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to yo r care and chardge, and doe order yon to take the care and chardge of
the sayd Company that you be vigilant & diligent in that place & as seasonably
& speedily as you caun to give Information to y e Councel of the
state, numbers & condition of y r souldiers in that Garrison under y r command
desiring God's Gracious & blessing to be w th you. llemayne
yo r loving freinds
Edw. Rawson, Secretary
Boston 22 Aprill 1G7G by Order of the Council
Postscript, you are alike ordered to take care & command of the place
(ie) Marlborrow to preserve it what in you lyes.
Edw. Rawson, Secretary
Mass. Archives, Vol. 68, p. 222. like order
Lieut. Richard Jacob's First Letter.
from Malbary y e 22 April 1676.
Hono r d Sirs This morning aboute Sun two hours high y e Enimie Alarmed
us by tiring & Shooting towards y e Lowermost Garason Next Sudbury,
which made us feare y l Garason to be in Danger which shooting we afterward
understood was y e Enimie killing off Cattle. Some after they gave a
shout & Came in sight upon y e Indian hill great Numbers of them & one as
theire accustomed maner is after a fight, began to signifie to us how many
were slaine. They Cohoop'd seventy-four times, which we hoped was only
to affright us seing we have had no intelegence of any such thing, yet we
have Reason to feare the worst Considering Theire Numbers which we
aprehended to be five hundred at y e least others Thinke a thousand y e most
of y em hasted toward y e Northwest side of y e towne firing y e Remainder of
were deserted as they went: they have been
y e l
Garasou houses & others y
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hunting in al quarters of y towne to kill & take what Cattle were without
e e
Comand of y four Garasons That yet Remain. Severall of y furthermost
houses of this town next Sudbury have bin fired now toward Night which
e
gives Reason to Thinke that y Enimie is not yet Departed from ns : Thus
I thought it my Duty to give a briefe account of y e present proceedings of
y e Enimie: to your Honuours Leaving itt with your wisdoms Consideration.
Beging pardon for This my Bouldnes I Remaine your Honoures
Humble Servant Richard Jacob.
[Attached to the above letter is Secretary Rawsou's Copy of an Order of
the Council, as follows :]
Leftenant Jacob, yesterday upon the Councils having the sad intelegeuce
of y or Capt. & Capt. Wadsworths death ordered your taking the charge of
the souldgers at Malborough since w ch I received your of 22 Apr. giving
intelegence of the enemyes infesting y or quarters & apearance in a buddy of
at least 500 & these wasting by fyers what they can come at so driving
cattle, yesterday was ordered eighty troopers to advance to observe the
motions of the enemy y or twoe souldgers returne w th a p ty of horse to Sudbery
& so with these to you I desyer your vigilance & care for the preserving
your men & what is under your charge & you shal have ffurther orders so
soone as the Councell meete, desyring Gods presence with and assistance
of you, 23, 2, 76.
Mass. Archives, Vol. 68, p. 223.