The history of King Philip's War

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The Captain halted and told his Indian Souldiers, That
they had heard as well as he, what fome Men had /aid at
Plymouth about them, &c. That now was a good oppor-
tunity for each party to prove them/elves : The Track being
divided they JJwuld follow one, and the EnglifJi the other,
being eqtial in number. The Indians declined the Motion,
and were not willing to move any where without him;
faid, theyfJiould not think themfelves fafe without him. But
the Captain infifting upon it, they fubmitted; he gave the
Indians their choice to follow which track they pleafed;
they replyed, They were light and able to Travel, therefore
if he pleafed they would take the Wefl Track. And ap-
pointing the Ruins of John Cooks Houfe at Cufhnet^ for
the weftern fide of the Pafcamanfet
River, toward Saffaquin's Pond. The
diftance round to the rendezvous at
Acuihnet, by the latter, was much the
greater, and on this account the Indians
chofe it, becaufe "they were light and
able to travel."
241 John Cooke was fon of Francis,
and came in the Mayflower with his
father; married 28 March, 1634, Sarah,
daughter of Richard Warren ; was deacon
of the Plymouth Church, but was
caft out, in the latter part of Mr. Rey-
ner's miniftry, for " having been the
author of much difTenfion and divifion,
and for afterwards running into fecla-
rian and anabaptiftical principles";
had a grant of land in Dartmouth, in
June, 1664; became one of the firft
fettlers of Aculhnet ; was
deputy from
there in 1666, 1667, 1668, 1673, 1674,
1675, 1678, 1679, x 68o, 1681, 16S3, and
1686; was authorized as a magiftrate
there in 1667, 1684, and 1689; had a
controverfy with fome of the inhabitants
of Dartmouth in regard to " Ram
Iiland," which was fettled by the Court,
1 July, 1672 ; died at Dartmouth, 23
Nov., 1695, probably the only one of the
paflengers on board the Mayflower who
lived through the entire exiftence of the
Plymouth Colony ! Backus fays he became
a Baptift minifter and "preached
the doctrine of election, with the other
doctrines of fovereign grace in Dartmouth
for a number of years " ; and
thinks he founded the Baptift Church,
near the borders of Tiverton and Dartmouth,
in 1685. His houfe — whofe ruins
are here referred to— was fituated on the
Fair-Haven fide of the Aculhnet, about
a mile north of the New-Bedford and
Fair-Haven Bridge, and about a third
of a mile eaft of the river, in what is