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1 be raifed for Her Majefty's Service againft the French & 

 ' Indian Enemy and Rebels, that mail be improved in the 

 ' Service to the Eajlward of Cafco-Bay ; And to be Cap- 

 ' tain of the firft Company of the faid Forces. You are 

 ' therefore carefully and diligently to perform the Duty of 

 ' a Colonel and Captain, by Leading, Ordering & Exer- 

 ' citing the faid Regiment & Company in Arms, both In- 

 ' feriour Officers & Souldiers; and to keep them in good 

 ' Order and Difcipline. Hereby commanding them to 

 1 Obey you as their Colonel and Captain; And with them 

 ' to do and Execute all acts of hoftility againft: the faid 

 ' Enemy & Rebels. And you are to obferve & follow 

 ' fuch Orders and Directions as you mail receive from my 

 ' Self or other your Superiour Officer, according to the 

 ' Rules & Difcipline of War, purfuant to the Truft repofed 

 ' in you. Given under my Hand & Seal at Arms at Bojlon 

 ' the \§th day of March. In the Third Year of Her Ma- 

 'jetty's Reign. Anno Dom. 1703, 4. 



By his Excellency's Command, Ifaac Addington Seer. 



J. DUDLEY. [103] 



Col. Church no fooner received his Commiffion, but 

 proceeded to the railing of Men Volunteers, by going into 

 every Town within the three Counties which was formerly 

 Plymouth Government;'" 76 advifing with the Chief Officer 



276 When Plymouth Colony was Accord Pond plantation [Abington]); 

 merged in Maffachuletts, in 1692, it Brijlol County (including Taunton, Re- 

 compriled Plymouth County (including hoboth, Dartmouth, Swanfea, Briltol, 

 Plymouth, Duxbury, Scituate, Marih- Little Compton, Freetown, and Pocaf- 

 field, Bridgewater, Middleborough, and let [Tiverton]) ; and Barnjiable County 

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