The history of King Philip's War

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polled at Major Browns and Mr. Miles's Garrifons 44 chiefly;
and were there foon joyned 45 with thofe that came from
Maffachufetts^ who had entred into a Confederacy with
their Plymouth Brethren, againft the Perfidious Heathen.
The Enemy who began their Hoftilities with plundring
and deflroying Cattel, did not long content themfelves
with that game. They thirfled for EngliJJi blood, and they
foon broach'd it; 47 killing two Men in the way not far
44 Myles's Garrifon was the fortified
houfe of the Rev. John Myles, paftor of
the Baptift Church in Swanfey [fee note
39, ante~\, which is fuppofed to have
ftood in what is now Barneyville, about
75 rods a little north of due weft from
Miles's bridge, which croffes Palmer
(or Warren) river about three miles
north of Warren, R.-I. Mr. Myles
was put to fo much expenfe by the war,
that, 25 Feb. 1679, it was voted by the
town that " Mr. John Myles fhall have
the houfe built for him to indemnify him
for debts due him in the time of the In-
dian war, in full of his demands," etc.
[MS. Haile Records, 42.] The po-
fition of Maj. Brown's [fee note 27, ante~\
garrifon has not been exactly identified,
but it is fuppofed to have been in the fame
part of Swanfey with Myles's garrifon.
45 The Plymouth forces probably
reached Swanfey on the afternoon of
Tuefday, 22 June, or, at furtheft, on
Wednefday, 23 June ; while the firft of
the Maffachufetts forces left Bofton on
Saturday, 26 June, and all of them ar-
rived at Swanfey on Monday, 28 June.
[Feffenden's Warren, 66, 69.]
4U The Maffachufetts forces, on this
occafion, confifted of a troop of horfe
under Capt. Thomas Prentice, one of
foot under Capt. Daniel Henchman,
and one hundred and ten "volunteers"
under Capt. Samuel Mofley. Money
had been a "Privateer at Jamaica,"
and his "volunteers" included ten or
twelve pirates under fentence of death,
who were taken out of jail to join the
command, and promifed life on good
behavior. Three Chriftian Indians —
James and Thomas Quannapohutt and
Zeckary Abram — were attached to
Capt. Prentice's troop as guides. Sev-
eral dogs — to be ufed in hunting the
Indians — were with Mofley's company.
[Drake's Hiji. of Bofton, i : 402 ; N. E.
Hijt. and Gen. Reg. xv : 262 ; Tranfac-
tions Amer. Antiquarian Society, ii
441.]
47 It is very difficult to harmonize the
various conflicting authorities fo as to
be certain when, or in what manner, the
firft blood was drawn. Rev. Abiel
Fifher, in his hiftory of the Firft Baptift
Church in Swanfey, fays that Eldad
Kingfley — one of its members — was
the firft man flain, on Faft-day, the 24th,
at Swanfey. The Breiff Narratine
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