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pay. But his Honour the Lieut. Governour 268 being much 

 difturb'd at their fo doing went in to the Town-Houfe 

 where the Reprefentatives were fitting, and told them 

 except they did Re-affume that Vote, which was to cut 

 Maj. Church [99] and his Forces off half their pay, they 

 mould fit there till the next Spring. Whereupon it was 

 Re-affumed: So that they had juft their bare Wages. But 

 as yet never had any Allowance for the great Guns and 

 Stores; neither has Maj Church had any Allowance for all 

 his Travel and great Expences in Railing the faid Forces 

 Volunteers. 



The Fifth and Laft Expedition, Eaft. 



TN the Year 1703, 4. Major Church had an account of 

 the miferable Deveftations made on Deerfield™ a Town 

 in the Weftward parts of this Province, and the horrible 

 Barbarities & Cruelties exercifed on thofe poor Innocent 

 People, (by the French & Indians) efpecially of their 

 Cruelties towards that worthy Gentlewoman Mrs. Wil- 

 liams™ and feveral others, whom they March'd in that 



288 Lieut. Gov. William Stoughton. and of the flain — 8 or 9 of each — 



See note 191, ante. belonged to other towns. [Judd's Hift. 



269 Deerjield was deuroyed 29 Feb., Hadley, 272.] Church probably had 



170I ; 38 were llain in the palifaded forgotten the exact fequence of events 



village and 9 in the meadow fight ; and when dictating this, as his letter to 



112 were taken, of whom 2 foon efcaped, Gov. Dudley is dated 5 Feb., 170I — 24 



22 were flain or perifhed on their way to days before Deerfield fell. 



Canada, 28 remained in Canada, and 270 Mrs. Eunice Williams was daugh- 



60 returned. A few of the captives ter of Rev. Eleazer Mather of North- 



