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The last recorded fra ne on each microfiche shall contain the symbol -^ (meaning "CON- TINUED"), or the symbol Y (meaning "END"), whichever applies. Les images suivantes ont §t6 reprodultes avec "-' "'Hf > accounts of tiips devant Quebec in articipating n a lack of Massachu- lem at Port c of knowl- issachusetts England in re in many NTO ACCADY, ants of New [ think they ir loyalty to tates toward roerica, and r obedience. ven hundred )wn expense England in Accady, and nain under- severall of t the further sufficient to that city all rdingly two ibout tbiity IS also given land on the ( 3 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. tenth day of August, 1690. But, by bad weather and contrary winds, I did not reach Quebeck till October, that the frost was already fallen in, and so sharp that it made two inches ice in a night. This notwithstanding, I summoned the Comte De Frontenack, the governor, to surrender the town, and after a reviling answer (that I and those with me were traitors, for having taken up with an Usurper and have seized upon our governor that good christian Sir Edmund Andros, who, if he had continued in his government, the French an English had been all one) I brought my ships up within musquett shott of their cannon and fired upon the towne with that success, that I dismounted severall of their best cannon, and within less than twenty-four hours beat the French from their works. At the same time fourteen hundred men that I had landed defeated a great part of the enemy, and by the account of the prisoners, the city in all probability must have been taken in two or three dales, but the small pox and the feavour increased so fast among the men that it delayed the pushing on the siege till the weather grew so extream cold that no further progress could be made therein. So I returned to New England. A* my going off from before Quebeck I received several messuages from French merchants of ye best note and reputation to let me know how uneasie they were under the ffrench administration, and to assure me of their great willingness to submit to Their Majesties government. In this expedition, the enemy suffered great damage and had a great number of their men killed, and many taken Prisoners, yet the loss on the English side (notwithstanding what the French have falsely given out of severall hundreds) was not more than thirty men. The above written is a true account. Witness my hand. William Phips. sir william phips. We are indebted to Rev. Cotton Mather, a contemporar)- of Phips, for many facts ui the life of the leader of the expedition. mum'immmmam* -^— . I- r- ( 4 ) SOCIETY or COLONIAL WARS. He published his " History of Sir William Phips " in London in 1697, dedicating it to his successor, Earl Bellomont. The matter was reprinted in a folio volume of 788 pages, in 1 702, entitled " Magnalia Christi Americana." Phips was born 2 Feb., 1650, "at a despicable plantation on the river of Kennebeck, and almost the furthest village of the eastern settlement of New England." His father was a gun- smith, one James Phips, formerly of Bristol, England, and the mother, who survived her distinguished son, had no less than twenty-six children, of which twenty-one were sons. The father dying, the son dwelt with the mother until he reached eighteen, when he became apprenticed to a ship -car- penter for four years. His next advance in life was his removal to Boston, where he espoused the widow of a merchant of the town, John Hull, who WPS the daughter of Capt. Roger Spencer. He first ventured in building a ship at Sheepscot River to load with lumber, but the latter undertaking was prevented by an Indian uprising which embarrassed him financially. He then took to the sea, and attempted to recover treasure from a Spanish wreck at the Bahamas, but unsu , cessfully. In 1683 ^e became captain of a king's ship, and arrived in New England commander of the "Algier Rose," a frigate of eighteen guns and ninety-five men, with which he sailed for the West Indies in search of lost treasures, to return unsuccessful and after experiencing an attempt of hia crew to mutiny. His next venture in search of treasure wss through the finan- cial aid of the Duke of Albemarle and others, and resulted in unloading a Spanish wreck of ;^300,ooo of treasure, the tenth of which going to the king well paid him for the grant of knight- hood to the fortunate searcher. Returning to Boston in 1688, Phips built on Green lane, which he afterward called Charter street, in memory of the char- ter which he was instrumental in obtaining a few years later. Phips returned to England again in 1688, and came again to Boston in the spring of 1689. At this period he was captain of the " Six Friends," of forty g\ins, which became his flagship in the Quebec expedition. '^ l,l|'|IMWWIMimill,W*.IWIIMI'|i; . ips " in London amont. 3f 788 pages, in le plantation on it village of the her was a gun- ngland, and the id no less than sons. nother until he i to a ship-car- i oston, where he John Hull, who jpscot River to is prevented by inancially. He treasure from a and arrived in 5," a frigate of e sailed for the m unsuccessful to mutiny. 3ugh the finan- and resulted in Lsure, the tenth jrant of knight- 1 Green lane, iry of the char- years later, came again to iends," of forty Lpedition. ^I^^^^f^t^^^^ I ^y^\m' r\:m\.^'.]^\ •i() DFi: YOU are defired to Accompany the Corps of Sir WHliam Pbifpt, Knight^ from Saberr-Hail, in Smtbinr-Lane, to the Parifti- Church of Sc May Woolmth^ in Lumbard- fireet ; On Thurfday the 21ft. of February, i59*-. At Five of the Clock in the After- noon preciicly : And bring this Ticket with you. /"P-^: <7n > INVITATION TO FUNERAL OF SIR WILLIAM PHIPS. m PHI PS. ( 5 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. He sailed on a8 Apr., 1690, for Port Royal, N.S., Mth seven hundred men in eight small vessels, which surrendered to him. 8 Aug., 1690, lie sailed on the disastrous Quebec expedition, and a few weeks after his return sailed for England, in the depth of winter, to interest William and Mary in another attempt. During 1691 he, with Mather and Ashurst, labored for a new charter, and Phips returned to Boston 14 May, 1692, in the " Nonesuch " frigate, with the coveted document and commis- sioned as governor. During his term occurred the notorious witchcraft excitement and its sad results. Trouble was experienced by him with Jahleel Brenton, the royal commissioner of customs, and Joseph Dudley, which resulted in his recall to England, sailing 17 Nov., 1694, from Boston. Shortly after his arrival in England he contracted a cold which developed " a malignant fever," and he died on the 18th Feb., 1694-S, and was buried in the church of St. Maty Woolnoth, in a vault under the organ gallery of the church then Standing, which was altered and rebuilt 1716-1719. The •' New View of London," 1708, has the following, \o\. TV., p. ago: "At the east end of the church of St. Mary's Woolnoth, near the north- east angle, is r pietty white marble monument, adorned with an urn between two cupi.uS, the figure of a ship, and also a boat at sea with persons in the water ; these beb'.ld by a winged eye, all done in basso reliovo ; also seven medals, as that of King William and Queer Mary ■; some with Spanish impressions, as the castle cross-potent, etc., and likewise the figures of a sea-quadrant, cross-staff, etc., and this inscription: 'Near this place is interred the body of Sir William Phips, Knight, who in the year 1687, by his great industry discovered among the rocks near the banks of Bahama, on the north side of Hispaniola, a Spanish plate-ship, which had been under water fourty-four years, out of which he took in gold and silver to the value of ;^300,ooo sterling ; and with a fidelity equal to his conduct, brought it sdl to London, where it was divided between himself and the rest of the advt.iturers. For which great service he was knighted by his then majesty, King James the 2d ; and afterward by the command of his present majesty, and at the request of the principal inhabitants of New England, he accepted the government of the Massachusetts, in which he continued to the time of his death, and discharged his trust with that real for the interest of his country, and with so little regard to his own private advantage, that he gained the good esteem and affections of the greatest and best part of ( 6) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. I- inhabitantJ ot the colony. He died on the v8th of February, i6<;4, and his lady, to perpetuate his menriory, hath «:aused this monument to b* erected.' " His firms were sable^ a trefoil sl:ipt, within an orle of eight Mullets, argent." ABSTRACT OF SIR WILLIAM PHIPS'S WILL. Sir William Phips, Knight, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, Piovince of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, i8 December, 1693, sworn to by Dame Mary Phips, 10 September, 1696 ; proved 19 January, 1696. To brother James Phips or his heirs, the sum of five shillings. To t ,iy dear and entirely belotred consort Mary Phips, and to her heirs forever, all my estate, real and personal, &c., &c., with power to alienate by deed of gift, will or codicil. If she should die without having, by will, disposed of my estate, &c., it shall all descend and fall to my adopted son, Spencer Phips als Bennett and the heirs of his body. If he should die without issue surviving, what is left shall be equally divided and shared, or- half thereof by my sisters Mary, Margaret, and tiie heirs of my sister Anne deceased, or their heirs forever, and the other half in like manner, to the relations of my beloved consort, reserving only out of the whole estate one hundred pounds current money of New England, which my said relations, and the relations of my said wife, shall cause to be pa'd unto John Phipps, son to my brother John Phipps deceased, or to his heirs, if this clause be not repealed by my wife aforesaid. If my dear consort should die before my said son is come to age or is married, then I do nominate and appoint my friends Capl. John Foster, Esq., rnd Capt. Andrew Belcher of Boston, merchants, to be trus- tees of my estate and guardians to my said son, until he shall be of full age or n.arried. The witnesses were JoI:n Phillips, Jo'an White, John Hiskett, Jo':iah Stone, and John Grecnougb. Pyne- 15.* MAJOR WALLEY'S JOURNAL IN THE EXPEDITION AGAINST CANADA IN 1692. A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS TO CANADA, SOE FAR AS CONCERNED THE LAND ARMY. Having passed the isle of Percey, and being put back by a contrary wind, it was designed there to have landed our souldiei-s, to have settled our companys, to have called a council of warr, to have made and ('eclared such orders as was necessary for reg- ulating our forces, but by several of our ships and vessels being drove otit of the harbour by a storm, they came not in again seasonably, and soe what was intended was prevented. *This will was recorded in England iind also in Sutfolk County, Mass. Probate Files No. 3245. ( r ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. unty, Mats. Probate Upon the 23d of Sept. wee came to an anchor at Tarrasack, a council of warr was called, such orders and ordinances made as was judged necessary, and ordered to be published in every vessel, and at the head of each company, which orders are upon record and may be seen. Orders : i. That the laws and ordinances of war passed by the Gen- eral Court of the Massachusetts, for the better regulating their forces ; together with all such additional laws and orders as shall now be made and ordained by this Council at their present session ; be forthwith read and published at the head of each regimeni or company of souldiers, and on board each and every ship and vessel iu their Majesties Service for this pres- ent expedition to Canada, etc. And that the same be put in execution according to the true intend and meaning thereof. 2. That each and every of the aforesaid laws and ordinances of war, and all such other as shall from time to time be made and ordain'd by the Coun- cil of War, shall be declared and published by beat of druii or sound of trumpet, or otherwise at discretion, at the head of each regiment or company of souldiers, and on board each and every ship and vessel in their Majesties fleet ; and that they be so read and published once a fortnight, or oftener, that so none may pretend to be ignorant thereof. 3. That whatsoever person that is engaged in this "present service, shall by words or otherwise, reprcach, slight, or show disrespect to any of his Superior officers, shall be punished as the Council of War shall see cause ; respect being had unto the circumstances of place, office, person injuring, and injured ; as also ^he evil tendency thereof. 4. That no commander or other person, presume to send or suffer any boat whatsoever to be rent to the shoar, or any ship or vessel to land any men after the first anchoring of the fleet, other vise than rs they shall receive orders from the General or council of war. 5. That whensoever any men shall be sent on shoar, suitable officers shall be sent with them, to command and order them, which officers are to be accountable for their actions and behaviours ; and also are required, to attend the commands and dire^tiors of their superior officers. 6. That it shall and may be lawful for any officer to shoot any peruon that shall first run away from under his command in time of actual service, if he cannot be otherwise brought to attend his duty. 7. That if any regiment, company of souldiers, or other person under command, shall refuse to advance forward to charge the enemy, or such other service as shall be orderly and reasonably required of him or them, especially if through fear or cowardise, they shall refuse or stay behind, he or they shall loose their pay, and whole share of plunder, and be otherwise disgraced, and the principal punished according as a council of war shall determine. 8. That no person whatsoever shall give intelligence, or hold any cone- •j>onden<:e with the enemy on pain of death. f' f ( 8 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. 9. That whosoever shall causelesly nake an alarm, or needlesly, or wil- fully fire a gun in the night, shall be put to death, or suffer such grievous punishment as a council of war shall inflict. 10. That no man force himself upon a sentinel, being called unto three times to stand, upon the peril of his life. 11. That if any souldier or other person, be found drunk on duty, or in time of actual service, he shall suffer death, or such other grievous punish- ment as the council of war shall determine ; consideration being had unto the ill consequences that hath or might have been by reason thereof. 12. That all officers of what degree soever, take special care, that no souldiers or other person under his command, drink any brandy, ivine, or other strong-liquour, at any time to excess, especially in time of service, and u'hilst we are in danger from the enemy : they are also duly authorized to seize aad secure in order to try all such ns shall offend. 13. That present quarter be given to those of the enemy that shall ask it, according to the laws of arms and nations, if it can be done without hazard. 14. That all persons whatsoever carry themselve? as men and christians towards all prisoners, especially such as have been men of place, aged per- sons, women and children ; and that they presume not to offer any rudeness or uncivility to any woman or other person, on pain of such punishment as the council of war shall order, according to the circumstances thereof. 15. That whatsoever souldiers or others, that shall fight or quarrel one with the other in time of service, shall loose a month's pay, and be otherwise punished at the discretion of the Council of war ; and whosever shall so fight or quarrel at other times, shall be punished at the discretion of the commis- sion-ofBcers of that company. 16. That no man shall pawn or exchange his arms, either in field or elsewhere without leave of his captain, or dispose of any arms of others, or any ammunition, hatchets, spades, shovels, or other stores or instruments of war, on such penalties and punishments as u council war shall order. 17. That whosoever, without consent as aforesaid, shall buy, receive, ex- charge, or take to pawn, any arms, ammunition, or instruments of war, shall return such arms, ammunition^ and instruments without satisfaction, or forfeit twice the value thereof, and suffer such other punishment as a council of war shall appoint. 18. That no man, without consent as aforesaid, being under command presume to fire his gun without order, on pain of such punishment as the captain or commission-officers of that company shall appoint ; and that no man presume at any time needlesly to fire h'5 gun without order, on penalty of two-shilling six pence, to be deducted out of his wages or plunder. 19. That whosrever shall at any time seize or take any plunder, of what kind or nature, soever frcm the enemy, shall forthwith give notice thereof at the General, Lieutenant-General, or chief-officer present, with an account thereof, that the same may be disposed and secured according to further order. And whosoever shall refuse or neglect so to do, shall forfeit his share leedlesly, or wil- ;r such grievous railed unto three ik on duty, or in grievous punish- being had unto I thereof, aal care, that no brandy, vAne, or le of service, and uly authorized to either in field or arms of others, or or instruments of hall order. 11 buy, receive, ex- nents of ■wzx, shall isfaction, or forfeit IS a council of war under command iunishment as the )int ; and that no order, on penalty or plunder. plunder, of what notice thereof at with an account :ording to further ill forfeit his share (9) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. of plunder, and make restitution of what they shall so conceal, withhold, or imbezil, and also suffer such further punishment as a council of war shall determine. 30. That no person whatsoever presume to rifle any ship, boat, or any other vessel, or to break open, unlock, unty, or otherwise undoe, or make loose any chest, trunck, box, bale, bundle, or any other vessel wherein plunder of the enemy may be, whether on board, or on shore, in any house or otherwise, but shall secure the same whole and undivided, as the same shall be found, ^nd bring the same to the chief-officer then and there present, who is to take such further order therein, as shall be necessary upon pain of forfeiting his whole share of plunder, and suffering such further punishment as a council of war shall inflict. 21. That no person whatsoever presume to set fire unto, burn, waste, deface, or otherwise spoile any fort, church, eoUedge, house, barn, ship, vessel or any oihtt goods, provisions, wares, merchanJinT, or estates whatso- ever, or kill or destroy any hogs, cattle, or any other tame creature belonging to the enemy, without order from their captain. Which captains are required not to give order for so doing without necessity require, (which necessity is to appear such to the council of war if questioned.) But as they shall from time to time receive directions from the General, Lieutenant-Generai, major of the regiment, or Council of war. 22. That no souluier, seaman, or other per«on under command in this present expedition, presume to plunder the enemy in time of fight nor whilst we are in any danger from the enemy ; nor whilst they chase or pursue the enemy, nor before they have secured themselves from the enemy, nor until they have orders from the chief-officers in that present expedition, or at any other time or place then ordered, or contrary to articles made with the enemy, and declared on pain of death, or such other penalties and punisu- ment as a council of war shall inflict. 23. That the commission-officers of each company, do punish all persons within their several companies respectively, which after publication hereof, shall be found guilty of drunkenness, swearing, cursing, and neglect of the worship of God, petty-thefts, quarreling when not in service, unnecessary firing when under command without order, not doing duty, doing duty negligeiitly. Upon the 27th of Sept. being about 25 leagues from Cabeck, I went aboard each vessel in the fleet, that had souldiers, to take care that they might be all ready and fixt for the service, not knowing how soon there might be occasion ; and whereas there had been complaints, that, aboard several o : the vessels, the souldiers and others had near a third part of their allowance taken off without order, I then gave orders that their full allow- ance might be given them. I ■ i ! ti FI n ( 10 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Upon the 5 th Oct. wee came up with the Isle of Orleans, the whole fleet together, and having promised our men that they should with the first convenience be landed to refresh them- selves, and not having opportunity before, thought it might doe well to doe it then, proposing to the council that wee might then settle the companys, that wee might then secure the island, gaine intelligence, and upon our informations to draw up such conclusions as were necessary, and not to have appeared in sight of the town until wee were fully ready to fall upon them ; but it was over-ruled by the council, and agreed we should take the advantage of the tide and be in sight of the town by day light, which was accordingly done. Upon the 6th Oct. it was concluded that a summons should be sent ashore, and, while the answer was coming, to put our- selves in the best posture wee could for landing, but by that time the messenger was returned wee found the tides did not sute, and that it would be too late to land that night. It was alsoe then agreed upon, that the army should land at the north shore, at the place wee after landed at ; nat the small vessels, that had guns, should take in the ammunition, provision, field pieces, spades and other necessarys for the souldiers (that tide or the next they were to come up to Charles river, that lyes by the town) that the ships boat should come into the river to be help- full to carry the souldiers over, and the souldiers to be ready by the river when they came, that so they might be helpful each to other, as there had been occasion ; that the field pieces should come in those vessels to be landed on the other side of the river ; it was alsoe agreed that, when we were over the river, the men of warr were to sail up with the town, and when they per- ceived we were upon the hill, especially if we then fired a house, they were then to land 200 men under their guns, and were to make a brisk and resolute charge to enter the town ; alsoe agreed that Shute and others of the larger vessels that were not men of warr, were to go beyond the town, that the enemy might think we had another army to land there ; alsoe agreed that we should have two ministers and three chirurgeons ashore. These things being thus agreed on, on the next morning being the 7th Oct. wee attempted to land our men, but by a of Orleans, the men that they 1 refresh them- it it might doe that wee might cure the island, » draw up such ^e appeared in ill upon them; we should take le town by day Limmons should ttg, to put cur- ing, but by that e tides did not : night. It was ind at the north le small vessels, provision, field iers (that tide or that lyes by the river to be help- s to be ready by ; helpful each to Id pieces should >ther side of the ver the river, the i when they per- we then fired a r their guns, and enter the town ; vessels that were , that the enemy ;re ; alsoe agreed iirurgeons ashore, he next mommg ir men, but by a u till K i :. A ( " ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. S « I* K « I Mil, X! •■> o J 4 . \4 storm were prevented, few of the boats being able to row a head, and found it would endanger our men and wett our armes, at which time the vessel Capt. Savage was in went ashore, the tide fell, left they dry, the enemy came upon them, they man- fully defended themr.elves. I went aboard several vessels, and, though with some difficulty caused some small vessels that had guns to weigh, and sent some boats that endeavoured to help them, or if in no other way to bring off the men, but the weather and shoals were such they could doe them no good ; the enemy were awed by some guns from Sir William, that the shott flew among the thickest of them, alsoe by some guns from Capt. Eldridge. At the tides coming in they floated and all got off safe. That night, aboard Sir William's ship, the Freeh prisoners informed us of a place about two miles beyond the town, that would be more commodious for landing the army, which I then thought might be best (but Capt. Davis saith since, wee should not amended ourselves) but it was said the council of warr had determined the place, and