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[ 14 ] pleas'd with the exploit, gave them thanks, particularly to Mr. Church, the mover and chief a6lor of the bulinefs; and fending two of them (likely Boys) a prefent to Bofton\ fmiling on Mr. Church, told him, That he made no doubt but his Faculty wouldfupply them with Indian Boys enough before the War was ended. Their next move 130 was to a Swamp which the Indians had Fortifyed with a Fort. 131 Mr. Church rid in the Gen- 130 Other authorities fhow that a week elapfed between the evening of the exploit above related and the fwamp fight to which Church now refers. The Mafs. and Plym. troops arrived on the evening of the 12th. On the 14th, two forays were made upon the enemy, and nine Indians were killed, twelve captured, and 150 wigwams burned. On the 15th, feveral ftragglers from the main body of the Englifh were cut off. On the 16th, Capt. Prentice with his troop of horfe went to Bull's Garrilbn at Pcttaquamfcut (on Tower Hill, in So. Kingftown, R.-L), and returned with the news that the Indians had burned it, and killed 10 men and 5 women and children. On the 17th, the Connecticut troops arrived at Bull's. On the 18th, the Mafs. and Plym. forces joined them at Pcttaquamfcut at 5 P.M. They all then marched forward in the fnow, and camped out that night; ftarting again at break of day on Sunday the 19th, and about 1 p.m. reached the edge of the fwamp in which was the Indian fort. [Hubbard's Narrative, 50; R.-I. Hijl. Coll. iii : 83.] 131 This fwamp is fituated in the north- weft portion of the town of South Kingf- 52 town, R.-I., very near the line of Richmond, — lefs than a mile north-weft from the track of the Providence and Stonington R.R., — on the farm of J. G. Clarke, Efq., and not far from the houfe of Judge W. Marchant. Dr. Stiles ftates that it " is about feven miles nearly due weft from Narraganfet South Fer- ry." On this, Judge Davis comments : "It is apprehended there is an error in the ftatement of the diftance of the fort from the South Ferry. Seve?itee7i miles, inftead of /even, would be more confift- ent with the accounts given of the marches of the army, by cotemporary hiftorians." But the identification of the locality is complete, and by the road it is nearly ten miles from the Ferry. The explanation of the diftance named by cotemporaries is partly that the return route lay not to the Ferry, but to Smith's garrilbn in Wickford, the fite of which is diftant (by way of Bull's on Tower Hill,) fcarcely lefs than feventeen miles, by the prefent roads, from the fwamp ; and more, that the journey followed the winding Indian paths, and was accomplifhed through deep fnow and in a night of intenfe cold. The fort was a ftockade enclofing
[ H ] erals guard when the bloudy ingagement began; but being impatient of being out of the heat of the action, importunately beg'd leave of the General that he might run down to the affiftance of his friends, the General yielded to his requeft, provided he could rally fome hands to go with him. Thirty Men immediately drew out and followed him: They entred the Swamp and paffed over the Log, that was the paffage into the Fort, where they faw many Men and feveral Valiant Captains lye llain: 132 Mr. Church fpying Capt. Gardner 128 of Salem amidft the Wigwams in five or fix acres of upland in the middle of the fwamp by a palifade, which was defended by a hedge "of almoft a rod thicknefs through which there was no paffing, unlets they could have fired a way through, which then they had no time to doe." The only regular entrances were along a log which bridged a fpace of water, and over another log which was defended by a block-house. [Hub- bard's Narrative, 52; R.-I. Hijl. Coll. iii : 85 ; Stiles's ed. Church, ; 29 Davis's Morton's Memorial, 433.] 132 The accounts vary very much as to the number of killed and wounded. A letter — fuppofed by Hutchinfon to be by Maj. Bradford, but mown by Mr. Drake [Book of the Indians, 219] to be by Capt. James Oliver — written a fhort time after, from the field, and which the writer fays he has verified by reading to the officers in his tent, would feem to have the beft elements of reliable- nefs. It fays 8 were left dead in the fort, 12 were carried away dead, and many died by the way, or as foon as brought in ; fo that they buried the next 53 day (20 Dec.) 34, the next day 4, and the next day 2. Eight died on Rhode- Ifland (whither moft of the wounded were carried, for care), 1 at Pcttaquamfcut, and 2 were loft in the woods. He makes the total "about 68" who died, and 150 wounded who recovered. Capts. Johnfon, Davenport, Gardner, Seely, Gallup, Marfhall, and Mafon were killed, or died of their wounds. [Hutchinfon's Hijl. Mafs., (ed. 1795), i: 272.] See Drake's Hijl. Bojlon [i : 414] for a lift of the killed and wounded of the Mafs. quota. 133 Capt. jfojefh Gardner was fon of the firft Thomas, of Salem ; married Ann, dau. of Emanuel Downing, in 1656 ; was freeman in 1672 ; captain of one Salem company in 1674. He owned the fine old houfe in Salem — ftanding until 1750 (of which Felt gives an engraving) — known afterward as the "Bradftreet Manfion"; his widow marrying Simon (afterwards Gov.) Bradftreet. [Savage's Gen. Difl. ii 228; Felt's Annals of Salem, i: 412; ii : 497.] :
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CHURCH'S PHILIP'S WAR Part I
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Sije £)iston) King Philip's War By
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JOHN GORHAM PALFREY, D.D., LL.D., W
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Entertaining Paflages Relating to m
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TO THE READER. mofl caution to be u
