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Ihould lire at them, which would give him Notice, [63] lb 

 would come to their affiftance; (but in the way having 

 heard no firing nor lhouting, concluded the Enem}? were 

 drawn off) he asked the Ambofcade, whether they law 

 any Indians? They faid, Yes, abundance. Fie ask'd 

 them, Where? They anfwered, That they ran over the 

 head of the River by the Cedar Swamp, 49 and were run- 

 ning into the Neck towards the Town: There being but 

 one Englifli man with him, he bid his Indian Souldiers 

 lcatter, run very thin to preferve themfelves, and the bet- 

 ter able to make a difcovery of the Enemy : & foon com- 

 ing to Lieut. Clarks 50 field on the South-fide of the Neck, 

 and feeing the Cattel feeding quietly, and perceiving no 

 Track, concluded the Ambofcade had told them a falfe- 



would be able to pafs round Church's 

 left flank, and get to the bridge, and 

 into the town, in l'pite of, and before 

 him. 



i9 Church's Indians evidently fup- 

 pofed that the hoftile party were run- 

 ning far enough weft to flank the fliort 

 river, and go around its fwampy fource 

 into the neck and toward the town, in- 

 ftead of attempting to crofs the de- 

 fended bridge. 



51 T/iaddeus Clark is faid by Rev. 

 Timothy Alden (who gives no author- 

 ity) to have been born in Ireland 

 [Alden's American Epiiafhs. ii : 98.]; 

 was at Falmouth, 1663, with his wife 

 Elizabeth, then iS years old. fecond 

 daughter of Michael Mitton ; lived on 

 the bank of the Cafco, juft above the 

 point which ftill bears his name; was 



Lieut, of a company of town foldiers : 

 and. in an imprudent expofure of him- 

 felf and his men, was killed, with thir- 

 teen of his company, by the Indians, 

 when they attacked Falmouth in 1690. 

 and buried 4 July. His widow died in 

 Bolton, in 1736, cel. 91. His eldclt 

 daughter, Elizabeth, married Capt. 

 Edward Tyng; another married a Har- 

 vey, and was a widow in Bofton 1719. 

 His fon Ifaac fettled in Framingham, 

 Mafs. ; married Sarah Stow, of Marl- 

 borough ; had feven children; com- 

 manded a company of troopers ; and 

 died 26 May, 176S. cel. 102. having 

 lived 70 years with the wife of his 

 youth. [Willis's Hijl. Port. 139, 141, 

 232, 2S3, 292 : Barry's Hijl. From. 20S : 

 Savage's Gen. Did. i : 400. Me. Hijl. 

 Coll. i : 203-214.] 



