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Letter of Lt. Phineas Upham to the Governor and Council.
Honerd Gou r
ne r & Counsill.
From Mendum, y e
These are to certifiy your worships that Cap 1 . Gorum
l 6t : Octob r : 1675.
with myselfe& our
Souhliers of both Company 8 are in good health at pres" through mercy ;
And to give your honer an account of our seaverell marches ; first we
Came to Mendum one the 25 tt day of the weeke at nightt being the: 24 th of
September and one the 25 th day we marched from Mendum unto Hassan emisett
hoping there to have had an Indian for our guide; butt the Indians
were all gone from thence ; and were thereby disapoynted of our expectation
& one the next day we marched unto Packachoug where we found a feild
of good corn and well fenced : which
we did think convenient not to destroy
Concluding that for ought we Knew Sum of the neeriest of our Inhabitance
would be willing to save itt; butt we could not fiude any Indians neither
the signe of any being there of late and we marched from thence unto
Manchoag and Chobanamagungamung where we found sum cornfeilds and
sum wigwams, which Corn and wigwams we burnt and destroyed butt (we
did not) finde any of our enimies which was a greate discouragement to us,
having taken soe much paynes to finde them; then we Returned and
marched to an Indian Plantation called Shockebogue where we Could not
finde any Indians butt found a Considerable quantity of Good Come which
we did not destroy butt Reserved itt at the Request of Sum of Mendum
who thinke to fetch itt home for there use; and from thence we Came to
Mendum one the 30 th of Sept br : now seeing in all our marches we finde noe
Indians verily thinke thatt thay are drawne together into greate bodyes
farr Remote from those partes :
If your honers please to send us one any further Service I hope we shall
nott be unwilling butt forwarde to doe our uttermost Indeavours with all
desiring that you would be pleased to add unto our number seeing that
besides the Garrison men which must be left heere in garrison we have butt
30 men besides my Selfe, Capt. Gorum being now in his march to Mounthope
and If we goe further we desir thatt we may have a Surgeon and
some other thatt may be acquainted with the woodes where you Sende us
the want of w eh hath beene a discouragement to our men: And as for the
town of Mendum I am desired to Commend the desolate condition of y m
unto you r honers : Severall of there Inhabitance being removed from
them : and
those in garrison being butt poore helps in divers respects and
in number but 12 men, with theire armes very defecttive.
The plantation is very Remotte & therefore soe much the more stands in
neede of helpe; itt is very Likely to be a prosperous place if itt please God
to putt an Ishue to thes troubles and therefore it is the more pitty to have itt
deserted by there people: who think it must be If they have nott sum assistance
they hope: 20: men well fitted with this one Returned mi "lit be
sufishent If your honers se Causs; and further they desired to acquainte
your honers that y e Indians of Hassanamisett which your honers apoynted
to sett down with them have desertted there one town and come nott to that
at Mendum And soe nott haveing any more to troublee your Honers with
I Rest your Hon"
To Command
Phinehas Upham,
Mass. Archives, Vol. 67, p. 276. Lifteuantt.
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