\nhill is faft wearing away by the adlion end of Seekonk plain, on the fpot lately\\nof the water at its bafe, fo that the char- occupied by the houfe of Mr. Phanuel\\ncoal and fcorched ftones from the fire- Bilhop, on the foutheaft: fide of the Com-\\nplace of the fort are often falling down mon. [Blifs s Rehoboth, 78.]\\nthe declivity toward the water. {_HiJi. Coiijiant Southzvorth was a fon of\\nWarren, R.-I. 71.] Edward Southworth (Savage wrongly\\nf 35", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "7\\nof his charge of CommifTary General, (Provilion being\\nfcarce difficult to be obtained, for the Army, that now\\nlay ftill to Cover the People from no body, while they\\nwere building a Fort for nothing) retired, and the Power\\nTrouble of that Poft was left with Mr. Church, who ftill\\nurged the Commanding Officers to move over to Pocajfet\\nlide, to purfue the Enemy, [7] and kill Philip, which would\\nin his opinion be more probable to keep pofleffion of the\\nNeck, than to tarry to build a Fort. He was ftill reftlefs\\non that fide of the River, and the rather becaufe of his\\npromife to the Squaw Sachem of Sogkonate. And Capt.\\nFuller^^ alfo urged the fame, until at length there came fur-\\nfays Cotijiatit, or Tho7nas \\\\_Gen. DtYl.\\niv 143] and Alice Carpenter (who,\\nafter her firft hufband s death, became\\nthe fecond wife of Gov. Bradford)\\nfeems to have come over in 1628 [3\\nMafs. Hiji. Coll. i 199] was made\\nfreeman in 1637 married Elizabeth\\nCollier, 2 Nov. 1637; was Deputy in\\n1647 and 22 years following, and Treaf-\\nuier from 1659 to 167S; was often\\nAffiftant, once Commiffioner for the\\nUnited Colonies, and acfled as Com-\\nmiffary-General in Philip s war; died\\nII March, 1679. three fons, and\\nfive daughters, the fecond of whom\\nhad married Church, 26 Dec. 1667.\\nThis relationlhip by marriage explains\\nhis here throwing off the Power\\nTrouble of his poft on his fon-in-law.\\n[Winfor s HiJl. Duxbiiry, 68; Plym.\\nCol. Rec. i: 68, 74; ii: 117; iii 8,\\nI38 153. 162; iv: 14, 37; v: 17, 34,\\netc.]\\nMatthe-iv Fuller was fon of Ed-\\nward (who was brother of the famous\\nDr. Samuel) was at Plymouth in 1642\\nwent to Barnftable in 1652, and was the\\nfirft phyfician there. He was I^ieut. of\\nBarnftable company in 1652 Deputy\\nfrom Barnftable in 1653 went Lieut, to\\nMiles Standilh in the Dutch expedi-\\ntion in 1654; was fined 505. for fpeak-\\ning reproachfully of the Court, etc.,\\nin 1658; was appointed on the Co-uncil\\nof War the fame year; is fpoken of as\\nCaptain in 1670; was chofen Surjean\\ngeneral for the Dutch expedition in\\n1673 and evidently was with this ex-\\npedition in the fame capacity, as, at the\\nOc5tober Court following thefe firft con-\\nflidls in Philip s war, there was allowed\\nto Capt. Mathew Fuller, as furjean\\ngenerall of the forces of this collonie,\\nand for other good fervice, p fortned\\nin the countryes hehalfe agaitjjl the\\nenemie, in the late expediiiotis, or\\n26", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "7\\nther order concerning the Fort. And with all, an order for\\nCapt. Fuller with Six files to crofs the River to the fide\\nfo much infilled on, and to try if he could get Speech\\nwith any of the Pocaffet or Sogko7iate Indians, and that Mr.\\nChtirch fhould go his Second. Upon the Captains receiv-\\ning his orders, he ask d Mr. Church whither he was willing\\nto engage in this interprize To whom twas indeed too\\nagreeable to be declined; tho he thought the enterprize\\nwas hazardous enough, for them to have more Men afiign d\\nthem. Capt. Fuller told him that for his own part he was\\ngrown Ancient and heavy, he feared the travel and fatigue\\nwould be too much for him. But Mr. Church urged him,\\nand told him, he would chearfully excufe him, his hardfhip\\nand travel, and take that part to himfelf, if he might but\\ngo; for he had rather do any thing in the World than ftay\\nthere to build the Fort.\\nThen they drew out the Number affigned them and\\nMarch d the fame Night\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 to the Ferry and were tranf-\\nported to Rhode- I/land, from whence the next Night they\\nwhich maybe done for the future, as indicate the day of their departure from\\noccation may require, the Court allow- the fort on this expedition, or the day\\neth him -fs. a day. He died in 1678. of their arrival at Pocaflet; probably\\n[Freeman s H(^. Cape Cod, ii 324; the former (as moft likely to be noted\\nSavage s Gen. Di 5l. ii 217; Plym. and reported by the general company).\\nCol. Rec. ii 37, 45, 50; iii 17, 24, If fo, then the little band left the fort\\n55, 150, 153; v: 48, 136, 175.] 7 July, and got acrofs the ferry into\\nHubbard \\\\^Narrative, 24] fays, Pocaffet on the night of T/iurfday, 8\\nUpon thurfday July 7 [7 July was July. This would fix the date of the\\nWcdne/day Captain Fuller, with Punkatees fight as Friday, 9 July.\\nCaptain Church, went into Pocaffet to Briftol ferry; from the lower end\\nfeek after the enemy, etc. It is doubt- of Mount-Hope neck to Rhode-Illand,\\nful whether he means, by this date, to then commonly called Tripp s ferry.\\n27", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "[7\\ngot a palTage over to PocaJ/et-^idQ in Rhode-IJland Boats,\\nand concluded there to difpofe themfelves in two Ambuf-\\ncado s before day, hoping to furprize fome of the Enemy\\nby their falHng into one or other of their Ambufments.\\nBut Capt. Fullers party being troubled with the Epide-\\nmical plague of luft after Tobacco, muft needs fhrike fire to\\nSmoke it; and thereby difcovered themfelves to a party\\nof the Enemy coming up to them, who immediately fled\\nwith great preciptation.\\nThis Ambufcado drew off about break of day, perceiv-\\ning they were difcover d, the other continued in their Pofl;\\nuntil the time affigned them, and the light and heat of the\\nSun rendred their Station both infignificant and trouble-\\nfome, and then return d, unto the place of Randezvous,\\nwhere they were acquainted with the other parties difap-\\npointment, and the occafion of it. Mr. Church calls for\\nthe breakfaft he had ordered to be brought over in the\\nBoat: but the Man that had the charge of it confeffed that\\nhe was a-fleep when the Boats-men called him, and in\\nhafte came away and never thought of it. It happened\\nthat Mr. Church had a few Cakes of Rusk in his Pocket,\\nthat Madam Cranjlon (the Governour of Rhode-IJland s\\nLady^*) gave him, when he came off the Ifland, which he\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^2 Doubtlefs the crofling was done at hood, a common phrafe in the Old Col-\\nwhat was then a ferry, since known ony for the adl of ufing tobacco by the\\nas Rowland s ferry, where the pipe.\\nStone bridge now Hands the narrow- Gov. jfohn Cranjlon feems to\\neft point of the Eaft PafTage, or Nar- make his firft appearance upon record\\nraganfett river. as appointed drummer by the General\\nT3 To fmoke it was, in my child- Court at Newport, 14 March, 1644,\\n28", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "[8]\\ndivided among the Company, which was all the Provifions\\nthey had.\\nMr. Church after their flender breakfaft propofed to\\nCapt. Fuller, That he would March in queft of the Enemy,\\nwith fuch of the Company as would be willing to March\\nwith him; which he complyed with, tho with a great deal\\nof fcruple, becaufe of his fmall Number, the extream\\nhazard he forefaw muft attend them.^^ [8]\\nBut fome of the Company had refle6led upon Mr.\\nChurch, that notwithftanding his talk on the other fide of\\nthe River, he had not fhown them any Indians lince they\\ncame over. Which now mov d him to tell them. That if\\nit was their delire to fee Indians, he believ d he fhould now\\nfoon fhew them what they fhould fay was enough.\\nThe Number allow d him foon drew off to him, which\\ncould not be many, becaufe their whole Company con-\\nwhen he muft have been i8; was among reached the rank of Deputy Governor\\nfreemen in 1655; was licenfed to prac- at the date fpoken of in the text, but\\ntife phyfic, and had the degree of M.D. Church, diiSlating forty years after, re-\\nconferred on him by the General Affcm- fers to him under the title by which he\\nbly in 1664; was chofen Deputy Gov- was afterwards beft known, [/t Col.\\nernor in 1672, and ferved alfo in 1673, Jiec. i: 127, 301; ii 33, 451, 4S1,\\n76, 77, and 78, in which year Gov. 541, 565; iii 3, 4, 24; Arnold s Hijl.\\nArnold died, and he was chofen Gov- li.-I. i: 459; Savage s Gen. Did. i:\\nernor; ferved as Governor till 12 March, 472.]\\n1680, when he died in office, aged 54. Hubbard s account would indicate\\nHe was the firft who ever held the place that a daj and night had been fpent on\\nof Major-General in Rhode-Illand. He the Pocafiet fide, before this propofition\\nmarried Mary, daughter of Dr. Jere- of Church s took place. \\\\_Narrative,\\nmiah Clark of Newport; who after his 24.] Probably he confounded this\\ndeath married John Stanton, and who with the time fpent on Rhode-IHand.\\ndied 7 April, 171 1. Gov. Samuel Church, as a participant, is, of courfe,\\nCranfton was his fon. He had only the beft witnefs.\\n29", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "[8]\\niifted of no more than Thirty Six. They mov d towards\\nSogkonatc, until they came to the brook that runs into Nun-\\nnaquohqut Neck, where they difcovered a frefh and plain\\nTrack, which they concluded to be from the great Pine\\nSwamp about a Mile from the Road that leads to Sog-\\nkonet. Now fays Mr. Church to his Men, If we follow\\nthis Track no doubt but we fhall foon fee Indians enough\\nthey exprefs d their willingnefs to follow the Track, and\\nmov d in it, but had not gone far before one of them nar-\\nrowly efcaped being bit with a Rattle-fnake\\\\ And the\\ns There being not above fifteen\\nwith Church. [Hubbard, Narrative,\\n24.] This would leave twenty-one with\\nCapt. Fuller. But Church afterwards\\nfays there were nineteen with him be-\\nlides his pilot which would indi-\\ncate a nearly equal divifion of the little\\nforce.\\nMr. Drake s note would fix the\\nrivulet referred to as that which emp-\\nties into the bay nearly a mile fouth-\\nward from Rowland s ferry now,\\nfor fome reafon which I have never\\nheard, bearing the ftrange name of Sin\\nand Flefh brook. I am perfuaded,\\nhowever, that Nanaquaket brook, which\\ncroffes the road to Little Compton, fay\\na mile and a half further fouth, juft be-\\nfore you reach the fchool-houfe, is that\\nof which Church fpeaks. That runs\\nin juft in the angle where Nanaqua-\\nket neck is joined to the main land, and\\ntherefore feems more exacftly defignated\\nby the phrase that runs into Nunna-\\nquohqut Neck than one fo much fur-\\nther removed, emptying into the cove.\\nMoreover, its relative bearing to the\\nfwamp of which Church proceeds to\\nfpeak is nearer to the demand of the\\ntext than that of the other.\\nThis neck is that promontory in Tiv-\\nerton which Hopes up northward and\\nweftw^ard toward the ifland of Rhode-\\nIfland, next fouth of the Stone bridge.\\nThe name {^Nunnaquahqatt, None-\\nquackety Nanaquaket, ^iiacut, etc.)\\nmay have this fenfe Nunnukque means\\ndangerous, unfafe whence Nun-\\nnukqtieohke (contradled Nunnukqiiok)\\nwould be an unfafe or dangerous\\nplace. The final et is locative,\\nat or in.\\nStill there, and diftant about a mile\\ndue eaft from the fpot which I fuppofe\\nChurch to have now reached.\\nRattlefnakes were formerly abun-\\ndant in New England. Prince fays,\\n(14 Aug. 1632,) this fummer is very\\nwet and cold, except now and then a\\nhot day or two, which caufes great ftore\\nof musketoes and rattlefnakes. [Ed.\\n1852, 400.]\\n30", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "[8]\\nWoods that the Track lead them through was haunted\\nmuch with thofe Snakes, which the Httle Company feem d\\nmore to be afraid of than the black Serpents they were in\\nqueft of, and therefore bent their courfe another way; to\\na Place where they thought it probable to find fome of the\\nEnemy. Had they kept the Track to the Pine Swamp\\nthey had been certain of meeting Vidians enough; but not\\nfo certain that any of them fhould have return d to give\\naccount how many.\\nNow they pafs d down into Punkatees Neck; and in\\ntheir March difcocovered a large Wigwam full of Indian\\nTruck, which the Souldiers were for loading themfelves\\nwith; until Mr. Church forbid it; telling them they might\\nexpe6l foon to have their hands full, and bufmefs without\\ncaring for Plunder. Then croffing the head of the Creek\\ninto the Neck, they again difcovered frefh, Indian Tracks,\\nvery lately pafs d before them into the Neck. They then\\ngot privately and undifcovered, unto the Fence of Capt.\\nAlmy\\\\ Peafe-field,^^ and divided into two Parties, Mr.\\nChurch keeping the one Party with himfelf, fent the other\\nwith Lake that was acquainted with the ground, on the\\nPutikafees neck fome two miles tion or fignification of the name has\\nin length and one mile in extreme width not been fuggefled.\\nIhoots out from the main land of See note 4. At leaft four fami-\\nTiverton fouthward and weftward, much lies of Almys now own and till many\\nas Nuntiaquo/iqut neck turns up north- of the fertile acres of this beautiful\\nward and weftward. It was alio called promontory.\\nPocaflet neck. The entrance to it is David Lake, or Leake, volun-\\ndiretftly weft from the fmall village of teered 10 Aug. 1667, in a troop of\\nTiverton Four Corners. The deriva- horfe upon Rhode Illand. If this were\\n31", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "[9]\\nother fide. Two Indians were foon difcovered coming\\nout of the Peafe-field towards them: When Mr. CImrcJi\\nthofe that were with him concealed themfelves from\\nthem, by falHng flat on the ground but the other divifion\\nnot ufing the fame caution were feen by the Enemy, which\\noccafioned them to run; which when Mr. Church per-\\nceiv d, he fliew d himfelf to them, and call d, telHng them\\nhe defired but to fpeak with them, and would not hurt\\nthem. But they run, and Church purfued. The Indians\\nclim d over a Fence and one of them facing about dif-\\ncharged his Piece, but without effe6l on the EngliJJi One\\nof the EngliJJi Souldiers ran up to the Fence and fir d upon\\nhim that had difcharged his Piece; and they concluded by\\nthe yelling they heard that the Indian was wounded but\\nthe Indians foon got into the thickets, whence they faw\\nthem no more for the prefent. [9]\\nMr. Church then Marching over a plain piece of Ground\\nwhere the Woods were very thick on one fide order d his\\nlittle Company to March at double diftance, to make as\\nbig a fliow (if they fhould be difcovered) as might be.\\nBut before they faw any body, they were Saluted with a\\nthe fame man, he probably as a refi- net line, (which would be in what is\\ndent of the ifland and familiar with the now Tiverton, where men of the fame\\nneighboring localities accompanied name now live, upon it,) becaufe he had\\nthis expedition as the pilot, of whom bin verj ufefull and ferviceable to the\\nChurch fpeaks further on. Col. country in the late warr. Thomas\\nRec. ii. 218.) Plymouth Colony the Lake whether his brother, or not, I\\nnext year granted to David Lake three- cannot fay had a limilar grant, at the\\nfcore acrees of land eaftward from fame time, of forty acres, [i?.-/. Col.\\nPunchateefet pond and north of Saco- Rcc. ii 218; Plym. Col. Rec. v: 214.]\\n32", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "[9]\\nVolly of fifty or fixty Guns feme Bullets came very fur-\\nprizingly near Mr. Churchy who ftarting, look d behind\\nhim, to fee what was become of his Men, expe6ling to\\nhave feen half of them dead, but feeing them all upon\\ntheir Leggs and briskly firing at the Smokes of the Ene-\\nmies Guns, (for that was all that was then to be feen) He\\nBlefs d God, and called to his Men not to difcharge all\\ntheir Guns at once, left the Enemy ftiould take the advant-\\nage of fuch an opportunity to run upon them with their\\nHatches^\\nTheir next Motion was immediately into the Peafe-field.\\nWhen they came to the Fence Mr. Church bid as many as\\nhad not difcharg d their Guns, to clap under the Fence,\\nand lye clofe, while the other at fome diflance in the\\nField flood to charge; hoping that if the Enemy fhould\\ncreep to the Fence to gain a fhot at thofe that were charg-\\ning their Guns, they might be furprized by thofe that lay\\nunder the Fence. But cafting his Eyes to the fide of the\\nHill above them;^* the hill feem d to move, being covered\\nover with Indians, with their bright Guns glittering in the\\nSun, and running in a circumference with a defign to fur-\\nround them.\\nSeeing fuch Multitudes furrounding him and his little\\nCompany; it put him upon thinking what was become of\\nthe Boats that were ordered to attend him And looking\\n^3 Hatchets, or tomahawks. rifing abruptly toward the ridge of the\\n8* The bluflf above them the peafe- promontory. The hill is not very high,\\nfield being near the ibore, and the land yet the flope is fteep.\\n5 33", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "[9]\\nup, he fpy d them a fhore at Sandy-point^^ on the Ifland fide\\nof the River, with a number of Horfe and Foot by them,\\nand wondred what fhould be the occafion; until he was\\nafterwards informed, That the Boats had been over that\\nMorning from the Ifland, and had landed a Party of Men\\nat Fogland^ that were defign d in Punkatees Neck to fetch\\noff fome Cattel and Horfes, but were Ambufcado d, and\\nmany of them wounded by the Enemy\\nNow our Gentlemans Courage and Conduct were both\\nput to the Teft, he incourages his Men; and orders fome\\nto run and take a Wall to fhelter before the Enemy gain d\\nit. Twas time for them now to think of efcaping if they\\nknew which way. Mr. ChnrcJi orders his Men to ftrip to\\ntheir white Shirts, that the I/landers might difcover them\\nto be Englifli Men; then orders Three Guns to be fired\\ndiftinft, hoping it might be obferv d by their friends on\\nthe oppofite Shore.^^ The Men that were ordered to take\\n^5 Probably what is now defignated affaulted by the fame Tudiafis, and one\\nas McCarry s point, on the Portf- of the five was Capt. C////;-c//c5 Servant,\\nmouth fhore, ratlierthan that now called who had his Leg broke in the Skirmifh,\\nSandy point, which is a mile and a the reft hardly efcaping with their lives\\nhalf further fouth. this was the firft time that ever any\\nFogland point is a fpur of land mifchief was done by the Indians upon\\nproje(5ting from the weftern fhore of Pocajfct Neck. Thofe of Road-IJland\\nPunkatees neck, and reaching a third were hereby Alarmed to look to them-\\nof the way acrofs Narraganfett river felves, as well as the reft of the Englifh\\ntoward Portfmouth on the ifland of of Plimouth, or the Majfachufets Col-\\nRhode-Ifland. ony. \\\\^Narrative, 25.]\\n8 Hubbard fays It feems in the It was probably not over a mile\\nformer part of the fame day, five men and a half in a ftraight line, from the\\ncoming from Road-IJland, to look up fcene of this fkirmilb to the point acrofs\\ntheir Cattle upon Pocajfet Neck, were the water where their friends were.\\n34", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "lo]\\nthe Wall, being very hungry, llop d a while among the\\nPeafe to gather a few, being about four Rod from the\\nWall the Enemy from behind it haifd them with a Shower\\nof Bullets; but foon all but one came tumbling over an\\nold hedge down the bank where Mr. Church and the reft\\nwere, and told him that his Brother B. Southworth^ who\\nwas the Man that was miffing, was kilfd, that they faw\\nhim fall; and fo they did indeed fee him fall, but twas\\nwithout a [lo] Shot, and lay no longer than till he had\\nopportunity to clap a Bullet into one of the Enemies Fore-\\nhead, and then came running to his Company. The mean-\\nnefs^ of the EngliJIis Powder was now their greatefl mis-\\nEither this record is wrong in this\\ninitial, or Conftant Southworth (note\\n68) had a fon not down on the records.\\nSavage, Winfor, and Mitchell agree\\nthat he had only three fons, (^Ed-^vard,\\nNathaniel, and William,) and four\\ndaughters, befides Alice, who married\\nChurch. The earlieft Benjamin on the\\nrecord of the family was Benjamin, fon\\nof Edward (Conftant s eldeft fon), who\\nwas born in i6So, five years after this\\nfight. Edward s age at this date is not\\nknown, but, as he had been married in\\n1669, he may perhaps have been near 30\\nNathaniel was 27, and William only 16.\\nIt feems clear that the peribn here al-\\nluded to was one of Church s brothers-\\nin-law, and it is more probable that the\\ninitial W or N was miiprinted\\nB, and the blunder pafled uncorredl-\\ned, than that there was any B. South-\\nworth, fon of Conftant, elfewhere un-\\nrecorded. l^Geii. Di H. iv 143; lHjl-\\nDuxbury, 314; Hijl. Bridge~vater,\\n304-]\\n^j Church feems here to ufe the word\\nmeannefs as equivalent to fcantinefs,\\nwith reference to the quantity rather\\nthan the quality. There is no hint in\\nthe account of the aftiort but that the\\npowder which they had was good\\nenough, but they were evidently re-\\nduced to a very fhort allowance. Up\\nto this date the powder of the Colonifts\\nappears to have been Englifh made.\\nThe firft powder-mill on this fide was\\njuft in procefs of preparation Rev.\\nJohn Oxenbridge, Rev. James Allen,\\nDea. Robert Sanderlbn, (all of the firft\\nchurch in Bofton,) with Capt. John\\nHall and Freegrace Bendall, merchants\\nof Bofton, 22 Aug. 1673, having pur-\\nchafed of John Gill, of Milton, a privi-\\nlege on Neponfet river, and having\\nentered into articles of agreement, 16\\nJuly, 1675, to ere6l a building and im-\\n35", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "lo]\\nfortune; when they were immediately upon this befet with\\nMultitudes of Indians, who pofleffed themfelves of every\\nRock, Stump, Tree, or Fence that was in light, firing upon\\nthem without ceafing; while they had no other fhelter but\\na fmall bank bit of a water Fence. And yet to add to\\nthe difadvantage of this little handful of diftreffed Men;\\nThe Indians alfo poffelTed themfelves of the Ruines of a\\nStone-houfe that over look d them, and of the black Rocks\\nto the Southward of them;^^ fo that now they had no way\\nto prevent lying quite open to fome, or other of the\\nprove a powder mill at faid Neponfet.\\nThe fafetj of this mill was a fubjedl of\\nlegiflation, in Odlober and November\\nfollowing. \\\\_HiJl. of Dorchejler, 607,\\n609.]\\n91 In the fecond edition of this narra-\\ntive \\\\_NewJ ort, R.-I. 1772], South-\\nwick s compofitor here carelefllj dropped\\nout the words and of the black Rocks\\nto the Southward of them, and Dr.\\nStiles did not difcover the omiffion fo\\nthat, as all the fubfequent editions have\\nbeen reprints of Southwick s, and not\\nof the original, the hint of exadt locality\\nwhich thej furnifh has hitherto been\\noverlooked. On recently vifiting Punk-\\natees neck and going carefully over it\\nin order to identify, if poffible, the exa6l\\nfpot where this peafe-field was fituated,\\nI found on the edge of the Ihore the re-\\nmains of an outcropping ledge of foft\\nblack flaty rock, which differs fo decid-\\nedly from any other rocks in the vicin-\\nity, and which making allowance for\\nthe wear of the waves for near 200\\nyears aniwers fo well to the demand\\nof the text, as to incline me to the judg-\\nment that they may identify the fpot.\\nIf this be fo, the peafe-field muft have\\nbeen on the weftern Ihore of Punkatees\\nneck, a little north of the jundlure of\\nFogland point with the main promon-\\ntory, and almoft due eafl: of the north-\\nern extremity of Fogland point, which\\nruns up northerly and wefterly as it\\npufhes over toward Rhode-Ifland ly-\\ning a little north of the range of the\\nAlmy burying-ground, which is in the\\nrear of the prefent refidence of Mr.\\nHorace Almy. Whether this be a cor-\\nrect fuppofition or not, the near neigh-\\nborhood of what is ftill called Church s\\nwell a fpring ftoned round like a well,\\nand fending a tiny rivulet down to the\\nfea, a few rods fouth of thefe remains\\nof what were once black rocks, and\\nalmoft oppofite the prefent refidence of\\nMr. Samuel Almy, at the terminus of\\nthe road leading to Fogland ferry\\nfixes the fceneof the fight with fuflicient\\naccuracy, as being near the jundlure of\\nFogland point with Punkatees neck.\\n36", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "lo]\\nEnemy, but to heap up Stones before them, as they did,\\nand ftill bravely and wonderfully defended themfelves,\\nagainft all the numbers of the Enemy. At length came\\nover one of the Boats from the Ifland Shore, but the En-\\nemy ply^d their Shot fo warmly to her as made her keep\\nat fome diflance; Mr. Church delired them to fend their\\nCanoo a-fhore to fetch them on board; but no perfwafions,\\nnor arguments could prevail with them to bring their Ca-\\nnoo to fhore. Which fome of Mr. Churches Men perceiv-\\ning, began to cry out, For God^s fake to take them off, for\\ntheir Ammunition was fpent, c. Mr. Church being fenlible\\nof the danger of the Enemies hearing their Complaints,\\nand being made acquainted with the weaknefs and fcan-\\ntinefs of their Ammunition, fiercely called to the Boats-\\nmafter, and bid either fend his Canoo a-fhore, or elfe be-\\ngone prefently, or he would fire upon him.\\nAway goes the Boat and leaves them flill to fhift for\\nthemfelves. But then another difficulty arofe; the Enemy\\nfeeing the Boat leave them, were reanimated fired thicker\\nfafler than ever; Upon which fome of the Men that\\nwere lighteft of foot, began to talk of attempting an efcape\\nby flight until Mr. Church follidly convinced them of the\\nimpra6ticablenefs of it and incouraged them yet, told\\nthem, That he had obferv -d fo much of the remarkable and\\nwo7tderful Providence of God hitherto prcfcrving them, that\\nincouraged hi^n to believe with 7nuch confidence that Godzuould\\nyet preferve the^n that not a hair of their head ffiould fall to\\nthe ground bid them be Patient, Couragious and Prudently\\n37", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "/parmg of their Ammunition^ and he made no doiibt but they\\nJJioutd come well off yet^ c. until his little Army, again re-\\nfolve one and all to Itay with, and flick by him. One of\\nthem by Mr. Churches order was pitching a flat Stone up\\nan end before him in the Sand, when a Bullet from the\\nEnemy with a full force ftroke the Stone while he was\\npitching it an end; which put the poor fellow to a mifer-\\nable ftart, till Mr. Church call d upon him to obferve, How\\nGod directed the Bullets that the Ene7ny could not hit him\\nwhen in the fame place, yet could hit the Stone as it was\\nerected.\\nWhile they were thus making the beft defence they\\ncould againft their numerous Enemies that made the\\nWoods ring with their conftant yelling [ii] and fhout-\\ning And Night coming on, fome body told Mr. Church,\\nthey fpy d a Sloop up the River as far as Gold-Ifland^ that\\nfeemed to be coming down towards them: He look d up\\nand told them Succour was now coining, for he believ d it\\nwas Capt. Golding,^^ whom he knew to be a Man for bufi-\\nGould IJland is a fmall rocky ill- I. at any rate he is dubioufly referred\\nand, perhaps three quarters of a mile to in that connecftion in the R.-I. Colo-\\ndue fouth of tlie Stone bridge. It was nial Records for 6 Nov. 1672. He was\\npurchafed of the Indians, 28 Mar. 1657, prefent at the killing of Philip. He\\nby Thomas Gould, of Newport, and married Penelope, daughter of the firft\\ntook its name from him, and not, as has Benedict Arnold. Plymouth Colony,\\nbeen fometimes ftated, from the occur- 1 Nov. 1676, gave Capt. Golding one\\nrence here narrated. [Arnold s Hijl. hundred acres of land, becaufe he hath\\nR.-I. 266 Fowler s HiJl. Sketch of approued himlelfe to be our conftant,\\nFall River, 9.] reall frind in the late warr, and very of-\\n93 Capt. Roger Golding (^Golden, ficious and healpfull as occation hath\\nGoulden) was captain of a veflel, and bine, when as our armies and fouldiers\\nfeems to have lived in Portfmouth, R.- haue bin in thofe p tes, and haue had\\n38", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "nefs\\\\ and would certainly fetch thcrn off^ if he came the\\nWind being fair, the VcfTel was foon with them; and Capt.\\nGolding it was. Mr. Church (as foon as they came to Speak\\none with another) delired him to come to Anchor at fuch\\na diflance from the Shore that he might veer out his Cable\\nand ride a float., and let flip his Canoo that it might drive\\nafliore which dire6lions Capt. Golding obferv d; but the\\nEnemy gave him fuch a warm Salute, that his Sails^\\nColour, and Stern were full of Bullet holes.\\nThe Canoo came afhore,^* but was fo fmall that fhe\\nwould not bare above two Men at a time and when two\\nwere got aboard, they turn d her loofe to drive afhore for\\ntwo more and the Sloops company kept the Indians in\\nplay the while. But when at laft it came to Mr. Churches\\nturn to 0:0 aboard, he had left his Hat and Cutlalh at the\\nWell^^ where he went to drink, when he firft came down;\\nhe told his Compan}^, He zuould never go off aiid leave his\\nHat and Cutlafi for the Indians; they fJwuld never have that\\nto refleH: tipon him. Tho he was much diflwaded from it,\\nyet he would go fetch them. He put all the Powder he\\nhad left into his Gun (and a poor charge it was) and went\\nneffefitie of the tranfportation of our The wind was probably northwefl-\\nmen to the faid iland [Rhode-Ifland] erlj, as it is apt to be there on a pleaf-\\nand otherwife very reddy to doe vs ant day, which would be exatStly fair\\ngood. This land adjoined that of the for Capt. Golding in running down, as\\nLakes (note 82, ante). \\\\^R.-I. Col. narrated; and which would foon drift a\\nRcc. ii 480; Savage, Gen. Di6l. ii. light canoe on fhore.\\n287; Plym. Col. Rec. v: 214. See alfo See note 91, ante. I fee no reafon\\nPlym. Col. Rec. v: 242, and vi 120, to doubt the truftworthinefs of the tra-\\nfor further fadts concerning Capt. G.] dition identifying this well.\\n39", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "prefenting his Gun at the Enemy, until he took up what\\nhe went for; at his return he difcharged his Gun at the\\nEnemy to bid them farewel, for that time; but had not\\nPowder enough to carry the Bullet half way to them.\\nTwo Bullets from the Enemy fluck the Canoo as he\\nwent on Board, one grazed the hair of his Head a little\\nbefore; another flruck in a fmall Stake that Hood right\\nagainft the middle of his Breall.\\nNow this Gentleman with his Army, making in all\\n20 Men, himfelf, and his Pilot being numbred with them,\\ngot all fafe aboard after Six hours ingagement with 300\\nIndians whofe Number we were told afterwards by fome\\nof themfelves. A deliverance which that good Gentleman\\noften mentions to the Glory of God, and His Protecting Prov-\\nidence. The next day^ meeting with the reft of their\\nlittle Company, whom he had left at PocaJJet, (that had\\nalfo a fmall skirmifh with the Indians, and had two Men\\nWounded) they return d to the Mount-hope Garrifon;\\nwhich Mr. Church us d to call the loofing Fort. Mr.\\nChurch then returning to the Ifland^^ to feek Provifion for\\nthe Army, meets with Alderman^ a noted Indian that\\n9s Friday, 9 July, 1675. Rhode Ifland.\\n9 Capt. Fuller either faw or heard Alderman was a fubjefl of Wecta-\\ntoo many Indians for himfelf and his inoc (note 24), but at the commence-\\nCompany to deal with, -which made him ment of the war went to the Governor\\nand them betake themfelves to an of Plymouth, and delired to remain at\\nHoufe near the Water-fide, from whence peace with the Englilh; and now left\\nthey were fetched off by a Hoop before Pocaffet for Rhode Ifland in that intent,\\nnight to Road- IJland [Hubbard s It was his bullet that eventually killed\\nNarrative, 24.] Philip. [Drake s Book of the Ind. 226.]\\n40", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "I^\\nwas juft come over from the Squaw Sachems Cape of\\nPocaffet, having deferted from her, and had brought over\\nhis Family: Who gave him an account of the State of the\\nIndians, and where each of the Sagamores head quarters\\nwere. Mr. Church then difcours d with fome who knew\\nthe Spot well where the Indians faid Weetamores head\\nquarters were, and offered their Service to Pilot him.\\nWith this News he [12] haftned to the Mount-hope Gar-\\nrifon. The Army exprefs d their readinefs to imbrace\\nfuch an opportunity.\\nAll the ableft Souldiers were now immediately drawn\\noff equip d difpatch d upon this defign, under the Com-\\nmand of a certain Officer and having March d about\\ntwo Miles, viz. until they came to the Cove^*^^ that lyes\\nS. W. from the Mount, where orders was given for an halt.\\nThe Commander in Chief told them he thought it proper\\nto take advice before he went any further; called Mr.\\nChurch and the Pilot, and ask d them. How they knew that\\nPhilip and alt his Men were not by that time got to Weeta-\\nmores Camp\\\\ or that all her own Me7i were not by that\\ntime return d to her again With many more frightful\\nqueflions. Mr. Church told him, they had acquainted him\\nwith as much as they knew, and that for his part he could\\ni Hubbard fays, Church borrowed i\u00c2\u00b0i Now called Mount Cove. They\\nthree files of Men of Capt. Henchman were, no doubt, on their way to Briftol\\nwith his Lieutenant: this Lieutenant ferry then called Tripp s ferry [7?.-/.\\nwas doubtlefs, then, the officer in com- Col. Rec. iii 535] to crofs to Rhode-\\nmand. Fortunately for his memory Ifland, and thence, over Rowland s fer-\\nhis name was not defignated. \\\\_Nar- ry, to Pocaffet, whence it would be a\\nraiive, 25.] little over fix miles to the Fall River.\\n6 41", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "12\\ndifcover nothing that need to difcourage them from Proceed-\\ning, that he thought it fo prafiicable, that he with the Pilot\\nwould willingly lead the way to the Spot and hazard the\\nbrunt. But the Chief Commander inlifted on this, That\\nthe Enetnies number were fo great, and he did 7iot know\\nwhat numbers more might be added unto them, by that time\\nAnd his Company fo fmall, that he could not think it practi-\\ncable to attack them. Added moreover, That if he was\\nfure of killing all the Enemy, and knew that he niufl lofe the\\nLife of one of his Men in the action, he would not attempt\\nit. Pray Sir, then (Reply d Mr. Church^ Pleafe to lead^^\\nyour Com-pany to yo7ider Wijidmill on Rhode-Ifland, and\\nthere they will be out of danger of being kiltd by the Enemy,\\nand we fJiall have Icfs trouble to ftipply them with Provifions.\\nBut return he would, and did, unto the Garrifon until\\nmore flrength came to them And a Sloop to tranfport\\nthem to the Fall River,^*^^ in order to vifit Weetamores\\ni\u00c2\u00b02 The abfence of water power on now abforbed this fall fo that the vifitor\\nthe Ifland led, as early as 1663, to the muft fearch for what was once the mod\\nerection of windmills for grinding corn prominent feature of the locality,\\nand feveral eminences in the town of Fowler fays, the word ^ucquechan\\nPortfmouth are now crowned with them, fignifies falling water, or quick-\\nwhich may be feen from far. [Arnold s running water but Mr. Trumbull\\nHiji. R.-I. i 370.] fays, CJ/ekce, or Ckeche, alone, or in\\ni 3 ^uequec/ian River the outlet of compofition, means violent, forcible,\\nWatuppa Pond was about two miles and is fometimes applied to running\\nlong and lefs than one rod in width, water, as it is to that which fweeps\\nand when within 150 rods of tide-water away, e. g. chck/ii/atnk, a broom or\\nit fuddenly defcended 132 feet to meet befom, and c/ie k-c/u the northweft\\nit. It took naturally, therefore, the wind. I do not think, however, that\\nname of the fall of the river, or Fall it is found in ^uequechaii, and clearly\\nRiver. The various factories have not unlefs the lafl part of the name\\n42", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "12\\nCamp. Mr. CJuirch, one Baxter^^ and Capt. Himter^ an\\nIndian, profer d to go out on the difcovery on the left\\nWing which was accepted they had not March d above\\na quarter of a Mile before they llarted Three of the\\nEnemy. Capt. Hunter wounded one of them in his knee,\\nwhom when he came up he difcovered to be his near\\nkinfman; the Captive delired favour for his Squaw, if fhe\\nfhould fall into their hands, but ask d none for himfelf,\\nexcepting the liberty of taking a Whiff of Tobacco, and\\nwhile he was taking his Whiff, his kinfman with one blow\\nof his Hatchet difpatchM him. Proceeding to Weetamores\\nCamp,^*^*^ they were difcover d by one of the Enemy, who\\nfignifying water, ftream, or fome-\\nthing of the kind has been loft.\\n[Fowler s Hijl. Sketch, Fall River, 27.]\\n1 Thomas Baxter, bricklayer, of\\nYarmouth, 5 March, 1671-2, was ac-\\ncufed of mifdemeanor att the meet-\\ning-houfe att Yarmouth and, again,\\nof entering Edward Sturgis s houfe on\\nLord s Day, 11 April, 1675, and ftealing\\nfrom the fame but was cleared on both\\ncharges he was alfo one of 30 foldiers\\nthat were preffed into the country s\\nfervice, and went to Mount-Hope\\nagainft our enemies the Indians, in\\nthe year 1675, and took their firft march\\nJune 24. He was wounded in the war,\\nand \u00c2\u00a320 were allowed him by the Ply-\\nmouth Court, 10 July, 1677, as a maim-\\ned fouldier, whoe hath loft the vfe of one\\nof his hands in the time hee was in the\\ncountryes fervice. I have met with\\nno record of any other of the name as\\nbeing in this war, and prefume this ref-\\nerence to be to him. {^Plym. Col. Rec.\\nV 87, 168, 239 Freeman s Hift. Cafe\\nCod, ii 193.]\\nCapt. Hunter appears to have\\nbeen a Chriftianized Nipinuk Indian.\\nOn the 6th of July two days before\\nthe fight in Almy s peafe-field Capt.\\nJohnfon, on the order of the Governor\\nand Council of Mafl achufetts, had con-\\nduced a body of about 52 Praying\\nIndians (being one-third part of their\\nable-bodied men) to the army at Mount-\\nHope. Among them was John Hunter,\\nwho, on his return, had a reward given\\nhim for his faithfulnefs he bringing\\nback with him a fcalp that, no doubt,\\nof the Indian referred to in the text.\\n\\\\_Tra71fadlions Anicr. Autiqtiarian So-\\nciety, ii: 442, 444.]\\n1 This feems to have been fitua-\\nted on the northern fide of what is now\\ncalled Pocaftet Cedar Swamp perhaps\\ntwo miles and a half Ibuth of the city\\n43", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "13\\nran in and gave Information; upon which a lufty Young\\nFellow left his Meat upon his Spit, running haftily out\\ntold his companions, he would kill an EngliJJi man before he\\neat his dinner but faiPd of his delign, being no fooner out\\nbut fhot down. The Enemies fires, and what Ihelter\\nthey had was by the Edge of a thick Cedar Swamp, into\\nwhich on this Alarm they betook themfelves; and the\\nEnglifh as nimbly purfued; but were foon commanded\\nback by their Chieftain after they were come within hear-\\ning of the Crys of their Women, and Children, and fo\\nended that Exploit.^ But returning to their Sloop the\\nEnemy purfued them and wounded two of their Men.\\nThe next day returned to the Mount-hope Garrifon. [13]\\nSoon after this,^\u00c2\u00b0^ was Philips head Quarters vifited by\\nfome other EngliJJi Forces but Philip and his gang had\\nthe very fortune to efcape that Weetamore and hers (but\\nnow mentioned) had: they took into a Swamp and their\\npurfuers were commanded back. After this^*^ Dart-\\nof Fall River, and lying between South thought they had him hemmed in\\nWatuppa Pond and the hights which there, and fo the Plymouth forces and\\nlook down on Mount-Hope Bay. Capt. Henchman with loo foot, were\\n10^ Hubbard fays, wherein fome few left to attend the Enemies motion,\\nof them [the Indians] fourteen or fif- being judged fufficient for that end.\\nteen were ilain. \\\\^Narrative, 25.] One night, however, in the end of\\n1 Hubbard fays that our forces went yufy Philip and his warriors either\\nto Rehoboth on Friday, 15 July (15 waded acrofs Taunton river, at a very\\nJuly was Thur/day), next day to Mat- low tide, or got over on rafts, and ef-\\ntapoifett, and next day to Taunton. caped to the Niptnuk Country. {^Nar-\\nJuly 18 (Hubbard calls it Munday, rative, 25-27.] Fowler \\\\_H(/l. Sketch,\\nbut the iSth was Sunday; fo that they Fall River, 10] fays they croffed juft\\nprobably ftarted on the 19th) they above where Fall River now (lands,\\nmarched 18 miles, and attacked Philip Dartmouth feems to have been\\nin the great fwampe upon Pocajet deftroyed by the Indians in the latter\\nneck, of feven miles long. They half of July.\\n44", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "13\\nmouths diflreffes required Succour, great Part of the Town\\nbeing laid defolate, and many of the Inhabitants kill d; the\\nmoft of Plymouth Forces were order d thither: And com-\\ning to RuJJels Garrifon at Poiieganfet^^^ they met with a\\nNumber of the Enemy that had furrendred themfelves\\nPrifoners on terms promifed by Capt. Ecls^^^ of the Garri-\\nfon; and Ralph Earl^^ that perfwaded them (by a friend\\nIndia7t he had employed) to come in. And had their\\npromifes to the Indians been kept, and the Indians farely\\ntreated, tis probable that moft if not all the Indians in\\nthofe Parts, had foon followed the Example of thofe that\\nhad now furrendred themfelves; which would have been\\na good flep towards finifhing the War. But in fpite of all\\nthat Capt. Eels^ Churchy or Earl could fay, argue, plead, or\\nbeg, fome body elfe that had more Power in their hands\\n11 The Apponcganfctt River (or eight children, Rev. Nathaniel, of Scit-\\ncove) is the fecond cove making up uate. \\\\^HiJl. Dorchejier, 51 Deane s\\nfrom Buzzard s Bay weft and fouth of Scituate, 197; Barry s ^rtwot cr, 301.]\\nNew-Bedford harbor. Faint traces i^- Ralph Earl appears to have been\\nof the cellar of this garrifon-houfe fon of Ralph, of Portfmouth, R.-I., and\\nmight lately be feen, near a fpring on to have removed to Dartmouth in con-\\nthe eaft bank of this river, about a mile fequence of the gift to him of half a\\nfrom its mouth. John Ruflell was one fhare in Coaxit and AcuHinet by\\nof the earlieft fettlers of Dartmouth. Francis Sprague of Duxbury, who calls\\n[Ricketfon s Hijl. New Bedford, 15, him fon-in-law. He was fined, 29\\n35) 154-] OS.. 1668, 55, for aftronting the con-\\n111 Capt. Samuel Eclls feems to have ftable of Dartmouth. He was himfelf\\nbeen the fon of John, of Dorchefter. conftable in 1670. I am forry to add\\nHe was baptized at Dorchefter, 3 May, that a perfon of that name was fined\\n1640. He commanded a garrifon at 205, at Plymouth, 5 0(5t., 1663, for\\nDartmouth, Mafs., in Philip s war, drawing his wife in an vnciuell man-\\nmarried Anna, daughter of Rev. Robert or on the fnow. [Savage s Gen. Did.\\nLenthal of Weymouth, and died in ii 91 Ply7n. Col. Rec. iv 47 v 10,\\nHingham in 1709; leaving, among 36.]\\n45", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "13\\nimprov d it; and without any regard to the promifes made\\nthem on their furrendring themfelves, they were carry d\\naway to Plymotith, there fold, and tranfported out of the\\nCountry; being about Eight-fcore Perfons. An a6lion fo\\n11* The following I take to be the\\norder of the Council of war upon this\\ncafe, 4 Aug., 1675, which hints the light\\nin which the government viewed the\\nmatter\\nIn reference vnto a companie of\\nnatiues now in coftodj, brought in to\\nPlymouth, being men, weomen, and\\nchildren, in number one hundred and\\ntwelue, vpon ferioufe and deliberate\\nconfideration and agitation conferning\\nthem, the conclufion is as followeth\\nthat wheras, vpon examination, it is\\nfound that feuerall of them haue bine\\na(5tors in the late rifing and warr of\\nthe Indians againft vs, and the reft\\ncompilers with them therein, which\\nthey haue done contrary to engage-\\nnient and couenant made and plighted\\nwith this collonie, which they haue\\np fidioufly broken, as appeereth fur-\\nther alfoe in that they did not dif-\\ncouer that p nifious plott which Phillip,\\nwith others, completed againft vs,\\nwhich hath caufed the deftrudlion of\\nfeuerall of vs, by lofle of Hues and\\neftates, and ftill held in danger\\ntherby, the p mifes confidered as\\naforefaid, the councell adjudged them\\nto be fold, and denoted vnto fervi-\\ntude, excepting fome few of them,\\nwhich, vpon fpeciall confideration,\\nare to be otherwife difpofed of, and\\nthe Treafurer is appointed by the\\ncouncell to make fale of them in the\\ncountryes behalfe.\\nOn the fecond of September follow-\\ning, fimilar adlion was taken in the\\ncafe of a certaine p fell of Indians\\nlately come in to Sandwich in a fub-\\nmifliue way to this collonie. They\\nwere adjudged to be in the fame con-\\ndition of rebellion, and condemned\\nvnto p petuall fervitude. There were\\n57 of thefe, which, added to the former\\n112, made 169; not far from Church s\\neight fcore. Thacher, under date of\\n0(5t. 4, 1765, fays, one hundred and\\nfeventy-eight [Indians] had recently\\nbeen shipped on board of Captain\\nSprague, for Cadiz unqueftionably\\nreferring to this fame melancholy mil-\\njudgment. It is eflential to the proper\\nunderftanding of fuch a tranfa(5tion as\\nthis, that the general cuftom and feeling\\nof the time ftiould be confidered. A\\nvery curious document has been pre-\\nferved, of date 14 Aug., 1676, ftiowing\\nthat Roger Williams was chairman of\\na committee in Rhode-Ifland to difpofe\\nof fome Indian captives whom i/icy had\\ntaken. All under 5 years of age were\\nfold to ferve till they were 30; all be-\\ntween 5 and 10, till 28; all between 10\\nand 15, till 27; all between 15 and 20,\\ntill 26 all between 20 and 30 were to\\nferve S years all above 30, 7 years.\\nJudge Staples fays that, in moft in-\\nftances, Indian prifoners were fent\\nout of the country and fold for flaves\\nfor life. \\\\^Plyi?i. Col. Rec. v: 173, 174;\\nHift. Plym. 136 Hijl. Coll. v 170.]\\n46", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "13\\nhateful to Mr. Church, that he oppof d it to the lofs of the\\ngood Will and Refpe6ls of fome that before were his good\\nFriends. But while thefe things were a6ting at Dart-\\nmouth, Philip made his efcape, leaving his Country, fled\\nover Tau7iton-K\\\\vQv, and Rehodoth-Y^l^.m^^ and Petuxet-\\nRiver/^^ where Capt. Ed7nunds oi Provideiice^^^ made fome\\nfpoil upon; and had probably done more, but was pre-\\nvented by the coming up of a Superiour Officer,^^ that put\\nhim by. And now another Fort was built at PocaJJet^^^\\n11* Seekonk Plain.\\n11^ See note loS, ante. Pawtucket and\\nPawtuxet should not be confounded, as\\nthey are different names. Pauftick-et\\nis at the falls of the river; Pautuxet\\n(^Pautuck-efe-ef) introduces a diminu-\\ntive, i. e. at the little falls of the river.\\nThe river referred to in the text is now\\ncalled the Blackftone.\\nii*^ Caft. Afidrezv Edmu7tds (^Ed-\\nmonds or Edmatids) was of Providence,\\nand married Mary, dau, of Benj. Iler-\\nendean. 14 0(5l., 1675; 7 Aug., 1676 the\\nR.