FOOTNOTES: CHAPTER THREE, SECTION THREE

III-85 This a few years since was owned by J.G. Clark, Esq., whose father cleared it of the trees in or about the year 1780. (See Drake's Book of the Indians).

III-86 Rev. Increase Mather's History of King Philip's war was published in 1676, and was written while that conflict was being waged. Rev. Cotton Mather's history of the same war appeared in the seventh book of his "Magnalia."

III-87 August 22, 1675, was Sunday. The names of the slain, George Bennett, William Fagg, Jacob Farrar, Joseph Wheeler, Mordecai McLeod together with his wife and two of their children. (See Whitney's History of Worcester County).

III-88 There were 42 persons who assembled in the house of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson and defended it against the attack of the Indians for more than two hours. They were dislodged by setting the house on fire by pushing against it a cart filled with burning materials.

III-89 I. Mather said "there were seven or eight Indians lying in Ambuscado. They killed a Man, and a Maid that rode behind him. The Indians seized upon two women and children."

III-90 Some people at Middleborough insist upon the truth of a tradition that a part of the "Old Morton House" was built before King Philip's war, and if so escaped the flames May 13, 1676. The Old Morton House, with its additions, was taken down in 1870, soon after the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the incorporation of the town of Middleborough, which celebration came off October 13, 1870.

The writer of this book does not believe that a single house standing in Middleborough before King Philip's war escaped destruction dealt by the Indians, either in 1675 or 1676.

III-91 Sundry Indians, afterwards taken prisoners, agreed in the statement that many of the Indians who drifted over the falls got safe on shore again, and that the entire loss sustained by the Indians in the fight was only sixty. The English account that I have copied and herein presented is doubtless greatly exaggerated.

III-92 Rev. Increase Mather wrote: "For an English Captive Lad who was found among the Wigwams spake as if Philip were coming with a thousand Indians, which false report being famed among the Souldiers a pannick terror fell upon many of them and they hasted homewards in a confused rout." Had these circumstances been reversed what a miraculous intervention and special providence of God should we have been asked to admit and to believe it to have been; and if it would have furnished undeniable evidence of God's care, love and protection to the white men, why not in this case admit the same was by that being exhibited towards the Indians to the great hurt of their enemies who were fighting against God?

III-93 Rev. I Mather said that Capt. William Turner was pursued through a river, receiving his fatal stroke as he passed through. His dead body was afterwards recovered by the English, at least so said the Rev. Mr. Hubbard.

