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Receiving Commiffion, he Marched the fame Night into<br />
the Woods, got to Middleberry before day, 219 and as foon<br />
as the light appeared, took into the Woods and Swampy<br />
thickets, towards a place where they had fome reafon to<br />
expe£t to meet with a parcel <strong>of</strong> Narraga7ifet Indians, with<br />
fome others that belonged to Mount-hope : Coming near<br />
to where they expected them, Capt. Church's Indian<br />
Scout difcovered the Enemy, and well obferving their<br />
fires, and p<strong>of</strong>tures, Returned with the intelligence to their<br />
Captain, who gave fuch directions for the furrounding <strong>of</strong><br />
them, as had the dire6t effect; furprizing them from<br />
every fide fo unexpectedly, that they were all taken, not fo<br />
much as one efcaped. And upon a ftrick examination,<br />
they gave intelligence <strong>of</strong> another parcel <strong>of</strong> the Enemy, at<br />
to us ; th<strong>of</strong>e that come in are conquered<br />
and help to conquer others." But<br />
Church had done nothing in this campaign<br />
which could be fo referred to,<br />
previous to his fetting <strong>of</strong>f into the<br />
woods, here fpoken <strong>of</strong>. <strong>The</strong>refore Mr.<br />
Walley muft refer to the remits <strong>of</strong> this<br />
expedition to Namasket and Monponfet,<br />
which muft, by confequence, have<br />
taken place between the ioth and iSth<br />
<strong>of</strong> July. It will be feen, alfo, further<br />
on, that Church twice ftates that he<br />
kept up this guerrilla warfare " feveral<br />
weeks " ; and then proceeds to narrate,<br />
as if taking place fubfequently, his fet-<br />
ting out for Bridgewater in purfuit <strong>of</strong><br />
Philip; which, by his account, was on<br />
Sunday, 30th July. If his firft expedition<br />
was, as I fuggeft above, on Monday,<br />
the ioth, only three weeks would<br />
intervene to make good his "feveral."<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, in the fecond place, the very<br />
terms <strong>of</strong> the commiflion itfelf ftiow that<br />
it was that " enlarged " one to which he<br />
fubfequently refers ; becaufe it gives him<br />
authority to " commiflionate <strong>of</strong>ficers<br />
under him," to " march as far as he<br />
lhould fee caufe, within the limits <strong>of</strong><br />
the three United Colonies," to " receive<br />
to mercy, give quarter or not, &c. &c."<br />
[See p. 104.]<br />
218 Middlcborough is a very large<br />
town, wh<strong>of</strong>e eaftern boundary is about<br />
10 miles weft <strong>of</strong> the village <strong>of</strong> Plymouth.<br />
Namajket was its Indian name, — from<br />
namas, " fiih " ;<br />
namas-ohke-ut, " at the<br />
filb-place " : that portion <strong>of</strong> the town<br />
which ftill bears the name, being a noted<br />
filhing-place among the Indians.<br />
219 Tuefday, 1 1 July, 1676 ?