-I. Aflembly voted him and his com^\\npany one-half of the money accruing\\nfrom the fale of 35 Indians brought\\nin by them 17 June, 1684 he ferved\\non a Coroner s Jury on the death of\\nJohn Miller of Rehoboth; 25 Dec, 16S9\\nPlymouth Court ordered him 205. a\\nweek for his fervice in the Eaftern Ex-\\npedition, and, by vote of 3 March,\\n1690, the Rhode-Ifland Aflembly added\\n\u00c2\u00a36 to it. He died previous to 1696,\\nhaving had five children. His widow\\nwas allowed to keep the ferry over See-\\nkonk river. [Savage s Gen. Did. ii\\nloi R.-I. Col. Rec. ii 549; iii 263,\\n277, 2S0, 313; Plym. Col. Rec. vi 143,\\n229.]\\n11 Hubbard names Capt. Henchman\\nin this connec5tion, and adds what\\nthe reafon was why Philip was followed\\nno further, it is better to fufpend, then\\ntoo critically to inquire. The infer-\\nence, taken with what Church fays, is\\nthat Henchman was the man on whom\\nthe blame refted. \\\\_Narrative, 28.]\\nThe Rev. Noah Newman of Rehoboth\\nwas very efficient and ufelul in this\\naflault on the retreating Philip. [Blifs s\\nRehoboth, 87.]\\n11^ Capt. Cudworth urged this. He\\nwrote to Gov. Winflow, 20 July, 1675,\\nfrom Mount-Hope Neck, faying Now\\nthat which we confider to be befl, is to\\nmaintain our garrifon, though but with\\ntwenty men, and that there be another\\ngarrifon at Pocajfct and to have a fly-\\ning army, to be in motion (doubtlefs\\nwith thefe points as its bafe) to keep\\nthe Indians from deftroying our cattle,\\nand fetching in fupply of food which\\nbeing attended, will bring them to\\ngreat ftraights, c. [i Mafs. Hijl. Coll.\\nvi 85.] I have not been able to identify\\n47", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "3\\nthat prov d as troublefome and chargeable as that at\\nMount-hope\\\\ and the remainder of the Summer was im-\\nprov d in providing for the Forts and Forces there main-\\ntained, while our Enemies were fled fome hundreds of\\nMiles into the Country, near as far as Albajiy. And now\\nllrong Sufpicions began to arife of the Narraganfet In-\\ndians^^^ that they were ill affected, and defigned mifchief;\\nand fo the event foon difcovered. The next Winter they\\nbegan their Hoftilities, upon the Engli/Ji}^^ The United\\nColonies then agreed to fent an Army to fupprefs them\\nthe fite of this Pocaflet garrifon, but\\nfuppofe it to have been within the pref-\\nent citj-limits of Fall River.\\n11^ The Narraga7ifctt Indians maj be\\ngenerally defcribed as having occupied\\nthe lower half of what is now the main\\nland of the State of Rhode-Iiland, in-\\ncluding the whole of Wafhington, with\\nthe lower portion of Kent Counties.\\n[Gookin, i Mafs. Hijl. Coll. i 147 R.-\\nI. HiJl. Coll. iii: i.] With regard to\\nthe fignificance of this name, concern-\\ning which various fuggeftions have\\nbeen made, (Drake s Book of the In-\\ndians, 87, note, Mr. Trumbull quotes\\nRoger Williams I was within a pole\\nof it, but could not learn why it was\\ncalled Nahigaiifet and fays, to whom\\nI have nothing to add.\\n1*^ From the date of Philip s efcape\\nacrofsTaunton River (i Aug.), hoftilities\\nhad been in progrefs. Mendon fettlers\\nfell firft. Early in Auguft, ^uaboag\\n(Brookfield) was deftroyed. About the\\nfirft of September, Deerfield was burned.\\nSoon after, Squakeag (Northfield) was\\naffaulted, and the majority of Capt\\nBeers s party, going to its relief, killed.\\nEarly in October, Springfield was at-\\ntacked, and 32 houfes fired. A few days\\nlater, 19 Odt., Hatfield was affailed.\\nThe Narraganfetts fheltered the women\\nof the warrior Indians, and guns were\\nfound among them which had been\\ntaken from Beers s men; fo that they\\nwere judged to be in complicity wjth\\nPhilip. [Hubbard s Narrative, 32-42,\\n48 Holmes s Annals, i 372-375 Hoyt s\\nIndian Wars, 99-112.]\\n1-1 The Commiffioners of the United\\nColonies wrote from Bofton, 12 Nov.,\\n1675, to Rhode-Ifland, on this fubje(5t, as\\nfollows Findeing that y* Narrigan-\\nfets under pretence of freindfliip haue\\nbine and are very fals and perfideoufe,\\nholdeing as is reported to us great Cor-\\nrifpondency with the Enemy that are\\nin more open hoftillity receiveing,\\nreleeving, and Contrary to their Cove-\\nnant detayneing many of the Enemy\\nmen, women, and children to their\\ngreat advantage and our prejudife, and", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "13\\nGovernour Winjlow^ to command the Army. He under-\\ntaking the Expedition, invited Mr. CJmrch to command a\\nCompany in the Expedition; which he decHn d, craving\\nexcufe from taking Commiffion, he promifed to wait upon\\nhim as a Reformado^ thro the Expedition. Having rid\\nwith the General to Bojloii^ and from thence to ReJio-\\nboth. Upon the Generals requeft he went thence the near-\\neft way over the Ferries, with Major Smitk^ to his\\nby many other infolencejs declaering\\ntheir Enmity, and that indeed they are\\nand are like to bee the very randivoufe,\\nand feat of the warr, it hath drawne us\\nto refolue to rayfe looo men in the Con-\\nfoederate Coloneys befides them alredy\\nin paye, to bee improved there or as\\nthe providence of God may dire6l to\\nreduce them to reafon And therefore\\njudge it neceflary to advife you of our\\nintents in that refpedl, to intent that\\nyou may not only take cair of your\\nfronteer places, but afforde fo[me]\\naddition to our numbers, and giue us\\nfuch afiftance by your floopes and vef-\\nfells as wee may ftand in need of, c.\\nThe new levy was proportioned thus\\nMafs. 527, Plym. 158, Conn. 315 1000.\\nThe a(5lual attendance of troops feems\\nto have been, as follows from Mafs.\\n465 foot (in fix companies) and 75\\nhorfe 540 men; from Plymouth 158\\nmen (in two companies) from Conn.\\n450 men (in five companies) making\\na total of 1 148 men from the Confeder-\\nate Colonies. Befides thefe, a confid-\\nerable number of recruits joined the\\nexpedition from the Rhode-Illand Colo-\\nny. The Army was under command\\nof Gen. Jofias Winflow. The Mafs.\\ntroops were officered by Maj. Appleton\\nand Capts. Mofely, Davenport, Gard-\\nner, Oliver, Johnfon, and Prentice\\nthe Plymouth, by Maj. Bradford and\\nCapt. Gorham and the Conn, by\\nMaj. Treat and Capts. Seely, Gallup,\\nMafon, Watts, and Marlhall. A partial\\nlift of the names of the Mafs. men has\\nbeen publilbed. \\\\_Plym. Col. Rec, x:\\n365, 45S; Barry s Hiji. Mafs. i: 426;\\nTrumbull s HiJl. Conn, i 337 Arnold s\\nHiJl. R.-I. i: 403; N. E. Gen. Reg.\\nviii 241.]\\n1-2 See note 20, ante.\\n123 Reformado., a reformed Officer,\\nor one whofe Company, or Troop, is\\nfupprefled in a Reform, and he con-\\ntinued either in whole, or half Pay, he\\ndoing Duty in the Regiment. In a Ihip\\nof war, a Gentleman who ferves as a\\nVoluntier, in order to gain Experience,\\nand fucceed the principal Officers.\\n[Bailey.]\\n12* As Church s home at Saconet was\\ntemporarily broken up, he would feem\\nto have been, in this interval, with his\\nfriends at Plymouth, or Duxbury.\\n125 Richard Smith, jr., was the fon\\nof Richard, who left faire PofleflTions\\nin Glofter Shire Eng., and was one\\n49", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "H\\nGarrifon in the Narraganfet Cojintry} to prepare and\\nprovide for the coming of General Wmjloiv^ who March d\\nround thro the Country with his Army, propoling by Night\\nto furprize Pumham (a certain Narragmtfet Sachem) and\\nhis Town;^^ but being aware of the approach of [14] our\\nof the firfl: fettlers of Taunton, and went\\nto Wickford, R.-I., about 1641, for his\\nconfcience fake (many differences arif-\\ning) where he built a block-houfe\\non the great Pequot road, on the fite\\nwhere the Updike houfe (lands, or lately\\nftood, a little to the north of Wickford\\nHill, in No. Kingftown, R.-I. He was\\nmixed up in the confliiTt of jurifdicftion\\nbetween Rhode-Ifland and Connedlicut,\\nand was appointed Conftable of Wick-\\nford by Conn, in 1663 was put under\\nbonds in \u00c2\u00a3400 to anfwer to R.-I. in\\n1664; 28 Dec, 1665 appears as witnefs\\nin the Warwick acquittance is faid\\nto have been one of Andros s Coun-\\ncil in 1686; was appointed by Andros\\nin that year Juftice of the Peace and\\nSergeant-major and chief Commander\\nof his Majefty s militia both of horfe\\nand foot within the Narraganfett Coun-\\ntry, or Province, and all the Iflands\\ndied before 1692, when his will was\\nproved, mentioning no wife nor chil-\\ndren. Church calls him Major now,\\nalthough he does not appear to have\\nbeen fo until fome years after this date.\\n[7?.-/. Hijl. Coll. iii 32, 166, 271 R.-I.\\nCol. Rec. iii 198; Arnold s HiJl. R.-I.\\ni 283, 305, 307, 484.]\\ni-\u00c2\u00ab Afluming that by Rehoboth\\nhere is meant Myles s Garrifon (fee\\nnote 44, ante), the neareft way over\\nthe Ferries thence to Smith s block-\\nhoufe, would feem to have been through\\nMount-hope neck to Briftol ferry, thence\\ndown Rhode-Ifland to Newport, thence\\nover by ferry to Conanicut, and\\nthence by ftill another ferry to Wick-\\nford a diftance which I eftimate as\\na little over 30 miles. The ferries from\\nNewport to Jameftown and from Jamef-\\ntown to Narraganfett were not indeed\\nformally eftablilhed by the Aflembly\\nuntil 1700, but they had doubtleis been\\nrunning for many years as an irrefpon-\\nfible individual enterprife. It is poffible\\nthat this diftance might, at the date to\\nwhich the text refers, have been mate-\\nrially ftiortened by a route from Briftol\\nFerry to Prudence, and from thence to\\nWickford the latter a diftance of 5 or\\n6 miles by water. The remark about\\nfair winds which follows, perhaps\\nfavors this latter fuppofition and, at\\nany rate, feems to fettle it that Church\\ndid not go round by Seekonk, Provi-\\ndence, Pawtuxet and Apponaug Ferries,\\nneither of which was wide enough to\\nmake a fair wind of much confequence\\nin crofting. This latter was clearly how-\\never the route of the army, who made a\\ndetour from it in the vain hope of\\ncatching Pumham at his village in\\nWai-wick. Col. Rcc. iii 406,\\n415-]\\nI- Pumham (^Pomham) was Sachem\\nof Shaixjomet {S/iaomet), the neck that\\n50", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "H]\\nArmy made their efcape into the defarts. But Mr. Church\\nmeeting with fair Winds arriv d fafe at the Major s Garri-\\nfon in the evening.^^^ And foon began to inquire after the\\nEnemies Reforts, Wigwams or Sleeping Places; and having\\ngain d fome intelligence, he propofed to the Eldriges}\\nand fome other brisk hands, that he met with, to attempt\\nthe Surprizing of fome of the Enemy to make a Prefent of\\nto the General, when he fhould arrive: which might ad-\\nvantage his defign; being brisk blades, they readily com-\\nply d with the motion, and were foon upon their March.\\nThe Night was very cold, but blefs d with the Moon\\\\\\nbefore the day broke they effe6led their exploit, and by\\nthe rifmg of the Sun arrived at the Major s Garrifon,\\nwhere they met the General and prefented him with Eigh-\\nteen of the Enemy, they had Captiv d. The General\\nprojedls into Narraganfett Bay, having in Wickford, R.-I., in 1670; as is proven\\nProvidence River on the eaft, and Cow- by their names attached to a coroner s\\nefet Bay on the fouth and weft, it being jury verdid, dated July 14, of that year,\\nthe eaftern portion of the town of War- In 1679, the names of John and Samuel\\nwick, R.-I. The name is perhaps from are attached to a petition to the king.\\npimmu, he Ihoots ptimivaen, pum- In 1692, Thomas was Lieui., and John,\\nmuaeti, one who fhoots. With re- Ensign and in 1702, Daniel was C(r/\\ndupUcative\u00e2\u0080\u0094pe-pumzvaen, an arch- iain. Samuel was Conftable under ap-\\ner (Eliot). Or perhaps, from /\u00c2\u00abw\u00c2\u00ab/o//- pointment of Conn, in the boundary\\n/lam, he goes by water (goes in troubles of 1670, qnd thereabouts, and\\nboats). Eliot ufes the derivative, was committed to jail by the R.-I. au-\\n,noAAamtvaenuoo- (pi.) for mariners thorities for attempting to ac t for Conn.\\n(Jonah, i: 5.). The pofition of the Sha- in an arreft for murder. Savage fug-\\nomet or Warwick Indians favors this gefts that Samuel (of Cambridge m\\netymology. 1646) was the father of at leaft iome of\\ni The evening of Saturday, II Dec, them, adding that Samuel (the fon)\\n1675. [i?.-/. Hiyi. Coll. iii 83.] was at Rochefter in 168S. [i?.-/. Col.\\nThere were three Eldridges (or Rec. ii 344; 60, 287, 461; R-I-\\nEldreds), Samuel, James, and Thomas, IHJl. Coll. iii 1% Gen. Did. n 107.]\\n51", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "H\\npleas d with the exploit, gave them thanks, particularly to\\nMr. Churchy the mover and chief a6lor of the bufmefs;\\nand fending two of them (likely Boys) a prefent to BoJlon\\\\\\nfmiling on Mr. Churchy told him, That he made no doubt\\nbut his Faculty would fupply them with Indian Boys enotcgh\\nbefore the War was ended.\\nTheir next move^^*^ was to a Swamp which the Indians\\nhad Fortifyed with a Fort.^^^ Mr. Church rid in the Gen-\\n1^ Other authorities lliow that a week\\nelapfed between the evening of the ex-\\nploit above related and the fwamp fight\\nto which Church now refers. The Mafs.\\nand Pljm. troops arrived on the eve-\\nning of the I2th. On the 14th, two\\nforajs were made upon the enemy, and\\nnine Indians were killed, twelve cap-\\ntured, and 150 wigwams burned. On\\nthe 15th, feveral ftragglers from the\\nmain body of the Englifh were cut off.\\nOn the i6th, Capt. Prentice with his\\ntroop of horfe went to Bull s Garrilbn\\nat Pettaquamfcut (on Tower Hill, in\\nSo. Kingftown, R.-L), and returned with\\nthe news that the Indians had burned\\nit, and killed 10 men and 5 women and\\nchildren. On the 17th, the Connedlicut\\ntroops arrived at Bull s. On the i8th,\\nthe Mafs. and Pljm. forces joined them\\nat Pettaquamfcut at 5 p.m. Thej all\\nthen marched forward in the fnow, and\\ncamped out that night; ftarting again\\nat break of day on Sunday the 19th,\\nand about i p.m. reached the edge of\\nthe fwamp in which was the Indian\\nfort. [Hubbard s iV\u00c2\u00ab;-rrt/ /t t 50; R.-I.\\nHIJl. Coll. iii 83.]\\n^^1 This fwamp is ituated in the north-\\nweft portion of the ti. f South Kingf-\\ntown, R.-I., very near the line of Rich-\\nmond, lefs than a mile north-weft\\nfrom the track of the Providence and\\nStonington R.R., on the farm of J. G.\\nClarke, Efq., and not far from the houfe\\nof Judge W. Marchant. Dr. Stiles ftates\\nthat it is about feven miles nearly\\ndue weft from Narraganfet South Fer-\\nry. On this. Judge Davis comments\\nIt is apprehended there is an error in\\nthe ftatement of the diftance of the fort\\nfrom the South Ferry. Seventeen miles,\\ninftead o{ feven, would be more confift-\\nent with the accounts given of the\\nmarches of the army, by cotemporary\\nhiftorians. But the identification of\\nthe locality is complete, and by the\\nroad it is nearly teti miles from the\\nFerry. The explanation of the diftance\\nnamed by cotemporaries is partly that\\nthe return route lay not to the Ferry,\\nbut to Smith s garrifon in Wickford,\\nthe fite of which is diftant (by way of\\nBull s on Tower Hill,) fcarcely lefs than\\nfeventeen miles, by the prefent roads,\\nfrom the fwamp and more, that the\\njourney followed the winding Indian\\npaths, and was accomplifhed through\\ndeep fnow and in a night of intenfe\\ncold. The fort was a ftockade enclofing\\n52", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "h]\\nerals guard when the bloiidy ingagement began but being\\nimpatient of being out of the heat of the a6lion, importu-\\nnately beg d leave of the General that he might run down\\nto the affiftance of his friends, the General yielded to his\\nrequefl, provided he could rally fome hands to go with\\nhim. Thirty Men immediately drew out and followed\\nhim: They entred the Swamp and paiTed over the Log,\\nthat was the paffage into the Fort, where they faw many\\nMen and feveral Valiant Captains lye flain:^^ Mr. Church\\nfpying Capt. Gardner^ of Salem amidft the Wigwams in\\nfive or fix acres of upland in the middle\\nof the fwamp by a palifade, which was\\ndefended by a hedge of almoft a rod\\nthicknefs through which there was no\\npafling, unlefs they could have fired a\\nway through, which then they had no\\ntime to doe. The only regular entrances\\nwere along a log which bridged a fpace\\nof water, and over another log which\\nwas defended by a block-house. [Hub-\\nbard s Narrative, 52 R.-I. Hijl. Coll.\\niii 85; Stiles s ed. Church, 29; Davis s\\nMortoti s Memorial, 433.]\\n1*^ The accounts vary very much as\\nto the number of killed and wounded.\\nA letter fuppofed by Hutchinfon to be\\nby Maj. Bradford, but Ihown by Mr.\\nDrake {^Book of the Indians. 219] to be\\nby Capt. James Oliver written a lliort\\ntime after, from the field, and which the\\nwriter fays he has verified by reading\\nto the ofiicers in his tent, would feem\\nto have the befl: elements of reliable-\\nnefs. It fays 8 were left dead in the\\nfort, 12 were carried away dead, and\\nmany died by the way, or as foon as\\nbrought in fo that they buried the next\\nday (20 Dec.) 34, the next day 4, and\\nthe next day 2. Eight died on Rhode-\\nIfland (whither moft of the wounded\\nwere carried, for care), i ^t Pettaquamf-\\ncut, and 2 were loft in the woods. He\\nmakes the total about 68 who died,\\nand 150 wounded who recovered. Capts.\\nJohnfon, Davenport, Gardner, Seelj\\nGallup, Marlhall, and Mafon were killed,\\nor died of their wounds. [Hutchinfon s\\nHiji. Ma/s., (ed. 1795), i: 272.] See\\nDrake s Hi/i. Bojion [i 414] for a lift\\nof the killed and wounded of the Mafs.\\nquota.\\n133 Capt. Jofeph Gardner was fon of\\nthe firrt Thomas, of Salem; married\\nAnn, dau. of Emanuel Downing, in\\n1656; was freeman in 1672; captain\\nof one Salem company in 1674. He\\nowned the fine old houfe in Salem\\nftanding until 1750 (of which Felt gives,\\nan engraving) known afterward as\\nthe Bradftreet Manfion his widow\\nmarrying Simon (afterwards Gov.)\\nBradftreet. [Savage s Gen. DiiH. ii\\n22S; Felt s Annals of Salem, i: 412;\\nii: 497.]\\n53", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "15\\nthe Eaft end of the Fort, made towards him, but on a\\nfuddcn, while they were looking each other in the Face,\\nCapt. Gardner fettled down, Mr. Church ftep d to him\\nand feeing the blood run down his cheek, lifted up his\\nCap, and calling him by his Name; he look d up in his\\nFace, but fpoke not a Word, being Mortally Shot thro\\nthe head; and obferving his Wound, Mr. Church found\\nthe ball entred his head on the fide that was next the Up-\\nland, where the EngliJJi entred the Swamp. Upon which,\\nhaving ordered fome care to be taken of the Captain, he\\ndifpatch d information to the General that the beft and for-\\nwardeft of his Army that hazarded their lives to enter the\\nFort, upon the muzzle of the Enemies Guns, were Shot in\\ntheir backs, and kill d by them that lay behind. Mr.\\nChurch with his fmall Company haflen d out of the Fort\\n(that the EngliJIi were now polTelfed of) to get a Shot at\\nthe I7idia7is that were in the Swamp, kept firing upon\\nthem. He foon met with a broad bloody track, where the\\nEnemy had fled with their Wounded men; following hard\\nin the tra6t, he foon fpy d one of the Enemy, who clap d\\nhis Gun a-crofs his breaft, made towards Mr. Churchy and\\nbeckned to him with his hand; Mr. Church immediately\\ncommanded [15] no Man to hurt him, hoping by him to\\nhave gain d fome intelligence of the Enemy, that might be\\nof advantage; but it unhappily fell out that a Fellow that\\nhad lag d behind coming up, fhot down the Indian, to Mr.\\nChurch^ great grief and difappointment. But immedi-\\nately they heard a great fhout of the Enemy, which feem d\\n54", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "IS\\nto be behind them, or between them and the Fort; and\\ndifcover d them running from tree to tree to gain advant-\\nages of firing upon the EiigliJJi that were In the Fort. Mr.\\nChurches great difficulty now was how to difcover himfelf\\nto his Friends In the Fort, ufmg feveral Inventions, till at\\nlength gain d an opportunity to call to, and Inform a Ser-\\njeant in the Fort, that he was there, and might be expofed\\nto their Shots, unlefs they obferv d It. By this time he\\ndifcovered a number of the Enemy almoft within Shot of\\nhim, making towards the Fort; Mr. Church and his Com-\\npany were favoured by a heap of brufh that was between\\nthem and the Enemy, and prevented their being difcover d\\nto them. Mr. Church had given his Men their particular\\norders for firing upon the Enemy; and as they were rlfing\\nup to make their Shot, the afore-mentioned Serjeant in the\\nFort called out to them, for God^s fake not to Jire, for he\\nbelieved they were fome of their Friend Indians They\\nclap d down again, but were foon fenfible of the Serjeants\\nmiftake. The Enemy got to the top of the Tree, the body\\nJ^ One hundred and fifty Mohegans executed teftified, according to Roger\\nand Pequots formed a part of the Conn. Williams s record, if the Monhiggins\\nforces. Capt. Oliver (note 132, ante) Pequts had bene true, they might\\ndoes not fpeak well of them. He fays haue deftroyed moft of the Nahiggon-\\nMonhegins and Pequods proved very fiks; but the Nahigonfiks parlied witli\\nfalfe, fired into the air, and fent word them in the beginning of the fight, ^o\\nbefore they came they would do fo, but that they promifed to Ihoote high, wiiich\\ngot much plunder, guns and kettles. they did, kild not one Nahigonfik\\nSo Jofhua Tift, a renegade Englifhman, man, except againft thejr wills.\\nwho had married an Indian wife, and [Trumbull s Hijl. Conn, i 337 Hutch-\\nwas aaive in this fight, but was after- infon s Hiji. Mafs. (cd. 1795,) i: 273;\\nwards taken, examined, condemned, and 4 Majs. HiJi. Coll. vi 308.]\\n55", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "15\\nwhereof the Serjeant flood upon, and there clap d down\\nout of fight of the Fort, but all this while never difcovered\\nMr. C/mrck, who obferved them to keep gathering unto\\nthat Place, until there feem d to be a formidable black\\nheap of them. Now brave boys (faid Mr. Church to his\\nMen) if we mind our hits, we may have a brave Shot, and let\\nour Jign for firing on them, be their rifing up to fire into the\\nFort. It was not long before the Indians riling up as one\\nbody, defigning to pour a Volley into the Fort. When\\nour Church nimbly flarted up and gave them fuch a round\\nVolley, and unexpe6led clap on their backs, that they who\\nefcaped with their Lives, were fo furprized, that they\\nfcampered, they knew not whether themfelves; about a\\ndozen of them ran right over the Log into the Fort^ and\\ntook into a fort of a Hovel that was build with Poles, after\\nthe manner of a corn crib. Mr. Church Men having\\ntheir Catteridges fix d, were foon ready to obey his order,\\nwhich was immediately to charge and run on upon the\\nHovel, and over-fet it, calling as he run on to fome that\\nwere in the Fort to affift him in over-fetting of it; they no\\nfooner came to Face the Enemies fhelter, but Mr. Church\\ndifcover d that one of them had found a hole to point his\\nGun through, right at him; but however incouraged his\\nCompany, and ran right on, till he was ftruck with Three\\nBullets, one in his Thigh, which was near half of it cut\\noff as it glanced on the joynt of the Hip-bone; another\\nthro* the gatherings of his Breeches and Draws, with a\\nfmall flefh Wound; a third peirced his Pocket, and\\n56", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "i6]\\nwounded a pair of Mlttins, that he had borrowed of Capt.\\nPrentice] being wrap d up together had the mif- [i6]\\nfortune of having many holes cut thro them with one\\nBullet: But however he made fhift to keep on his Legs,\\nand nimbly difcharged his Gun at them that wounded\\nhim: being difinabled now to go a ftep, his Men would\\nhave carried him oft but he forbid their touching of him,\\nuntil they had perfedted their proje6t of over-fetting the\\nEnemies jGielter; bid them run, for now the hidians had\\nno Guns charged. While he was urging them to run on,\\nthe Indians began to fhoot Arrows, and with one peirc d\\nthro the Arm of an EjigliJJi Man that had hold of Mr.\\nChurches Arm to fupport him. The EngliJJi^ in fhort,\\nwere difcourag d, and drew back. And by this time the\\nEngliJJt People in the Fort had began to fet fire to the\\nWigwams Houfcs in the Fort, which Mr. Church laboured\\nhard to prevent; they told him. They had orders from the\\nGc7ieral to burn them\\\\ he beg d them to forbear until he\\nhad difcours d the General and haftning to him, he beg d\\nto f pare the JVigwams, c. in the Fort fro7n fire, told him,\\nThe Wigwams were Musket-proof being all lui d tmth\\nBafkets and Tubbs of Grain, and other Provifions, ftif-\\nficient to fupply the zvhole Army, tmtil the Spring of the\\nTear and every wounded Man might have a good warm\\nHoufe to lodge in, which other-ways would neceffarily pcrifii\\nwith the Storms and Cold. And more-over, that the Army\\n135 Church s part experience in the nature to urije this confideration upon\\ncommiffary department had been of a his mind with great force.\\n8 57", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "i6]\\nhad no other Provijion to truft unto or depend upon that he\\nknew that Plymouth Forces had not fo much as one Bifcake\\nleft, for he had feen their lafl dealt out, c. The General\\nadvifing a few Words with the Gentlemen that were about\\nhim, Mov d towards the Fort, defigning to ride in himfelf,\\nand bring in the whole Army. But juft as he was entring\\nthe Swamp, one of his Captains meet him, and asked\\nhim. Whither he was going? He told him into the Fort;\\nthe Captain laid hold of his Horfe, and told him, His Life\\nwas worth an hundred of theirs, and he fliotild not expofe\\nhimfelf The General told him. That he fuppofcd the\\nbrtmt was over, and that Mr. Church had informed him\\nthat the Fort was take^i, c. And as the cafe was circtmi-\\nflanced he was of the Miitd, that it was mofl practicable for\\nhim, and his Army to fJielter thanfelves in the Fort. The\\nCaptain in a great heat, reply d. That Church lfd\\\\ and\\ntold the General, That if he mov^d another flep towards the\\nFort he would flioot his Horfe under him. Then bruiled\\nup another Gentleman, a certain Do6lor,^^^ and oppofs d\\nMr. Churcl^s advice, and faid. If it were complfd with, it\\ni^** Likely to be Captain Mofelj, who were provided. Dr. John Clark, ap-\\nwas a rough and fanguinary foldier, parently fon of Dr. John, who came to\\nand whom Hubbard names as very Bofton from Newbury, and whofe pic-\\nadlive and ferviceable in the fight. ture hangs in the rooms of the Mais.\\n\\\\_Narrative, 54.] Hift. Soc, was appointed by the Mafs.\\nChurch s reticence in regard to Court, on the 25th Feb. following,\\nnames, where cenfure is implied, is no- chirurgion for y fervice. Dr.\\nticeable. No record of the furgeons Matthew Fuller (fee note 69, aftte) was,\\naccompanying this expedition has met no doubt, ftill furgeon-general of the\\nmy eye. Trumbull fays, the beft fur- Plymouth troops. [7/^/?. Comi. i 340,\\ngcons which the country could furnilb, fiotc Mafs. Col. Ecc. v: 75.]\\n5S", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "17\\nwould kill i7tore Men than the Enemy had killed for (faid\\nhe) by to Morrow the wounded Men will be fo Jliff that\\nthere will be no fnoving of them And looking upon Mr.\\nChurch, and feeing the blood flowing a pace from his\\nWounds, told him, That if he gave fuch advice as that was,\\nhe fJiotdd bleed to Death like a Dog, before they would en-\\ndeavour to flench his blood. Though after they had pre-\\nvailed againft his advice, they were fufficiently kind to\\nhim. And burning up all the Houfes and Provifions in\\nthe Fort; the Army returned the fame Night in the Storm\\nand Cold: And I Suppofe every one that is acquainted\\nwith the circumflances of that Nights March, deeply\\nlaments the miferies that attended them, efpecially the\\n[17] wounded dying Men. But it mercifully came to\\npafs that Capt. Andrew Belcher^^ arrived at Mr. Smiths\\nthat very Night from Boflon, with a Veflel loaden with\\nProvifions for the Army, who mufl: otherwife have perifli d\\nfor want. Some of the Enemy that were then in the Fort\\nhave fince inform d us, that near a third of the Indians\\nbelonging to all that Narraganfet Country were killed by\\nthe Englifli, and by the Cold that Night,^^ that they fled\\n138 See note 52, ante. Smith s block- could not eftimate. Capt. Oliver fays,\\nhoufe flood on the cove making up 300 warriors were llain, and about 350\\nnorth-wefterly from the entrance of were taken, with above 300 women and\\nwhat is now called Wickford harbor. children. The Conn. Council wrote to\\n1^59 Hubbard fays, on the ftory of one Andros (13 Jan., 1675-6), about 600 of\\nPotock, afterwards taken, that the In- the Indians, men, women, children,\\ndians loft 700 warriors killed, befides as is faid, are flaine. Roger Wilhams,\\n300, moft of whom died of their wounds in his account of the examination of\\nand of expofure, with a number of old JolTiua Tift, fays, he faid that the Indians\\nmen, women, and children, which they found 97 Aaine 48 wounded, befide\\n59", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "17\\nout of their Fort fo haflily that they carried nothing with\\nthem: that if the Englifli had kept in the Fort, the Indians\\nhad certainly been neceffitated, either to furrender them-\\nfelves to them, or to have perifhed by Hunger, and the\\nfeverity of the Seafon. Some time after this Fort-fight a\\ncertain Sogkonate India7i hearing Mr. Chnrch relate the\\nmanner of his being wounded, told him. That he did not\\nknozu but he him/elf was the Indian that wounded him, for\\nthat he was one of that compaiiy of Indians that Mr.\\nChurch made a Shot upoji zvhen they were rifing up to make\\na Shot into the Fort they were 171 number about 60 or 70,\\nthat jifl then came dowji from Pumhams Town, and never\\nbefore then fired a Gun againfl the Englifh that when Mr.\\nChurch fired tipon them he killed 14 dead in the Spot, and\\nzvotmded a greater 7zumber than he killed, many of which\\ndyed afterwards with their wounds, i^i the Cold and Storm\\nthe following Night.\\nMr. Church was movYl with other wounded men over\\nto Rhode-Ifiand, where in about a Months time^^*^ he was\\nin fome good meafure recovered of his Wounds, and the\\nFever that attended them. And then went over to the Gen-\\neral to take his leave of him, with a defign to return home.\\nwhat flaughter was made in the howfes ing the firft edition, made here the\\nby the burning of the howfes, all of curious bkmder of fubftituting three\\nwhich he fajth were burnt except 5 months time for a months time,\\nor 6 thereabouts. ^Narrative, 54; as originally fet down; and Dr. Stiles\\nHutchinfon s Ilijl. Mafs. (ed. 1795), i: did not correft their error, which has\\n273, note Col. Rec. of Conn, ii 398 been perpetuated in all the editions\\n4 MaJ s. Jliji. Coll. vi 309.] fmce, and which led Mr. Drake, in his\\nSouthwick s compofitors, in copy- fecond edition, quite naturally to fup-\\n60", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "17]\\nBut the Generals great importunity again perfwaded him,\\nto accompany him in a long March, into the Nipmiick Coun-\\ntry,^ tho he had then Tents in his Wounds, and fo Lame\\nas not able to Mount his Horfe without two Mens affiftance.\\nIn this March the firfl; thing remarkable was, they came\\nto an Indian Town, where there were many Wigwams\\npofe that Church here refers to an expe-\\ndition into the Nipmuck country in\\nMarch, 1676, which no other chronicler\\nhad noticed. As Church didtated his\\nnarrative, the chronology was correifl.\\nThe fight was on the 19th of December.\\nIt was probably feveral days after that\\ndate before Church, with the wounded,\\nwas got over to Rhode-Ifland. The\\nConn, forces foon went home to recruit,\\nbut the Mafs. and Plym. troops re-\\nmained in garrifon at Wickford, and\\nwere re-enforced from Bofton, Jan. 10.\\nThe Conn, forces (fee Maj. Palmes s\\nletter, Conn. Col. Rec. ii 402) appear\\nto have reached Wickford again, 27\\nJan., when the whole army feems to\\nhave ftarted for the Nipmuck country\\n(whither the enemy were underftood to\\nhave fled), 1600 ftrong. This corref-\\nponds, very accurately, with the\\nmonth s interval of which Church\\nfpeaks, if he accompanied Gov. Win-\\nilow on this firft march, in force, from\\nWickford. Hubbard s account implies\\nthat our men ftarted from Wickford, 27\\nJan. [Hubbard s Narrative, 58, 60;\\nArnold s Hijl. R.-I. i 406 Drake s\\nChurch, 65.]\\n1 Nipmuck \\\\_Nipnet\\\\ was a name\\ngiven to the petty tribes, or clans, of\\ninland Indians fcattered over a large\\nextent of country, in Windham and\\nTolland Counties in Connecfticut, Wor-\\ncefter and Hampden Counties in Maffa-\\nchufetts, and the northern part of\\nRhode-Ifland but their principal feat\\nwas at, or near, the great ponds in\\nOxford (Webfter), Mafs. From thefe\\nponds they probably derived their name\\nof Pond or Frefli-water {nippe,\\nnip) Indians. If the two names, or\\nforms of the name, are not identical\\nin origin, Nipnet belongs to the terri-\\ntory, i.e. at the frelh-water pond\\nNipmuck, to the tribe, {nip-amaug)\\nthey filh in frelh water but poflTibly\\na frelli water fifliing-place. This\\ndiftinguiflied them from the Shore In-\\ndians, and the River Indians of the\\nConnedticut Valley their neighbors on\\nthe weft. Snipjtc (corrupted from\\nMijhenipf-ci) Pond, in Ellington, Conn.,\\nwas the bound where the country of\\nthe Nipmucks joined that of the River\\nIndians on the weft, and the Mohcgan\\nnorth-weft angle.\\nSuppofed to be Pumham s town\\n(fee note 127, antc^) in a rocky fwamp\\nin Warwick, R.-I., Warwick then em-\\nbracing moft of what is now Warwick\\nand Coventry. The diftancc is ftatcd\\nas 20 miles from Smith s. [Baylies\\nMem. Plym. Col. iii 104.]\\n61", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "i8]\\nin fight, but an Icy Swamp lying between them and the\\nWigwams, prevented their running at once upon it as they\\nintended: there was much firing upon each fide before\\nthey pafs d the Swamp. But at length the Enemy all fled,\\nand a certain Moohegan that was a fi iend Indian, purfued\\nand feiz d one of the Enemy that had a fmall wound in his\\nLeg, and brought him before the General, where he was\\nexamined. Some were for torturinof of him to brinof him\\nto a more ample confeflion, of what he knew concerning\\nhis Country-men. Mr. Church verily believing he had\\nbeen ingenious in his confeflion, interceeded and prevailed\\nfor his efcaping torture. But the Army being bound for-\\nward in their March, and the Indians wound fomewhat\\ndifinabling him for Travelling, twas concluded he fhould\\nbe knock d on the Head: Accordingly he was brought\\nbefore a great fire, and the Moohegan that took him was\\nallowed, as he defired, to be the Executiner. Mr. Church\\ntaking no delight [i8] in the Sport, fram d an arrant at\\nfome diftance among the baggage Horfes, and when he\\nhad got fome Ten Rods, or thereabouts from the fire, the\\nExecutioner fetching a blow with his Hatchet at the head\\nof the Prifoner, he being aware of the blow, dodged his\\nafide, and the Executioner mifling his flroke the Hatchet\\nflew out of his hand, and had like to have done execution\\nwhere twas not defign d. The Prifoner upon his narrow\\nefcape broke from them that held him, and notwithfliand-\\ning his Wound made ufe of his Legs, and hap d to run\\nright upon Mr. Church, who laid hold on him, and a clofe\\n62", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "18]\\nskuffle they had, but the Indiaji having no Clothes on\\nflip d from him, and ran again, and Mr. Church purfued\\nthe Indian, altho being Lame, there was no great odds in\\nthe Race, until the hidiaji Humbled and fell, and they\\nclofed again, skuffled and fought pretty fmartly, until the\\nIndian by the advantage of his nakednefs flip d from his\\nhold again, and fet out on his third Race, with Mr. Church\\nclofe at his heels, endeavouring to lay hold on the hair of\\nhis Head, which was all the hold could be taken of him;\\nand running thro a Swamp that was covered with hollow\\nIce, it made fo loud a noife that Mr. Chiirch expected (but\\nin vain) that fome of his EngliJJi friends would follow the\\nnoife, and come to his affiftance. But the Indian hap d to\\nrun a-thwart a mighty Tree that lay fallen near breaft-\\nhigh, where he ftop d and cry d out a loud for help; but\\nMr. Church being foon upon him again, the Indian feized\\nhim faft by the hair of his Head, and endeavouring by\\ntwilling to break his Neck; but tho Mr. Churches wounds\\nhad fome-what weakned him, and the Indian a ftout fel-\\nlow, yet he held him well in play, and twitted the Indians\\nNeck as well, and took the advantage of many opportu-\\nnities, while they hung by each others hair gave him\\nnotorious bunts in the face with his head. But in the heat\\nof this skuffle they heard the Ice break with fome bodies\\ncoming a-pace to them, which when they heard. Church\\nconcluded there was help for one or other of them, but\\nwas doubtful which of them muft now receive the fatal\\nllroke; anon fome body comes up to them, who prov d to\\n63", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "19\\nbe the Indian that had firft taken the Prlfoner. Without\\nfpeaking a word, he felt them out (for twas fo dark he\\ncould not diftinguifh them by fight) the one being clothed,\\nand the other naked, he felt where Mr. CJmrches hands\\nwere faftned in the Netops-^*^ hair, and with one blow fet-\\ntled his Hatchet in between them, and ended the ftrife.\\nlie then fpoke to Mr. Chtirch and hugg d him in his\\nArms, and thank d him abundantly for catching his Prif-\\noner; and cut off the head of his Victim, and carried it to\\nthe Camp, and giving an account to the reft of the friend\\nIndians in the Camp, how Mr. Church had feized his Prif-\\noner, c. they all joyn d a mighty fhout.\\nProceeding in this March, they had the fuccefs of killing\\nmany of the Enemy: until at length their Provifion failing,\\nthey return d home.-^\\nKing Philip (as was before hinted) was fled to a Place\\ncalled Scatiacook, [19] between York and Albaiiy^ where\\n143 JSfctop means friend (plu.) for a Dutchman. In this loofer fenfe\\nNctomfauog, friends. The is the it is ufed here.\\npronoun of the firft perfon the o is i Hubbard fays, our Forces, having\\nnafal. Eliot writes 7ietomp, as (Matt. purfued them into the woods between\\nxxvi 50) tietomp, tohtviichpcyauan f Marlbcrough and Brookfield in the\\nFriend, why art thou come hither. Road toward Con7icdicut, w-ere con-\\nThe general ufe of the word bj the ftrained to turn down to Bojion, in the\\nEnglilh was to defignate a friendly beginningofi^e^^M^/ j for want of pro-\\nIndian, an ally. From its conftant em- vifion, both for themfelves and their\\nployment (Roger Williams, \\\\_Kcy, chap. horfes. Mather fays, So then, Febru-\\nI, R.-I. Hijl. Coll. i: 27] fays What ary 5, the Army returned to Bojlon,\\ncheere,iV(?/o/.? is the general falutation not having obtained the end of their\\nof all Englilh to the Indians) in addrefs, going forth. INarrative, 60] Brief\\nNctop came to be ufed as an appellative HiJl. 22.]\\nfor any Indian man, juft as Monjteuy i\u00c2\u00ab SchagJiticokc is on the Hoofic and\\nfor a Frenchman, or Hans or Mynheer Hudlbn Rivers, 12 miles from Troy.\\n64", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "19]\\nthe Moohags^^^ made a defcent upon him and killed many\\nof his Men, which moved him from thence.\\nHis next kennelling Place was at the falls of Conne6li-\\ncut River/*^ where fometime after Capt. Tiirncr^^^ found\\nhim, came upon him by Night, kill d him a great many\\nThe Pincheon papers fay the Scata-\\nkook or River Indians, moft of them,\\nwere fugitives from New England in\\nthe time of Philip s war. [2 Majs.\\nHijl. Coll. viii 244.]\\n1* Increafe Mather fays, We hear\\nthat Philip being this winter enter-\\ntained in the Mohaxvks Country, Made\\nit his defign to breed a quarrel between\\nthe E7igliyh and them to effedl which,\\ndivers of our returned Captives do i-e-\\nport that he refolved to kill fome fcat-\\ntering Mo/iaxvks, then to fay that\\nthe EngliJJi had done it but one of\\nthofe whom he thought to have killed\\nwas only wounded, and got away to\\nhis Country men, giving them to under-\\nftand that not the Engli/Ii but Philip\\nhad killed the Men that were Murdered,\\nfo that inftead of bringing the Mohawks\\nupon the EngliJJi, he brought them upon\\nhimfelf. Judd fays this does not\\ndeferve the leaft credit. \\\\^Bricf Hif-\\ntory, 38; Hiji. Hadlcy, 182.]\\ni The great falls in the Connecticut\\nRiver, near where the towns of Mon-\\ntague, Gill, and Greenfield meet, which\\nDr. Hitchcock thought the fineft in\\nNew England. Unable to plant as\\nufual, the Indians were driven to avail\\nthemfelves more of filTi and no fpot in\\nthe country offered fuch Ibad-fifhing as\\nthis. Geology of Mafs. 375 Hoy t s\\nAntiq. Refcarches, 127.]\\n1*^ William Turner, of Dartmouth,\\nEng., then of Dorchefter, 1642, free-\\nman, 10 May, 1643, removed to Bof-\\nton, was by trade a tailor, and was\\none of the founders of the firft Bap-\\ntift Church in 1665. Early in Phil-\\nip s war, he gathered a company of\\nvolunteers, but was denied a commif-\\nfion, and difcouraged becaufe the chief\\nof the company were Anabaptifts. After-\\nwards, when the war grew more general\\nand diftruAive, and the country in very\\ngreat diftrefs, having divers towns\\nburnt, and many men flain, then he\\nwas defired to accept a commifiion.\\nHe complained it was too late, his men\\non whom he could confide being fcat-\\ntered however was moved to accept.\\nHe marched as Captain, under Maj.\\nSavage as chief commander, to relieve\\nthe weftern towns. 19 May, 1676, with\\n180 men, he furprifed the Indians at\\nthefe falls and killed from 130 to iSo,\\nbut on his return was killed, with 38 of\\nhis men. He married Mary, widow\\nof Key Alfop though he feems to have\\nhad another wife perhaps named\\nFrances. His will, dated 10 Feb., 1676,\\nmentions children. [Savage s Gen.\\nDid. iv 348 Backus s HiJi. New Eng.\\ni: 433; Hoj t s Antiq. Re/earchcs, 12S.\\nHolland s HiJl. Wejlcrn Mafs. i: 121;\\nJudd s Hijl. Hadley, 163, 171; Bene-\\ndia s Hifi. Bapt. i 384-]\\n65", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "9\\nMen, and frighted many more into the River, that were\\nhurl d down the falls and drowned.\\nPhilip got over the River, and on the back fide of the\\nWcUifd-hills^^^ meets with all the Remnants of the Nar-\\nraganfet and Nipinuck Indians, that were there gathered\\ntogether, and became very numerous; and made their\\ndefcent on Sudbury, and the Adjacent Parts of the Coun-\\ntry, where they met with and fwallowed up Valiant Capt.\\nWadfworth^^^ and his Company, and many other doleful\\ndefolations, in thofe Parts.^^^ The News whereof coming\\nto Plyi^iouth, and they expecting probably the Enemy\\nwould foon return again into their Colony: The Council\\nof War were called together and Mr. Church was fent\\ni\u00c2\u00ab Wachufett {Watcfiofuck) Moun-\\ntain in Princeton, Mais. The word\\nmeans [the country] about the moun-\\ntain.\\n1 Sa7)!ucl Wad/worthy joungeft fon\\nof Chriftopher, of Duxbury, was born\\nabout 1630; was freeman 1668; mar-\\nried Abigail, dau. of James Lindall of\\nMarfhfield, and was father of Benjamin,\\nMinifter of the Firft Church, Bolton, and\\nninth Prelldent of Harvard College; he\\nwas the firft Captain of militia in Mil-\\nton, was diftinguilhed in Philip s war,\\nand was cut off, with his Lieut, and\\nabout thirty of his men, in this Sud-\\nbury fight. The portion of Sudbury\\nwhich was attacked is now Wayland.\\nSee the Nnv- En gland Hijl. and Gen.\\nJicgiflcr, vii 221, and Hudfon s Hiji.\\nMarlborough, 75, for a difcuflion of the\\ntrue date of this ftruggle. [Savage s\\nGen. Did. iv 3S0.]\\n151 Col. Church was here obvioufly\\nconfufed in his order of remembrance of\\nevents which had become diftant when\\nhe d lft^ted this narrative. The attack\\non Sudbury took place, and Capt. Wadl-\\nworth and his company were fwal-\\nlowed up on the 21ft of April, 1676,\\nnearly a month before the Falls fight,\\nwhile the Plymouth Council of War\\nwhich, by what follows, affembled be-\\nfore Rehoboth fell, on the 26th and 28th\\nMarch, of the fame year muft have\\nbeen called together more than a month\\nbefore the Sudbury maflacre. The tid-\\nings which alarmed the Colonifts and\\nconvoked the Council, mufl: evidently\\nhave been thofe of the furprife of Lan-\\ncafter on the loth, and of the burning of\\nMedfield on the 2ifi: of February.\\n15- By the records, it appears that the\\nPlymouth Council of War met on the\\n29th Feb. and the 7th and loth March.\\n66", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "19\\nfor to them, being obferved by the whole Colony to be a\\nPerlbn extraordinarily qualify d for and adapted to the\\nAffairs of War. Twas propofed in Council that leafl the\\nEnemy in their return fhould fall on Rchoboth^ or fome\\nother of their Out-Towns, a Company confifting of 60 or\\n70 Men fhould be fent in to thofe Parts; and Mr. Church\\ninvited to take the Command of them. He told them,\\nThat if the Enemy returned into that Colony again, they\\nmight reafonably expcfl that they would come very nnmcrozis\\nand that if hcfJiould take the Command of Men, he/Iiotild not\\nlye in any Town or Garrifon with them, but would lye in the\\nWoods as the Enemy did And that to fend otit ftch fmall\\nCompanies againfl fuch Multitudes of the Enemy that were\\nnow Miflered together, would be but to deliver fo many Men\\ninto their hands, to be defiroyed, as the Worthy Capt. Wadf-\\nworth a7id his Company were. His advice upon the whole\\nwas, That if they fent out any Forces, to fend not lefs\\nthan 300 Souldiers; and that the other Colonies lliould be\\nask d to fend out their Quota s alio; adding, That if they\\ni7t tended to make an end of the War, by fubduing the En-\\nThe meeting of the 29th Feb. was at Michael Pierce and Lieut. Samuell Ful-\\nMarlhfield, and would appear to be that ler. Had it been already determined by\\nof which Church here ipeaks. My the Council to fend out friend Indians,\\nreafon for fixing upon that of this date they would hardly have thought it no\\nis. that this is the neareft date to the wayes advifable, as Church fays they\\nMedfield alarm, and that one conclu- did when he talked with them. It is\\nfion at which this feffion arrived was more likely that his arguments on this\\nto order 20 or 30 of the Southern In- occafion led them to change their form-\\ndians to go forth with the other er policy in that rcfped, and pafs this\\n(i.e. white Colonifts) whoe are under vote before they fcparulcd. IPIym. Col.\\nprefTo under the command of Capt. Rec.v: 1S7.]\\n67", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "19]\\ncmy, they muji make a btifinefs of the War, as the Enemy\\ndid and that for his own part, he had wholly laid afide all\\nhis own private bjfinefs and concerns, ever fine e the War\\nbroke out. He told them, That if they would fend forth\\nfitch Forces as he fwuld direfi to, he would go with them, for\\nSix weeks March, which was long enough for Men to be kept\\nin the Woods at once ajid if they might be fire of Liberty\\nto return in fuch a fpace. Men would go out chcarfdly.