The history of King Philip's War

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to them and bring the other two that were with him, and
they mould be his Souldiers, &c. Capt. Church then
returned to Plymouth, leaving the old Squaws well pro-
vided for, and Bisket for Tifpaquin when he returned:
Telling his Souldiers, that he doubted not but he had laid
a Trap that would take him. 373
Capt. Church two days af-
ter went to BoJlon\ (the Commiffioners then fitting) 374 and
waited upon the Honourable Governour Leverett who then
lay Sick; 375 who requefted of Capt. Church to give him
fome account of the War: who readily obliged his Hon-
our therein, to his great Satisfaction, as he was pleafed to
exprefs himfelf; taking him by the hand, and telling him,
if it pleafed God he lived, he would make it a brace of a
hundred pounds advantage to him out of the Majfachufetts
Colony, and would endeavour the reft of the Colonies
fhould do Proportionably
;
376 but he dyed within a Fort-
373 This language is to be interpreted Artillery Company, 1639, holding fuchonorably.
Church does not mean ceffively all its offices ; was freeman 13
that he had laid a trap to take the May, 1640; 27 May, 1663, he was chofen
Black Sachem by a falfe promiie, as Major-General, and every year aftermight
feem, in the light of fubfequent wards, until he was chofen Governor,
events; but that, in offering him a in 1673, which office he held until his
Captaincy under him to fight the Eaft- death ; befides being feleclman, deputy,
ern Indians, he had held out an induce- affiftant, &c. &c. No fact can be betment
fufficient to fecure his capitulation, ter eftabliibed than that he died 16
as the refult proved. March, 167S-9, or about 2 years and 5
874 The Commiffioners of the three months later than the date to which
Confederate Colonies. Church would here affign his deceafe
375 John Leverett'was the only fon another proof that the old warrior dic-
of Elder Thomas Leverett, and was tated from a memory not always accuborn
in England in 1616, and came to rate in minutiae. [See N. E. Hiji. and
New England with his parents in Sept., Gen. Reg. iv : 125-32.]
1633; joined Bofton Church 14 July,
37 '; Gov. Leverett, on behalf of the
1639; joined the Ancient and Honorable General Court of Mafs., wrote to the
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