III-94 Names of Commissioned and Non-commissioned Officers, Musician and Private Soldiers, under the command of Captain William Turner, of Boston, and on duty at Hadley, Hatfield, and Springfield. Hadley soldiers from the 7th of April, 1676.
COMMISSIONED OFFICER - William Turner, Captain.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS - John Throppe and John Newman, Sergeants; Joseph Hartshorne and Robert Sympson, Corporals.
MUSICIAN - John Chapple, Drummer.
PRIVATE SOLDIERS - William Armes, John Strowbridge, Samuel Sybly, Thomas Jones, Robert Coates, David Hartshorne, Benjamin Poole, John Upham, Simon Grover, Stephen Grover, John Pratt, Thomas Briant, Triall Newbury, Joshuah Phillips, Benjamin Chamberlin, Jonathan Chamberlin, John Luddon, John Preston, John Bill, William Chubbe, Moses Morgan, Roger Jones, John Wiseman, Philip Jessup, Joseph Griffin, Josiah Man, Thomas Chard, John Shepherd, Ephraim Roper, Nicholas Duerell, Philip Cattline, Joseph Chamberlin, Richard Snodin, Joseph Smith, Joseph Bodman, William Turner.
STATIONED AT THE MILL - Robert Seares, Samuel Rawlins, John Sawdy, Jonathan Duninge, Samuel Davies, John Fisher, Thomas Cobbett, Thomas Sympkins, Richard Lever.
HAMPTON SOLDIERS - SERGEANT, Esaiah Toy; CORPORAL, John Wilde; PRIVATES, John Smith, John Babson, John Whitridge, John Ashdown, John Roulestone, John Langbury, John Foster, John Watson, John Chaplin, John Belcher, John Stukely, John Boyd, John Walker, John Roberts, Martin Smith, Abraham Shaw, Thomas Roberts, Richard Hudson, Samuel Ransford, Joseph Fowler, Solomon Loud, William Jaques, Jacob Burton, William Smith, Nicholas Mason, Philip Mattoon, Samuel Soutch, Thomas Lyon, Robert Price, Thomas Poore, Peter Bushrod, Samuel Vesey, William Willis, Thomas Harris, George Bewly, William Howard, Philip Lewis, William Hopkins, William Hunt, Samuel Tyly, James Burrell, William Hartford, Ephraim Beeres, Richard Bever and John Fiske, the last named reported wounded.
HATFIELD SOLDIERS - Robert Bardwell, Samuel Laine, Benjamin Barrett, Hugh Goliko, Anthoney Baker, John Larkin, Richard Staines, Nicholas Gray, John Allen, Richard Smith, William Eliot, John Wilkins, John Jones, Thomas Staines, Gilbert Forsyth, Benjamin Lathrop, Robert Dawes, Hugh Pike, Daniel Stearlin, John Verin, Jonathan Nichols, John Salter, Jeremiah Cloather, John Arnold, Simon Williams, Daniel Clow, Edward Bishop, Henry Reynor, Samuel Neale, Jeffrey Feffers, Hugh Price, Archibald Forrest, Jabesh Duncan, John Hughs, William Batt, Walter Hixson, Jabesh Musgrove, Mathew Groves, Anthoney Ravenscraft, James Molt. SENT TO SPRINGFIELD - SERGEANT Roger Proffer; PRIVATE SOLDIERS, Ely Crow, William Briggs, Jeremiah Norcrosse, William Mitchell, Timothy Froglie, Onisephorus Stanly, William Crane, Henry Willis.
- Richard Francis, Clerk -
(See Mass. Archives, Book 68, Folio 212).

III-95 Capt. Thomas Brattle became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1675.

III-96 Rev. Increase Mather wrote: "The Indians betook themselves to a River and had not some Foot Souldiers on the other side of the River too suddenly discovered themselves probably there had been greater slaughter of the enemy who hasted out of the river again and fled into a swamp where there was no pursuing of them." The Rev. Increase Mather did not say that this blunder on the part of the infantry was a special providence of God in behalf of the Indians; but, had the circumstances been reversed, doubtless it would have been recognized and regarded as a mark of God's favor to the white men.

III-97 Mr. Henry Trumbull, in his history of Indian wars in New England, says, on page 62 of that work: "The Indians took a Mr. Willet prisoner near Swanzey, and after cutting off his nose and ears, set him at liberty".

III-98 Rev. Increase Mather informs us that Matoonas "was condemned to immediate death," that he "was carried out into the Common at Boston and there tied to a Tree, the Sachim who had now submitted himself with several of his men shot him to death." The clergyman then added some pious talk, saying: "Thus did the Lord retaliate."

III-99 The reader will please observe that this allusion to rain, most vulgarly expressed, was by the Rev. Increase Mather brought into the current events of King Philip's war, and to show that it had an intimate connection therewith, he went on to relate that the Indians had been powowing for rain with none effect, but when the Rev. Mr. Fitch of Norwich prayed, it rained that very night, or in other words "God opened the bottles." The harvest was threatened by the drought till this bottle business began. Now why had not the pious Mather prayed? and if he had, who knows that it was not in answer to his prayer that this rain came?

Had it been for fire from heaven to destroy instead of rain to bless, the writer thinks Mather would have been just the party to pray. He would have been at home in such a business, or else I mistake.

III-100 See his allusion to this in the letter that he addressed to "Gentlemen in the Eastward Parts," dated November 27, 1690.

III-101 The name of that son was Thomas Church. He was born in 1674. Soon after the death of the father, the importunities of his son or sons induced the colonial authorities to bestow some lands upon them for what they claimed were the 'unrequited' services of Capt. Benjamin Church in the Indian Wars.