\\nAnd he would engage i^o of the befl Souldiers ftould imme-\\ndiately Lift Voluntarily to go with him, if they would pleafe\\nto add 50 more; and 100 of the Friend Indians and with\\nfuch an Army he made no doubt but he might do good Ser-\\nvice but on other terms he did 7wt incline to be concern d.\\nTheir reply was, That they were already in debt, and fo\\nbig an Army would bring fuch charge upon them, that\\nthey fhould never be able to pay.^^^ And as for fending\\ni The Council, at its loth March\\nfeffion, affigned lands at Skoivamctt\\n(Wai-vvick, R.-I.) to the fuppoled value\\nof \u00c2\u00a3500, at AJfonett neck (Freetown)\\nto the value of \u00c2\u00a3200, at AJfazvampfctt\\n(around the pond in Middleborough)\\nto the value of \u00c2\u00a3200, and about Aga-\\nivam and Scpecan (in Wareham, and\\nwhat is now Marion) to the value of\\n\u00c2\u00a3100, to be divided to the foldiers noe\\n-vay att p fcnt a f peering to raife 7noti-\\ncys They, at the fame time, further\\nlaid a rate of \u00c2\u00a31000. upon the eleven\\ntowns of the Colony, to be paved in\\nclothing, provifions, or cattle, att mony\\nprife; an indifferent good, ordinary\\ncow being to be vallued at 455. and\\nother cattle according to that propor-\\ntion, for the payment of fuch of the\\nfouldiers whofe needy condition may\\ncall for other fupplyes more fuitable\\nfor their families then lands, c. The\\nfollowing lift of the proportions of the\\nfeveral towns in this rate has intereft\\nas indicating their then relative fize.\\nI add their feveral proportions of a\\npreffe of 300 men, on the 29th March\\nfollowing.\\ns.\\ns.\\nd.\\nJIcil.\\nPlymouth\\n99\\n03\\n06\\n30\\nDuxbury\\n46:\\nII\\n10\\n16\\nBridgewater\\n46\\nII\\n10\\n16\\nScituate\\n165\\n09\\n00\\n50\\nTaunton\\n9-\\n13\\n06\\n30\\n68", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "2o]\\nout hidians^ they thought it no wayes advlfable, and in\\nfliort, none of his advice practicable. [20]\\nNow Mr. CJnirchcs Confort, and his then only Son were\\ntill this time remaining at Duxborotcgh, and his fearing\\ntheir fafety there (unlefs the War were more vigoroufly\\ningaged in) refolved to move to RJiode-IJland tho it\\nwas much oppofed both by the Government, and by Rela-\\ntions. But at length, the Governour confidering that he\\nmight be no lefs Serviceable by being on that lide of the\\nColony, gave his permit,^^^ and wifh d he had Twenty\\nmore as good Men to fend with him.\\nThen preparing for his Removal, he went with his fmall\\nFamily to Plymouth to take leave of their Friends; where\\nfide, to prevent any invafion from the\\nmain. Hijl. Coll. v 165 R.-I.\\nCol. Rec. ii 535 Arnold s Hijt. R.-I.\\ni: 409.]\\ni^s The Plymouth Council of War. at\\nthe feflion of 29 Feb., 1675-6, pafied\\nan order that whereas great damage\\nand prejudice may acrew, c. all the\\ninhabitants feated in this gou ment lliall\\nand doe abide in each towne of this col-\\nlonie to which hee belongs, and not de-\\npart the fame on p ill of forfeiting the\\nwhole p fonall eftate of each one that\\nthink of removing from the very heart .fhall foe doe to the collonies vfe, except\\ns.\\ns.\\nd.\\nMen.\\nSandwich\\n9-\\n13\\n06\\n28\\nYarmouth\\n74\\n15\\n06\\n26\\nBarnltable\\n99:\\n03\\n06\\n30\\nMarlhfield\\n75:\\noS\\n00\\n26\\nRehoboth\\n136\\n19\\n00\\n30\\nEaftham\\n66\\n16\\n06\\n18\\nRehoboth was probably lightly rated\\nin foldiers on account of the lofles\\nwhich it had met with, after this affeff-\\nnient of money and before the prefle\\nfor men. \\\\^Ply n. Col. Rec. v 191-3-]\\n1^ At firft glance it feems ftrange to\\nof the old fettlements to a poft then fur-\\nrounded by hoftile Indians, for greater\\nfafetv. But it muft be remembered that\\nthe infular pofition of Rhode Illand\\nrendered it comparatively fecure; in\\naddition to which that Colony employed\\nfour row-boats (Arnold (ays J/oo/s), to\\nbe conllantly on the lookout, on every\\nit be by the fpcciall order or allowance\\nof the Gou or any two of the other maj-\\neftrates, c. This was to prevent the\\ninhabitants of the Colony from remov-\\ning for prefent fafety to places from\\nwhich they might not aftorsvard return\\nto the Colony s detriment. {Plym. Col.\\nRec. V 1S5.J\\n69", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "2o]\\nthey met with his Wives Parents, who much perfwaded\\nthat She might be left at Mr. Clarks Garrifon/^*^ (which\\nthey fuppofed to be a mighty fafe Place) or at leall that\\nShe might be there until her foon expedted lying-inn was\\nover (being near her time.) Mr. C/iurck no ways inclin-\\ning to venture her any longer in thofe Parts, and no argu-\\nments prevailing with him, he refolutely fet out for\\nTaunton, and many of their Friends accompanyed them.\\nThere they found Capt. Peirce}^ with a commanded\\nParty, who offered Mr. Church to fend a Relation of his\\nw4th fome others to guard him to Rhode-IJland. But Mr.\\nChurch thank d him for his Refpe6tful offer, but for fome\\ngood rcafons refus d to accept it. In fhort, they got fafe\\nClark s Garrifon was fituated\\nal out three miles fouth-eaft from the\\nvillage of Plymouth, on the weft bank\\nof the Eel River, almoft againft the\\npoint of junction of Plymouth Beach\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with the main land, and, perhaps three-\\nquarters of a mile inland from that\\njun^^tion; very near to the lite of the\\nhoufe for many j ears occupied by the\\nlate Rev. B. Whitmore. It was de-\\nftroyed on Sunday, 12 March, 1676;\\nMiftris Sarah Clarke and ten other\\nperfons being killed. The outrage was-\\ncommitted by Tatofon and ten other\\nIndians, of whom five were brought in\\nand executed at Plymouth. \\\\_Plym.\\nCol. Rec. V 204-6.] This was the\\nonly ferious attack made on Plymouth\\nby the natives.\\n1*^ Capt. Michael Pierce was at Iling-\\nham in 1646; in 1647 purchafed lands\\nin the ConihafTet grant (Scituate)\\nwas in the Narraganfett fight, previous\\nto which, he made his will, beginning\\nthus Being, by the appointment of\\nGod, going out to war againft the In-\\ndians, I do ordain this my laft will, c.\\nwas put in command, early in 1676, of\\n63 Englilbmen and 20 friendly Indians.\\nThey were to rendezvous at Plymouth,\\non Wednefday, the 8th March, and\\nprobablj reached Taunton on the after-\\nnoon of the next day, March 9th, where\\nMr. Church now found him. On the\\n26th of the fame month he was killed,\\nwith 51 of his Englilh, and n of his\\nIndian soldiers, at Rehoboth, by an\\noverwhelming force of the enemy.\\nHe had had two wive\u00c2\u00ab, and ten chil-\\ndren. [Deane s Hijl. Scit. 325 Plym.\\nCol. Rec. v: 1S7; Blifs s HiJl. Rc/io-\\nbotk, 91.]\\n70", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "20\\nto Capt. John Almy\\\\ houfe^^ upon RJiodc-IJIaiid, where\\nthey met with friends and good entertainment. But by\\nthe way, let me not forget this remarkable Providence.\\nviz. That within Twenty- four hours, or there abouts,^\\nafter their arrival at RJiode-IJland, Mr. Clarks Garrifon\\nthat Mr. CJmrch was fo much importuned to leave his\\nWife and Child at, was deftroyed by the Enemy.\\nMr. Church being at prefent difinabled from any par-\\nticular Service in the War, began to think of fome other\\nemploy; but he no fooner took a tool to cut a fmall flick,\\nbut he cut off the top of his Fore finger, and the next to it,\\nhalf off; upon which he fmillingly faid. That he thought\\nhe was out of his way, to leave the War; and refolved he\\nwould to War again. Accordingly his Second Son^*^\\nbeing born on the 12th oi Alay and his Wife Son like to\\ndo well, Mr. Chw ch imbraces the opportunity of a paffage\\nSee note 4, ante. After confider- what was called Fogland, or Codman s\\nable refearch, I had failed to fecure ferry, and at that time kept a houfe of\\nproof fixing the fpot of Capt. Almy s entertainment, c. This endorfes my\\nrefidence, but from all the probabilities fuppofition, as Fogland ferry conneiTts\\nof the cafe had decided that he muft Punkatees neck %vith Portfmouth, mid-\\nhave lived on the eaftern Ihore of way between the points above named.\\nPortfmouth, R.-L, fomewhere between (See notes 86 and 91, aiitc.\\nM Carrj s Point on the north and This fettles the date of this arri-\\nSandy Point on the fouth, oppofite val as 11-13 March, 1676. Probably\\nPunkatees neck. I have now, by the Church left Plymouth with his family\\nkindnefs of Judge W. R. Staples, re- on Wednefday or Thurfday, the 8th or\\nceived, from Mr. Richard Sherman, 9th, and reached Almy s on Saturday,\\nwho was Town Clerk of Portfmouth for the nth, the day before Clark s Garri-\\nnearly half a century, a note in which fon was burned.\\nhe fays I have been informed by i*^ Co/ijiant, who became a Captain\\nold perfons now deceafed, that one under his father in fome of his later\\nCapt. John Almy lived in a houfe near expeditions.\\n71", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "21\\nin a Sloop bound to Barnjlable\\\\ who landed him at SogJco-\\nnejfet^^^ from whence he rid to Plymouth\\\\ arrived there on\\nthe firllTuefday in 7z/;2^:^ ^2 pj^g General Court then fit-\\nting,^*^^ welcomed him, told him they were glad to fee him\\nAlive. He reply d, He was as glad to fee them Alive, for\\nhe had feen fo many fires and fmokes towards their fide of\\nthe Country lince he left them, that he could fcarce eat or\\nlleep with any comfort, for fear they had been all deftroyed.\\nFor all Travelling was ftop d, and no News had paffed for\\na long time together. He gave them account, that the\\nIndians had made horrid defolations at Providence, War-\\nwick, Petuxit, and all over the Narraganfet Country\\nthat they prevailed daily againft the EngliJJi on that fide of\\nthe Country. Told them, he long d to hear what Methods\\nthey defign d in the War. [21] They told him. They\\nwere particularly glad that Providence had brought him\\nthere at that juncture: For the}^ had concluded the very\\nnext day to fend out an Army of 200 Men, two third\\nEngliJJi, and one third Indians, in fome meafure agreeable\\nto his former propofal; expe6ling Bojlon and Conne^icut\\nI ^i Sogkoncjfei {Sachotie^t, Sugkones, i* The Court of EleAion met at\\nSiicco ic/i/, Siicconncjfef, dc.) was the Plymouth, on Monday, 5 June, 1676.\\ngeneral name applied to the townlliip i*^* Warwick, R.-I., was burned 17\\nof Falmouth, Mafs., in the early rec- March (fo Hubbard, 66; Mather, 24;\\nords. The word appears to be a dimin- Palfrey s Hiji. N. E. iii iSS; but Ar-\\nutive from Sogkonate. The harbor nold, i 408, fays March 16, quoting no\\nwhere Church landed was what is now authority.) Seekonk, or Pawtucket,\\nknown as Wood s Hole in Falmouth. March 28th, and Providence, March\\nThis would then be diltant probably 35 30th. [See Davis s Morton s Memo-\\nmiles from Plymouth. rial, 43S; R.-I. Hiji. Coll. v: 166.]\\n6 June, 1676.\\n72", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "^I\\nto joyn with their Quota\\\\}^ In fhort, It was fo con-\\ncluded. And that Mr. Church fhould return to the IJIand,\\nand fee what he could Mufter there, of thofe that had\\nmov d from Swanzey, Dartmouth, ^c.}^ So returning the\\nfame way he came; when he came to Sogkoneffet, he had\\na fham put upon him, about a Boat he had bought to go\\nhome in; and was forced to hire two of the friend Indians\\nto paddle him in a Canoo from El/adcths^^^ to Rhode-\\nIJlmid.\\nIt fell out that as they were in their Voyage palling by\\nSogkonate-pomt^^^ fome of the Enemy were upon the\\nThe vote was thus: Vpon con-\\nfideration of the neflefitie of fending\\nforth fome forces, to be, bj the healp\\nof God, a meanes of our fafety and\\nprefervation, the Court came to a con-\\nclufion and doe heerbj voate, that one\\nhundred and fifty Englifli, and fifty In-\\ndians, be with the beft fpeed that may\\nbe raifed and provided and fent forth\\ntowards the frontiere p tes of this collo-\\nnie, to be vpon motion to fcout to and\\nfrow for the fafty of the collonie the\\ntime appointed of fending forth is on\\nWeddenfday, the 21ft of this inftant\\nJune, 1676. {^Plym. Col. Rec. v\\nI97-]\\n166 The General Affembly of R.-I.\\nvoted, 13 March, 1675-6 Wee finde\\nthis Collony is not of ability to main-\\ntaine fufiicient garrifons for the fecurity\\nof our out Plantations. Therefore, we\\nthinke and judge it moft fafe for the\\ninhabitants to repaire to this Illand,\\nwhich is the moft fecureift. Some of\\n10 73\\nthofe Plymouth Colonifts who refided\\nnear, feem to have availed themfelves\\nof this fuggeftion, and taken refuge on\\nthe Ifland. Col. Rcc. ii 533.]\\n167 The Elizabeth Iflands, with very\\nnarrow channels between them, ftretch\\nfouth-weft from Falmouth nearly feven-\\nteen miles; dividing Buzzard s Bay\\nabove them from Vineyard Sound be-\\nlow them. The diftance from Fal-\\nmouth to Rhode-Ifland, following the\\nfouthern Ihore of thefe iflands, then\\nbearing away for Saconet Point, and\\nround that ftraight to the neareft point\\nof Rhode-Ifland, is about 35 miles.\\n168 Saconet Point is the fartheft\\nfouth-weftern extremity of Little Comp-\\nton, R.-I. The rocks on which Ihefc\\nIndians were filliing were, moft likely,\\nthofe of the ledge known as Onion\\nrock, a few feet otf from the Point;\\nnow acceffible at low water, and then,\\ndoubtlefs, joined to the main by a fand-\\nhill fince worn away. A canoe, pad-", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "21\\nRocks a fifhing; he bid the Indimts that managed the\\nCanoo to paddle fo near to the Rocks as that he might call\\nto thole Indians told them, That he had a great mind\\never lince the War broke out to fpeak with fome of the\\nSogkonate Indians, and that they were their Relations, and\\ntherefore they need not fear their hurting of them. And\\nhe added. That he had a 77iighty conceit that if he could gain\\na fair Oppo^^tunity to difconrfe them, that he could draw\\nthem off from Philip, for he knew they never heartily loved\\nhim. The Enemy hollowed and made figns for the Canoo\\nto come to them: But when they approach d them they\\nskulked and hid in the clifts of the Rocks; then Mr.\\nChjcrch ordered the Canoo to be paddled off again, leaft if\\nhe came too near they fhould fire upon him. Then the\\nIndians appearing again, beckn d and calFd in the hidiait\\nLanguage, and bid them come a-fhore, they wanted to\\nfpeak with them. The Indians in the Canoo anfwered\\nthem again; but they on the Rocks told them. That the\\ndling for Rhode-Ifland from the Vine- localities, has made fome curious blun-\\nyard Sound, in fmooth water (and it ders in his verfion of this occurrence,\\ncould make the paffage in no other), He fays It hapened that the faid\\nwould head from the fouth-weftern ex- Capt. Church, fome time in Jtoic laft,\\ntremity of Cuttyhunk obliquely acrofs viz. of this prefent year, 1676, pafling\\nthe entrance of Buzzard s Bay, ftraight over in a Canoo from Pocajfct to Road-\\ntoward Saconet Point, and in rounding IJlaiid, as he ufed frequently to do\\nthat Point would go infide of both Eaft (having had much imployment upon\\nand Weft illands into the Eaft Paf- the faid Neck of Land, fo called) feveral\\nfage. This would bring it, inevitably, Indians whom he had known before at\\nwithin a fhort diftance of the rocks here Lakenhajti (a village on PocaJJet Jtde)\\ndefcribed. Many tautog are ftill beckned to him, as if they had a mind\\nyearly caught from them. to fpeak with him, c. c. \\\\_Narra-\\nIlubbard, through ignorance of the thie., 104.]\\n74", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "21\\nfurff made fuch a noife agalnft the Rocks, they could not\\nhear any thing they faid.^*^^ Then Mr. Church by figns\\nwith his hands, gave to underfland. That he would have\\ntwo of them go down upon the point of the beach (a place\\nwhere a Man might fee who was near him^\u00e2\u0084\u00a2) accordingly\\ntwo of them ran a-long the beach, and met him there;\\nwithout their Arms, excepting that one of them had a\\nLance in his hand; they uged Mr. Chtirch to come\\na-fhore for they had a great defire to have fome difcourfe\\nwith him; He told them, if he that had his weapon in his\\nhand would carry it up fome diftance upon the beach and\\nleave it, he would come a-lhore and difcourfe them: He\\ndid fo, and Mr. Chiirch went a-fhore, hailed up his Canoo,\\nordered one of his Indians to flay by it, and the other to\\nwalk above on the beach, as a Sentinel to fee that the\\nCoafts were clear. And when Mr. Chtcrch came up to\\nthe Ltdians, one of them happened to be honeft George^\\none of the two that AiuaJJionks formerly fent to call him to\\nher Dance, and was fo careful to guard him back to his\\nHoufe again; the laft Sogkonate Indian he fpoke with\\nbefore the War broke out; he Ipoke EngliJJi very well.\\n1(^3 This is ftill the cafe, even in a ilj occur to one familiar with this fpot\\ncahn day when there are no furface as now fuitabie for the ufe which\\nwaves which would fwamp a canoe Church here propofed but the abrafion\\nas the northward ground-fwell rolls in of the ftorms of ahnoft 200 years has,\\nhere without obftrucition from the broad unqucilionably, fo changed all the con-\\nAtlantic through the opening of near figuration of the fand fpits, that none of\\nfifty miles, between Block Ifiand and them now remain exadly as then, though\\nMartha s Vineyard. During and after it has fcarcely modified the rocks them-\\na florm, the furf is fublime. felves.\\ni J Two or three points will read- Sec note 13, ante.\\n75", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "22\\n[2 2] Mr. Church asked him where AwafJionhs was he told\\nhim in a Swamp about three Miles oft? Mr. Church again\\nasked him, What it was he wanted that he hollowed and\\ncalled him a-fhore? he anfwered, That he took him for\\nChurch as foon as he heard his Voice in the Canoo, and\\nthat he was very glad to fee him alive, and he believed\\nhis Miftrifs would be as glad to fee him, and fpeak with\\nhim; he told him further, That he believed fhe was not\\nfond of maintaining a War with the E7iglifJi\\\\ and that fhe\\nhad left Philip, and did not intend to return to him any\\nmore; he was mighty earneft with Mr. Church to tarry\\nthere while he would run and call her: but he told him\\nno; for he did not know but the Indians would come\\ndown and kill him before he could get back again; he\\nsaid, if Alount-hope or Pocaffet hidians could catch him,\\nhe believed they would knock him on the head But all\\nSogkonate Indians knew him very well, and he believed\\nwould none of them hurt him. In Ihort, Mr. Church re-\\nfufed then to tarry, but promifed that he would come over\\nagain, and fpeak with AzvaJJionks, and fome other Indiaiis\\nthat he had a mind to talk with.\\nAccordingly he appointed him to notifie AwaJ/io7iks, her\\ni This was Tomfc Swamp (fo called Saconet Point to Tiverton, to the road\\nin the Proprietors Records) on an up- from the Town farm to the Commons,\\nland mound in which, the favorite head- The houfe of Mr. Gray Wilbor is prob-\\nquarters of this Squaw-fachem feem to ablj now the neareft dwelling to the\\nhave been. It is that fwamp through fite of this lair of Awafhonks. I am\\nwhich what is called the fwamp road told that an old Indian burjing-ground\\npalfes, in croffing from the road from is ftill traceable in that vicinity.\\n76", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Son Peter, their Chief Captain, and one Noinpaf/i,^ (an\\nIndian that Mr. Church had formerly a particular refpe6l\\nfor) to meet him two dayes after, at a Rock at the lower\\nend of Capt. Rzchmo7ids Farm; which was a very noted\\nplace and if that day fhould prove Stormy, or Windy,\\nthey were to expert him the next moderate day.^ Mr.\\nChurch telling George, that he would have him come with\\nthe Perfons mentioned, and no more. They giving each\\nother their hand upon it parted, and Mr. Chirch went\\nhome,^ and the next Morning to New-port, and informed\\nthe Government, what had paffed between him and the\\nSogkonate Indians. And defired their permit for him and\\nDaniel Wilcock^ (a Man that well underftood the Indian\\nNompa/Ii {Nitinpoy/i, Numpits,\\nNitmpas) was appointed by Pljmouth\\nCourt, I Nov., 1676, with Petananuet\\n(note 23, mite) and another Indian, to\\nhave the overfight of the fubmitted In-\\ndians weft of Sippican River; and\\nferved as Captain of the Saconet In-\\ndians in the firft Expedition to the\\nEaftward, in 1689. {^Plym. C.R.v: 215.]\\nyohn Richmond was one of the\\noriginal proprietors of Little Compton,\\nand drew the land here referred to in\\nthe firft divifion by lot, 10 April, 1674.\\nIt is the farm now owned by William\\nH. Chafe, and next north of that of\\nJofeph Brownell. The rock is ftill in\\nexiftence, and well known in the neigh-\\nborhood as Treaty Rock. It is a dark\\nfine-grained gneifs, lying, like an em-\\nbedded bowlder, in a cultivated field,\\nand evidently a good deal worn down\\nby the attritions of hufbandry and the\\nvifits of the curious. It is faid that the\\nIndians ufed to leave traces on it, but\\nfew if any of them are now diftinguifti-\\nable. The rock is not immediately on\\nthe Ihore, but well up the afcent of a\\nbeautiful flope, not far from 500 paces\\nfrom the water s edge, and fome 30\\npaces north of the northern boundary of\\nMr. Brownell s land. The landing oppo-\\nfite to it is, perhaps, a half mile north of\\nwhat is now known as Church s Point.\\ni 5 Probably becaufe croflTmg in a ca-\\nnoe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ihould that be necemiry would\\nbe impoflible in a day windy enough\\nto raife even the moft moderate fwell.\\ni *5 That is to Almy s houfe, near the\\nPortfmouth landing of Fogland ferry.\\n(See note 158, atitc.)\\n1 Daniel Wilcocks would feem to\\nbe a fon of Daniel, who was chofcn to\\nthe grand inqueft at Newport by the\\ninhabitants of Portfmouth, R.-I., March\\n77", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "Language) to go over to them. They told him, They\\nthought he was mad, after fuch Service as he had done,\\nand fuch dangers that he efcaped, now to throw away his\\nLife, for the Rogues would as certainly kill him, as ever\\nhe went over; and utterly refufed to grant his permit, or\\nto be willing that he fhould run the rifque.\\nMr. Church told them. That it had ever been in his\\nthoughts Jince the War broke out, that if he could difcourfe\\nthe Sogkonate Indians, he co7ild draw thcjn off from Philip,\\na7id employ them againfl him but coicld, till now, never\\nhave an Opportunity to fpeak with any of them, and zuas\\nvery lothe to lofe it, c. At length, they told him, If he\\nwould go, it fliould be only with the two Indians that\\ncame with him;^ but they would give him no permit\\nunder their hands. He took his leave of them, Refolving\\nto profecute his defign; they told him they were forry to\\nI3 1643; in 1678 had \u00c2\u00a310 granted him who complained of an outrage of the\\non account of a lawluit from Rhode- Sherifi of Briftol County, at Little\\nIlland, by Plymouth Court; in 1679 Compton, in 1695; whofe marriage in\\nbecame one of the purchafers of land Rhode-Illand, with Mary Wordell, was\\natPocaffet; in 1686 (down as of/ a\u00c2\u00ab- declared illegal, 23 March, 1696-7, and\\n/\u00e2\u0080\u00a2otoy? was bound over in \u00c2\u00a3500 to an- of whom Bellomont complained, in\\nfwer for purchafing land of an Indian 1699, as having been convidted of high\\ncontrary to law; and in 1690 was ob- mifdemeanor and fined, and as having\\nfcurely complained of, in the half-oblit- made his efcape, I cannot determine,\\nerated record, as making a tumultuous Perfons of the name ftill own land at\\noppofition to Thomas Hinckley s tak- Pww/iv^/cci neck in Tiverton, R.-I. [i?.-\\ning poffeflion of a grant of land at Sac- I. Col. Rec. i: 76; ii 307, 323, 393;\\nonet. Whether he was the fame Daniel Plyjn. Col. Rcc. v 261 vi 30, 202,\\nWillcocks who married Elizabeth Cook, 245; viii 23.]\\nof Plymouth, 28 Nov., 1661 who was i\u00c2\u00ab That is, who paddled him from\\na proprietor at Saconet, 10 Apr., 1673; Falmouth.\\n78", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "23\\nfee him fo Refolute, nor if he went did they ever expe6l to\\nfee his face again.\\nHe bought a Bottle of Rhum, and a fmall role of To-\\nbacco, to carry with him, and returned to his Family.\\nThe next Morning, being the day ap [23] pointed for the\\nMeeting, he prepared two light Canoo s for the defign, and\\nhis own Man, with the two Indiaiis for his company. He\\nufed fuch arguments with his tender, and now almoft\\nbroken hearted Wife, from the experience of former pre-\\nfervations, and the profpe6t of the great Service he might\\ndo, might it pleafe God to fucceed his defign, that he\\nobtained her confent to his attempt; and committing her,\\nhis Babes and himfelf to Heavens prote6lion. He fet out,\\nthey had from the Shore about a League to paddle\\ndrawing near the place, they faw the hidians fetting on\\nthe bank, waiting for their coming. Mr. Church fent one\\nof the Indians a-fhore in one of the Canoo s to fee whither\\nit were the fame hidians w^hom he had appointed to meet\\nhim, and no more; and if fo to ftay a-fhore and fend\\nGeorge to fetch him. Accordingly George came and\\nfetched Mr. Church a-fhore, while the other Canoo play d\\noff to fee the event, and to carry tydings if the Indiatis\\nfhould prove falfe.\\nMr. Church afk d George whether AiuaJJionks and the\\nother hidians he appointed to meet him were there He\\ni 9 It is juft about that diftance from ante), to the Ihore oppofitc Treaty\\nSandy Point, juft fouth of the prob- Rock; the courfe being very nearly\\nable fite of Ahny s houfe (fee note 158, S.E. by S.\\n79", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "^3\\nanfwered they were. He then alk d him, If there were\\nno more than they whom he appointed to be there To\\nwhich he would give him no dire6t anfwer. However he\\nwent a-fhore, where he was no fooner landed, but Awa-\\nJJionks and the reft that he had appointed to meet him there,\\nrofe up and came down to meet him; and each of them\\nfuccellively gave him their hands, and expreffed them-\\nfelves glad to fee him, and gave him thanks for expofing\\nhimfelf to vilit them. They walk d together about a Gun-\\nfhot from the water to a convenient place to fit down.-^^\\nWhere at once a-rofe up a great body oi India7is, who had\\nIain hid in the grafs, (that was as high as a ^Nlans wafte)\\nand gathered round them, till they had clos d them in;\\nbeing all arm d with Guns, Spears, Hatchets, c. with\\ntheir hair trim d and faces painted, in their Warlike ap-\\npearance. It was doubtlefs fome-what furprizing to our\\nGentleman at firft, but without any vilible difcovery of it,\\nafter a fmall filent paufe on each lide, He fpoke to Azva-\\nJ7io7iks, and told her. That George had informed him thatJJie\\nhad a d^Jire to fee hi?n, and difcotirfe about inaki7ig peace\\nwith the Englifh. She anfwered. Yes. Then faid Mr.\\nChtcrch, It is ctijlomary when People fneet to treat of Peace\\nto lay afide their Arms, and not to appear in fnch Hoflile\\nform as your People do defired of her that if they might\\ntalk about Peace, which he defired they might. Her men\\nmight lay afde their Arms, and appear m,ore treatable.\\nDoubtlefs to the rock itfelf. which. from 1200 to 1300 feet from the\\nas I have faid, is about 500 paces or beach.\\n80", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "H]\\nUpon which there began a coniiderable noife and murmur\\namong them in their own Language. Till Awa/h4ynks\\nask d him. What Arms they Ihould \\\\a.\\\\ do\\\\^Ti, and where?\\nHe (perceiving the Iiidiaiis look d ver\\\\ furlv, and much\\ndilplealed Replied. Only tJicir Guris at fonu fmall dijlancc^\\nfor forj7ialiiy fake. Upon which with one confent they\\nlaid afide their Guns, and came and fat dov^Ti.\\nMr. Church pulled out his Callebafh and asked\\nAwajho7iks^ WJuth^r Jli\u00c2\u00a3 had [24] lived fo long 7/ Wetu-\\nlet,^ as to forget to dri?tk Occapechees;^^ and drinking to\\nher. he perceived that fhe watch d him ven* diligently, to\\nlee (as he thought) whether he Iwallowed any of the\\nRhum; he offered her the Shell, but fhe defired him to\\ndrink again firll, He then told her, T/wre was jw poifon in\\nit, and pouring fome into the Palm of his hand, fup d it\\nup, and took the Shell and drank to her again, and drank\\na good Swig which indeed was no more than he needed.\\nThen they all llanding up, he faid to Aivaflwnks. You zcont\\ndrijik for fear there fJwuld be poifon in it: And then handed\\nit to a little ill look d fellow, who catched it readily enough,\\nand as greedilv would have fwallowed the Liquor when\\nhe had it at his moutli; But Mr. Church catch d him by\\nthe throat and took it from him. asking him. MlutJur lu\\n1^^ A gourd veffel. or drinking cup, Indians had been gatliered. (See note\\nmade of ibnie tough Ihell vrhich. in 149. antt.\\nthofe davs, Tvhen potterv was colllier Occafccics is a diminutive from\\nthan novr. was in common ufe. They occa/^ or. as Eliot wrote it, Omkmffc^\\nwere, in the lal\\\\ generation, often made ftrong drink. It means, therefore,\\nof a cocoa-nut ihell. little rtrong drinks. drams. ^Ab-\\nWaciMjlii, where Philip and his naki, ^-a kblbi, r 7* df r;V. Ralles.)\\nli Si", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "h]\\nintended to /wallow Shell and all And then handed it to\\nAwaJJionks, fhe ventured to take a good hearty dram, and\\npafs d it among her Attendants.\\nThe Shell being emptied, he pulled out his Tobacco^\\nand having diftributed it, they began to talk.\\nAwa/Iionks demanded of him, the Reafon w^hy he had\\nnot (agreeable to his promife when fhe faw him laft) been\\ndown at Sogko7tate before now; Saying that probably if he\\nhad come then according to his promife, they had never\\njo37ned with PJiilip againfl the EngliJJi.\\nHe told her he was prevented by the Wars breaking\\nout fo fuddenly. And yet, he was afterwards coming\\ndown, came as far as Pujikatee/e, where a great many\\nIndians fet upon him, and fought him a whole afternoon,\\ntho he did not come prepared to fight, had but Nineteen\\nMen with him, whofe chief defign was to gain an Oppor-\\ntunity to difcourfe fome Sogkonate Indians. Upon this\\nthere at once arofe a mighty Murmur, confufed noife,\\ntalk among the fierce look d Creatures, and all rifing up in\\nan hubbub; and a great furly look d fellow took up his\\nTomhog^ or wooden CutlaJJt^ to kill Mr. Church, but fome\\nothers prevented him.\\nThe Interpreter asked Mr. Church, if he underftood\\nwhat it was that the great fellow (they had hold of) faid\\nHe anfwered him. No. Why, faid the Interpreter, He\\nfays, you killed his Brother at Punkatee/e, and therefore he\\nthirfts for your blood. Mr. Church bid the Interpreter tell\\nhim that his Brother began firfl That if he had kept at\\n82", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "25\\nSogkonate according to his defire and order, he fhould not\\nhave hurt him.\\nThen the chief Captain commanded Silence^ and told\\nthem, That they Ihould talk no more about old things,\\nc. and quell d the tumult, fo that they fat down again,\\nand began upon a difcourfe of making Peace with the\\nEngliJJi. Mr. Church ask d them. What Propofals they\\nwould make, and on zvhat terms they would break their\\nLeague with Philip? Defiring them to make fome Pro-\\npofals that he might carry to his Mailer s, telling them that\\nit was not in his Power to conclude a Peace with them,\\nbut that he knew that if their Propofals were reafonable,\\nthe Government would not be unreafonable, [25] and that\\nhe would ufe his Intereft in the Government for them.\\nAnd to encourage them to proceed, put them in mind that\\nthe Pequots once made War with the EngliJJi, and that\\n1^* The name Pequot was given by animate objedl fpecified, the verb is\\nthe neighboring tribes to what was prop- Paguati6og; whence probably Win-\\nerly an off-lhoot of the Mukkekanceiv throp s Pcquitis. It is fingular that lb\\n(^Mohican and Mo/iegan) nation, and obvious an etymology, or rather tranf-\\nwas poffibly affumed by themfelves, as lation, has hitherto efcaped notice.\\nthe dejlroyers of their enemies. The The name, like that given to the Mo-\\nearly Dutch voyagers called them Pe- hawks, exprelTes the terror with whicii\\nquattoos and Pequatocs Roger Wil- this warlike race was regarded by other\\nliams writes jPf^^w/^rfo^^, c. Winthrop, New-England tribes. [Winthrop,\\nPekoatk, elfewhere Pequins, Sic. The Jour7tal, i: 52, 72, 122.]\\nIndian verb fignifying to deftroy, Their territory extended from the\\nto make havoc, has, before an inani- Niantic on the weft to the Paucatiick\\nmate objea, Paguatoog (as Eliot writes on the eaft fome 30 miles in length by\\nit, e.g.. Is. iii: 12) in the third perfon fome 20 in breadth, moftly in Connec-\\npluralofthe indicative, they deftroy. ticut. The Pequot war took place\\nThis agrees almoft exadly with Roger in 1636-8. [De Foreft s Ind. of\\nWilliams s form of the name. With an Conn. 58; R.-I. Hijl. Coll. iii 161.]\\n83", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "^5\\nafter they fubje6led themfelves to the EngliJJi^ the Englijli\\nbecame their Protestors, and defended them againft other\\nNations that would otherwife have deftroyed them, c.\\nAfter fome further difcourfe, and debate, he brought them\\nat length to confent that if the Government of Plymouth\\nwould firmly ingage to them, That they, and all of them,\\nand their Wives and Children, JJionld have their Lives /pared,\\nand no7te of them Iran/ported out of the Country, they ivotild\\nfubfefl them/elves to them, and ferve them in what they were\\nable.\\nThen Mr. Chiireh told them, That he was well fatisfyed\\nthe Government of Plymotcth would readily concur with\\nwhat they propofed, and would fign their Articles: And\\ncomplementing them upon it, how pleafed he was with\\nthe thoughts of their return, and of the former friendfliip\\nthat had been between them, e.\\nThe chief Captain rofe up, and expreffed the great value\\nand refpeft he had for Mr. Church; and bowing to him\\nfaid, Str, If yoii I plcafe to accept of me and my mc7i, and\\nzuill head us, we I fight for you, and will help you to Philips\\nhead before Indian Corji be ripe And when he had ended,\\nthey all exprefs d their confent to what he faid, and told\\nINIr. Church they loved him, and were willing to go with\\nhim and fight for him, as long as the EnglifJi had one\\nEnemy left in the Country.\\nMr. Church affured them. That if they proved as good\\nas their word, they fhould find him theirs and their Chil-\\n84", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "^5\\ndren s fafl friend. And (by the way) the friendfhip is\\nmaintained between them to this day.^^\\nThen he propofed unto them, that they fhould choofe\\nfive men to go ftraight with him to Plyiiiouth They told\\nhim, No they would not choofe, but he fhould take\\nwhich five he pleafed: fome complements palTed about it,\\nat length it was agreed, They fhould choofe Three, and he\\nTwo. Then he agreed, with that he would go back to\\nthe Ifland that Night, and would come to them the next\\nMorning, and go thro the Woods to Plyjjwict/i. But they\\nafterwards obje6ted. That this travelling thro the Woods\\nw^ould not be fafe for him; the Enemy might meet with\\nthem, and kill him, and then they fhould lofe their friend,\\nand the whole defign ruined befide. And therefore pro-\\npofed. That he fliould come in an Englifh Veffel, and they\\nwould meet him and come on board at Sogkoiiate-point^\\n1^5 This was wi-itten in 1715 or 1716. each place. [See original printed Re-\\nin June, 1698, Rev. Grindal Rawlbn, of port to Comm. for Prop. Go/pd, made\\nMendon, and Rev. Samuel Danforth, July 12, 1698.] In 1700 there were faid\\nof Taunton, Preachers to the Indians to be 100 Indian men ftill living in\\nin their own tongue, vifited Little Little Compton. About 1750, a mort\\nCompton, and reported that thev found deftruftive fever caufed great mortality\\ntwo plantations of Indians there, at among them fo that in 1774 the R.-I.\\nSaconct and Coke/Ft (on the borders cenfus reported there only i male and\\nof Dartmouth); that Samuel Church, 13 females above 16 yrs., and 5 males\\nalias So/ickawahham, taught the firft, and 6 females under that age, 25 in\\nand had ordinarily 40 hearers, of whom all. In 1803 there were not more\\n20 were men; and that, at the fecond, than 10 there. So far as I can learn\\nDaniel Hinckley taught eleven families in the town, there is not one perfon\\ntwice every Sabbath. A fchoolmafter, with any trace of Indian blood recogniz-\\nnamed A/iam, alfo labored at Cokcjit, able in his veins there now. [i Mafs.\\nand there were two Indian rulers at Iliji. Coll. ix 204; x: 114, 119.]\\nS5", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "26\\nand Sail from thence to Sandwich which in fine, was\\nconcluded upon.\\nSo Mr. Church promifing to come as foon as he could\\npoflibly obtain a VcfTcl, and then they parted. lie re-\\nturned to the Ifland, and was at great pains and charge to\\nget a Veflel, but with unaccountable difappointments;\\nfometimes by the falfenefs, and fometimes by the faint-\\nhcartednefs of Men that he bargained with, and fomething\\nby Wind and Weather, c. [26]\\nUntil at length Mr. Anthony Low^^^ put into the Ilar-\\nbour^*^ with a loaden Veflel bound to the Weftward, and\\nbeing made acquainted with Mr. Churches cafe, told him,\\nThat he had Jo much kind^iefs for him, and was fo p leafed\\nwith the bufi7iefs that he was ingaged in, that he would rtm\\nthe veiiture of his Veffel Cargo, to wait upon him.\\nAccordingly, next Morning they fet Sail with a Wind that\\nfoon brought them to Sogkonate-point\\\\ but coming there\\nthey met with a contrary wind, and a great fwelling Sea.\\nThe hidians were there waiting upon the Rocks, but\\nAytthony L01VC {Loe), fon of John, there in May, 1704, and conflable there\\nBofton, removed after 1654 to Warwick, in Odt., 1706; or whether that Anthony\\nR.-I.; in 1658 was fined \u00c2\u00a33, by Plym- were his fon, I cannot determine,\\nouth Court for felling a piflol to an In- [Savage s Cren. Didi. iii 125; Plym.\\ndian, at Eaftham in 1680 owned land Col. Rec. iii: 137; vi 56, loi R.-I.\\nadjoining Nathaniel Peck s in Swanfey, Col. Rec. iii 498, 571.]\\nand in 1682-3 was living at Swanfey, Newport Harbor, as I suppofe.\\nand had an Indian flave named James, There is nothing that can be called a\\nto whom the Plymouth Colony ordered harbor on the eafl: fhore of the ifland.\\nhis freedom and a good fuite of Newport was not more than five or fix\\nclothes. Whether he afterwards re- miles from Capt. Almy s houfe in\\nturned to Warwick, and was freeman Portfmouth.\\n86", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "26\\nhad nothing but a miferablc broken Canoo to get aboard\\nin. Yet Pt /er Awajlionks ventured off in it, and with a\\ngreat deal of difficulty and danger got aboard. And by\\nthis time it began to Rain and Blow exceedingly, and\\nforced them away up the Sound and then went away\\nthro Brijhl Ferry, round the Illand to Nac-porty carrying\\nPttcr w^ith them.\\nThen Mr. CJnirch difmifs d Mr. Loii\\\\ and told him.\\nThat ijiafmnch as Providence opposd his going by Water^\\na7id he cxpeiled that the Army would he up in a few days,\\nand probably if he fJiouhi be gone at that junflure^ it ynight\\nmine the whole dejign would therefore yield his I\\\\yyage.\\nThen he writ the account of his ti-anfa6lions with the\\nIndians^ and drew up the Propofals, and Articles of Peace,\\nand difpatch d Peter with them to Plymouth; that his\\nHonour the Governour if he faw caufe might fign them.\\nPeter was fet over to Sogkonate on the Lords day^*^\\nThat is the Eart Panagc, or\\nNarraganfct River.\\n189 Tiiis would Icoin to have been\\nSab., 25 June, 1676. The arTiiv, by the\\nCourt order (note 165, 0, were to be\\nready to march on M ednelday, n June\\nthey ought to reach the neighborhood\\nof Rhode-Illand by the following Sab-\\nbath, and fo it would be natural that\\nthere Ibould be great looking for\\nthem, by this time. It is on record,\\nalio, that Peter, with George and Da-\\nvid, alias C/toiva/iNiimi, appeared be-\\nfore the Council at Plymouth on the\\nfollowing Wednofday, iS June, 1676,\\nin the bchalfc of thcnifclucs and other\\nIndians of Saconett, to the number of\\nabout 30 men. with theire wiues and\\nchildren, and tendered to renew theire\\npeace with the Kngliih, and requerted\\nlibertie to fitt downe in quietnes on\\ntheire lands att Saconett. Their ex-\\namination is detailed, at length. On\\nbeing upbraided for the wrong done in\\njoining Philip, c., CkozvoiumiHti,\\nlaid Wee cannot make fatilTaction for\\nthe wronge don but if our weenien and\\nchildren can be cecured, wee will doe\\nanv feruice wee can by fighting againlt\\nthe enimie. They further faid that\\ni^tteeiUior.uiJTiieke was the firrt man that\\nllincd up tlic Indians to join with\\nS7", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "26]\\nMorning, with orders to take thofe men that were chofen\\nto go down, or fome of them at leafl with him. The time\\nbeing expired that was appointed for the Eiigli/Jt Army to\\ncome, there was great looking for them. Mr. Church on\\nthe Monday Morning (partly to divert himfelf after his\\nfategue, and partly to liften for the Army) Rid out with\\nhis Wife and fome of his friends to Portfmouth^ under a\\npretence of Cherrying; but came home without any News\\nfrom the Army: But by Midnight, or fooner, he was\\nroufed with an Exprefs from Maj. Bradford^ who was\\narrived with the Army at Pocajfd. To whom he forth-\\nwith repaired,^^^ and informed him of the whole of his pro-\\nceedings, with the Sogkonate Indians. With the Majors\\nPhilip, and that he was at Saconet,\\nand promifed to try to furprife him as\\nfoon as they (hould return. The Coun-\\ncil propofed that Peter fhould remain\\nas a hoftage, to which he confented.\\nIt was finally decided that they lliould\\ngo back, and that fuch as Maj. Brad-\\nford defired for the army fliould join\\nthat, and the others give up their arms\\nthat any murdering Indians of their\\nnumber fliould be delivered up, and\\nthat they Ihould not harbor the enemies\\nof the Colony; on which conditions it\\nwas promifed that they lliall haue a\\nplace affigned them for theire p fent\\nrefidence in peace, with further prom-\\nifc for the future, in cafe the warr doe\\nfeafe. IPlym. Col. Rec. v: 201-3.]\\ni If Church were ftill an inmate of\\nCapt. Almy s houfe in Portfmouth,\\nthere fccms a little ftrangenefs in his\\nfpeaking thus of riding out to Portf-\\nmouth. He may have removed his\\nfamily, before this, to Major Peleg\\nSanford s, in Newport (now in Middle-\\ntown), where, it will be feen, they were\\nat the time of Philip s capture. Or, as\\nthe firft fettlement of the northern part\\nof the ifland was around a cove between\\nBriftol ferry and the Stone bridge (the\\nfettlement being firft called Pocaffet;\\nchanged to Portfmouth, 1639-40), the\\nname of Portfmouth may, at the date of\\nwhich Church is here fpeaking, have\\nbeen more efpecially appropriated to the\\noriginal fettlement in the extreme north-\\nern portion of the prefent town, fo that\\nhe naturally fpoke of riding over from\\nCapt. Almy s toward the Stone bridge,\\nas riding out to Portfmouth. [Arnold s\\ninji. R.-L i: 71, 125, 136, 143.]\\nTucfday, 27 June, 1676.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "^7\\nconfent and advice, he returned again next Morning to\\nthe Ifland, in order to go over that way to AwaJJionks, to\\ninform her that the Army vv^as arrived, c. Accordingly\\nfrom Sachueefet-Neck^^ he went in a Canoo to Sogkonate\\\\\\ntold her Maj. Bradford was arrived at PocaJJct, with a\\ngreat Army, whom he had inform d of all his proceedings\\nwith her. That if fhe would be advifed and obferve order\\nfhe nor her People need not to fear being hurt by them.\\nTold her. She fhould call all her People down into the\\nNeck, leafl if they fhould be found ftraggling about, mif-\\nchief might light on them. That on the Morrow they\\nwould come down and receive her, and give her further\\norders. She promifed to get as many of her People to-\\ngether as poffibly fhe could. Defiring Mr. Church to con-\\nfider that it would be difficult for to get them together at\\nfuch fhort [27] warning. Mr. Church returned to the\\nIfland, and to the Army the fame Night: The next Morn-\\ning^^* the whole Army Marched towards Sogkonate as far\\nas Punkatcefe and Mr. Chtirch with a few Men went\\ndown to Sogkonate to call Aiua/Jionks, and her People to\\ncome up to the Englifli Camp; as he was going down,\\nthey met with a Pocajffet Indian^ who had killed a Cow\\nand got a Quarter of her on his back, and her Tongue in\\nhis Pocket; who gave them an account. That he came\\nfrom Pocaffet two days fmce in company with his Mother\\n192 Wednefday, 28 June, 1676. foot of which the village of Newport\\n1^3 Sachuccfet ISachueJll^ neck is the forms the inftep. It is diftant about 3\\nfouth-eaftern point of the illand of miles, by water, due weft, from Saconet.\\nRhode-Illand the elongated heel of the i- Thurfday, 29 June, 1676.\\n12 89", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "27\\nand feveral other Indians now hid in a Swamp above\\nNomquid difarming of him, he lent him by two Mer\\nto Maj. Bradford^ and proceeded to Sogkonatc. they fa\\\\^\\nfeveral hidians by the way skulking about, but let therr\\npafs. Arriving at AwaJJionks Camp, told her, He wa:\\ncome to invite her and her People tip to Punkateefe, when\\nMaj. Bradford nozv was luith the Plymouth Army, expell-\\ning her and her Siibje^s to receive orders, until furthc}\\norder could be had from the Governme?it. She complyed\\nand foon fent out orders for fuch of her Subje6ls as were\\nnot with her, immediately to come in; and by Twelve z\\nClock of the next day,^^*^ fhe with moft of her Numbei\\nappear d before the Englifh Camp at Punkateefe. Mr\\nChurch tender d the Major to Serve under his Commiffion,\\nprovided the Indians might be accepted with him, to fighi\\nthe Enemy. The Major told him, his Orders were to im-\\nprove him, if he p leafed, but as for the Indians, he would noi\\nbe concerned with them. And prefently gave forth orders\\nfor Awafionks, and all her Subje6ts both Men, Womer\\nand Children to repair to Sandwich, and to be there upon\\nPeril, in Six days.