The history of King Philip's War

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Tyasks Wife and Son, and theft that if their Captain &
the Englifli company had been with them they might have
taken fome hundreds of them : And now they determined not
to part any more.
That Night Philip fent (as afterwards they found out) a
great Army to way-lay Capt. Church at the entring on of
Affawompfet Neck, expecting he would have returned the
fame way he went in; but that was never his method to
return the fame way that he came; & at this time going
another way he efcaped falling into the hands of his Ene-
mies. The next day they went home by Scipican? w and
got well with their Prifoners to Plymouth.
He foon went out again; and this itroke he drove many
Weeks; 263 and when he took any number of Prifoners, he
would pick out fome that he took a fancy to, and would
tell them, Me took a particular fancy to them, and had
chofe them for himfelf to make Sotildiers of ; and if any
would behave themfclves well, he would do well by them, and
theyfJiould be his men and not Sold out of the Country. [37]
If he perceived they look'd furly, and his Indian Souldiers
ardous for a neophyte to venture to their preient position, on the eaft bank
differ from one lb long and largely of the Mattapoifett River, to that point
familiar with Indian affairs; but I think in the road to Plymouth, by Sippican,
if Mr. Drake would take with him where Church difcovered Awalhonks
Church's account over the country and her party. [See note 212, ante.^
traverfed, he would agree with me in 233 This is to be taken as a general
fixing the place of Tiafhq's capture as remark, covering Church's relation to
fomewhere on the northern and weftern this iummer of the war, and not as
fkirts of the " great cedar fwamp," in intimating that many weeks pafled
what is now New Bedford. before the period of the next incident
202 jj. would be a lhort four miles from which he fpecifically fets down.
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