wee had not time to call them together then, and it would be safest to attend order. The next day, being the 8th of Oct. as soon as the bad weather was over, and the tides suited, wee landed our men, which consideiing how farr many of our vessels were from the shoar, and the helps wee had, never more men were landed in less time ; but the flats lay off soe we were forced to go into the water, seme up to the knees, and some near as high as their wasts upon the flatts. I drew up the whole army, ^ Lich con- sisted of between 12 and 1,300 men, caused four companys to be drawn out as forlorns, though the ground would not admitt the forlorn and main battle to be far the one one from the other ; this being done, I ordered the forlorns to advance and to march, at their open order, towards the upland, and by this time the tide was upon the ground we stood on : The forlorn were no sooner advanced a few rods, before there was firing from both sides; upon one wing some of our men saw the enemy in the bushes and fired first, but upon the other wing, and in most places, the enemy had the first shot at us ; and from a village over a creek on our right wing, there was a party gauled us considerably ; upon the charge our officers and soul- f r i-i-mim ti ,i \ : r' ( 12 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. diers shewed courage and resolution enough, yet some having given an order to fire and fall off, but judging under the present circumstances, ordered the whole body to shoot and run up at once, which they did with one consent, that it was hard to say which company went up first or fastest ; upon which the enemy having generally made a second shott, they gave way at once, and by the convenience of swamps and bushes, they had an opportunity to run away and secure themselves, but yet in partys out of every comer of a swamp or thicket they kept firing upon us ; wee continued our chase and march towards the town, and killed some of the enemy as wee went. Being in- formed that the enemy had fired at our men out of a bam, and judging there were some in it, I ordered it to be fired ; we come up with a house where was a hogshead of claret sett at the door, and seeing our souldiers gather about it, least it were poisoned, or might otherwise harm our men or hinder our march, I ordered the head to be knocked out ; drawing nearer the town and finding the army too much featured, and not knowing but wee might be met withall by a force from the town, I drew up a good part of our forces and marcht on ; wee continued our march until it was dark, two-thirds of the army took up their stand by a creek, where was a house and some other shelts ; with the other part I advanced about a quarter of a mile, that we might the better secure the shoar and to see our vessels that were to come into the river ; there we took up our quarters, placed our guards and sentinals, and did what was necessary for securing ourselves and taking notice of the motion of the enemy ; wee then took the advantage of the house, bam, hay and straw, that those that were not upon duty might keep themselves as warm as they could. Making inquiry what dam- age wee had received from the enemy, or done to them, found wee had not above 4 killed outright at our landing, nor less than 60 officers and souldiers wounded, and it was judged wee had killed 20, some say 30 of the enemy, and since, have been informed their hospital is full of wounded men, ana it is said they had not less than 7 or 800 men that lay undiscovered to take the advantage at our landing ; all things considered, it was a great mercy wee had no more damage done to us. The same some having r the present d run up at hard to say ;h the enemy way at once, , they had an i, but yet in :et they kept :h towards the it. Being in- jf a bam, and be fired; we claret sett at t, least it were )r hinder our irawing nearer Lured, and not orce from the larcht on ; wee Is of the army ause and some >ut a quarter of and to see our ire took up our did what was of the motion >e house, bam, ity might keep uiry what dam- jto them, found Lnding, nor less 'as judged wee ice, have been , and it is said mdiscovered to isidered, it was us. The same :,.*' '■::l ( 13 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. evening, having information of a Frenchman that had surren- dered himself, and was with the other part of the army, I sent for him and stricOy examined him, severely threatened him if I caught him in a lye, told him wee had taken other French prisoners, and if he told us anything that was false, wee should soon find it. He told us wee should cut him in pieces if he told us anything but what was truth ; he informed that there were about 600 men that were in the swamp at our coming ashore, that there was a Captain and other officers killed, besides others that he saw, that the French had 900 men from the town more, upon their march towaras us, that they were over the river, but seeing wee had landed our men soe suddainly, and beaten the French off the ground, and were marching towards the town, that they retreated, marcht back to the town, or at least to the other side of the river : He said the Earl of Frontenack was come down, the governor of Mount Royal and the intendant ; that a great many souldiers came into Cabeck on the Thursday before, a great many with the governor upon Fryday, and more with the governor of Mount Royal on Saturday, and maiiy since : he alsoe said he was a souldier of Mount Royal that had run away, and that they were seeking after him (which we after found true). He alsoe si.id he came by the information by a Mount Royal souldier, that he had mett withall, which acquainted him they had left but 50 souldiers at Mount Royal, and added that he had heard some French officers, at the next house to that wee then were at, say that they had not less than 3,000 men in the town : he alsoe said, that at the most convenient place of the souldiers goeing over they had planted 8 guns. All which afterwards we had confirmed. That others might not be discouraged, wee told him he was sent by the enemy to tell us a parcel of lies, but he said he told us nothing but what we should find true. After this, I sent for the rest of the forces to come over, that wee might not be too much scattered, and sent for the majors and captains, and such as belonged to the council of warr, to consider and conclude what was farther to be done ; after some discourse, it was concluded by the whole, that, for as much as the vessels were not come up the river with our ^upplyes of pro- 1 i" ( H ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. vision, ammunition, and other necessaries, neither the boats for transporting our men, that, as matters were thus circumstanced, wee were not in a capacity to advance, but hoped the vessels would be in with the tide, that was before day, and that if they came, wee would be ready to be helpfull to defend them, as we expected help from them; but the winds prevented their coming, as the masters after said. Before day, contrary to order, and without my knowledge, they landed the six field pieces, at the point near which the army lay, which greatly clogg'd us, and would a made our passidge over the river very difficult. In the evening, wee see Capt. Gilbert weigh anchor, and the ships of warr sail up to the town, and the several ships plying their guns upon the town, and the town upon them, with utmost diligence ; but the reason of their going before the land army were over the river, wee understood not till afterwards. The cold of the night, and our souldiers not having opportunity to dry themselves until the next day, proved very prejuditiall to them. Upon the 9th of October, Sir William's ship returned from the town being, as wee were informed, very much disin- abled, having been very smartly engaged with the town ; alsoe were informed, that the men of warr had not powder enough left for two rounds apiece ; but, however, supposing they had secured and would supply us with what was promised, and reck- ning it was aboard the small vessels that were to come into the river, we still expected their coming in, and that day advanced nearer the town, where wee had better shelter for the men, and a better place for our defence, where we placed out our guards, and put ourselves in the best posture we could to defend our- selves and offend our enemies, if they had come upon us ; sent out partys to gain intelligence and make discovery, and what provision came within our reach was killed for the use of the army: our provisions being so much in the masteis of the vessels power, and not in the commissary-generals order and dispose, proved a great damidge, for, by reason hereof, some souldiers were provided for and others wanted, and all the rum that could be procured, to refresh the souldiers, was only about 60 gallons, which was spared from Sir William's ship, the rest either had it not, or would not own they had. ( 15 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Our souldiers dried themselves, gott what refreshment they could, and hoped the vessels might come in the evening tide, wee seeing more and more need of them, being more and more sensible of the enemies strength, and our own men, many, grow- ing sick and 'infitt for service. But the vessels not coming, we stood upon our guard that night, but found it exceedingly cold, it freezing that night soe that the next morning the ice would bear a man. That night I called a council, demanded their opinion what was to be done, for it would be to no purpose to lye there ; one in behalf of sundries others said, they had been together considering thereof, and that for as much as we had not suitable supplys of provisions ashore, little or no ammuni- tion to recruit if there should be occasion, that our men were, many, sick and wearied, that they had the difficultys of the river to deal with, neither boats nor vessels to help us in our going over, that we had 8 great guns and 1000 men at the river side that were ready for us, after that, a steep bank and narrow passage to win, up or through which wee should not a been able to have carried our great guns, neither could wee have carried them over, where wee might have had them for use, without the help of our boats or vessels, after all this, a well fortified town with three times our number of men within to encounter with, having but one chirurgeon ashore, though three were ordered, the increasing cold weather, the enemy being capable and had a fair opportunity, had we gone over, by reason 01 their men on our backs and guns by Charles river, to cut off all supplys and preventing our sending off soe much as a wounded man ; after some discourse on these matters it was concluded, as I under- stood, by the whole, that I should goe on board that morning to Sir Willi&m, and acquaint him with our difficultys and disappoint- ments, and that it was their agreement, if he were willing, that the army should get aboard that night or before day, and that they should rest and refresh themselves a day or two, and if they found they had ammunition suitable, they were ready to land at any other place, or under the guns at the town, if the counsel should soe conclude ; there was that day two men to each gun sent ashore, a barrel of powder for the great guns, and half a barrel besides, and 100 wt. of bullets or something more. 1?^ ( f6 ) SOCIETY OK COr.ONIAL WARS. The loth, before noon, I went aboard to Slir William, acquainted him how matters went ashore, and of the desire and conchision of the officers ; he said he could a been glad we had been capable to have. proceeded, but consented to their coming aboard, and saiil the boats should be sent ashore before day ; after I had been aboard a while, wee heard gims goe off ashore and perceived our out guards were charged by the enemy ; I was going off, i , perceiving it was soon over, staid a while, and in the afterri^on went ashore again, found our guards and some scouts had been engaged by the enemy ; Major Savage sent reliefs as was necessary, but being informed that the enemy might be looo men over the river, he sent Capt. Corwin with orders that the souldiers should make an orderly retreat, for if the enemy were numerous it were better to prepare to meet them in the plain fields than among the swamps ; wee had 4 men wounded, one died of his wounds, and, through hast in the retreat, a small drummer left his drum behind him : they did considerable damage to the enemy, but could not give a certain and particular account thereof, they fired several houses and barns and returned, but the enemy see no cause to follow them. That night wee kept a very strong and strict watch, I acquainted the souldiers of their coming aboard ; after midnight several of the commanders desired we might remove our army nearer to the place where we were to goe off, accordingly wee silently marched off the ground, carryed back our guns ; when I had taken care that wee had left none behind, I went to the place where they were ordered to march, found our souldiers too many of them upon the beach ready to goe off if there had been an opportunity ; I caused them to be drawn up upon the upland adjoining, and put them in a posture for service if they had been attacked by the enemy, for wee were within sight and hearing of the town. Before day the boats began to row ashore, but soe many of our mei drew off without orders, that they might be ready to get in with the first, I foreseeing the confusion that was like to be, and perceiving there would not be time before it was light to get all off, I sent the boats all away and would not let any goe off at that time. The nth day, being soe near as to heare them calling one to calling one to ( »7 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. another at the town, their drumming and ringing before day, ami other noises in the woods, that wee had reason to thinke they intended that day to come out against us with their whole strength ; in the morning they fired several great guns at us but did us no harm, our men all that day standing to their arms, drums beating, coulors flying, fair in sight of the town ; we saw several of the enemy not far from us, and many on the other side of the river, besides what was in the town ; it is said that Capt. Davis reckoned, what they had in the town and that alarmed us and guarded their shoars, they were more than 4000 men ; they sent out 7 or 800 fresh men dayly to alarm us and to watch our motions. Designing to goe off that night, and there being like to be a good opportunity, I called several of the officers and acquainted them that I was designed to send three parties of souldiers to beat up the swamps that were round us, and beat off these spies that we had reason to judge lay near us, accordingly ordered three 16 files to be detached out of the several companies, and sent them out commanded by Capt. Barnet, and Capt. Minot, and that party that was sent out upon our right win^ were soon engaged ; sent Capt. March forthwith, who had a good company, and they then soon made the enemy give back, but they continued firing briskly at each other ; I sent out several companys to relieve them ; in the mean time not knowing but this party might have been sent to occasion the drawing off a great part of our forces, and they might have a greater strength near us, wherefore I sent out to make discovery, and stood ready with the rest of the army to fight them if they had come up with us. The souldiers were ordered to keep firing at the enemy, in and about the swamps near us, and where they saw the enemy, until it was dark ; which accordingly they did. It then growing near night, I ordered the sick men to be car- ried aboard, which might be done by daylight, because two or three boats might goe off well enough unsuspected. That day, Alexander Smart came ashore with a commission to be master gunner, and had 52 seamen under his command for to attend the guns. A little before night, I called him and acquainted him that the army was to goe ofi* that night, and gave him a mwiirTiiw f/ il ( i8 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL W^RS. charge about the guns, in particular ordered that three guns should goe off before any men went, or with the first, the other should be let alone to the last and kept fc r to defend the soldiers if there had been occasion, and to be put aboard the last boats, which might be soon done ; he made me answer that, though he was the last man aboard, he «vould see all the guns off; I parted with him then and never see him afterwards that I knew of; I then acquainted Major Savage and other officers, that we should draw off half each regiment at a time, and he should draw off half his regiment first, and ordered that those that wont in the fust boats should be helpful to draw down those three guns that were to goe first aboard, which they did, and concluded they were gone aboard. It growing very dark, notwithstanding I had ordered the officers to keep the souldiers to their arms, many precipitately and disorderly drew down to the beach., four times more than had leave, and a very great noise was made, which I was much troubled at^ and was willing to go down to see if I could still them ; I called to Major Ward, ordered him he should do whac he could to keep the souldiers to their arms, and not to move without order, which he soon found too I:ard for him to doe ; I ordered some souldiers to keep the rest from crowding down until those were gone off that were upon the flats ; I called to them to he silent, but either of these were little regarded, for ihe croud and the noise both increased ; the seamen calling out foi such souldiers as oelonged to their vessels, and the souldiers for such boats as came from the vessels they belonged to, hundreds in the water up to the knees and higher, pressing into boats, the seamen and they con- tending, by reason whereof I see boats were like to be five times longer a loading than they needed ; I saw a necessity of my going off to the boats, went aboard a small boat belonging to Mr. Winser, conimanded silence, ordered the boats to take the men in, as they came, and to carry them to the first vessel they came at, which was not minded by many, but as I was forced to goe from boat to boat and see it done, for otherways some of the seamen would throw the souldiers overboard if they did not belong to them, or the souldiers would have pres" d into boats to have sunk them. After my being at the point not less ( 19 ^ THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 169c. than three hours, the men were most off, and everything still quiet ; the boats were all gone, I began to think because I see none a coming they thought the men were all off. I questioned how many men were upon the point, some said 150, wee judged about 100 or 120, I told them I would see if any boats were coming, rowed off and heard several boats rowing, went to them and ordered them to hasten to the shoar ; and though I thought there might be enough to take off all the men, yet they should rather have too many than want, I told them I would go to the next vessels that had boats aboard and send them away, which I did with all speed. Being now well satisfied our men weie safe off, I went on board Sir William's ship, I acquainted how matters were, told him I hoped the guns were off, for did not see them when I came away ; he made answer he questioned, for the master gunner had been aboard long before, and could not give account they were off, immediately came one of the gunners aboard, with a gun, and said that the guns were all off. I then being satisfied that both men and guns were all off, I went to my cabbin, to take my rest, having had but little for 3 days and nights before. Soon after, Mr. Bearing came aboard, who came off in the last parcel of boats, and acquainted some of the oflicers and divers others, that there was 5 of the guns ashore, that they had been und«r water, but appeared when he came away, they did not acquaint Sir William nor myself of it, until the next morning, for wee had come off undiscovered, and there was 4 or 5 hours time that they might been easily and safely fetcht, but that was neglected ; they sent in the morning, but then it was too late. The 1 2th day a council was called, several, but not all the commanders aboard, they discoursed of landing at the town, or at Orleance, many of the officers declared that many of their men were sick and unfitt for service ; however, it was agreed that the men should have a day or two's time to refresh them- selves, and to inquire what capacity wee were in for a further attempt, and some time should be spent on Monday in prayer, to seek God's direction, but the weather prevented our meeting, and wee necessitated to weigh and fall down to Orleance, many vessels drove from their anchors, and were in danger of being "^^ (20) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. '/ W'< i' drove on upon the town ; wee then sent ashore about our cap- tives, but winds and weather after proved such, as wee had never opportunity to come together, but the whole fleet were scattered, and such exceeding hard cold and windy weather set in for 3 weeks or a month together, as I never was in so much together. This narrative given into the honourable council of the Mas- sachusetts, this 27th Nov. 1690. ^. John Walley. The land army's failing, the enemy's too timely intelligence, lyeing 3 weeks within three days sail of the place, by reason whereof they had opportunity to bring in the whole strength of their country, the shortness of our ammunition, our late setting out, our long passidge, and many sick in the army, thase may be reckned as some of the reasons of our disappointment. Some question our courage, that wee proceeded no further ; as things were circumstanced, others would a questioned our prudence, if wee had ; were it a fault, it was the act of a council of warr ; wee must undergoe the censures of many : In the mean time, our consciences doe not accuse us, neither are we most, yea allmost all, of us, afraid or ashamed to answer our actions, before any that can or shall call us to an account for the same, nor unwilling to give any farther satisfaction to any reasonable men that shall desire it. John Walley. Boston, the 27th Nov. 1690. MAJOR JOHN WALLEY. Major John Walley, born in England, was the son of the Rev. Thomas Walley, of St Mary, Whitechapcl, London. He became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 167 1, and a freeman in 1673 ; first sergeant. Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1676 ; b lieutenant in 1678 ; a captain in 1679, 1699, and 1 707, and major of the Boston Regi- ment in 1699. An incorporator of Bristol, R.I., for which he was an as.