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Go I. which is now worth 300/. more and above than what 

 he had. 136 



Having not been at home long before he found out the 

 reafon why B0JI011 Gentlemen look'd fo difaffefted on him ; 

 as you may fee by the fequel of two Letters Maj. Church 

 fent to the Gentlemen in the Eaftward parts : which are 

 as followeth. 



Worthy Gentlemen, 



Ccording to my promife when with you laft, I waited 



1 upon the Governour at Bqfion upon the Saturday, 

 ' Capt. Converfe being with me. The Governour informed 

 ' us that the Council was to meet on the Monday follow- 

 ' ing in the afternoon, at which time we both there waited 

 ' upon them, and gave them an account of the State of 

 ' your Country, and great neceffities. They informed us, 

 ' that their General Court was to Convene on the Wednef- 

 ' day following; at which time they would debate & con- 

 £ lider of the matter; my felf being bound home, Capt. 

 ' Converfe was ordered to wait upon them, and bring you 

 ' their refolves. I then took notice of the Council that 



136 It is my impreffion, that the good — buying £170 worth within a year of 



Col. Church got a little mixed in his this date — fcarcely favors the idea of 



recollections of thefe events, when, in pecuniary diftrefs. He did fell, how- 



his old age, he dictated this narrative. ever, in June, 1691, to Nathaniel By- 



The County Records contain no trace, field, £50 worth of land (43 acres) 



which I have been able to difcover, of on PofpafquaJIi neck, in Bri/iol. He 



any fuch fale of half a fliare of land in owned, at this time, largely in Tiver- 



Tiverton by him at this time, or for ton, and in what is now the city of Fall 



years afterward ; while the fadt that he River. [See Part I., hitrodudory Me- 



was almoft conftantly purchaling land moir, pp. xxix., xxx.] 



Brijiol, Novemb. 27. 1690. 



