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Company sick of violent distemp" one of myne is dead & two others I much
feare, The Lord derect your Hon" & give us your servants prudence to Act
hy your Ord ra According to his good will and pleasure.
I Remaine
Your Hon" Humble Servant
William Hathorne.
Mass. Archives, Vol. 69, p. 65.
After the return to Wells there was delay and uncertainty about
preparations for the march to Ossipee, until the news of the capture
of Black point and the threatened approach of the victorious Indians
put the troops upon the guard of the towns near at hand. Capt.
Hathorne and his troops remained in these parts in service until
November 1st, when in company with Capt. Sill he set forth upon
the long delayed march to Ossipee, where they arrived after a very
hard march of four days, finding never an Indian on the way or at the
Great Fort. The Captain sent a party of his men up some twenty
miles farther, but without result, and having burnt the fort, the
troops returned to Berwick, where they arrived on November 9th.
In the meantime, the treaty with Sachem Mugg had been concluded,
and the troops under Capt. Hathorne were soon dismissed.
It will be remembered that the latest credits contained in Hull's
accounts are September 23, 1676, so that the men serving under
the Capt. in this expedition had credit in a later Journal, which is
now lost.
The following petition explains itself:
To the Hon d Generall Court now Assembled in Boston ; 1679 ;
The humble peticon of Sarah Hathorne widdow to Capt. William
Hathorne deceased
Humbly Showeth
That your peticoners late husband, being employed in the Countreyes
service against the Indians, was not satisfyed the arrears due to him
for his said service ; the bill not being delivered to the Treasurer in time,
through the negligence of the Constable ; which caused the Treasurer to
refuse payment ; And your peticoners husband, being deceased, hath left
your peticoner in a meane condition, as to her outward estate, being indebted
to severall persons and not in a capacitye to make payment, without
receiving her late husband's arrears from the country.
The p r misses considered your peticoner humbly craves, this hon d Court
would be pleased to order speedy payment of the arrears due to her late
husband, in such proportion as yo r hon ors in wisdom shall judge convenient.
And yo r peticoner (as in duty bound) shall pray
Mass. Archives, Vol. 69, p. 237.
for you r Hono rs prosperity.
Sarah Hathorne.
This was granted. See also Coll. Eecords, Vol. VI.