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the faid Church was oblig'd to expend about Six Pounds 

 of his own Money in Marching down the Forces both 

 EnglifJi and Indians to Bo/Ion, having no drink allow'd 

 them upon the Road, &c. So that in ftead of Maj 

 Churcfts having the allowances afore-mentioned by Maj. 

 Wallcy, he was out of Pocket about Twelve Pounds more 

 and above what he had ; 187 all which had not been, had 

 not his Excellency been gone out of the Country. 188 



The Fourth Expedition, Eaft. 



TN 1696. Maj Church being at Bq/lon, and belonging to 

 •*• the Houfe of Reprefentatives, 189 feveral Gentlemen 

 requefting him to go Eaft again, and the General Court 

 having made A£ts of Incouragement, &c. He told them, 

 if they would provide Whale Boats, & other neceffaries 

 convenient, he would: Being alfo requefted by the faid 

 General Court, he proceeded to raife Volunteers, and 

 made it his whole bufinefs Riding both Eaft and Weft in 

 our Province 190 and Conneclicut, at great charge and ex- 

 pences; and in about a Months time raifed a fufHcient 



181 Walley told him in the outfet (p. 189 I have found no trace of his ap- 



83), that " the country could not give pointment as Deputy this year, on the 



him lefs than two or three hundred Briftol Town Records. This would 



pounds"; fo that, at the loweft calcula- feem, from various confiderations, to 



tion, Church made a lofs of £iS8 upon have been just about as he was reraov- 



his expectations " aforementioned." ing to Fall River. [See Part I. xxxi.] 



188 He means that Gov. Phips's ab- 190 Plymouth and Maflachufetts Colo- 

 fence when this fettlement took place nies had been confolidated into the new 

 was the caufe of the wrong which he "Province of Maffachufetts Bay" by 

 fuft'ered. the new Charter of 1692. 



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