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urday; and waiting upon the Governour, and fome of the 

 Gentlemen in Bofton, they look'd very ftrange upon them, 

 which not only troubled them but put them into fome 

 confternation what the matter mould be, that after fo much 

 toyl & hard Service could not have fo much as one plea- 

 fant word, nor no Money in their Pockets; for Maj 

 Church had but Eight Pence left, and Capt. Convcrfe none, 

 as he laid afterwards. Maj. Church feeing two Gentlemen 

 which he knew had Money, ask'd them to lend him Forty 

 Shillings, telling them his ueceffity: Yet they refufed. 

 So being bare of Money was oblig'd to lodge at Mr. Al- 

 dens three Nights; 133 and the next Tuefday Morning Capt. 

 Convcrfe came to him (not knowing each others circum- 

 ftances as yet) and faid he would walk with him out of 

 Town; fo coming near Pollards at the South End, they 

 had fome Difcourfe; that it was very hard that they mould 

 part with dry lips : Maj. Church told Capt. Convcrfe that 

 he had [77] but Eight Pence left, and could not borrow 

 any Money to carry him home. And the faid Converfe 

 faid, that he had not a Peny left; fo the}' were oblig'd to 

 part without going in to Pollards, &c. The faid Capt. 



mander; was in danger in the witch- upwards of £2000. [Drake's Hift. 



craft delufion [Winfor (Hi/i. Duxbury, Bofton, i : 499 ; Drake's Witchcraft 



215) wrongly fays it was his fon John ; DclitJIon in New England, iii : 26; 



but the documents call him "John Al- Alden's American Epitaphs, iii: 266.] 



din, Senior, of Bofton, Marriner,"] in 133 Capt. Alden lived on an alley 



1692, and was committed to jail, but leading from Cambridge to Sudbury 



ran away, and was ultimately cleared, Streets, from him called Alden's Lane, 



in 1693, "by proclamation, none ap- and, fince 1S46, Alden Street; now the 



pearing againft him." He died in headquarters of lefs ufeful perlbns. 



Cofton, 14 March, 1702, at. S2, leaving [Drake's Hijt. Bojton, i: 500.] 