<:istant of the governor of Plymouth Colony, 1 683-1 686, and named as councillor under Andros. He was commissioned V; . ; about our cap- ch, as wee had whole fleet were indy weather set • was in so much icil of the Mas- OHN Wallev. nely intelligence, place, by reason hole strength of our late setting army, these may )ointment. ided no further ; questioned our ; act of a council if many : In the IS, neither are we :d to answer our n account for the :isfaction to any John Wallev. e son of the Rev. don. onorable Artillery sergeant, Ancient :utenant in 1678; ' the Boston Regi- LI., for which he ilony, 1 683-1 686, vas commissioned 1 \ MAJOR JOHN WALLEY. ( 21 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. captain of the Bristol military company to June, 1684, and became a member of the Council of War of Plymouth Colony, and was appointed to the command of the land forces in the 1690 expedition. Under the second charter a councillor in 1 693-4, and from 1696 to 1706. A commissioner for war 1693-4, and appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Judicature and with the military title of major-general in his later yeavs. He died 11 Jan., 1711-12, in Boston, and was buried on the 17th in the tomb of the Wr.lley family in the Granary Burying Ground. AN ACCOUNT OF THE LATE ACTION OF THE NEW ENGLANDERS UNDER THE COMMAND OF SIR WILLIAM PHIPS AGAINST THE FRENCH AT CANADA — SENT IN THOMAS SAVAGE OF BOSTON IN PRESENT AT THE ACTION) TO SAVAGE IN LONDON 1 A LETl'ER FROM MAJOR NEW ENGLAND, (WHO WAS HIS BROTHER MR PEREZ Boston, Feb. 2, 1690-81. Loving Brother, As for news, here is very little, only about our defeatment at Canada ; and least some ill tongue should abuse any with you, this will give you a brief narrative of it. We went from Boston, thirty-two shios and other vessels with about 2,000 men, with four months provision and ammunition, little enough, but had nut one man for a pilot. When we came to the river, (which we had a hundred leagues to go up, before we came into the river, which was the occasion of our having a long passage, but at length we got up to it ;) a council was call'd, to think what was best to be done. It was agreed, that the soldiers should be put ashore upon a beach about two miles from the town, and to get as near the town as we could, and to encamp that night, for there was a river between us and the town, that waj knee deep at low water, whrch we were to go over to the town ; and in the night they were to send in some small vessels that had guns, with ammunition and pro- vision for us, and to bring our field-pieces ashore with them, to secure our passage over the river ; and when we were over the river, then the four great ships should fall upon the town to batter it. Accordingly we landed, I being the first field-ofHcer ashore. We landed about 1,209 men, and as soon as we came ashore, at the side of the beach, was a swamp, a bog overgrown with wood, where lay an ambuscade of about 600 French who gall'd us at our ' The title of this work published in England the next year shows the author to have been Maj. Thomas Savage, and not Ephraim Savage his brother, as stated by Mr. Justin Winsor, in the " Memorial History of Boston," Vol. II., p. 99. . "•-^li'rtMSalMffiak.:. ^ 1 I ( 22 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. landing, but our men, running very briskly on . hem, beat up their ambuscade, and followed them a great was ; all our men in their landing waded some up to their middle, none less than their knees. By that we had rallied the sun was near set ; so we mached about half a mile from the river, and so en- camped. Our men had spent the greatest part cf our ammunition in this skirmish, having taken ashore with them about three quartets of a pound of powder a man, and about fifteen or eighteen shots, and but two biskets a man ; and the reason why they carried no more was because the small vessels were to carry it into the river that night. We had in this skirmish about five men killed outright, and about twenty men wounded. About midnight they sent us ashore six field-pieces, about 800 pounds a piece, which we could not tell what to do with, it being a marshy place, and several small gullies to go over. We sent aboard for ammunition and provisions, but they sent us half a barrel of powder which what that was you may judge amongst near 1,200 men, and sent no provision. We were no sooner ingaged at our coming ashore, but contrary to orders, those four ships of war, as they called them wayed their anchors, and fell to battering the town at random, and then spent the greatest part of their ammunition by that time they got back ; the admiral being, as they say, forced to leave their best cable and anchor behind him and get back again. We met with several skirmishes from the enemy while we were ashore, but we received little hurt. We had some that we took informed us that if we had come but four days sooner they had not above 600 men in town, but being so long in the river before we got up, they had notice of us, and had sent for all their strength thither, so that there was now in the town 3,000 men, and eight irundred that were near us in swamps and woods, to keep us continually alarmed. But sending aboard often to see to get some victuals, for we could meet with little ashore, the enemy having drove their cattle into the woods, they at length sent us word that they had no more ammunition to spare, but sent us a bisket cake a man, and ordered that we should come aboard again, (for they understood that was not a good place to set upon the town, being a very strong place, walled all round, and a battery of guns at our coming over the river,) and did send fifty seamen to look after the six field-pieces. At night we began to go on board, and I, with my regiment, was to go aboard first, by the Lieutenant- General's order, because we were ashore first. We did so, and got well aboard, and by twelve of the clock were all aboard. But how it cume to pass I know not, but some say it was the Lieutenant-General's fault, but I rather think the seamen's, that was to look after the guns, but there was five of the field-pieces left on shore. And then when all was on board, because provisions was scearce, we thought good to make the best of our own way back again. So that we are all well arrived, only two vessels cast away, nine of the men lost, one ship burnt but saved all the men and four vessels not yet come in, whom we believe are beat of the coast. You will without doubt hear many reflections upon Lieutenant-General Walley ; but he is not guilty of what they charge him with ; but there are mMmmsm^m^ s. up their ambuscade, ding waded some up : had rallied the sun be river, and so en- ammunition in this arteis of a pound of i but two biskets a because the small bad in this skirmish I wounded. About >unds a piece, which :e, and several small provisions, but they may jvdge amongst oner ingaged at our war, as they called It random, and then they got back ; the ! and anchor behind les from the enemy '. had some that we ooner they had not bre we got up, they it, so that there was ; near us in swamps ing aboard often to ashore, the enemy 1 sent us word that cet cake a man, and nderstood that was ng place, walled all ver,) and did send we began to go on by the Lieutenant- i so, and got well But how it came to neral's fault, but I 5, but there was five i on board, because ist of our own way vessels cast away, len and four vessels a' Ueutenant-General rith ; but there are -^!^^^SmS3ES3KV9BP 1 t BOSTON HARBOR, 1694. (23 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. some who to make themselves faultless lay the fault upon him, which might be easily evinced to a national man. We killed of the French at our com- ing ashore above thirty, as some, who have made a computation of what they saw in several places lay dead, say. We lay not far from tho shore, and the General sent his boat ashore with an old french woman to treat about change of prisoners, which we did, and changed 17 we had taken, for 17 english prisoners that had been with them a pretty while. Our prisoners informed us of the truth of the quality of men in the town, as is above ; and that if we had gone over the river, we had certainly been dis- Iroyed ; so that I looked there was a Providence of God in it ; yet if Ihcy had send ammunition and provision we had certainly been with them. Thomas Savage. MAJOR THOMAS SAVAGE. Major Thomas Savage was born and baptized in Boston, 1 7 May, 1640, a son of Major Thomas and Faith (Hutchinson) Savage, a grandson of the famous Ann Hutchinson. He married about 1 664 Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Scottow. He became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1665 ; first sergeant in 1674, and ensign in 168 1. A leader in the 1690 expedition. He held the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the Boston Regiment in 1702. He was a member of the Old South Church, and died 2 July, 1705, and was buried on the 5 th at about seven in the evening, escorted by the military through the principal street of the town, thronged with the people. EXTRACTS FROM CHIEF JUSTICE SAMUEL SEWALL's DIARY. Friday, March 21, i6ff. This day Capt. Townsend is appointed Comander in Chief. Satterday, March 22. Sir William Phips offers himself to go in person ; the Govcrnour sends for me, and tells me of it, I tell the Court ; they send for Sir William who accepts to goe, and is appointed to Comand the Forces ; Major Townsend relinquishes with Thanks. Sir William had been sent to at first ; but some feared he would not goe ; others thought his lady could not consent. Court makes Sir William free, and Swear him Major Generall, and several others. Adjourn to Boston, Wednesday 14 night one aclock. March 24, i6§J. Eight Companies and Troops Train. I goe into the field, pray with the South Company, Exercise them in a few Distances, Facings, Doublings ; before which Thanked them for their Respect in men- tioning me when in England, warning the Company in my Name ; and told ( 24 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. them the place T was in required iiiore Time and Strength than I had, lo took leave of them. July 35. Major Nath'l Saltonitall, and Major Tho. Henchman Iply themselves to the Council, shewing that if so many be press'd for Canada as the Order mentions, the fronteeirs will draw in, and they themselves profess they will do so. Major Saltonstall comes no farther than Charlestown, because of the Small Pocks. Major Gcnerall, Mr. Addington, and self gne over and give him a list. Tuesday, July 29, 1690. This is a day of much Thunder and plenteous Rain which prevents the Souldiers for Canada their mustering as was intended. Cous. Quinsey as I sat with him bid me shut the door, and ask'd if I had done that, meaning his Will. Mr. Moodey visited him this day- He is very low. Monday, Augt. 4. Cousin Quinsey signs, seals and publishes his Will, Capt. Jacob Eliot, Theophilus Frary and my self Witnesses. Then went with Major Walley to Dorchester to meet Gov''. Hinkley, Coniissioner for Plimouth, but CoT! cticul and Rhode-Island failing, nothing could be done to purpose : but urgd Gov'. Hinckley to furnish us with a hundred Men : hope he will send fifty. Din'd with Mr. Stoughton. Went and saw Capt. Withington's Company, 16 files, 4 deep, drawn up by the Meetinghouse, gave them a French Crown to drink. Took Mrs. Mills's Acknowledgment of a Deed as she lay abed. Mrs. Pierce buried near the Tomb of her Grandfather Cotton. Friday, Augt. 8, 1690. Dept. Governour, Major Generall, Major Richards, Mr. Russell, Major Hutchinson, Major Phillips, Mr. Addington and self went to Nantasket to see the Lieut. Generall Muster his Souldiers on Georges Island ; went on board the Six Friends ; urgd that might sail by the first oportunity ; came up to Town. And about 11 or 12 at night Major Hutch- ins on, Mr. Addington and S.S. with Mr. Eyre went down again carrying Carriages for field-pieces. Anchor'd at Nantasket about 3. When day, Augt. g***, was come, went on board ; the Generall pursuaded Him to make Signs of Sailing ; then with the Lieut. Generall visited the Ships of War and other Vessels, directed as to the number of Souldiers each vessel was to nave and order'd to make Signs of Sailing. Wind comes fresh from Sea ; Go and dine at Hull with Sir William [Phips] and his lady and Mr. Hale : Come on board, order is given to unmore, to be in a readiness if the wind should spring up. About 6 wind veer'd ami the Fleet came to sail, Four Ships of War, and 28 other. Brought up my Lady from Hull. Got up to Town about 9 at night ; cili'd at Cous. Quinsey's whom I found very ill. Sept. 25. A printed sheet entituled publick Occurences comes out, which gives much distaste because not Licensed ; and because of the passage referring to the French King and the Maquas. I than I had, so ( as ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690- Fri. Nov. 7, 1690. — News of Canada came from Salem. Shute comes into Boston that night or next morning, hath thrown over aboard more than Sixty persons since his going hence, most Indians of Plimouth. Town much fill'd with the discourse, and some cast blame on Major Wallcy ; v.-erc nine weelts getting thethcr and landed not be.'ore the 7"* or S**" of October. Nov. 21. 1 accompanied Capt. Hill to the Funeral of Joseph Asgood, or Asbud, of Almsbury, a souldier of about 18 years old who died fit Fort-hill of the Small-Pocks. Mr. I^aurence, Capt. Davis's Son-in-Law, is buried this day ; so that Five own Sisters are now Widows. 'Twas Tu'isday, the 18"" of November, that I heard of the death of Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, Lieut. James Smith and Ensign W'". Longfellow, Serg'. Increase Pilsbury, who with Will Mitchell, Jabez Musgro, and four more were drown'd at Cape Briloon on Friday night the last of October." lishes his Will, !S. Then went Coinissioner for [ could be done hundred Men: i and saw Capt. Meetinghouse, cknowledgment e Tomb of her Major Richards, ngton anu self liers on Georges sail by the first it Major Hutch- again carrying 3. When day, id Him to make liips of War and issel was to have m Sea ; Go and Hale: Come on le wind should I, Four Ships of ot up to Town d very ill. SEAL OF SIR WM. PHIPS. omes out, which of the passage ( 26 ) ROSTER. Conmandar'lii'Chlet. SIR WILLIAM PHIFS. Major John VValley Barnstable. Major Thomas Savage Boston. Major Nathaniel Wade' '. Jiedford. General's Clerk, Nathaniel Barnes, « Boston. Chaplains. Rev. John Hale* heverly. Rev. John Wise* ipg^j^h. Rev. Grindal Rawson * Mendon. Rev. John Emerson' ". charlestown. SurgeoHA. Dr. John Barton' giilem. Dr. David Bennett' Rowley. Dr. James Holgate. Dr. George Jackson Marblehead. COMMISSiONBD OPPiCERS OF THB euex Regiment. Major Samuel Ward (d. 1690), Ipswich. Capt. Willmjh Raymond Beverly. Capt. Nathaniel NoRDEN Marblehead. Ensign Samuel Balch Beverly. Capt. William Wormall (Wormwood?) . . . Lynn. Capt. ( i'ORGE Corwin Salem Capt. Stephen Greenleaf" (d. Oct., 1690) . Newbury. Capt. John March Newbury. Lieut. Jonathan Allen Salisbury. Lieut. Stephen Johnson Andover. Lieut. James Smith (d. Oct., 1690) . . Newbury. Ensign William LoNGFELLOw(d. Oct., 1690), Newbury. Ensign Lawrence Hart Newbury. ( 27 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Capt. Philip Neijson . Rowley. Lieut. Abel Plaits Ron ley. Capt. Daniel King Salem. Ensign John King Salem. MiddUMX RtgimcBt. Major Nathaniel Wade, Medford. C^pt. Efhbmm Savage Reading. Lieut. Jonathan Poole Reading. Lieut. Nathaniel Goodwin Reading. Capt. John Call • Charlestown. Capt. Joseph Wilson • Maiden. Capt. EBE^fEZER Prout Concord. Lieut. Nathaniel Barsham Watertown. Ensign Joseph Winn Wobum. Capt. Jonathan Danforth Billerica. Suffolk RaglmcBt. * Major Thomas Savage, Boston. Capt. John Wing Boston. Capt. Andrew Gardner Muddy River. Capt. Edward Willev Boston. Capt. Thomas Barnard Boston. Lieut. Ephraim Sale (d. 2 Dec, 1690) . Boston. Capt. Ephraim Hunt Weymouth. Capt. Thomas Vose Milton. Capt. John Withington Dorchester. Capt. George Minot » (d. 1690) .... Dorchester. Lieut. Benjamin Willard Lancaster. Ensign Samuel Sumner. Capt. Thomas Andrews (d. 25 Nov., 1690) . Hingham. Lieut. John Chubbuck (d. 26 Nov., 1690) Hingham. Ensign Joseph Joy Hingham. Plymouth Regiment. Capt. Joseph Sylvester (d. 1690) . . . Scituate. Lieut. John Witherell (d. 1690) . Scituate. Ensign John Stetron (d. 1690) . . Scituate. Ensign Sami«x Lucas Plymouth. i nan i; 'i\ r.t ^ ( 28 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Capt. John Gorham Barnstable. Lieut. Jabez Snow (d. 27 Dec, 1690) . Eastham. Ensign James Claghorn Barnstable. Capt. Samuel Gallup Bristol. Lieut. Preserved Abei Rehoboth. Ensign Solomon Smith Rehoboth. Indian Company. Lieut. Thomas Swift Sandwich. * Maj. Nathaniel Wade, born about 164S, was a son of Jonathan and Susannah Wade, of Ipswich. He married, 31 Oct., 167a, Mercy, yoang:est daughter of Gov, Simon Br-^dstreet. He was a freeman in 1685 and representative in 169a from Med. ford, where he resided and where he died aS Nov., 1707. * Nathaniel Barnes was of Boston as early as 1675, and in 1679 was diosen clerk of the writs. He occupied about this time a small room in tho town house at the west end, which was afterward occupied by another scrivener of note, John Hayward, the Notary Public. s Rev. John Hale was the eldest child of Robert Hale, of CharlestowM, and born there 3 June, 1636. A graduate of Harvard College in 1657, he married (i) Rebecca Byley, (a) Sarah Noyes, (3) Elizabeth Clark, and was settled at Beverly as minister. He died ij May, 1700, * Rev. John Wise was the son of Joseph and Mary (Thompson) Wise, of Rox- bury, and born there 15 Aug,, 165a. A graduate of Harvard College in 1673, he mar- ried Abigail Gardner, of Roxbury, First settled at Branford, Conn., as a chaplain under Major Treat, of Connecticut, he participated in King Philip's war, after which he was a few years at Hatfield. He was ordained at Ipswich, in Chebacco Parish (Essex), and suffered imprisonment with Appleton at the hands of Andro.i, and was also fined. He died 8 April, I7a5. * Rev. Grindal Rawson was the son of Edward and Rachel (Pirni.) Rawson, of Newbury and Boston. He was born in Newburj' 33 Jan., 1659, and named after Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury. His father was the Secretary of the Massachu- setts Colony, 1650-1686. Grindal was graduated at Harvard in 1678, and was the second minister at Men- don, ordained 7 April, 16S4. ^ freeman in 1683, he married Susanna, daughter of Rev, T'ihn White, of Mediield, and died 6 Feb., 1715. * Kev. John Emerson was nephew of Rev, John Emerson, of Gloucester, and gradutted at Harvard College in 1678. He was a teacher at Newbury, Gloucester, and Cbarlestown, and was chaplain of the forces under Capt, Jeremiah Swayne at Berwick in 1689. He was made freeman in 1691. In 1699 he was appointed a teacher at Salem, where he taught till his death 10 March, 171a. 1 Dr. John Barton, son of John, of Huntingdonshire, England, came to New Eng- land in 167a. He was originally an [apothecary, but afterwards a physician, and as such was employed as an expert to examine the persons accused of witchctait in 169a. He died at B -badoes in December, 1694, ^ tradition states, of yellow fever. * Dr. David Bennett, of Rowley, was the husband of Rebecca, daughter of Capt. Roger Spencer and sister of the wife of Sir William Phips. His son Spencer, born 6 June, 1685, was adopted by Phips and became Spencer Phips, Lieutenant-Gc vernor of Massachusetts in 1733. Dr. Bennett died 4 Feb., 1719, and is said to have been 103 years old, which, however, is doubtful. * Rank in the militia, a lieutenant. •rT'"rii n ii- II liiiiiiani I ff u I.' 1 f f \f I ' \ I I'. QUEBEC MEDALS ISSUED BY FRANCE TO COMMEMORATE THE EXPEDITION. ( 29 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Soldiers were detailed from the Massachusetts Regiments as stated below : Regiments. Men Major Quincy 390 " Phillips 384 " Hutchinson 320 " Henchman 308 " Appleton 308 " Gedney 308 " Saltoji?tall 282 Total . 2,300 SOME VESSELS OF THE FLEET AND THEIR COMMANDERS. (The Admiral, Sit (The Vice I N.Y. Six FritnJs, 44 guns, 200 men, Capt. Gregory Sugars, William Phips's vessel.) yohn and Thomas, 26 guns, 80 men, Capt. Thomas Carter. Admiral's vessel.) The Sivan, Capt. Thomas Gilbert. (Rear Admiral's vessel.) The America Merchant, Capt. Joseph Eldridge. A Frigate, 24 guns, 150 men. A Brigantine, 8 guns, 70 men. Sloop, Mary, 4 guns, 50 men, Capt. Nathaniel Hatch The Adventure (brigantine), Capt. William Bradlow. A Brigantine of Capt. Ebe.iezer Prout. The Mary (a brigantine belonging to John Bonner), 67 men, Capt. John Rainsford of Winsor. A Sloop of Thomas Brooks. The Snow America, Capt. Joseph Parsons. Sloop, Mary, Capt. Benjamin Gallop. Ketch, Fraternity. The Ketch, Hannah and Mary, Capt. Thomas Parker. The Ketch, Mary Ann, Capt. Gregory Sugars, jr. A vessel, Capt. Andrew Belcher. Blessed William of New York, Capt. William Masson. Brigantine, John &" Catherine of New York, Capt. Francis Goderis. Sloop, Edward, Capt John Swinton. .^Vl'^* ' ■-' frr '; i i (j ii '; U ! ( 30 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. MASSACHUSETTS TOWNS IN Amesbury . Andovir Barnstable Beverly Billerica . Boston . . Boxford Bradford . Braintree . Bridgewater Cambridge Charlestown Chelmsford Concord Dartmouth Dedham . Deerfield . Dorchester Dunstable . Duxbury , Eastham Edgartown Falmouth . Freetown . Gloucester . Groton . . Hadley . . Hatfield . Haverhill . Hingham . Hull . . Ipswich Lancaster . Lynn . . Maiden Manchester Marblehead 1690 AND DATE OF 1668 Marlborough '646 Marshfield >639 Medfield . •668 Medford . 1655 Mendon . 1630 Middleborougl 1685 Milton . . 167s Nantucket . 1640 Newbury . 1656 Newton '633 Northampton 1629 Plymouth . 1655 Reading . 163s Rehoboth . 1664 Rochester . 1636 Rowley 1682 Roxbury . 1630 Salem . , 1673 Salisbury . 1637 Sandwich . 1646 Scituate 1 67 1 Sherborn . 1686 Springfield 1688 Stow . . 1639 Sudbury . 1655 Swanzey 1 66 1 Taunton 1670 Tisbury . 1645 Topsfield . 1635 Watertown 1644 Wenham . 1634 Westfield , 1653 Weymouth 1637 Woburn 1649 Worcester . 1645 Wrentham. 1649 Yarmouth . INCORPORATION. 1660 1640 165 1 1631 1667 1669 1662 1687 1635 1688 1654 1620 1644 164s 1686 1639 1630 1629 1640 1639 1636 1674 1636 1683 1639 1667 1639 1671 1650 1630 1643 1669 1635 1642 1684 1673 1639 LIST OF WOUNDED. John Shattuck (Groton?) wounded in the arm. Thomas Kelton, wounded in the foot. ( 31 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. 1667 1639 1671 [650 1630 1643 [669 1635 [642 1684 1673 1639 Nicholas Badcock, sick. s John Stone, Charlestown, wounded. Samuel Shatock (Shattuck), Watertown, amputation of toes. Jno. Scoterbey, feet frozen. Nathaniel Hastings, wounded. Jno. Darbyshire, Lancaster, wounded. Jonas Bond, Watertown, wounded. Daniel Merrow, Reading, wounded. John Prentice, New Cambridge, wound^^d in both arms. Daniel Maccone, Cambridge Village. Joseph Bush, Cambridge Village, wounded in the foot. Samuel Andrews, Weymouth, wounded. John Paige, Groton, wounded. Thomas Extall, Sudbury, wounded. Obadiah Ward, Sudbury, wounded. Jos. Deane, Concord, feet frozen and toes amputated. Samuel Fox, Concord, froze. Jacob Adams. Charlestown, wounded. John Morse, Newbury, wounded (servant to Mr. Noyes). James Bridges, Andover, feet froze. Richard Bridges, Ipswich (servant of Nehemiah Abbott), feet froze. Joseph Bredeen, wounded in the foot. Daniel Knight, foot froze, amputation 5 joints. William Dennis, wounded in leg. John Anderson, Ipswich, foot wounded. Thomas Hovey, Ipswich, foot froze on return expedition. John Raymond, wounded in both legs. George Trow, wounded by a ball in the back. Sergt. John Lane, feet frozen. Benjamin Plummer, wound in the shoulder. John Fairfield, feet froze on return of expedition. Michael Coombs, wounded. CANADA TOWNSHIPS. EXTRACTS FROM MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES. [Mass. House jfournaJ, yune 26, ^7SS'} Robert Hale , Esq ; from the Committee appointed last night on the Grants to the Canada Officers and Soldiers, &c. Anno 1690, made report, which was read accepted, and thereupon the fol- lowing Vote passed, viz. IVAfreas it has been ordered by this Court that the several Committees appointed to lay out the Towns granted in answer to the Petitions of the Canada Soldiers in their 7 . ) I !i A \ I '^ l'> ( 32 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Expedition Anno 1690, shall take Bonds of the Grantees for the performance of the Conditions of their respective Grants ; ana whereas by reason of the Death of most of the said soldiers, and minority or inability of many of their Heirs and Descendants, the intention of the Court in rewarding their Service, and for settling the Lands may be defeated without the special direction of this Court: Ordered, That the said Committees and all others that may hereafter be appointed by this Court for that Service on Petitions for Canada Soldiers in that Expedition, shall take Bond of One, personally the Heir Descendant or Representative of one Soldier (preference to be given to the eldest Male if such there be, otherwise the eldest Female, who shall appear at such time and place as the Committee shall appoint and give publick notice of) and the Grant shall belong to such Obligor his heirs and as- signs for ever (provided the Conditions of the Bond be performed) such Obligor paying to the other Descendants or Heirs such proportionable part of Ten Pounds as such Descendants or Heirs would be intitled to in the Land, if said Land descended ac- cording to the Law of this Province for the Settlement of Intes- tate Estates, and also what charge any of said Descendants may have been at to prove or bring forward said Claims. Sent up for Concurrence. [Mass. Court Records, Jan. 16, iTJS-d.