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Company to come all together, ordering them all to run 

 after him, who would go firft, and that as foon as they got 

 over the Bridge to fcatter, that fo they might not be all 

 fhot down together, expecting the Enemy to be at their 

 Stands; fo running up to the Stands, found none there, 

 but were juft gone, the ground being much tumbled with 

 them behind the faid Stands : He order'd the Captain with 

 his Company of Englifh to March down to our Men in- 

 gag'd, and that they mould keep along upon the edge of 

 the Marfh, and himfelf with his Indian Souldiers would 

 March down thro' the brum: 47 and coming to a parcel of 

 low ground which had been formerly burnt, the old brum 

 being fallen down lay very thick, and young brum being 

 grown up made it bad travelling; but coming near the 

 back of the Enemy, one of his Men call'd unto him their 

 Commander, and faid, That the Enemy run Wcjlward^ 

 to get between us and the Bridge, and he looking that way 

 law men running, and making a fmall flop, heard no fir- 

 ing, but a great chopping with Hatchets; fo concluding 

 the fight was over, made the beft of their way to the 

 Bridge again, left the Enemy mould go over the Bridge 

 into the Town. The men being moft of them oufc (our 

 Ammunition lay expos'd) coming to the Bridge where he 

 had left Six Indians for an Ambofcade on the other fide of 

 the River, that if any Enemy offer'd to come over they 



47 Church's plan feems to have been dians, he moved " acrofs lots" due 

 to fend his Englifh foldiers along the north, so as, if poffible, to ftrike the 

 curve of the edge of the marfh toward enemy in the rear, 

 the battle-ground, while, with his In- 48 By running weftward, the enemy 

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