The history of King Philip's War

INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.
in that town; 16 February [Ibid, iii: 397], he buys of
Benjamin Woodworth of Little Compton, for £10, meadow
lots in that town; 20 April, 1694 [Ibid, vi: 177],
he buys of Gerfhom Wodel of PocaJJet, for £3, lands at
Fall-river; 23 July [B. T. R. i: 92], " Major Church " was
chofen by the town of Briftol the firft of its 5 affeffors; 30
July [B. C. D. i: 97], he bought back, for £50, his " home-
lot" in Briftol which he had fold (29 Sept. 1688) to his
brother-in-law, James Burroughs; 6 September [Ibid. 385],
he buys of Ifrael Hubbard and Jonathan Dodfon of Scitu-
ate, for £150, one "great lot" in Freetown, " being the
fecond lot from y e Fall-river."
29 December, 1695 [Ibid, ii: 21], he fells to Jofeph Ta-
ber of Tiverton 80 acres at Nomquid, with a grift mill, and
alfo 39 acres in Punkateajl neck, with other lots, for £360,
faid Tabor agreeing to maintain the grift-mill, as Church
had done, with the agents of the proprietors of Saconet.
23 March, 1696 [B. T. R. i: 96], Major Church was
chofen Moderator of Briftol town-meeting, — the laft time
his name is mentioned on the records of that town, indicat-
ing his removal very foon after to Fall-river; 2 May [B. C.
D. i: 290], he depofed that in 1680 he faw Hugh Wood-
berry fencing " the nth lot of y e freeman's land," &c, in
Freetown; 27 July [Ibid, ii: 217], he fells, for £18, to John
Palmer, carpenter, of Little Compton, 40 acres of land in
that town; 3 Auguft [E. P. 87], he was commiffioned to