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[ 44 ] was aware of, he wanted men to make up his Ambufcade; having placed what men he had, he took Maj. Sanford by the hand, faid, Sir, I have fo placed them that "'tis fcarce pojjible Philip JJiould efcape them. The fame moment a Shot whiftled over their heads, and then the noife of a Gun towards Philips camp. Capt. Church at firft tho't it might be fome Gun fired by accident: but before he could fpeak, a whole Volley followed, which was earlier than he ex- pected. One of Philips gang going forth to eafe himfelf, when he had done, look'd round him, & Capt. Golding thought the Indian looked right at him (tho' probably 'twas but his conceit) fo fired at him, and upon his firing, the whole company that were with him fired upon the Enemies fhelter, before the Indians had time to rife from their fleep, and fo over-fhot them. But their fhelter was open on that fide next the Swamp, built fo on purpofe for the convenience of flight on occafion. 305 They were foon in the Swamp and Philip the foremoft, who ftarting at the firft Gun threw his Petunk 306 and Powder-horn over his 305 A kind of Jhed wigwam, in the fays (under the head of Ndkekick, i.e., New-England fenfe of that adjective, " parched meal "), " I have travelled with the open fide toward the fwamp. with neere 200 of them at once, neere 3J6 Petunk, literally, " that into which 100 miles through the woods, every fomething is put," i. e., the pouch, or man carrying a little Bafket of this at haverfack, which the Indian always his back, and fometimes in a hollow carried by way of pocket. Eliot ufes Leather Girdle about his middle, fuffi- the word (in 1 Sam. xvii : 40,) for Da- cient for a man for three or four daies. vid's " fcrip " ; and for " purfe " (in Luke With this readie provifion, and their xxii : 35), and uniformly tranflates Bow and Arrowes [this was printed in "quiver" by fietan, a word of nearly 1643, before the Indians had acquired the fame fignification. Roger Wil- the ufe of fire-arms], are they ready for liams [Key R.-I. Hift. Coll. i : 33] War, and travell at an houres warning. 146
[44] head, catch'd up his Gun, and ran as fait as he could fcamper, without any more clothes than his fmall breeches and ftockings, and ran directly upon two of Capt. Churches Ambufh; they let him come fair within fhot, and the EngliJJi mans 307 Gun miffing fire, 308 he bid the Indian 309 fire away, and he did fo to purpofe, fent one Musket With a fpoonfull of this meale and a fpootifull of water from the Brooke, have I made many a good dinner and fupper." [Compare Schoolcraft's I?i- fortnation rcffieffi. Ind. Tribes, i : So.] 307 Baylies {Hiji. Mem. New Plym. iii : 16S] fays that this Englishman's name was Francis Cook. But the Mafs. Historical Collections [2d Series iv : 63] for 1816, (14 years before Efq. Baylies publiihed), contain a note from John Lothrop, affirming that the name of this foldier of Church was Caleb Cook. The latter Christian name is fupported by the fact, that the Colony Records fhow the exiftence, in 1676, of a Caleb Cook, then aged 25 ; while Francis, who came in the Mayflower, had been dead 13 years ; his grandfon Francis, born 5 Jan., 1663, died at lefs than two years of age ; and no other Francis appears. Caleb Cook was oldeft fon of Jacob (youngeft fon of Mayflower Francis) and Damaris, daughter of Stephen Hopkins, and was born 29 Mar., 1651 he ferved on a coroner's jury at Plymouth, 20 Oct., 1675, in the cafe of John Fallowell ; is down for a fine of £1 10s., 12 June, 16S5 1 an d ferved on a trial jury in the July Court of 16S6. He had a great grandfon, Silvanus, of Kingfton, Mafs., who held in his pof- ; H7 feffion the gun with which the Indian fhot King Philip (which, according to family tradition, Cook exchanged with him for his own), and who gave the lock to one of the Lothrops, from whom John Lothrop gave it to the Cabinet of the Mafs. Historical Society, where it ftill is. Many years after, the barrel was prefented by John Cook, of Kingf- ton, to the Cabinet of the Pilgrim So- ciety in Plymouth, in which cuftody it remains. [Savage's Gen. Did. i: 446; Plym. Col. Pec. v : 1S2; vi : 196; viii 165; Ruffell's Pilgrim Mem. 105.] 3"8 Hubbard adds that " the morning being wet and rainy, "— which Church's fubfequent ftatement about the fun and the dew does not confirm, — " the En- glish man's gun would not fire, the In- dian having an old Musket with a large touch-hole, it took fire the more read- ily." \_Narrative, 105.] 309 Church's testimony is conclufive as to the identity of this Indian with that one known as Alderma?i among the colonifts ; and both Hubbard and Mather aSTert the fame. I doubt, however, the truth of the common averment that Alderman was the Indian whofe brother Philip had killed, and who guided Church's party to the fwamp. Neither Church, Hubbard, nor Mather fay that, — however, on a caiual reading ? :
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148 CHU. and Ni. * * * Oi ^ UN!VERS
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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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INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. I append here
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INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. b. 9 May, 174S
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE. T had been inten
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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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l^tltp'S WAR 1 [ I Entertaining Paf
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[ I Country, & was pleafed with it;
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[ 2 ] Activity and Induftry, he foo
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[ 3 ] Church to the Dance. Mr. Chur
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[3 ] horns, and Shot-bags at their
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[3 ] parting advifed her what ever
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[4] mw^T'-Ponds; 26 knowing himfelf
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[4] Governours. He gave them an acc
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[5 ] our defired Mr. Church to give
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[5 J from Mr. Miles'^ Garrifon. And
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[5 ] received a fhot in his knee, a
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[6] the Bridge, and Caffey, the dir
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[6] they foon found to be true. The
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; [ 7 ] ther order concerning the F
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[8] divided among the Company, whic
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[8] Woods that the Track lead them
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[9] Volly of fifty or fixty Guns ;
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[ io] the Wall, being very hungry,
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[ io] Enemy, but to heap up Stones
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[ » nefs\ and would certainly fetc
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[ 12 ] was juft come over from the
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[ 12 ] Camp. Mr. Church, one Baxter
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[ 13 ] mouths diftreffes required S
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[ 13 ] hateful to Mr. Church, that
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[ *3 ] Governour Win/low to command
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[ i4] Army made their efcape into t
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[ H ] erals guard when the bloudy i
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[ i6] wounded a pair of Mittins, th
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[ '7 ] would kill more Men than the
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[ i» ] But the Generals great impo
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[ i8 ] skuffle they had, but the In
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[ 19] the Moofiags made a defcent u
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[ "9 ] for to them, being o.bferved
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[ 20] out Indians, they thought it
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[ 20 ] to Capt. John Almy's houfe 1
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[ « to joyn with their Quota's. 16
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[ 21 ] furff made fuch a noife agai
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[ »* ] Son Peter, their Chief Capt
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[ *3 ] fee him fo Refolute, nor if
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[ »4] Upon which there began a con
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[ 25 ] Sogkonate according to his d
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[ *5 ] dren's faft friend. And (by
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[ 26] had nothing but a miferable b
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[ *7 ] confent and advice, he retur
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[ 27 ] round Mr. Church, (where he
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[ a*] Mr. Church obtain'd the Major
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B. Backus, quoted, 112. Bailey, Ben
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