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Converfe returned back into Town, and the faid Church 

 went over to Roxbury; and at the Tavern he met with 

 Stephen Braton lZi of Rhode- I/land, a Drover; who was 

 glad to fee him the faid Church, and he as glad to fee his 

 Neighbour: whereupon Maj. Church call'd for an Eight- 

 Peny Tankard of drink, and let the faid Braton know his 

 circumftances, ask'd him whether he would lend him Forty 

 Shillings ? He anfwered, Yes : Forty Pounds, if he wanted 

 it. So he thank'd him, and faid, he would have but Forty 

 Shillings', which he freely lent him: and prefently after 

 Major Church was told that his Brother Caleb Church™ of 

 Watertozun was coming with a fpare Horfe for him, hav- 

 ing heard the Night before that his Brother was come 

 in; by which means the faid Maj. Church got home. 

 And for all his travel & expences in raifing Souldiers, and 

 Service done, never had but 14/. of Plymouth Gentlemen, 

 & not a Peny of Bojlon'. notwithstanding he had wore out 

 all his Clothes, and run himfelf in debt, fo that he was 

 oblig'd to Sell half a-fhare of Land in Tiverton for about 



134 Stephen Brayton was fon of Fran- tavern from 1686 to 171 1 [fee Drake's 

 cis, of Portfmouth, R.-I. ; freeman, Book of the Indians, p. 263] ; lived firft 

 1678; on the grand jury, 1687; married, in Dedham, and afterwards in Water- 

 8 March, 1679, Ann, dau. of Peter Tol- town; Reprefentative, 1713; married, 

 man, of Newport, and had Mary, Eliz- 16 Dec., 1667, Joanna, dau. of William 

 abeth, Ann, Preferved, and Stephen. Sprague, of Hingham ; had eight chil- 

 [Savage's Gen. Did. i: 240; R.-I. Col. dren,viz.: Richard, Ruth, Lydia, Caleb, 

 Rec. iii : 4, 233.] Jolhua, Ifaac, and Rebecca. The laft 



135 Caleb Church appears to have been two were twins ; and, after giving them 

 the fixth child of Richard — being the birth, their mother died, 11 July, 1678. 

 youngeft fon of at leaft nine children, [Bond's Hijl. Waterlown, 158; N. E. 

 as Benjamin was the oldeft; admitted Hift. & Gen. Reg. xi : 154; Part I. of 

 freeman 4 March, 1689- 1690; kept a this edition, p. xxx.] 



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