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

Edmund Gage.
Ezekiel Levitt.
Manasses Beck.
John Figg.
Benjamin Thurston.
Joseph Newell.
Richard Rogers.
Simon Rogers.
Thomas Simkins.
Theophilus Thornton.
Thomas Savage jr.
Joseph Bodman,
Thomas Williams.
Thomas Bridges.
Thomas Savage, Major.
John Williams.
James Chevers.
Daniel Landon.
Richard Beffer.
Joshuah Hughes.
Francis Shepheard.
Thomas Dure.
William Pollard.
John Marsh.
Robert Smith.
John Wiswall.
James Lowden.
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In accordance with his instructions Major Savage withdrew
his troops about April 7th, leaving one hundred and fifty-one men
with Capt. Turner to garrison the towns, and with four companies
under Capts. Mosely and Whipple, and Lieutenants Gillam and
Edward Drinker, marched homeward. On arriving at Brookfield a
council of war was held to consider the later orders from the Coun-
cil, advising an attack upon the Indians at Mt. Wachuset, but it
was decided not advisable. (The officers had learned by experience
the futility of pursuing the enemy with an army.) The expedition
of Major Savage thus closed. 71 The troops were either returned to
Boston or engaged in other service, and there appear no further
credits under his name. Accounts of Capts. Whipple and Turner
are to be given hereafter, also of other officers mentioned in the
letters.
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71 In Mass. Archives, vol. 68, page 203, there is an order of the Council to Gen. Denison
to inspect the army returned under Major Savage, and discharging those unfitted for service
to dispose of the rest as he shall judge best. The order was dated April 10, 1676.
It seems that Mr. Samuel Nowell, chaplain, was a member of the council-of-war, and
voted to march to Wachuset, but the officers Mosely, Whipple, Gillam and Drinker voted
against it on the ground of insufficient supplies and sickness among the troops. See Mass.
Archives, Vol. 68, p. 235.