^^ AwafJi07iks and her chiefs gather d\\n195 No7nquid \\\\^No7icquit, Nonqutt., made their appearance at Plymouth tc\\nNamquit, tf-c.,], the cove or pond lying confer with the Council, and we arc\\nbetween Putikafeefc neck and Tiverton. told that it was after fome time foi\\n1^ Friday, 30 June, 1676. Both Hub- confideration that the Council reached\\nbard and Mather mention about 90 its conclufion, it is not probable thai\\nas the number of thofe with Awafhonks Maj. Bradford had been informed ol\\nin this fubmifllon. {^Narrative, 97; their deciiion. (Mather fays, Awaftionks\\nBrief Hiji. 39.] with about 90 came and tendered them-\\nAs this took place only two days felves before the meffengers re-\\nafter Peter and his two companions turned. He was therefore ading or\\n90", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "27\\nround Mr. Church, (where he was walk d off from the\\nreft) expreffed themfelves concerned that they could not\\nbe confided in, nor improv d. He told them, Uwas bejl\\nto obey Orders aiid that if he could not accompany them to\\nSandwich, it JJtould not be above a Week before he would\\nvteet them there; That he was confident the Governotir\\nwould Coiumif/ion him to improve them. The Major haft-\\nened to fend them away with Jack Have^is^ (an Indian\\nwho had never been in the Wars) in the Front with a flag\\nof Truce in his hand. They being gone, Mr. Church, by\\nthe help of his Man Toby (the Indian whom he had taken\\nPrifoner, as he was going down to So^konate) took faid\\nToby s Mother, thofe that were with her, Prifoners.\\nNext Morning the whole Army moved back to Pocaffet.\\nThis Toby informed them that there were a great many\\nIndians gone down to Wcpoifet to eat Clams, (other\\nProvifions being very fcarce with them;) that Philip him\\nfelf was expe6ted within 3 or 4 dayes at the fame Place\\nhis own authority as commander-in- on the Court Records under date of 6\\nchief, and his objecft in ordering Awa- March, 1676-7, whoe haue approued\\nIhonks and her tribe to Sandwich was, themfelues faithfull to the Englilh dur-\\nclearly, to get them out of reach of ing the late Rebellion, befides Mama-\\ntemptation, at once, and opportunity, to nuett, their Sachem Cand family), who\\njoin Philip in further hoftilities. His is defcribed as att or about Saconett.\\norder was not a harih one in the matter S_Plym. Col. Rec. v 225.]\\nof time for the diftance could not Saturday, i July, 1676.\\nprobably be more than 40 miles by the Wefoifct Wcypoifet, Waypoyfct,\\ncircuitous foreft-paths, for which he al- c.,] was the Indian name for the narrow\\nlowed them fix davs. IPlym. Col. Rec. entrance of Kikemuit river feparatmg\\nV 202 y.Wt\\\\iitr\\\\ BrirfIIiJlory, 39.] the northern part of Briftol, R.-I., from\\n7c^c/6//\u00c2\u00ab^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2c\u00c2\u00ab5ison theliftoffour- the fouth-eaftern part of Warren,\\nteen Indians, whofe names were entered [Feffenden s Hijl. Warren. R.-I- 71]\\n91", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "28]\\nbeing asked, What Indians they iverc} He anfwered, Some\\nWcctcmores Indians^ fome Motmt-hopc rndia7is^ fome Nar-\\nraganfct Indians^ and fome other Upland Indians, in all\\nabout 300. The Rhode-IJland Boats by the Majors order\\nmeeting them at PocaJ/ht, they were foon imbark d, it\\nbeing juft in the dusk of the Evening, they could plainly\\ndifcover the Enemies fires at the Place the Indian dire6led\\nto;-^^ and the Army concluded no other but they were\\nbound [28] directly thither, until the}^ came to the North\\nEnd of the Ifland, and heard the word of Command for the\\nBoats to bare away.^^^ Mr. Church was very fond of\\nhaving this probable opportunity of furprizing that whole\\nCompany of Indians imbraced: But Orders, twas faid,\\nmuft be obeyed, which was to go to Motmt-hope and there\\nto fight Philip. This with fome other good opportunities\\nof doing fpoil upon the Enemy, being unhappily mifs d.^^^\\n2^1 The exaa fpot where the Indians Hope Cove, would haul ftraight to the\\nwere digging clams and eating them weft, and, if thej were to land at Briftol\\nwould feem to have been on the fouth- neck, fliarp to the ibuth-weft.\\neaftern curve of what is now called Tijg narrative does not certainly\\nTouiflett neck from whence fires would indicate whether the army kept Sab-\\nbe vifible acrofs the bay at Pocaffet; bath at Mount Hope, or, finding Philip\\nwhere Maj. Bradford s army could was not there, pulhed on at once up\\nfcarcely be diftant from them five miles Mount-Hope neck and acrofs Miles s\\nin a ftraight line. bridge to Rehoboth though the prob-\\nThey probably embarked at what abilities feem to be ftrong that they did\\nwas then the Ferry, now fpanned by not march to Rehoboth until they had,\\nthe Stone Bridge, from whence, for at leaft, fearched for the Indians whom\\ntwo miles and a half, their natural they had feen the night before at Wey-\\ncourfe would lie diredly towards the poifet. I imagine that the other good\\nlight of the fires. When well up with opportunities to which Church refers\\nthe north end of Rhode-Ifland, their as being miffed, had reference to fev-\\ncourfe, if they were going to Mount- eral fruitlefs attempts, occupying feveral\\n92", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "28\\nMr. Church obtain d the Majors Confent to meet the Soo^-\\nkoiiate Indians^ according to his promife. He was offer d\\na Guard to Plymoitth^ but chofe to go with one Man only,\\nwho was a good Pilot. About Sun-fet^*^ he with Sabin\\nhis Pilot mounted their Horfes at Rehoboth^ where the\\nArmy now was, and by two Hours by Sun next Morning\\narrived fafe at Plymouth And by that time they had\\nrefrefhed themfelves, the Governour and Treafurer^ came\\nto Town. Mr. Church giving them a fhort account of the\\naffairs of the Army, c. His Honour was pleafed to give\\nhim thanks for the good and great Service he had done\\nat Sogkonate, told him. He had confirmed all that he\\npromifed Awafhonks, and had fent the Indian back again\\ndajs in Mount-Hope neck and its re-\\ngion, to damage the Indians, before\\nthe army went to the garrifon-houfe at\\nRehoboth, which (with one other) had\\nefcaped deftruAion on the 2Sth of\\nMarch.\\nThis could not have been fun-\\nfet of the next day after leaving Po-\\ncaflet (Sab., 2 July, 1676), becaufe then\\nChurch would have reached Plymouth\\ntwo hours after funrife, on Monday, 3\\nJuly. But he told the Governor, on the\\nday of his arrival, that the time had\\nexpired that he had appointed to meet\\nthe Sogkonates at Sandwich and as\\nhe had promifed them, on the 30th of\\nJune, that it fhould not be above a\\n%vcek before he would meet them, his\\npromife could not expire until Friday,\\n7 July therefore he could not have\\nreached Plymouth until on or after the\\n7th July. Hence he could not have left\\nRehoboth before Thurfday, 6 July, the\\nfifth day after leaving Pocaffet, and\\nlanding at Mount Hope.\\n2 5 Sabin \\\\^Sabine was then a Reho-\\nboth name. Savage mentions eight of\\nthe name, all (he thinks) of Rehoboth,\\nand five of whom ferved in Philip s\\nwar either in perfon or by contribu-\\ntions. Blifs mentions Jonathan, as in\\nthe Narraganfett fight, and Samuel, as\\nferving under Maj. Bradford. He alfo\\ngives the names of five {yo/cfh, Wil-\\nliam, Samuel, Benjamin, and a Widoiu\\nSabin) as making advances of money\\nto fuftain the war. Doubtlefs, Church s\\nguide was one of this patriotic family.\\n\\\\_Gcn. Did. iv I Hi/l. Rehoboth, 117,\\niiS.]\\n2 6 Jofias Winflow and Conftant\\nSouthworth. The former refided in\\nMarfiifield, and the latter in Uuxbury.\\n[See notes 20 and 68, ante.^\\n93", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "28]\\nthat brotight his Letter. He asked his Honour, Whether he\\nhad ajiy thing later from Awafhonks He told him he\\nhad not. Where-upon he gave his Honour account of the\\nMajors orders relating to her and hers, and what difcourfe\\nhad paired ro con about them; and that he had prom-\\nifed to meet them, and that he had incouraged them, that\\nhe thouo^ht he mig^ht obtain of his Honour a Commiffion\\nto lead them forth to fight Philip. His Honour fmilingly\\ntold him. That he Jliould not watzt Commijfwn if he would\\naccept it, 7ior yet good Englifii 7nen enough to make up a\\ngood Army. But in fhort, he told his Honour the time\\nwas expired that he had appointed to meet the Sogkonates\\nat Sandwich. The Governour asked him, when he would\\ngo? He told him that afternoon, by his Honours leave.\\nThe Governour ask d him, How many Men he would\\nhave with him? He anfwered. Not above half a dozen,\\nwith an order to take more at Sandwich, if he faw caufe\\nand Horfes provided. He no fooner moved it, but had\\nhis number of Men tendering to go with him, among\\nwhich was Mr. Jabcz Howland,^ and Nathanael South-\\n2 7 Jabcz Hozvlaiid \\\\y7\\\\9, foil of John, gers removed to Briftol, R.-I., and\\nwho came as attendant of Gov. Carver was licenfed to keep an inn there in\\nin the Mayflower; was fined at Pljm- i6Si, and was feledlman there in 1682,\\nouth, March 5, 1666-7, 3.f.4f/, for a breach 1685, and 1690; was enfign of a mili-\\nof the peace, in ftriking Jofeph Billing- tarj company there in 16S4; deputy-\\nton; ferved on a trial jury in 1671 and thence in 1689 and 1690. He married\\n1677, and on a coroner s jury in 1671 Bethia, dau. of Anthony Thacher, and\\nand 1673; was conftable of Plymouth had ten children. [Savage s Gen. Did.\\nin 1675; petitioned for a grant of land ii 479; Plym. Col. Rec. iv 140; v:\\nin 1675, in virtue of the Court order 82, 88, 122, 165, 170, 255; vi 78, 84,\\npreferring children born here to ftran- 131, 169, 206, 241.]\\n94", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "28]\\nworth they went to Sandwich that Night; where Mr.\\nChurch (with need enough) took a Nap of Sleep. The\\nnext Morning with about i6 or i8 Men proceeded as far\\nas Agawom^~^ where they had great expe6lation of meeting\\nthe Indians^ but met them not; his Men being difcouraged\\nabout half of them returned; only half a dozen ftuck by\\nhim, promifed fo to do until they fhould meet with the\\nIndia7is. When they came to Sippican River^^^ Mr. How-\\n/andhegan to tyre, upon which Mr. Church left him, and\\ntwo more, for a Referve at the River, that if he fhould\\nmeet with Enemies and be forced back, they might be\\n208 X^atha7iiel Soutlnvorth, fecond fon\\nof Conftant, was born at Plymouth,\\n1648 furveyor of highways 1673\\nferved on trial jury in 1677 con-\\nftable of Plymouth, and ferved on coro-\\nner s jury in 1678; was fined 105. in\\n1681, for refufing to aid the conftable\\nof Plymouth ferved on coroner s jury\\nin 1684; was a fele flman of Plymouth\\nin 1689 and 1691, and grand juror in\\n1690. He was alfo a lieutenant. He died\\nJan. 14, 171 1. Savage fays he lived at\\nMiddleborough but I find no trace of\\nit in the Colony Records. [Savage s\\nGcH. Did. iv 143 Plytn. Col. Rec. v\\n115, 246, 257, 263; vi: 56, 148, 206, 237,\\n264.]\\n209 Agaxvatn was the Indian name of\\nthe fettlement near the Agawam River,\\nin what is now Wareham. The name\\nis ftill retained by a little village on the\\nlow lands through which the river winds\\ninto the Narrows. The name is\\nirova agxve, below hence fignifying\\nfometimes bcloxv, as defcriptive of a\\npoint down ftream from another on the\\nfame river, and fometimes a loiv place,\\nas defcriptive of flats, or low land with-\\nout reference to higher elevations in\\nthe vicinity, as thefe flat meadows in\\nWareham, and the low ilands of Aii-\\nffiian of which Capt. Smith fpeaks.\\n[^Advertifcnicnts for the Unexperienced,\\nd-c, p. 27.]\\n210 Sippican River (confluent with\\nthe Weweantitf) runs into Buzzard s\\nBay about half way between the vil-\\nlages of Wareham and Marion; and\\nits lower portion forms the boundary\\nbetween thofe two towns. The word\\nSippican {^Scpaconnet, Scfpekanl is\\nrelated to Sebago, from the Abnaki,\\ns\u00c2\u00abbe k8, lamer, eaufalee, Ranes, (but\\nbrackijh water, rather than fait, per-\\nhaps), the equivalent of YXxo C^f-ippog,\\nufed in James iii 12, for fait water.\\nThe Indians of Maflachufetts had no\\nword ior fait. See, by itfelf, fignifies\\nufually, four hence, doubtlefs, dif-\\nagreeable, ill-tafted.\\n95", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "^9]\\nready to alTift them In getting over the River. Proceed-\\ning in their March, they croffed another River,^ and\\nopened a great Bay,^^ where they might fee many Miles\\nalong-fhore, where were Sands and Flats; and hearing a\\ngreat noife below them towards [29] the Sea. They dif-\\nmounted their Horfes, left them and crep d among the\\nbufhes, until they came near the bank, and faw a vaft\\ncompany of Indians, of all Ages and Sex5, fome on Horfe-\\nback running races, fome at Foot-ball,^^^ fome catching\\nEels Flat-fifh in the water, fome Clamming, but\\nwhich way w4th fafety to find out what India7is they were,\\nthey were at a lofs. But at length, retiring into a thicket,\\nMr. Church hollow d to them; they foon anfwered him,\\nand a couple of fmart young Fellows, well mounted, came\\nupon a full Career to fee who it might be that call d, and\\ncame juft upon Mr. Church before they difcovered him;\\nIn the abfence of any tradition here has a breadth of fix or feven miles;\\nidentifying this ftream, and deciding while it would give him fight of a\\nmerely by my knowledge of the locali- long coaft diftance down what is now\\nties, I conceive this to have been what the eaftern and fouthern fliore of Matta-\\nis now called Mill Creek, emptying poifett. I judge, therefore, that the\\ninto Aucoot Cove which is the firft fands and flats on which Awalhonks\\ninlet on the coaft fouth-weft of Sippican and her Indians were now encamped\\nHarbor. were thofe between Aucoot Cove and\\n2^- If I am right in the identification Angelica Point, or between Angelica\\nof Mill Creek as the ftream laft referred Point and Ned s Point, in Mattapoifett\\nto, after Church pafled over it, a prog- aforefaid.\\nrefs of lefs than a mile would enable 213 A game of football in which he\\nhim to look out by the fouth-eaftern was expert, or of quoits, or a wreftling-\\nextremity of Charles Neck and the bout, or a dance in which women did\\noverlapping Butter s Point of Great not mingle, afforded fome occafional\\nNeck (a mile and a half further eaft), variety. [Palfrey s Hiji. N. E.\\\\: 32;\\nand to open Buzzard s Bay, which Schoolcraft s HiJl. Ltd. Tribes, ii 78.]\\n96", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "29]\\nbut when they perceived themfelves fo near EngliJJi Men,\\nand Arm d, were much furprized, and tack d fhort about\\nto run as fall back as they came forward, until one of the\\nMen in the bufhes call d to them, and told them his Name\\nwas Churchy and need not fear his hurting of them. Upon\\nwhich, after a fmall paufe, they turned about their Horfes,\\nand came up to him; one of them that could fpeak E^igliJJi^\\nMr. Church took afide and examin d, who inform d him,\\nThat the hidians below were AwaJJionks, and her com-\\npany, and that Jack Havens was among them; whom Mr.\\nChurch immediately fent for to come to him, and order d\\nthe Meffenger to inform Awa/Jwnks that he was come to\\nmeet her; Jack Havens foon came, and by that time ISIr.\\nChurch had ask d him a few Queftions, and had been fat-\\nisfyed by him. That it was AwaJIionks, and her company\\nthat were below, and that ^ack had been kindly treated by\\nthem; a company oi Iiidiajis all Mounted on Horfe-back,\\nand well Arm d came riding up to Mr. Church, but treated\\nhim with all dew refpeds. He then order d Jack to go\\ntell AwaJJwnks, that he defigned to Sup with her in the\\nEvening, and to lodge in her Camp that Night. Then\\ntaking fome of the hidians with him, he went back to the\\nRiver to take care of ISIr. Hovuland Mr. Church being\\na Mind to try what Mettal he was made of, imparted his\\nnotion to the Indians that were with him, gave them\\ndireaions how to aft their parts; when he came pretty\\n2H It would be four and a half or five Mr. Rowland, with his referve of two\\nmiles back to Sippican River, where men, had been left.\\n13 97", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "[30]\\nnear the Place, he and his EnglifJt Men pretendedly fled,\\nfiring on their retreat towards the Indians that purfued\\nthem, and they firing as faft after them. Mr. HowlancC\\nbeing upon his guard, hearing the Guns, and by by fee-\\ning the motion both of the EngliJJi and hidians, concluded\\nhis friends were diftreffed, was foon on the full Career\\non Horfe-back to meet them, until he perceiving their\\nlaughing miftrulted the Truth. As foon as Mr. Church\\nhad given him the News, they hafted away to AwaJJwnks.\\nUpon their arrival, they were immediately conducted to a\\nfhelter, open on one fide, whither Awaf/wnks and her\\nchiefs foon came paid their Refpefts: and the Multi-\\ntudes gave fliouts as made the heavens to ring. It being\\nnow about Sun-fetting, or near the dusk of the Evening;\\nThe Netops^^^ came running from all quarters loaden with\\nthe tops of dry Pines, the like combuftible matter\\nmaking a hugh pile thereof, near Mr. Churches fhelter, on\\nthe open fide thereof: but by this time Supper was\\nbrought in, [30] in three diflies, viz. a curious young Bafs,\\nin one difli. Eels Flat-fifti in a fecond, and Shell-fifli in\\na third, but neither Bread nor Salt to be feen at Table.\\nBut by that time Supper was over, the mighty pile of Pine\\n1\u00c2\u00b0 See note 143, ante. The word in- and a definite application (though it\\ntends friendly Indians. Mr. Drake fug- was fometimes ufed bj the Englifh, as\\ngefts here that the term may be equiva- equivalent to Netop, or Indian It\\nlent to Sannop (citing Winthrop {_Jour- fignified a brave, vir, as diftinguilhed\\nval, i: 49], and Hubbard [Ge\u00c2\u00ab. Hist. from homo; and was never applied by\\nN.B., 253]; though the latter has San- an Indian to 2i foreigner, or except to\\nwa/) but Mr. Trumbull fays, 5a\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abt the warriors of his own nation or\\nhad, with the Indians, a more reftricled tribe. [Drake s Church (2d ed.), 91.]\\n98", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "30\\nKnots and Tops, c. was fired, and all the Indians great\\nand fmall gathered in a ring round it. AwaJJionks with\\nthe oldeft of her People Men and Women mix d, kneeling\\ndown made the firft ring next the fire, and all the lu%,\\nftout Men ftanding up made the next; and then all the\\nRabble in a confiafed Crew fiirrounded on the out-fide.\\nThen the chief Captain llep d in between the rings and the\\nfire, with a Spear in one hand and an Hatchet in the\\nother, danced round the fire, and began to fight with it,\\nmaking mention of all the feveral Nations Companies of\\nIndians in the Country that were Enemies to the Englifli\\nat naming of every particular Tribe of Vidians, he\\nwould draw out fight a new fire brand, at his finifli-\\ning his fight with each particular fire-brand, would bow to\\nhim and thank him; and when he had named all the\\nfeveral Nations and Tribes, and fought them all he ftuck\\ndown his Spear and Hatchet, and came out; and another\\nItept in and a6led over the fame dance, with more fury, if\\npolfible, than the firft; and when about half a dozen of\\ntheir chiefs had thus a6led their parts. The Captain of the\\nGuard fl;ept up to Mr. Church and told him. They were\\nmaking Sotihiiers for him, and what they had been doing\\nwas all one Swearing of theni and having in that manner\\n216 (I The principle of enliftment is he chants his own fong, and is greeted\\nfufficientlv well preferved Each war- with redoubling jells. Thefc ceremo-\\nrior that rifes and joins the war-dance, nies are tantamount to enliftment, and\\nthereby becomes a volunteer for the trip. no young man who thus comes forward\\nHe arms and equips himfelf; he pro- can honorably withdraw. ISc/iool-\\nvides his own fuftenance and when he craft s Information refpe(^ing the In-\\nfteps out into the ring, and dances, dian Tribes of t/ie U.S. \\\\o\\\\. n: S(),6o.\\n99", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "[3o]\\ningaged all the Injly Jlotit men. AwaJJwjiks her chiefs\\ncame to Mr. CJmrch\\\\ and told him, That now they were\\nall ingaged to Jight for the Englifh, and he might call forth\\nally or any of them at any time as he faw occafion to fight\\nthe Enemy and prefented him with a very fine Firelock.\\nMr. Church accepts their offer, drew out a number of\\nthem, and fet out next Morning before day for Plymouth^\\nwhere they arrived fafe the fame day.\\nThe Governour being informed of it, came early to\\nTown next Morning and by that time he had EnglifJi\\nMen enough to make up a good Company, when joyned\\nwith Mr. Chtirches Indians, that offered their Voluntary\\nService to go under his Command in queft of the Enemy.\\nThe Governour then gave him a Commiffion, which is as\\nfollows,\\nf~^Aptai7i Benjamin Church, you are hereby Nominated^\\nOrdered^ CommiJfion d, and Impowred to raife a Com-\\npany of Volunteers of about 200 Me7i, Englifh and Indians;\\nthe Englifii not exceeding the number of 60, of which Com-\\npany, orfo many of them as you can obtain, orfiiallfee catife\\nat prefent to improve, you are to take the comma^id and con-\\nduit, and to lead them forth now and hereafter, atfuch time,\\nand unto fuch places within this Colony, or elfe where, within\\nthe confederate Colonies, as you fiiall tlmik fit to difcover,\\npurfue, fight, furprize, dcfiroy, or fubdue our Indian Ene-\\nmies, or any part or parties of them that by the Provide7ice\\nof God you may 7neet with or them or any of them by\\ntreaty and compofition to receive to mercy, if you fee reafon", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "[31\\n(^provided they be not MnrderoJis Rogtics, or fuck as have\\nbeen prijicipal AHoi s in thofe Villanies: And forafmtich as\\nyour Company may be ti7icerta{n, and [31] the Perfons often\\nchanged, You are alfo hereby impowred with advice of your\\nCompany to chufe and Comniiffionate a Lieiitenant, and to\\neflablifJt Serjeants, and Corporals as you fee caufe And\\nyou herein improving yoicr befi judgmeiit and difcrction and\\nutmofl ability, faithfully to Serve the Intcrefl of God, His\\nMajefiys, Interefl, and the hiterefl of the Colony and care-\\nfully governing your faid Company at ho7ne and abroad\\nthefe fJiall be unto you full and ample CommifJio7i, Warraiit\\nand Difcharge. Given under the Publick Seal, this 2\\\\th\\nDay of]M\\\\y, 16^6?^\\nPerjof. Winflow, GOV.\\n^i There is a miftake in the infertion\\nof this commiffion here, not unnatural\\nwhen the lapfe of time before the record\\nwas made, is taken into the account.\\nThis is not the commiffion which\\nChurch firfl received, and on which he\\nfirft went out (as Judge Davis thought,\\ninferring a mifprint in the date, of the\\n24th for the 14th [Morton s Memorial,\\n449] enlarged one which\\nwas afterwards given him. This is ob-\\nvious, firft, from its date. If Church\\narrived at Plymouth on Friday, 7 July\\n(fee note 204), he muft have found\\nAwalhonks at Mattapoifett on Saturday,\\n8 July, and returned to Plymouth on\\nSunday, the 9th in which cafe the\\nGovernor came to town and comniif-\\nfioned him on Monday, the loth July,\\nand he fet off the fame night into the\\nwoods, on his firft expedition as Cap-\\ntain. There are no data for abfolute\\ncertainty as to this. But the Colony\\nRecords make it clear that he muft\\nhave been out on at leaft one fucceff-\\nful expedition before the t-j:enty-fccond\\nof July, becaufe they contain a Court\\norder of that date, that all volunteers\\ntaking prifoners Ihall haue the one\\nhalfe of them for theire pains and ven-\\nture, from the day of the date heerof,\\nincludeing thofc prifoners alfoe lajl\\nbrought in by Benjamine Church and\\nhis cotnpanic. [P/ym. Col. Rec. v:\\n207.] The Rev. Mr. Walley, alfo,\\nwriting to the Rev. Mr. Cotton [Davis s\\nMorton s Memorial, p. 449] under date\\nof 18 July, 1676, fays, I am glad of\\nthe fuccels Ben. Church hath; it is the\\ngood fruit of the coming in of Indians", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "31\\nReceiving Commiffion, he Marched the fame Night into\\nthe Woods, got to Middleberry before day ,2^^ and as foon\\nas the Hght appeared, took into the Woods and Swampy\\nthickets, towards a place where they had fome reafon to\\nexpe6l to meet with a parcel of Narragaiifet Indians^ with\\nfome others that belonged to Mount-hope: Coming near\\nto where they expe6ted them, Capt. Chirc/i s, Indian\\nScout difcovered the Enemy, and well obferving their\\nfires, and poflures, Returned with the intelligence to their\\nCaptain, who gave fuch dire6tions for the furrounding of\\nthem, as had the direct effect; furprizing them from\\nevery fide fo unexpe6ledly, that they were all taken, not fo\\nmuch as one efcaped. And upon a llrick examination,\\nthey gave intelligence of another parcel of the Enemy, at\\nto us thofe that come in are conquered\\nand help to conquer others. But\\nChurch had done nothing in this cam-\\npaign which could be fo referred to,\\nprevious to his fetting off into the\\nwoods, here fpoken of. Therefore Mr.\\nWalley muft refer to the refults of this\\nexpedition to Namasket and Monponfet,\\nwhich muft, by confequence, have\\ntaken place between the loth and iSth\\nof July. It will be feen, alfo, further\\non, that Church twice ftates that he\\nkept up this guerrilla warfare feveral\\nweeks and then proceeds to narrate,\\nas if taking place fubfequently, his fet-\\nting out for Bridgewater in purfuit of\\nPhilip; which, by his account, was on\\nSunday, 30th July. If his firft expedi-\\ntion was, as I fuggeft above, on Mon-\\nday, the loth, only three weeks would\\nintervene to make good his feveral.\\nThen, in the fecond place, the very\\nterms of the commiffion itfelf Ihow that\\nit was that enlarged one to which he\\nfubfequently refers becaufe it gives him\\nauthority to commiffionate officers\\nunder him, to march as far as he\\nfhould fee caufe, within the limits of\\nthe three United Colonies, to receive\\nto mercy, give quarter or not, c. c.\\n[See p. 104.]\\n1* Middlcborongk is a very large\\ntown, whofe eaftern boundary is about\\n10 miles weft of the village of Plymouth.\\nJVattiaJkct wa.ii its Indian name, from\\nllamas, fifh namas-ohke-ut, at the\\nfilli-place that portion of the town\\nwhich ftill bears the name, being a noted\\nfilliing-place among the Indians.\\n2W Tuefday, 11 July, 1676.?", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "3\\na Place called Munponfet-Pond Capt. CJmrch haftning\\nwith his Prifoners, thro the Woods to Plymoiitk, difpofed\\nof them all, excepting only one Jeffery, who proving very\\ningenious faithful to him, in informing where other par-\\ncels of the Indians harboured Capt. Chtcrck promifed him,\\nthat if he continued to be faithful to him, he fhould not be\\nSold out of the Country, but fhould be his waiting man, to\\ntake care of his Horfe, c. and accordingly he Served\\nhim faithfully as long as he lived.\\nBut Capt. Church was forth- with fent out again; and\\nthe Terms for his incouragement being concluded on viz.\\nThat the Country Jliould Ji7id them Ammu7iition Pro-\\nvijion have half the Prifoners^ Arms, they took The\\nCaptain and his EngliJJi Souldiers to have the other half of\\nthe Prifo7ters, and Arms and the Indian Souldiers the loofe\\nPlunder, Poor incouragement But after fome time it\\nwas mended.\\nThey foon Captivated the Mu7tponfcts^^ and brought in,\\nnot one efcaping. This flroke he held feveral Weeks,\\nMonfonfet {Moonponfet, Mauiii- meaning of its name, Mr. Trumbull\\npenjing) pond is an irregularly oblong favs, Monponfet I cannot refolve.\\nfheet of water perhaps averaging a ^ii j think Church ufes this term here\\nmile and a quarter in length by three- to defignate that parcel of the Nar-\\nquarters of a mile in breadth, and al- raganfetts who were temporarily en-\\nmoft divided into two equal parts by a camped at this notable filhing-place,\\ntongue of land running down from its rather than to indicate that there was\\nnorthern Ihore lying in the northern any hoftile tribe of that name having a\\nportion of the town of Halifax, Mafs., permanent refidence fo near to Ply-\\nnear to its jundtion with Hanfon and mouth, and deriving their dcllgnation\\nPembroke, and about lO miles W.N. from this pond. I find no trace of any\\nW. from Plymouth. In regard to the such tribe in the records.\\n103", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "[32\\nnever returning empty handed. When he wanted intelli-\\ngence of their Kennelling Places, he would March to fome\\nplace likely to meet with fome travellers or ramblers, and\\nfcattering his Company, would lye clofe; and feldom lay\\nabove a day or two, at the moft, before fome of them\\nwould fall into their hands: Whom he would compel to\\ninform, where their Company was; and fo by his method\\nof fecret and fudden furprizes took great Numbers of\\nthem Prifoners.^\\nThe Government obferving his extraordinary courage\\nand condu6l, and the fuccefs from Heaven added to it,\\nfaw caufe to inlarge his Commiffion; gave him power to\\nraife, and difmifs his Forces, as he fhould fee occalion;\\n[32] to Commiffionate Officers under him, and to March\\nas far as he fhould fee caufe, within the limits of the three\\nUnited Colonies: to receive to mercy, give quarter, or\\nnot excepting fome particular noted Murderers viz.\\nPhilips and all that were at the deflroying of Mr. Clark s\\nGarrifon, and fome few others\\nMajor Bradford being now at Taunton with his Army,^*\\n^^2 The arrangement mentioned Colony Record as coepartenors in the\\nabove, by which thofe vohinteers re- outrage coiriitted att William Clarke s\\nceived one half of the value of the houfe, att the Eelriuer, 12 March, 1676.\\nprifoners and arms which were taken, [^Plym. Col. Rec. v 206.]\\nas their pay for lervice; fheds light upon 224 gy the kindnefs of Mr. Haven of\\ntheir efpecial anxiety to capture the the Antiquarian Society in Worcefter,\\nenemy alive. and of Judge Collamore of Royalton,\\n223 This is the commiffion dated 24th Vt., I am in poffeffion of copies of a\\nJuly, and inferted on p. 100. On the letter written from Taunton, on the i6th\\n2 1 ft July, three days before, the names of this month by Anthony Collamore,\\nof eleven Indians were placed on the one of Bradford s army there, giving\\n104", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "[3^\\nand wanting Provifions; fome Carts were ordered from\\nPlymouth for their fupply, and Capt. Church to guard\\nfome account of their procedure, and\\nfhedding a little light upon what has\\nbeen a very obfcure portion of the war.\\nAs the letter has never, to my knowl-\\nedge, been printed, I infert it in full\\nTanton, this July y i6, 1676.\\n[Sunday.]\\nDeare and Loveing Wife, After\\nmy kind love to you prefented hopeing\\nthefe will find you in health, as bleffed\\nbe God I am at writing hereof. So\\nlikewife are all our Situate men y\\nreft of our army. Y\u00c2\u00b0 feventh [Mr.\\nHaven s copy makes this twelfth,\\nand Judge Collamore queries whether\\nit be feventh or twelfth; but the\\nconnection favors the former,] day of\\nthis Inftant wee marched from tan-\\nton towards Swanfy from thence\\nto Matapoyfett [Gardner s neck, fee\\nnote 48, atitc\\\\ fo continued in y\\nperfuite of them untill y* fourteenth\\nday of y above-faid Month; and wee\\nhaue killed taken upwards of a hun-\\ndred Indians; but never an Englilb\\nMan flain or wounded, only one or\\ntwo bewildered in y wood fo taken\\nby y enemy MS. illegible\\nnor have we any of our\\nIndians flaine or wounded, but peter\\nMahalen has a fmall wound in his\\nbelly; wee intend to be in perfute of\\nPhillip tomorrow againe, we have per-\\nfued him fo clofe y do wee almoft\\ndefpaire; wee have followed him very\\nclofe from fwamp to fwamp, fo y he\\nis enforced to fly with a very fmall\\nquantity of men with him becaufe\\nH 105\\nwee fhall not find him out; but I\\nhope with y Blefling of God wee fhall\\naccomplilh our defire y is to take\\nhim; thofe captives y wee have taken\\nthey tell us y Robin\\nBradifh Cornelias y ftole Mr.\\nCulhen s cow, are gon doune between\\nour town hingum to do Mifchief\\nthere y* ii day of this Inftant there\\nwas about a 100 Indians made an on-\\nfett on tanton they had burnt only\\ntwo out houfes for there was 200\\nEnglifti Indians there prefent,\\nwhich fruftrated them of their de-\\nfigne fo y they have killed never\\na man there but they have killed\\none man fince; pray prefent my fer-\\nvice to my Uncle Aunt with my duty\\nto my father and mother my love\\nto my children brother fifters\\ny* reft of my friends; Sarg [Bar-\\nker? Deane s Scituafe, 129, 216] is\\nwell fiting on a rock eating Biskett\\nCheefe defires to be remembered\\nto his wife; this being all at prefent\\nfrom\\nYo. ever Lo. Husband,\\nAnthony Collymer.\\npray take an opportunity to gett two\\nbulhells of corn ground while y* wa-\\nter lafts.\\nI hope there in no fear of y* In-\\ndians making an onfett on our towne\\nat prefent.\\n[Anthony Collamore was nephew to\\nPeter, one of the firft fcttlers of Scitu-\\nate, and received, by his will, a (hare of\\nhis eftate. He married, in 1C66, Saruh,", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "[32\\nthem.^ But he obtaining other guards for the Carts, as\\nfar as Middleborough, ran before with a fmall Company,\\nhoping to meet with fome of the Enemy, appointing the\\nCarts and their guards to meet them at Nema/ctct^^\\nabout an hour after the Suns riling next Morning he\\narrived there about the breaking of the day-light, dif-\\ncovered a company of the Enemy; but his time was too\\nfliort to wait for gaining advantage; and therefore ran\\nright in upon them. Surprized and Captivated about i6 of\\nthem: who upon examination, inform d. That Tifpaquin^\\none of the twin daughters of Ifaac\\nChittenden, and had five children\\n(Mary, Peter, Sarah, Martha, Eliza-\\nbeth). He was loft on a coafting\\nvoyage from Scituate to Bofton, i6\\nDec, 1693, on a ledge of rocks off Scit-\\nuate beach, which, to this day, bears\\nthe name of Collamore s Ledge. He\\nwas commander of the militia of the\\ntown at the time, and was buried un-\\nder arms. [Deane s Scituate, 239,\\n240.]\\nThis expedition feems to have\\ntaken place 20-27 July. Increafe Ma-\\nther, writing under date of Saturday,\\n22 July, fays This week alfo, Capt.\\nChurch, oi Pliuwuth, with a fmall party\\nconfifting of about 18 Efigli/Jt and 22\\nIndians [Hubbard (p. 100) gives the\\nfame as the number of the party] had\\nfour feveral engagements with the ene-\\nmy, c. going on to fpeak of the\\ncapture of Tialhq s fquaw, in a way to\\nidentify this as the expedition to which\\nhe refers. \\\\^Brief Hijiory, 42.]\\n22\u00c2\u00ab See note 218, ante. The exaft\\nplace in Middleborough here intended,\\nI fuppofe to be, fay 30 rods above\\nthe bridge where the road from the\\nGreen to the Four Corners croffes the\\nNemasket River; where were rapids,\\nand near which is now the Lower\\nFadlory, or Star Mills.\\n227 Tifpaquin {Tufpaqtiin, abbrev.\\nfrom Wattifpaquin, alias the Black\\nSachem) was Sachem of Affawompfett,\\nthe territory furrounding the pond of\\nthat name in Middleborough. He re-\\nceived his land froin Pamontaquajk,\\nthe Pond Sachem (who was probably\\nhis father), by will dated 29 Odl., 1668.\\nHe deeded land, 9 Aug., 1667, to Hen-\\nry Wood; 17 July, 1669, with his fon\\nWilliam, to Experience Mitchel et al.\\n10 June, 1670, to Edward Gray; 30\\nJune, 1672, to Edward Gray and Jofias\\nWinflow; in 1673, to John Saufaman\\nII Mar., 1673, to Felix, Saufaman s\\nfon-in-law; 3 July, 1673, to Benjamin\\nChurch and John Tompfon 23 Dec,\\n1673, to Saufaman s daughter, called\\nAJfoivetough i March, 1674-5, he and\\nX06", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "32\\na very famous Captain among the Enemy was at AJfa-\\nwomp/et, with a numerous Company.\\nBut the Carts muft now be guarded, and the oppor-\\ntunity of vifiting Tifpaquin muft now be laid afide: The\\nCarts are to be faithfully guarded, left Tifpaquid fhould\\nattack them.\\nComing towards Tatmton, Capt. CJmrch taking two\\nMen with him, made all fpeed to the Town; and coming\\nto the River fide,^^ he hollow d, and inquiring of them that\\ncame to the River, for ]Maj. Bradford, or his Captains; he\\nwas inform d, they were in the Town, at the Tavern. He\\ntold them of the Carts that were coming, that he had the\\ncumber of guarding of them, which had already prevented\\nhis improving opportunities of doing Service. Pray d\\ntherefore that a guard might be fent over to receive the\\nCarts, that he might be at liberty; refuftng all invitations\\nand perfwalions, to go over to the Tavern, to vifit the\\nhis fon William bail Tobias accufed prefumed to have travelled, took fome-\\n(and aften\\\\-ards convidted) of Saufa- thing of the general courfe now taken\\nman s murder in lands to the value by the Middleborough and Taunton\\nof \u00c2\u00a3ioo; 14 May, 1675, they fell Affa- R.R., running fouth of that cul-dc-fac\\nwompfett neck to John Tompfon et al., in which the Taunton River enclofes a\\nas a fecurity againft the claims of fouth-eaft portion of Raynham, ftriking\\nothers. In the fpring of 1676 he was the river for croffing a few rods above\\nat the head of fome 300 men, and had the place where it receives Little\\na hand in the attempt to burn Scituate, River, and there conneding, as I am\\n20 April, and Bridgewater, 8 May. informed, with what is now Summer\\n\\\\_Plym. Col. Rec. xii 229, 230, 235; St. From the eaft bank of the river,\\nV 159: Drake s Book of the Itid. 193, where he now hollow d, to the town\\n194, 241, 242.] and the tavern, muft have been\\nThe old road from Middleborough probably a third of a mile, or a little\\nto Taunton, on which Church may be more.\\n107", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "l3i\\nMajor: he at length obtained a guard to receive the Carts;\\nby whom alfo he fent his Prifoners to be convey d with\\nthe Carts to Plymouth^ dire6ling them not to return by the\\nway they came, but by Bridgwater?^^\\nHaftening back he purpofed to Camp that Night at\\nAJfawompfet Neck.^^ But as foon as they came to the\\nRiver that runs into the great Pond thro the thick Swamp\\nat the entering of the Neck;^^^ the Enemy fired upon\\nthem, but hurt not a Man. Capt. Chtirches Indians ran\\nright into the Swamp and fired upon them, but it being in\\nthe dusk of the Evening, the Enemy made their efcape\\nin the thickets: The Captain then moving about a Mile\\ninto the Neck, took the advantage of a fmall Valley to\\nfeed his Horfes; fome held the Horfes by the Bridles, the\\nrefl on the guard look d fharp out for the Enemy, within\\nhearing on every fide, and fome very near; but in the\\ndead of the Night, the Enemy being out of hearing, or\\nftill, Capt. Chnrch moved out of the Neck (not the fame\\nway he came in, leaft he fhould be Ambuf [33]cado d)\\n229 pj^g j.Q^j from Taunton to Pljm- on the weft fome four miles in length,\\nouth by Bridgewater, to which Church and varying from two miles to 80 rods\\nhere refers, appears to have taken a tol- in width. This narroweft part is at\\nerably ftraight courfe in a north-north- the northern entrance to the neck,\\neafterly direftion to what is now Weft where Long Pond and Afl awompfett\\nBridgewater, and then bore away a come near together, and are connected\\nlittle fouth of eaft toward Plymouth by a little brook.\\nthrough what are now Halifax, North -si The brook referred to in the laft\\nPlympton, and Kingfton. note, which crofles the road to New\\n-*5 The land, in what is now the town Bedford a little fouth of what has long\\nof Lakeville, inclofed between Alfa- been known as Sampfon s Tavern now\\nwompfett and Great Quitticas Ponds dignified as the Lakeville Houfe.\\non the eaft and north, and Long Pond\\n108", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "[33\\ntoward Cn/Imct, where all the Houfes were burnt; and\\ncroffing CnJJmet River,^^ being extreamly fategued, with\\ntwo Nights and one Days ramble without Reft or Sleep;\\nand obferving good forage for their Horfes, the Captain\\nconcluded upon baiting, and taking a Nap. Setting Six\\nMen to watch the paflage of the River, two to watch at a\\ntime, while the other flept, fo to take their turns; while\\nthe reft of the Company went into a thicket to Sleep under\\nthe guard of two Sentinels more. But the whole Com-\\npany being very drowfy, foon forgot their danger, and\\nwere faft a-fleep, Sentinels, and all. The Captain tirft\\nawakes, looks up, and judges he had flept four Hours,\\nwhich being longer than he defigned, immediately roufes\\nhis Company, and fends away a file to fee what were\\nbecome of the watch at the paflage of the River, but they\\nno fooner opened the River in fight, but they difcovered a\\ncompany of the Enemy viewing of their tracts, where they\\ncame into the Neck;^*^ Capt. Church and thofe with him\\nfoon difpers d into the brufli on each fide of the way,\\n232 Cujhnet {Acnyknct, AccuJ/Ztaneck, of 1675, as, fee note 109, ante. [P/ym.\\nAcuJJicnah, Ciijkenah, CuJJienett) was Col. Rcc. dS-^\\nthe name of the firll fettlement made at They came down on the eaft fide\\nthe head of Acufhnet inlet, three miles of the river, and, where it runs into tide-\\nnorth of New Bedford, where the river water, crofled to the weftern fide, on\\nmeets the tide. It is about iid miles their way to Ruflell s garrifon at Pona-\\nalmoft due fouth of that fpot in the ganfet.\\nneck where Church paufed to feed his 234 The neck bet^veen the great cedar\\nhorfes. With Ponaganfctt and Coak- fwamp and the Pafcamanfet River, on\\nfett it had been conftitiited a townfhip, the weft, and the head of Acufhnet\\nnamed Dartmouth, S June, 1664 and inlet (now New-Bedford Harbor) on\\nburned bj the Indians in the fummer the eaft.\\n109", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "[33\\nwhile the file fent, got undifcovered to the palTage of the\\nRiver, and found their watch all faft a fleep: but thefe\\nTidings thoroughly awakened the whole Company. But\\nthe Enemy giving them no prefent difturbance, they ex-\\namined their Snapfacks, and taking a little refrefhment,\\nthe Captain orders one party to guard the Horfes, and the\\nother to Scout,^^ who foon met with a Track, and follow-\\ning of it, they were bro t to a fmall company of Indians,\\nwho proved to be Little Eyes, and his Family, and near\\nRelations, who were of Sogkonate, but had forfaken their\\nCountry men, upon their making Peace with the EngliJJi.\\nSome of Capt. Churches Indians asked him. If he did not\\nknow that Fellow? Told him. This is the Rogue that\\nwould have killed you at Awafhonks Dance and fignified\\nto him that now he had an opportunity to be revenged on\\nhim. But the Captain told them, It was not EngliJJz-mans\\nfaJJiion to feek revenge and that he JJiould have the fame\\nquarter the refl had. Moving to the River fide, they found\\nan old Canoo, with which the Captain ordered Little Eyes\\nand his company to be carryed over to an Ifland;^^ Telling\\nhim, he would leave him on that Ifland until he returned\\n235 They muft have fcouted over the the fouthernmoft wharves of the latter,\\nground where the city of New Bedford FilTi, Pope s, and Crow Iflands, nearly\\nnow (lands. a mile further up, would not have en-\\n236 See note 19, ante. abled Lightfoot to look over upon Scon-\\n237 Probably what is now called Palm- ticut neck, as he feems next day to have\\ner s Ifland, on which the inner light- done but the narrow entrance to that\\nhoufe ftands, midway of the channel, neck is in plain fight, two miles due\\njuft as it narrows between Fair Haven eaft from the lower extremity of Palm-\\nand New Bedford, and in the range of er s.\\nno", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "[34]\\nand left the Englifti ftwuld light on than, mid hill them, he\\nwould leave his coufin Light-foot^^ {whom the Ejiglifti knew\\nto be their Friend^ to be his guard. Little Eyes exprefled\\nhimfelf very thankful to the Captain. He leaving his\\norders w^ith Light-foot, returns to the Rivers fide towards\\nPonega7t/et, to Rujfels Orchard,^^ coming near the Orchard\\nthey clap d into a thicket and there lodg d the reft of the\\nNight without any fire; and upon the Morning light\\nappearing, moves towards the Orchard, difcovers fome of\\nthe Enemy, who had been there the day before, and had\\nbeat down all the Apples, and carryed them away; dif-\\ncovered alfo where they had lodg d that Night, and faw\\nthe ground where they fet their baskets bloody, being as\\nthey fuppofed and as it was afterwards difcovered to be\\nwith the flefh of Swine, c. which they had killed that\\nda} They had lain under [34] the Fences without any\\nfires; and feem d by the marks they left behind them to\\nbe very numerous, perceived alfo by the dew on the grafs\\nthat they had not been long gone; and therefore mov d\\na-pace in purfuit of them. Travelling three Miles, or\\nmore, they came into the Country Road, where the track\\nparted, one parcel fleered towards the Wefl end of the\\ngreat Cedar Swamp, and the other to the Eafl end.^*\\n238 Ligktfoot appears to have been The three miles feem to have\\none of Awafhonks Indians who volun- brought them near to what is now\\nteered at Mattapoifet (p. 99). Church known as the village of North Dart-\\nafterwards gave him the title of cap- mouth. The eaftern path (kirting the\\ntain. He fought with Church in the fwamp ran over toward Aculhnet; the\\nfirft expedition eaft, in 16S9. weftern would fcem to have led up near\\nSee note no, rt\u00c2\u00ab/e. where Turner s Mills now ftand, on", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "[34]\\nThe Captain halted and told his Indian Souldiers, That\\nthey had heard as well as he, what fome Men had /aid at\\nPlymouth about them, c. That now was a good oppor-\\ntunity for each party to prove them/elves The Track being\\ndivided they JJwuld follow one, and the EnglifJi the other,\\nbeing equal in number. The hidia^is declined the Motion,\\nand were not willing to move any where without him;\\nfaid, theyfliould not think themfelves fafe without him. But\\nthe Captain inlifling upon it, they fubmitted; he gave the\\nIndians their choice to follow which track they pleafed;\\nthey repl3^ed, They were light and able to Travel, therefore\\nif he pleafed they would take the Wefl Track. And ap-\\npointing the Ruins of foJiJi Cooks Houfe at Cuf/met for\\nthe weftern fide of the Pafcamanfet\\nRiver, toward Saffaquin s Pond. The\\ndiftance round to the rendezvous at\\nAcufhnet, bj the latter, was much the\\ngreater, and on this account the Indians\\nchofe it, becaufe they were light and\\nable to travel.