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divided among the Company, which was all the Provifions<br />
they had.<br />
Mr. Church after their flender breakfaft prop<strong>of</strong>ed to<br />
Capt. Fuller, That he would March in quefl <strong>of</strong> the Enemy,<br />
with fuch <strong>of</strong> the Company as would be willing to March<br />
with him; which he complyed with, tho' with a great deal<br />
<strong>of</strong> fcruple, becaufe <strong>of</strong> his fmall Number, & the extream<br />
hazard he forefaw muft attend them. 75<br />
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But fome <strong>of</strong> the Company had reflected upon Mr.<br />
Church, that notwithftanding his talk on the other fide <strong>of</strong><br />
the River, he had not mown them any Indians lince they<br />
came over. Which now mov'd him to tell them, That if<br />
it was their delire to fee Indians, he believ'd he fhould now<br />
foon fhew them what they fhould fay was enough.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Number allow'd him foon drew <strong>of</strong>f to him, which<br />
could not be many, becaufe their whole Company con-<br />
when he muft have been 18; was among reached the rank <strong>of</strong> Deputy Governor<br />
freemen in 1655 ; was licenfed to prac- at the date fpoken <strong>of</strong> in the text, but<br />
tile phyfic, and had the degree <strong>of</strong> M.D. Church, dictating forty years after, re-<br />
conferred on him by the General Affem- fers to him under the title by which he<br />
My in 1664; was ch<strong>of</strong>en Deputy Gov- was afterwards beft known, [R.I. Col.<br />
ernor in 1672, and ferved alfo in 1673, Rec. i: 127, 301; ii : 33, 451, 481,<br />
'76, '77, and '78, in which year Gov. 541, 565; iii : 3, 4, 24; Arnold's Hijl.<br />
Arnold died, and he was ch<strong>of</strong>en Gov- R.-I. i : 459 ; Savage's Gen. Di&. i<br />
ernor; ferved as Governor till 12 March, 472.]<br />
16S0, when he died in <strong>of</strong>fice, aged 54.<br />
75 Hubbard's account would indicate<br />
He was the firft who ever held the place that a day and night had been fpent on<br />
<strong>of</strong> Major-General in Rhode-Ifland. He the Pocaffet fide, before this prop<strong>of</strong>ition<br />
married Mary, daughter <strong>of</strong> Dr. Jere- <strong>of</strong> Church's took place. [Narrative,<br />
miah Clark <strong>of</strong> Newport; who after his 24.] Probably he confounded this<br />
death married John Stanton, and who with the time fpent on Rhode-Iiland.<br />
died 7 April, 1711. Gov. Samuel Church, as a participant, is, <strong>of</strong> courfe,<br />
Cranfton was his fon. He had only the beft witnefs.<br />
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