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Page 73 and 74: [ 2 ] Activity and Induftry, he foo
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Page 79 and 80: [3 ] parting advifed her what ever
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Page 83 and 84: [4] Governours. He gave them an acc
Page 85 and 86: [5 ] our defired Mr. Church to give
Page 87 and 88: [5 J from Mr. Miles'^ Garrifon. And
Page 89 and 90: [5 ] received a fhot in his knee, a
Page 91 and 92: [6] the Bridge, and Caffey, the dir
Page 93 and 94: [6] they foon found to be true. The
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Page 97 and 98: [8] divided among the Company, whic
Page 99 and 100: [8] Woods that the Track lead them
Page 101 and 102: [9] Volly of fifty or fixty Guns ;
Page 103 and 104: [ io] the Wall, being very hungry,
Page 105 and 106: [ io] Enemy, but to heap up Stones
Page 107 and 108: [ » nefs\ and would certainly fetc
Page 109 and 110: [ 12 ] was juft come over from the
Page 111 and 112: [ 12 ] Camp. Mr. Church, one Baxter
Page 113 and 114: [ 13 ] mouths diftreffes required S
Page 115 and 116: [ 13 ] hateful to Mr. Church, that
Page 117 and 118: [ *3 ] Governour Win/low to command
Page 119: [ i4] Army made their efcape into t
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Page 129 and 130: [ i» ] But the Generals great impo
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Page 133 and 134: [ 19] the Moofiags made a defcent u
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Page 137 and 138: [ 20] out Indians, they thought it
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Page 143 and 144: [ 21 ] furff made fuch a noife agai
Page 145 and 146: [ »* ] Son Peter, their Chief Capt
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Page 149 and 150: [ »4] Upon which there began a con
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Page 153 and 154: [ *5 ] dren's faft friend. And (by
Page 155 and 156: [ 26] had nothing but a miferable b
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Page 161 and 162: [ a*] Mr. Church obtain'd the Major
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[3i ] a Place called Munponfet-Pond
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[32 ] and wanting Provilions; fome
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; [32 ] a very famous Captain among
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[33 ] toward Cujhnet^ where all the
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[34] and left the Englifti ftwuld l
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[ 34 ] the place to meet at ; each
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[34] Church with Dillano & Bams hav
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[ 35 ] thro' the Swamp, and neither
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[36] emy came into the faid [36] Me
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[37 ] Tyasks Wife and Son, and thef
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[37 ] to be more than they were. Fo
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[38] In the Evening they heard a fm
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[38] the ftump look'd about, and Ca
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[39] Captain being under a neceffit
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without any noife or fire : The [39
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: [ 4° ] felf with the reft ran on
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[4i J went before them, fled back u
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[42] upon to Rally, upon advice tha
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[43 ] had rid hard with fome hopes
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[44 ] might fee and difcern their o
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[44] head, catch'd up his Gun, and
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[45 ] Peter 511 and ask'd him, Who
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[45 ] his Hatchet and flood over hi
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[45 ] ment; tho' it was better than
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[46] tain, That early the fame Morn
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[46 ] Canoo's: But by that time the
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[47 ] had met with his old Mount-ho
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[43 ] fwaded and ingaged them to be
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[4§] Council, upon examination, ga
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[ 49 ] Engli/h Man then with him ")
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[S°] three companies of Indians at
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[Si ] other fires & companies, givi
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[ 5i ] return'd, that the Indians y
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[5» ] inches broad, 358 wrought wi
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[ 5* ] ny, about four Miles out of
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[53 ] night after, and fo nothing w
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[54] have by our Courts and Council
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS.
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B. Backus, quoted, 112. Bailey, Ben
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Cranfton, John, Gov. of Rhode Iflan
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