\\n2*^ yokn Cooke was fon of Francis,\\nand came in the Mayflower with his\\nfather; married 28 March, 1634, Sarah,\\ndaughter of Richard Warren was dea-\\ncon of the Plymouth Church, but was\\ncaft out, in the latter part of Mr. Rey-\\nner s miniftry, for having been the\\nauthor of much diflenfion and divifion,\\nand for afterwards running into fetfta-\\nrian and anabaptiftical principles\\nhad a grant of land in Dartmouth, in\\nJune, 1664; became one of the firft\\nfettlers of Acullmet was deputy from\\nthere in 1666, 1667, 16C8, 1673, 1674,\\n1675, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1683, and\\n1686; was authorized as a magiftrate\\nthere in 1667, 1684, 1689; had a\\ncontroverfy with fome of the inhabi-\\ntants of Dartmouth in regard to Ram\\nIfland, which was fettled by the Court,\\nI July, 1672 died at Dartmouth, 23\\nNov., 1695, probably the only one of the\\npaflTengers on board the Mayflower who\\nlived through the entire exiftence of the\\nPlymouth Colony Backus fays he be-\\ncame a Baptift minifter and preached\\nthe doctrine of eledtion, with the other\\ndodtrines of fovereign grace in Dart-\\nmouth for a number of years and\\nthinks he founded the Baptift Church,\\nnear the borders of Tiverton and Dart-\\nmouth, in 1685. His houfe whofe ruins\\nare here referred to was fituated on the\\nFair-Haven fide of the AculTinet, about\\na mile north of the New-Bedford and\\nFair-IIaven Bridge, and about a third\\nof a mile eaft of the river, in what is", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "[34]\\nthe place to meet at each Company fet out briskly to try\\ntheir Fortunes. Capt. C/mrck with his EnglifJi Soldiers\\nfollowed their Track until they came near entring a miery\\nSwamp, when the Capt. heard a Whiflle in the Rear,\\n(which was a note for a halt) looking behind him, he faw\\nWilliam Fobes ftart out of the Company and made\\ntowards him, who haften d to meet him as faft as he\\ncould; Fobes told him they had difcovered abundance of\\nIndians, and if he pleafed to go a few Heps back he might\\nfee them himfelf: he did fo, and faw them a-crofs the\\nSwamp, obferving them, he perceived they were gather-\\nnow called Briinblecome s Orchard.\\nThe fite is almoft dire6llj oppofite the\\nhoufe of Mr. J. M. Howland now ftand-\\ning, and is a few rods fouth of the\\nWoodfide Cemetery. A block-houfe\\nalfo flood upon his land, perhaps half\\nway from his houfe to the river. His\\nfarm was bounded on the weft by the\\nAcufhnet, and ran back toward the eaft\\na mile and a half or more, and north\\nand fouth at leaft as far, his houfe be-\\ning pretty nearly in the center of it\\nnorth and fouth. [Savage s Geti. DiJl.\\ni: 447; Plym. Col. Rec. iv 67, 122,\\n14S, 153, 163, 180; v: 93, 97, 114, 144,\\n165, 256; vi 10, 36, 61, 106, 147, 1S6,\\n217; Ricketfon s Uijl. Ncxv Bedford,\\n35, 314 Backus s Hijl. N. E. ii 16, 18\\nAbridgment of do. 135 MS. letters\\nfrom Mr. F. B. Dexter and Mr. Geo. H.\\nTaber.]\\n2\u00c2\u00ab Williatn Fobes {Fobbes, Vobes,\\nForbes) was the fourth fon of John\\nFobes (and Conftant, fifter of Experi-\\nence Mitchel), who was one of the early\\n15\\nfettlers at Duxbury, and fubfequently\\none of the original proprietors of\\nBridgewater, where he fettled and died\\nabout i66r. William married, about\\n1667, Elizabeth, youngeft daughter of\\nConftant Southworth of Duxburj\\nwho feems to have been oppofed to the\\nmatch, putting this item into his will\\nI will and bequeath unto my daughter\\nE. S. my next beft bed and furniture,\\nwith my wife s beft bed, provided fliee\\ndoe not marry William Fobbes but if\\nfhee doe, then to have five fhillings.\\nWilliam was, of courfe, at the time of\\nthis Indian campaign, a brother-in-law\\nof Church. lie afterwards fettled at\\nLittle Compton I do not know wheth-\\ner on the land there allotted to his ekier\\nbrother, Edward, who took it among\\nthe firft grantees in his father s right\\n(fee note 7), and went commiftary\\nwith Maj. Church, in the third expedi-\\ntion eaft, in 1692. [Savage s Gen.\\nDid. ii 177; Winfor s Duxbury, 25S,\\n314; Mitchell s Bridge-vatcr, 159.]\\n13", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "34]\\ning of H^ir tie- Berries, and that they had no apprehenfions\\nof their being fo near them; The Captain fuppofed them\\nto be chiefly Women, and therefore calling one Mr. Dil-\\nlano^^ who was acquainted with the ground, and the\\nIndian Language, and another named Mr. Barns with\\nthefe two Men he takes right thro the Swamp as faft as\\nhe could, and orders the reft to haften after them. Capt.\\n2*3 I think this was yonatIia7t Delano\\n{DcLamtcy, DeLa Noye, Dcla7ioy, Dal-\\nlanoy, Dellajio^ Dclatioe), Ion of Philip,\\nwho came in the Fortune, in 162 1, and\\nwas one of the firft fettlers of Duxbury.\\nJonathan was born in 1648, and was\\nconfequently near 28 years of age at\\nthis time. He married, 26 Feb., 1678,\\nMercy, daughter of Nathaniel Warren,\\nof Plymouth, and had eleven children.\\nHe became one of the early fettlers of\\nDartmouth (probably in his father s\\nright of one Ibare among the 36 origi-\\nnal proprietors, in 1652), which would\\naccount for his being acquainted with\\nthe ground. He was commiffion-\\nated lieutenant (as I judge for his\\nmilitary experience in this war), 20\\nMay, 1690; was conftable, town clerk,\\nsurveyor, seleAman, and, in 16S9, dep-\\nuty from Dartmouth. He died 28 Dec,\\n1720; and his graveftone ftill remains\\nin the old Acuflinet burying-ground.\\n[Winfor s Duxbury, 251 Ricketfon s\\nNexv Bedford, 208, 386 Savage s Gen.\\nDidl. ii 34.]\\n2\u00c2\u00ab The clew to identification here is\\nflight but Church s Englifh foldiers\\non this expedition, were likelieft to be\\nof Plymouth and its vicinity; and the\\nBarnes known to me as beft fulfilling\\nthis and other natural conditions, is\\nJonathan, fecond fon of John, of Plv-\\nmouth, 1632 (probably of Yarmouth,\\n1639), l^o married Mary Plummer.\\nJonathan was born 3 June, 1643, and\\nwas, confequently, at this time, a little\\nmore than 33 years of age. In March,\\n1664-5, with his father, he had a con-\\ntroverfy with Mr. Maherfhalalhaflibaz\\n(an extraordinary chriftening borrowed\\nfrom Isa. viii i.) Dyer, of Newport,\\nR.-I., in regard to a floop; in which\\nhe got the worfi: of it, to the amount\\nof \u00c2\u00a313 and his own cofts. He mar-\\nried, 4 Jan., 1665, Elizabeth, daugh-\\nter of William Hedge, of Yarmouth,\\nand had eleven children. 29 0(5l.,\\n167 1, he was appointed, with the\\nwidow, adminiftrator on his father s\\neftate 3 June, 1673, the Court gave\\nhim, with another, liberty to adt as\\nguardian of the children of his fifter Ma-\\nry, who had married Robert Marfhall\\nin 1677 he was conftable of Plymouth\\nin 1679 and 16S4 ferved on coroner s\\njuries, and in 1667, 1672, 1681, 1684,\\nand 1685, on trial juries. [Savage s\\nGen. Dii i. i: 121; Plym. Col. Rec. v:\\n81, 216, 231; vi 8, 148; vii 121, 136,\\n172, 242, 243, 285, 298; viii: 31; Free-\\nman s Hist, Cafe Cod, ii 16, 1S6.]\\n114", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "34\\nChurch with Dilla7io Barns having good Horfes, fpur d\\non and where foon among the Thickeft of the Indiayis^ and\\nout of fight of their own Men Among the Enemy was an\\nIndian Woman (who with her Husband had been drove\\noff from Rhode- IJla7id^ notwithflanding they had an Houfe\\nupon Mr. Sanford\\\\ Land,^^ and had planted an Orchard\\nbefore the War; yet the Inhabitants would not be fatif-\\nfyed till they were fent off;^^ and Capt. Church with his\\nFamily, living then at the faid Sanfords, came acquainted\\nwith them, who thought it very hard to turn off fuch old,\\nPeleg Sa?iford \\\\_Sandford, Sam-\\nford was fon qf John, who was one of\\nthe earlieft fettlers of Rhode-Ifland.\\nlie, before 1665, married Mary, daugh-\\nter of Gov. Brenton; was admitted\\nfreeman at Newport, 1666 was made\\naffiftant in 1667, and again in later\\nyears 1667 was chofen captain of a\\ntroop of horfe was appointed a Com-\\nmiffioner to England in the fame year,\\nbut did not go was General Treafurer\\nin 1678, and afterward was elefted\\nMajor of all troops on the ifland in\\n1679; was chofen Governor, on Cran-\\nfton s death in 1680, and again in\\n1681, 1682, and 1683, when he declined;\\ncame near being killed by pirates, in\\n1682 was chofen to go to England for\\nthe Colony in 1683, and had an Admi-\\nralty commiffion from the king in\\n1697-8, followed by a correfpondence\\nwith Lord Bellemont. It is not known\\nwhen he died. His houfe was in New-\\nport. [Savage s Geti. Di6l. iv 15;\\nR.-I. Col. Rec. ii: 147, 186, 218, 241,\\n565; iii: 5,8, 30, 80, 83, 97, 106, 120,\\ni34 394-]\\nThe following order of the Court,\\npafled 13 March, 1675-6, will Ihow the\\nftate of feeling then exifting on the\\nifland in regard to the refidence of In-\\ndians among them This AflTembly\\ndoe order, that whatfoever perfon in\\nRhode Ifland, or elfewhere in this Col-\\nlony, that hath either Indian or Indians\\nin his cufl:ody, from 12 yeares old and\\nupward, fhall be bound in the daytime\\n(if he goeth abroad from his houfe), to\\nhave a fufficient keeper in company\\nwith him, and to be locked up in the\\nnight in a fufficient place of fecurity;\\nand that if any fuch Indian be found\\nwithout fuch keeper in the day or lockt\\nup in the night as abovefaid, all fuch\\nmafter foe oftendinge fliall forfeitt \u00c2\u00a35;\\ntwenty-five fhillings fliall be to him\\nthat can take an Indian foe ofiendinge,\\nand bring him before the Governor, or\\nany magifl:rate; or by two fufficient\\nwitnefles to teftify againft the oflcndcr,\\nand the i-emainder to the Generall\\nTreafury. This order was publiflicd\\nby beate of drum. {^R.-I. Col. Rec.\\nii 534-]\\n5", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "[35\\nquiet People: but in the end it prov d a Providence an\\nadvantage to him and his Family, as you may fee after-\\nw^ards. This Indian Woman knew^ Capt. Churchy and as\\nfoon as file faw him, held up both her hands and came\\nrunning towards him, crying aloud. Churchy Churchy\\nChurch. Capt. Church bid her Hop the reft of the In-\\ndians^ and tell them. The way to fave their Lives was not to\\nrun^ but yield them/elves Pri/o?iers, and he would not kill\\nthem; [35] fo with her help, and Dillano s, who could call\\nto them in their own Language, many of them ftop d\\nand fuiTcndred themfelves others fcampering and cafting\\naway their baskets, c. betook themfelves to the thickets,\\nbut Capt. Church being on Horfe-back foon came up\\nwith them, and laid hold on a Gun that was in the hand of\\none of the foremoft of the company, pull d it from him,\\nand told him he muft go back. And when he had turned\\nthem, he began to look about him to fee where he was,\\nand what was become of his Company, hoping they might\\nbe all as well imploy d as himfelf, but could find none but\\nDillano, who was very bufy gathering up Prifoners; the\\nCaptain drove his that he had ftop d to the reft, inquiring\\nof Dillano for their Company, but could have no news of\\nthem. But moving back picked up now and then a skulk-\\ning Prifoner by the way. When they came near the place\\nwhere they firft ftarted the Indians, they difcover d their\\nCompany ftanding in a body together, and had taken fome\\nfew Prifoners; when they faw their Captain, they haftened\\nto meet him They told him they found it difHcult getting\\n116", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "35\\nthro the Swamp, and neither feeing nor hearing any thing\\nof him, they concluded the Enemy had kill d him, and\\nwere at a great lofs what to do. Having brought their\\nPrifoners together they found they had taken and kill d 66\\nof the Enemy. Capt. Church then ask d the old Squaw,\\nWhat company they belonged 7tnto She faid. They be-\\nlonged part to Philip, and part to Q^tnnappin and the\\nN^arragan/et-Sachem^^^ difcovered alfo upon her declar-\\nation that both Philip and Qunnappin were about two\\nMiles off in the great Cedar Swamp he enquired of\\nher, What company they had with them She anfwered,\\nAbtinda7ice of India^is The Swamp, fhe faid, was full of\\nhidians from one end unto the other, that were fettled there,\\nthat there were near an loo meit came from the Swamp with\\nthem, and left the77i tipon that plain to gather Hurtle-berry s,\\nand pro7nifed to call them as they came back out of Sconticut-\\nNeck,-^*^ whither they went to kill Cattel and Horfcs for\\n^ti{7inapin{Panoquin,So-vagotii/Ji, at Dedham, 25-27 July, and who\\nc.~) was a Narraganfett, and nephew doubtlefs with his followers was like-\\nof Miantutmomoh. He became an ally ly to have been at this time with\\nof Philip, one of his three wives Philip. [Drake s Book of Ind. 257.]\\nbeing a filler of Wootouckanu/ke, Phil- 249 That, as I fuppofe, which is (till\\nip s wife, was in the Narraganfett called by this name, two or three miles\\nfwamp fight, and aided in the attack north-weft of the city of New Bedford,\\non Lancafter, 10 Feb., 1675 purchaf- and through which the road to Turner s\\ning Mrs. Rowlandfon of the Narragan- Mills now pafTes.\\nfett who captured her at that time. He -*J The fouthern portion of the town\\nwas taken foon after the time of his of Fair Haven, projeding like a finger\\nprefent mention, and was fliot at New- pointing toward the Elizabeth Klands,\\nport, on fentence of a Court-martial, fome 3 miles long by an average\\n25 Auguft, 1676. [Drake s Book of Ind. breadth of near of a mile, and forming\\n239; R.-I. Hifl. Coll. iii: 173.] the eaftern boundary of Ncw-Bcdford\\n2*8 Poflibly Pum/iam, who was killed Harbor.\\n117", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "35\\nProvijions for the company. She perceiving Capt. Church\\nmove towards the Neck, told him, If they went that zuay\\nthey luoiild all be kiWd. He ask d her, Where-about they\\ncroffed the River She pointed to the upper paffing\\nphice.^^^ Upon which Capt. Church pafled over fo low\\ndow^n as he thought it not probable they fhould meet with\\nhis Track in their return j^^^ and haftened towards the\\nIfland, where he left Little Eyes., with Light-foot.^^ Find-\\ning a convenient place by the River fide for the Securing\\ntheir Prifoners,^^ Capt. Church and Mr. Dillano went\\ndown to fee what was become of Capt. Light-foot^ and the\\nPrifoners left in his charge. Light-foot feeing and know-\\ning them, foon came over with his broken Canoo;^^^ and\\ninform d them. That he hadfeen that day about loo Me7i of\\nthe Enemy go down into Sconticut Neck, and that they\\nwere now returning again Upon which they three ran\\ndown immediately to a Meadow where Light-foot faid the\\nIndians had paffed; where they not only faw their Tracks,\\nbut alfo them: Where-upon they lay clofe until the En-\\n251 The upper paffing place was to fwim not more than loo yds. This\\nwhere Church and his company had is juft north of the Wamlutta Mills in\\ncrofled, the night before, probably about New Bedford,\\nwhere the bridge now is, at the Head See note 238, ante.\\nof the River. [See note 233, ante. Probably juft above Mill Creek,\\nAny lower croffing could hardly which flows into the Acufhnet juft be-\\nhave been accomplilhed, even at ebb low the prefent New-Bedford and Fair-\\ntide, without fome fwimming or the aid Haven bridge.\\nof a canoe. The likelieft place for this 255 pjg doubtlefs landed near Fort\\nlower croffing feems to be from Belville Phoenix; then, with Church and De-\\nto Ifland Marfla, where the river nar- lano, ran along to the road up out of\\nrows fo that they would have needed Sconticut neck and the meadow.\\n118", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "3^\\nemy came into the faid [36] Meadow, and the fore-moft\\nfat down his load and halted, until all the company came\\nup, and then took up their loads march d again the fame\\nway that they came down into the Neck, which was the\\nneareft way unto their Camp; had they gone the other\\nway along the River,^^ they could not have miffed Capt.\\nChurches Track, which, would doubtlefs have exposed\\nthem to the lofs of their Prifoners, if not of their lives.\\nBut as foon as the Coaft was clear of them, the Captain\\nfends his Light-foot to fetch his Prifoners from the Ifland,\\nwhile he and Mr. Dillano returns to the company, fent\\npart of them to conduct L ight-foot his company to the\\naforefaid Meadow, where Capt. Church and his company\\nmet them; crolTmg the Enemies Track they made all haft,\\nuntil they got over Mattapoifet-river^ near about four\\nMiles beyond the mines of Cooks Houfe, where he ap-\\npointed to meet his Indian company, whither he fent Dil-\\nlano^ with two more to meet them; ordering them, that if\\nthe Indiajis were not arrived, to wait for them. Accord-\\ningly, finding no Indians there, they waited until late in\\nthe Night, when they arrived with their booty They\\n256 The neareft path from Sconticut Mattapoifet Harhor, and its courfe for\\nneck to the Acuflinet croffing, probably its laft 5 miles averages about 4 miles\\nwas then very nearly where the road eaft of the Aculhnet, on whofe fliore\\nnow is which averages a diftance of flood Cook s houfe.\\nabout a mile from the eaftern Ihore of The weftcrn path around the great\\nthe Acufhnet. Church s path hugged cedar fwamp required much longer time\\nthat fliore, and, as he crolTed lower down, than the eaftern, over which Church\\nhis track nowhere touched theirs. had come and the Indians had that m\\n2- Mattapoifet River empties into mind inchoofing it. (See note240,a\u00c2\u00ab/c\\n119", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "36\\ndifpatch d a Poft to their Captain to give him an account\\nof their Succefs but the day broke before they came to\\nhim: And when they had compared Succelfes, they very\\nremarkably found that the number that each Company\\nhad taken and llain, was equal. The hidians had kill d 3\\nof the Enemy, and taken ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0y^ Prifoners, as the Englijli had\\ndone before them, both Engli/Ji and Indians were fur-\\npriz d at this remarkable Providence, and were both\\nparties rejoycing at it; being both before afraid of what\\nmight have been the event of the unequal Succefs of the\\nparties.^^^ But the Indians had the fortune to take more\\nArms than the Engli/Ji. They told the Captain, That they\\nhad mij/ed a brave Opportu7iity by parting They came\\nupon a great Town of the Enemy viz Capt. Tyasks^*^*^ com-\\npany, Tyasks was the next man to Philip^ They fired\\nupon the Enemy before they were difcovered, and rail upon\\nthem with a fiiout the Men ran and left their Wives and\\nChildren, and many of them their Guns They took\\n259 The reference is to the prejudice ing his Gun behind him, and his ^r/mtt\\nwhich Church referred to when he who was taken and Hubbard fays,\\nmade to the Indians of his party the In June laft, his chronology, of\\npropofition to go by themfelves ftill courfe, is in fault, one TiaJJiq, a\\nexiftent in the Colony againft the In- great captain of his [Philip s], his wife\\ndians as foldiers in that war; a preju- and child, or children, being taken;\\ndice paralleled in obftinate perfiftence though he efcaped himfelf, at firft, yet\\nby that fo long entertained by many came fince and furrendred himfelf.\\nagainft the colored troops in our recent \\\\^B7-ief Hiji. 42 Narrative, ic6.]\\nftruggle. 2 i Mr. Drake fays, in his late edition\\n2\u00c2\u00abJ Tyajhs {TiaJJiq) I find nothing of of Mather s ^;-/(/////?ci; j (p. 181, note),\\nmore than is here narrated, except that that the place where these prifoners\\nMather fays of this fight, Tia/Jiq were taken was probably in fome part\\nPhilip s Chief Captain ran away leav- of what is fince Rochefter. It is haz-", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "37\\nTyasks Wife and Son, and thdt that if their Captain\\nthe EfiglifJi company had been with them they might have\\ntaken fome hundreds of them: And now they determined not\\nto part any more.\\nThat Night Philip fent (as afterwards they found out) a\\ngreat Army to way-lay Capt. Church at the entring on of\\nAffawompfet Neck, expe6ting he would have returned the\\nfame way he went in; but that was never his method to\\nreturn the fame way that he came; at this time going\\nanother way he efcaped falling into the hands of his Ene-\\nmies. The next day they went home by Scipica7i^ and\\ngot well with their Prifoners to Plymouth.\\nHe foon went out again; and this ftroke he drove many\\nWeeks and when he took any number of Prifoners, he\\nwould pick out fome that he took a fancy to, and would\\ntell them, He took a particular fancy to them., and had\\nchofe them for himfelf to make Souldicrs of and if any\\nwo7cld behave themfelves well, he would do well by them, and\\ntheyfJiould be his men and not Sold out of the Cou7itry. [37]\\nIf he perceived they look d furly, and his Indian Souldiers\\nardous for a neophyte to venture to their prefent pofition. on the eaft bank\\ndiffer from one fo long and largely of the Mattapoifett River, to that point\\nfamiliar with Indian affairs; but I think in the road to Plymouth, by Sippican,\\nif Mr. Drake would take with him where Church difcovered Awalhonks\\nChurch s account over the country and her party. [See note 212,\\ntraverfed, he would agree with me in 3 This is to be taken as a general\\nfixing the place of Tialhq s capture as remark, covering Church s relation to\\nfomewhere on the northern and weftern this fummer of the war, and not as\\nfliirts of the great cedar fwamp, in intimating that many weeks paffed\\nwhat is now New Bedford. before the period of the next incident\\nIt would be a Ihort four miles from which he fpecifically fets down.\\ni6 121", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "[37\\ncall d them treacherous Dogs, as fome of them would\\nfometimes do, all the notice he would take of it, would\\nonly be to clap them on the back, and tell them, Come^\\ncome you look wild and fur ly, and mutter^ but that Jignijies\\nnothing, thefe my bejl Souldiers were a little while a go as\\nwild and furly as you are noiv by that time you have been\\nbut one day along with me, yotCl love me too, and be as brisk\\nas any of them,. And it prov d fo. For there was none\\nof them but (after they had been a little while with him,\\nand fee his behaviour, and how chearful and fuccefsful his\\nMen were) would be as ready to Pilot him to any place\\nwhere the hidians dwelt or haunted (tho their own\\nFathers or neareft Relations fhould be among them) or to\\nfight for him, as any of his own Men.\\nCapt. Church was in two particulars much advantaged\\nby the great EngliJJt Army^*^ that was now abroad. One\\nwas, that they drove the Enemy down to that part of the\\nCountry, viz. to the Eaftward of Tauitton River by which\\nmeans his bulinefs was nearer home. The other was that\\nwhen ever he fell on with a pulh upon any body of the\\nEnemy (were they never fo many) they fled expe6ting\\nthe great Army. And his manner of Marching thro the\\nWoods was fuch, as if he were difcovered, they appeared\\n2 5* Befides the Plymouth troops un- der Capts. Brattle and Mofely, were\\nder Major Bradford, to whom Church affociated with Bradford s men befides\\nhas herein referred Major Talcot was Henchman s forces, which were fcour-\\nin the field with fome 250 Englifh and ing the interior woods. [Palfrey s Hiji.\\n200 Mohegans from Connecticut, and N. E. iii 197 Barry s HiJl. Ma/s. i\\ntwo companies from MaflTachufetts, un- 444, 445.]", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "[37\\nto be more than they were. For he always Marched at a\\nwide diftance one from another, partly for their fafety:\\nand this was an Indian cuftom, to March thin and fcatter.\\nCapt. C/inrck inquired of fome of the Indians that were\\nbecome his Souldiers, How they got fuch advantage often\\nof the EnglifJi in their Marches thro* the Woods They\\ntold him, That the Indians gain d great advantage of the\\nEnglifJi by two things The Indians always took care in\\ntheir Marches and Fights, not to come too thick together.\\nBut the EnglifJi always kept in a heap together, that it\\nwas as eafy to hit them as to hit an Houfe. The other\\nwas, that if at any time they difcovered a company of\\nEnglifJi Souldiers in the Woods, they knew that there was\\nall, for the EnglifJi never fcattered; but the Indians always\\ndivided and fcattered.\\nCapt. CJiurcJi now at PlytnoutJi, fomething or other hap-\\npen d that kept him at home a few days, until a Poft came\\nto Mar/Jificld on the Lords day Morning,^^ informing the\\nGovernour that a great army of Indians were difcovered,\\nwho it was fuppofed were deiigning to get over the River\\ntowards Taunton or Bridgwater, to Attack thofe Towns\\nthat lay on that fide the River.^^*^ The Governour haftned to\\nPlymoutJi, raifed what Men he could by the way, came\\nto Plymouth in the beginning of the forenoon Exercife;\\n265 Sunday, 30 July, 1676. great-river River. In order to get at\\n2\u00c2\u00ab6 Philip had been in the neighbor- Taunton and Bridgewatcr, which were\\nhood of Affawompfet Pond, in Middle- on the northern and weftern fide, it was\\nborough, on the fouthern and eaftern needful for him tocrofs; and, both for\\nfide of Taunton {Tiiicui, i.e. Keh-teih- eafier croffing and to avoid the great\\ntuk-qut iEliof, Gen. xv 18J, on-the- army, he would move north to do it.\\n123", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "[38]\\nfent for Capt. CJmrch out of the Meeting-houfe, gave him\\nthe News, and defired him immediately to Rally what of\\nhis Company he could; and what Men he had raifed\\nfhould joyn them. The Captain beftirs himfelf, but found\\nno Bread in the Store-houfe, and fo was forc d to run\\nfrom Houfe to Houfe to get Houfe-hold Bread for their\\nMarch; but this nor any thing elfe prevented his Marching\\nby the beginning of the afternoon Exercife; March-\\n[sSJing w4th what Men were ready, he took with him\\nthe Poft that came from Bridgwater to Pilot him to the\\nPlace, where he tho t he might meet with the Enemy\\n237 Mitchell [in 2 Ma/s. Hijl. Coll.\\nvii 157, and in his HiJl. Bn dgetvater,\\n39] gives an extradt from an old manu-\\nfcript wh ch he fuppoles to have been\\nwritten bj Comfort Willis, who was\\nTown Trooper at this time, which\\ngives fome details flightly at variance\\nwith Church s account of the matter,\\nbut which, if genuine, muft take pre-\\ncedence in authenticity. He fays,\\nOn Saturday [29 July], Capt. Hay-\\nward, Sergt. Packard, John Willis, and\\nIl aac Harris, went out to fee if the In-\\ndians were coming down upon them,\\nand the} faw an Indian, which made\\nthem think the enemy was at hand;\\nand thej immediately preffed Comfort\\nWillis and Jofeph Edfon to go port to\\nthe Governor the fame day at night\\nto tell him of it. And he [the Gover-\\nnor] went to Plymouth with them the\\nnext day, [Sunday, 30 July] to fend\\nCapt. Church with his company. And\\nCapt. Church came with them to Mon-\\nponfet [Halifax] on the Sabbath, and\\ncame no further that day and he told\\nthem he would meet them the next day.\\nAnd Comfort Willis and Jofeph Edfon\\ncame home at night, and told their\\nfriends of it, and Enfign Haward, Sam-\\nuel Edfon, Jofiah Edfon, Jofeph Edfon,\\nJohn Wafliburn, Samuel Walhburn,\\nThomas Walbburn, John Field, Nicholas\\nByram, Samuel Allen, Samuel Allen,\\njr., John Gordon, John Hayward, John\\nPackard, John Ames, Comfort Willis,\\nGuido Bailey, Nathaniel Hayward, John\\nWhitman, John Packard, and Samuel\\nLeach went out on Monday, fuppofing\\nto meet with Captain Church but\\nthey came upon the enemy, and fought\\nwith them, and took feventeen of them\\nalive, and alfo much plunder, and they\\nall returned, and not one of them fell\\nby the enemy, and received no help\\nfrom Church.\\nI incline to accept the verfion of\\nthis MS., and I reconcile its ftatements\\nwith thofe of Church by fuppofing him,\\nin his reminifcence of the events, forty\\n124", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "[38]\\nIn the Evening they heard a fmart firing at a diftance from\\nthem, but it being near Night, and the firing but of fhort\\ncontinuance, they mifs d the place and went into Bridg-\\nwater Town5 It feems, the occafion of the firing, was.\\nThat Philip finding that Capt. Church made that fide of\\nthe Country too hot for him, defign d to return to the\\nother fide of the Country that he came laft from.^^ And\\ncoming to Taunton River with his company,^\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 they fell d\\nyears after, to have dropped out one\\nday from his reckoning, if his lan-\\nguage was meant to be taken, as it\\nwould naturally be, as implying that\\nin the evening was the evening of\\nthe fame day on which he left Ply-\\nmouth. I think that he went no further\\nthan Monponfet on the Sabbath that\\non Monday he fcouted fouth-weftward\\ntoward Bridgewater, along the upper\\nfkirt of thofe great cedar fwamps which\\nftill occupy fo many miles of the north-\\nern part of Middleborough, and where\\nhe would be likelieft to find Philip, but\\nfailed to fall in with him that the\\nfmart firing at a diftance which he\\nheard, was that of Comfort Willis s\\nparty {Increaje Mather fays it was\\nabout 3 k. p. m. and that mifling\\nthe place of that, he went into Bridge-\\nwater Town on Monday evening, 31\\nJuly. Hubbard and both the Mathers\\nfix the date of the expedition of the\\nBridgewater men as the old MS. does\\non Monday, 31 July; while, if the\\napparent ftatement of Church were\\ntaken, it would fix it on Sunday, the\\n30th. Four to one, and that one dic-\\ntating fo long afterward, muft carry\\nthe day. [Hubbard s Narrative, loi\\nBrief Hijiory, Magnalia (ed. 1853)\\nii: 575-]\\n268 Bridge-water Town then was\\nwhat is now known as Weft Bridge-\\nwater; the firft fettlement having been\\nmade on Town River, lefs than three\\nmiles eaft of the prefent eaftern boun-\\ndary line of Eafton.\\nThat is, on the weftern fide of\\nTiticut River, toward the Nipmuck\\ncountry, north-wefterly, or toward the\\nNarraganfett country on the fouth-weft.\\nAfter long inquiry, I have\\nfailed to get any evidence, of much\\nvalue, fixing the pofition of this croff-\\ning-place where the tree was felled.\\nThe only tradition of any fort which\\nhas come to my knowledge, with re-\\ngard to it, was furnifhed me by Williams\\nLatham, Efq., of Bridgewater, who\\ninforms me that Mr. Stillman B. Pratt,\\nlate editor of the Middleborough Ga-\\nzette, once told him that the tree was\\nfelled near the junction of the Nema(ket,\\nwith the Taunton River. This fpot is\\nabout three quarters of a mile a little\\neaft of fouth of the prefent Titicut\\nStation on the Old-Colony and Fall-\\n5", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "[38]\\na great Tree a-crofs the River for a Bridge to pafs over\\non; and juft as Philips old Uncle Akkonipoin^ and fome\\nother of his chiefs were palling over the Tree, fome brisk\\nBridgivater Lads, had Ambuih d them, fired upon them,\\nand killed the old man, and feveral others, which put a\\nflop to their coming over the River that Night.\\nNext Morning Capt. Church moved very early with\\nhis Company which was increafed by many of Bridgwater\\nthat lilted under him for that Expedition, and by their\\nPiloting, he foon came very ftill, to the top of the gixat\\nTree which the Enemy had fallen a-crofs the River; and\\nthe Captain fpy d an Indian fitting upon the flump of it on\\nthe other fide of the river; and he clap d his Gun up, and\\nhad doubtlefs difpatch d him, but that one of his own\\nIndians called hallily to him, Not to fire, for he believed it\\nwas one of his own men; upon which the Indian upon\\nRiver Railroad. I diflruft this tradi- in his natural route from Monponfet.\\ntion, however, and am of opinion that I Ihould be inclined, then, to place the\\nPhilip kept up feveral miles further on probable pofition of the tree much near-\\nthe eaft bank of Town River, before er to Sprague s Hill than to Titicut.\\ncrofling, for thefe reafons (i) it feems ^^i Unkompoin \\\\^Unco} ipotveii~\\\\f\\\\gned\\nto me, intrinfically, quite as probable a treaty of friendfhip with the Englilli\\nthat he would do fo; (2) the ftream at Plymouth, 6 Aug, 1662, with Philip,\\nwould be much lefs in width, and could and is there ftyled Vnkell to the aboue-\\nbe much eafier croffed upon a tree, in faid fachem. With Philip, he claimed\\nthe manner fuggefted (3) the requifites land in Swanfey, in 1668. Mather fays\\nof the fubfequent narrative feem to me he was one of his [Philip s] chief\\nto require them to be further north on Councellors. Mr. Drake fays he was\\nthe ftream next day than they would alfo called WoonkaponeJmnt and Woh-\\nhave been if the tree had been as low koivpahenitt. \\\\^Plym. Col. Rec. iv\\ndown as Titicut and (4) that my fup- 26 v 79 Brief Hijl. 44 Book of\\npofition would bring their firing up Ind. 199, 203, 204.]\\nmore nearly within Church s hearing, 272 Tuefday, i Aug.\\n126", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "38\\nthe ftump look d about, and Capt. Churches hidian feeing\\nhis face perceived his miftake, for he knew him to be\\nPhilip clap d up his Gun and fired, but it was too late,\\nfor Philip immediately threw himfelf off the ftump, leap d\\ndown a bank on the fide of the River, and made his\\nefcape. Capt Chiirch as foon as polTible got over the\\nRiver, and fcattered in queft of Philip, and his company;\\nbut the Enemy fcattered and fled every way; but he\\npick d up a confiderable many of their Women and Chil-\\ndren, among which was Philip\\\\ Wife, and Son of about\\nNine Years Old.^ Difcovering a confiderable new Track\\n2 3 Philip s wife s name, Mr. Drake\\nfays, was Woototiehaiui/ke and he adds\\nthat Ihe was a fifter of one of the three\\nwives of Quinnapin. Judge Davis gives\\nan interefting account of the difcuffion\\nthat took place in the Colony in regard\\nto the difpofition to be made of Philip s\\nfon. The Court feem as they often\\ndid, on queftions concerning which they\\nhad doubt, and the more efpecially\\nwhen thofe queftions were of a moral\\nnature to have confulted the princi-\\npal Reverend Elders. Samuel Arnold\\n(paftor of the church in Marlhfield) and\\nJohn Cotton (Plymouth) write, 7 Sept.,\\n1676, thus Upon ferious confidera-\\ntion, we humbly conceive that the chil-\\ndren of notorious traitors, rebells and\\nmurtherers, efpecially of fuch as have\\nbin. principal leaders and adtors in fuch\\nhorrid villanies, and that againft a\\nwhole nation, yea the whole Ifrael of\\nGod, may be involved in the guilt of\\ntheir parents, and may, falva repub-\\nlican be adjudged to death, as to us\\nfeems evident by the fcripture inftances\\nof Saul, Achan, Hantan, the children\\nof whom were cut off by the fword of\\nJuftice for the tranfgreflions of their\\nparents, although, concerning fome of\\nthole children, it be manifeft that they\\nwere not capable of being coa 5lers\\ntherein. Increafe Mather, of Bofton,\\nwrote to Mr. Cotton, 30 0(5t., 1676:\\nIt is neceftary that fome effedlual\\ncourfe fliould be taken about him\\n[Philip s fon]. He makes me think of\\nHadad, who was a little child when his\\nfather (the chief fachem of the Edom-\\nites) was killed byjoab; and, had not\\nothers fled away with him, I am apt to\\nthink, that David would have taken a\\ncourfe, that Hadad Ihould never have\\nproved a fcourge to the next genera-\\ntion. Rev. James Keith, of Bridgcwa-\\nter, alio wrote to Mr. Cotton, 30 Oii.,\\n1676, but as follows I long to hear\\nwhat becomes of Philip s wife and fon.\\nI know there is fome difliculty in that\\nP/alm, cxxxvii 8, 9, though I think it\\n127", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "[38]\\nalong the River, and examining the Prifoners, found that\\nit was Qtifinappin and the Narraganfets^ that were drawing\\noff from thofe parts towards the Narraganfet Country, he\\ninquired of the Prifoners, Whether Philip were gone in the\\nfame Track they told him, They did not know for he fled\\nin a great fright when the firfl Englifh Gun was flred, and\\nthey had none of them fee^i or heard any thing of him fljice.\\nCapt. Chttrch left part of his Company there to fecure the\\nPrifoners they got, and to pick up what more they could\\nfind; and with the reft of his company hafted in the Track\\nof the Enemy to over-take them, if it might be, before\\nthey got over the River, and ran fome Miles along the\\nRiver until he came unto a place where the Indians had\\nwaded over;^ and he with his Company waded over\\nafter them up to the Arm-pits; being almoft as wet be-\\nfore with Sweat as the River could make them: Follow-\\ning about a Mile further, and not overtaking them, and the\\nmay be confidered, whether there be Bermudas. [Davis s Morion s Alem.\\nnot fome fpecialty and fomewhat ex- 454-]\\ntraordinarj in it. That law, Dcut. While bathing, when a boy, in this\\nxxiv i6, compared with the com- river, I have often waded acrofs on a\\nmended example of Amaziak, 2 Chron. bar which a local tradition affigns as\\nXXV 4, doth fway much with me in the place where the Indians crofled on\\nthe cafe under confideration. I hope this occafion. It is, if I remember cor-\\nGod will diredt thofe whom it doth redlly, perhaps a mile and a quarter\\nconcern to a good ilTue, c. c. By a up ftream from the juncftion of the\\nletter from Mr. Cotton to Dr. Mather, Nemafket with the Taunton, and nearly\\n20 March, 1677, which contains this due weft of the refidence of the late\\npafling remark, Philip s boy goes now Cephas Thompfon, Efq., in Middle-\\nto be fold, it is made almoft certain borough. If the pofition of the tree\\nthat, with his mother, he Ihared the was where I fuppofe it to have been\\nfate of fo many of his nation, and went (fee note 270, ante), this fuits very well\\nto fpend his fpared life in Cadiz, or the the demands of the narrative.\\n128", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "[39]\\nCaptain being under a neceffity [39] to return that Night\\nto the Army, came to an halt, told his Company, he mtijl\\nreturn to his other men. His Indians Souldiers moved for\\nleave to purfue the Enemy (tho he return d;) faid, The\\nNarraganfets were great Rogues, and they wanted to be\\nrevenged on them for killing fome of their Relations named,\\nTokkamo7ta {AwafJtonks Brother) and fome others.\\nCapt. Church bad them go profper, and made Light-foot\\ntheir chief,^ and gave him the title of Captain, Bid them\\ngo and quit themfelves like men. And away they fcam-\\npered like fo many Horfes. Next Morning early they\\nreturned to their Captain, and informed him, That they\\nhad come up with the Enemy and kiWd feveral of them,.,\\nand brotight him Thirteen of them Prifoiiers were mighty\\nproud of their Exploit, and rejoyced much at the oppor-\\ntunity of avenging themfelves. Capt. Church fent the\\nPrifoners to Bridgwater, and fent out his Scouts to fee\\nwhat Enemies or Tracks they could, difcovering fome\\nfmall Tracks, he follows them, found where the Enemy\\nhad kindled fome fires, and roafted fome flcfh, c. but\\nhad put out their fires and were gone. The Captain fol-\\nlowed them by the Track, putting his Indians in the Front;\\nfome of which were fuch as he had newly taken from the\\n276 Takanumtna, a Sachem at Sac- Treafurer, and Philip engaged for his\\nonett, appeared at Plymouth Court, performance of the faid engagement\\n3 Nov., 1671, with Philip, cheife Sa- in all points thereof. \\\\_Plym. Col. Rcc.\\nchem, and engaged fubjedtion to the v: 80.\\nKinges ma of England, thisgou ment, ^76 See note 238, ante.\\nand the lawes thereof, c., agreeing to 277 Wednefday, 3 Auguft, 1676.\\npay yearly one wolf s head to the\\n17 129", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "[39\\nEnemy, and added to his Company. Gave them order to\\nMarch foftly, and upon hearing a whiflle in the Rear to fit\\ndown, till further order. Or upon difcovery of any of the\\nEnemy to Hop, for his defign was, if he could, difcover\\nwhere the Enemy were, not to fall upon them (unlefs\\nneceffitated to do it) until next Morning. The Indians in\\nthe Front came up with many Women and Children, and\\nothers that were faint and tired, and fo not able to keep up\\nwith the Company; thefe gave them an account that\\nPhilip with a great number of the Enemy were a little\\nbefore. Capt. Churches Indians told the others. They were\\ntheir Prifoners^ but if they would fubmit to order and be\\nJiill 7to one JJiould hurt them They being their old ac-\\nquaintance, they were eafily perfwaded to conform. A\\nlittle before Sun-fet there was a halt in the Front until the\\nCaptain came up, and they told him. They di/covered the\\nEnemy He order d them, to dog them, and watch their\\nmotion till it was dark. But Philip foon came to a Hop,\\nand fell to breaking and chopping Wood, to make fires\\nand a great noife they made. Capt. Church draws his\\ncompany up into a ring, and fat down in the Swamp\\n2 I find no data in any of the ac- borough, probably not far from the\\ncounts of this purfuit for an accurate pofition of the State Ahns Houfe in\\ndetermination of the locality of this the former. From this point, where\\nfwamp; our only guide being general the Indians waded acrofs to the Bridge-\\nconjeiiture founded upon the lay of the water fide, they unqueftionably fliaped\\nland, the time taken, and the probabil- their general courfe for the Narragan-\\nities of the cafe. We muft afTume as fett country. But in doing fo they muft\\nthe point of departure fome place on make a detour to the weft to avoid the\\nTiticut River where it divides the pref- army in Taunton as following the\\nent towns of Bridgewater and Middle- neareft route along the vveftern bank of\\n130", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "[39\\nwithout any noife or fire The Indian Prifoners were\\nmuch furprized to fee the EngliJJi Souldiers; but the Cap-\\ntain told them, If they would be quiet and not make any dif-\\ntnrdance or noi/e, they JJiould meet with civil treattjient, but\\nif they made any difiurbancc^ or offered to run^ or make their\\ncfcape, he woiild immediately kill them all fo they were\\nvery fubmiffive obfequious. When the day broke,^\u00e2\u0084\u00a2\\nCapt. Church told his Prifoners, That his Expedition was\\nfuch at this time that he could not afford them any guard\\nTold them, They would find it to be their intercfl to attend\\nthe orders he was now about to give the7n which was, That\\nzuhen the fight was over, which they noiv expelled or as\\nthe river would bring them diredlly up-\\non that town. A glance at the config-\\nuration of the country will make it moft\\nprobable, then, that they pafled between\\nNtinkatejl {Nippentcket) and Gu/Jiee\\nponds, over into the north part of what\\nis now Raynham, and thence into the\\nnorth part of what is now Taunton,\\nbetween Wimifconiiet and Watfon s\\nponds, and fo fouth-weft, about as the\\ndivifion line between Taunton and\\nNorton runs, toward Rehoboth. I af-\\nfume that from 15 to 18 miles through\\nthofe rough wood-paths and fwamps\\nwould be as much as fuch a mixed\\ncompany, many of whom were faint\\nand tired, could accomplifh in a day.\\nThis, by the route which I have indi-\\ncated, would bring them near to three\\ncedar fwamps one now called Crook-\\ned-Meadow Swamp, through which the\\ntown line between Taunton and Norton\\nruns; one called Seekonk Swamp,\\nin the fouthern angle of Norton and\\na fmaller one, three-quarters of a mile\\ninto Rehoboth, and fome two miles\\nnorth of Squannakonk Swamp, where\\nAnnavjon was afterwards taken. It is\\nmy impreffion that the latter beft meets\\nall the conditions of the cafe. Philip\\nfeems to have camped on an upland on\\nthe edge of or within the fwainp, as\\nwas their cuftom. Mr. Drake, in his\\nedition of Church, places the fwamp\\nwhich fheltered them in Mattapoifett\\nneck in Swanfey. But that mult have\\ninvolved a return march on the part of\\nChurch and his prifoners of 25 to 30\\nmiles back to Bridgcwater, which was\\nmore than they could well accomplilh\\nbefore that night befides that from\\nSwanfev Church s natural route would\\nhave led through Taunton, where he\\nwould moft likely have delivered his\\nprifoners, as on a fubfequent occafion.\\nThurfday, 3 Auguft, 1676.\\n131", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "[4o]\\nfoon as the firing cea/ed, they im{/l follow the Tracks of his\\nCompany and come to them. (An [40] Indian is next to\\na blood-hound to follow a Track.) He faid to them, It\\nwo2ild be in vain for them to think of difobedience^ or to\\ngain any thing by it, for he had take?t aitd killed a great\\nmany of the Indian Rebels, a7id fiwnld in a little ti ine kill\\nand take all the reft, c. By this time it began to be fo\\nlight, as the time that he ufually chofe to make his on-\\nfet. He moved fending two Souldiers before to try if\\nthey could privately difcover the Enemies poftures. But\\nvery unhappily it fell out, that the very fame time\\nPhilip had fent two of his as a Scout upon his own\\nTrack, to fee if none dog d them; who fpy d the two\\nIndiati men, and turn d Ihort about, and fled with all\\nfpeed to their Camp: and Capt. Church purfued as faft\\nas he could; the two Indians fet a yelling and howling,\\nand made the moft hideous noife they could invent, foon\\ngave the Alarm to Philip his Camp; who all fled at the\\nfirlt tydings, left their Kittles boiling Meat roafting\\nupon their wooden Spits, run into a Swamp with no\\nother Break-faft, than what Capt. Church afterwards treated\\nthem with. Capt. Church purfuing, fent Mr. Ifaac How-\\nland with a party on one lide of the Swamp, while him-\\n2^ I/aac Horuland -wa-s joungeft fon at M., in 1674, 16S4, 1685, 1686; ad-\\nof John, and brother of Jabez (fee note mitted freeman in 1681 was a member\\n207, atitc) was one of the firft fettlers of of the grand enqueft, in 1682 ferved\\nMiddleborough married EHza, daugh- on a trial Jliry, in 1683 was licenfed to\\nter of George Vaughan was iurvejor keep an ordinary at M., in 1684; was\\nof highways at M., in 1672; feledtman deputy for M., in 1689, 1690, 1691 re-\\n132", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "[4\u00c2\u00b0]\\nfelf with the reft ran on the other-fide, aOTeeinji to run on\\neach fide, until they met on the further end placing fome\\nmen in fecure Stands at that end of the Swamp where\\nPhilip entered, concluding that if they headed him and\\nbeat him back, that he would take back in his own Track.\\nCapt. Church and Mr. Howland foon met at the further\\nend of the Swamp (it not being a great one) where they\\nmet with a great number of the Enemy, well armed, com-\\ning out of the Swamp. But on fight of the EngliJJi they\\nfeemed very much furprized, tack d fhort. Capt.\\nChurch called haftily to them, and faid, If they fired one\\nGun they were all dead men for he would have them\\nknow that he had them hem^d in, with a force fufficient to\\ncommand them; but if they peaceably furrender^d they\\nfJiould have good quarter^ c. They feeing both Indians\\nand EnglifJt come fo thick upon them, were fo furprized\\nthat many of them ftood ftill and let the EnglifJi come and\\nceived \u00c2\u00a37 of Thomas Joflen, of Little Capt. Churches Company, ^^y\\\\r\\\\g\\\\.\\\\\\\\Qm,\\nCompton, for a joak of oxen, unjuftly called aloud unto them in their own Lan-\\ndetained. [Savage s Ge7i. Did. guage, telling them, //^\u00c2\u00ab0/\\n479; Plym. Col. Rec. v: 93, 145; vi Gun, they were all dead men; with\\n62, 86, 129, 131, 168, 186, 198, 206, 212, which they were fo amazed, that they\\n222, 240, 246, 263, 268.] durft not once offer to fire at the En-\\n281 Hubbard fays, In this engage- glini, which made the victory the more\\nment God did appear in a more then remarkable. ^Narrative, 102.] Ma-\\nordinary manner to fight for the En- ther IBrief Hhtory, 44] ^cld\u00c2\u00ab that the\\nglilh, for the Indians by their number, Indian s name was Matthias. As Church\\nand other advantages of the place, were could not himfelf fpeak Indian, this is\\nfo conveniently provided, that they probably the correct verfion of what\\nmight have made the firft fiiot at the took place; or perhaps he fpoke in En-\\nEnglim, and done them much damage glhh, and his Indian foldiers repeated\\nbut one of their own Country-men in his words in their tongue.