The history of King Philip's War

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of his charge of Commiffary General, (Provilion being
fcarce & difficult to be obtained, for the Army, that now
lay ftill to Cover the People from no body, while they
were building a Fort for nothing) retired, and the Power
& Trouble of that Poft was left with Mr. Church, who Hill
urged the Commanding Officers to move over to PocaJJet
fide, to purfue the Enemy, [7] and kill Philip, which would
in his opinion be more probable to keep poffeffion of the
Neck, than to tarry to build a Fort. He was ftill reftlefs
on that fide of the River, and the rather becaufe of his
promife to the Squaw Sachem of Sogkonate. And Capt.
Fuller® alfo urged the fame, until at length there came fur-
fays " Conjlant, or Thomas " [ Gen. Difl.
iv : 143] ) and Alice Carpenter (who,
after her firft hufband's death, became
the fecond wife of Gov. Bradford)
feems to have come over in 1628 [3
Mafs. Hijl. Coll. i : ; 199] was made
freeman in 1637 ; married Elizabeth
Collier, 2 Nov. 1637 ; was Deputy in
1647 and 22 years following, and Treafurer
from 1659 to 1678; was often
Afiiftant, once Commiffioner for the
United Colonies, and acted as Com-
mifiary-General in Philip's war; died
11 March, 1679. He left three fons, and
five daughters, — the fecond of whom
had married Church, 26 Dec. 1667.
This relationfhip by marriage explains
his here throwing off "the Power &
Trouble " of his poft on his fon-in-law.
[Winfor's Hijl. Duxbury, 68; Plym.
Col. Rec. i: 68, 74; ii: 117; iii : 8,
138, I53> 162; iv: 14, 37; v: 17, 34,
etc.]
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69 Matthew Fuller was fon of Ed-
ward (who was brother of the famous
Dr. Samuel) ; was at Plymouth in 1642 ;
went to Barnftable in 1652, and was the
firft phyfician there. He was Lieut, of
Barnftable company in 1652 ; Deputy
from Barnftable in 1653 ; went Lieut, to
Miles Standiih in the Dutch expedi-
tion in 1654; was fined 5a?. for " fpeak-
ing reproachfully of the Court, etc.,"
in 1658; was appointed on the Council
of War the fame year ; is fpoken of as
Captain in 1670; was chofen " Surjean
general" for the Dutch expedition in
1673 ; and evidently was with this expedition
in the fame capacity, as, at the
October Court following thefe firft con-
flicts in Philip's war, there was allowed
"to Capt. Mathew Fuller, as furjean
generall of the forces of this collonie,
and for other good Jervice, fi'fortned
in the countryes behalfe agai7ijl the
enetnie, i?i the late expeditions, or