} The Deputy Secretary was Sent down to the House with the following Message from the Board viz' — The Board tak* into Consideration, as well the Several Grants made by the House Upon petitions for Townships of the Canada Officers and Soldiers that have pass'd the whole Court, as those Depending at the Board, & finding the form & the direction of the Descent of the Estate to be Essentially differing ; which the Board Apprehend is only inconsistant, but also Un- equal and Unjust as to the Different form of the Grants, pass'd thro' the whole Court ; the Board observe that on the four first petitions viz' Gallop, Newell, Tileston, & Tiltons, there Seems to be an Inconsistancyr the Grantees therein being obliged to give ( 3i ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1 690. Bond to the Com'**" Appointed to lay out the same and Yet the said Com'*** are to Transmit into the Secretarys office, Lists of the Grantees names and places of Abode to be Regulated by an after Com'** which Necessarily Implys giving Bonds before Ad- mission In the order ; on two Several petitions of Shubal Gore- ham & Samuel King the Board observed no Bonds Ordered to be Given or lists to be Transmitted as above ; In the Order on the three Several petitions of Ebenezer Hunt of William Raymond & Joseph Silvester, no list is Ordered to be taken or transmitted for future Regulation ; The Board therefore propose to the Hon"* House that a Com*** of this Court be Appointed to take a List of the names and places of Abode of said Officers and Soldiers and of the Descendants of such as are deceased, in Order to a Regulation by a Com*** of this Court, and so Sixty of them may be Admitted Grantees and Settlers in each Town- ship of Six Miles Square, to be laid out pursuant to such fore- mentioned Regulation ; And as to the Descent of the Estate Granted to the said Officers and Soldiers, the Board observe that in all those made by the whole Court, they all Agree Except that made to Cap' Silvester & his men ; which last mentioned is not to the Descendants of those that are dec'ed as the others are ; Which General Method of Descent the Board are of Opin- ion is not only most practicable, but also most Reasonable and just, and will be Attended with much less Expence to the prov- ince and Greatly conduce to the Speedy fulfillment of the Con- ditions of the Grant ; Therefore move that the said Silvester Grant may be Reduced to the said General Rule as well as the Rest of the Canada Grants. — In the House of Represent* Read & Referred to the next Sitting of the Court for Consideration — IMass. Court Records, March 2j, /7J5-6.] On the Message from the Board to the House Referring to the late Grants of Townships as Entred the 16 Jan'ry 1735 — In the House of Represent' Ordered That John Chandler Robert Hale and Daniel Epes Esq" with such as the Hon**'* Board shall appoint be a Committee to take this Message under I I ; '; n ( 34 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Consideration and Report what may be proper in their Opinion for the Court to do for the More Effectual bringing forward the Settlement of the Canada Towns so Called lately granted by this Court In Council Read and Concurr'd & Edmund Quincey William Dudley and Samuel Welles Esq" are Joined in the Affair — [The same vote is entered again, March 26, 1736.] ; lAfass. Court Records, March aj, /7j6.] The following Report of the Com'** on the Affair of the Canada Towns was Read and Accepted by both Houses viz* The Committee appointed to Consider and Report their Opinion what may be proper to be done or the Message from the Board of Jan'ry 16 last Relating to the more Effectual bringing forward the Settlement of the Canada lowns so Called, are of Opinion, That the Grants Respectivly of the four Town- ships viz* Gallop, Newell, Tileston, & Tiltons, so Called, which were made to the officers Soldiers in the Canada Expedition Anno 1690, and the Descendants of such as are Since Deceased, are well Explained by the Order of this Court of the 26 of June last ; and the Several Com'"" Appointed to lay out and bring forward the Settlement of the Said Four Townships and all other Com'*** thereafter to be Appointed for the like Service, are by the same Order fully Impowred and Directed, as to the Admission of the Grantees &c, and shall be obliged to pro- ceed Accordingly ; And instead of their Transmitting into the Secretarys office Lists of the Respective Grantees &c they shall be and hereby are Obliged to take the best Care they can in Examining & Regulating the Claims of all persons that shall appear as heirs descendants or Represent", and shall make and keep fair lists of the names and places of Residence of the Respective Grantees or Settlers of the said Towns, in order to prevent Mistakes in Settling and Regulating the Claims and admission of the Grantees; And further the Com*** are of Opinion, that the Grantees Admitted or that may be Admitted into the two Townships, Granted to Shubal Goreham & Samuel ( 35 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. King & others In which Grants, thro' Some omission, no Bonds are Ordered to be Given, there be the Same Bonds Given to the Treasurer of the Province and in the Same manner as has been ordered in and by the other Grants, that have been made to the Canada Soldiers That in as much as the Grants made to the Canada officers & Soldiers are to be laid out & the Settlers to be Admitted at the Expence of the province which Expence is not to be Reimbursed by the Grantees as is provided in the Grants of the line of Towns so Called the said Expence and Charge shall be Allowed & Advanced out of the publick Treasury to the Amount of Fifty pounds for each Township and no more and if it exceeds that sum it shall be paid by the Grantees before they draw their Lotts — Consented to J. Belcher BEVERLY CANADA, flALESTOWN, WEARE, N.H. (rrS EQUIVALENT RAYMOND, ME.) \^Afass. Hoitse Journal, April ri, /7SS-] A Petition of Robert Hale of Beverly, Esq \ in behalf of the Canada Soldiers under the more immediate command of Capt. William Rayment of Beverly, and also of such other Soldiers, Inhabitants of said Town, who were in the Canada Expedition at the same time, viz. Anno 1 690, praying that in consideration of the great hardships and fatigues they then underwent in and for the Service of their Country, they may obtain a Grant of six miles square of Land under such restrictions and limitations as to the Court may seem meet. Read and Ordered, That John Chandler, Samuel Welles, and Daniel Epes, Esqrs ; and Mr. Webb, are desired to prepare a proper Vote for bringing forward the Settlement of the premises, and make report thereon. [iJ/aw. Court Records, June ig, and House Journal, June 10, /7j*/-] A Petition of Robert Hale, Esq' in behalf of the officers & Soldiers that were in the Expedition Against Canada in the Year 1690 Under the Command of Cap' William Raymond, most of whom belonged to the Town of Beverly, which Town has had i»iHlii>fa.riM.i m t I II ( 36 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. no Grant of land from the Province excepting, some few Narrt- gansett Soldiers, and the heirs of the Pet" Grandfather, that the said Soldiers in the Canada Expedition endured Great hardship ; And therefore praying for a Grant of land of Six miles Square for a Township for the said Soldiers & their Represent' — In the House of Represent* Read & in Answer to this peti- tion — Voted "^hdi a tract of the Unappropriated Lands of the Prov- ince of the Contents of Six Miles Square be & hereby is Grantf 1 to the pet" their heirs and assigns Respectivly for a Township, to lye in some Suitable place so as not to Spoil or incommode the Settlement of another Town, and that the Grantees be & hereby are obliged to bring forward the Settlement of the said Township in as Regular and Defensible a manner as the Situa- tion & Circumstances of the place will Admit of, in the following manner, viz' that each Grantee or his heirs or assignes build an house on his Respective Lot or share of Eighteen feet Square and Seven feet Stud at the Least, and plow and bring to English Grass & fit for mowing. Six Acres of Land ; and that they Settle a Learned Orthodox Minister and Build a Convenient Meeting house for the Publick Worship of God, That one Sixty third part of the Township be and hereby is Granted to the first Settled Minister, the like quantity for the use of the Ministry, and the like quantity also for the use of the School ; in all the divisions of the said Township j That the said Grantees be and hereby are obliged to comply with all the conditions within five Years ; and that Robert Hale and John Wainwright Esq" with such as shall be Appointed by the Hon"* Board, be a Com*** to lay out the said Township, at the Charge of the Province ; and the committee is directed to take Bond of each Grantee of Twenty pounds for the fulfillment of the conditions aforesaid, the bonds to be made to the Province Treasurer and in Case any of the G rantees fail of the performance of his Grant, such person shall forfeit all Right Tide or pretence thereto to the Province to be disposed of as this Court shall think proper ; The Com*" to Return a Plat of the said Township to this Court within twelve months for Confirmation — ( 37 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. In Council Read & Concurr'd and Ebenezer Burrill Esq' is Joined w"* the Com'** of the House for the above Affairs. — [Afass. Houit Journal, June /g, f7SJ'} John Jeffries, Esqr; brought down the Petition of Robert Hale, Esq ; in behalf of sundry Canada Soldiers and Officers of Beverly, Anno 1690, with the Vote of the House of the 10"'. currant thereon, Pass'd in Council viz. In Council June 19"*. 1735. Read and concur'd with the Amendment, vis. dele the words — with the first Division or Home-Lots — and insert — at the Charge of the Province, and the Committee is directed to take Bond of each Grantee of Twenty Pounds for the fulfilment of the Conditions aforesaid, the Bonds to be made to the Treasurer of the Province and in case any of the Grantees shall fail of the performance of his Grant, such Person shall forfeit all his Right Title and Pretence thereto to the Province, to be disposed of as this Court shall think proper : and that Ebenezer Burrell, Esg: be joined with the Committee of the House on the affair. Sent down for concurrence. Read and concur'd. \Maa. Maps and Plans, Vol. g, p. /^.] This plan is the Draught of a track of Land laid out Laiying on the Wast sid of Mereymak River adjoining the South sid to a Township Latly Surveyed by Jerahmeel Cummings and laid out to satesfy a grant made by the General Courtt to Cap' William Rayment and others at there sessions in May 1735, and Contains 24682 acres being of Contants of six miles square with the adition of 164 a acars allowed for Swag of Chaine and Bad Land. Sorveyed by me Wiluam Gregg — Sorveyor Londondery febrwary 17*'' 1735. i ( 38 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. I BEVERLY CANADA. Bevely, January 9th, 1734-5. These arc to desire all the Officers & Soldiers that were under Capt. William Raymont in the year 1690, or any other of our Neighbors that were on that Expedition to Canada, against the French & Indian Enemy, are desired to assemble & meet together at the House of Mr. William Trow of Bevely on thirsday the 23d Day of this instant, at nine of the Clock in the forenoon ; then and there to choose a Moderator & a Clerk & to do any other thing or things that shall be thought needful to be done on said day. Joseph Heriuck, Nathaniel Raymond, Nathanifx Porther. Bevely, January 23d, 1734-5. At a Meeting of the Canada Soldiers that were under the Command of Capt. William Raymont & others of their Neigh- bours that were in that Expedition to Canada, 1 69^ Mr. Joseph Herrick was chosen Moderator. Nathaniel Porter was chosen Clerk & Treasurer 01 s" Society. Robert Hale, Esq., was chosen to put in a Petition to the Great & General Court in Behalf of s* Society. Robert Hale, Esq., M'. Joseph Herrick & M'. Nath'l Porter, are chosen a Committee to draw up a new List & Strike out those who don't pay their part of the Expenses & put in other in their Room. Voted, that the Committee last chosen are impowerd to call meetings from Time to time as often as there shall be Occasion. Voted, that the P. Committee are also impowerd to draw Money out of the Treasury as often as there shall be Occasion, and then the Meeting was disolved. Note. All such as entered their Names at this Meeting paid each his 5/' to the Treasurer to carry on the cost of Petitioning & after this Meeting, the afores^ Com'** called another & at that compleated their List to the number of Sixty, all which paid as aforesd 5/' each, which amounted to ;^i5. ( 39 ) THE EXPEDITION TO TANADA [N 1690. Hereafter follows the List of such of the Canada Soldiers as belong to the afors- Society, together with the Names of such as have appeared & paid the charge of Petitioning, viz'. List of Soldiers and their Representatives : — For Cap'. Wilm. Rayment, " Ens. Samuel Balch, " Serj. Richard Woodberry, " Serj. Haiadiah Smith, •• Corp. Roger Hill, " Corp. Samuel Barton, " Corp. Joseph Woodberry, *' Corp. John Grover. " Clerk Joshua Wallis, " John Rayment, " Nath'l Rayment, " Tobias Trow, " George Trow, " Jonathan Herrick, William Wood, " Anthony Wood, " William Trask, William Carr, " John Craige, " Lawrence -i " James I Dennis, William ) John Bill, " Robert Colborn, " George Harris, •* Thomas Patch, " William Curtis, " Joseph Herrick, " Nathaniel Porter,' " Isaac Goodale, " Gabriel Whood, " Moses Gage, Joseph Morgan, ' John Liah, 1 Joseph Fenton, i " Robert Hale John Dodge, «« John Dodge Benjamin Daland, •• George Dal and Thomas Lee, «• John Lee Jun. John Wheeler, '' Thomas Hill George Wyatt, " George Wyatt appeared Josiah Batchelder Samuel Balch RichO. Woodberry '* Sttmuel Smith Lebulon Hill " Samuel Barton " Joseph Woodberry Robert Hale Caleb Wallis Nath'l Rayment himself " Benjamin Trow " himself •' Capt. Henry Herrick " Anthony Wood " Deacon Israel Wood " Samuel Trask " Benjamin Trask " Benjamin Trow " Thomas Pitman Edward Trask Robert Baker *' Samuel Harris / being still living appeared by I themselves. ( la \ i'l ! ;>; «i :■ i ( 40 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. fm James Meads, appeared Henry Hale ft Edmund Sevcry, ( John Morgan (< Lieut. Exercise Conant, i( ' Nathaniel Porter (i Robert Warren, t< himself (4 ' Joseph Trumble, i< William Trow 4( John Allen, << H?nry Hale Bevely, April 7, 1735. The aforegoing is a Copy of the List taken out of clerk Porter's Book & stands there signed by Robert Hale. Nath"- Porter, "j p^^,. Joseph Herrick, ) Raymond, Me., granted in 1767 as an equivalent grant and named after Capt. William Raymond. DORCHESTER CANADA. A list of the names of the soldiers under the command of Capt. John Withington, Oct. 3, 1C90 : Capt. Joh. Withington, Left. George Minott, Insine Samuel Sumner, Sargt. Ammiel Weeks, Corp. John Pope, Sargt. Richard Butt, Corp. Joseph Curtis, Sargt. S imuel Sumner, Corp. George Holmes, Sargt. Increase Modsley, Joseph Weeks Clarke, Joseph Trescott, Drummer. CO CO cc u o o ( 41 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. to 5 LU I u cc O Q CS-. in O z C5 CC o LU O Q Parmenter. ". ' Jit ' . ' jB i !. MJii". ( 44 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. DORCHESTER CANADA, ASHBURNHAM, MASS. The sixty rights in the township were assigned as follows : 1 — Thomas Wilder of Lancaster in Right of His wife Susannah eldest Daughter to John Pope. 2 — John Swift Jun' of Framingham in the Right of His Father M' John Swift eldest Brother to William Swift. 3 — Joseph Warren of Roxbury in the Right of Elias Monk of Stoughton. 4 — Benjamin Cheney of Dorchester in the Right of his Brother William Cheney. 5 — Joseph Triscott of Dorchester in the Right of His Father Jos.^ph Triscott. 6 — Humphrey Atherton of Stoughton in the Right of His Father Consider Atherton. 7 — Jonathan Chandler of Dorchester in the Right of His Brother Samuel Chandler. 8 — Matathias Evens of Dorchester in the Right of His Brother Richard Evens at the Desire of his Eldest Brother Thomas Evens. 9 — john Toalman Jun' in the Right of His Father John Toalman of Dor- chester and at His Desire. 10 — Seth Sumner of Milton in the Right of His Uncle Josianiah Sumner at the Desire of His uncle William Sumner. 11 — John Robinson Jun' of Dorchester in Behalf of his Father John Robinson eldest Brotbi>r to James Robinson. 12 — Ebenezer Crane of Braintree in the Right of Ebenezer Crane. 13 — William Blake of Milton in the Right of James Morey in Behalf of his Mother Martha Blake eldest Daughter to said James Morey. 14 — John Andrews of Dorchester in the Right of His Brother Thomas Andrews. .15 — Joseph Leads of Dorchester in Behalf of His Wife Mary eldest Sister to Joseph Weeks. 16 — Thomas Lyon Jun' of Dorchester in Behalf of His Father Thomas Lyon Eldest Brother to Henry Lyon. 17 — Richard Withington of Dorchester in the Right of His Father Capt John Withington. iS — Joseph Weeks of Dorchester in the Right of His Brother Thomas Weeks. 19 — M' William Cooper of Boston in the Right of Benjamin Hewins, at the Desire of Joseph Hewins eldest Brother of said Benjamin Hewins. 20 — Obadiah Swift of Dorchester in the Right of His Brother James Swift. 21 — Hezekiah Barber of Dorchester in the Right of Yonnite Modsley at the Desire of His Brother Thomas Modsley. ( 45 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. 22 — Ralph Pope of Dorchester in the Right of His Brother Ebeneier Pope. 23 — Samuel Butt of Dorchester in the Right of His Uncle Richard Hut. 24 — David Joans of Wrentham in the Right of His Uncle John Joans. 25 — Samuel Sumner of Taunton in the Right of His Father Samuel S>imner. 26 — Josiah Baker of Boston in the Right of His Uncle William Baker. 27 — Mr William Cooper of Boston in the Right of His Uncle George Menott. 28 — Edward Kelton of Dorchester in the Right of F's Father Thomas Kelton. 29 — Robert Redman of Stoughton in the Right of His Father Charles Redman. 30 — Samuel Kneeland of Boston in the Right of Ammiel Weeks at the Desire of His son George Weeks. 31 — Neamiah Clap of Milton in the Right of His Brother Edward Clap. 32 — Timothy Tilestone of Dorchester in the Right of His Brother Corne- lius Tilestone. 33 — Samuel Hinshua of Milten in the Right of Daniel Hinshua His Uncles son. 34 — Edward Sumner of Roxbury in the Right of His Uncle Samuel Sumner. 35 — Benjamin Sumner of Milten in the Right of His Brother William Sumner. 36 — Robert Cook of Needham in the Right of His Brother William Cook. 37 — Batholame Gold of Boston in the Right of His Uncle Ebenezer Sumner. 38 — John Charhore of Milten in the Right of His Uncle John Charhore. 39 — Benjamin Bird Jun' of Dorchester in the Right of His Uncle Thomas Bird. 40 — Samuel Blake of Taunton in the Right of His uncle William Blake. 41 — Thomas Tilestone Esqr of Dorchester in the Right of Capt. John Galliver at the desire of Jonathan Galliver who was admitted a Settler. 42 — Timothy Mossman of Sudbury in the Right of His wive's Brother Samuel Hix. 43 — Joshua George of Attleborough in the Right of His Brother William George. 44 — James Atherton of Harvard in the Right of His Uncle Joseph Atherton. 45 — William Sumner of Milton in the Right of William Sumner His Uncle Increase Sumners Son. 4.6 — Elizabeth Trescott of Milton in the Right of Her Brother Samuel Trescott. 47 — Joseph Chaplin of Roxbury in the Right of His Brother Moses Chaplin. 1! -I. i }•> I ( 46 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS, 48 — Hezekiah Barber of Dorchester in the Right of Eliab Lyen at the Deseir of Zachariah Lyon Son of Nathaniel Lyon Eldest Brother to said Eliab Lyon. 49 — Waitestill Lyon ot Dorchester in the Right of Her Uncle Edward Wiat. 50 — Benjamin Mansfield of Dorchester in the Right of His Neffue Peter Kelley. 51 — Samuel Burch of Dorchester in the Right of His Uncle jEliazer Wales. 52 — Isaac How of Doichester in the Right of His Cussen Joseph Curtice. 53 — Thomas Tilestone Esq' of Dorchester in the Right of Hopestill Sanders in Behalf of John Sanders. 54 — William Royal of Stoughton in the Right of Samuel Sanders >n Behalf of John Sanders. 55 — John Sheperd of Stoughton in the Right of His Uncle John Sheperd — Maj' Wade. 56 — Philip Gooding of Stoughton who sarved under Maj' Wade. ' 57 — Joseph Wilder Esq' of Lancaster in the Right of His Uncle Samuel Wheeler who sarved in the Expedition to Canada under Maj' Nathaniel Wade. 58 — Nathan Heywood of Lunenburg in the Right of John Willis His Wives Father who sarved under Capt Savage. ' 59 — Oliver Wilder of Lancaster in the Right of Jonathan Fairbank who sarved under Capt Champney. ' 60 — Joseph Wheelock of Lancaster in the Right of His Uncle Timothy Wheelock who sarved under Cap' Anderson. ]l SALEM CANADA. lAntia/s of SaUm.'\ 1690, June 10. Capt. Brown's troop are to draft 14 of their number June 20 John Curwin and July 4 Daniel King are chosen captains for the Canada expedition. July 29. There are 308 soldiers and seamen from Gedney's Regt. at Salem ready to embark for Canada. Oct 13 To the family of each man in public service a / are to be paid every week. Nov 25 Sick and wounded lately brought hither, Many of them strangers. These were part of ihe forces which had made an unsuccessful attack on Canada. > Lancaster men. iiiiMMi".:.- ( 47 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 169O. SALEM CANADA, LYNDEBORO, N.H. [Afass. Court Records, Junt i■ ■ of Dilingham Caldwell J Ipswich. Brother William, Nathaniel Caldwell, «< Father, Henry Wise, e Thomas Norton, Jan., at « John Ayres, ■j the request of Samuel I Ayres, a Petitioner, « Own, John Ross, H Father's, Isaac Giddinge, « "■nBiiiaaiBB ( 53 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. R^ht enttred on. Name. ■ Edward Eveleth at the Ahodt. Thomas Metcalf, ■ request of Jos. Metcalf • a Petitioner, Ipswich. Father's, Moses Davis. « Grandfather, Ephraim Fitts, M Pearce, Thomas Boardman, « Edward Chapman, «< John Goodhue, « Uncle Iiaac, Abraham Foster, Jun., « Major Ward, Doct. Nicholas Noyes, Andover Father's, John Pindar, Ipswich. Uncle Samuel, Nathaniel Lord, « Uncle Edmond, Samuel Ingalls, M Brother Aaron, Moses Kimball, M Uncle Cheney, John Leighton, it Rob't Nolson, Joseph Annable, Beverly. Math. Hooker, Widow Mary Hooker, ' Thomas Lord, Jun., at - Ipswich. Uncle Saund, ■ his Father, Jno. Lord's - request. « ROWLEY CANADA. In the expedition against Quebec, Rowley furnished one captain, one lieutenant, and thirty non-commissioned officers and privates. All their names cannot now be given, but the records, under date of May 6, 1691, show that the town paid the following-named persons, in bills of credit, the sums set against their respective names, for military services in Can- ada, viz. : [^Extracts from Town Records.^ To Samuel Platts, for Lieut. Platts, " Joseph Scott, " Sam'l Brown, " Capt. Fisk, " Robert Qaflin, " Deacon Jewett, for his son Ezekiel Jewett, " Thomas Nelson, Jr.. for Samuel French, " Goody Swan, for her husband, Richard Swan, " Widow Wood, " " son, Ebcnezer Wood, " Margaret Wood, " " husband, Samuel Wood, " Mrs. Hammond and Nath'l Crosby, for Jona. Crosby, " Goody Bradstreet, for her husband, Nath'l Bradstreet, £. ». d. 13 1 2 4 17 7 4 12 7 S 3 4 IS II 4 15 17 10 I 2 4 12 9 S 5 7 3 14 3 T^ ■ ! 