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "41\\ntake the Guns out of their hands, when they were both\\ncharged and cock d. Man} both Men, Women and Chil-\\ndren of the Enemy were imprifoned at this time; while\\nPhilip, Ti/paqtiin, Totofonf^ c. concluded that the Eng-\\nlijli would purfue them upon their Tracks, fo were way-\\nlaying their Tracks at the firft end of the Swamp, hoping\\nthereby to gain a fhot upon Capt. Church who was now\\nbetter imploy d in taking his Prifoners running them\\ninto a Valley, in form fomething fhap d like a Punch-\\nbole, and appointing a guard of two files trible armed\\nwith Guns taken from the Enemy. But Philip having\\nwaited all this while in vain, now moves on after the reft\\nof his company to fee what was become of them. And\\nby this time Capt. Church was got into the Swamp ready\\nto meet him; and as it happen d made the firft difcovery,\\nclapt behind a Tree until Philips company came pretty\\nnear, and then fired upon them, kilfd many of them, and a\\nclofe skirmifh followed. Upon this Philip having grounds\\nfufficient to fufpe6l the event of his com[4i]pany that\\nTatofon {Totqfon, Tantozen is of lands upon JF( (7\u00c2\u00abrt \u00c2\u00bbr neck in 1666;\\nfaid to have been the fon of Sam with others engaged his Fidelitie to\\nBarroxv, whofe death is mentioned fur- the Colony at Plymouth, 6 July, 1671\\nther on. There is a tradition that his led the party that murdered Clark s\\ncamp was upon what it is thought Garrifon, 12 March, 1676 (fee note 156,\\nby corruption from his name is now ante), whereupon four coates were\\ncalled Tovjfey s neck, an upland penin- offered to Caft. Amos as a reward if\\nfula proje6ting into Great-Bear Swamp, he would bring him in and feems\\nabout a mile and a half fouth-wefl: of to have died miferably, foon after Phil-\\nthe village of Rochefter, Mafs., and a ip s death, as will appear further on.\\nihort diftance eaft of the road to Matta- [Drake s Book of the Ind. 244 Plytn.\\npoifett. Tatofon was witnefs to a deed Col. Rec. v: 72, 205, 206, 209.]\\n134", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "[41 J\\nwent before them, fled back upon his own Track; and\\ncoming to the place where the Ambufli lay, they tired on\\neach other, and one Lncus of PlymoiUh^ not being fo\\nThomas Lucas {Litcaj e) has a\\nfingularly and perfiftentlj bad record.\\nHe firft appears before the Court, 3\\nFeb., 1656, when he had a controverly\\nwith the widow Dotej, and was call; in\\n35. 2 0(5l., 1658, he was fined 10s. for\\na fecond convi(5lion of drunkennefs, and\\n55. for retailing ftrong liquors 6 Otft.,\\n1659, he was fined 105. for being drunk;\\n7 Mar., 1659-60, he was fined 305. for\\nabufive condudt toward James Cole,\\nsen. s wife and James Cole, jr. s child;\\n2 0(5l., 1660, he was fined 105. for be-\\ning drunk twice; 5 Mar., 1660-1, he\\nwas bound in \u00c2\u00a320 to find fureties for\\ngood behavior, but prefenting himfelf\\nin Court, diftempered with drinke,\\nand with vnbefeeming behauiour he\\nwas committed to prifon and fined 405.\\n7 May, following, he was found drunk,\\nand broke his bonds, and his cafe was\\nreferred to the next Court, which upon\\nfome confiderations remitted \u00c2\u00a310 of\\nhis forfeiture; 3 Mar., 1662-3 he was\\nfentenced to be whipt for drunken-\\nnefs, but the fentence was fufpended\\nif he did not offend again i Mar.,\\n1663-4, he got his whipping, and was\\nalfo bound over in \u00c2\u00a320, for abufing his\\nwife and reviling others 8 June, 1664,\\nhe was put in the ftocks for fwearing;\\n9 June, 1665, was imprifoned 24 hours\\nfor the fame offence; 3 0(5l., 1665, he\\nwas fined 105. for being drunk; 2 Mar.,\\n1668-9, his wife teftified that he had not\\nabufed her fince he was bound over;\\nand he, promifing amendment, was\\nreleafed of that prefentment; 7 June,\\n1670, he was fined t,s. ^d. for breaking\\nthe king s peace 3 June, 1673, he was\\narrefted for being drunk, but releafed\\nwith admonition i June, 1675, for\\nbeing diftempered with drinke, it being\\nfoe often, and that hee hath borne feu-\\nerall p ticular punilhments gradually,\\nand can not be reclaimed, it was or-\\ndered concerning him that all that fell\\ndrinke be ftridtly ordered and prohib-\\nited to let hiin haue none 30 061.,\\n1675, for being drunk, and for reviling\\nfome deceafed magirtrates, he was\\nwhipt att the poft. The only coun-\\ntervailing records concerning him fo\\nfar as they are fuch which I have\\nfound, are that, 5 Mar., 1651-2, he\\ngained \u00c2\u00a33 125. in a jury trial from\\nRichard Hawes; 15 July, 1660, he af-\\nfixed his mark to the verdiifl of a coro-\\nner s inqueft on the death of James\\nPeirfe; and that, 29 Od., 1669, a jury\\ngave him cofts when fued by Jofeph\\nBartlett, for 258 lbs. of beife delivered\\natt his houfe. He was clearlj a mif-\\nerable, drunken, profane, quarrelfome\\nfellow, and his life as Church in-\\ntimates by carelefTnefs (he could hardly\\nhave been drunk fo early in the morn-\\ning)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 found fit ending. He had five\\nchildren, viz: John, born 15 July, 1656;\\nMary, born 15 Mar., 165S; Benoni, born\\n30 Oa., 1659; Samuel, born 15 Sept.,\\n1661 and William, born 13 Jan., 1662.\\n13s", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "[41\\ncareful as he might have been about his Stand, was kilFd\\nby the Indians. In this Swamp skirmifh Capt. CJuirch\\nwith his two men which always ran by his lide as his\\nguard, met with three of the Enemy, two of which furren-\\ndred themfelves, and the Captains guard feized them, but\\nthe other being a great flout furly fellow, with his two\\nlocks ty d up with red, and a great Rattle-fnake skin\\nhanging to the back part of his head, (whom Capt. Church\\nconcluded to be Toio/on) ran from them into the Swamp\\nCapt. Church in perfon purfued him clofe, till coming\\npretty near up with him, prefented his Gun between his\\nShoulders, but it milling fire, the Indian perceiving it,\\nturn d and prefented at Capt. Church, and miffing fire alfo\\ntheir Guns taking wet with the Fog and Dew of the\\nMorning but the Indian turning fhort for another run,\\nhis foot trip d in a fmall grape-vine, and he fell flat on his\\nface; Capt. Church was by this time up with him, and\\nftruck the Muzzle of his Gun an inch and half into the\\nback part of his head, which difpatch d him without an-\\nother blow. But Capt. Church looking behind him faw\\nTotofon the Indian whom he tho t he had kill d, come\\nflying at him like a dragon But this happened to be fair\\nin fight of the guard that were fet to keep the Prifoners,\\nwho fpying Totofon, and others that were following of\\nhim, in the very feafonable jun6lure made a fliot upon\\nthem, and refcued their Captain; tho he was in no fmall\\nIPlym. Col. Rcc. iii no, 150, 173, 181, 51, 55, 66, loi, 106; v 16, 39, iiS, 169,\\n196, 200, 206, 207, 212, 320, 223; iv: 33, 182; vii: 57, 157; viii 23.]\\n136", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "41\\ndanger from his friends bullets, for fome of them came fo\\nnear him that he tho t he felt the wind of them. The\\nskirmifh being over, they gathered their Prifoners to-\\ngether, and found the number that they had killed and\\ntaken was 173^^ (the Prifoners which they took over\\nNight included) who after the skirmifh came to them, as\\nthey were ordered.\\nNow having no Provifions, but what they took from the\\nEnemy, they haftened to Bridgwater, fending an exprefs\\nbefore to provide for them, their Company being now\\nvery numerous. The Gentlemen oi Bridgwater met Capt.\\nCJmrch with great expreffion of honour and thanks, and\\nreceived him and his Army with all due refpe6l and kind\\ntreatment.\\nCapt. Church drove his Prifoners that Night into Bridg-\\nwater Pound, and fet his Indian Souldiers to guard\\nthem. They being well treated with Vi6luals and drink,\\nthey had a merry Night; and the Prifoners laugh d as loud\\nas the Souldiers, not being fo treated a long time before.\\nSome of the Indians now faid to Capt. Church, Sir, You\\nhave now made Philip ready to dye, for you have made him\\n234 Hubbard fays Church had in his pay, and that of his company, depcnd-\\nown force but 30 EngHlhmen and 20 ed on the number, would fix it in his\\nreconciled Indians, and that he took mind.\\nand killed about 153 of the enemy. ^sa The pound was fituated on the\\n\\\\^Narrative, 102.] Increafe Mather fays north bank of the Town River, in what\\nthe fame /i///? ?;-_} 44], and fo does is now Weft Bridgewater, within five\\nhis fon, Cotton. IMagtialia, ed. 1853, rods of the river, and ten rods below\\nii 575.] But, in this. Church s mem- the old town bridge oppofite to the fitc\\nory, and notes, are the beft authority; formerly occupied by the office of Wil-\\nthe more efpecially as the fad that his liam Baylies, Efq.\\n18 137", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "[42\\nas poor, and mi/ej^able as he tis d to make the Englifh; for\\nyou have nozu killed or takeji all his Relations. That they\\nbelieved he would now fo on have his head, and that this bout\\nhad almojl broke his heart.\\nThe next day Capt. Church moved and arrived with all\\nhis Prifoners fafe at Plymouth?^ The great EngliJ/i army\\nwere now at Taunton, and Maj. Talcot [42] with the\\nConnedlicut Forces being in thefe parts of the Country, did\\nconfiderable fpoil upon the Enemy\\nNow Capt. Church being arrived at Plymouth, received\\nthanks from the Government for his good Service, ^c.\\nmany of his Souldiers were difbanded; and he tho t to\\nreft himfelf awhile, being much fategued and his health\\nimpared, by exceffive heats and colds, and wading thro\\nRivers, c. But it was not long^^^ before he was call d\\n286 Friday, 4 Auguft, 1676.\\n287 John Talcott {Tailecoat, Tayl-\\ncoai) was fon of John (who came in the\\nLion, to Cambridge, in 1632, and re-\\nmoved with Hooker to Hartford) was\\nborn in England after ferving in vari-\\nous offices was made chief military\\nofficer of Hartford Co., 26 June, 1672\\nwas made Major, 7 Aug., 1673, and, 26\\nNov., 1673, Commander-in-chief of all\\nforces then raifing againft New York;\\n15 May, 1676, he was fimilarly appoint-\\ned over the ti-oops raifed for Philip s\\nwar, and was very adtive and fuccefsful\\nin his command. He died, 23 July,\\n1688. He had 14 children, by Helena\\nWakeman and Mary Cook. [Savage s\\nGen. Did. iv 250; Colonial Records of\\n13S\\nConnedicut, ii 183, 206, 218, 279, 443,\\n444, 447-55, 458-65.]\\n28S Maj. Talcott, with the ConneAi-\\ncut forces, after having killed and taken\\nmany of the Indians in the Narraganfett\\ncountry, returned to Connet!:ticut about\\n5 July. Having recruited his men a\\nIhort time, he took his ftation at Weft-\\nfield, where he fell with great fuccefs\\nupon Indians fleeing weftward. [Trum-\\nbull s Hi/i. Conn, i 348.]\\n2*^9 Church s language here, and a\\nlittle further on, is milleading; as it\\nwould feem to imply a much greater\\nlapfe of time than really took place.\\nHe returned to Plymouth from his laft\\nBridgewater expedition, as we have\\nfeen, on Friday, 4 Aug., 1676. As", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "42\\nupon to Rally, upon advice that fome of the Enemy were\\ndifcovered in Dartmouth woods. He took his Lidiajis,\\nand as many EnglifJi Volunteers as prefented, to go with\\nhim, and fcattering into fmall parcels. Mr. Jabez How-\\nland (who was now, and often his Lieutenant and a\\nworthy good Souldiers) had the fortune to difcover and\\nimprifon a parcel of the Enemy. In the Evening they\\nmet together at an appointed place, and by examining the\\nPrifoners, they gain d intelligence of Toto/ons haunt and\\nbeing brisk in the Morning, they foon gain d an advantage\\nof Toto/ons company, tho he himfelf with his Son of about\\nEight Years old made their efcape, and one old Squaw\\nwith them, to Agawom his own Country. But Sam\\nBarrow^^ as noted a Rogue as any among the Enemy,\\nfell into the hands of the EngliJJi^ at this time. Capt.\\nChurch told him. That becaufe of his inhicmane Murders\\nand Barbarities^ the Coiirt had allowed him no qtiaiier, but\\nwas to be forthwith put to Deaths and therefore he was to\\nprepare for it. Barrow reply d. That the Seiitence of\\nPhilip was killed one week from the ^oi See note 2S2, ante. If this refers\\nnext day, and as Church muft have to To^v/cr s neck in Rochefler, the par-\\nbeen at leaft one day on the route to tj probably did not crofs the Aculhnet\\nPocaffet and Rhode-Ifland, only four River at this time,\\nweek-days are left after the Sabbath See note 209, ante.\\nfollowing his return from Bridgewater, ^93 Sam. Barroiv is ftated to have\\nfor the expedition toward Dartmouth been Tatofon s father (fee note 282,\\nwoods. It would feem, then, that ante). I find nothing elfe concerning\\nChurch only laid ftiU over Saturday him, except that he appears to figure\\nand Sunday, which, literally, was upon the Colony Records in the lift of\\nnot long, and rallied for Dart- the party dcftroying Clark s Garrifon,\\nmouth on Monday, 7 Aug. under the name of Sanballvtt. [Pljm.\\n29^ See note 207, ante. Col. Rec. v: 206.]\\n139", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "[42\\nDeath againjl him was jiijl^ and that indeed he was aJJiamed\\nto live any longer^ and dcjij cd no more fazwnr than to Smoke\\na Whiff of Tobacco before his Executio7i. When he had\\ntaken a few Whiffs, he faid, He was ready upon which\\none of Capt. Chiirches hidians funk his Hatchet into his\\nBrains. The famous Totofon arriving at Agawom, his\\nSon which was the laft which was left of his Family (Capt.\\nChnrch having deftroyed all the reft) fell lick: The wretch\\nreflecting upon the miferable condition he had bro t him-\\nfelf into, his heart became as a ftone within him, and he\\ndy d.^^^ The old Squaw flung a few leaves and brufli over\\nhim, and came into Sandwich, and gave this account of his\\ndeath, and offered to fhew them where fhe left his body;\\nbut never had the opportunity, for Ihe immediately fell\\nfick and dy d alfo.\\nCapt. Chnrch being now at PI inouth again weary and\\nworn, would have gone home to his Wife and Family, but\\nthe Government beinof Solicitous to ino^ao:e him in the\\nService until Philip was flain, and promifmg him fatis-\\nfa6tion and redrefs for fome miftreatment that he had met\\nwith; He fixes for another Expedition; he had foon Vol-\\nunteers enough to make up the Company he defired and\\nMarched thro the Woods, until he came to PocaffctP^\\nIt is prelumable that this fon of on Friday morning, at the lateft, thus\\neight years, who thus fell lick, died to have reached Pocaflet in time to\\nbefore his father; as the fquaw appa- crofs the ferry, and ride 8 miles down\\nrently made no further mention of the ifland, while it was yet light enough\\nhi\u00e2\u0084\u00a2- on the afternoon of Friday, the nth, to\\nHe muft have left Plymouth by fpy horfemen coming at a great\\nThurfday night, lo Aug., or very early pace, at a diftance.\\n140", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "ir-\\nAnd not feeing nor hearing of any of the Enemy, they\\nwent over the Ferry to Rkode-I/Iand, to refrefli them-\\nfelves. The Captain with about half a dozen in his com-\\npany took Horfe rid about eight Miles down the IJIand,\\nto Mr. Sanfords where he had left his Wife; who no\\n296 See note 245, aiitc. Since that\\nwas in type, I have gained fome ad-\\nditional fadts, which may be fet down\\nhere.\\nMaj. Sanford lived about half a mile\\nfouth of (the prefent) Portfmouth line,\\nin what is now Middletown (then New-\\nport) which made his farm about\\neight miles down the Ifland from\\nTripp s Ferry. \\\\^MS. letter of Mr.\\nRichard Sherman.]\\nIn 16S2, he rendered an account,\\namounting to \u00c2\u00a3103 9.V. 9^/., to Pljm-\\nouth-Colonj Court, for fervices ren-\\ndered the wounded men of the army,\\nafter the great Narraganfett Swamp\\nfight. (See p. 60, c., ante. Some\\nitems of that account are of intereft\\nenough to warrant its infertion here, as\\ncafting light upon that portion of the\\nwar. [I copy from Plym. Col. Rec. vi\\n1 18-120, fupplying conje6turally fome\\nmiffing words, and condenfing fome\\nitems.]\\nPeleg Sanford, Efq. his Account,\\nappointed to be recorded, at June Court,\\n16S2.\\nRhode-IOand, anno 1675. Gen. Jo-\\nfiah WinOow s Debit^\\ns, s. d.\\nTo treatment of 28 wound-\\ned men fr. Dec. vntell\\ny 25 day 4 04 o\\nd.\\nTo Almy for 244 lbs. of\\nmutton 3 01 o\\nTo Almy, 10 yds. duftles\\nfor wounded 3 00 o\\nTo Almy, 2^ cord of wood\\nfor do I GO o\\nTo firkin of butter 66\\nlbs. at 6d pr. lb. (firkin\\ni8d) I 14 6\\nTo 45 1 i lbs. mutton deliv-\\nered at the houfe of Mr.\\nBrinton Rob Carr for\\ntenders of wounded men 5 129\\nTo 12 lb. candles 10 lb.\\nbutter, to do houfes, o 12 10\\nTo 6 bulhels Ind. Corn,\\nto do, I 04 o\\nTo 2 gall, mallaffas to do, o 05 o\\nTo 102 lb. fait beefe 7\\nlb. porke to do i 07 6\\nTo i6-i cords wood, at 8.\\n4 load of wood 7 i6 o\\nTo 3 qts rum to Lowell o 03 9\\nTo 15 lbs. flax, with 6 lb\\nfent to the garifon\\nTo Capt. Green, for bear\\nfor the wounded o 02 6\\nTo calh for buriall of Link-\\nhorn, Harrifs, Sumerf-\\nbury, and one more i 10 o\\nTo 74 lb. fugar among\\nwounded i 17 o\\n141", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "[43\\nfooner faw him but [43] fainted with the furprize; and by\\nthat time fhe was a little revived, they fpy d two Horfe-\\nmen coming a great pace. Capt. Church told his com-\\npany that thofe men (by their riding) came with Tydings.\\nWhen they came up they prov d to be Maj. Sanford and\\nCapt. Golding who immediately ask d Capt. Churchy\\nWhat he would give to hear fome News of Philip? He\\nreply d, That was what he wanted. They told him, They\\nTo 28I gall, rum to Dodlor\\nfor wounded 7 03 li\\nTo 2 fat Iheep to Doft.\\nHawkins for wounded\\nthat went in j veflell\\nwith him o iS o\\nTo 8 yds duffles to Serg\u00c2\u00ab.\\nWitherly, Jains Bell\\nother Tanton men, y*\\ncame wounded to my\\nhoufe Dec. 24 2 o8 o\\nTo cafh to J. Bell to bear\\nhis charges home o 04 o\\nTo Serg Witherell, Jaiiis\\nBell White for diatt,\\nlodg g attendance, 2\\none month i three\\nweeks, at 85. per week 4 oS o\\nTo Left. Sauage, Doft.\\nCuttler, their men\\nc. c 15 03 o\\nTo Doa. Hawkins diet\\nc about a month ...1120\\nTo Lieut. Vpham, fr. 24\\nDec. to 14 March,\\nhis kinfman for diet c.\\nat 8s each, his fifter alfo\\na conliderable p of y\\ntime\\nTo do. Vpham \\\\h. gall.\\nrum, 15 lb. mutton\\nwhen he went away o 11 3\\nTo eftate W Brenton for\\nhire of room fr. 24 Dec.\\nto 17 0(5l. 1676, y day\\nthat Serjafi Witherell\\nwent out of it, at \u00c2\u00a35 pr\\nyear 4 01 7.^\\nTo do. Witherly for fun-\\ndryes, as p. his acct 3 12 11\\nTo damage fuftained in\\nmy beding and other\\nhoufehold ftuffe, with\\nthings pcloined by in-\\ncomers, which here\\ncharge \u00c2\u00a320, att prefent,\\nfor thought the damage\\nbe far more 20 00 o\\n9 02\\n\u00c2\u00a3103 9 9\\nDated in New Port, on Rhode\\nIfland, y 26 day Jan. 167?.\\n[There were credits given, amounting\\nto \u00c2\u00a322 9s. od. The balance of the fhare\\nof Plymouth in the account was then\\npaid.]\\nSee note 93, ante.\\n142", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "[43\\nhad rid /lai d with fomc hopes of overtaking of him^ and\\nwere now come on purpofe to inform him, That there luas\\njuflnow Tydings fro7n Mount-hope; An Indian came down\\nfrom thence {where Philips Camp now was) on to Sand-\\npoint^^ over agaijifl Trips,^^ a7id hollow d, and madefigns\\nto be fetched over and being fetched over, he reported. That\\nhe was fled from PhiHp, who (laid he) has kiWd my Brother\\njnjl before I came away, for giving fome advice that dif-\\npleafed himF^ And faid, he was fled for fear of meeting\\nluith the fame his Brother had met with. Told them alfo,\\nThat Philip was now in Mount-hope Neck. Capt. Church\\nthank d them for their good News, and faid, he hop d by\\nto Morrow Morning to have the Rogues head. The\\nHorfes that he and his company came on Handing at the\\ndoor, (for they had not been unfaddled) his Wife mufl\\ncontent her felf with a fhort vifit, when fuch game was\\na-head; they immediately Mounted, fet Spurs to their\\nHorfes, and away. The two Gentlemen that bro t him\\nthe Tydings, told him. They would gladly wait upon him to\\n298 Sandy Point is on the Briftol fide years. Col. Rec. iii 535 MS.\\nof Briftol Ferry, near where the light- letter of Mr. Richard Sherman.]\\nhoufe now ftands. \\\\_MS. letter of Mr. He caufed one of his Confeder-\\nRichard Sherman.] ates to be killed for propounding an\\n299 Tripfs was the name then, or foon expedient of peace. [Hubbard s Nar-\\nafter (long before Church dictated, at rative, 103.] Increafe Mather fays,\\nleaft), current for Briftol Ferry, which One of PhiUfs men (being difgufted\\nwas run by Abial Tripp, who lived on with him for killing an Indian who\\nthe Portfmouth fide, and who, with had propounded an expedient for peace\\nJohn Burden, received the formal right with the Englijh) ran away from him,\\nto the ferry privilege for feven years, and coming to Road-Illand, informed\\n2 Aug., 1698, which was renewed, 19 that Philip was now returned again to\\nJune, 1705, as formerly, for feven Mount-Hope, kc IBricf IIiJlory,^(\\n143", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "[43\\nfee the event of this Expedition. He thank d them, and told\\nthem, he fhould be as fond of their company as any Mens;\\nand (in fliort) they went with him. And they were foon\\nas Trips Ferry (with Capt Churches company) where\\nthe deferter was; who was a fellow of good fenfe, and\\ntold his ftory handfomely: he offered Capt. Church to\\nPilot him to Philip., and to help to kill him, that he might\\nrevenge his Brothers death. Told him, That Philip was\\nnow upon a little fpot of Upland that was in the South\\nend of the miery Swamp juft at the foot of the Mount,^^^\\nwhich was a fpot of ground that Capt. Church was well\\nacquainted with. By that time^\u00c2\u00b0^ they were got over the\\nFerry, and came near the ground half the Night was\\nfpent, the Capt. commands a halt, and bringing the com-\\npany together, he asked Maj Sanford Capt. Goldings\\nadvice, what method was beft to take in making the on-\\nfet, but they declining giving any advice, telling him,\\nThat his great Experience Succefs forbid their taking\\nupon them to give advice. Then Capt. Chiirch offered\\nCapt. Goldijig, that he fhould have the honour (if he\\nwould pleafe accept of it) to beat up Philips headquarters.\\nHe accepted the offer and had his alotted number drawn\\nout to him, and the Pilot. Capt. Churches inftructions to\\nhim were to be very careful in his approach to the Enemy,\\nand be fure not to fliew himfelf until by day light they\\n301 Philip was furprifed and killed The diftance of the fwamp in\\nby Col. Church at a little knoll on the which Philip was concealed was not\\nfouth-weft fide, at the foot of Mount much more than two miles from the\\nHope. [Feflenden s Harrew, 40.] landing of the ferry on the Briftol fide.\\n144", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "[44\\nmight fee and difcern their own men from the Enemy.\\nTold him alfo, That his cuftom in the like cafes was to\\ncreep with his company on their bellies, until they came\\nas near as they could; and that as foon as the Enemy dif-\\ncovered them they would cry out; and that was the word\\n[44] for his Men to fire and fall on. Direded him when\\nthe Enemy fhould ftart and take into the Swamp,^ they\\nfhould purfue with fpeed, every man fhouting and making\\nwhat noife they could; for he would give orders to his\\nAmbufcade to fire on any that fhould come filently. Capt.\\nChurch knowing it was Philips cuflom to be fore-mofl in\\nthe flight, went down to the Swamp and gave Capt. Wil-\\nliams of Siluate^^ the command of the right wing of the\\nAmbufh, and placed an EngliJIi-man and an Indian to-\\ngether behind fuch fhelters of Trees, that he could\\nfind, and took care to place them at fuch diftance as none\\nmight pafs undifcovered between them, charg d em to be\\ncareful of themfelves, and of hurting their friends: And to\\nfire at any that fliould come filently thro the Swamp:\\nBut it being fome-what further thro the Swamp than he\\n8^3 Philip was on an upland ifland in feruill worke on the Sabbath had\\nthe midft of the fwamp; of courfe when various controverfies and lawfuits, and\\nalarmed he would run into the fwamp died 22 June, 1694, aged 70, leaving\\nin the endeavor to efcape through it, one of the largeft eftates at that time\\ntheir habitual courfe on fuch occafions. exifting in the country his farm having\\n80* John Williams (oldeft child of been laid to be the belt in the Old Col-\\nJohn, of Scituate) bore arms in 1643, ony. He appears never to have niar-\\nand was a houfeholder in 1647; was ried. [Deane s Scituate, 385; Sav-\\nCaptain in Philip s war; was Deputy age s Gen. Did. iv 562; Plym. Col.\\nfrom Scituate, in 1676, 1681, and 1691 Rec. v: 99, 214; vi 24, 61, 173, 174,\\nwas fined 40s. i July, 1672, for doing 198, 202, 259.]\\n19 145", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "[44\\nwas aware of, he wanted men to make up his Ambufcade;\\nhaving placed what men he had, he took Maj. Sajiford by\\nthe hand, faid. Sir, I have fo placed them that Uis fcarce\\npojjible Philip JJtould efcape them. The fame moment a\\nShot whiftled over their heads, and then the noife of a Gun\\ntowards Philips camp. Capt. Church at firft tho t it might\\nbe fome Gun fired by accident: but before he could fpeak,\\na whole Volley followed, which was earlier than he ex-\\npe6led. One of Philips gang going forth to eafe himfelf,\\nwhen he had done, look d round him, Capt. Golding\\nthought the Indian looked right at him (tho probably\\ntwas but his conceit) fo fired at him, and upon his firing,\\nthe whole company that were with him fired upon the\\nEnemies fhelter, before the Indians had time to rife from\\ntheir fleep, and fo over-fhot them. But their flielter was\\nopen on that fide next the Swamp, built fo on purpofe for\\nthe convenience of flight on occafion. They were foon\\nin the Swamp and Philip the foremofl;, who ftarting at the\\nfirft Gun threw his Petunk^^ and Powder-horn over his\\ns J5 A kind oi /Jied wigw am, in the fajs (under the head of Ndkekick, i.e.,\\nNew-England fenfe of that adjective, parched meal I have travelled\\nwith the open fide toward the fwamp. with neere 200 of them at once, neere\\nPetunk, literally, that into which 100 miles through the woods, every\\nfomething is put, i. e., the pouch, or man carrying a liiile Bajhet of this at\\nhaverfack, which the Indian always his back, and fometimes in a hollow\\ncarried by way of pocket. Eliot ules Leather Girdle about his middle, fuffi-\\nthe word (in i Sam. xvii 40,) for Da- cient for a man for three or four dales,\\nvid s fcrip and for purfe (in Z,\u00c2\u00ab^e With this readie provifion, and their\\nxxii 35), and uniformly tranflates Boxv a.x\\\\A Arrotves [this vi s printed in\\nquiver hy petan, a word of nearly 1643, before the Indians had acquired\\nthe fame fignification. Roger Wil- the ufe of fire-arms], are they ready for\\nliams [Key R.-I. Hiji. Coll. i 33] War, and travell at an houres warning.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "[44]\\nhead, catch d up his Gun, and ran as faft as he could\\nfcamper, without any more clothes than his fmall breeches\\nand ftockings, and ran dire6tly upon two of Capt.\\nChurches Ambufh; they let him come fair within fhot, and\\nthe EngliJJt mans\u00c2\u00ae^ Gun miffing fire,^ he bid the In-\\ndian fire away, and he did fo to purpofe, fent one Musket\\nWith a fpoo7ifull of this nieale and a\\nfpoonfull of water from the Brooke.,\\nhave I made many a good dinner and\\nfupper. [Compare Schoolcraft s In-\\nformation rcfpcd. hid. Tribes, i 80.]\\nBaylies Metn. New Plym.\\niii: 168] fays that this Englilhman s\\nname was Francis Cook. But the\\nMafs. Hirtorical Colleaions [2d Scries\\niv: 63] for 1816, (14 years before Efq.\\nBaylies publilhed), contain a note from\\nJohn Lothrop, affirming that the name\\nof this foldier of Church was Caleb\\nCook. The latter Chriftian name is\\nfupported by the faft, that the Colony\\nRecords fliow the exiftence, in 1676, of\\na Caleb Cook, then aged 25; while\\nFrancis, who came in the Mayflower,\\nhad been dead 13 years his grandfon\\nFrancis, born 5 Jan., 1663, died at lefs\\nthan t\\\\vo years of age and no other\\nFrancis appears.\\nCaleb Cook was oldeft fon of Jacob\\n(youngeft fon of Mayflovjer Francis)\\nand Damaris, daughter of Stephen\\nHopkins, and was born 29 Mar., 1651\\nhe ferved on a coroner s jury at Ply-\\nmouth, 20 0(ft., 1675, in the cafe of\\nJohn Fallowell; is down for a fine of\\n\u00c2\u00a31 I05., 12 June, 1685; and ferved on a\\ntrial jury in the July Court of 1686.\\nHe had a great grandfon, Silvanus, of\\nKingfton, Mafs., who held in his pof\\nfeffion the gun with which the Indian\\nfhot King Philip (which, according to\\nfamily tradition. Cook exchanged with\\nhim for his own), and who gave the\\nlock to one of the Lothrops, from whom\\nJohn Lothrop gave it to the Cabinet of\\nthe Mafs. Hiftorical Society, where it\\nftill is. Many years after, the barrel\\nwas prefented by John Cook, of Kingf-\\nton, to the Cabinet of the Pilgrim So-\\nciety in Plymouth, in which cuftody it\\nremains. [Savage s Gen. Did. i: 446;\\nPlym. Col. Rcc. v 182 vi 196 viii\\n165 Ruffell s Pilgrim Mem. 105.]\\n3J8 Hubbard adds that the morning\\nbeing wet and rainy, which Church s\\nfubfequent ftatement about the fun and\\nthe dew does not confirm, the En-\\nglilh man s gun would not fire, the In-\\ndian having an old Musket with a large\\ntouch-hole, it took fire the more read-\\nily. [Narralivc, 105.]\\n309 Church s teftimony is conclufive\\nas to the identity of this Indian with\\nthat one known as Alderman among\\nthe colonifts; and both Hubbard and\\nMather affert the fame. I doubt, how-\\never, the truth of the common averment\\nthat Alderman was the Indian whofe\\nbrother Philip had killed, and who\\nguided Church s party to the fwamp.\\nNeither Church, Hubbard, nor Mather\\nfay that, however, on a cafual reading,\\n147", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "[44\\nBullet thro his heart, and another not above two inches\\nfrom it; he fell upon his face in the Mud Water with\\nhis Gun under him. By this time the Enemy perceived\\nthey were way laid on the eaft fide of the Swamps tack d\\nfhort about. One of the Enemy who feem d to be a great\\nfurly old fellow, hollow d with a loud voice, often called\\nout, iootajlt^ iootafJi^^^ Capt. Church called to his Indian\\nthe latter two might appear to fay it.\\nA careful examination of their words\\nIhows that they only aflert that Philip\\nwas flain by one of his own race, who\\nhad kept himfelf neutral until now;\\nand fpeak of his killer as an Indian,\\nrather than the Indian, to whom they\\nhad before referred. It feems to me\\nmore natural if Aldermati had been his\\ninformant and guide, that Church\\nftiould have mentioned the remarkable\\nfadl distindlly, when defcribing his\\nagency in the death of the chieftain.\\nHutchinfon appears to be refponfible\\nfor the firft ftatement abfolutely identi-\\nfying the pilot with the flayer; faying\\n[^Hiji. Mafs. i 277], One of his own\\nmen, whom he had offended, and who\\nhad deferted to the Engliili, Ihot him\\nthrough the heart, which he might\\neafily bafe, by a mifapprehenfion, upon\\nHubbard and Mather. Trumbull {^Hijl.\\nConn, i 349] repeats (probably from\\nHutchinfon) the ftatement: The In-\\ndian who had been guide to the party,\\nIhot him through the heart. Drake,\\nThatcher, Fowler, Arnold, and others\\nhave followed Trumbull. Jones s letter\\nto Gov. Leet, publiftied by Mr. Trumbull\\n\\\\^Col. Rec. Conn, ii 470], is probably\\nthe frelbeft document bearing on the\\nqueftion and his language naturally\\nimplies a diftinAion in his mind be-\\ntween the guide and the killer.\\nHubbard \\\\_JVarrativc, 106] {ays Aldcr-\\n7nan was of Sakonet. But Mather\\n[Brief Hijl. 47] with more particular-\\nity adds, the Indian who thus killed\\nPhilip., did formerly belong to the\\nSquaw-Sachim of Pocajfet Weeta-\\nmoe), being known by the name of\\nAldcrma7t. In the beginning of the\\nwar, he came to the Governor of Ply-\\nmouthy manifefting his defire to be at\\npeace with the Englijk., and immedi-\\nately withdrew to an Illand, not having\\nengaged againft the EngU/fi nor for\\nthem, before this time. I find no con-\\nfirmation of this ftatement on the Court\\nRecords.\\nlootajh is a verb in the impera-\\ntive, 2d perfon, fingular, and means\\nFight! Eliot would have written\\nAycuteajh. He has Ayeuteah, for the\\nplural fight ye, (in i Sam. iv 9.)\\nRoger Williams fpells this laft \\\\_Key,\\nchap, xxix] Juhetteke, Fight, which\\nis their word of incouragement which\\nthey ufe when they animate each other\\nin warre for they ufe their tongues in\\nftead of drummes and trumpets.\\nHiji. Coll. i 14S.]\\n14S", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "[45\\nPeter^^ and ask d him, WJio that was that called fo? He\\nanfwered, It was old Annozuo7i Philips great Captain,^^^ call-\\ning on his Souldiers to Hand to it and fight floutly. Now\\nthe Enemy finding that place of the Swamp which was not\\nAmbufli d, many of them made their efcape in the EngliJJi\\nTracks.^^^ The Man that had fhot down Philip, ran with all\\nfpeed to Capt Church, and informed him of his exploit, who\\ncommanded him to be Silent about it, let no man more\\nknow it, until they had drove the Swamp [45] clean; but\\nw^hen they had drove the Swamp thro found the Enemy\\nhad efcaped, or at leafb the moft of them; and the Sun\\n^11 Probably Peter fon oi Axva/kotiks.\\n[See note 12, ante, and p. 87.]\\nAftfiawou (^Afinoivan, Anozvofi)\\nwas one of Maffalbit s chiefs, and fo\\none of Philip s oldeft braves. The only\\nrecord which I find of him, previous to\\nhis connexion with this war, is his ap-\\npearance as a witnefs, in 1672, to two\\nfales of land by Philip to William\\nBrenton and others. His capture and\\nfate will foon be referred to. [Drake s\\nBook of hid. 200.]\\nHis name fuggefts a probable deriva-\\ntion from Natiaivujinum, he rules or\\nhas authority (Eliot), or the verbal\\nNana7iu-vaen, a ruler, an overfeer.\\nRoger Williams has Naundtnvheant,\\na nurfe or keeper. Hijl.\\nColl. i 52.] The primary fignification\\nof the verb is to keep with care, to\\ntake care of.\\n313 Hubbard fays Philip had a few\\nof his beft friends with him; and that\\n5 of his truftieft followers of whom\\none was faid to be the Son of his chief\\nCaptain, that had fhot the firft gun at the\\nEnglilb the year before were killed.\\nMather fays that he, with 7 of his\\nmen, were in this fvvamp and that 5\\nof his men were killed with him, one\\nof which was his chief Captain s Son,\\nbeing (as the Indians teftifie) that very\\nIndian who fhot the firft gun at the En-\\nwhen the War began. Wm. Jones\\nfays, writing a fortnight after, from\\nNew Haven, and repeating the tefli-\\nmony to him of one James Shore,\\ncome in this week to Fairfield, in a vef-\\nfell from Rhod Ifeland, Philip in\\nlabouring to efcape was fhot at ifl by\\ny\u00c2\u00ab Englifh, but miffed, and then Ihot\\ndowne by an Indian. All y* reft, but\\none more killd and one or two wound-\\ned, efcaping. Church s own language\\nwould feem to imply that there were\\nmore than feven men with Philip; that\\nmore than one befides Philip was\\nftopped; and that many of them got\\naway. {Narrative, 103; Brief Hifl.\\n47; Col. Rcc. Conn, ii 471.]\\n149", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "[45\\nnow up, and fo the dew gone, that they could not fo eafily\\nTrack them, the whole Company met together at the\\nplace where the Enemies Night Ihelter was; and then\\nCapt. Church gave them the news of Philips death upon\\nwhich the whole Army gave Three loud H^izzah. Capt\\nChurch ordered his body to be pull d out of the mire on to\\nthe Upland, fo fome of Capt. Churches Indians took hold\\nof him by his Stockings, and fome by his fmall Breeches,\\n(being otherwife naked) and drew him thro the Mud\\nunto the Upland, and a doleful, great, naked, dirty beaft,\\nhe look d like.^^ Capt. Church then faid. That for af much\\nas he had caufed many an Englifh-mans body to lye unburied\\nand rot above ground^ that not one of his bones fJiotild be\\nburied. And calling his old Indian Executioner, bid him\\nbehead and quarter him.^^^ Accordingly, he came with\\n^1* This is the plain profe comment\\nof an obferver upon the fadls as thej\\nappeared to him. Dr. Palfrey has well\\nreferred to it, in his very juft remarks\\non the poetic exaggeration with which\\nmoft of our later literature has dealt\\nwith Philip. {_HiJl. N. E. iii 223.]\\n^15 The idea in New England at that\\ntime feems to have been that Philip\\nwas a rebel againft King Charles 2d,\\nand, as fuch, deferved the State punilh-\\nment of treafon, which, in England,\\nuntil the 30th year of George 3d, was\\nI. To be drawn (latterly, on a hurdle,\\nfo as to avoid the extreme torment of\\nbeing dragged over the ground) to the\\ngallows 2. To be hanged by the neck,\\nand cut down alive 3. To have the\\nentrails cut out and burned, while the\\nfufFerer ftill lived 4. To be beheaded\\n5. That the body be cut into four quar-\\nters 6. That the head and quarters be\\nat the king s difpofal. [4, Blackjione s\\nComni. 92.] Church s a 5lion, in the\\nlight of the public fentiment of that\\nday, was far from indicating an inhu-\\nman revenge, or a cruel difpofition. It\\ncould fcarcely be expelled that thefe\\nremote and backwoods colonies were\\nto go beyond the mother country in\\nrefinement. And it was not yet 17\\nyears fince Parliament had voted the\\ndi/iHtcrment of Cromwell, Ireton, and\\nBradlliaw, and their decaying remains\\nhad been hanged at Tyburn, and their\\nheads ftuck on poles on the top of\\nWeftminfter Hall fronting Palace Yard\\nwhile nearly 20 years later than Philip s\\n150", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "45\\nhis Hatchet and flood over him, but before he flriick he\\nmade a fmall Speech dire6ling it to Philip and faid, He\\nhad been a very great Alan, and had made many a man\\nafraid of him, but fo big as he was he would now chop his\\nAfs for him and fo went to work, and did as he was\\nordered. Philip having one very remarkable hand being\\nmuch fcarr d, occafioned by the fplitting of a Piftol in it\\nformerly. Capt. Church gave the head and that hand^^*^ to\\ndeath, Evelyn entered in his Diary (lo\\nApril, 1696), The quarters of Sir Wil-\\nliam Perkins and Sir John Friend,\\nlately executed on the plot, with Per-\\nkins s head, were fet up at Temple-Bar;\\na difmal fight. Indeed, Walpole wrote\\nto Montague, 16 Aug., 1746, paffed\\nunder the new heads at Temple Bar,\\nwhere people make a trade of letting\\nfpying-glafles at a halfpenny a look\\nand it is on record that Goldfmith\\njoked Johnfon in regard to fimilar\\nadornments of that ftrudlure; and, as\\nlate as i April, 1772, a news-writer fet\\ndown: yefterday one of the rebels\\nheads on Temple Bar fell down. There\\nis only one head now remaining.\\nThefe facfts ftiould have proteAed our\\nfathers from Peter Oliver s malignant\\nfneer about orthodox vengeance.\\n[See Diary of Sam. Pcpys, ed. 1856,\\ni 129, 152 Diary of John Evelyn, ed.\\n1857, ii 340; Cunningham s Hand\\nBook of London, 437, 542; Puritan\\nCommotnvealtk, I45-]\\n316 Increafe Mather [Brief Hifl. 47]\\nfays, his head being cut off and car-\\nried away to Plymouth, his Hands were\\nbrought to Bofion Cotton Mather\\n\\\\^Magnalia, ed. 1853, ii 576] fays,\\nthis Agag was now cut into quarters,\\nwhich were then hanged up, while his\\nhead was carried in triumph to Ply-\\nmouth. Niles \\\\^HiJl. Ind. and Fr.\\nWars, 3 Mafs. Hifl. Coll. vi 190] fays\\nPhilip was cut into quarters, and\\nhanged up in the woods, and his head\\ncarried to Plymouth. The ftory, car-\\nried from this country to London by\\nthe mafter of a veffel foon failing from\\nRhode-Ifland [Abbott s Wars of the\\nColonies, 131], adds, they quartered\\nhis body, and hung it upon four trees.\\nBy collating thefe we probably get all\\nthe fadls.\\nThe head was placed upon a pole at\\nPlymouth, where it is faid to have\\nremained expofed for more than 24\\nyears [Felt s Eccles. Hifl. N. E. ii\\n638 Thacher s Plymouth, 389] at any\\nrate Cotton Mather faid, in his Magna-\\nlia (firft publiflied in 1702, 26 years\\nafter), it was not long before the hand\\nwhich now writes, upon a certain occa-\\nfion took off the jaw from the expofed\\nIkuU of that blafphemous leviathan.\\n[ed. 1853, i 566.] It is hardly proba-\\nble that there is any truth in the tradi-\\n151", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "[45\\nAlderman^ the Indian who fhot him, to fhow to fuch Gen-\\ntlemen as would beflow gratuities upon him; and accord-\\ningly he got many a Peny by it. This being on the lafl\\nday of the Week,^^ the Captain with his Company returned\\nto the Ifland, tarryed there until Tuefday; and then went\\noff and ranged thro all the Woods to Plymoutk,^^^ and\\nreceived their Prcemium^ which was Thirty Skilliftgs per\\nhead, for the Enemies which they had killed or taken,\\ninflead of all Wages; and Philips head went at the fame\\nprice.^^^ Methinks it s fcanty reward, and poor incourage-\\ntion mentioned by Dr. Fobes in his\\ndefcription of Rajnham [i Mafs. Hijl.\\nColl. iii 171], that Philip s head was\\ndepofited for a confiderable time in\\nthe cellar under the Leonard houfe\\nin that town.\\n^1 Saturday, 12 Auguft, 1676.\\n818 Leaving Rhode-Ifland on Tuefday,\\nthe 15th, Church and his company muft\\nhave ranged thro all the woods two\\ndays before reaching Plymouth for\\nthe Mathers and Niles agree that the\\nhead reached Plymouth on Thurfday,\\nthe 17th, which had been fet apart\\nas a day of Thankfgiving for fuccefles\\nagainft the Indians, perhaps before they\\nhad heard of Philip s death. {,Brief\\nHiJl. 47; Magnalia, ed. 1853, 576;\\n3 Mafs. Hijl. Coll. vi 190.]\\n^13 AlTuming Hubbard and Mather s\\nftatement to be true, that 5 befides Phil-\\nip were killed, and that there were no\\nprifoners taken, no mention being\\nmade of any, the fum total of receipts\\nfor divifion would be \u00c2\u00a39. This, at 45.\\n6^. a piece, which Church fays was\\neach one s fhare, would make the\\nnumber of the party exactly 40. At 45.\\n(yd. each, their week s work would av-\\nerage a little lefs than ^d. T,qrs. per day,\\nbefides the honor! Hoyt, ftrangely\\nconfufing this with one day of the\\nBridgewater expedition, fays, 130\\nwere killed and captured. [^Antiqua-\\nrian Rejearckcs, 140.] This would\\nhave fwelled their compenfation to an\\naggregate of \u00c2\u00a3195!\\nIt may here be added, that there is, in\\nthe Cabinet of the Maffachufetts Hif-\\ntorical Society, a wooden dilb, which\\nis traditionally reprefented to have been\\na trophy of this expedition, and which\\nwas authenticated to the Society by the\\nfollowing receipt [Proceedings Mafs.\\nHiji. Sac. 1863-4, 267.] Plymouth\\nSep. 14, 1803, Rec*. of Ifaac Lothrop\\nEight Dollars, in full for a wooden bowle,\\nformerly belonging to that illuftrious\\nSoldier known by the name of King\\nPhilip, fon of the celebrated indian\\nSachem, Maffafoiet, and was a portion\\nof the trophy affigned to Eleazer Rich-\\n152", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "45\\nment; tho it was better than what had been fome time\\nbefore. For this March they received Fotir Shillings and\\nSix Pence a Man, which was all the Reward they had,\\nexcept the honour of killing PJiilip. This was in the\\nlatter end oi Augtijl, 1676^^\\nCapt. Church had been but a little while at Plymouth^\\nbefore a Poft from Rehoboth came to inform the Govern-\\nment, that old Annawon, Philips chief Captain was with\\nhis company ranging about their Woods, was very\\noffenfive pernicious to Rehoboth Swanfey?^ Capt.\\nChurch was immediately fent for again, treated with to\\ningage one Expedition more; he told them. Their incour-\\nagement was fa poor he feared his Souldiers would be dull\\nabout going again But being a hearty friend to the caufe,\\nhe Rally s again, goes -to Mr. JabeJJt Howland his old\\nLieutenant,^ and fome of his Souldiers, that us d to go\\nout with him; told them how the cafe was circumftanced,\\nand that he had intelligence of old Annawons walk,\\nhaunt, and wanted hands to hunt him; they did not want\\nard, Great Grandfather of the Subfcrib- Eleazer Richard (or Richards or Rich-\\ner, who made one of the party, that ardfon) as then living in New England\\nterminated the exiftence of the once nor any evidence that any perfon of\\nprincely proprietor. that furname ferved under Church in\\nEleazer Richard. this campaign.\\nm\u00c2\u00abi. 320 Church fpeaks here even more\\nChurch s narrative furniihes no evi- vaguely than he was apt to do, of the\\ndence, either way, in regard to the gen- time of events.\\nuinenefs of this relic. I find, however, \u00c2\u00ab^i By their Hiooting at the EngUlh\\nno trace, either in Savage s fertile pages, Horfes, and other cattle. [Hubbard s\\nor the Colony Records of Plymouth, Narrative, 107.]\\nMaffachufetts, or Rhode-Illand, of any ^22 See note 207, anie.\\n20 153", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "[46\\nmuch intreating; but told him, They would go with him,,\\nas long as there ivas an Indian left in the Woods. He\\nmoved ranged thro the Woods [46] to Pocajfet. It\\nbeing the latter end of the Week, he propofed to go on to\\nRhode-IJland and reft until Monday. But early on the\\nLords day Morning,^^^ there came a Poft to inform the Cap-\\n823 He muft have left Plymouth about\\nWednefday or Thurfday (6th or 7th\\nSeptember), 1676 Hubbard fays he\\nhad with him but 5 Englifhmen and\\n20 Indians. \\\\^Narrative, 107.]\\n3^* The queftion of the date of this\\nexpedition is one of the moft perplexing\\nones in the hiftory of the time ftrange-\\nly enough, fo far as I can learn, no\\nrecord of it, or of any circumftance\\nwhich would exadlly identify it, having\\na place in any of the early hiftories or\\ncotemporaneous records. Mr. Drake,\\nin his fecond edition of this narrative\\n(1827, p. 142), is the firft to attempt to\\nfettle it. He does fo on the ftrength of\\nthe facil that Annawon was taken on a\\nMonday night, when the moon was\\nIhining, not long after dark. He\\nftates that the moon was at the full in\\n1676, on Saturday, the 26 Auguft,\\nwhence he infers that Monday, 28 Au-\\nguft, was the date of the capture (fee\\nalfo note to Mr, Drake s ed., Mather s\\nBrief Htjiory, 1862, p. i8o), which\\nwould throw back the date of the ftart-\\ning of the expedition from Plymouth\\nto Wednefday or Thurfday, the 23d or\\n24th. Dr. Palfrey {HiJI. N. E. iii\\n206] adopts this as the true date, and\\nArnold \\\\_IIiJf. R.-I. i: 417] fpeaks\\nvaguely of Annawon s capture as a\\nfew nights after the death of Philip.\\nBut John Fofter s Almanac for 1676\\ngives the full moon of Auguft of that\\nyear as being on the 13 day, at 26m.