The history of King Philip's War

INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.
which, if far from being a reproduction of the perfon
whom his cotemporaries knew, muft yet have some fac-
limile lineaments. The humble office of the editor is to
furnifh the mould; leaving to the reader the re-creative
work.
Benjamin Church was a fon of Richard. Richard
came to MafTachufetts probably in the fleet with Gov.
Winthrop;* was a carpenter by trade; 19 061. 1630,
was propounded to be a freeman in the MafTachufetts
Colony; in 1630, was at WefTaguffet and Plymouth; 2
Jan. 163! was freeman of Plymouth; 16 Feb. 163! hired
William Baker to faw timber into boards for him; was
"rated for public ufe " £1 16s. in March following, and
£1 7 j. the next year; married Elizabeth, daughter of
Richard Warren, in 1636; was often a member of the
"Grand Enqueft," and was occafionally made referee;
ferved as fergeant in the Pequotwar; with John Tompfon
helped build the firft meeting-houfe ( as fuch ) in Ply-
mouth about 1637; lived at Eel-river; 9 April, 1649, fold
his eftate there to Robert Bartlet for £25 ; was in Charleftown
in 1653, but finally fettled down in Hinghani, where
he made his will 25 Dec. 1668, and died two days after, at
Dedham, leaving at leaft nine children.f
* Savage's Gen. Did. i : 3S6 ; Win-
JV. E. Hiji. & Gen. Reg. xi : ; 154 Plym.
for's Duxbury, 245; Deane's Scitu- Col. Rec.'w 6,8, 11, xii : 165, &c. &c.
ate, 234; Mitchell's Bridgewater, 363; f Church fpeaks [2?. C. D. i : 91] of
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