1 t » .; i 1 ( 54 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. To Sergt. Jewett, " Grace Harris, " Sergt. Nelson, " Nathan Wheeler, for his son, William Jewett, " William Searles, " his son, Jona. Nelson, " Benjamin Wheeler, £ s. d. 4 »4 I 6 2 O 4 »s 5 2 lO o 4 II 2 S 2 7 4 IS 3 4 12 3 I 3 2 i8 O i8 o I 12 6 " Corp. John Pickard, for Jeremiah Chadwell, " John Platts, for his brother, James Platts, " Caleb Boynton, for his son, Wm. Boynton, " Goody Todd, " her " Timothy Todd, " Goody Todd, " " " Samuel Todd, " Goody Todd, for her son, Timothy Todd, to Quochicha, " Widow Wood for Solomon Wood, " " Nathaniel Crosby, for his brother, Jona. Crosby. " John Bailey died November 19, and Moses Wood, Nov. J5, 1690, on their way from Canada. What others died we know not. Capt. Philip Nelson commanded the company from Rowley, and, by the peti- tion of Joseph Jewett, Jr., to the Governor and Council, under date of April 33, 1691, it appears that Captain Nelson, with a part of his men at least, on board of Mr. Burrington's brigantine, Mr. Bradlow, commander, were driven off to Barbadoes, where Mr Jewett's man (William Lyncoln) was left, and perhaps others with him. In Mass. Archives, Vol. 37, p. 49, an account of g^ns, etc., used by the following Rowley men are mentioned : Dr. David Bennett, William Lincoln, William Brown, Edward Ranee, John Hidens, Sergeant Spofford, Timothy Holms, ' Samuel Smith, William Jewets, Capt. Philip Nelson. ROWLEV CANADA, RINDGE, N.H. (its equivalent, BRIDGTON, ME.) [Mass. House Journal, June 2, /7j6.] A Petitiori of Joseph Pike for himself and sundry others, Officers and Soldiers in the Canada Expedition Anno 1690, shewing that they have formerly petitioned this Court for a Township, which has never yet had the favor of passing thro' the whole Court, praying they may now obtain the Grant of a Town- ship in some suitable placi in consideration of their services and sufferings in that Expedition, for the reasons mentioned. Read and Ordered, That this Petitic.i be taken under consideiation to morrow morning. \^Mass. House Journal, June 4, /7j6.] The Petition of Joseph Pike for himself and others, Canadz Officers and Soldiers, as also the Petition oi John Plaits and I : ( 55 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. John Stewart^ Canada Officers and Soldiers Anno 1690, pray- ing for Lands, as entred the second currant. Read again, and Ordered^ That Capt. Hobson and Capt. Rolfe, be desired to prepare proper Votes in favour of the Petitions, subjecting the Settlement of the Lands to the Usual Conditions of Settlement. \_Mass. House Journal, Dec. 9, /7j6.] A Petition of John Tyler and Joseph Pike and other Canada Soldiers Anno 1690, as entred the 21th. oi June 1735 was read, and the House came into the Grant of a Township of the con- tents of six miles square, in some suitable place, on the same Conditions of Settlement with the former, and Capt. Hobson^ and Major Charles Pierce, with such as the honourable Board shall join be the Committee. Sent up for concurrence. \^Mass, House Journal, Jan. io, /j'jS-g.'] A Plat containing six Miles square of Land, with an Allowance of ten thousand Acres for ten large Ponds and a large shrub Swamp about four Miles in length, surveyed and laid out by Nathanael Haywood, Surveyor, and two Chain-Men on Oath, to satisfy a Grant of this Court made to John Tyler, Joseph Pike, and others, that were either Officers or Soldiers ir the Canada Expedition Anno 1690, bounded as follows, viz. Beginning at a Maple Tree th northerly Corner of Dorchester Canada Town- ship, from thence running North 32 gr. East two Miles and 100 PoIps to a heap of Stones, Thence North 22 gr. East four Miles then e North one Mile till it meets with the said Township granti 1 to Samuel Heywood &c., thence West four Miles by the said T wnship to a southwesterly Corner thereof, thence North by said Township three Miles and 220 Poles, thence West 30 gr. South five Miles and 180 Perch to a wild Cherry Tree on the Southward of the great Monadnuck aforesaid, thence South 180 Perch, thence East 41 gr. South 2500 Perch to a heap of Stones, then North 1 2 gr. East one Mile to the northwardly Comer of ( 56 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Dorchester Canada Township, being the Miple Tree first mentioned. Read and Ordered, That the Plat be accepted, and the Lands therein delineated and described, be and hereby are confirmed to the Grantees, their Heirs and Assigns respectively forever, they effectually complying with the Conditions of the Grant, provided the Plat exceeds not the contents of six Miles square, with the Allowance of ten thousand Acres for ten large Ponds and a large shrub Swamp included therein, and does not interfere with any former Grant. Sent up for Concurrence. i * \J PEXrnON OF PROPRIETORS OF RIKDGE, 1 760. \^Mass. Archives, Vol. iiy, p. 61/.'] To His Excellency Francis Bernard Esq' Govemour & Com- mander in Chief of His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England &c — To the Hon"* His Majesties Council & House of Representa- tives 'n General Court Ass'^mbled the Seventeenth Day of Dec' A.D. 1760 — The PETmoN of Benjamin MuUickin Thomas Perly & Moody Bridges Agents for the Proprietors of a Township Called & known by the Name of Rowly Cannada — Humbly Sheweth — That the great & General Court of the Province Afores"* Made a Grant of a Tract of Land of the Contents of Six Miles Square to John Tyler Joseph Pike & others officers & Soldiers in the Cannada Expedition AD 1 690 As a Gratuity for their Service in s" Expedition That on the 23^ Day of January AD 1 739 a Plot of s*" Township was Retum'd to the Court by the Com'** Appointed to Lay out the Same, which was made Large On Account of Sundry Ponds & a Large Shrub Swamp Contain'd in the Bounds thereof Which was Accepted wl.h this Restriction that Five Thousand Acres Only Should be Allow'd for ponds &c & the Com'°* were Directed to Conform the Plot Accordingly, Which Business of s** Com*** in Correcting s"* Plot waspostpon'd 'till A.D. 1741 When the Divid- ing Line between s** Province & the Province of New Hampshire ( 57 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. was Run which took the Greatest Part of s** Township into s*" province of New Hapshire Therefore s** Com"* Never Con- formed s'' Plot According to Court order — But may it Please Your Excellency & Hon" The Proprietors of s^ Township Look'd upon themselves as Haveing Good Right to a Township of the Contents of Six Miles Square within the Limmits of s** Plot Nothwithstanding the Neglect of s** Com*** in Conforming s"* Plot to the order of Court & Nothwithstanding the greatest part of it Fell into the Government of New Hamp- shire by the Settlement of s^ Line For Haveing had Recourse to the Commission of His Majesty For Marking out the Dividing Line of s^ Provinces they were Inform'd that His Majesty was Graciously Pleased to make a Declaration Against private Prop- erty being Affected thereby And they were Secure that Nothing would Impeach or Affect their Right to that part of s** Township that Remain'd in the province of the Massachusetts Bay — Wherefore the better to Extend His Majesties Dominions & to promote their own Interest the s'' prop" took Courage & began to make Improvements AD 1742 And by great Labour & Ex- pence in Clearing Roads Building of Mills & Provideing Mate- rials for a Meeting House for the Publick Worship of God the Charges of the prop" were greatly Augmented But the Com- mencement of a War with the Savages greatly Retarded the Set- tlement of s^ Township But as Soon as the war was over they Return'd to their Possessions & made good progress in Bringing Forward Settlements till A.D. 1749 When the Hon"* Joseph Blanchard Esq" of Dunstable Signified to s" prop" that s** Town- ship was Claim'd by Certain Gentlemen in New Hampshire Afores"* by Virtue of an Ancient Patent Called Masons Patent which Moved s** prop" to Send a Com'** to Treat with the s** Joseph Blanchard Esq' (Who Represented s** Gentlemen) In order For an Accommodation Whom when they had Treated upon the premises were in Suspense whither s^ Township was Included in s** patent and So they let the Matter Subside till they Could Measure from the Sea Sixty Miles west to find the Extent of it which Accordingly was Done at the Expence of s** prop" and they found that a Township of the Contents of Six Miles Square Might be made within the Limmits of s' plot which s'" i'3 ( 58 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. patent Could Not Affect and Accordingly Return was made to Col" Blanchard that s** Sixty Mile Line took so Inconsiderable a part of What was Included in s** Plot that they tho't it Not Con- venient to Ask for it Seeing they Had Enough for a Township without it And Now may it Please your Excellency & Hon" Notwith- standing the Caution of s*" Prop" in Labouring to Secure to themselves if possible the Benefit of their Labour Said Township was Granted by the proprietors of s** Patent to a Number of Men who were not of the Prop" of Rowly — Cannada Afores** Nor had s"* Proprietors Ever after s^ Treaty with CoP Blanchard An offer of s'' Township But were Utterly Excluded by the Afores** Grant and on the 5"" Day of Sept' AD 1 75 1 An Action was Commenced Against One Joseph Plats of the proprietors Holding Under the Massach*' Government by One Sam" Johnson Holding under the Proprietors of s** patent which after Several Years Continuance from Term to Term Judgment was Finally made up in the Superior Court in Favour of s** Johnson & Exe- cution Issued in the Imprisonment of s'^ Plats & Terminated in great Cost & Expence to s^ prop" & in the Loss of s** Township For Notwithstanding s" proprietors Prov'd their Right to s" Township as Granted by the province of the Massachusetts Bay & that it Laye without s** Patent & prov'd their Right to the Soil by Virtue of the Deed of the Massachusetts province from the Council of Plymouth & his Majesties Direction Against private Property being affected by the Settlement of the Line as Afores*^ Yet it was AHedged & strongly Urg'd that the Massachusetts Government was None other than a Corporation and that there- fore they had No Right in Fee to the Soil of their own Province Much less to Rowly Cannada which Lay in New hampshire So that the proprietors wer Discouraged from Makeing any Further Trial in the Courts of New hampshire And were Obliged to Evacuate their Settlements And \he prop" Holding Under the Lords of s** Patent Have taken Possession of the Houses & Lands of the prop" of s" Rowly Cannada Nor have they been Able to Obtain Any Redress Haveing Apply'd to the Prop" of s** Patent & to the prop" Holding Under them but all to No purpose The Prop" Also as Individuals have Apply'd to those ( 59 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1 690. who Enjoy their Houses & the Benefit of their Labour But there is Not a Single Instance wherein any one of them have ReC Any Consideration — That the Great & General Court of the provinc of the Massa- chusetts Bay Through Some Miss Information (as Your Peti- tioners Conceive) Did in the Year 1752 make Sale of Several Thousand Acres of Land Included in the afores^ Plot which Lay in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay Afores** & was Not taken off by the Dividing Line of s** Provinces So that the prop" Have Now No Dependance but upon the Interposition c*" the great & General Court afores" for Relief in their Unfortunate &: Distressing Circumstances — Therefore Your Petitioners in Behalf of the prop" of Rowly Cannada Afores** Humbly Intreat Your Excellency & Hon" to Take the premises into your Wise Consideration and in Your great Wisdom & Justice Grant them the Relief which they Hum- bly Crave (viz) That the Charges S** prop" have been at in Bringing forward the Settlement of s** Township may be Reim- bursted tc them By An Act of the Great & General Court Afores** To Enable them to Raise the Sum of Twelve Hundred & Eighty two pounds Six Shillings & Nine pence by a Lottery which they have Expended in the Concerns of s" Township (viz) Six Hundred & Eighty two pounds Six Shillings & Nine pence thereof in Taxes which Have been Levied upon s^ proprietors & Six Hundred thereof (at the Lowest Computation) which hath been Expended in Buildings & Bringing forward Settlements Also That the Court would be Graciously pleased to Make them a Grant of 2 745 Acres of Land to be taken up in the Unappro- priated Lands of the Government in Lieu of So much Land Included in the Afores** Plot Lying in s** Massachusetts Province Sold by the Court as Afores** or Some other way Relieve s** pro- prietors as to your Excellency & Hon" Shall Seem Meet And Your Memorialists as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray — Benj^ Mullicken -j Agents for the Thomas Perlev > Prop" of Moody Bridges ) Rowly Cannada Swome to by Benj° MuUiken Esq' Moody Bridges Esq' about FfT ( 60 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. 2700 Acres Lying on this Side the Line Sold by this Province to Royalchier AMOUNTS EXPENDED BY RINDOE PROPRIETORS. [Mass, Archives, Vol. 117, p. d/j.] Att a Meeting of the Grantees of a Township Granted to John Tyler Joseph Pike & others officers & Soldiers in the Expedition to Canada anno 1690 — at Rowley the fourteenth Day of Feb' 1738 — Voted ;^3=i8= 6 to be Pa^d on Each Right to Defray the Charg of Runing the Line Round the Township & marking the Same and Viewing for the first Division Lots &c at .^ meeting of s** Prop" January 26 : 1742/3 Voted j[,\—- 00 old Tenor to be Paid on Each Right to him that Shall Build a Sawmill in s** Township — att a meeting of s** Proprietors on the 22 Day of June 1743 Voted that ;^3==oo old Tenor Be Paid on Each Right to Defray the Charge of Building a meeting House In Said Town- ship — at a meeting of s** Prop" Nov' 7 : 1 749 Voted £,^1 old Tenor to be Paid on Each Right to Defray Charges — At a meeting of s^ Prop" March 28 : 1750 Voted one Pound old Tenor to be Paid on Each Right to Defray Charges — At a meeting of s"* Prop" Dec' 25 : 1750 Voted j£i= /\*/ Lawful money to be Paid on Each Right to Defray Charges — At a meeting of s"* Prop" October y* 2 2 : 1 75 1 Voted jQ^ = 0= 8 to be Paid on Each PJght to Defray Charges — At a meeting of s^ Prop" on y" 11 Day of June 1754 Voted that jQ^/ be Paid on Each Right to Defray Charges — At a meeting of s^ Prop" on y* 16 Day of Dec' 1758 Voted that Six Shillings be Paid on Each Right to Defray Charges — Attest Tho^ Perlev Prop : Clerk The Several Sums Voted as abovs** amounts tO;^ii = 5=2 on Each Right There being 61 Rights in s^ Township the Sum total is 686 = 15 = 2 Lawful mony ! ' .?.'.HWM..i."-l!"l 2 im ( 6i ) THE EXPEDITION TO C.\NADA IN 1690. STATEMENT OF ABEL LAWRENCE. \^Mass. Archives, Vol. 117, p. 6/9.] In Compliance with your Desire that I would Committ to wrighting the Princaple Facts I recollect relating to Abel Platts Joseph Platts, and Josiuh Ingalls, SufTerings and losses on account of their lands in Rowley Cannada being Taken from them by the Propriators claiming under Jn° Tufton Mason Esq' in the Province of New Hampshire — I have to Inform you that I am Knowing that Abel Platts, Joseph Platts & Josiah Ingalls, with their famileys were Some of, if not y* very first Settlers in that Township under the Grant of this Province that Each of them have made Considerable Improvements and have Considerable Buildings on y* Same — That 3ince the Claimers from y* Side of New Hampshire Entered on the Township and Possessed themselves of the Greatest Part of it Abel & Joseph Platts kept the Possession of their Farms for Sundry Years, after and Even untill the Titles of those lands were Settled by a Judg- ment of the Superiour Court of the Said Province of New Hamp- shire, against the Said Joseph Platts, and he was Ejected out of the Possession of Said lands and not being able to pay the Charges was Imprisoned in Portsmouth Goal, if I mistake not more than Six months when he was releived by the help of his friends — That aboute this time I Purchased a Right in Said Township, from those who held under M' Mason which hap- pned to be a part of the Same lands which M' Ingalls, had Improved by virtue of the Grant of this Government — which lands I have Since Sold s** Ingalls — now being a Propriator under Mason was Chosen Clerk for y* Propriators of Said Town- ship & Served for them Several Years — and am Certain that nither Abel Platts, Joseph Platts, nor Josiah Ingalls, nor Either of them were Ever favoured or ever had in that township : (I never heard they had in any other) any allowance or Consideration for their losses either from New Hampshire or this Province, I also am knowing to the Piatt's Living on those Lands when Fitchs Garrison fifteen miles on this side was Taken Two Soldiers kill'' & Fitch & family Captivatied I have heard the Peti- tions red think the facts are true & that they are noways Exag- % :m 1 ■! t1 Ji ; "m ( 62 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. gerated & that the Petitioners are amoang the greatest Sufferres occation by the ninning of the line &c &c &c — I am Gentle- men your most obedient Humble Servant — Abel Lawrence The following are the names of the original grantees : Capt. John Tyler, Benjamin Millikin, James Bridges, Nathan Symonds, James Chandler, James Stuart, Samuel Goodridge, Thomas Wood, John Abbot, Josiah Ingalls, Joshua Jackson, Samuel Dickinson, William Bennett, Joseph Nelson, John Martin, John Holmes, William Knowlton, James Bayley, David Kimball, Joseph Hidden, Moses Burnam, John Platts, Nathaniel Jewett, John Jewett, Jr., Benjamin Bellows, Capt. Joshua Swan, Joseph Hale, Stephen Person, William Martin, Richard Perl, Jonathan Gosbe, J than Jewett, Nuinaniel Fellows, John Brocklebank, James Platts, Jr., Thomas Carleton, Benjamin Duch, Anthony Dike, Amos Pilsbury, Stephen Peabody, Ezekiel Mighel, Jeremiah Jewett, Thomas Poor, Samuel Austin, Abraham Brown, John Page, Joseph Coffin, Thomas Plumer, Thomas Webster, Aaron Dresser, Ephraim Wctherby, Elisha Davis, Daniel Potter, Moses Platts, John Penny, Ephraim Nelson, Michael Hopkinson. BRiDGTON, MAINE. Incorporated 7 Feb., 1794. NEWBURY CANADA. BAKERSTOWN, SALISBURY, N.H. 1690. August 7th. "These arc in his majesty's name to require all the soldiers belonging to this towne to bring their arms and ammunition to ye meeting house evary saboth day and at all other publick meetings, and also they ar required to carry their arms and amunition with them into meadows and places, where they worke, and if any man doe refuse or neglect his dewty as above expressed he shal pay five shillings for every such neglect. " Daniel Pierce, captain. Jona Moores, lieutenant " Thomas Noyes, captain. Jacob Toppan, ensign. *' Steph. Greenleaf, captain. Henry somerby." aHU ( 63 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. ry July 15th. "John March is appointed a captain of one of the companies for the Canada expedition, and ordered to enlist a company under him." {Mnobury Records.) [Mass. Archives, Vol. j6, p. //j.] CAPT. march's company OF THE ESSEX NORTH REG* 1". Capt. John Murch, Newbury Lt. Stephen Johnson, Andover Enseigne Lawrence Hart John Vie (Ivie?) John Browne. John Davis. Edward Bele. (Bailey?) Edward Goodwin. Benjamin Goodrige. Henry Dowe. John Badger. Thomas Heirs (Ayer?) Percival Chubb. Samuel Austin Richard Kent Benjamin Kimbal. Joseph Gold. Ephraim Hoit John Prowse Thomas Barit.4rd Ralph Blagdon John Poor John Huse Beniamin Poor Samuel George John VVallingford John Taylor George Everson Samuel Smith. Henry Lunt John Sweat Thomas Cotton Joseph Andrews Nathaniel Crosbey John Ring [Mass. House journal, Dec. j, 1734."] A Petition of John Tyler and Joseph Pike, for themselves and sundry others ; who enlisted themselves into the publick Service Anno 1690, in the Expedition against Canada, under the com- mand of the late Sir Wiluam Phipps, Knt. deceased, praying that in consideration of their services and difficulties they then underwent, they may obtain a Grant of Land of the contents of six miles square of the ungranted Lands of the Province on the east side of Merrimack River, southerly on Rumford Town- ship, and to extend three miles east from the River, or some other suitable place for a Township for the reasons mentioned. Read and Ordered, That Col. Chandler, Col. Kent, Mr Hale ■> m \V\ ryT ( 64 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Capt. Hobson Col. Wainwright, Col. Churchy and Capt. Welk be a, Committee to take this Petition, and the other Petitions for Lands now before the Court under ( onsideratior. and rcsiort their opinion what may be proper to be done in aswer thereto. \_Maii. Archives, Vol. /14, p. 179.'] ord for Col" Tho' Berry to Call a meeting of Grantees of the Township Laid out Westerly of Merrimack River and Northerly of and adjoyning to Contoocook January 10, 1739 — In the House of Representatives January 9"* 1739 — Ordered that Thomas Berry Esq' be and hereby is impowered to assem- ble the Grantees of the Township Lying on Merrimack River Granted to the Officers & Soldiers in tl Expedition to Canada Anno : 1690 — under the Command of Cap' John March Cap* Stephen Greenleaf and Cap' Philip Nelson in Such Place and at Such time as he Shall think fit then to Chuse a Moderator and Proprietors Clark to agree uppon Rules Methods & orders for the Division and Disposall of Said Propriety in the most proper methods for the Speedy fullfillments of the Conditions of there Grant and to agree uppon methods for the Calling future meet- ings- Sent up for Concurrence Ebenezer Pumrov Spk' Pro tempore In Councill January 10"' 1739 Read and Concurred Consented to A true Copy Examined by Simon Frost Dep' Sec' Jonathan Belcher — Simon Frost Dep' Sec' Essex ss Ipswich January 26"' 1739 In obedience to the foregoing ord'' I have Caused notifica- tions to be Posted in the towns of Newbury Almsbury and Haverhill appointing the meeting to be February 12"* 1739 at the House of m' Tristram Greenleaf in Newbury at ten of the Clock before noon. Thomas Berry -L Ml— iirii«ailM«M r — .~ ( 65 ) THE IXfflMVtON TO CANADA IN 1690. February M'^i^ft^ The aforegoing Copys when Compared with thti ( igiiMl Book ^>f the Proprietors Records & Agreed theie with by |t>it»i WiNSLOw one of the Committee Mamusi OtMMiH ^wom« [M^M ^«klt/M. Vol. 1/4, p. 178.] A Hal ot the l'u\|ilrt4tors of the Township Granted to Pike and other officers and Soldiers in the expedition to Canada Anno 1690 under the Command of Cap' John March Cap* Stephen Greenleaf and Cap' Philip Nelson and was laid Westerly of merrimack River and Northerly of and adjoyning to Contoo- cook by Richard Hazzen Surveyor at the Direction of the Honourable Thomas Berry Esq' Charles Peirce & John Hobson Esq" October 23"* 1739 who were allowed and approved of by the Honourable Thomas Berry Esq' Charles Peirce & John Hobson Esq' Nov' 30, 1 739 and are as followeth Vizt — !9 }9 Ifica- and the Capt. Stephen Greenleaf Joseph Sage Ju' Caleb Moody Joseph Osgood Capt John Sargeant Sam> Smith Ju' Gideon Lowel Thomas Huse Joseph Pike Stephen Longfellow Cap* Thomas Hale John March Joseph Davis Sam' Silver Eleazer Hudson Jonathan Blaisdall David Bartlet Lazarus Goodwin Edward Emerson Perdval Clark Deacon Joshua Moody Elisha Sweat Nath" Qerk Samuel George Benj* Uoeg Jonathan Marsh Stephen Chase John Lunt James Brown Samuel Bartlet 3^ Jeremiah Gutteridge Rev* William Johnson Henry Dow Robert Savory D' Joseph Hills James Toppon Peter Ayers James Anderton Zachariah Beal Ebenezer Stuart Joseph Gould John Kent John Thurlo Hannah Bolton John Badger Joseph Ilsley Joseph Short Abraham Titcomb Stephen Longfellow Nathaniel Bernard Cap' Thos Wallingford W^Huse Sam' Sargeant Tristram Greenleaf Thomas Challis Dan" Bradley Eleazer Johnson John Littlehale Cap* John Sergeant Joseph Holland Its equivalent township was Poland, Maine. : •* ,|r --J^JBJWIHW pf K ■r I iA ( 66 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. SUDBURV CANADA, BETHEL, MAINE. I Josiah Richardson, of lawful age, do testify and say that ever since tl j year 1737 I have acted as an agent for a number of Petitioners whose Ancestors were in the Expedition to Canada in the year 1690, and in the year 1737 I in behalf of myself and my associates preferred a Petition to the Honorable Great and General Court praying for a grant of land to be made to us on account of our said Ancestors being in the said Expedition, (as many others had) for their great suffering and Service in the said Expedition, and that by a great number of Memorials I have renewed the said Petition from time to time and now I do testify and declare that to my certain knowledge there never as yet has been any grant of land made to them on account of their Ancestors being in the said expedition. Witness my hand this 23d day of May, 1768. (Signed) Josiah Richardson. a petition to "'he mass. bav government 2^ may '.767 Josiah Richardson of Sudbury, in the County of Middlesex, Esq. and Agent for a number of Petitioners whose Ancestors wtre in the Expedition to Canada in the year 1690. Humbly remind your Excellency and Honors, that in the year 1737, a number of men whose names are hereunto annexed, Preferred a Petition to this Honorable Court for to have a Grant of Land for a Township, to be Layed out in the unappropriated land within the said Province, as many others for the same merit before had township Granted to them ; and this Honorable did then sustain the Petition and then ordered the said Petitioners to make out and prove their claims that their Ancestors were in the said Expedition and come and they should be heard with which order of Court the said Petitioners fully complied, and at a great cost proved their claims. Since which by a number of Memorials to this Honorable Court the said Petition has bef'ii revived, but the said Petitioners have not as yet had any Grant of Land made to them on that account and by reason of the Wars and of the Town house being burned the same Petition -\j ( (>1 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. has not of lats been moved to this Honorable Court, but since this Honorable Court in their great wisdom and justice was pleased on the 24th day of June, 1 764, to make a Grant of a Township of land to Captain William Raymond and Company for the same nierit which your Memorial is now plead ; and now your Memorialist, in behalf of himself and Company Humbly pray that your Excelhncy and Honors would take the premises under your wise and just consideration and make us a Grant of Land for a Township as you was pleased to do to the said W "iam Raymond and Company, and your Memorialist, in be- half of himself and Ccr.pany shall ever pray. (Signed) Josiah Richardson, > / ' \ Agent for the said Petitioners. A list of the names of the original petitioners is also on record in the handwriting of Josiah Richardson, in the Massachusetts Archives, but the original petition bearing their names cannot be found. This list of names is here given : James Taylor on his own right. John Osland on his own right. John Mixer on his own right. John Jones on his own right. ^ John Green on the right of WiUiam Green. John Green on the right of John Green. Ephraim Twitchell on the right of Joseph Twitchell. Isaac Sheffield on the right of William Sheffield. Palmer Golding on the right rf Edward Gap. James Moor on the right of George Walker, Jr. Ebenezer Flagg on the right of Richard Flagg. Daniel Moor on the right of Jacob Moor. Joshua Kibby on the right of Lodwick Dowse. James Taylor on the right of Nicholas Fox. Nathaniel Morse on the right of same. Charles Richardson on the right of Samuel Ring. Thomas Macke (Macoy) on the right of Timothy S. (illegible). Richard Ward on the right of Obadiah Ward. Daniel Brewer on the right of same. . . ,, . , ^ ., Samuel Green •' " Joseph Green. ■ ; -i 'i. Samuel Stone " " same. ._._ ^-.i^ii^- r - Joseph Stone " " Samuel Parkhurst. .