\\npaft 6 in the morn while Sherman s\\nAlmanac for the fame year, ftates it as\\non the 13 daj at 25m. paft 6 in the\\nmorn. This was the Sabbath, the next\\nday after the day of the death of Philip.\\nChurch (fee p. 152, ante) fays he ftaid\\nat Rhode Ifland until Tuefday, the\\n15th, and then ranged thro all the\\nwoods to Plymouth, which he could\\nfcarcely have i-eached before Friday or\\nSaturday, the iSth or 19th. Then he\\nwas a little while at Plymouth, a\\nphrafe which might cover two or three\\nweeks, while it would fcarcely have\\nbeen ufed for a lefs time than 07te week\\n(which leffer time he would more likely\\nhave ftyled a few days before the\\npoft from Rehoboth came with news\\nof Annawon, and he was fent for\\nand treated with for one expedi-\\ntion more and began to gather fol-\\ndiers to go out again. From all this,\\nit feems very clear that the Auguft\\nmoon inuft have difappeared long be-\\nfore he could have been ready to ftart\\non this exjiedition. If this were fo, we\\nare thrown over into September for\\nthe true date of this expedition and\\n154", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "[46\\ntain, That early the fame Morning a Canoo with fevcral\\nIndians in it paffed from Prudence IJland^ to PoppafijiiaJJi\\nthe probabilities of the cafe would feem\\nto fix the capture of Annawon as being\\non the firft Monday evening of Septem-\\nber, on which the moon was Ihining a\\nfew hours after dark. Fofter gives the\\nfull moon for September, 1676, as on\\nthe II day, 54 m. paft 6, p.m., and\\nSherman gives it as on the 11 day,\\n55 m. paft 6 at night. This was on\\nMonday evening, four weeks and two\\ndays after the death of Philip. On the\\nprevious Monday evening (4 Sept.),\\nthe moon (then juft in her firft quarter)\\nmuft have fet from one to two hours\\nbefore midnight, and, in the denfe for-\\nefts furrounding Squannaconk Swamp,\\nher (then) feeble light muft have ceafed\\nto be available for much help to vifion\\nat leaft an hour before her fetting; fo\\nthat (there) it would be hardly fafe to\\nprefume on feeing by moonlight on the\\nevening of 4 Sept., much later than 9P.M.\\nBut it was pretty dark before Church\\narrived then followed the capture, the\\nparley with all the companies, the prep-\\naration for the fupper, the fupper, and\\nthe mefl age to the outlying Indians,\\nand the return of the meflengers then\\nChurch laid down with the intention\\nof fleeping two hours, laid a little while\\nand grew wakeful, and roufed to look\\nafter his guard, then lay looking at the\\nequally wakeful Annawon, perhaps an\\nhour then Annawon got up and re-\\ntired into the thick woods out of fight\\nand hearing, and was gone a long\\ntime; at length Church heard him\\ncoming back, and tkcn., the moon\\nnow fliining bright, he faw him com-\\ning with fometliing in his hands, c.\\nAll this detail of delays makes it almoft\\ncertain that the hour of Annawon s\\nconverfe with Church muft have been\\nwell on toward midnight, at leaft; fo\\nthat it is impoflible that the date could\\nhave been that of 4 Sept. Befides,\\nChurch s expreffion, the moon Ihining\\nbyight is moft confonant with the\\nfull moon fo that I am led to con-\\nclude that the true date of this capture\\nis that of the Monday of the September\\nfull moon, viz., 11 Sept., 1676.\\nIt is worthy of notice in this connec-\\ntion, that Hubbard \\\\_Narrativc, 106]\\nexpreffly fays that Church took TiJ pa-\\nquitt in September, yet places his\\ncapture before that o^ Annawon faying,\\nthe next that was feized after the\\nformer (ie., Tifpaquhi) was one called\\nAnnatvon, c. Church himfelf, in\\nthis narrative (fee p. 175), inverts this\\norder; but I am ftrongly inclined to\\nbelieve that Hubbard was right, and\\nthat, if Church had fat down to the\\nwork of his annals at an earlier date,\\nand before the freftinefs of his memory\\nhad faded, he would fo have arranged\\nthem.\\n3^5 Prudence is the ifland in Narra-\\nganfett Bay, fome 7 or 8 miles in length,\\nof irregular fliape, lying weft of the\\nnorthern part of Rhode-Illand, and, in\\nits fouthern half, feparated from it by\\na channel averaging perhaps a mile\\nand a half in width. Its Indian name\\nwas C/iibactiwcfei [^Cltippacurfctt),\\n155", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "46\\nNeck.^^ Capt. Church tho t if he could poffibly furprize\\nthem, he might probably gain fome intelligence of more\\ngame; therefore he made all poffible fpeed after them:\\nthe Ferry-boat being out of the way, he made ufe of\\nCanonicus, in 1634, gave it to John\\nOldham, if he would fettle on it which\\nhe did not. In 1637, Roger Williams\\nand John Winthrop purchafed it, and\\nWilliams gave it its prefent name.\\n[Winthrop s Journal i 147 Letter\\nof Williams, 3 Mafs. Hiji. Coll. i 165\\nArnold s HiJl. R.-I. i 105.]\\n326 Poppafquajk {PapoofquaJIi, Pa-\\nfajquajh, Pafpafqud) Neck is a thumb-\\nlike promontory, perhaps 2^ miles in\\nlength by an average of in breadth,\\nprojecting from the weftern fide of the\\ntown of Briftol into the bay. Plymouth\\nCourt, I June 1669, granted 100 acres of\\nit to Mr. John Gorum, if it can be\\npurchafed of the Indians and 5 July,\\n1669, granted the remainder to the\\ntowne of Swanfey, for the promoting\\nof a way of trade in this collonie.\\nI July, 1672, Mr. Conftant South-\\nworth, Mr. James Browne, and Mr.\\nJohn Gorum are appointed by the\\nCourt, to purchafe a certaine p fell of\\nland of the Indians, granted by the\\nCourt to the faid John Gorum, lying\\natt Papafquafh neck. 13 July, 1677,\\nthe Court rattified, eftablillied, fettled,\\nand confirmed the aforefaid 100 acres\\nof land to John Gorum s heirs and\\nfucceflbrs for ever. It feems foon after\\nto have paffed to Nathaniel Byfield,\\nwho is faid to have occupied nearly\\nthe whole of it as his farm for over 40\\nyears, until his removal to Bofton in\\n1724. \\\\Plym. Col. Rec. v 20, 24, 95,\\n241 Shepard s HiJi. Dis. Briftol., R.-\\nL, 49.]\\nAs to the name, Mr. Trumbull fays,\\nThis name was alfo given to a tra 5l\\nof land now in Voluntown, Conn., in a\\ngrant of 16S1, as PaupafquacJmhe the\\nuke reprefenting ohke i.e., place.\\nTwo derivations are equally probable,\\nand plaufible, ixovn. fapafkii, double\\nwhich is applicable to the fouthern end\\nof Briftol, divided by the bay, or, as it\\nmay be tranflated, oppofite to, over\\nagainft. Otherwife, from fohfohqulJu\\nor pahpahkJJias, of Eliot patipockfu of\\nRoger Williams, i.e., the partridge.\\nWith the addition of ohke it would be\\nthe partridge country, or Partridge\\nPoint, or rather Qiiail Point, as we\\nfhould tranflate it in Connedticut. I\\nthink the latter the more probable, deri-\\nvation though I do not k/totv that a\\nquail ever flew within a dozen miles of\\nPoppafquafh.\\nThe diftance for a canoe, acrofs from\\nPrudence, would not be much more\\nthan i^ miles, and the croffing would\\nbe in full view from Rhode-Ifland and\\nprobably not more than 3 miles diftant\\nfrom it.\\n327 The ferry to Briftol at Tripps;\\nthe fame \\\\^hich he croflfed on his lafl:\\nexpedition after Philip. His objedl\\nwas to go up fome 4 miles through\\nwhat is now the town of Briftol, and\\n156", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "[46]\\nCanoo s: But by that time they had made two fraights,\\nand had got over the Captain, and about 15 or 16 of his\\nIndians, the Wind fprung up with fuch violence that Ca-\\nnoo s could no more pafs.^^ The Capt. feeing it was\\nimpoffible for any more of his Souldiers to come to him,\\nhe told his Indians, If they were willing to go with him, he\\nwould go to Poppafquafh, and fee if they cotild catch fame of\\nthofe E7iei7zy Indians. They were willing to go, but were\\nforry they had no EnglifJi Souldiers fo they March d\\nthro the thickets that they might not be difcovered, until\\nthey came unto the Salt Meadow, to the Northward of\\nBriflol Town,^*^ that now is. Then they heard a Gun, the\\nCapt. look d about, not knowing but it might be fome of\\nhis own Company in the rear; fo halting till they all came\\nup, he found twas none of his own Company that fired.\\nNow tho he had but a few Men, was minded to fend\\nfome of them out on a Scout. He moved it to Capt.\\nLightfoot^^ to go with three more on a Scout; he faid he\\nwas willing provided the Captains man Nathanael (which\\nwas an Indian that they had lately taken) might be one of\\nthem, becaufe he was well acquainted with the Ncck,^^^\\nendeavor to furprife the Indians as they See note 23S, ante.\\nfhould pafs out of Poppafquafli neck ^32 jie means here, evidently, Moiint-\\ntoward the main land. Hope neck, and not Poppafqualli neck.\\n3^ See note 175, ante. Church himfelf with his party procced-\\n829 It will appear, further on, that his ed to fearch the latter for the enemy;\\nLieutenant and Englifli foldiers fubfe- and Liglitfoot with his three compan-\\nquently croffed and joined him next day. ions muft have fcoutcd otT toward what\\n330 Probably thofe juft north-weft of are now Warren and Swanfey, in the\\nSilver Creek. direction of Kikemuit.\\n157", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "[46]\\nand coming lately from among them, knew how to call\\nthem.^ The Capt. bid him choofe his three companions,\\nand go; and if they came a-crofs any of the Enemy not to\\nkill them if they could poffibly take them alive; that they\\nmight gain intelligence concerning Annawon. The Capt.\\nwith the reft of his company moved but a little way further\\ntoward Poppa/qua/Ji, before they heard another Gun, which\\nfeemed to be the fame way with the other, but further off.\\nBut they made no halt until they came unto the narrow of\\nPoppafquafJi Neck;^^ where Capt. Clmrch left three men\\nmore, to watch if any fhould come out of the Neck, and to\\ninform the Scout when they returned which way he was\\ngone. He parted the remainder of his company, half on\\none fide of the Neck, and the other with himfelf went on\\nthe other fide of the Neck, until they met; and meeting\\nneither with Indians nor Canoo s returned big with expec-\\ntations of Tydings by their Scout: But when they came\\nback to the three men at the narrow of the Neck, they\\ntold their Captain the Scout was not returned, had heard\\nnor feen any thing of them, this filfd them with tho ts\\nwhat lliould become of them; by that time they had fat\\ndown waited an hour longer, it was very dark, and they\\ndefpaired of their returning to them. Some of the hidians\\ntold their Captain, They feared his new man Nathanael\\nThe Indians were accuftomed to often as there was danger of its becom-\\nhave fome call like a wolf s howl, a ing known to their enemies. Nathan-\\nloon s cry, or fomething of that fort being recently captured, would know\\nby which they could fignal each other what that fignal of his tribe now was.\\nin the woods. This was changed as ^34 perhaps 120 rods in width.\\n158", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "47\\nhad met zuith Jiis old Mount-hope friends^ and was turned\\nRogue. They concluded to make [47] no fires that\\nNight, (and indeed they had no great need of any) for\\nthey had no Vi6luals to cook, had not fo much as a morfel\\nof Bread with them. They took up their lodging fcattcr-\\ning, that if poffibly their Scout fliould come in the Night,\\nand whiftle (which was their fign) fome or other of them\\nmight hear them. They had a very folitary, hungry\\nNight; and as foon as the day broke they drew off thro\\nthe brufh to a hill without the Neck, and looking about\\nthem they efpy d one Indian man come running fomewhat\\ntowards them, the Captain ordered one man to flep out of\\nthe brufh and fhow himfelf Upon which the Indian ran\\nright to him, and who fhould it be but Capt. Lightfoot, to\\ntheir great joy. Capt. Church ask d him, What News\\nHe anfwered. Good News, they were all zuell and had\\ncatch^d Ten Indians, and that they guarded them all Night\\nin 07ie of the Flankers of the old Englifh GariHfon that\\ntheir prifoners were part of Annawons company, and that\\nthey had left their Families in a Swamp above Mattapoifet\\nNeck.^^^ And as they were Marching towards the old\\nGarrifon Lightfoot gave Capt. Church a particular account\\nof their Exploit, viz. That prefently after they left him, they\\nheard another Gun, which fecnid to be towards the Indian\\n335 Monday, ii September, 1676. 65, ante.) He muft have thought its\\n33 i That on the Ihores of the Kike- ufe had been found at laft.\\nmuit, about which Church had been fo 33- The neck of this name (Gardner s\\nexercifed the year before. (See note neck) in Swanfej.\\n159", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "[47\\nbiiryhig place^ moving that way, they difcovered two of\\nthe Enemy fleeing of an Horfe. The Scout claping into the\\nbrufi, Nathanael bid them ft down, and he would prefently\\ncall all the Indians thereabout tmto him. They hid, and he\\nwent a little difance back from, them and fat up his note\\nhowled like a Wolf One of the two immediately left his\\nHorfe came running to fee who was there but Nathanael\\nhowling lower and lower drew him, in between thofe that lay\\nin wait for him, who feized him, Nathanael continuing the\\nfame note, the other left the Horfe alfo following his mate,\\nmet with the fame. When they caught thefe two they ex-\\namined them apart, and fotmd them to agree in their Story,\\nthat there were Eight m,ore of them come down into the Neck\\nto get Provifions, and had agreed to m,eet at the burying place\\nthat evening. Thefe two being fome of Nathanaels old ac-\\nquainta7ice, he had great infltience upon them, ajid zvith his\\ninticing Story, telling what a brave Captain he had, how\\nbravely he lived f nee he had been with him, how much they\\nmight better their co7idition by turning to him, c.) per-\\n^8 Concerning this, Gen. Feflenden more than one cart-load of human\\nfajs, In regard to the location of the bones. There are now no appearances\\nOld Indian burjing-ground, I have of a cemetery there. This was doubt-\\nlong fince endeavored to find the lite of lefs a burjing-ground but whether it\\nit. A farmer informed me that when was the burjing-ground cannot be de-\\nhe was a boj, about the jear 1800, the termined. [yl/6 letier. The proba-\\npeople ftraightened the diredt road from bilitj feems urgent that this was an\\nthis place (Warren, R.-I) to Briftol Indian burjing-place, as all which have\\nand, on the top of a hill, about half been ufed bj the white fettlers are\\nwaj between the two places (2 miles doubtlefs well known. If fo, it is rea-\\nfrom each), thej dug through a burjing- fonable to infer that it was that to which\\nground, and carried off for interment reference is here made.\\n1 60", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "[48\\n/waded and ingaged them to be on hisjide, which indeed noiu\\nbegan to be the better Jide of the hedge. They waited bnt a\\nlittle while before they efpfd the refl of theirs coming up to\\nthe burying place, and Nathanael foon howfd them in as he\\nhad done their mates before. When Capt. Church came to\\nthe Garrifon, he met his Lieutenant and the refl of his\\ncompany and then making up good fires they fell to\\nroafting their Horfe-beaf, enough to laft them the whole\\nday, but had not a morfal of Bread; tho Salt they had\\nwhich they always carryed in their Pockets, which at this\\ntime was very acceptable to them. Their next motion was\\ntowards the place where the Prifoners told them they had\\nleft their Women and Children,^^ and furprized them all,\\nand fome others that were newly come to them. And\\nupon examination they held to one Story, that it was hard\\nto tell where to find Annawon, for he never roofted twice\\nin [48] a place. Now a certain Indian Souldier that Capt.\\nChurch had gain d over to be on his fide, pray d that he\\nmight have liberty to go and fetch in his Father, who he\\nfaid was about four Miles from that place, in a Siuamp\\nwith no other than one Young Squaw Capt. Church in-\\n839 Lieut. Rowland and his fquad, not far from what is now Swanfcy vil-\\non getting acrofs the ferry and follow- lage.\\ning Church, may have fallen in with Maftwkague fwamp in the fouth-\\none of Lightfoot s fcouts, or may have eaftern corner of Rehoboth, anfwcrs\\ngone to the old garrifon, at a venture, this requifition of diftance bcfides\\nas a likely place of meeting him, or lying near the rout to SquannakoMk\\nnews from him. Iwamp, where Annawon was, and\\n34\u00c2\u00ab Which the Indians had juft killed. whence thefe Indians whom Church\\n3ii A fwamp in Swanfey, probably had captured had come.\\n21 161", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "[48]\\nclined to go with him, thinking it might be in his way to\\ngain fome intelligence oi Annazvon and fo taking one Eji-\\ngli/Ji Man and a few Indians with him leaving the reft there,\\nhe went with his new Souldier to look his Father; when\\nhe came to the Swamps he bid the Indian go fee if he could\\nfind his Father: he was no fooner gone but Capt. Church\\ndifcover d a Track coming down out of the Woods, upon\\nwhich he and his little company lay clofe fome on one\\nfide of the Track fome on the other. They heard the\\nIndian Souldier make a howling for his Father; and at\\nlength fome body anfwered him, but while they were lifl-\\nening, they thought they heard fome body coming towards\\nthem, prefently faw an old man coming up with a Gun on\\nhis Shoulder, and a young Woman following of him in the\\nTrack which they lay by: They let them come up be-\\ntween them, and then ftarted up and laid hold on them\\nboth. Capt. Church immediately examined them a part,^^^\\ntelling them, What they mujl trujl too if they told fa If e Sto-\\nries He ask d the young Woman, What company they\\ncame lafi from She faid, from Capt. Annawons. He\\nasked her, How many were in compajiy with him, whenfJte\\nleft him? She faid, 50 or 60. He ask d her How many\\nMiles it was to the place where fJte left him She faid, She\\ndid not under/land Miles, but he was tip in Squannaconk\\nSwamp? The old man who had been one oi Philips\\n=5*3 Through one of his Indian foldiers eaftern fide of the town of Rehoboth,\\nas an interpreter. Mafs., about midway between its north-\\nSquamiakonk fwamp is on the ern and fouthern boundaries, and\\n162", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "48]\\nCouncil, upon examination, gave exa6lly the fame account.\\nCapt. Church ask d him. If they co7dd get there that Night?\\nHe faid. If they went prefently and travelled floutfy, they\\nmight get there by Sun fet.^^ He ask d Whither he was\\ngoing? He anfwered. That AnnTiwon had fent him dowit\\nto look for fome Indians, that were gone down into Mount-\\nhope IVeck to kill Provifions Capt. Church let him know\\nthat thofe Indians were all his Prifoners. By this time\\ncame the Indian Souldier brought his Father and one\\nIndian more. The Captain was now in great ftraight of\\nmind what to do next he had a mind to give Annawon a\\nvilit, now knew where to find him, but his company was\\nvery fmall, but half a dozen men belide himfelf, and\\nwas under a neceffity to fend fome body back to acquaint his\\nLieutenant company with his proceedings. However\\nhe asked his fmall company that were with him. Whither\\nthey would willingly go with him and give Annawon a vifit?\\nThey told him, They were always ready to obey his com-\\nmands, c. But withal told him, That they knew this Capt.\\nnearly touches, at fome points, the ^45 it could fcarcely have been more\\nweft line of Dighton Little Squatina- than 9 or 10 miles to Annawon s camp\\nkoiik and Bad-Luck fwamps lie be- but the way was, unqueftionably,\\ntween it and Refervoir pond on the through that miry country, tedious\\nfouth, out of which flows the main feed- and difficult, and the day was evi-\\ner of Palmer s (Warren) River. Mr. dently waning; as Church had already\\nDrake fays [edition of Mather s Brief marched, with many delays, from the\\nHijiory, 180], that Squannakonh prob- narrow of Poppafqualh neck, a diftance\\nably fignifies the Swamp of Night, which, by their finuous route, could\\nor Night-fwamp. But Mr. Trumbull hardly have been lefs than fifteen\\nfays, I can make nothing of this miles.\\nname. It is certainly corrupted, and Whom he had left at the fwan.p\\nhas loft at leaft one (initial) fyllable. above Mattapoifctt neck.\\n163", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "[49\\nAnnawon zvas a great Souldier that he had been a valiant\\nCaptain ttndcr Afuhmequn, Philips Father, and that he\\nhad been Philips Chieftain all this War a very fubtle man,\\nand of great refolution, and had of ten f aid, that he would\\nnever be taking alive by the Englifh j a7id moreover they knew\\nthat the men that were with him were ref o lute fellows, fome\\nd?/ Philip s chief Souldiers a7td therefore feared whether it\\nwas pra6licable to }nake an attempt upon him withfo [49]\\nfmall a handful of afjiflants as now were with him. Told\\nhim further, That it would be a pitty that after all the Great\\nThings he had done, he f wield throzv away his Life at lafl,\\nc. Upon which he replyed, That he doubted not Anna-\\nwon was a fubtle valiant Man: that he had a Ions time\\nbut in vain fought for him, and never till now could find\\nhis quarters; and he was very loth to mifs of the oppor-\\ntunity; and doubt not but that if they would chearfully go\\nwith him, the fame Almighty Providence that had hitherto\\nprotected and befriended them would do fo ftill, Up-\\non this with one confent they faid. They would go, Capt.\\nChurch then turned to one Cook oi Plymouth^^ (the only\\nMajfafoit had two names, each of accent on the fecond fjllable. The\\nwhich, in accordance with the humor other was written Woofamcqitin, Wa/a-\\nof the times, had a various fpelling. megin, UJfaniequen, AfuJimeqiiin, Oofa-\\nBradford wrote one Majfafoyt and mcquen, O/amekin, Oxv/amequin, O^vf-\\nMajfafoyet Window wrote it Ma/a- amequine, c. dc. [Bradford s Hiji.\\nfoyt and Majfajfo-vat Prince fajs, Plym. 94, 103; Young s Chronicles\\nI find the ancient People from their Plym. 191, 313; Prince s Annals, loi\\nFathers in Plimouth Co/owj pronounce Belknap s ^w^/ ^/j^. ii 212; Thatch-\\nhis name Ma-faf-fo-it to which r\\\\ Ind. Biog. w 117; T r^\\\\iQ Book of\\nThatcher adds (as if from Belknap, Ind. Si.]\\nwhat Belknap does not fay), with the Beyond queftion this was Caleb\\n164", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "[49]\\nEiigliJJi Man then with him) and ask d him, What he\\nthought of it Who replyed, Sir, I am never afraid of\\ngoing a7iy zvhere when you are with me. Then Capt.\\nChurch asked the old Indian, if he could carry his Ilorfe\\nwith him? for he conveyed a Horfe thus far with him:\\nHe reply d that it was impoffible for an Horfe to pafs the\\nSwamps, Therefore he fent away his new Indian Soul-\\ndier with his Father and the Captains Horfe to his Lieu-\\ntenant, and orders for him to move to Taunton with\\nthe Prifoners, to fecure them there, and to come out in the\\nMorning in the Rehoboth Road, in which he might expe6t\\nto meet him, if he were alive and had fuccefs.^** The\\nCaptain then asked the old fellow, If he would Pilot him\\nunto Anna-won He anfwered, that he having given\\nhim his life he was obliged toferve him. He bid him\\nmove on then; and they followed: The old man would\\nout-travel them, fo far fometimes that they were almoft out\\nof fight; looking over his Shoulder and feeing them be-\\nhind, he would halt. Juft as the Sun was fetting, the old\\nman made a full Hop and fat down, the company coming\\nup alfo fat down, being all weary. Capt. Church asked,\\nWhat news? He anfwered. That about that time in the\\nEvening Capt. Annawo7i, fent out his Scouts to fee if\\nthe Coaft were clear, and as foon as it began to grow dark\\nthe Scouts return. And then (faid he) we may move\\nCook, who fo narrowly miffed being miles from the fwamp where Lieut,\\nthe flayer of Philip. (See note 307, Plowland and his company were, north-\\nante?) cafterly up the weft bank of the Titkiit\\n\u00c2\u00ab9 It was probably twelve or thirteen (Taunton) River to Taunton.\\n165", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "[49\\nagain fecurely. When it began to grow dark the old man\\nftood up again, Capt. Church asked him, if he would take\\na Gun and fight for him? He bowed very low and pray d\\nhim not to impofe fuch a thing upon him, as to fight\\nagainft Capt. Annawon his old friend. But fayes he, I\\nwill go along with you, and be helpful to you, and will lay\\nhands on any man that fhall offer to hurt you. It being\\nnow pretty dark they moved clofe together; anon they\\nheard a noife, the Captain ftay d the old man with his hand,\\nand asked his own men what noife they thought it might\\nbe? they concluded it to be the pounding of a Mortar.\\nThe old man had given Capt. Church a defcription of the\\nPlace where Annowon now lay, and of the Difficulty of\\ngetting at him: being fenlible that they were pretty near\\nthem, with two of his Indians he creeps to the edge of the\\nRocks,^\u00c2\u00b0 from whence he could fee their Camps; he saw\\nA continuous tradition has pre- change of years, has made the pofition\\nferved the identity of this fpot. It is more acceffible than of old, although\\nan out-cropping ledge of rocks in a wet ground ftill furrounds the ropk.\\nbit of upland in the northern part of The traveller will find, perhaps So rods\\nSquannako7ik fwamp in Rehoboth. It bej ond Mr. Blifs s houl e (which ftands\\nmay now be reached by the old turn- in the angle where another road crofles\\npike from Taunton to Providence, and the pike), a tree on the left, larger than\\nis between the houfes on that road now any near it, which bears the marks of\\noccupied by Seneca Blifs and Noah being often ufed as a hitching-poft;\\nFuller on the left fide as you go to- with a path leading thence fouth-eafterly\\nward Providence, and about 6-^ miles into the woods. Following that path,\\nfrom Taunton. This portion of the fay So paces, he will begin to afcend\\nfwamp is owned by Nathan Pratt of the ledge which flopes up before him\\nTaunton, who married a daughter of at an angle of perhaps 40 degrees, and\\nDea. Blifs, its former proprietor. The the length of which lies acrofs his way\\nbuilding of this road through the north- up, and apparently not far from north-\\nern end of the fwamp, with the natural eafl; and fouth-weft. From pacing it,\\n166", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "[50]\\nthree companies of Indians at a little diflancc from each\\nother, being eafy to be difcovered by the light of their fires.\\nHe faw alfo the great An\\\\j^o\\\\nawo7t and his company,\\nwho had formed his Camp or Kennelling-place, by falling\\na Tree under the fide of the great clefts of Rocks, and fit-\\nting a row of birch bufiies up againft it, where he himfelf,\\nand his Son, and fome of his chiefs had taken up their\\nlodging, and made great fires without them, and had their\\nPots and Kittles boiling, and Spits roaft:ing. Their Arms\\nalfo he difcovered, all fet together in a place fitted for the\\npurpofe (landing up an end againfl; a fi;ick lodged in two\\ncrotches, and a ISIat placed over them, to keep them from\\nthe wet or dew. The old Annawons feet and his Sons\\nhead were fo near the Arms as almofl: to touch them: But\\nI judge that this ledge may average 125\\nfeet in length by 75 feet in width, ter-\\nminating on its fouthern and weftern\\nfide in rugged cliffs from 30 to 40 feet\\nin hight. The rock is a pudding-ftone,\\nthick fet with pebbles, and has evidently\\nfelt the effedl of convulfion, or other\\nrough treatment, along its fouthern and\\nfouth-weftern edge, which is jagged,\\nand from which huge bowlders, now\\nlying at its bafe, have been torn.\\nAbout two-thirds of the way weft, along\\nthis fouthern face, is a deep recefs, ac-\\nceffible from above with difficulty by the\\naid of the bulbes growing in the clefts,\\nwhich anfwers well to Church s defcrip-\\ntion of the fpot in which Annawon was\\nnow encamped. The growth of trees\\naround the rock has recently been\\nfelled and the firft feeling of the vifitor\\nis one of furprife that a retreat fo ex-\\npofed on the fouthern fide as this now\\nfeems to be, Ihould have anfwered the\\nconditions of Annawon s camp. But,\\non reflexion, one will fee, that, with\\nthe fwamp as it then was, the rock\\ncould be reached only from the upland\\nifthmus which connected it with the\\nmain land, which lay probably in the\\ndireaion from which the path now ap-\\nproaches the fpot; while the fide which\\nnow feems expofed was not only pro-\\ntefted by the furrounding water and\\nmire, but iTiut in and concealed by the\\nold foreft growth. From the edge of\\nthe cliff, Church could look down upon\\nAnnawon, his fon, and chiefs, almoft\\ndiredtly under him, and upon the three\\ncompanies around their fires, fcattered\\nalong its fouthern fiice.\\n167", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "[so]\\nthe Rocks were fo fteep that it was impoffible to get down,\\nbut as they lowered themfelves by the bows, and the\\nbufhes that grew in the cracks of the Rock. Capt. Church\\ncreeping back again to the old man, asked him, If there\\nwas no poffibility of getting at them fome other way? He\\nanfwered, no. That he and all that belonged to Annawon\\nwere ordered to come that way, and none could come any\\nother way without difficulty or danger of being fhot. Capt.\\nChurch then ordered the old man and his daughter to go\\ndown fore-moft with their baskets at their backs, that when\\nAnnawon faw them with their baskets he fhould not mif-\\ntruft the intregue Capt. Church and his handful of Soul-\\ndiers crept down alfo under the fhadow of thefe two and\\ntheir baskets, and the Captain himfelf crept clofe behind\\nthe old man, with his Hatchet in his hand, and ftep d over\\nthe young mans head to the Arms, the young Annawon\\ndifcovering of him, whip d his blanket over his head and\\nflirunk up in a heap: The old Capt. Annawon flarted up\\non his breech, and cryed out Hozvoh^^^ and defpairing of\\nefcape^^^ throw himfelf back again, and lay lilent until\\nCapt. Church had fecured all the Arms, c. And having\\nfecured that company, he fent his Indian Souldiers to the\\n^1 HotvoJi I i.e. Aivaufi ervb Who Annawon probably had no idea\\nis that? [Roger Williams s Aly. i?.-/. that Church would have the boldneis\\nCoU. i 29.] or Hozvan who? thus to beard him in his den, without an\\ne.g., Hoivan yeuoh -vag Edo7n d-c, abundant force furrounding and irre-\\nWho is this that Cometh from Edom, fiftibly enclofing him on every fide;\\nc. lEliot, Ifaiak Ixiii i.] This as was reprefented to be the fai5l to\\nfeems to have been the ufual challenge the other companies, by his Indian fol-\\nWho s there? diers.\\n168", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "[51\\nother fires companies, giving them inftruaions, what to\\ndo and fay. Accordingly, they went into the midft of\\nthem: When they difcovered themfelves who they were,\\ntold them that their Capt. Annawon was taken, and it\\nwould be beft for them quietly and peaceably to furrender\\nthemfelves, which would procure good quarter for them:\\nOtherwife if they fhould pretend to refifl or make their ef-\\ncape, it would be in vain, and they could expe6t no other\\nbut that Capt. Chtirch with his great Army, who had now\\nentrap d them, would cut them to pieces: told them alfo if\\nthey would fubmit themfelves, and deliver up all their\\nArms unto them, and keep every man his place until it\\nwas day; they would aifure them that their Capt. Church\\nwho had been fo kind to themfelves when they furrendred\\nto him, fhould be as kind unto them. Now they being old\\nacquaintance, and many of them Relations did much the\\nreadier give heed to what they faid, and complyed fur-\\nrendred up their Arms unto them, both their Guns and\\nHatchets, c. and were forthwith carryed to Capt. Church.\\nThings being fo far fettled, Capt. Church asked Annatuoji,\\nWhat he had for Supper, for faid he I am come to Sup\\n[51] with you. Taubut^ (faid Anncnvon) with a big\\nvoice; and looking about upon his Women, bid them haften\\nand get Capt. Chtirch and his company fome Supper; then\\nturned to Capt. Church and asked him. Whether he would\\n853\\nTatibut: Literally, It is fatif- well; Tdubot ne faump mauutln ttit,\\nfaaory, tres bien, e.g., Taubut 1 am -lad they are well. [Roger\\n/aww/ \u00c2\u00bbmM\u00c2\u00ab/a;\u00c2\u00aba\u00c2\u00ab, lamgladyouare Williams R.-I. Hijh Coll. i: 27.]\\n22 169", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "[51\\neat Cow-beaf or Horfe-beaf, The Captain told him Cow-beaf\\nwould be moft acceptable: It was foon got ready, and pul-\\nling his little bag of Salt out of his Pocket, which was all\\nthe Provifion he brought with him; this feafon d his Cow-\\nbeaf fo that with it and the dry d green-corn, which the old\\nSquaw was pounding in the Mortar,^ while they were\\nAiding down the Rocks, he made a very hearty Supper.\\nAnd this pounding in the Mortar proved lucky for Capt.\\nChurches getting down the Rocks, for when the old Squaw\\npounded they moved, and when fhe ceafed to turn the corn,\\nthey ceafed creeping, the noife of the Mortar prevented the\\nEnemies hearing their creeping: and the corn being now\\ndrefled fupplyed the want of Bread, and gave a fine relifh\\nwith the Cow-beaf. Supper being over, Capt. Church fent\\ntwo of his men to inform the other companies, that he had\\nkilled Philips and had taken their friends in Mount-hope\\nNeck,^^ but had fpared their lives, and that he had fub-\\ndued now all the Enemy he fuppofed excepting this\\ncompany of Annawons, and now if they would be orderly\\nand keep their places until Morning, they fhould have good\\nquarter, and that he would carry them to Taunton, where\\nthey might fee their friends again, c. The Meffengers\\nThe mode of pounding dry times a depreflion in the face of a rock.\\nmaize, by the grain-raifing tribes, va- [Schoolcraft s Inf. re/J e ^ing the Ind.\\nried confiderably. It was a fpecies Tribes iii 466.]\\nof work left wholly to the women, who That is, thofe whom Annawon had\\ngenerally exercifed their ingenuity in fent down to Poppafqualh, and the\\nits reduction. When circumftances fa- regions beyond it, after provifions\\nvored it, mortars and peftles of ftone whom Church had captured the day\\nwere employed. The mortar was fome- before.\\n170", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "returned, that the Indians yielded to his propofals. Capt.\\nCJmrch tho t it was now time for him to take a Nap, hav-\\ning had no fleep in two days and one night before; told\\nhis men that if they would let him fleep two hours, they\\nfhould fleep all the reft of the night. He lay d himfelf\\ndown and endeavoured to fleep, but all difpofition to fleep\\ndeparted from him. After he had lain a little while he\\nlooked up to fee how his Watch managed, but found them\\nall faft a-fleep. Now Capt. Church had told Capt. Attna-\\nwons company, as he had ordered his Indians to tell the\\nothers, that their lives fhould all be fpared, excepting Capt.\\nAnnawons, and it was not in his power to promife him his\\nlife, but he muft carry him to his Mafters at Plymouth^\\nand he would intreat them for his life. Now when Capt.\\nChurch found not only his own men, but all the Indians\\nfaft a-fleep Annawon only excepted, whom he perceived\\nwas as broad awake as himfelf; and fo they lay looking\\none upon the other perhaps an hour; Captain Church faid\\nnothing to him, for he could not fpeak Indian^ and tho t\\nAnnawon could not fpeak EngliJJi at length Annawon\\nraifed himfelf up, caft oft his blanket, and with no more\\nclothes than his fmall breeches, walked a little way back\\nfrom the company: Capt. Church tho t no other but that\\nhe had occafion to eafe himfelf, and fo walked to fomc dif-\\n356 It will be remembered, that been principal Adors in thofe Villa-\\nChurch s commiffion (fee p. loi, arite) nies. Compare the ai5lion of Ply-\\nexpreffly excepted from- his power of mouth Court, 7 July, 1676; and alfo 4\\nreceiving to mercy fuch as were November following. \\\\_Plym. Col. Rcc.\\nMurderous Rogues, or fuch as have v: 205; xi 242.]", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "[5^\\ntance rather than offend him with the flink: but by and\\nby he was gone out of fight and hearing; and then Capt.\\nChurch began to fufpect fome ill deiign in him, and got all\\nthe Guns clofe to him, and crouded himfelf clofe under\\n3 oung Annawo?t, that if he fhould any where [52] get a\\nGun he fhould not make a fhot at him without indanger-\\ning his Son; lying very ftill a while waiting for the event:\\nat length, he heard fome body coming the fame way that\\nAnnawon went. The Moon now fhining bright, he faw\\nhim at a diftance coming with fomething in his hands,\\nand coming up to Capt. Church, he fell upon his knees\\nbefore him, and offer d him what he had bro t, and fpeak-\\ning in plain Englijli, faid, Great Capiam, you have killed\\nPhilip, and conquered his Country for I believe, that I my\\ncompany are the laji that War againjl the Y^ngWih., fo fuppo/e\\nthe War is ended by your means and therefore thefe things\\nbelong U7ito you. Then opening his pack, he pull d out\\nPhilips belt curioufly wrought with Wompojn^~ being Nine\\nWompom (plural \\\\Vo7npotnpeag) Jexvati, i.e., fcattered, loofe. The\\nwas the Indian name for the white Englifh, not underftanding, or dilre-\\nbeads ufed as currency, or for the pay- garding, the diftind:ion of colors, af-\\nment of tribute from tribe to tribe fumed the name of the cheaper and\\nfrom vjoffipi, white. The black, or, more common wow/ompeag as generic,\\nmore properly, the purple beads, made and called all Ibell-money tvompom.\\nfrom the margin of the fhell of the Dr. Palfrey fays thefe beads were a\\nround clam {Venus 7nercetiarta), were quarter of an inch long, and in diameter\\ncaWeA J uckauhock, dark-colored-fhell. lefs than a pipe-ftem, drilled lengthwife.\\nThefe beads when ftrung, in bands or Gookin and Roger Williams teftify, that\\ngirdles, were called, generally, peag the white beads (or ivompom proper)\\nwhen \\\\oo{q, fi:axvh6og {farvhoog, Roger were rated at half the value of the\\nWilliams sifej. i?.-/. Co//, i: 131); black. Palfrey adds that the former\\nby the Dutch and other traders, yea wa;/, paffed for a farthing each in tranfac-\\n173", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "52\\ninclies broad, wrought with black and white Wompom,\\nin various figures and flowers, and pi6tures of many birds\\nand beafts. This when hung upon Capt. Churches fhoul-\\nders it reach d his ancles. And another belt of Wompom\\nhe prefented him with, wrought after the former manner,\\nwhich Philip was wont to put upon his head; it had two\\nflags on the back part which hung down on his back: and\\nanother fmall belt with a Star upon the end of it, which\\nhe ufed to hang on his breafl;; and they were all edg d\\nwith red hair, which Annawon faid they got in the Muh-\\nhogs^^ Country. Then he pulled out two horns of glazed\\nPowder, and a red cloth Blanket; He told Capt. Chirch^\\nthefe were Philips Royalties^ which he was wont to\\ntions between the natives and the col-\\nonifts that is, 960 to the pound fterling.\\nA law was pafTed, however, in the Mafs.\\nColony, 2 June, 1641, to this effedl\\nIt is ordered that wampampege fhall\\npaffe currant at 6 a penny for any\\nfumme under \u00c2\u00a310, for debts hereafter\\nto bee made. In Sept., 1648, the com-\\nmifTioners of the United Colonies, from\\nthe fa(5l that the Indians and traders\\ncheated in dealing with wampum,\\nfmaule great uncomly diforderly\\nmingled, recommended an order that\\nnone Ihould bee payed or Refcaiued\\nbut what is in fom meafure ftrunge\\nfutably; but the General Courts did\\nnot agree to it. In 1660 it was rated\\nat 55. a fathom. [Palfrey s Hiji. N. E.\\ni: 31; Mafs. Col. Rec. i: 329; Plym.\\nCol. Rec. ix: 136, 149; x: 251 I Mafs.\\nHiJl. Coll. i: 152; R.-I.HiJl. Coll. i:\\n130-]\\nThey \\\\^peag\\\\ were ufed for orna-\\nment as well as for coin, and 10.000\\nhave been known to be wrought into a\\nfingle war-belt four inches wide.\\n[Palfrey s HiJi. N. E.\\\\: 32.] They\\nmake girdles curioufly, of one, two,\\nthree, foure and five inches thicknefle\\nand more, of this money, which (fome-\\ntimes to the value of \u00c2\u00a310 and more)\\nthey weare about their middle and as a\\nfcarfe about their fhoulders and breafts.\\nYea, the Princes make rich Caps and\\nAprons (or fmall breeches) of thefe\\nBeads thus curioufly flrung into many\\nformes and figures their blacke and\\nwhite finely mixt together. [Roger\\nWilliams s Key. R.-I. HiJi- Coll. i\\n131-]\\n35 Mohawk s country.\\n86 It is an interefting queftion what\\nbecame of thefe royalties after they\\nwere thus pafled into the hands of\\n173", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "[52\\nadorn himfelf with when he fat in State. That he tho t him-\\nfelf happy that he had an opportunity to prefent them to\\nCapt. Church, who had won them, c. fpent the remainder\\nof the night in difcourfe; and gave an account of what\\nmighty fuccefs he had formerly in Wars againft many\\nNations of Indians, when ferved Afuhmequin^^^ Philips\\nFather, c. In the Morning as foon as it was Hght, the\\nCaptain March d with his Prifoners out of that Swampy\\nCountry towards Tau7tton, met his Lieutenant and Compa-\\nChurch. I find no note of their\\nprefervation in Church s houfehold,\\nnor any evidence that the tradition to\\nwhich Mr. Drake refers, tracing them\\nto the cuftodj of a family in Swanfey,\\n\\\\^Book of Ind. 239] has any foundation\\nin fa6l. It is moft reafonable to fup-\\npofe that Church turned them over to\\nthe Government, and evidence has juft\\nbeen brought to light which indicates\\nthat moft, if not all, of the articles here\\nreferred to, were fent as prefents by the\\nPlymouth Governor to King Charles\\nthe Second. Dr. Palfrey has depofited\\nwith the Mafs. Hiftorical Society the\\ncopy of a letter obtained by him from\\nthe State-Paper Office [^Colonial Papers\\nNo. xlvi. Art. 149], from Jofias Winflow\\nto the king, of date New Plymouth,\\n26 June, 1677, in which the Governor\\ncraves His Majefty s acceptance of\\nthefe few Indian rarities, beeing the\\nbeft of our fpoyles, and the beft of the\\nornaments and treafure of fachem\\nPhilip the grande Rebell, the moft of\\nthem taken from him by Capt. Benja-\\nmin Church (a perfon of great loyalty\\nand the moft fuccefsful of our com-\\nmanders) when hee was flayne by him;\\nbeing his Crowne, his gorge, and two\\nbelts of theire owne makeing of theire\\ngolde and filver. [Ma/s. Hijl. Soc.\\nProceedings^ 1863-4, p. 481.] This de-\\nfcription accords very well with that\\ngiven by Church. The crowne was,\\ndoubtlefs, the belt which Philip\\nwas wont to put upon his head the\\ngorge \\\\_gorget, a crefcent-fhaped\\nplate worn round the neck by officers\\non duty, WorceJlerA^ rnay have been\\nthe fmall belt with a Star upon the\\nend of it, which he ufed to hang upon\\nhis breaft.\\nIt has been ufual to regard Maffa-\\nfoit as a man of peace. Mr. Thatcher\\nfays he did not diftinguilh himself\\nas a warrior; nor is he known to have\\nbeen once engaged in any open hof-\\ntilities, even with the inimical and\\npowerful tribes who environed his terri-\\ntory. \\\\^Ind. Biog. w 140]. But this tef-\\ntimony of Annawon, as well as other\\nevidence which might eafily be cited, in-\\ntimates that he was much like other\\nIndians in that refpedl.\\n3^ Tuefday, 12 September?\\n74", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "[\u00c2\u00a32\\nny, about four Miles out of Town,^^ who expreffed a great\\ndeal of joy to fee him again, and faid, twas more than ever\\nhe expected. They went into Taunto7t, were civily and\\nkindly treated by the Inhabitants, refrefhed and relied\\nthemfelves that night. Early next Morning,^*^ the Captain\\ntook old Annawon, and half a dozen of his Indian Soul-\\ndiers, and his own man, and went to Rhode-IJIand, fending\\nthe reft of his Company and his Prifoners by his Lieuten-\\nant to Plymouth. Tarrying two or three days upon the\\nIfland, he then went to Plymouth, and carryed his Wife\\nand his two Children with him.\\nCapt. Church had been but a little while at Plymouth,\\nbefore he was informed of a parcel oi Indians, that haunted\\nthe Woods between Plymoiith and Sippican, that did great\\ndamage to the EngliJIi in killing their Cattel, Horfes and\\nSwine; and the Captain was foon in purfuit of them:\\nWent out from Plymouth the next Monday^ in the after-\\nnoon; next Morning early they difcovered a Track; the\\n3G3\\nChurch would moft likely ftrike him from motives of kindnefs to that\\nthe old Taunton and Providence road, chief, left the Plymouth authorities\\nthen a trail, near the eaft flank of might make Ihort work with him before\\nGreat-Meadow Hill, a half-mile north his return.\\nof the rock where he had encamped; See note 314, nutc. It is mv im-\\nfrom whence it would be nearly eight preffion that this expedition is here mif-\\nmiles to Taunton. As he met his Lieu- placed, really belonging m the laft week\\ntenant about half way, they muft have of Auguft or the firft week of September,\\ncome together a little eaft of the Scgre- before Annawon s capture. This ISIon-\\nganfet River, probably not far from the day may, then, have been Monday, 28\\nprefent refidence of G. Dean. Aug., or pofllbly the 4th September.\\n304 [Wednefday, 13 September.?] As Church himfelf gives fmall clew\\nhis occafions led him to Rhode-Illand, to the geography of this expedition.\\nChurch doubtlefs took Annawon with It is obvious, however, that the marau-\\n175", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "[53\\nCaptain fent two Indians on the Track to fee what they\\ncould difcover, while he and his Company followed gently\\nafter, but [53] the two Indians foon returned with Ty-\\ndings that they had difcovered the Enemy fitting round\\ntheir fires, in a thick place of brufii. When they came\\npretty near the place, the Captain ordered every man to\\ncreep as he did; and furround them by creeping as near as\\nthey could, till they fliould be difcovered, and then to run\\non upon them and take them alive, if pofilble, for their\\nPrifoners wxre their pay: They did fo, took every one\\nthat was at the fires, not one efcaping. Upon examination\\nthey agreed in their Story, that they belonged to Tifpa-\\nquin^^ who was gone w^ith John Bump,^^^ and one more,\\nders of whom he was in fearch were\\nbetween Plymouth and Sippican\\nand as he did not leave Plymouth until\\nafternoon, he could not have been many\\nmiles on his way (unlefs he marched\\nall night, which is not probable) when\\nhe difcovered their track. Hubbard fays\\n\\\\_Narrative 107] that the place was\\nnear Lakenham upon Pocajfct Neck.\\nHe was probably right in the place, and\\nwrong in its relative pofition. Laken-\\nham was the name very early given to\\nthe meadows Ij ing eaft of Six-mile\\nBrook and near Wenham Pond, on\\nthe road to Nemafket, in what is now\\nCarver; at leaft 28 miles, air-line dif-\\ntance, from PocaJJet, yet exa(5lly where\\nChurch would be likelieft to be, on a\\nfcout for Indians lurking between Ply-\\nmouth and Sippican. It is about 6\\nmiles from Plymouth.