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and had come hither under their protection and pledge. The Captains
urged their commission, and Major Waldron urged his duty and
pledge of hospitality ; but finding them determined he compromised
the matter by planning a stratagem by which some two hundred of
the hostile Indians were made prisoners, while Wanalanset and his
Pennacooks, Ossipees and Pequakets were allowed to depart unharmed.
The account of this transaction will properly fall under
the chapter concerning Major Waldron.
Two days after this affair these companies, together with some of
Major Waldron's and Capt. Frost's men, marched on to the eastward
as far probably as Falmouth, but, finding no enemy and all the
settlements deserted or destroyed, they returned to Piscataqua, and
were in these parts on October 3d, as mentioned in a letter of Gen.
Denison to the Council. Capts. Sill, Hunting and Frost are said
to be there under command of Capt. Hathorne. It was there, about
this time, that some insubordination or other objectionable conduct
occurred, which occasioned the following action of the Court on
October 17th, 1676.
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Whereas Capt. Joseph Scyll hath heretofore binn imployed in the
countrys service, as commander of a company, & that information is given
that of late he hath carried himself offencively in that place, this Court
doth the r fore order, that the said Scyll be forthwith dischardged from that
imploy, & some other meet person appointed in his room.
[Colony Records, Vol. V. p. 126.]
I find no explanation of this in any other place, and no subsequent
action by the Court concerning Capt. Sill, save that indicated in the
answer to the petition below, which appears also, in Colony Records,
Vol. V. p. 506. Mr. Hubbard's account indicates that Capt. Sill
still held his command, and went with Capt. Hathorne on the march
in November, 1676, to Ossipee and Pequaket. Sometime before
November 7, 1681, Capt. Sill removed to Lyme, Conn., where he
was living at that date. He died at Lyme, August 6, 1696. His
son Thomas was a ship master, lived in Boston in 1699, and was
probably the Capt. Sill who died there in May, 1709.
November 30 th 1675
Benjamin Dowse
Begalow
John Bond
James Kellon
Samuel Cutler
George Dell
Jonathan Smith
Isaac Larned
Paul Wilson
Nathaniel Hely
John Chadwick
Credited under Capt. Joseph Syll.
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