--,>• ( 68 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Mich Stone John Wesson Ebenezer Twitchell Richcrd Burt Daniel Mackdafillin Joseph Meriam F«ter Grout Samuel Graves Joseph Trumbull Ebenezer Rice John Cogin Caleb Bridges Abner Newton on the right of Daniel Stone. " " Samuel Wesson. " Edward Twitchell. " " Thomas Burt. " Robert Mackdafillin. " Robert Meriam. " John Cotter. " same. " Joseph Trumbull. " Ebenezer Rice. " John Cogin. " John Bridges. " John Fay claimed by Palmer Golding. John Fay on his own right claimed by Palmer Golding. Saiauel I yscom on the right of his father. Nathaniel Dike on his own right claimed by Palmjr Golding. Daniel Walker on his own right. John Woodward on ii.e right of Joseph Moor. Daniel Walker Ebenezer Corey James Patterson Amos H'de Norman Clark Ebenezer Corey Peter Br nt Edward Ward James Patterson Noah Parker Joseph Bartlett John Clark Samuel Harris Jonathan Parker Ezra Holbrc-ok Thomas Axuill. Thomas Corey. Andrew Patterson D?- •d Hide. Daniol Mackey. Samuel Page. HOjjestill Bent. siSRie. Andrew Patterson. Eleazer Hide, same. John Clark. same. John Holbrook. A true copy examined by me, JosiAH Richardson, Clerk of the Petitioners. ADDITIONAL PETITIONERS. Nathaniel Eames on the right of Nathaniel Eames. Nathaniel Eames " " John Jaquith. Isaac Baldwin " " Abraham Bryant. Joseph Harrington " ^' Lis father Joseph Harrington. W\f ( 69 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. ■ii David Woods Isaac Rice Moses Bellows " Samuel Whitney " James Fowle " Jonas Bond " Josiah Fuller " Thomas Harrington " Joshua Fuller " John Temple " Joseph Noyes " Nathaniel Sparhawk " David Coney " Samuel Fuller Joshua Fuller " Joseph Morse " on the right of 1741 The Reconing at M' Mokets £• s. d. was in the hole 2. 12. o. ondly yet dee to sd Moket 3. 6 The meeting is adjorned to Monday y' 26"* day of October n-jxt at Twelve otb clock noon sd day The adjornement is to the first Tuesday of October next at Twelve of y*" clock noon sd day I. 15. o Framingham, Oct' 26, 1 741 Rec^ of Mr. Noah Parker the sum of three pounds four shil- lings & four pence being the expence of the Canada Petitioners &c. Pr Fran ( 70 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. [Afass. Archives, Vol. 36, p. /JJ*.] HINGHAM CANADA. ANDREWSTOWN, NEW HINGHAM, CHESTERFIELD, MASS. Hingham soldiers, ibgo. Capt. Thomas Andrews, John Beals, Jonathan Bur, Caleb Beals, Sergent Humphrey, Joseph Joy, sen. Henry Greene, Edmund Grosse, Enoch Hobart, Jonathan Mays, Preserved Hall, Ebenezer Humphrey, Nathaniel Johnson, John Lincoln, a drummer Josiah Loring, Nathaniel Lobden, Philip Nicuaman William Ness, Peter Ripley, Thomas Robbards, (Roberts) Capt. John Smith. At least one of the Hingham men was killed in the attack upon Quebec, while another, Isaac Lasell, died a few days after, probably of wounds, while Paul Gilford, Samuel Judkins, Jona- than Burr, Daniel Tower and Jonathan Mays, and " two more of the town" were carried off by the small-pox, which broke out in the fleet and added its misfortunes to the disasters of the expedition. On the 25 th of the month Captain Andrews succumbed to the dreaded disease ; the succeeding day Lieutenant Chubbuck died. ANDREWSTOWN. A copy of Records of the township Granted by the Court to Capt. Andrews Company Laying West of Hatfield & Adjoyning thereto March 28, 1739 at at meeting of y* Proprietors of y^ Town- ship of Cap'. Andrews Company at Capt. Adam Gushing at Weymouth at said Meeting Chose Coin. Thaxter Moderator Chose Thomas Andrews Clerk & Sworn then said Meeting was Adjorned to y* 23 day of May Ensuing to meet at the Same house and place by Vote of the Said Proprietors May 23, 1739 the Afore s*". Propri". Meet S: Voted y'. the rommitte Ap'Dointed by y' Gen'. Court; Viz Coin. Thaxter Coin Gushing and Capt. Adam Gushing be Desired in behalf of 3 4 Barnstable, 12 2 Duxborough, 7 3 Sandwich, 10 2 Marshfield, 7 3 Yarmouth, 10 5 Scituate, 16 2 Eastham, 10 2 Bridgwater, 8 I Succonessett, 2 I Middleborough, 3 I Manamoy, 2 I Rochester, 2 16 54 48 -i THE EXPEDITION I'U CANADA IN 1690. Armci. Men 2 Bristoll, 6 3 Swansey, 7 2 Little Compton, 4 3 Dartmouth, 8 4 Taunton, »4 3 Rehoboth, 10 I Freetown, • K! ., 18 51 Ordered, by this Court, that in this present expedition there be raysed fifty Indians, 22 in the county of Ilirnstable, 22 in the county of Bristoll and six in the county of Plimouth. If such do not present as are to the sattisfaction of one or more of the magistrates of the county, or the comander of the com[) iny, that then by warrant from a magistrate such be impressed as are most fitt. And that Plimouth county take care to provide armes and other necessaries for eighteene men, Barnstable county f«jr fifteene men and Bristoll county for seventeene men. The officers and souldiers now to be raysed to march at such time and rendevouse at such places as they shall receive orders from one or both of the comisioners of the colony, one or both of which are hereby iiapowered to grant warrants to impress vessels, men, armes, amunition or any other thing needed, and can be procured within the colony for this present ixpcilition. Ordered, that if the officers now appointed for this expedition either do not accept or are prevented by the hand of God, or any should otherwise be wanting, that the Govern' with the con- sent of two magistrates appoint and comissionate others, as there may be need. Capt. Joseph Silvester, Mr. John Goram, chosen for captains for the present expedition. Jabiz Snow, Sam' Gallop, leiftenants ; Preserved Abel or John Butterworth, Sam' Lucos, ensignes. Samuel Gallop, appointed to be a lieutenant, was promoted to and served as a captain in the expedition of 1690. Capt. Nathaniel Thomas, Lieut. Isaac Little, are appointed a comittee to take & adjust the accounts of what the colony is indebted to particular (persons) for money lent 5 18 03 d. 00 09 00 06 00 09 09 £ s. 39 06 100 16 79 07 82 SO 75 »3 d. 09 09 09 10 00 452 04 09 OS 00 01 00 00 00 446 08 00 Bjr the councill of war at Plimouth Octob' V o* « Thomas Tomson of Middlebon,„gh, beins p' order „f?^' ? ' part of the town councill of s" MiHrfl.l!^ \ *' "^'"^ service of ,l>eir ma- a cLll !"^'7 '"'P'"'^'^ f" 'he service is sentenced .0 pavafine „f? '''"""« '° "'"" '"« the said to™ councirfor tte useof s^" "^""""k^ '" '"°'''^ "> till .he same be paid with ts &c "' ^ ™P'^™«' James Soul of Middleborouffh for fh« c abovesaid. eoorough, for the same, is sentenced as /orHai-rttindiitb:;:^ -r; r, -■ -- councU, Of s- Sandwici, impres«d for "the^lel^e ' of S ■i ( 80 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. ma"" against y* Indian enemy eastward, & in regard of his ill deportment after pressed, & not appearing at the time & place appointed, is sentenced to pay a fine of 4 pound money. But in regard it appears to this councill that he was not well when the souldiers were to march, the councill remit half s** fine, ordering that he pay to the town councill for y" use of said town y' sum of 40s. in money, & fees, &c. DEATHS. ,, i t The Probate Records of Plymouth County give the following men who died in the Expedition : Benjamin Wood alias Atwood of Middleboro Moses Simmons of Scituate Sergt. Samuel Bryant, of Scituate Samuel Dwelley of Scituate Thomas Hyland of Scituate Arthur Low of Marshfield. Matthew Stitson of Scituate. Nathaniel Parker of Scituate Lazarus Turner of Scituate Capt Joseph Sylvester of Scituate Ensign John 3tetson of Scituate Robert Finney of Plymouth. William Eaton of Plymouth. Joseph Knap of Plymouth. Zachariah Soule of Duxbury. Joseph Pryor of Duxbury. mark Lothrop of tiidgewater. Benjamin Washburn of Bridgewater. James Howard of Bridgewater. Lt. John Wetherell of Scituate James Glass of Duxbury James Snow of Bridgewater. The following is a roll of Capt. Samuel Gallup's company in the Expedition : Commissioned Officers. Samuel Gallop, Captain. Preserved Abel, Lieutenant. Solomon Smith, Ensign. Non- Commissioned Officers. Samuel Sabin and William Hack, Sergeants. John Querk and Nicholas Peck, Corporals. Ichabod Peck William Robinson Daniel Carpenter Jacob Carpenter Private Soldiers. Nicholas Hall John Smith John Bagley Joseph Jones PhUip AUen ■ WUUam Ellis > John Cupowo John Thomas ( 8i ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Daniel Sheperson Noah Sabin John Onnsby John vVall Samuel Butterworth Henry Thomas John Daviss Samuel Luther Morris Ronam Ungass Callee Zachariah Curtis Richard Tuells, Thomas Tuells Thomas Crossman John Bright Daniel Fisher John Eddy Samuel HoUoway Danrel Phillips Allies Garden John Haskins William Ripley Thomas Traintor Carlo Caree Philip Brazeel John Price Wilham Hillyerd Jonah Meredith Thomas Hart William Newland ' 1 Dartmouth men. Sam. Turusk Dickens Simon Tom Joshua Thomas James Trask James Pumshot Obed Wickum Obediah Benjamin Jacob Abel Wasunks Sam Hunter Joseph Jeckewot Sam Umpatune Job Jeremiah Jones Commissioned, 3; Non-Commission ed, 4; Private Soldiers, 57; Total, 64. Quite a number of private soldiers above enumerated were Indians, as wiii be seen by the list of grantees. Daniel Carpenter, a soldier in this company, in a letter directed to his father, William Carpenter, of Rehoboth, said that the company remained at Plymouth eight days waiting for the vessels that were to convey the soldiers, and upon the 27 th (probably of June), 1690, sailed out of Plymouth in five shallops about noon, and arrived at Nantasket before night, where they expected to remain until the 30th instant. The soldiers Traintor and Caree were from Freetown. The foregoing list of Gallup's Company was written on the back of this letter. I Dec 1736 That Daniel Carpenter authorized to call a meeting of the grantees of Gallup Canada m hi gallup's CANADA, GUILFORD, VT. ; ITS EQUIVALENT, SAVOY, MASS. [^Lttter cf Henry W. Tafi, Esq., Lenox, Mass., in iS^g."] There came recently into my hands the Proprietors' Records of " Bullock's Grant," now mostly embraced within the limits of the town of Savoy in this county. This territory appears - \ \ 1 ■!i ( 82 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. to have been granted, in June, 177 1, by the Legislature to the heirs and grantees of Capt. Samuel Gallup and others, " who served in tho expedition ag' Canada in 1690," and in compen- sation for a former grant which was " lost by running the line of the State of New Hampshire." The names of Capt. Gallup's company are given in this record, and I send the list, though I am not sure that it is not otherwise accessible. I think they were all from the Old Colony, and engaged in the land expedi- tion by way of Albany, &c., and not under command of Sir William Phipps. Lisl 0/ Capt. Samuel Gallup Lt. Preserved Abell Ens. Solomon Smith M' Dan' Carpenter Samuel Sabin Danuel Philips Joseph Jones Samuel Luther Noah Sabin William Robinson John Ormsbee Ichabod Peck Nicholas Hall Daniel Shepardson John Baggley Thomas Crossman John Haskins Jacob Carpenter William Ellis John Smith 6a//. Sam* Gallup's Cotnp», i6go. John Eddy Nicholas Peck Daniel Fisher Richard Tuells Thomas TuellsJ Sam' Buterworth William Hoch (or Hack) Benjamin Wilson Francis Willson Josiah Wheeler Philip Squire Elisha Tapper William Ripley John Thurber Thomas Hart Richard Bullock Alexander Maxcy Joseph Glover Benjamin Freeman Robert Calley James Baggley Samuel Thome George Studman Adam Disdale Samuel Johnson William Sutton John Barrows Nath' Whiting John Twogood John Twogood Jr. John Pierce Benj* Marrion William Hillyeard Samuel Halloway Philip Allen Thomas Richardson Samuel Warkman Samuel Salter (or Salter) Philip Tillinghast Robert Kilton (60) The following memorandum of Dartmouth soldiers appears on the back of an order to Capt. Thomas Leonard " to press a men & a Drum for Canada " : William Newland Thomas Hart V/iLUAM Ellis Phillii' Ai.len (Order) ( 83 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. TAUNTON MILITARY RECORDS. Impress Warrant, June 24th, 1690 : To John Thresher of Taunton in Bristol County or his deputy, Ihese are m the.r Majesties' names to require you to imnress for their Majesties' serviss against the common enemy^ ' JohnBagley, Thomas Richmond, Peter Pits ir M.u. t j Richard Brigs and for each of them a sufficient gun, and ponder hom or S"of\„tne«: '"''"• "' '° "' -^' " ^-- "A^^ Given under our hands in Taunton, June 21, 1690 o.tr.x Sf:?s;. ;t^-r' The Town Council. Return, -I, John Thrasher, do hereby make Daniel Phillip, m, deputy by v.rtue of the within written, to presse any of the men w,thm appo.nted by the Town Council to be pressed, and also to press a gun for himself, and also for any others of the ""trbrt ::r r "-• "-' "°' '" -^- ^ - -^ ^ -» Signium of John x Thrasher June 24th, 1690. '""'"''• The price of Soldiers Armes as they were pressed for the Expedition of 1690— i' " «"r tne Nicholas halls gun ^ s. d. his powder horn and shot pouch °^ '° '° Joseph Jones his gun 00 01 06 John Hoskins gun of Richard Brigs 01 10 00 Daniel Fishers gun of Joseph Leonard o^ 05 00 Sam hoUoways gun of Jonathan Brigs 01 05 00 Thomas Richmonds [ [ °' '° 00 Daniel Phillips gun of Joseph Dean Serj Hacks gun of John Hodges 01 05 00 * 01 02 00 , :f^ ( 84 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. John Eddys gun of John Macomber . . . Miles Jurden gun of John Briant .... John Bagleys gun of Joseph Dean .... John Smiths gun Richard Williams gun A belt to Will Hack Nicholas halls horn to John Bagley .... James Leonard, senior, hatchet to John Bagley Joseph Willis his gun to John Smith jr. . . Uriah Leonards gun to his Indian .... Nath Williams his gun to Ed Richmond . . Thon:as Williams his gun to George Rock Thos. Gilbert gun i 08 John Whites Gun i 10 Thomas Dean Gun The Town's Musket Edward Bobbets Gun, Mr. Nath Shoves Gun, & Cutlass James Walker, Junior, Cutlau . . 18 04 08 00 00 00 00 00 OS 00 to to to to to C ». d. 01 10 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 03 06 00 01 00 00 01 06 01 05 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 James BeU Moses Knap an Indian Will Hack James Bell Clothing Account Taunton Soldiers, Canada Expedition, 1690 : Joseph Hall's Account : The town councell of Taunton Debt to me Joseph Hall for making of clothing and knapsacks for ye Souldiers upon ye Canada Expedition, Imprimis, £ ». d. To John Edy, for making two wascots & a snapsack . . . . o 6 o To John Bagley, a wascot and snapsack o 4 o To Joseph Jones, one wascot o 2 6 To Nicholas Hall, one wascot and snapsack o 4 o To Donald Phillips, one wascote and snapsack ^ ^ o To Samuel holloway, one snapsack o i 6 To Miles Jordan, one wascote o 8 6 I 10 6 This is a true a Comb, Pd Mr. Joseph Hall, Taunton ye ixth November 1690. I; ta^i^€v^^^^^.^ ^^"/gc^ Mf ! '1 ! ?^ » ORDER TO CAPTAIN LEONARD. fill I' I f ^m , n \ i i m 1 1 ( 85 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Robert Crossmans account of what he did for ye Souldi went to Canada, 1690. Mending Jos Joneses, Gun to Sam' holow", gun to Donoll fishers, gun to Nic" hals, gun, to Jona Brigs, gun for Samuel holoway, . to Constable Thrasher, 2 hats, .... to Richard Brigs gun, for John Hoskins, . to Tho. Gilberts gun, for Thomas Richmond, to a hatchet, and mending Donall Phillips gun, to Miles Jurden a hatchet, and mending gun, to Will Ripley a hatchet, to mending Don Phillips gun again, . . to Richard Marshalls gun to Will Hack's gun ' to Isaac Deans gun for John Bayley, . . to mending Jon" hoskins gun & in room of mine y». Ripley had for ic' before it was mended er<; y- I s. H. 8 6 9 S 2 8 3 10 2 3 2 6 2 I 6 I 3 9 6 3 3 8 what is about wright and make oath too if needed. Taunton, Dec. i, 1690. total I 15 5 Robert Grossman can to easaly Taunton credit for Money advanced for Canada Expedition, 1690 : Thomas Leonard money 12 08 00 Paid to Robert Crossmen for y drum 5s. and in all other pay . 01 ic 00 by a home to Sam Squabscon 00 00 08 By Manchester to Jo Patuxin 00 00 oc " half y* red cloth to ditto 00 05 08 By thrid an Manchester & 7i yds ^ red cloth to Benj. ALohon / oi 08 05 Peter Nunuit (•') 6 yds-* red cloth and thrid 2d. / 01 02 08 John Abimilick ('«) by linin for a snapsack and Manchester . 00 01 02 To Capt. Leonard : You are Required in their majesties names forthwith to take care to send down your two men f are wanting & if y^ souldiers are raarcht from Plimouth you must take care y' they with all 'I ,f . , . I M I' 5 I ! i ^i ■M ■ f ' ; ft ' I V ' \i u f fl I ii i ( 86 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. speed be sent to Nantasket you are alike Required to Impress a good Drum & if you can a drumer allsoe & send along with y* souldiers hereof fail not & for which this shall be your warrant, dated at Plimouth i8 July 1690 John Walley per order of y* Council of war (7'Aomas Leonard's Papers^ GORHAM CANADA, DUMBARTON, N.H. Province of the ) Massachusetts Bay ) To His Excellency the Govern', the Hon"'*. Council & House of Representatives in General Court Assembled at Boston June 12"'. 1735 The Petition of Shubal Goreham Representative of the Town of Barnstable for himself and the Persons Whose Names are hereto Under Written being in the Expedition to Canada Anno 1690 or the Descendants of those who are dec", uuder the Command of Cap*. Jn". Goreham. Sheweth That the said Cap*. Goreham with a Company under the Command was actually in the Service of the Crown at the Time when Sir William Phipps went to Canada in the year 1690 in Order to Reduce that Country to the Obedience of the Crown of Great Britain and altho' he failed yet those who went on said Expedition Suffered great hardships and Your Excellency and Hon" haveing heretofore Rewarded those who have Served their Country He therefore most humbly Prays that the Heirs of the said Cap'. Goreham & such others as were in said Expe- dition under his Command that are now living & the Heirs of such as are since dec''. May Obtain a Grant of a Tract of Land of Six Mile square for a Township to be settled in such Way and Manner as may b'; Consistant with Your Excellency & Hon". Pleasure & in Duty Bound shall Pray &c Shubal Goreham Cap'. Jn". Goreham Nath". Lothrop Rob'. C} ghorn Lieu'. Jabez Snow Clerk James Pain Tim". Fuller alive Ens'". James Claghorn Jn". Lewis alive Jn*. Grey Serg'. Constant Freeman Sam". Allen Elisha Hedge alive * s a ly' mt, ♦ r t ) 'f,x ■ ' i •Ml ■^•x n o ( £7 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Serg*. James Lewis alive Drum'. John Holbrook Corp*. Caleb Williamson alive Corpo. Barnabas Wixum alive James Maker Jn". Andrus alive Abraham Remick alive Tho'. Snow alive Jos: Higgins Joshua Higgins alive Nath" Atkins Cornelius Jones Daniel Cole alive Elisha Tupper Edmond Freeman alive George Field James Hamblin alive Tho» Parker Jon*. Linnet Sam«. Rider Jos. Sturgis alive Dan". Hambleton alive James Cookoonc alive Michail Phillips Stephen Presberry alive Tho*. Hambleton Bacheldor Wingalive Sam^. Larrance Jn". Robinson Jn". Rowly alive Sam". Godfrey alive Benj*. Wood Rob'. Phinney James Stewart Joseph Burg Joseph Cane Jabez Elamus Jos: Daniel Bonj™. Bates W™. Bootson Elimas Shautam Ziniro Robins James Robins Jer: Samson Tim°. Toby Tn°. James Edward Phinney James Mark In the House of Representatives June y^ 18"". 1735 In answer to the Petition of Shubal Gorehara & others who Were in ^ Expedition to Cannada in the Year 1690 or y* Descend- ants of Such as were lost or are since Dead Voted that the Prayer of ihe Petition be granted & that Shubal Gore ham Esq'. & M'. Sam". Sturgis jun',' together with such as shall by joined by the Hon*^'. Board be a Committee at the Charge of the Governm'. To lay out a Township of the Contents of six Miles square North of & adjoing to the Town- ship Reported en in favour of sundry Petitioners of Salem and Marblehead. And that they Return a Plat thereof to this Court within Twelve Months for Confirmation And for the More Effectual bringing forward the Settlen'. of the said New Town Ordered that the said Town be laid out into Sixty three Equal shares one of n' to be for the first Settled Minister one fer the Ministry & one for the School & that on Each of the other Sixty Shares the Petitioners do within three years from the Coi:- firmation of the Plan have settled one Good Family who shall have a House Built on his Home Lot of Eighteen Feet Square & Seven feet stud at the Least & finished, That Each Right or Grant have Six Acres of Land brought to and ploughed or brought to English Grass & fitted for Mowing. That they } ' ;^ m .M ill 'I V' I 1 1 i ni i ( 88 ) SOCIETV OF COLONIAL WARS. I Settle a learned Orthodox Minister & Build & Finish a Con- venient Meeting House for the Publick Worship of God : Pro- vided that in Case any of the Lots or Rights are not duly Settled in all Regards as aforesaid then such Lott with the Rights thereof to Revert to and be at the Disposition of the Province. Sent up for Concurrence J QUINCV Sp^'. In Council June 19*. 1735 Read Sz Concurred & Jeremiah Mouton Esq*, is joined in the Affair T: Mason Dep*' Sec'y. Dec'. 29 Consented to J Belcher A True Copy Examined ^ Simon Frost Dep Sec". Its equivalent township was Otisfield, Maine, granted June, 1777- SYLVESTER CANADA, RICHMOND, N.H. [Mass. Court Records, June 20, and House yournal, yune /g, //J/.] A Petition of Major James Warren, for himself and others, that Served in the Expedition against Canada in the Year 1690, Under Joseph Sylvester, or are the Representatives of such of he said Soldiers as £ire deceased ; Praying for a Tract of the Province Lands of the Contents of Six Miles Square for a Town- ship to Settle on, in consideration of the great hardships they or their Ancestors endured in the said Expedition — Petition of Committee for laying out Richmond, ^736. [A/ass. Archives, Vol. loj, p. 147.'] To His Excele^ Jon* Belcher Esq' Gov' & Command' in Chief &c To y* Hon'" Council — '. he Memorial & Petition of Sam" Thaxter In the Name & by or er of the Comitte for Laying out a Canada Township so Called Granted to the officers & Souldiars belonging to the ( 89 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Company under y^ Comand of Cap' Joseph Silvester Hutnblv Sheweth ^ That By order of the Gen" Court passed in their Sessions i^ay 1735, Fifty pounds was allowed to be Drawn out of the Publick Treasury & paid to the Respective Comittes for y^ Lay- ing out &c the Canady Township so called — That y" Memori- alists have Expended a Considerable sum in y« Service for Laying the Township Granted to s'' Silvester & Company & Desire yo' Excele^ & Hon" will order a warr' to y" Treasurer for paym' of Fifty pounds allow'd as afores" to y'' s" Comitte — & yo' Memorialist shall pray &c — June 30, 1736 Sam^Thaxt£r June y j^ j^j6. Then finished the Laying out a Tract of Land on the Easterly Side of Arlington Granted by the Great and General Court held at Boston In June 1735 _ for a Plantation or Township of the Contents of Six Miles Square and is Granted to Capt Joseph Silvister and his Company and is bounded thus begin- iiing at a piller of Stones Erected for the South Easterly corner of Arhngton from thence runing East Six miles partly on a Town Ship lately Laid out and partly on province Land — to a Hemlock tree marked with J. S. from thence Running North Six miles & fifty Six Perches to a maple tree marked with J. S — from thence West 44 degres North Seven hundred and thirteen Perch to an heap of Stones on the Lower ashewelot line and from thence South forty three deg. West on the ashewelot line one thousand one hundred and ninety three perch to a piller of Stones then West Eighteen deg. North Six hundred & forty Perch to a piller of stones then Running South on Arling- ton Ime five miles and one hundred and fifty one Rods to a piLer of Stones the first mentioned Bounds there's allowed about one Rod in thirty for uneven land and Swag of Chain also there is allowed one hundred acres for a farm all ready Granted to Coll. Josiah Willard with five hundred acres for ponds — ^ Josiah Willaju) Surveyor a scale of 310 perch to an inch ft I I .1 ;| i,| 'f M 1 ^ ( 90 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. [Afass, Court Records and House Journal, Jan. /8, /7J6-7.] In the House of Represent' Whereas a Grant of a Township of the Contents of Six Miles Square was made by this Court at their Session in June 1735 to the officers & Soldiers in the Canada Expedition Under the Command of Cap* Joseph Syl- vester and to the heirs legal Represent' & descendants of such of them as are deceased, But for as much as a Sufficient Number of said Grantees do not appear to give Bonds for fulfilling the Conditions Agreeable to the directions of the said Grant Therefore ordered that the Com'** Appointed to Admit Settlers in said Township be Impowered to Admit any others that were Either officers & Soldiers in any other Company in the said Canada Expedition, or the heirs Legal Represent' or Descendants of any of them who are Since deceased, who have not been Admitted Grantees into other Towns ; So as to make the Number of Sixty Settlers in all j and that upon their giving Bond as aforesaid, they each of them be entitled to a Sixty third part of said Township, provided they perform the Con- ditions of said Grant, Unless a Sufficient Number of the said Company so as to make up in the whole of the said officers and Soldiers or of the heirs legal Represent' or Descendants of such of them as are since dec'ed appear to make their Claim to said Grant before the Com*** appointed to admit Grantees at or before the Eighteenth day of March next and that the said Com'** give publick Notice Seasonably of this order — In Council Read & Concurr'd — Consented to J Belcher \^Masi. Court Records, June t8, and House yournal, June 16, /yj?.