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; [5» ] tance rather than offend him with the ftink: but by and by he was gone out of fight and hearing; and then Capt. Church began to fufpect fome ill defign in him, and got all the Guns clofe to him, and crouded himfelf clofe under young Annawon, that if he fhould any where [52] get a Gun he fhould not make a fhot at him without indanger- ing his Son; lying very ftill a while waiting for the event: at length, he heard fome body coming the fame way that Annawon went. The Moon now fhining bright, he faw him at a diftance coming with fomething in his hands, and coming up to Capt. Church, he fell upon his knees before him, and offer'd him what he had bro't, and fpeak- ing in plain EnglifJi, faid, Great Captain, you have killed Philip, and conquered his Country for I believe, that I & my company are the lajl that War againjl the Englifh, fo fuppofe the War is ended by your means ; and therefore thefe things belong unto you. Then opening his pack, he pull'd out Philips belt curioufly wrought with Wompom^' being Nine 357 Wompom (plural Wompompeag) Jezvan, i.e., " fcattered," " loofe." The was the Indian name for the -white Engliih, not underftanding, or difrebeads uled as currency, or for the pay- garding, the diftindtion of colors, afment of tribute from tribe to tribe fumed the name of the cheaper and from wompi, " white." The black, or, more common wowz/ompeag as generic, more properly, the purple beads, made and called all fhell-money ivompom. from the margin of the fhell of the Dr. Palfrey fays thefe beads were a round clam (Vemes mercenaries), were quarter of an inch long, and in diameter calledJitckauhock, "dark-colored-fhell." lefs than apipe-ftem, drilled lengthwife. Thefe beads when ftrung, in bands or Gookin and Roger Williams teftify, that girdles, were called, generally, peag the white beads (or zvompom proper) when loofe, Jeazv/w'og (fazv/wog, Roger were rated at half the value of the Williams's Key. R.-I.HiJl. Coll. i: 131) ; black. Palfrey adds that the former by the Dutch and other traders, Jeazvan, paffed for a farthing each in tranfac- 172
[5» ] inches broad, 358 wrought with black and white Wompom, in various figures and flowers, and pictures of many birds and beafts. This when hung upon Capt. Churches moulders it reach'd his ancles. And another belt of Wompom he prefented him with, wrought after the former manner, which Philip was wont to put upon his head; it had two flags on the back part which hung down on his back: and another fmall belt with a Star upon the end of it, which he ufed to hang on his breaft; and they were all edg'd with red hair, which Annawon faid they got in the Muh- hogs 359 Country. Then he pulled out two horns of glazed Powder, and a red cloth Blanket: He told Capt. Churchy thefe were Philips Royalties 360 which he was wont to tions between the natives and the col- onifts ; that is, 960 to the pound fterling. A law was paired, however, in the Mai's. Colony, 2 June, 1641, to this effect "It is ordered that vjampampcge ihall paiTe currant at 6 a penny for any fumme under £10, for debts hereafter to bee made." In Sept., 164S, the commiffioners of the United Colonies, from the fact that the Indians and traders cheated in dealing with wampum, " fmaule & great uncomly & diforderly mingled," recommended an order that none lhould " bee payed or Refcaiued " but what is " in fom meafure ftrunge futably;" but the General Courts did not agree to it. In 1660 it was rated at 55. a fathom. [Palfrey's Hijl. N. E. i: 31; Mafs. Col. Rec. i: 329; Plym. Col. Rcc. ix: 136, 149; x: 251 ; 1 Mafs. Hijl. Coll. i : 152 ; R.-I. Hijl. Coll. i I30-] : 173 358 " They [feag\ were ufed for orna- ment as well as for coin, and 10,000 have been known to be wrought into a fingle war-belt four inches wide." [Palfrey's Hijl. N. E.x: 32.] "They make girdles curioufly, of one, two, three, foure and five inches thickneffe and more, of this money, which (fometimes to the value of £10 and more) they weare about their middle and as a fcarfe about their lhoulders and breafts. "Yea, the Princes make rich Caps and Aprons (or fmall breeches) of thefe Beads thus curioufly ftrung into many formes and figures : their blacke and white finely mixt together." [Roger Williams's Key. R.-I. Hijl. Coll. i: 309 Mohawk's country. 369 It is an interefting queftion what became of thefe " royalties " after they were thus pafied into the hands of
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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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PREFATORY NOTE. made to put the pur
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PREFATORY NOTE. fled his grandfathe
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PREFATORY NOTE. an Appendix of fort
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PREFATORY NOTE. tlemen deserve more
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INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. which, if far
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INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. freemen of " D
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INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. Butted & bound
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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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[ *8 ] worth' they went to Sandwich
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[ 2 9 ] but when they perceived the
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[3°] Knots and Tops, &c. was fired
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[3i ] {provided they be not Murdero
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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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