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number out of thofe Parts, and March'd them down to 

 Boflon; where he had the promife that every thing mould 

 be ready in three W eeks or a Months time, but was 

 oblig'd to ftay confiderable longer. Being now at Bqfton 

 he received his Commiffion and Inftruftions ; which are as 

 followeth. 



William Stoughton, Efa; m Lieutenant Governour and 

 Commander in Chief in and over His Majejlies Pro- 

 vince of the Maffachufetts-Bay in New-England. To 

 Major Benjamin Church, Greeting. 



WHereas there are feveral Companies raifed, confifling 

 of Englifli-Men & Indians for His Majefiies Service, 

 to go fortli upon tlie Encouragement given by the Great and 

 General Court or Ajfcmbly of this His Majefiies Province, 

 convened at Bofton the 2*]th Day of May 1696. to profecute 

 the French and Indian Enemy, &c. And you having offered 

 your felf to take the command and conducl of the faid feveral 

 Companies. By vertue therefore of the Power and Autho- 

 rity in and by His Majefiies Royal Commiffion to me 



191 William Stoughton, fon of Ifrael, Charter; and became Chief- Juftice ; 

 of Dorchefter, graduated at Harvard, died 7 July, 1701. The recall of Sir 

 and then at Oxford, Eng. ; became a William Phips left him in chief corn- 

 preacher; is named by Calamy among mand until Bellamont's arrival in 1699. 

 thofe ejected ; came back, and preached He was on the witch bench, and, unlike 

 the election fermon of 1668; became Sewall, never expreffed penitence for 

 Selectman, Affiftant, Commiffioner of the part he took. He built Stoughton 

 the United Colonies ; went to England Hall at Harvard. [Savage's Gen. Did. 

 in 1677 with Bulkley as agent of the iv : 215; Palmer's Noncon. Mem. i : 197; 

 colonies ; was one of Andros's Council ; Quincy's Hijl. Har. Un. i: 178, 9; 

 was chofen Lieut. Gov. under the new Eliot's Biog. Did. 444.] 

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