} In the House of Represent' Ordered That James Warren Esq' be and hereby is fully Authorized and Impowred to As- semble and for the first Meeting to Convene the Grantees of a Township lately Granted by this Court to the officers and Soldiers in the Canada Expedition Anno 1690, Under the Command of Cap' Joseph Silvester dec'ed their heirs legal Represent' £:c in some Convenient place in the Town of Plymouth when and where the Grantees under the Direction of ( 91 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. the said James Warren Esq' are to make Choice of a proper Clerk and to pass such votes and Rules & orders for bringing on the Settlement as may be Agreeable to the Conditions of the Grant and also to Agree Upon some Regular Methods for to call proprietors Meetings for the future — In Council Read & Concurr'd Consented to J Belcher r^ • ii SYLVXSTER CANADA, RICHMOND, N.H. j ITS EQUIVALENT, TURNER, ME. pROViNCB OF Massachusetts Bay, In the House of Representatives, June 25, 1765. On the petition of James Warren and Joseph Joslyn Esqrs. and Mr. Charles Turner, Agents for the proprietors of a Township granted to Capt. Joseph Sylvester and Company who served in the expedition against Canada in 1690, which township was known by the name of Sylvester-Canada, and that the whole of the said Township on running the line between this Province and New Hampshire, fell with the government of New Hamp- shire. Resolved, that in lieu thereof there be granted to the Peti- tioners & the Legal Representatives or assigns of the said Joseph Sylvester and Company a Township of the Contents of seven miles square in the unappropriated Lands belonging to this Province. Provided that the Grantees within six years settle Thirty Families in said Town, built a house for publick worship, and settle a learned Protestant Minister, and lay out one sixty- fourth part of said town for the use of the first settled Minister, and one other sixty- fourth part for the Ministry, and one other sixty-fourth part for a Grammar School, and one sixty-fourth part for the use of Harvard College. Provided, also the said Township be laid out in such a part of the unappropriated lands belonging to this Province adjoin- ing to some former Grants to the eastward of Saco River, and that they return a Plan thereof into the Secretary's office within twelve months from this day, for confirmation. f-^ 'f ' ! y N ii! « i'j ( 92 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. In Council, June 25th, 1765. Read and Concurred. Con- sented to by the Governor. True Copy from the Records of the General Court. Vol. ao, Page 71. Attest. John Avery, jun., Secretary. The number of the original proprietors was sixty, and the names were as follows : Joseph Atkinson, Samuel Bryant, Robert Buck, Nathaniel Bartlett, John Delano, Samuel Owelly, Samuel Doughty, William Eaton, John Field, Benjamin Gannett, Paul Guilford, James Glass, Joseph Goold, Samuel Hunt, James Howard, Thomas Hiland, Isaac Hammer, James Harris, Nathaniel Harlow, Nathaniel Holmes, Eleazer Jackson, John Joyce, Cornelius Jones, John Kent, Joseph Knap, John Kingman, John Lambert, Arthur Low, Mark Lothrop, Gershom Marble, Thomas Morton, Samuel Pittifer, Joseph Prior, Robert Pheney, Nathaniel Parker, Elnathan Palmer, Peter Roach, John Reccords, Capt. Jos. Silvester, Edward Standley, Edward Smith, Thom&s Snell, Thomas Soper, Jc;in Silvester, Benjamin Sutten, Joseph Studley, Mathew Stetson, Samuel Sprague, Joseph Shelley, James Snow, Moses Simmons, John Stetson, Stephen Totman, Lazarus Turner, Thomas Wild, Jabez Warren, Return White, Ebenezar White, Benony Wolly, John WethereL I I ?j IWLOCATED GRANTS OF CANADA TOWNSHIPS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. The Province of the Massachusetts Bay in the early part of the last century included a territory bordering the present boundary line of Massachusetts and New Hampshire on the north. The towns included in this territory were subjected to the claims of the rival proprietors under the title from Mason, the first patentee, and under the grants of the Massachusetts General Court this has been shown in some instances of the Canada townships previously mentioned. 4 \ri I , i i md . . . .' ^/jfuttea ' ••• • • ^ . . ■ . , , , , . ./Vtuncainj ? ..••••.1\- WeathersfieJd ..•••'Kewp«rt\( v-''-yv'-::t ?uckingh«Jn; Greenville ov/ Ju^mj Ftrt, ►J/Af Juries ; '«i»"«^/^.Ji Town ^i ;;ii 14 .y Pultn ty J;, -^l ;. „ .1. . . . ./!<^, .. ...: •'Djuitzick. to- .^^ i».ft Co s Peters^ /burg U'S lANDj. .. Croton "• >:» /"o \\-m .'Fort/ ,a3.-' 5t«'V. 'PoplJ^"*''* ^(11 y^/ -Tpfwh: /,^^,^„;^ •••• [land Canada lTo*v)usKe/fid /» 1 Maijf. . j--,w,-.-->::N."Ji.'<'f.. ■■■■."""s'"'"*' ;, •'^'•'N :• «*( MAP SHOWING GRANTS OF THE CANADA TOWNSHIPS. '^^^^ ( 93 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. u«try line east of the Connecticut r ver. The dotteH i,n« show ,he boundary line established which left but thre of the wick (3) ,n the present State of Massachusetts • ^ ^' ^' I. Dorchester Canada, Ashburnham, Mass. Ipswich Canada, Wine' endon, Mass. Roxbury or Gardner's Canada, Warwick, Mass. Sylvester Canada, Richmond, N.H Haywood or Rand's Canada, Peterborough, N.H S>alem Canada, Lyndeboro', N.H. Cambridge Canada, Lanestown, New Boston Beverly Canada, Halestown, Weare, N H Rowley Canada, Rindge, N.H. Gorham Canada, Dumbarton, N.H Whitman or Marlborough Canada, Todstown, Henniker, Gallup's Canada, Guilford, Vt Newbury Canada, Bakerstown, Stevenstown, Salisbury, Newton Canada, Alstead, N.H. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9- 10. II. 13. 13- M HAYWOOD OR RAND's CANADA, PETERBOROUGH, N.H. [Mass. House Journal, May 27, 77^6.] AFetitionof 6aw«^/,%ya,^^^, Christopher Page and sun ^Vf others, praying for a Grant of a Tract of Lfnd on wk' SKies S^he,en.Ri.er, as entred the x^f zt ^1? p^^,' and referred to this Session. Read and referred to the next' Session of this Court for further Consideration. IMass. House Journal, June ^3, ,73^,^ pratiiLTt^heirT^'^p^'^^^^^ '''' '™^^'^-^ Associates, praymg that their former Petition for a Grant of T an,i f«, ^r^wnship at Souhegan may be revived forThels^ 'Zl Read and Ordered, That the Petition lye on the Table. Ai \% *?s (•I I f U t i. - ( 94 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. [Mass. House Journal, Dec, S, /7J2,^ A Petition of Samuel Haywood and Thomas Cutler for them- selves and sundry others, praying for a Grant of a Township at a place called Souhegan agreeable to their former Petitions, Read and referred to the next May Session for further Con- sideration. {^Jan. 15, 17J7-8, changed to " in some of the unappropriated Lands of the Province"^ ' . fl 1^ i \_Mass. House Journal, Dec. 3, 17 3S-^ On the Memorial of William Rand and others, Canada Soldiers Anno 1690, as entred the 25th uk., which was read and accepted, and Votedy That the prayer of the Petition be granted, and that . . . together with such as shall be joined by the honourable Board, be a Committee at the charge of the Government to lay out a Township of the contents of six miles square West of the NarragansetfYfynn called number Three, viz. leaving one Town of six miles square and adjoining thereto, and that they return a Plat thereof to this Court within twelve months for confirmation ; and for the more effectual bringing forward the Settlement of the said Town, Ordered, That the said Town be laid out into sixty-three equal shares, one of which to be for the first settled Minister, one for the Ministry, and one for the School, and that on each of the other sixty shares the Petitioners do within three years from the con- firmation of the Plan have settled one good family, who shall have an House built on his home lot of eighteen feet square and seven feet stud at the least and finished, that each Right or Grant have six acres of Land bro't to and plowed or brought to english Grass and fitted for mowing, that they settle a learned orthodox Minister, and build and finish a convenient Meeting House for the publick Worship of GOD, and that each Settler give bond of Twenty Pounds to the Province Treasurer for ful- filling the Conditions of the Grant ; provided that in Case any of the Lots or Rights be not duly settled in all regards as afore- said, then such Lot or Right to revert to and be at the disposi- tion of the Province. Sent up for Concurrence. ( 95 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Timothy Wheeler servant to John Smedly dyed at Capere- toon [Cape Breton] Nov i 1693. Samuel Bateman son of Thomas died there Nov i 1690. {Concord, Mass., Records.) CAMBRIDGU CANADA, LANESTOWN, NEW BOSTON, N.H. [^Mass. House yournal, yune j, 1734.^ A Petition of Capt. Nathanael Bowman, and others in the publick Service in the Canada Expedition under the command of the late Sir William Phipps, Knt. praying for a Grant of Land, as entred the 20M, of yune 1732, and \tth. oi June last, and referred. Read and committed to the Committee appomted to consider of the Petition of Abraham Tilton of Ipswich, and others, and report what may be proper to be done thereon. [Mass. House Journal, Dec. j, /7JJ'.J On the Petition of Capt. Nathanael Bowman, and others, Canada Officers and Soldiers ^n»& 1690, as entred the 5M. of y^une 1734, which was read and accepted, and thereupon the House came into a Vote for a Grant of a Township to the Peti- tioners of six miles square, lying North of the Narragansett Town called number Three, on the same Conditions of Settle- ment as the aforesaid Grants were made. Sent up for Concur- rence. Joseph Hastings was wounded and lost an eye in 1690. In the same year, among those who were engaged in the unfortu- nate expedition against Canada, are found the names of John Andrew, William Blanchard, Nathaniel Bowman, Matthew Bridge, Daniel Champney, James Cutler, Edward Green, Stephen Hast- ings, Joseph Hicks, John Manning, John Pierce, Joseph Smith, Nathaniel Sparhawk, John Squire, Thomas Stacey, John Sted- man. {Paige's Cambridge.) \ I \'^ !( I hS' ti '.}.'■■ 1 VH t u M (I. i ( 96 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Ui NEWrON CANADA, AI^EAD, N.H. ; I'l-S KQUIVALKNT, PARIS, MAINE. At a Great and General Court held in Boston on the i4vh day of November, 1736, the following vote passed the two Houses and was consented to by the Governor : Voted, that Capt. Samuel Jacksoi! -e and hereby is fully authorized and empowered to assemble and conven*. the grantees or proprietors of the township No. 4, lying i 1 the line of towns between the rivers of Connecticut and Merrimac, to assemble in such place as they shall be notified and warned to convene and assemble at, in order to choose a moderator and clerk, and a committee to allot and divide their lands, and to dispose of the same and to pass such votes and orders as by them may be thought conducive to the speedy fulfillment of the conditions of their grants, and also to agree upon methods for calling of meetings fur the future. Provided none of their votes concerning the dividing or disposing of their lands that shall be passed while they are under the direction of the committee of this .-curt ■hall be offered l)efore they are allowed of by said committee. The proprietors held their first meeting pursuant to a call of Mr. Jackson, and proceeded to organize by the choice of Capt. Samuel Jackson as moderator, and Joseph Mason, Esq., clerk. It would seem that some of the grantees were minors, for it was voted that such of the proprietors as were under age, if present, should be allowed to act and vote in the proprietors' meetings. It was also declared a. the sense of the meeting that the rep- resentative of any of the absent proprietors should be permit- ted to act and vote in their behalf. It was voted that future meetings should be called by posting notices in Watertown and Newton fourteen days before the time appointed therein for holding the same. It was also voted that a meeting of the proprietors should be called at any time, on application, in writing, to the committee of ten or more of the proprietors. The next meeting of the proprietors was holden at the house of John Brown, of Watertown, on Monday, the fourth day of July, 1737, and Capt. Samuel Jackson was chosen moderator. The next meeting was holden at the dwelling-house of Widow Mary Learned, in Watertown, on Tuesday, the eighth day of February, A.D. 1739. I* was voted, first, that " the charge of the meeting be borne by the whole society," and, second, that 1 ( 97 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. " there shall be no lickers brought to the society that they shall be charged for, but what is ordered by the committee." It was voted " to chose a committee to find out a convenient way to our townships, and work out the same." The next meeting of the proprietors was held nearly thirty years after the one just mentioned. There is no eviden».e going to show that the house provided for at the last meeting was ever built, or that any of the proprietors who drew house- lots ever occupied or even saw them. There had long been a sharp contest between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the proprietors of the Province of New Hampshire, respecting the line between the two provinces. Between 1760 and the break- ing out of the war uf the Revolution, many grants of land had been made in Maine and several in Oxford county. Fryeburg was granted Mr. Joseph Frye for services in the French and Indian wars ; Bethel to the descendants of those of Sudbury and other towns who had served in the expedition against Canada in 1690; Livermore to those of Watertown, Waltham, and the neighboring towns, who, either by themselves or their ancestors, had taken a part in the reduction of Port Royal ; Turner and Jay to the descendants of" Canada" soldiers, and Rumford to Concord, N.H., to compensate those of her grantees who had suffered loss by the settlement of the northern boundary of Massachusetts, which had left that town in New Hamphire. The grantees of Livermore had been petitioners for land in i735> ^^^ ^^^ received a grant of township No. 2, on the east side of and adjoining to the Connecticut river in the same tract where No. 4, granted to Capt. Samuel Jackson and others, was situated, and which proved on the settlement of the boundary to be within the limits of New Hampshire. The Livermore grantees based their claim for a renewal of their grant upon the fact that their " No. 2 had been thrown into New Hampshire by an adjustment of the boundary lines." The changed conditions of things, and the general movei. ent for eastern land grants, stimulated the grantees of No. 4 on Connecticut river to move for an adjustment of their claims — a preliminary step to which was the reorganization of their com- pany. These grantees were mostly from Watertown, Waltham, I ( i <:'/ i • / ,t ir— i.'i ( 98 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. i; 'i 7' 1 and Newton, towns from which hailed most of the grant(;ca of Livermore and Jay. The grantees of Bethel were also largely from Newton. These two towns, Watertown ard Newton, formed the rallying-points for several Massi'.chusetts towns, Marlboro', Shrewsbury, and Gr3ton being notable among the number. The next meeting of the proprietors of township No. 4, •' lying between the rivers Connecticut and Merrimac," after an interval cf nearly thirty years, was held at the house of Mr. Nathaniel Coolidge, intikeeper in Watertown, on the 26th day of December, 1769. Several of the original proprietors had deceased, and their rights were represented by heirs or assigns, while others had disposed of their claims, so that only twenty- nine of the original claimants petitioned for a renewal of the grant. At this meeiing Joshua Fuller was elected moderator, and Nehemiah Mason, clerk. Capt. Joshua Fuller, Capt. William Coolidge, and Ebenezer Brown were constituted a com- mittee to draft a petition to the General Court for a new grant of land in lieu of the one tixey had lost. From the record of the proprietors' meetings it appears that this committee went in company and acted :n conjunction with a committee of the grantees of Phipps Canada, with the under- standing that the two grants should be situated side by side, and that the expenses should be divided between the two com- miitees. But aitei the townships had been located and bounded, some disagreement arose the nature of which is not explained, and the committee on the part of the proprietors of No. 4 assumed the whole of the expense of the survey, and the committee of the Phipps Canada proprietors went to the great Androscoggin, and surveyed a township north of Livermore, ter- ritory which now comprises the towns of Jay and Canton. l^Massatkusetts Archives, Voi. ii8, pp. 410-41^.'^ 15 Mch., 1770 That 9cme of your Petitioners and the Predecessors of the others Obtained a Grant from the Great & General Court of a Township of Land Several years Since, Which was then Laidout between the Rivers of Connecticut and Merrimack in the Line of Towns. ( 99 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. on the Right of (-apt. Samuel Jackson John Spring Samuel Jackson Jonathan Williams ;-. Thomas Greenwood Ebenezer Stearns Oakes Angier Isaac Jackson Thaddeus Trowbridg* Jonathan Williams Thomas Quinier StepLen Harris David Sanger Kphraim Borridge Peter Durrell Samuel Shattuck Nathaniel Smith William Coolidge Amos Livermore Josiah Brown Josiah Goddard William Park William Park Ebenezer Brown Jonas Coolidge ' Nathaniel Spring Ctristopher Grant junr ' Samuel Fuller « Jonathan Learned " WilMam Dana Jonathan Learned Seth Stone « Nathaniel Stoae «« Josiah Mixer Daniel Robbins James Hay «« Joseph Coob'dge Josiah Fuller Nehemiah Mason <« Daniel Bond •• Abraham Whitney « Nathaniel Coolidge " Elisha Learned « Samuel Randall •I ,n. on right of Isaac Jackson " " William Trowbridge " " " William WiUiams " Thomas Harris " " " David Sanger " " " John Burridge " 01j\^er Livermore ' " William Brown " Richard Park " Jonas Coolidge " Christopher Grant " Isaac Fuller " Ebenezer Goddard " Jonathan Bemis " Moses Hastings " Richard Coolidge « Joseph Mason Daniel Bond John Whitney Thadeus Coolidge David Learned :'ll :l i 1 ( c ? ( lOO ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. t • I Ezekiel Whitney John Stowel Benjamin Bond Janiez Dix George Harrington George Harrington junr Josiah Bisco " Edmund Barnard " Samuel Hide " William Coolidge jun " William Coolidse " Thomas Frost Thadeus Trowbridge " Samuel Jackson " David Coolidge David Livermore Nathaniel Stone. on right of David Whitney " Thomas Bisco " Samuel Stowel " Richard King " Joseph Allen " John Coolidge " Caleb Trowbridge " Edward Jackson Names of the Petitioners were entered agreeable to a Vote at the meeting on 12 Mch 1770. 3 Apr I771 The Memorial of Samuel Whittemore, Joshua Fuller, John Brown, Thomas Parker and Alexander Shepard. Humbly Sheweth That your Memorialists on the is"* Day of March 1770 Preferred a Petition to the Great & General Court then Sitting, humbly Praying that a Township of Land might be Granted to them and their Associates Sub- scribers to said Petition, as a Gratuity or Reward for the hard Service and Suffering of their Predecessors in the Expedition to Canada in the Year 1690. 'i '/. PHIPS CANADA, JAV AND CANTON, MAINE. In 1739, ^* is said, one John Phips, of Wrentham, Mass., said to have been of the family of Sir William Phips, petitioned for a grant on account of service in the expedition. The following seems to refer to David, son of Spencer Phips, of Cambrid^^e, Mass. : In Committee to whom was referred the Petition of David Phips, Esq"", and others praying for a Township in Consideration of their Ancestors being in the Expedition against Canada in the Year 1690 Have attended that Service and find that the Petitioners are the Descendants and Le^al Repre- sentatives of Sundry persons in the Expedition aforesaid and that they nor their Ancestors have not as yet rec'i^ any Grant for the Hardship and Bur- dens Sustained by their Ancestors aforesaid in said Expedition as all Others s.a^s; -;-a . rimTr r. i"r i.i t i »ll', ii iniiim ( loi ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. have done who have Regularly Applied to the General Court for the same. Therefore are of the Opinion that the following Resolve Pass. In the House of Representatives June 11, 1771 Resolved that there be granted to David Phips Esqr. and others mentioned in the Petition a Town- ship of the Contents of Six Miles & Three Quarters Square to be laid out adjoining tc some former Grant in the unappropriated Lands in this Province to the Eastward of Saco River provided the Grantees within Seven Years Settle Eighty Families in Said Township Build a House for the public Worsiiip of God and Settle a Learned Minister, one 84^ part for the Min- istry one 84**> part for the Use of a School in s* Township and one 84"" part for the use of Harvard College forever provided also that they return a Plan theieof Taken by a Surveyor and Chairmen under Oath into this Court within Twftlve months Sent up for Concurrence &c At a meeting of the proprietors (or grantees) of a township of land granted by the Great and General Court, on the nth day of June, 1771, to David Phipps, Esq., and others, at their meeting on Tuesday, the 19th day of November, 1 771, at ths house of Ebenezer Steadman in Cambridge, it was v^>ted that this Proprietary relinquish all their right in tue two townships of land that were laid out by a committee of this Proprietary, in conjunction with a committee of the No. 4 Proprietary (so called^, at Little Amariscoggin river, to the said No. 4 proprietors, provided they pay all the charges that have arisen in viewing and laying out said township, except the charges of Messrs. Abijah Brown and Israel Whittemore for their services and expenses in said service, and except six days and a half of Capt. Kimball. N.H. ITS WHITMAN OR MARLBOROUGH CANADA, HENNIKER. EQUIVALENT, WATERFORD, ME. This town was Number 6 in the line of towns from Merri- mack to Connecticut river, granted by Massachusetts Jan. -6, 1735-6. As some of the grantees came from Marlborough, Mass., it was sometimes called New Marlborough or Marl- borough Town. [Petition of Proprietors of Henniker for Equivalent Grant, 1774.] [Mass. Archives, Vol. 118, p. 7S7.] Province of the ^ To his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson Esq' Captain Massachusetts- Bay 1 General & Commander in chief In & over s<* Province To the Honourable His majesties Council & To the Honourable House of Representatives in generd Court assembled Januar* 26th 1774 The Petition of the Subscriber in behalf of ourselves and others Grantees of the Township Number Six iu the Line of Towns humbly Sheweth ■ 1 -5 } . ^., t ■ ■' ^ ■ J -ii!;; ( ill! t. m 4 h K 102 ; SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. That the Great & General Court of thr Province at their Session AD 1735 Granted a Township of the Contents of Six Miles square being Number Six In the Line of Towns between Connecticutt & Merrimack Rivers that the Grantees were at very considerable Expence in clearing Roads Building Mills &c in said Township, that by the late running of the Line Between this Government & the Government of New Hampshire the said Township was taken into the said Government of New Hampshire; & your Pet" and their associates have lost their whole Interest therein together with the money Expended in bringing forward the Settlement of said Township Your Petitioners therefore most humbly request that your Excellency & Honours would in your known wisdom & Justice Grant to your Petitioner & the other Grantees and Proprietors of s*' Township Number Sue in Lieu thereof a Township in some of the unappropriated Land in the Eastward Part or this Province or otherwise Relive your Petitioner aft your Excellency & Hon' In your Wisdom shall think proper & your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray John Gardner Stephen Maynard Seth Rice [In answer to this petition, the General Court granted the petitioners the township of Waterford, Me., Feb. 24, 1774.] M 7 WOBURN. [Mass. Archives^ Vol, a6, pp. 346-247."] A True list of those Persons Who have a Just Claim (either in Wobum or the next adjacent Towns) to the Bounty of the General Court by being (either personally or by their Ancestors) in the Caiiada Expedition Anno 1690 — Taken in Wobum February 19*''. 