\\nSee note 227, ante.\\n368 pg-vv family names have had a\\nmore curious transformation, in the\\nprocefs of popular ufe, than that which\\nis here attached to this Indian. Origi-\\nnally the Huguenot Bompajfe (from\\nBon- fas)., it became corrupted firft to\\nBumpafs, then to Biunpus, and finally\\nto Bump I Edward, who came over in\\nthe Fortune, in 1621, founded a very\\nworthy family, which ftill holds its own\\nin the Old Colony. Mr. Drake, in his\\nedition of Church, fuppoles that the In-\\ndian here referred to may have derived\\nhis name from fome aflbciation with\\nmembers of this family. It feems to\\nme more probable, that his genuine\\nIndian name fo refembled theirs in\\nfound as to have become confufed with\\nit. There was a John Wampees, who\\nappears on the lift of diuers Indians\\ninhabiting att Agaivaam, Sepecan, and\\nWezveante, with other Places adjoyn-\\n176", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "53 J\\nto Agawom and Sippican^ to kill Ilorfcs, and were not\\nexpected back in two or three days. This fame Tifpaquiji\\nhad been a great Captain, and the Indians reported that he\\nwas fuch a great Pouwau^ that no bullet could enter him,\\nc. Capt. Church faid. He would not have him killed,\\nfor there was a War broke out in the Eaftern Part of the\\nCountry, and he would have him faved to go with them\\nto fight the Eajlern IndiansF Agreeably he left two old\\nSquaws of the Prifoners, and bid them tarry there until\\ntheir Capt. Tifpaquin returned, and to tell him, that Church\\nhad been there, and had taken his Wife, Children, and\\ncompany, and carryed them down to Plymonth and would\\nfpare all their lives, and his too, if he would come down\\ning, who engaged theire Fidelitie to\\nthe Gou rment of New Plymouth, 6\\nJuly, 1671. Bompaffe and Wampees,\\nas then popularly pronounced, could\\nnot, I think, have feemed very unlike\\nand it is my impreffion that this was\\nthe fame John .who, like Tautozen in\\nthe fame lift, proved faithlefs to the\\nfidelity which he engaged. [^Plym.\\nCol. Rec. v: 72.]\\nSee note 209, ayite.\\nSee note 210, anie.\\nPauwau {Pov. 0-m). Eliot ufes this\\nword in the form in which Church\\nwrites it, for a witch, or wizard,\\nor magician. [e.g., Exod. -xxW: 18;\\nDan. iv 7.] Roger Williams gives\\nPo-Mvjdvj, and defines thefe doe\\nbegin and order their fervice, and In-\\nvocation of their Gods, and all the peo-\\nple follow, and joyne interchangeably\\nin a laborious bodily fervice, unto\\n23 I\\nfweating, efpecially of the Prieft, who\\nfpends himfelfe in ftrange Antick Gef-\\ntures, and AAions even unto fainting.\\n[Acj. R.-I. Hijl. Coll. i: iii.] De\\nVries fays of the Indians at Cayenne,\\nTheir priefts they call peoayos we\\ncall them forcerers. So the word\\nmud have had a wide range, territo-\\nrially, and a very refpeAable antiquity.\\nThough not exadtly a fimple or primi-\\ntive word, its etymology is too ohfcure\\nto be given without a preliminary trca-\\ntife on Indian roots.\\nWakely (Hubbard calls him Wa-\\nterly) and his family, were murdered\\nby the Indians at Falmouth, Me., in\\nthe fecond week of SeptembeV; and\\nother outbreaks at Saco, Scarborough,\\nWells, Kittery, c., foon followed.\\n[Hubbard s Narrative of Troubles, it-c,\\nfrom Pafcataqiia to Pcmmaqitid, 16;\\nPalfrey s Ilifl N. E. iii 207.]\\n77", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "[53\\nto them and bring the other two that were with him, and\\nthey fhould be his Souldiers, Capt. Church then\\nreturned to Plymouth^ leaving the old Squaws well pro-\\nvided for, and Bisket for Tifpaqidn when he returned:\\nTelling his Souldiers, that he doubted not but he had laid\\na Trap that would take him.^ Capt. Church two days af-\\nter went to BoJlo7i\\\\ the Commiffioners then fitting and\\nwaited upon the Honourable Governour Leverett who then\\nlay Sick;^ who requefted of Capt. Church to give him\\nfome account of the War: who readily obliged his Hon-\\nour therein, to his great Satisfaction, as he was pleafed to\\nexprefs himfelf; taking him by the hand, and telling him,\\nif it pleafed God he lived, he would make it a brace of a\\nhundred pounds advantage to him out of the Maffachufetts\\nColony, and would endeavour the reft of the Colonies\\nfhould do Proportionably;^ but he dyed within a Fort-\\nThis language is to be interpreted Artillery Company, 1639, holding fuc-\\nhonorably. Church does not mean ceffively all its offices was freeman 13\\nthat he had laid a trap to take the May, 1640; 27 May, 1663, he was chofen\\nBlack Sachem by a falfe promife, as Major-General, and every year after-\\nmight feem, in the light of fubfequent wards, until he was chofen Governor,\\nevents; but that, in offering him a in 1673, which office he held until his\\nCaptaincy under him to fight the Eaft- death befides being feledlman, deputy,\\nern Indians, he had held out an induce- affiftant, c. c. No fadl can be bet-\\nment fufficient to fecure his capitulation, ter eftablifhed than that he died 16\\nas the refult proved. March, 167S-9, or about 2 years and 5\\nThe Commiffioners of the three months later than the date to which\\nConfederate Colonies. Church would here affign his deceafe\\n5 Joint Leverett was the only fon another proof that the old warrior dic-\\nof Elder Thomas Leverett, and was lated from a memory not always accu-\\nborn in England in 1616, and came to rate in minutiae. [See N. E. Hijl. and\\nNew England with his parents in Sept., Gen. Reg. iv 125-32.]\\n1633; joined Bofton Church 14 July, ^76 q^^ Leverett, on behalf of the\\ni^ 39; joined the Ancient and Honorable General Court of Mafs., wrote to the\\n178", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "53\\nnight after, and fo nothing was done of that nature. The\\nfame day^ Tifpaqtiin came in and thofe that were with\\nhim, but when Capt. Church return d from Bojlon^ he found-\\nto his grief that the heads oi Annawon, Tifpaqtiin^ c. cut\\noff, which were the lafl of Philips friends.^ The General\\nCourt of Plymouth then fitting^ fent for Capt. Church who\\nwaited upon them accordingly, and received their Thanks\\nfor his good Service, which they Unanimoufly Voted,\\nwhich was all that Capt. Church had for his aforefaid Ser-\\nvice.\\nAfterwards in the Year 1676. in the Month of Janu-\\nary^^ Capt. Church received a Commiffion*^^ from Gover-\\nGovernor of Plymouth, 17 0(5l., 1676,\\nin regard to fending an expedition\\neaft againft the hoftile Indians there.\\nWherein, he fays, wee defire ex-\\npect yo concurrance w us, affiftance\\nof us w* fome Englilli, alfo fome of\\nyour Indians, Caft, Church, xvhom\\nnve hatie fpoken with here, d- finde him\\nready to ferve God the country re-\\nqueft therefore your fpeedy fending of\\nhim, fuch as yow fhall see meet, to\\nafift in that defigne. {^Mafs. Col. Rec.\\nv: 126.] I find no refponfe to this on\\nthe Plymouth Records.\\n8 That is, the fame day which\\nChurch refers to in his account of fct-\\nting his trap for Tifpaquin.\\n8^ Hubbard fays the Plymouth au-\\nthorities tefted Tifpaquin on his reputa-\\ntion of being impenetrable by bullets,\\nbut he fell down at the firft Ihot.\\n{^Narrative, 107.] The fadt probably\\nwas, that the Court, having committed\\nthemfelves to the policy of extermina-\\ntion, fo far as the ringleaders of late\\nbutcheries were concerned, did not fee\\nfit to gratify Church by making excep-\\ntions in thefe eminent cafes. The\\nHome Government at London-:- if we\\nmay judge by the records of the times\\nwould have been even more unyield-\\ning.\\n3-9 The Court met i Nov., 1676.\\nIn the Old Style the month of\\nJanuary, 1676, came after, inftead of\\nbefore, November and December; the\\nyear beginning with 25th March, in-\\nftead of ift January.\\n3^1 After the Annawon expedition,\\nChurch s old company fcems to have\\ndifbanded; and, from the ilTue of this\\nnew commiffion to him at this time,\\nthe force of the old would feem to have\\nexpired.\\n179", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "[54\\nnour Winjlozv, to Scoure the Woods offome of the lurking\\nEnemy, which they were well informed were there.\\nWhich Commiffion is as follows: [54]\\nBEing well informed that there are certain parties of 07ir\\nIndian Enemies, remains of the People, or Allies of\\nPhilip, late Sachem of Mount-hope, our Mortal Enemy)\\nthat are Jim lurking in the Woods near fome of our Pla^ita-\\ntions, that go on to diflurb the Peace of His Majeflfs Subjefls\\nin this the Neighbotiri^ig Colonies, by their frequent Rob-\\nberies, and other Infolences. Capt. Benjamin Church is\\ntherefore hereby Nominated, Ordered, Commifjioned, and\\nTmpoivred to raife a Compa7iy of Volunteers, conffiing of\\nEnglifh and Indians* fo many as he fJiall judge necefjfary to\\nimprove in the prefent Expedition, and can obtain And of\\nthem to take the Command, and Conduct, and to lead them\\nforth unto fuch place or places zvithin this or the Neighbour-\\ning Colonies, as he fJiall think fit, and as the Providence of\\nGod, and his Intclligc7ice may lead him To Difcover, Pur-\\nfue. Eight, Surprize, Defiroy, and Subdue our faid Indian\\nE7iemy, or any party or parties of them, that by the Provi-\\ndence of God they inay meet with Or them, or any of them\\nto receive to Mercy, if he fee canfe {provided they be not Mur-\\nderous Rogues, or fuch as have been principal Aflors in thofe\\nVilanies. And for the Profecution of this defign, liberty is\\nhereby grajited to the faid Capt. Church, a7id others, to Arm\\nandfet out fuch of our friendly Indians, as he is willing to\\nEntertain. And for af much as all thefe our Enemies that\\nhave been taken, or at any time may be taken by our Forces,\\n180", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "54\\nhave by our Courts and Councils been rendred lawful Cap-\\ntives of War, and condemned to perpetual Servitude; this\\nCouncil do alfo determine and hereby declare, That allfuch\\nPrifo7iers as by the bleffing of God thefaid Captain and Com-\\npany, or any of them,fJiall take, together with their Arms,\\nand other P hinder, flia II be their own, and to be diflributed\\namongH themf elves, according to fuch agreement as they may\\nbe at one with another And itfhall be lawful, and is hereby\\nwarrantable for him and them to make Sale of fuch Prifon-\\ners as their perpetiial Slaves or otherwife to retain and keep\\nthem as they think meet, they being fuch as the Law allows\\nto be kept Finally, the faid Capt. Church herein improv-\\ning his befl judgment and difcretion, and utmofl ability,\\nfaithfully to Serve the Interefl of God, his Majcflies Interefl,\\nand the Interefl of the Colony and carefully governing his\\nfaid Company at home and abroad thefefliall be unto him\\nfull and ample Commiffion, Warrant ajid Difcharge. Giv-\\nen under the Publick Seal. January 15th. 1676.\\nPer Jofiah Winflow, GOV.\\nAccordingly Capt. Church accompanied with feveral\\nGentlemen and others went out, and took divers parties of\\nIndia7ts; and in one of which Parties there was a certain\\nold man whom Capt. Church fecm d to take particular\\nnotice of, and asking him where he belonged, wlio told\\nhim to Swanzey the Captain ask d his name, who rcplyed,\\nhis name was Confcience Co7tfcie7ice faid the Captam\\nfmiling then the War is over, for that was what they", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "54\\nwere fearching for, it being much wanting; and then\\nreturned the faid Confcience to his Poll again at Swansey,\\nto a certain perfon the faid Indian delired to be Sold to/^^\\nand fo return d home.\\n^2 22 July, 1676, it had been ordered\\nby the Ph mouth Council of War\\nWhereas it is apprehended that the\\np mition of Indian men that are cap-\\ntiues to fettle and abide within this\\ncollonie may proue prejuditiall to our\\ncoinon peace and fafety, confidering\\nthat there hath neuer bin any lycence\\nfor fuch foe to doe, it is ordered by the\\ncouncell and the authoritie thereof,\\nthat noe Indian male captiue fhall\\nrefide in this gou ment that is aboue\\n14 yeers of age att the begining of his\\nor theire captiuity, and if any fuch cap-\\ntiues aboue that age are now in the\\ngou ment, which are not defpofed of\\nout of this jurifdi(5tion by the is of\\nOdtober next, ftiall forthwith be def-\\npofed of for the vfe of this gou rment.\\n/yw. Col. Rec. v: 210.] Whether\\nthis had been repealed, or whether this\\nold Confcience was made an exception,\\non account of his age, or name, I am\\nnot able to fay.\\n182", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS.\\nt^sJV^J\\nm", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "Cljronobgkal Cabk of (\u00c2\u00a3fantts.\\nDay of Day of\\nWeek. Month.\\nYear.\\nEVENT.\\nPage.\\nT. 122 July\\nF. lo Apr.\\nF.\\nT.\\nT.\\n29 Jan.\\n15 June\\nW. 16 June\\nI 20 June\\nM. 31 June\\n22 June\\nTh. 24 June\\nM. I 28 June\\n1673\\n1674\\n167J\\n24\\nSaconet grantees met at Plymouth, and Benj.\\nChurch with them\\nGrantees met at Duxbury, and drew lots for\\ntheir shares\\nChurch goes down to view his lots, and con-\\ncludes to settle on them\\nBuilds on his lot No. 19\\nSassamon found murdered at Assawojnpsett\\nA-washojtks has a dance, to which she invites\\nChurch. He starts for Plymouth, calling\\non Petanamiet and Weetamoe\\nHe arrives at Plymouth, and calls on the\\nGovernor\\nPhilip allowed his Indians to plunder in\\nSwansey\\nA messenger reaches the Governor at Ply-\\nmouth, who orders the Captains of the\\ntowns to march that day to Taunton\\nChurch leads a party of English and friend\\nIndians, ahead of the main army, to\\nBrown s and Myles s Garrisons\\nFirst blood, in Philip s War, shed either at\\nSwansey or Fall River\\nA skirmish at Giles s Bridge, in which Wil-\\nliam Hammond was killed\\n185", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS.\\nDay of\\nMonth.\\nYear.\\nEVENT.\\n29 June\\n-July\\n7 July\\n8 July\\n9 July\\n15 July\\n16 July\\n1 7 July\\n19 July\\n10 Dec.\\nt675\\nThe troops, marched into Mount-Hope Neck\\nto Keekkatmiit^ by a blunder, fired upon\\neach other, wounding Ensign Savage\\nfound eight English heads, and Philip s\\nstaved drums\\nThe English begin to build a fort at Keek-\\nkamtiit\\nCaptain Fuller and Church, with six files,\\nstart for Pocasset, and get over Bristol\\nFerry to Rhode Island\\nGet over to Pocasset in the night\\nPease-field Fight\\nChurch goes back to Rhode-Island for provi-\\nsions\\nA fruitless expedition starts in pursuit of\\nWeetamoe\\nIt starts again in a sloop for Fall River, has\\na skirmish, and gets back\\nOur forces go from Mount Hope Neck Fort\\nto Rehoboth\\nTo Gardner s Neck\\nTo Taunton\\nThey march to Pocasset, and attack Philips\\nPhilip gets away by rafts across the Taunton\\nriver, and flees to the Nip77mk Country\\n-Aciishnet (Dartmouth) destroyed by the In-\\ndians\\nAnother Fort built at Pocasset\\nRemainder of the summer improved in\\nnursing these Forts, while the Indians were\\nrecruiting in the Nipmtik Country and\\nwest as far as Albany\\nChurch starts from Boston with Governor\\nWinslow on an expedition against the Nar-\\nragansetts, and gets to Rehoboth [to Myles s\\nGarrison?]\\n186", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS.\\nDay of\\nMonth.\\nYear.\\nEVENT.\\n11 Dec.\\n12 Dec.\\n14 Dec.\\n15 Dec.\\n16 Dec.\\n17 Dec.\\n18 Dec.\\n19 Dec.\\n20 Dec.\\nDec.\\n27 Jan.\\n28 Jan.\\n1-7 Feb.\\n10 Feb.\\n21 Feb.\\n1675\\n1671\\nGoes down with Richard Smith the nearest\\nway over the ferries, to VVickford, R.-L, and\\nsurprises 18 of the enemy as a present to\\nthe Governor the same night\\nMassachusetts and Plymouth troops, who\\nhad marched round the country, arrived\\nTwo forays were made 9 Indians killed,\\n12 taken, and 150 wigwams burned\\nSeveral stragglers from the main body of the\\nEnglish were cut oft\\nCaptain Prentice with his troop of horse\\ngoes down to Pettaquamscut^ and finds\\nthat the Indians had burned Bull s Garri-\\nson, killing 10 men and 5 women and chil-\\ndren\\nThe Connecticut troops arrive at the ruins of\\nBull s\\nThe Massachusetts and Plymouth forces\\nmarch over and join them at 5 p.m.\\nAbout I P.M. they reach the edge of the\\nswamp where the Narragansett fight took\\nplace, and the action began\\nChurch and the other wounded men suffer\\nterribly with the night-march to Wickford\\nin the extreme cold. Captain Belcher\\nmercifully arrives with a vessel load-\\nen with provisions.\\nChurch and other wounded carried over to\\nRhode-Island. Massachusetts and Plym-\\nouth troops remained, and were re-enforced,\\nConnecticut forces reached Wickford again.\\nWhole army, 1600 strong, started for the\\nNipmuk Countrv\\nAttacked //w/zrt w town in Warwick\\nArmy returned home for want of provisions\\nLancaster surprised\\nMedfield burned\\n187", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS.\\nDay of\\nMonth.\\n29 Feb. 167!\\nYear.\\n8- 1 1 Mar. I\\n1 2 Mar.\\n26-28 Mar.! I\\n21 Apr.\\n12 May\\n19 May\\n6 June\\n8 June\\n9 June?\\n10 June?\\n2 1 June\\n11-24 June\\n25 June\\n26 June\\n27 June\\n28 June\\n676\\nEVENT.\\nPlymouth Council of War met at Marshfield\\nand Church advised the sending of 300\\nsoldiers, one-third to be friend Indians but\\nthe Council demurred\\nChurch removes his family from Duxbury to\\nRhode-Island\\nClark s Garrison, in Plj^mouth, destroyed\\nRehoboth burned\\nCaptain Wadsworth and his Company swal-\\nlowed up at Sudbury\\nChurch s second son, Constant, born\\nCaptain Turner surprises the Indians at the\\ngreat falls of the Connecticut, but is him-\\nself killed\\nChurch arrives at Plymouth, and meets the\\nGeneral Court\\nGoes back, and on his way hails the Saconet\\nIndians\\nChurch goes to Newport to get permission to\\ngo and see Aivashonks\\nGoes across with Daniel Wilcocks to Treaty\\nRock, and xw^^i?, Aivashonks \\\\.\\\\\\\\A. her Indians\\nPlymouth army to be ready to start for\\nTaunton\\nFruitless efforts to get a vessel, and failure of\\nAnthony Low to aid the business\\nPeter is started from Rhode-Island for Saco-\\nnet and Plymouth, to carry Aivashonks s\\nsubmission\\nArmy arrives at Pocasset\\nChurch goes over to see Major Bradford and\\nthe armv\\nWent back to go to Aivasho7zks to inform her\\nof the arrival of the army. Saw her, and told\\nher what to do, and returned to the army.\\nPeter and his two Saconet companions\\nappear before the Court at Plymouth", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS.\\nDay of 1 Day of\\nWeek. I Month.\\nYear.\\nEVENT.\\nPage.\\nTh.\\nF.\\nS.\\nT.\\nF.\\nS.\\nM.\\nT.\\nTh.\\n29 June\\n30 June\\nI July\\n6 July\\n7 iy?\\n8 July?\\n10 July?\\n11 July?\\n1 2-33 July\\n16 July\\n17-23 July\\n1676\\n24 July\\n30 July\\nArmy march to Punkateese. Church goes\\ndown to Saconet\\nAxvashonks with her subjects make submis-\\nsion at Punkateese to Major Bradford, and\\nare ordered to report at Sandwich in six\\ndays, where Church agrees to meet her\\nwithin a week\\nArmy goes back to Pocasset and over to\\nMount Hope, missing the Indians digging\\nclams at Weypoiset\\nThe army having got comfortably back to\\nMiles s Garrison, Church has leave to keep\\nhis promise with the Saconets\\nHe reaches Plymouth, and the same afternoon\\nstarts for Sandwich. Major Bradford s\\narmy marches after Philip\\nHe ci\\\\-\\\\^%Aivasho7iks at Mattapoisett (Mass.),\\nHe returns to Plymouth\\nThe Governor commissions him, and he\\nmarches the same night for the woods\\nCaptures a lot of Indians in Middleborough.\\nAn onset is made upon Taunton by the\\nIndians\\nCaptures the J/o\u00c2\u00ab/c/^^ 7/^, c., c\\nAnthony Collymer writes to his wife\\nChurch gviards some carts to Taunton, and\\npursues and captures Indians through\\nAssau o?)ipset neck, AcusJinet, Pouagan-\\nset, Mattapoisett, and Sippican, to Ply-\\nmouth\\nChurch s commission is enlarged\\nA post from Bridgewater announces that an\\narmv of Indians is threatening to cross the\\nTit lcut to their town Church starts by\\nthe beo-inning of the afternoon exercise,\\nand goes to Monponset (in Halifax) that\\nnight\\n189", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS.\\nDay of\\nWeek.\\nDay of\\nMonth.\\nYear.\\nEVENT.\\n31 July\\nI Aug.\\nw.\\nTh.\\nF.\\n2 Aug.\\n3 Aug.\\n4 Aug.\\n7-9 Aug.?\\nF.\\n1 1 Aug.\\nS.\\nT.\\n12 Aug.\\n13 Aug.\\n15 Aug.\\n1-6 Sept.?\\nF.\\n8 Sept.\\n10 Sept.\\nM.\\n1 1 Sept.\\nT.\\n12 Sept.\\nW.\\n13 Sept.\\n15-20 Sep.\\n[6 j6\\nThe brisk Bridgewater lads attack the\\nIndians and Church, scouting towards the\\ntown, hears the firing, but does not join in\\nthe pursuit\\nChurch pursues the enemy sees Philip\\ncrosses on the felled tree, and back at the\\nwading-place and takes many prisoners\\nPursues further to a swamp in Rehoboth\\nBack, with his prisoners, to Bridgewater\\nBack safe to Plymouth, with his captives\\nAn expedition toward Dartmouth, and the\\ncapture of Sam Barrovj\\nStarts on another expedition to Pocasset, and\\ngoes over the ferry to see his wife at Major\\nSanford s hears that Philip is at Mount\\nHope, and hastens immediately to attack\\nhim\\nPhilip is killed\\nChurch back at Rhode-Island\\nStarts on his return to Plymouth\\nGoes out towards Agawom (in Wareham),\\nafter Tispequin\\nStarts again for Rhode-Island after Annaxvon\\nA post informs him of Indians on Poppa-\\nsqiiash neck (in Bristol) he starts and\\nscouts after them\\nChurch takes prisoners, follows their guide,\\nreaches Annawon^ s camp in Squatinakonk\\nswamp (in Rehoboth) about dark, and\\ncaptures him with all his men, c., c.\\nTakes his prisoners to Taunton, where they\\nI efresh and rest over night\\nTaking Annawon, Church goes back to\\nRhode-Island, sending the rest of his com-\\npany and prisoners to Plymouth\\nStarts for Plymouth, with his wife and chil-\\ndi en, and Aunawon\\n190", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS.\\nDay of\\nWeek.\\nDay of\\nMonth.\\nYear.\\nEVENT.\\nPage.\\nNov.\\n15 n.\\n1676\\ni67f\\nChurch waits on Governor Leverett in\\nBoston\\n17S\\nM.\\nThe General Court of Plymouth Colony\\ntender him a vote of thanks\\nChurch is again commissioned by Governor\\nWinslow, and goes out, and takes divers\\nparties of Indians, including old Con-\\nscience of Swansey which ends these An-\\nnals of the War\\n179\\n179-182\\n191", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "^^Qrw^^^\\nINDEX.\\nf\\n25", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nThe Arabic figures refer to the page in the body of the work the Roman\\nnumerals to the Introdudtorv portion. Names in italics arc those of Indians.\\nA.\\nAbram, Zeckaiy, i8.\\nAculTinet, xxi. 109, 119.\\nAgawam in Wareham, 95, 140.\\nAhani. 85.\\nAkkoiiipoin, 126.\\nAlderman, the flayer of Philip, 40,\\n147-152.\\nAlexander, or Wamfutta, brother of\\nPhilip, 12.\\nAllen, Rev. James, 35; Samuel, 124\\nbis. Squire, 16.\\nAlmv, 31; Chriftopher, xxix; Horace,\\n36; Job, xxiii; Capt. John, xx. i, 6,\\n31, 71, 141 Samuel, 36.\\nAlfop, Key, 65; Mary, 65.\\nAmes, John, 124.\\nAmos, Capt., 134.\\nAndros, Sir Edmund, 50.\\nAmia-ion. xxi. 131, 149, i53- 163; cap-\\nture of. 163-175; date of that event\\ndifcuffed, 154, 155; put to death\\ncontrary to Church s wifli, 179.\\n195\\nA7iumpa/Ii, 5.\\nAppleton. Major Samuel, 49.\\nApponeganfett, 45. See Ponegan-\\nfett.\\nArnold, quoted, 17; Benedid, 38; Lion,\\nxxxvi. Penelope, 38 Rev. Samuel,\\n127 Seth, xxvii.\\nAffaAvampfett, Pond and Neck, 13. 68,\\n107, 121, 123.\\nAflbnett Neck, 68.\\nAJfo-ve tough, 106.\\nAfii/imcqiin, a name of Majfafoit, 164.\\nAxvaJItonks, a female fachem, xix. xx.\\nXXV. xxxiv. I, 4, 6, 7, 9, 25, 75, 76,\\n80, 82, 89. 90, 96. 97, 98, 99; invited\\nby Philip to join in war with the col-\\nonifts, 6 her interview with Church,\\n7; is detached, with her fubjecHs, by\\nthe addrefs of Church, from the party\\nof Philip, and fubmits to the Ply-\\nmouth government, So-84, 87 thcle\\nIndians prove ferviccablc and faith-\\nful, 112, 120. Sec Peter Awa-\\nIhonks.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nB.\\nBackus, quoted, 112.\\nBailej, Benjamin, xlvi Charles, ibid.\\nCornelius, ibid. Francis, xlv.\\nGeorge, xlv. xlvi Guido, 124; Han-\\nnah, xlv. xlvi. John, xxxv. Jofhua,\\nxlii. Ruth, xlv. bis. xlvi Samuel,\\nxlv. bis. xlvi. bis. Sarah, xlv. xlvi.\\nThomas xlvi. William, xlv. bis.\\nxlvi.\\nBaker, William, xvi.\\nBarnes, John, 114; Jonathan, ibid.;\\nMarj, ibid.\\nSarroiu, Sam., 134, 139.\\nBartlett, John R., acknowledgment of\\naid from him, xiii. Jofeph, 135\\nRobert, xvi.\\nBaxter, Thomas, 43.\\nBajlej, John, xxxii.\\nBaylies, quoted. 147 William, 137.\\nBeare, Richard, xix. xx. 3.\\nBeedle, Jofeph, 3.\\nBeers, Capt. Richard, 48.\\nBelcher, Andrew, 20, 59 Rev. Jofeph,\\n20.\\nBell, James, 142.\\nBendall, Freegrace, 35.\\nSen Pctananueti, 12.\\nBetty Azvajhonks, 6.\\nBillington, Jofeph, 94.\\nBilhop, Richard, xix. 3.\\nBlackman, Jonathan, xxxvi.\\nBlifs, Seneca, 166.\\nBlood, jfirft fhed in Philip s War, 18, 19.\\nBompafle, Edward, 176.\\nBorden, Jefferfon, xxxii.; John, 143;\\nRichard, xxxii.; Thomas, i.\\nBradford, Major William, xx. 16, 49,\\n88, 89, 90, 104.\\nBradifh, Robin, 105.\\nBradftreet, Gov. Simon, 53.\\nBrattle, Capt. Thomas, 122.\\nBrenton, Mr., 141; Mary, 115; Wil-\\nliam, Governor of Rhode-Ifland, 115,\\n142, 149.\\nBridgewater, 123-126.\\nBriggs, Jeremiah, xlvi. Job, ibid. Ke-\\nzia, ibid. Sarah, xlv. William\\nxxxvi.\\nBriftol, R. I., xxiv. xxvi. xxviii. 157\\nchurch formed in, xxvii.\\nBrooklield deftroyed, 48.\\nBrown, Jabez, 13; John, 13; James, 13\\nbis., 18, 156.\\nBrownell, Jofeph, 77.\\nBull, Jerah, his garrifon taken, 52.\\nBumf, John, 176.\\nBurge, Thomas, xxx. xxxv.\\nBurges, Either, xxxvi.\\nBurroughs, James, xvii. xxvii. xxxi.\\nButterworth, Jonathan, 13.\\nByfield, Nathaniel, xxiv. xxv. xxx. 156.\\nByram, Nicholas, 124.\\nC.\\nCapture of Annawon, 163-175; the date\\ndifcufled, 154, 155.\\nCarpenter, Alice, wife of Gov. Bradford,\\n26.\\nCarr, Robert, 141.\\nCary, John, xxiv. xlii.\\nCafe, Anna, xxviii. James, ibid.\\nChadwick, Mary, xxxvi.\\nChandler, Samuel, 3.\\nChafe, William H., 77.\\nChelTawanucke [Hoglfland], xxv.\\nChettenden, Ifacke, 15.\\nChittenden, Ifaac, 106.\\nChowahunna, 87.\\nChronological Table of Events, 185-191\\nChurch, Benjamin, perfonal memoir\\nof, xvii.-xxxvii. fummary of his ad-\\nventures in Philip s War, xix.-\\n196", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nxxi. location of his houfe, xxxii.\\nxxxiv. II his death, xxxvii. inven-\\ntory of his eftate, xxxviii. no por-\\ntrait exifts of him, xlii. his Epiftle\\nTo the Reader, liii. his inter-\\nview with Awafhonks, 7-1 1, So-85;\\nwith Gov. Winflow, 51, 52, 93, 94;\\nfurprifes and kills Philip, 145-148;\\ncaptures Annawon, 153-175. [For his\\nmilitary adventures, fee Chronologi-\\ncal Table of Events.]\\nChurch. Benjamin, vendue mafter,\\nix. furnilhed materials for a biog-\\nraphy of Col. Church, x. his Ode\\nHeroica, x. xi. xliii.\\nChurch, Benjamin, of tory memory, ix.\\nChurch, Alice, xxxviii. xli. Anna,\\nxlvi. Benjamin, xliv. quater. xlv.\\nbis. xlvi. bis. xlvii. Betfey, xlvi.\\nCaleb, XXX. Charles, xxxiv. xlii.\\nxliv. xlv. xlvi. ter. Conftant, xxxiv.\\nxxxvi. xlii. xliv. xlv. bis. xlvi. bis.,\\n71 Conftantine, xlvi. Deborah,\\nxxxvi. Edward, vendue mafter,\\nix. xliv. Elizabeth, xliv. ter. xlv.\\nter. xlvi. Francis, xlvi. Gamaliel,\\nxlvi.; George, xlvi. xlvii. Hannah,\\nxliv. xlv. xlvi. xlvii.; Jeremiah B.,\\nxlvi.; Jofeph, xxxii. 3, 5; Kezia,\\nxlvi. Martha, xlii. xliv. xlv. Mary,\\nxliv. xlv. xlvi. ter.; Mercy, xliv.\\nxlvi. bis.; Nathaniel, xliv. xlv. Oba-\\ndiah, xlvi.; Peter, xlvi. xlvii. ter.;\\nPrifcilla, xxxv. xxxvii. xliv.; Rich-\\nard, the original emigrant, particu-\\nlar account of, xvi. xvii. Ruth,\\nxlvi. bis. Sarah, xliv. bis. xlv. xlvi.\\nter.; Thomas, xxxiv. xxxv. xxxvi.\\nxlii. xliv. sexies, xlv. xlvi. bis. Wil-\\nliam, xlvi. bis. xlvii.\\nChurch s Point, in Little Compton, 77.\\nChurcJi. Saniueh an Indian teacher, 85.\\nChurchill, Charles, the poet, xliii.\\nClapp, Job, xlvi.\\nClark, Jeremiah, 29; Dr. John, 58;\\nLatham, xxxii. Mary, 29.\\nClarke, J. G., 52.\\nClark s Garrifon at Eel River, in Ply-\\nmouth, deftroyed, 70, 71.\\nCoakfett, in Dartmouth, 109.\\nCobbit, the fchoolmaftcr, xxvi.\\nCoe, Samuel, xxxvi.\\nCole, Hugh, 3, 11; James, i, 3, 135;\\nMary, i.\\nCollamer, Jacob, 104.\\nCollamore, Elizabeth, 106; Martha,\\nibid. Mary, ibid. Peter, 3, 105,\\n106; Sarah, 106.\\nCollamore s Ledge, off Scituate, 106.\\nCollymer [Collamore], Anthony, his\\nletter to his wife, 105.\\nColomore, Peter, 3.\\nCollier, Elizabeth, xvii. 26.\\nCommiffion of Capt. Church, 100;\\nanother, 180.\\nCommiffioners of the United Colonies\\nfend a ftrong force to attack the\\nNarraganfetts, 48.\\nCofifciencc of Swanzey, 181.\\nCook, Caleb, 147, narrowly miffed be-\\ning the flayer of Philip, 164; Eliza-\\nbeth, 78; Francis, 11 3, 147; Jacob,\\n147; John, 112, 147; Jofiah, xxvii. 3;\\nMary, 138; Silvanus, 147.\\nCory, Roger, xxxiii. Thomas, ibid.\\nCotton, Rev. John, of Plymouth, loi,\\n127, 128.\\nCouncil of War, how conftitutcd, 14,\\n15; order captive Indians to bo fold,\\n46 reject Capt. Church s advice con-\\ncerning a vigorous profccution of\\nthe war, 68; afterwards adopt it, 72\\ntheir order requiring every man to\\nabide in the town wiiere ho belongs,\\n69.\\nCrandall, Samuel, xxx.\\n197", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nCranfton, John, Gov. of Rhode Ifland,\\n28, 115; made an M.D. by the Leg-\\niflature of Rhode-Illand, 29; Samuel,\\nGov. of do., 29.\\nCrojfman, xxii.\\nCudworth, Capt. James, 16, 47.\\nCufhen [Culliing], xxviii.\\nCufhing, 105 John, 3.\\nCufhman, A. S., xlii.\\nCulTinet [afterwards Dartmouth], 109.\\nCuthbert, William, xxxiv.\\nCuttler, Dr., 142.\\nD.\\nDanforth, Rev. Samuel. 85.\\nDartmouth deftrojed, 45.\\nDavenport, Capt. Nathaniel, 49. 53.\\nDavid, 87.\\nDavis, Judge, quoted, 15, 52, 127.\\nDean, G., 175; Martha, 3.\\nDeane, Charles, xliii. Rev. Samuel,\\nquoted, 24.\\nDeerfield burned, 48.\\nDelano, Jonathan, 114.\\nDe la Noje [Delano], Philip, 114.\\nDefcendants of Col. Cliurch, xliv.-\\nxlvii.\\nDexter, Franklin B. acknowledgment\\nof aid from him, xiv. 113.\\nDodlbn, Jonathan, xxxi.\\nDoged [Doggett], John, xvii.\\nDotej, widow, 135.\\nDowning, Ann, 53; Emanuel, ibid.\\nDrake, Samuel G., a former editor of\\nthis Hiftorv, xi, xii. quoted, 15, 20,\\n22, 98, 120, 126, 127, 131, 154, 174,\\n176.\\nDudley, Gov. Jofeph, xxxiii.\\nDyer, Maherflialalhafhbaz [from Ifa,\\n8: i], 114.\\n198\\nEames, Mark, 14.\\nEarl, Ralph, 45.\\nEarle, William, xxiv.\\nEafton s Narrative, quoted, 17.\\nEaton, Daniel, xxx.\\nEdiTiunds, Andrew, 47.\\nEdfon, Jofeph, 124; Jofiah, /(^/rt Sam-\\nuel, ibid.\\nEels, John, 45 Nathaniel, Capt.\\nSamuel, ibid.\\nEldridge, Daniel, 51 James, ibid.\\nJohn, ibid.; Samuel, ibid.; Thomas,\\nibid.\\nEliot, John, the Apoftle, 8, 12, ct alibi.\\nElizabeth Iflands, 73.\\nEnliftment, Indian manner of, 99.\\nFairhaven, 112, iiS.\\nFales, Sarah, xlvii.\\nFall River, xxix. xxx. xxxi. xxxii. xxxiii.\\n2, 19, 41,42, 48.\\nFallowell, John, 147.\\nFalls Fight, 65.\\nFaft, Proclamation for a, 15.\\nFelix, 106.\\nFeffenden, G. M., acknowledgment of\\naid from him, xiii. quoted, 15, 25,\\n160.\\nField, John, 124.\\nFilher, Rev. Abiel, quoted, 18.\\nFleming, xlv.\\nFobes, Edward, 3, 113; John, 3, 113;\\nMary, xxxiv. William, xxviii. 113;\\nRev. Perez, a tradition mentioned by\\nhiin doubted, 152.\\nFogland Point, 34, 36, 71, 77.\\nFofter, John, his almanac for 1676\\nquoted, 154.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nFowler, Rev. Orin, quoted, .\\\\xxii. 42,\\n44.\\nFrench, Richard, xx.\\nFriend, Sir John, his execution, 151.\\nFuller, Edward, 26; Matthew, Captain\\nand Surjean-Generall, 14, 26, 40,\\n58; Noah, 166; Samuel, 26, 67.\\nGardner s Neck, in Mount-Hope Bay,\\n19, 159.\\nGardner, Capt. Jofeph, 49, Thomas,\\n53-\\nGallop, Samuel, xlii.\\nGallup, Capt. John, 49, 53.\\nGenealogy of the defcendants of Col.\\nChurch, xliv.-xlvii.\\nGeorge, 6, 75, 79, 80, 87.\\nGill, John, 20, 35.\\nGolding, Capt. Roger, 38, 142, 144,\\n146.\\nGookin, Daniel, 20, 172.\\nGordon, John, 124.\\nGorham, Gorum, Capt. John, 49, 156.\\nGorton, Samuel, 13.\\nGould Illand, 38,\\nGould, Thomas, 38.\\nGrave-ftone of Col. Church, xxxviii.\\nGray, Edward, xviii. xxiii. xxiv. xxix.\\n106.\\nGreen, Bartholomew, printer of the\\noriginal edition of this work, viii.\\nGreen, Capt, 141.\\nGrey, Thomas, xli.\\nGun that killed Philip, 147.\\nGulTiee Pond, 131.\\nH.\\nHammond, Elizabeth, 20; William,\\nibid.\\nHarding, Jofeph. xxvii.\\nHarris, 141 Ifaac. 124.\\nHatfield alTailed. 48.\\nHathaway, Arthur, xxiii.\\nHaven, Samuel F., acknowledgment of\\naid from, xiii. 104.\\nHavens, Jack, 91, 97.\\nHawes, Richard, 135.\\nHawkins, Dr., 142.\\nHayman, Sarah, xliv.\\nHayward, Haward, Capt., 124; Daniel,\\nxxii. 3; Enfign, 124: John, 3, 124;\\nNathaniel, 124.\\nHazelton, Haftleton, Charles, 7.\\nHead, Henry, xxxii. Mary, xxxiv.\\nHedge, Elizabeth, 114; William, ibid.\\nHenchman, Capt. Daniel, iS, 41, 44,\\n47, 122.\\nHerendean, Benjamin, 47; Mary, ibid.\\nHilliard, Jonathan, xxxvi. William,\\nxxxii.\\nHinckley, Daniel, 85; Thomas, 78.\\nHog Illand, xxv.\\nHolmes, Mary, 16.\\nHopkins, Damaris, 147; Stephen, 147.\\nHoward, Matthew, xxviii.\\nHowland, Ifaac, 132, 133; Jabez, 94,\\n95- 97. 139 153. 161 John, 94; John\\nB., 11; J. M., 113.\\nHubbard, Ifrael, xxxi.\\nHubbard, William, the hiftorian, quo-\\nted, pajfim.\\nHuckens, Thomas, 15.\\nHull, Capt. John, 35.\\nHunter, Capt. John, 43.\\nHutchinfon, Thomas, quoted, 148.\\nI.\\nburv-\\nIndian dance. 7, 99; drums, 24;\\ning-place, 160.\\nIndians, order of court concerning,\\nxxii. their hoftile dcfigns fufpedted,\\n199", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n5 the authorities flow to believe, 8\\nbeginning of the war, 15 their bar-\\nbarities, 19; their mode of march-\\ning, 123; their call to each other,\\n158, 160; their currency [tvompom\\n172; reduced to flavery, 46, 181, 182;\\ntheir entire difappearance from Sac-\\nonet [Little Compton], 85; Indians\\nare employed by Capt. Church, as\\nauxiliaries, with happy results, in\\nthe latter weeks of the war, 87, 112,\\n120, 129-131, 139, 143, 145, 147, 157-\\n162, 175.\\nInventory of Col. Church s eftate,\\nxxxviii.\\nIrirti, Content, xxxv. John, xxiii. xxxv.\\n3 bis.\\nI/acke, 12.\\nJ-\\nyack Havens^ 91, 97.\\nJames, 86.\\nJeffery, 103.\\nJokam, 5.\\nJohnfon, Capt. Ilaac, 43, 49, 53.\\nJones, William, 149.\\nJoflen, Thomas, 133.\\nK.\\nKent, Dorothy, 13.\\nKeith, Rev. James, 127.\\nKeekkamuit, fee\\nKikemuit River, 7, 23, 24, 25.\\nKilled and wounded in the Swamp\\nFight, 53.\\nKingfley, Eldad, 18.\\nKingfton, 16.\\nLake, David, xxi. xxiv. 31, 32 Thomas,\\nxxi. 32.\\nLakenham, 176.\\nLakeville, 13, 108; fee Sampfon s Tav-\\nern.\\nLatham, Williams, acknowledgment of\\naid from, xiii, 125.\\nLawton, Thomas, i.\\nLayton [Leighton], Thomas, 19.\\nLeach, Samuel, 124.\\nLee, Rev. Mr., of Briftol, xxvii.\\nLenthal, Anna, 45 Rev. Robert, 45.\\nLeverett, John, Gov, 178.\\nLightfoot, III, 118, 129, 157, 159.\\nLindall, Abigail, 66; James, 66; [he\\nwas oi Duxbury.^\\nLinkhorn [Lincoln. 141.\\nLittle Compton, xxxii. xxxiii. xxxiv.\\nxxxv. xli. I, II, 73, 85; a church\\nformed there, xxxiii.\\nLittle Eyes, 10, no, 118.\\nLothrop, Ifaac, 152 John, 147.\\nLow, Anthony, 86 John, ibid.\\nLowell, 141.\\nLucas, Benoni, 135 John, ibid.; Mary,\\nibid.; Samuel, ibid.; Thomas, ibid.;\\nWilliam, ibid.\\nM.\\nMatnanuak, 4, 6.\\nManchefter, John, xlv.\\nMarchant, Judge M., 52.\\nMarfliall, Robert, 114; Capt. Samuel,\\n49\u00c2\u00bb 53-\\nMafon, Capt. John, 49, 53.\\nMaJJiifoit, XXV. 14; a great warrior,\\n174.\\nMattapoifett River, 96, 119.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "I N D E X.\\nMattapoifett Neck [now Gardner s\\nNeck], in Svvanzej, 19, 159.\\nMather, Cotton, quoted, 137, 151, 152.\\nMather, Increafe, quoted, 64, 90, 106,\\n120, 125, 127, 137, 143, 148, 149, 151,\\n152.\\nMaii/iias, 133.\\nMerrick, William, 3.\\nMianiiinnoinok, 117.\\nMiddleborough, 13 fee Namafket.\\nMiller, John, 47.\\nMitchel, Conftant, 113; Experience,\\n106, 113.\\nMohawks, Philip takes refuge with\\nthem, 64.\\nMohegans, allies of the colonifts, but\\nunfaithful in the Swamp Fight,\\n55-\\nMomjiiynezi it, William, 5.\\nMomponfet, in Halifax, xxi. 103, 124.\\nMontaup, or Mount Hope, 7.\\nMorton, Ephraim, 14; Nathaniel, 15,\\n16.\\nMoflej, Capt. Samuel, 18, 49, 58, 122.\\nMount Hope, 2, 7, 15, 144; called Brif-\\ntol, xxiv.\\nMjles, Rev. John, minifler at Swan-\\nzey, 16, 18.\\nN.\\nNamalket [Middleborough], 102, 106.\\nNamtimfam, 4, 12.\\nNarraganfett Indians fufpecfled, 48;\\ntheir territory, ibid. a ftrong force\\nfent againft them, 49; this force how\\nproportioned, ibid. thefe Indians\\ntotally vanquillied, 53-58.\\nNathaniel, 157-\\nNetops, meaning of the word, 64, 98.\\nNewman, Rev. Noah, 47.\\nNiles, Rev. Samuel, quoted, 19, 152.\\n26 2\\nNipmuck countrv, its fuppofcd extent,\\n61.\\nNokehick, parched meal, 146.\\nNomquid. xxxi. 90.\\nNorthtield attacked, 48.\\nNumpas, or Nompa/Ji, 12, 77.\\nNumpouce, 5.\\nNunkatefl Pond, 131.\\nO.\\nOccape, occapeeches, Indian name for\\nrum, Si.\\nOde Heroica, x.\\nOliver, Capt. James, 49, 53, 55, 59.\\nOliver, Peter, his malignity, 151.\\nOrder of court concerning Indians, xxii.\\nOfomehciv. 5.\\nOxenbridge, Rev. John, 35.\\nPabodie, William, xvii. xviii. xxi. xxiii.\\nxxiv. XXV. xxvii. xxx. xli. 3, 4.\\nPachet Brook, 2, 4, 11.\\nPackard, John, 124, bis.\\nPacujichcji, 5.\\nPaine, Hannah, xlv. Nathaniel, xiii.\\nII.\\nPalfrey, John G., dedication to him, v.\\nquoted. 17, 150, 154, 172, 173.\\nPalmer, John, xxxi.\\nPamontaquaJIi, 106.\\nPanoquin, Wj.\\nParlbns, Ufher, quoted, 2, 19, 24.\\nPafcamanfet River, 109, 112.\\nPeafe-field Fight, 33-40, 82.\\nPeck, Nathaniel. 86.\\nPeckham. George H., xxxiv. James,\\nxxviii.\\nPeirfe, James, 135.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nPequot, the word explained, 83.\\nPerkins, Sir William, his execution,\\n151-\\nPetana7tuet, 11, 77.\\nPeter A-MaJJionks, xx. 6, 77, 87, 149.\\nPeter Nunnuit^ 11, 77-\\nPetonotvowet, 1 1\\nPettaquamlcut, 52.\\nPetuxet River, 47.\\nPhilip, xix. xx. xxi. 5, 7, 9, et pajjiin\\nhis death, 147 treatment of his dead\\nbody, 150; his royalties, or rega-\\nlia, furrendered by Annawon to\\nCapt. Church what became of\\nthem.? 173, 174.\\nPierce, Capt. Michael, 67, 70.\\nPinfon, Thomas, 4.\\nPlymouth, orders of court, xxii. 2 the\\nCourt proclaim a faft, 15; Court\\norder refpedling prifoners, loi.\\nPlummer, Mary, 114.\\nPocaflet [Tiverton], xx. xxi. xxii. xxiii.\\nxxiv. xli. II, 12, 41, 43, 47, 89, 140.\\nPokanokett, 15.\\nPoneganfet, 45, 109.\\nPope, Thomas, 4.\\nPoppafqualh Neck, in Briftol, xxv. xxx.\\n156, 158.\\nPqfoioquo. 5.\\nPotock, 59.\\nPouwau, Powow, an Indian conjurer,\\n177.\\nPowder-mill, firft in New England, 35.\\nPratt, Nathan, 166; Stillman, 125.\\nPrentice, Capt. Thomas, 18, 20. 49. 52.\\nPrellong, Nicolas, 4.\\nPrice, John, 4.\\nPrince, Gov. Thomas. 6; dies, 10.\\nPrince, Thomas, the annalift, quoted,\\n30-\\nProportion of men and money required\\nfrom each town in Plj mouth Colony,\\n68.\\nProprietors of Saconet, their names, 3;\\ntheir agreement, 4.\\nProvidence burned, 72.\\nPrudence Ifland, 155.\\nPuiukain, 50, 61, 117.\\nPunkateaft, Punkateefet, Punkatees, a\\nneck in Tiverton, alfo called Pocaflet\\nNeck, xviii. xix. xxi. xxiii. xxvii.\\nxxxi. 3, 31, 34, 36, 82.\\nPunkatees Fight, 33-40.\\nQuaboag [Brookfield] deftroyed, 40.\\n^uannapo/tiit, yamcs, iS.\\n^uannapohiit, Thomas, 18.\\nQiiequechan River, now Fall River, 2,\\n42.\\n^ui)iitafi?i, ^U7i7iapi)i, 117, 127, 128.\\n^iiiqueqnanchett, I2.\\nR.\\nRawfon. Rev. Grindal, 85.\\nRattlefnakes, 30.\\nReformado, Church was one; meaning\\nof the term, 49.\\nRevere, Paul, xi. xii. his portraits of\\nChurch, and of Philip, xi.\\nReyner, Rev. John, 112.\\nReynolds, Mary, xlvi.\\nRhode-Illand, why excluded from the\\nConfederacy. 17.\\nRichard, Eleazar, 153.\\nRichards, Alice, i6.\\nRichmond, Anna, xlvi. Benjamin,\\nibid. Charles, ibid. Elizabeth,\\nibid. Hannah, ibid. John, xxiii.\\n4. 77 Mary, xlvi. bis. Perez, ibid.;\\nRuth, ibid. Sarah, ibid. Sylvefter,\\nibid.; Thomas, ibid.; William, ibid.,\\nbis.", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "I N D E X.\\nRobinfon. Rowland, xxvi.\\nRochefter, 13.\\nRogers, John, xviii. 3.\\nRolbotham. Alice, xlv. Benjamin, xlv\\nElizabeth, xxxvi. xlv. Hannah, xlv.\\nJofeph, xxxiii. xxxv. xlv.\\nRoufe, John, xxvii. xxxiv. 3 bis. Si-\\nmon, 3.\\nRowlandfon, Mrs. Mary, 117.\\nRulTell, John, 45.\\nS.\\nSabin, Sabine, Benjamin, 93; Jona-\\nthan, ibid. Jofeph, ibid. Samuel,\\nibid. Williain, ibid.\\nSachueefet, or Sachueft, on Rhode-\\nIfland, 89.\\nSaconet, or Sauconet [Little Compton],\\nxviii. xxi. xxii. xxiii. xxv. xxvii.\\nxxxii. I, 2, 3. 4, 6, II, 73, 89.\\nSaffin.John, xxv.\\nSam Barrovj, 134, 139.\\nSamplbn, Abraham, 3 Elizabeth, xlii.\\nxlv. John, xxxvi. xlii. xlv. ter.\\nSamplbn s Tavern, now the Lakeville\\nHoufe, 108.\\nSanderfon, Robert, 35.\\nSandy Point, 143.\\nSanford, John, 115; Major Peleg, xxi.\\n88, 115, 141, 142, 144, 146; Samuel,\\nxxviii.\\nSajfamon, Sau/aman, John, 5, 6, 12,\\n106; reveals Philip s defigns, and is\\nmurdered by him, 12.\\nSavage, Lieut. Perez, wounded, 23;\\nagain wounded in the Swamp\\nFight, 23, 142 death, 23 Thomas,\\nMajor, 23, 65.\\nSchaghticoke, 64.\\nSchoolcraft, Henry R., quoted, 99, 170-\\nSconticut Neck, 117.\\nSeconit, or Sekonit; see Saconet.\\nSeekonk burned. 72.\\nSeely, Capt. Robert. 49. 53.\\nShaw, William, xxxv.\\nShavvomet [Warwick], 50.\\nSheffield, Amos, xxxv.\\nShepard, Rev. Thomas, quoted, xxvii.\\nxxviii.\\nSherman s Almanac for 1676. quoted,\\n154-\\nSherman, Richard, of Portfmouth, R.\\nL, acknowledgmentof aid from him,\\nxiii. 71, 141, 143; William, 3, 22.\\nShirtlife, Shurtleff, William, 4.\\nShore, James, 149.\\nSibley, John Langdon, acknowledg-\\nment of aid from him, xiii.\\nSimons, Thomas, 4.\\nSippican, xxi. 95.\\nSlavery of Indians, 46, iSi, 182.\\nSmalley, John, 3.\\nSmith, Major Richard, 49.\\nSncll, Mary, xxxvi. Samuel, ibid.\\nSogkonate fee Saconet.\\nSohchaxvahham, 85.\\nSouthwick, Solomon, publilTier of the\\nfecond edition of this trae t, ix. xliii.\\nSouthwoith, Alice, xvii. xliv. B.\\n35; Conftant, xvii. xviii. xxxiii. 3,\\n4? 25, 93, 156; Edward, xxxiv. 25,\\n35; Elizabeth, 113; Nathaniel, 35,\\n95; William, xxvii. 35.\\nSoxvagoniJIi-, 117.\\nSowams [Warren], 7.\\nSprague, Francis, 45.\\nSpringfield attacked. 48.\\nSquakeag [Northficld] affaulted. 48.\\nSquannakonk Swamp, in Rchotiotli,\\n131, 161, 162, 166.\\nStandilh, Miles, 16. 26.\\nStanton, John, 29.\\nStaples, William R., acknowledgment\\nof aid from him, xiii. 4^ 7\\n203", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "I N D E X.\\nStiles, Rev. Ezra, quoted, ix. xxxvii.\\n13, 52, 60.\\nStudfon [Stetfon], Robert, 15.\\nSturgis, Edward, 43.\\nSuccanoivajfacke 1 S J.\\nStichqua, 5.\\nSudbury Fight, 66.\\nSumei-fbury, 141.\\nSwamp Fight, Great, 53-58; its lo-\\ncation, 52; the Indian fortdefcribed,\\n^T, number of killed and wounded,\\nibid. feven colonial captains killed,\\nidid. Church, though not an officer,\\nhas command of thirty men, ibid.;\\nhe is wounded, 56 the Englifh, be-\\ning in pofieffion of the fort, fet fire\\nto the wigwams in it, though Church\\nremonftrates, 57, 58 fevere fuffer-\\ning of the wounded and dying men,\\n59; great lofs of the Indians, ibid.\\nChurch and other wounded men are\\nfent to Rhode-Illand, 60; the troops\\nremain in garrifon at Wickford, 61.\\nSwanfey, 11, 13, 15, 16.\\nT.\\nTaber, George H., acknowledgment of\\naid from, xiii, 113.\\nTaber, Jofeph, xxxi.\\nTaller, Peter, xxviii.\\nTakanumma, 129.\\nTalcot, Major John, 122, 138.\\nTafacomuncak, 4.\\nTatainanucke., xxiii.\\nTaunton, 16, 44; attacked, 105.\\nTautozen, 177.\\nTax laid on the feveral towns of Ply-\\nmouth Colony, 68.\\nTaylor, Peter, xxxvi.\\nTaylor s Lane, 4.\\nThacher, Anthony, 94 Bethia, ibid.\\nThomas, Nathaniel, xxi. xxiii. xxiv.\\nXXX. 4.\\nThompfon, Cephas, 128.\\nTibbets, Thomas, xxxvii.\\nTift, Jolbua, 55, 59.\\nTimberlake, Hannah, xliv.\\nTinkham, Ephraim, 4.\\nTifpaquin, Tujpaquitie, xviii. xxi. 106,\\n134, 176, 177, 179.\\nTiticut, XX. 123.\\nTiverton, xxxii. xxxiii. xxxiv. xli. 11,\\n14.\\nTobias, 107.\\nToby, 91.\\nTokkamona, 129.\\nTompkins, Henry M., acknowledgment\\nof aid from, xiii.\\nTompkins, Samuel, xxxv.\\nTompfon, John, xvi. xviii. 106, 107.\\nToio/on, Tatofon, 134, 136, 139, 140.\\nTower Hill, in South Kingftown, 52.\\nTreat, Major Robert, 49.\\nTreaty Rock, in Little Compton, 77.\\nTripp, Abiel, his ferry, 27, 143.\\nTrumbull, Dr. Benjamin, quoted, 148.\\nTrumbull, J. Hammond, acknowledg-\\nment of aid from, xiv. quoted, 2, 7,\\n13, 19, 24, 42, 98, 156.\\nTubbs, William, 3.\\nTurner, Thomas, xxxvi. Capt. Wil-\\nliam, 65.\\nTufpaquin fee Tifpaquin.\\nTyajks, TiaJIiq, 120.\\nU, V.\\nUncompozvett, Utikoj)ipoi i, 126.\\nUpham, Lieut. Phinehas, wounded,\\n142.\\nVaughan, Eliza, 132 George, ibid.\\nVicory, George, 3.\\n204", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nW.\\nWade, Nicolas, 3.\\nWadfworth, Benjamin, 66 Chrifto-\\npher, ibid. Capt. Samuel, killed in\\nthe fight at Sudbury, ibid.\\nWakelj, Thomas, killed at Falmouth,\\n177.\\nWakeman, Helena, 139.\\nWalker, James, 15.\\nWallev, John, xxv. xxvi. Rev. Thom-\\nas, lOI.\\nWampoes, John, 176.\\nWamfiitta, xxv. 4, 12; fee Alexander.\\nWard, Richard, xxxvi.\\nWarren, Elizabeth, xvi. Mercy, 114;\\nNathaniel. 114; Richard, xvi. 112.;\\nSarah, 112.\\nWarren, town of, 13, 15.\\nWarwick burned, 72.\\nWalliburn, John, 3, 124; Samuel, 124;\\nThomas, ibid.\\nWatts, Capt., 49.\\nWatufpaquin, 106; fee Tifpaqtiin.\\nWayexvett, hufband of Azva^ionks, xxv.\\n6.\\nWeetamoe, Weetainore, Squaw Sachem\\nof Pocaffet, xix. 4, 12, 41, 42, 43.\\nWepoifet, 91.\\nWewayetvitt., 6 fee WayezvctL\\nWhite, 142.\\nWhitman, John, 124.\\nWhitmore, Rev. Benjamin, 70.\\nWilbor, Aaron, xlv. bis. Abigail,\\nxxxvi. Benjamin, xlv. Francis,\\nibid.; Gray, 76; John, xlv. bis.;\\nSarah, ibid.; Thomas, ibid.; Wil-\\nliam, xxxvi. bis. xlv.\\nWilcox, Wilcockes, Daniel, xviii. xxxiii.\\n3 77. 78.\\nWillett, llczekiah, xxii.\\nWilliams, John, 145; Roger, 46, 156;\\nThomas, 3.\\nWilliams, Roger, quoted, 24, 4S, 55, 59,\\n146, 148, 172, 173, 177.\\nWillis, Comfort, 124; John, ibid.\\nWindmill Hill, 11.\\nWindmills on Rhode-Ill and, 42.\\nWinneconnet Pond, 131.\\nWinflow, Gov. Jofiah, xvii. xx. 3, 10,\\n15 49 50, 61, 93, 100, io6, 141, 174;\\nfends a force to Swanfcy, 15; his\\ntwo commiffions to Capt. Church,\\n100, I So.\\nWinllow, Kcnclm, brother to Jofiah,\\nxvii.\\nWinthrop, Gov. John, xvi. 156.\\nWifwall, 16.\\nWitherell, Witherly. Sergeant, 142.\\nWodel [WoodhuU Gcrlhom, xxxi\\nWilliam, xxviii. xxx.\\nWompom, the Indian currency, ex-\\nplained, 172.\\nWood, Elizabeth, xxxvii. Hannah,\\nxxxvi. Henry, xxxiv. 106 John,\\nxli.\\nWood s Hole, xx.\\nWoodberry, Hugh, xxxi.\\nWoodbury, Samuel, xlv.\\nWoodman, Edith, xliv. John, xxxiii.\\nxliv.\\nWoodworth, Benjamin, xxxi.; Walter,\\n4-\\nWoonkepoiichuiit, 126.\\nWoofamcqiiin. or Maffafoit, 164.\\nWootonckcnitjlw 117. 127.\\nWordcll, Mary. 78.\\nWright, Richard, xxiii.\\n^05", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "f 9 0?", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3080", "width": "1909", "jp2-path": "historyofkingphi00chur_0274.jp2"}}