Soldiers in King Philip's war. Containing lists of the soldiers of ...

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Nicholas Browne 02 15 08 Philip Gleson 00 17 00
John Hartshorn 02 15 08 Daniel Maginis 04 13 00
Joseph Syll, Capt. 06 00 00 Thomas Dawby 00 14 10
Jacob Bullard 02 04 06
The names of those who served under Capt. Sill after September
23d, 1676, were credited in a later Journal now lost. The following
interesting document explains itself.
To the honored Generall Court assembled at Boston the Petition of
Joseph Sill,
humbly sheweth
That your petitioner accounts it a great privileclge that from his childhood
he hath bin trained up, and hath spent so many of his dayes under
your government, and cannot without singular content and complacency
call to minde, that he hath bin honoured to be called forth under your commission,
to appear in the field against your enemies, in pursuance of which
he did according to his mean ability serve you faithfully, and for length of
time and number of expeditions, may (without ostentation be it spoken)
compare with most if not any who were listed in your service ;
and accounts
noe part of his dayes, next to those which have bin improved in the
immediate service of God, so well spent as those which have bin imployed
in the service of his country and the government, remaining still
devoted, in all that he hath and is, unto your service, without any selfish
aimes. Yet being well assured that your noble and generous inclinations
are not inferior, to his who accounted that day lost in which some or other
were not benefited by him, nor to his, who was displeased with such as
asked no kindness from him, he must confess that he hath some ambition
that it may be manifested that he is not forgotten amongst those that have
tasted of your beneficence, and humbly craves of the honoured court that
you would please to grant to him a small number of acres of that land
which hath bin recovered from the enimy, that so a little part of what he
hath seen with his eyes and trod with his feet, in your service, may be committed
into his hands, and that so he may the more comfortably share in
the blessings of these peaceful days wherein men may beat theyr swords
into plow shares, and your petitioner shall pray, &c.
Joseph Sill.
The magis trs judg meet to grant the petitioner
two hundred acres of Land where he can find
it free ; their brethren the Deputys hereto consenting.
Edward Rawson, Sec'y^
The deputyes consent not upon the consideration that this Court hath
already granted a plantation of eight miles square in the nepmug countrey
for the Accomodating such as were souldiers in the Late "Warr with whom
the petitioner may have his liberty to come in for a settlement if hee thinke
good.
Richard Sprague, pr order.
e
November y
19 th 1685.
[Mass. Archives, Vol. 70, p. 148.]