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colony, where the choice was made by the people of each town, and
was made a matter of confirmation by the Court. Capt. Davenport
had returned to Boston in 1673, and at the time of the fitting out
of the Narraganset Expedition in December, 1675, was servinoon
the jury at the Court of Assistants, whence he was summoned
to take command of the 5th Company in the Massachusetts lieu-iment.
This company was made up chiefly of men from Cambridge
and Watertown, to most of whom Captain Davenport was a
stranger, but it is said (see Drake's " Old Indian Chronicle, page
181) that he, on the occasion of "taking possession of his company,
made a very civil speech to them, and also gave them free Liberty
to choose their own Serjeants themselves, which pleased them very
well, and accordingly did so." The company joined the rest of
the forces at Dedham plain, and marched to Narraganset with
the army. In "Oliver's Narrative," one item concerning Capt.
Davenport appears, mentioned with characteristic brevity. " Dec.
17 th That Day we sold Capt. Davenport forty-seven Indians younoand
old, for Eighty Pounds in money." I have found nothing to
solve the doubt as to whether it was the enterprise of the merchant
or the humanity of the man that prompted the purchase. I find no
mention of such sale on the treasurer's books. On December 19th,
at the great Fort fight, Mr. Hubbard relates that "Capt. Mosely
and Capt. Davenport led the van."
The death of Capt. Davenport is thus related in the "Old Indian
Chronicle" above mentioned, p. 181 :
" Before our men came up to take possession of the Fort, the Indians
had shot three Bullets through Capt Davenport, whereupon he bled extreanily,
and immediately called for his Lieutenant, Mr Edward Ting, 104
and committed the charge of the Company to him, and desired him to take
104 Lieutenant Edward Ting (or Tyng) commanded the company during the rest of
this campaign, and many of the credits are given under him as Captain. He was the
son of Capt. Edward Tyng of Boston, and was born March 26th, 1649. He removed to
Falmouth in 168 ), and soon after married Elizabeth, daughter of Thaddeus Clark and £fr.
granddaughter of George Cleeves. He was in command of Fort Loyal 1680 and 1681 ; was a
counsellor and magistrate for Maine under President Danforth, and in 1686 was appointed
by the King one of the council of his brother-in-law Joseph Dudley and afterward under
Andros, who made him lieutenant-colonel and placed him in command in the province of
Sagadahoc in 1688 and 1689, and after the reduction of Nova Scotia was appointed governor
of Annapolis, but on his way to that place his vessel was captured bv the French,
and he was taken to France where he died. He was a man of great energy and ability',
and was a large land owner in Maine ; but as he favored and served the Andros party
he became very unpopular with the people. His son Edward had a son William, who in
1767 was appointed sheriff of Cumberland County, but becoming a staunch Tory he was
obliged to fly from the wrath of his fellow-citizens to the British army at New York, where
he remained till the close of the war, when he removed to Nova Scotia and was made chief
justice; but in 1793 he returned to Maine, and as his own large estates in Portland had been
confiscated, he settled upon his wife's estate in Gotham, where in elegant ease, with ample
estate, he enjoyed the fruits of his toryism and a pension which the British government
after his death in 1807 continued to his widow, the stately and stanch royalist Madam Tyng,
to her death in 1831. Col. Tyng was childless, and the" last male descendant of Capt. Edward
of the Narraganset tight. Mr. Isaac T. Hull, of Portland, Me., has shown me proof
that Col. Tyng was welcomed back to Portland bv the people, and allowed to buy in his
confiscated estate for a small sum. He was helpful to American prisoners in New York
while there.
The second lieutenant was John Drury, son of Hugh of Boston, born May 2 1646
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