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' ing of the faid Enemy. It is therefore Ordered that 

 ' Captain Simon Willard™ and Capt. Nathanael Ha//, 20 

 ' with the two Companies of Souldiers under their feveral 

 ' Command belonging to this Colony, now in or about 

 1 Cafco Bay, be and are hereby put under you, as their 

 ' Commander in Chief for this prefent Expedition. And 

 ' in purfuance of the Commiffions feverally given to either 

 ' of them, they are Ordered to Obferve and Obey your 

 4 orders and directions, as their Commander in Chief until 

 ' further Order from the Governour & Council; Or the 

 < Commiffioners of the Colonies. Dated in Bqfton the 

 ' 17th day of September, Anno Dom. 1689. Annogue 



i° Simon Willard was third fori of 

 Maj. Simon; born 23 Nov., 1649; free- 

 man 1680; Captain in this war; was 

 Deacon; died 21 June, 1731. He mar- 

 ried (1) about 1679, Martha, daughter of 

 Richard Jacob, of Ipfwich ; (2) 30 April, 

 1702, Elizabeth, widow of John Wal- 

 ley, and daughter of the fecond John 

 Alden; (3) July, 1722, Prifcilla But- 

 tolph. [Savage's Gcu. Did. iv : 555.] 



20 I cannot identify this Captain, ex- 

 cept by the fuppofition that he was the 

 fame " Capt. Nathaniel Hall " who 

 joined the Ancient and Honorable Ar- 

 tillery Company in 1692, and who is 

 barely mentioned by name, by Whit- 

 man. \Hift. And. & Hon. Art. 22S.] 

 It feems to me that Mr. Savage is mif- 

 taken in faying that he was that fon of 

 the firft John of Yarmouth, who married 

 Anne Thornton, practifed as a phyfi- 

 cian, kept tavern, &c, &c. It is hardly 

 probable that there were two cotempo- 



rary Nathaniel Halls of Yarmouth, both 

 of whom fought the Indians. But that 

 Nathaniel Hall who received grants 

 from the Plymouth Colony in July, 

 1681, and July, 1683, and wno W£IS 

 cenfed to keep an ordinary, in addition 

 to a grant of £5 per annum, 5 June, 



1684, to which £30 more, with the 

 promife of £6 per annum, were added 

 in June, 16S5, — all on account of his 

 "contenewed lamenefs " as "a de- 

 criped fouldier, whoe became foe by a 

 wound received in the late Indian 

 warr," was of Yarmouth. And as he 

 was thus an untitled penfioner up to 



1685, it feems unlikely that he could 

 have been the Capt. Nathaniel who 

 marched under Church in 1689. Mr. 

 Otis, however, thinks he was the fame. 

 [Savage's Gen. Did. ii : 336; Plym. 

 Col. Rec. vi : 65, 112, 130, 132, 169; 

 Freeman's Hiji. Cape Cod, ii : 203. 

 Otis's Hi/?. Barnjlable, i: 241.] 



