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Rev. Samuel kV/_iling. 9 I
about twenty-five reverend and godly minis-
ters, to assist in cutting down those cursed
errors." " There were all the teaching elders
through the country, and some new come out
of England, not yet called to any place here."*
The clergy of that day were not usually found
among the advocates of civil liberty; but his-
tory shows that the voices of the noblest of
them all were not silent when occasions arose
for defending the rights of the people. Who-
ever else may have taken part in this dis-
graceful business, the pastor of Lynn would
have nothing to do with it. Lynn sent twentyone
t of its able-bodied men to join theexpedi-
tion then being organized against the Pequot
Indians, but sent neither of its clergymen to
the synod. The soldiers drove Sassacus, the
last and bravest chief of the Pequots, a native-
born hero, to his destruction. The government
drove Wheelwright out of the jurisdiction,
only to compel him to become the founder
* Winthrop's Journal, i., 237.
t Boston furnished twenty-slx men. The population of these towns
was not then as twenty-one to twenty-six.