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of each Company, to call his Company together, that fo he 

 might have the better opportunity to difcourfe & incour- 

 age them to Serve their Queen and Country; treating 

 them with Drink convenient; told them he did not doubt 

 but with God's bleffing to bring them all home again ; all 

 which, with many other arguments animated their hearts 

 to do Service, fo that Col. Church enlifted out of fome 

 Companies near 20 Men, & others 15. He having raifed 

 a fufRcient number of Englifh Souldiers, proceeded to the 

 enlifting of Indians in all thofe parts where they dwelt, 

 which was a great fategue & expence; being a People 

 that need much treating, efpecially with Drink &c. Hav- 

 ing enlifted the molt of his Souldiers in thofe parts, who 

 daily lay upon him; was not lefs than 5 /. per day ex- 

 pences, fome days, in Victuals & Drink; who doubtlefs 

 thought (efpecially the Engii/Ji) that the Country would 

 have re-imburft it again, otherways they would hardly 

 accepted it of him. Col. Church's Souldiers both EngliJJi 

 and Indians in thofe parts being raifed, March'd them all 

 down to Nantasket? Tt according to his Excellency's direc- 

 tions; where being came, the following Gentlemen were 

 Commiffionated to be Commanders of each particular Com- 

 pany, viz Lieut. Col. Gorkam, Captains John Broivn™ 



( including Barnftable, Sandwich, Yar- favorably fituated toward Bofton har- 



mouth, Eaftham, Rochefter, Falmouth, bor — of whofe entrance its Point Al- 



Mafhpee, and Monamoy or Chatham). lerton is one of the gatepofts — for the 



[Baylies's Plym. Col. Part IV : 97.] embarkation of troops. 



' m Nantajket was what is now Hull, 278 John Brown was " approved as 



acceflible by land over the neck which Captain of the town of Swanfey, 4 June, 



unites it to Hingham and Cohaffet, and 1686." [Plym. Col. Rec. vi : 1S9.] 

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