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they would tarry and keep in that Fort or not? and 

 whither it was not expedient to fend fome Forces to do 

 lbme fpoil upon them; and further to know whither he 

 could not be prevail'd with to Raife fome Volunteers and 

 go, to do fome fpoil upon them? He anfwer'd them, he 

 was unwilling to be concern'd any more; it being very 

 difficult and chargeable to Raife Volunteers, as he found 

 by experience in the laft Expedition. But they ufmg many 

 arguments prevail'd fo far with him, That if the Govern- 

 ment of Plymouth faw caufe to fend him (he would go) 

 thinking the Expedition would be fhort. Took his leave 

 of them & went home. And in a fhort time after there 

 came an Exprefs from Governour Hinkley, to requeft Maj 

 Church to come down to Barnjiable to him: he having 

 received a Letter from the Government of Bqfton to raife 

 fome Forces to go Eajl ; whereupon the faid Maj. Church 

 went the next day to Barnjiable, as ordered ; finding the 

 Governour and fome of the Council of War there, 80 dif- 



80 The Council of War at this time, 

 by law of 167 1, was compofed of the 

 Governor and Affiftants as annually 

 chofen, " and a like number of other 

 trufty and able men chofen alfo by the 

 General Court, and from year to year 

 filled up, if by death removed, or 

 otherwife any of them be wanting, or 

 incapacitated to perform their truft." 

 The Governor and Affiftants this year 

 were : — 



Thomas Hinckley, Gov., (Barnftable,) 

 William Bradford, Dep. Gov., (Plymouth,) 

 John Freeman, (Eaftham,) 



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John Thacher, (Yarmouth,) 

 John Walley, (Barnftable,) 

 John Cuming, (Scituate.) 



To thefe were added, in 1689, to make 

 up the Council of War, the following, 

 viz : — 



Nathaniel Byfield, (Briftol,) 

 Capt. Jonathan Sparrow, (Eaftham,) 

 Lieut. Ifaac Little, (Marlhfield.) 



Who, of the number formerly ap- 

 pointed, held over to complete the 

 number, we are not informed. [Brig- 

 ham's Laws of Col. of New Plym. 

 285; Plym. Col. Pec. vi : 205, 212.] 



