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

The following is a portion of a letter from the General Court of
Massachusetts Colony to Plymouth Colony, in answer to her
appeal for assistance
:
June 24. 1675.
Hon rd S r According to what I writ you yesterday we are now convened
in Council to Consider of your desire of a supply of some men from hence
and we have resolved to rayse one hundred foote and 50 horse that shall be
speedily upon their march towards Swansey .... and for the furtherance
and better management &c we have commissionated our faithful friend
Major Thomas Savage &c. . . .
[June 24, 1675.] " Att a meeting of the General Court on the 24. June
1 675. Ordered that the Secretary issue out a warrant to the Constable of
Boston to Impress forthwith five Able and Special horses for the service of
the country, and that Capt Savage and Capt Oliver have charge of them,
and their men each of them one."
" Capt Richard is voted to goe forth in this Expedition (who shame-
fully refused the Employment). 1
" Capt Daniel Henchman was chosen and voted to goe forth as Capt of
100 men for the service of this Colony on y e designe to goe to Plymouth
Col y."
" Capt Thomas Prentice is appointed to be Capt of the Horse."
"To the Militia of the town of Boston, Cha. Camb. Watertown, Roxbury,
Dorchester, Dedham, Brantrey, "Weymouth, Hingham, Maulden—You
are hereby required in his Majesty's name to take notice that the Gov r &
Council have ordered 100 able souldjers forthwith impressed out of the severall
Towns according to the proportions hereunder written for the aid and
assistance of our confederate Plymouth in the designe afoote ag st the Indians,
and accordingly you are to warne af 8d proportions to be ready at an
hours warning from Capt Daniel Henchman who is appointed Captain and
Commander of the Foote Company that each souldjer shal have his armes
compleat and Snapsack ready to march and not faile to be at the rande-
vous."
" To the Comittee of
" The Council is adjourned till tomorrow at 8 of the Clock at Roxbury."
E. R. Sec'y. (i. e. Edward Rawson, Secretary.)
The special commission of Capt. Henchman for this service is also
in the Archives, vol. 67.
To D. H. Capt. with the Consent of the Councill for the Colony of Mass.
in New England.
" Whereas you are apoynted Capt of a foote Company to Serve in this
Expedition for the assistance of our neighbors of Plimouth against the in-
solences and outrages of the natives, these are to wil and require you to
take charge of the said Company of foote, mounted as dragoons, & you are
to command and instruct your inferior officers and soulgers according to military
rules for the service and saftey of the Country, and you to attend
1 This parenthesis is added by another hand. This captain was John Richard, of the
6th Company, and as he was afterwards a trusted officer in the colony, probably the Court
did not agree with the remark of the anonymous writer.
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