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Dec. 3d, 1G75, Capt. Prentice is appointed to command a troop
of horse in the Narraganset campaign, joined the army at Dedham
plain, and marched with it, as related heretofore, to Wickford, whence
on the 16th he rode with his troop to Petaquanscut, and brought
back the news of the destruction of Bull's garrison. 50 On the 19th
took part in the battle at the fort. All the mention of his presence
that I have found is the pair of mittens that Church had borrowed
of him, which were "wounded" in Church's pocket.
But in the Archives, vol. fi8, page 104, 1 find that John Wyman,
51 of his troop, was killed, and Nathan Richardson and Nathan
Belins (Billings) of Woburn, and Samuel Stone of Cambridge,
were wounded.
After this battle Capt. Prentice was active in the subsequent scouting
raids into the adjoining country. On December 27 he rode into
Pomham's country (now Warwick, R. I.) and destroyed many wigwams
of an Indian village, but found no Indians. On January 21
he was again scouting, and met with a party of Indians, of whom
two were captured and nine killed. On the 27th the army started
in pursuit of the enemy, and after several days marching returned
to Boston, and the Massachusetts men were dismissed, for the time,
to their homes.
The following is the list of credits for this campaign. Appended
is a list of the same, as returned from the various local companies for
this service, copied from Mass. Archives, vol. 68, showing the local-
ities from which they came.
February 29,