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160 SPRINGFIELD, <strong>1636</strong>-<strong>1886</strong>.<br />

leave us to be distroyecl ? It is matter <strong>of</strong> laiueutatiou ; some <strong>of</strong> our<br />

people speak <strong>of</strong> breaking up, <strong>and</strong> will be gone, <strong>and</strong> discouragements<br />

enough are on all."<br />

Meantime Major Fynchou's desire to be relieved <strong>of</strong> the duties <strong>of</strong> a<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>er-in-chief took the form <strong>of</strong> a formal request to the council<br />

<strong>of</strong> Massachusetts for a permission to withdraw ; he wrote a private<br />

letter to Boston from Hadley, September 30, 1675, in which he said :<br />

It is to much y' I should still troble you w"' my Continued desires for a rebate<br />

for y*" charge you have laid on me ^V^'' I am necessitated to doe y' y'' M'orke<br />

may not miscary <strong>by</strong> so much & unable a manager. It were for better some more<br />

thorough & meete Instrument were imployed in y'^ service & I discharge upon y*<br />

very acct : But besides (not to mention some scruples upon my spirit) The dis-<br />

tressed state <strong>of</strong> my affaires at Hom, y"^ sorrows & afflictions my Deare wife un-<br />

dergoes, & her continual calls to me for releife & succor, she being almost over-<br />

whelmed Avith greife & Troble, & in many straites & pplexitys, w

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