Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

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desired to coiue away. The men sent were Tho. Powell, Eben Graves, John
Stiles, James Petty, Joseph Petty & Tho. Gilbert, who were in y" service 2 days
apiece and horses
which is 12 days 12 horses.
I sent 2 lbs. Powder & 6 lbs. Bullets to Quabaug.
Aug. 3. Hezekia Dickinson Post from Brookfield with Capt. Nicholson's sec-
ond letter : one day coming & one day back, & y"^ extremity of y"^ wet made
it a day more, so he is to be allowed for his horse & himself fl
which is 3 days 3 Horses.
Sept. 4. To entertaining a Post, and to quartering of two soldiers sent from
Quabaug for provisions, them selves and horses.
Sept. 5. I sent to Quabaug 5 bushels of Indian corn etc. Sent two firelock
guns to Quabaug etc.
Sept. 11. Joseph Marks was ordered to Northfield for 1 week, & with 4 fire-
lock guns.
Pynchon, ten days later, sent a compan}^ under command of Henry
Gilbert, to the relief of Brookfield, with provisions and arms.
Early in October Sir Edmund Andros started from New York for
Boston, where he was destined to have a taste of what an American
crowd with a notion of colonial rights could do when put to it. John
Pynchon had held for nearly three years the position of counsellor by
Andros's appointment, and Sir Edmund arrived at Springfield about
the 12tli of the month. There was a conference between the two
men, but nothing is known of the business transacted between them.
Sir Edmund visited Northampton before proceeding to Boston and
his fate.
We will speak presently of John Pynchon's negotiations with the
Indians, but will here mention that his past experience as a negotiator
caused his selection to head a commission to visit Albany and ar-
range a treaty with the Macquas. The party, ten in number, left for
the spot in August, 1689, and were gone one month. A treaty was
duly made.
Another invasion of the Canadian French and Indians, in New Eng-
land, in the summer of 1693, threw western Massachusetts into a
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