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confiderable quantities of Strong Drink (both Brandy & 

 Clarat) and being very greedy after it, efpecially the In- 

 dians, were very diforderly, firing at every Pig, Turky 

 or Fowl they faw, of which were very plenty in the 

 Town; which indanger'd our own Men; Col. Church per- 

 ceiving the diforder, and firing of his own Men, ran to put 

 a ftop to it, had feveral fhot come very near him; and 

 finding what had occafion'd this diforder, commanded his 

 Officers to knock out the heads of every Cask of Strong 

 Liquor they could find in the Town, 326 to prevent any fur- 

 ther difturbance amongft his Army; knowing it was im- 

 poffible to have kept it from them, efpecially the Indians, 

 if it was faved, &c. Then fome of the Army who were 

 defirous to purfue the Enemy, having heard them driving 

 away their Cattel, Requefted the Colonel to let them go; 

 who did: and gave them their orders. Capt. Cooke, and 

 Capt. Church to lead the two Wings, and Lieut. Barker™ 

 who led the Colonels Company in the Center: and the 

 faid Capt. Cooke and Capt. Church delired Lieut. Barker 



326 A practical "temperance" move- 

 ment, deferving extended imitation! 



327 There may have been three 

 " Lieut." Barkers then living, who 

 might have been connected with 

 Church's company : Lt. Robert, and 

 Lt. Francis, both of Duxbury, and both 

 ions of Robert ; and Lt. John, of An- 

 dover, fon of Richard. The latter died 

 1722 ; Robert had a dau. born iS April, 

 1704; Francis, I do not trace later than 

 1689. As Church's company would be 



likelieft to be officered from Plymouth 

 Colony, it feems probable that one of 

 the Duxbury brothers is the one referred 

 to; and, of thefe, I incline to the opin- 

 ion that it was Robert. [Savage's Gen. 

 Did. i: 115; Winfor's Hi/}. Duxbury, 

 223 ; Abbot's Hijl. Andover, 200; Plym. 

 Col. Rec. vi : 218 ] Charlevoix fays 

 that the " Lieutenant-General of the 

 Englifli forces " was killed — a mif- 

 take of Barker's rank. [Hi/i. Nouv. 

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