1738 by virtue of an order of the S** Gen' Court bearing date December 22^ last past, viz'. 1 Joseph Read of Wobum Personally present in s" Expedition Attested upon Oath by Zachariah Converse of s* Wobum. 2 Zachariah Converse of Wobum personally present in s"* Expedition attested by Joseph Read of Wobum upon Oath. 3 John Dean in right of his Brother William Dean both of Wobum. Attested by Joseph Read. 4 Timothy Wynn in right of his Father Joseph Wynn both of Wobum. Attested by Joseph Read. 5 Edward Wynn in right of his Father Increase Wynn both of Wobum. Attested by Joseph]|Read. mmm ( »03 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Samuel Wymat. in right of his Father Samuel Wyman both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read. Nathan Wyman in right of his Father John Wyman both of Woburn Attested by Joseph Read. Jabez Wyman in right of his Father John Wyman Jun' both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read Jonathan Poole of Woburn in right of His Father Jonathan Poole of Reading. Attested by Joseph Read. Jacob Wright in right of his Father Joseph Wright both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read. Mousell Wright in right of his Father Joseph Wright Jun' both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read. Jabez Temple of Wilmington in right of his Father William lemple of Reading. Attested by Joseph Read. John Pierce in right of his Brother Thomas Pierce both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read. John Fowle Jun' in right of his Grandfather James Fowle both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read. John RusseU in right of his Father John Russell both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Reed. James Pierce in right of his Bro^ Joseph Pierce both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read Reuben Lilly a Minor in right of his Grandfather Reuben Lilly of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read. John Gold of Stoneham Personally present. Attested by Joseph Read ^ Eleazer Bateman for his Brother John Bateman of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read. Eleazar Bateman for his Kinsman David Fox of Woburn Attested by Joseph Read. 21 — (Crossed out) " -J^^!^,f f ^'^^ i» "ght of his Kinsman Isaac Brooks both of Woburn Attested by Joseph Read. Jonathan Brooks in right of his Grandfather John Brooks both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read. Jonathan Brooks in right of his Uncle Ebenezer Brooks both of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read. 10 II 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 23 24 ^^1 ?:■'■■' j-'l f;; !j i! ', i 1 ■i I iff - ^* t \i ( 104 ; SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Jli 25. Isaac Farrhar of Woburn Personally present Attested by Joseph Read. 36 John Richardson a Noncompos by his Guardian Nathan Richardson in right of his Father John Richardson both of Woburn Attested by Zechariah Converse. 27 James Symonds of Woburn in right of his Father James Symonds late of s^. Town Attested by Joseph Read. 28 Samuel Converse for his Father Samuel Converse of Woburn. Attested by Joseph Read Increase Winn died / [Mass. Archives, Vol. ii^fp.^j^. Towns, /74J-17J1.'] We whose names are hereunto subscribed being the descend- ants of such persons as were in the expedition against Canada, Anno 1690, do desire and impower Roland Cotton, who took the list of our names by order of the Great and General Court, Anno 1738, to prefer a petition to the General Court, that we may obtain a grant of a township of land, as others in the same expedition have done. Jacob Wright, James Pierce, Nathan Wyman, Samuel Wyman, Ebenezer Richardson, Edward Winn, Jabez Wyman, Jonathan Brooks, Benjamin Blodgett, Nathan Simonds, Samuel Dean, Benjamin Brooks, John Fowle, Solomon Wyman, Timothy Winn, senior, Abigail Tidd, Jonathan Poole, James Simonds, Eleazer Bateman, Mousall Wright, Woburn. A true list of those persons who have a just claim on the next adjacent town to the bounty of the General Court, by being either personally, or by their ancestors, in the Canada expedition. Anno 1690. Taken in Woburn, February 19, 1738, by virtue of an order of the Gen- eral Court, bearing date Dec. 22, last past. Joseph Reed, Zachariah Converse, William Dean, Joseph Winn, Increase W"nn, Samuel Wyman, John Wyman, Woburn ; Jonathan Poole, Reading ; Joseph Wright, Joseph Wright, Jr., Woburn ; William Temple, Reading ; Thomas Pierce, James Fowle, John Russell, Joseph Pierce, Reuben Lilly, Woburn ; John Gould, Stoneham ; John Bateman, David Fox, Isaac Brooks, John Brooks, Ebenezer wmmmmimmmmmimm^mmm ( los ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Attest : , Joseph Reed. m i GLEANINGS FROM TOWN RECORDS. . ^^ V L *°''"' """'^ ""^^^^ *° ^™ish their quota for the expedition, from their exposed situation on the frontier and consequent liability to an attack from the Indians. Gr^n 7' '^T"''"^' ^''''■^•"' ^"'^^^^b'^' Chelmsford, weTeTn' '""'^^^^^'-'/"^ .*^« ^^"l^'-ents west of these towns were m an exposed position and furnished but few men. LANCASTER. Ph^TT'J'^" represented among the sufferers in Sir William Hiips disastrous expedition against Canada. Endorsed on a "Lt wm 7*f^?^'^°, Massachusetts Archives, XXXVI., 134, five ^U t Lanchaster" [Benjamin], and the names o five soldiers are known from a petition of theii heirs, in 17,8 for land grants, viz. : ' '^*' Joseph Atherton, jqhn Pope, Jonathan Fairbank, Samuel Wheeler, Timothy Wheelock. 1 J 'I f! 1690. To the Hon« Lift GouW & Counsell of Massachu- ftovnce New England, Grace Mercy & peace be multS to ye woithy GenUm" of ye Assembley. muiapned to be,W Contiu''"""'"'''^'^™" ^'="="' humbly shewe* that SZu ?"'^'' * "!"*=' P*«' * ■"> -^--'^ 'o b= found, my Humble Request .s that yo' Hon- will Consider yor Petitin' tha^ he may not pay ou, of his own Estate, for tha' w- ^ o he I ^ i ; , i * '3 ;' 1 .; ■ i f ' ( io6 ) SOCIETY or COLONIAL WARS. men's dues. Yor Petitin' also Relating to his office that yeare has been a great suffrer, haueing two Ratts to colect namely tweenty Ratts w"* was Graine, & two & a halfe money, the scarcity of y* on & not haueing the other, y" Loss in a great meashur became y* Constabl*, now yo' petition' humbley Craues yo' Hon" favour that you will please to Graunt him a clearence from Mr Tayler Treasur' so shall he be oblidged to pray for yor Hon's peace & prsprty Yo' supleant serv' Cyprian Steevens Lancaster, June 4''', 1695. A list of y* names of those p'sons that moued from y* Town of Lancaster of w** sum are Dead, in y* yeare 1690. Also y* Loss of 16 wolues by a mistake of Major Phillipses mp' Joseph Waters iSwolue s Cypnan Steevens 7-3 Cyprian Steevens, 17 " Will"'. Huttson 4-3 I 15 " Sam". Wheeler 4 - i Benjamin Willard 4-4 Joseph Waiters 6-6 Nath". Harwood 3-10 Sam". Sumner 5-4 Arthur Tooker 4 - I „ 19 » 7 A true Acount as Atests Cyprian Steevens, Constable for Lancaster. GROTON. To his Excellency S' William Phips Knight Cap" Generall and Govemour in chiefe of their Maj"** Province of the Massachu- setts Bay in New England, and Hon'^ Council and Representa- tives thereof now assembled in Generall Court sitting att Boston flFebruary 23* 169I tmam ( 107 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. The petition of John Paige of Groton for himself and in behalf of his son John Paige who was a souldier under the comand of Major Wade in the Late Expedition to Canada against y* coition enemy Humbly Sheweth That yo' Petitio's son the s"" John Paige att Canada received a Grevious wound in his left arme, of which after his returne home he lay lame und' the chirurgeons hand for the Space of Twelve months and upwards, before be gatt cure, and after he gatt cure was a twelve month more before he could doe or performe any reasonable bodily Labour to procure him- self a Lively hood. That Yo' Petition" sons cure came to Seaven pounds w** yo' Petitio' undertooke the payment of to the Chyrurgeon, and of wh* he hath only rec" from the country thirty shillings, w** was soe much allowd and ordered by the Comittee formerly appointed to Inspect y' affaires of Canada wounded men, his Son being att that time under cure, butt not cured till a very Considerable time aft' and soe had said thirty shillings allowed him for pay- ment of y* Chyrurgeon for what he had done to that time Now Forasmuch as yo' Petitio' hath formerly made Applyca- tion to yo' Ex*^ and this hon"* Court referring to y* premisses But nothing hither haveing therein been done, yett hopes you will not deale by his son worse than by others of y* wounded men. Yo' Petitio' Therefore for himself and in behalf of his said son humbly Entreats yo' Exc'' and this hon"* Court to take y* premisses into consideracon and that you will please to allow and order unto yo' petition' the remainder of s" moneys for the cure of his son, as also that you will please to allow unto his son Such compensation for the loss of his time for payment of his Dyatt during the continuance of his afores^ lameness, as to yo' wisdoms shall seeme most meet & requisite. And yo' Petition' as in duty bound Shall ever pray John Paige i: 1^ ■( ( f I4. 1. ; a % ■^ ( io8 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. This may certifie that John Paige Sone of the Petition' was under the hands of me Jonathan Prescott Chyrurgeon above a twelve months time, and that his cure pformed by me came to seaven pounds Jonathan Prescott voted that John Page Jun' son of the Petition' shall for the payment of the Chirurgion and Dyet Dureing the time of his Cure Receive out of the publicque treasury of this province Twelve pounds deducting out of s" sufne what he has all ready Reced : passed in the Affirmative by the House Re. Nath: Byheld Speaker [Endorsed] John Paige of Groton his petition 1693 27 febr Vot"*. in Council £,. 12. to be p"*. deducting &c. READING. 1690. — A company of soldiers was called for from Reading to join in the Canada Expedition, in connection with the Indian War, and Ephraim Savage was appointed its Captain, Jonathan Poole and Nath'l Goodwin were subalterns. Maj. Jeremiah Swayne is nominated for one of the magistrates for this year. " Jonathan Poole was appointed to carry the soldiers' * de- bentors ' to Boston, and to bring up thence their Bills of credit and deliver them to the Selectmen." These " debentors " (debentures) were government certificates and evidence of claim upon government for services in the Indian war. 1690, Octob. 8. I had the preceding week an impulse on my spirit to set this day apart for public prayers to God for our friends who were gone to Canada. When I proposed the matter to the congregation, some desired that it might be deferred. I answered, we know not what need our friends might stand in ' fWf * '" ' "jf irf" ' ^■ ¥ ( I09 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. llVT':, K^''' ^'"'^ '^"^ '"'■°™«d that on this day they Engadged wuh their ^nemies. And it pleased God that not a man who went from this town was slain. Dec. 10. We spent time in Prayer to God for our friends recovered. ' " ""' "'^'^ "^ ''^' ^^^ ^»^«^ -" -«n (ifx/r«.//r.« Z).«ry ./ ^«,. y^afAan Pierpont, of Reading.) WATERTOWN. In the files of the Middlesex County Court is the followin,^ certificate or memorial of soldiers, dated Apr. rs, X690 Most o them belonged to Watertown. '« Being listed in the serdce of the country against the French, and ordered down to Charles SeTdid^l^r^' ^r"^ ^^^^^^-' '"^^ -^dow m;; LT V n c- ^^*«"^^^ "Nathaniel Barsham^ ^ll r,^ ,P''''"P°''' ^^'^'' ^™"^' B"°ard, Corporal- Richard MeUms, John Applin, John Fisk, Peter ManseUohn Smuh, John Swetin, Thomas Stratton, Hen^^ Spring, John Fay Thomas Willson [Woolson?], Nathaniel [?] Wod &Iomon Ray, George Stevens [Stearns?] John Pon^ [Perr;?Wo"" iere'wis? T''^' ?"" ^^"•" ^^^ *^'^ ^^^^> there was a motion to the Court to renew her license. MIDDLESEX PROBATE RECORDS Deposition Of Joseph Beach age 30 & Daniel Makee age 20 heybemg soldiers in the late expedition for Canada /being in the company with Daniel Startin (dated 15 May 169/) GLOUCESTER. nnJ!^ ^*J- J°^" Emerson's parishioners at Gloucester were Z^^\ t"'." *'' '"'^*^°'^^ ^-^^ -P°-- incident to the i^Teir'dav ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^°""*^ -^ '^--d m their day. July ,6, 1690, he wrote a letter to "Wayt '\ ( no ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Winthrop," Commander-in-chief, respecting " the sad and deplorable state & condition " of the " towne of Glocester," and craving his"helpe & succor." "Whereas there is forty seaven of our souldiers under a presse, the case so stands with us that if they be not released I must needs tell you, & it is nothing but truth that I tell you, that wee must all be forced to leave the towne, for we are not able to stay any longer after they are gone ; but must of necessity be made a prey to the enemy. We shall not have men left to keepe us a watch, nor in any wise much lesse to withstand an enemy, which we are every day & night in expectation to breake in upon us, by reason that we are a front towne upon the sea, & so good a harbor for shipping as I believe there is not a better nor a bolder in all New England, by the report of the ablest seamen. Those that arv under presse are above halfe of those that traiiie, as I am informed, &, besides, there will be nothing neare enough left to get in hay & harvest, so that wee must of necessity be forced to kill our cattell, & our [are ?] in great danger of being fam'shed. Therefore my request to your selfe is that you will be pleased to release a1I these men that are under this last presse, there being already listed iiveteene volunteers for Canada, besides seaven that are pressed to the Indian wares. Therefore if you please not to releive us in releasing of these men, wee must of necessity, as abovesaid, & the inhabitants doe resolve upon it, to leave the towne rather than to live in con- tinuall hazzard & feare of their lives, & to be exposed to all other calamitys." BOSTON TOWN RECORDS. July iS"* 1690. Rec^ by the Selectmen y* Ord". followinge Ordered by the General Court that the select men of Bostone take care that the house in ye Fort on y* Hill be prouided for Entertain*"*, of sicke and wounded soldiers & seamen. Alsoe to prouide sutable Nurses provisions & all necessarys for them at the charge of the Countrie. By Order of the Generall Court Bostone 18*^. July 1690. IsACK ADDmoETON secret*. ^m ( III ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN ,690. To the Constables of Boston and every of them You are Required in their Ma"-. Names forthwith to Imore,, Thirty or Fortv able Seamen for their Ma"-. We Tn the Ship slnriTn^ o^^'"^" -^ 'ZrM rr '''''' ''' the Comand of Sir William Phipps K-' a«ains" the / "-'" Enemv h^r^nf f«;u ■ ^^ ' ^8*'"^' the said comon C^rndov." °™' '' ""^"^ "^""^^ ^"^'^^ ByorderoftheCJovemra* Three of these to Boston »«d CouncU. andoneoflikevenor for twelve men to Charlstown-/. To the Honourable the Governour & ComiciU, namt^ 17^:;^'^!^^ ^'^""' ^^ ''^ ^^^^^ ^an of War humbly Sheweth, & eadytt,„,ermtt, their Majesty, Service to engage We cannot afford our Shipp to goe under eighty pound. «. Mony a mouth, to say for the use of L ship7& ^r^fimnture, the Country furnishing powder & S* *&J^n^''.T '?*'' «"8^« &b. disabled in the t Ae^ t"!;"" ''""""^ "" °"««' 'O »^«' "^ lor the Cost of her present Outset ; — a. I) 11 ( 112 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. That if any of our men Fall in the Service that our Com- plement may be recruited out of the Companys now goeing forth — . Our Company of men belonging to the shipp to be p" for this Service by the Government, & fou -nished V" provi- sion, & powder & ball for their small Armes This is humbly Offered to Your honours Considerations By your most humble Serv* Charles Bedford David Edwards Cyprian Southack: I i It is ordered by Maj': Bartholemew, Geydney Capt. Daniel King : Capt: John March, for Essex Maj»: Nath: Wade Cfpt: Joseph Lynde, Capt Ebenezer Prout for Middlesex, Capt John Wing, Capt Ephraim Hunt Capt Thomas Barnard, for Suffolk, are hereby impowred, to make strict inquiry, in their respective Counties, after what plunder may any ways be concealed, by such as came from Canadia in y* late expedition, and alsoe of all stores which were brought back, att y* return of y* souldiers & make retume of what they doe herein to y* Gov': & Council past in the afirmative g feb'. lo : 169^ Joseph Lykdb p ord'. Consented to by the Magistrates, Jo* Addington Sec' THE 1690 ISSUE OF PAPER MONEY. Governor Shirley in 1746 stated that the expedition against Canada in 1690 cost the Province of Massachusetts Bay about ;£5o,ooo and the loss of an abundance of their young men by a malignant fever that raged in the camp and several distempers that happened on their way home. The remedy adopted to recoup the finances of the Province was as follows : " Whereas for the maintainiDg and defending of their Majesties interest against the hostile invasions jf their French and Indian enemies, who have begun and are combined in the prosecution of a bloody war npon the Eng- m- ow for vi- is el t: in t. re •y >f rs il ! 'THIS Irvdcntecl BiJI ofTwe/nt^ - > - S W^Lltg^ CLLie f roTH tk e Malfa cai . ' c i . . Goiony io fKe-BireiroT mall Lr- mvalur'^'D .1!l1 t e-crTL-xi to m.one\ r &l]i;iUk 6- aCC DT ainal' accepte dtv tke- ireafi ^y ir/rer a/n clR gy^ ccetv (yi'sS is {ubc'raLriate-stoKi/nivaallRtLlick payra art d fo r arn -X -o toclc at a/rty ti/rrte-. iTutke->3^ irealii/iry. JjoRoru.iAV-, New- EnglanicU JFetruaiy the intrcUx 60000 By Order of ike^ffi e/iie/ra 1 GoOii/rl^x^c^ orcrr^c/. b//3 ^^i^^^^i^;^>^^5?^^/^ Com^ 9-^9^ ^"^^^n^rj^r^ MONEY, 1690. ( 113 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. lish of their Majesties Colonys and Plantations of New England, this G>lony bath necessarily contracted sundry considerable debts, which this Court tak- ing into consideration, and being desirous to approve themselves just and honest in the discharge of the same, and that every person who hath credit with the country for the use of his estate, disbursements or service done for the public, may in convenient time receive due and equal satisfac- tion ; whithal considering the present poverty and calamities of the country, and, through scarcity of money, the want of an adequate measure of commerce, whereby they arc disadvantaged in making present payment as desired, yet being willing to settle and adjust the accounts of said debts and to make payment thereof, with what speed they can " a committee are empowered to make an immediate issue of ;^7,ooo in bills from 5 shillings tO;^5. To prevent a panic and ensure the acceptance of these bills, Phips himself exchanged a large amount of his coin for the Province notes. The government also accepted the bills in public payments at five per cent, advance, and as they were reissued many were received by the government several times in a year, with the allowance of five per cent. The establishment of a mint was also attempted, but resulted in the mother country preventing, as shown by the following : 1691-a Jan. 19. (15) Report of the principal officers of the Mint, on the proposals and reasons offered to their Majesties by Sir William Phipps, &c., for obtaining a grant to the general court, in the province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, of the liberty of coining. They conceived it very probable that most of the moneys which had been coined in New Eng- land from 1652 (when they had the privilege of coining) might still remain there; the lightness of the coins discouraging their exportation (being about 22^ per cent, less in value than our English silver coins), and encouraging the bringing in of foreign coins from Jamaica, Barbadoes, and other places. It was scarcely credible that buyers should want small moneys for change, since the coined moneys of New England were the shilling, sixpence, threepence, and twopence, besides small Spanish coins current there, as in other English colonies. They might (if their Majesties approved) be supplied with i ■ i ii • mmmm ( 114) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. pence, half-pence, and farthings of tin from England, to their Majesties' advantage. The privilege of coinage had not been granted to other English colonies as represented. The instance of the East India Company was very different, the privilege of coinage being restricted to their forts in India, and to the coinage of moneys current in the dominions of those Indian princes only. But if their Majesties grant the privilege of coining moneys to the general court in the province of Massa- chusetts Bay in New England, they proposed that the moneys might be in weight and fineness according to the standard of the Mint in England. The altering the standard in any one of their Majesties' dominions would be an eminent prejudice to ths rest. Dated 19 Jan., 1691. Minuted. — "To be shown to ye pet'. 19 Jan. '91." {Treasury Paptrs, Vol. XVII., ij.) CONCLUSION. The foregoing extracts are presented not as evidence that all those persons mentioned served in the expedition under Phips, as some of the grantees no doubt received their grant for ser- vice in other expeditions, and were grouped with the 1690 grantees in order to occupy lands of the Province that were desirable and unoccupied. ( IIS ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. INDEX ONLY OF THE NAMES MENTIONED IN THF a^^ THE EXPEDITION IN x^ TO CANAdI^''^'''''' °' I, 80, 8a. Bassett, 78. Batchelder, 39. g^-aij. 95. .03.104. Abbott, 30, 6a. Abel, a8, 80, 8a. AbimiUck. 85. Adams, 31. ^?Won. 34, no, ua. Anohon, 85. Albemarle, 4. Alin, set Allen. Andro8,3.ao,a8. Andrus, 87. Angler. 99. Annable. 53. Appeton. 88,99.51. Applin, 109. Archer, 50. Asgood, M Asbud, 35. Ashurst,e. ^ Asplnwail, 74. ASrfe.'*'''*^«'"5- Atkinson, 93. Atwood, 8a Austin, 63, 63. Avery, 92. Axdill. 68. Ayres, sa, 63, 65. Badcock, 31. Badger, 63. 65. Bagfey. 80 83.83.84. Balch. a6. 39, Baldwin. 68. BaU. 109. Barber, '^> Buck, 93. g"gbee.43,73. Bullock, 81, 83. Burch. 46, Burg. 87. Bumam. or Bumham, 6a. Bur(r), 70, 72. Burridge, 99, Burrill. 37. Burrington, 54. Burt, 68. Bush, 31. Butt, 40, 45, Butterworth, 77, 81. 8s. Byfield. 108. Byley. 28. Caldwell, 53. Call. 37. Galley. 41, 43. 81, 83. Cane. 87. Caps. Cops, Cups, 41, 4a. Caree, 81. Carleton. 63. Carpenter, 80, 81, 83. Carr, 39. Carter, 39. Case, 74. Chadwell, 53, 54. Challis, 65. Champney, 46, 95. Chandler. 33. 35. 41, 44, 47, 48, 63, 63. Cnapen, 75. Chaplin, Chaplain, 43, 45. Chapman, 53. Chase, 65. ^u^ul^'/^' "**• '^S' ^' S3. 74- Chubb, 63. Chubbucit, 37, 70, 73. Church, 64. Claflin, S3. Claghorn, 38, 86. 9.*PfP)-4i.45.67. Clark. 38. S3. 6$, 68, 74. Clarke. 40, 41, 43, 106. Clements, 41, 43. Clough, so. Cloutman, 49. Cocke, or Cox, 43. Codner, 49. Coffin, 63. Cogin, 68. Cogswell, S3 Colburn, 39. Cole, 87. Collier, 50. ColUns, 71, 73. Colton, 34. Conant, 40. Coney, 69. Converse, 103, 104, 105. Cook(e), 41,4s. Cookoone, 87. Coolidge, 98, 99, 100. Coombs, 31, so. Cooper, 44, 45. Copeland, 75. Corey, 68. Corwin, or Curwin, 16, a6, 46. Cosh, 43. Cotter, 68. Cotton, 63, 104. Crabtree, 41. Craft, 73. Craige, 39. Cram, 49. Crane, 41 44, 75. Crehore, Charhore, Crowhora, 41. 4^. Crosby, S3, 54, 63. ' ^ * ** Cross, 53. Crossman, 81, 83, 85. Crow, 30. Cummmgs, 37. Cupowo, 80. Curtis, or Curtice, 39. 40, 4a. 46, 74, Gushing, 70, 71, 73, 78. Cutler, 94, 95. Daily, 76. Daland, 39. Dana, 99. Danforth, 37. ' Daniel, 43, 50, 74, 87. Darby, 75. Darbyshire, 31. Davenport, 75, 109. E^wsV7V^''^'^^'^'^^'^^'"'*'' Dean (e) ," 31, 83, 84, 85, 103, 104. Deanng, or Dering, 19. Delano, 93. Delleway, or Dillaway, 7a. Denison, 53. Dennis, 31. Derby, 49. Dickens, 81. Dickinson. 6a. Dike, 63, 68. Disdale, 83. Dix, loa Dixey,so. Dodd, 50. Dodge, 39. Doughty, 93. Dow, 63, 65. Downing, $%. Dowse, 67. Drake, 75. ( 117 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN ,690. Dresser, 63. Driver, 7a. Dudley. S. 34.73- Durgee, S3. Dutrell, 99, Du(t)ch, 6a. Dwelley, 80, 9a. Eames, 68. Eaton, 80, 9a. Eddy, 81.83,83,84. Edwards, iia. Elamus, 87. Eldridge, n, 39. Eliot, 34, 83. Ellinwood, 40. Ellis, 80, 83/ Elsey, so. Eveleth, sa. 53. Everson, 63. Extall, 31. " Fairfield, 30, 31. Farrar. 104, los- Faxon, 43. Fay, 68, 109. Fellows, 63. Fenton, 39. Field, 87, 93. Finney, 80. Fisher, 43, 81, 83. 83, 85. I sk, S3, 109. Fitch, 61. Rtts, S3. Flagg. 67. Ford, so. Forrest, 41. 43. Foster, 6, so, 53. Fowle, 69, 103, 104. *ox, 31. 67, 103, 104. Foxon, 7s. Fraiy, 34. Freeman, 43, 53, 83, 86, 87. French, 40, S3. 75- Fnzel, 43. Frontenac, 3, 13. Frost, 64, 87, 100. Five, 97. Fuller, 69, 86, 98, 99, joo. Fui^gason, 50. Gage, 39, 40. t»allop, or Gallup, 38. ao qa a^ ^ a« 81,83,93, °'"9'3a. 34. 77.80, Gannett, 93. Garden, 81. SfiiSr^Sb!"'"''^"' ^3.74.78.93. X03. Gay. 4a. 74. 7!(' Gedney, 39, 40, na. Gibbs, 69. Giddinge, 53. G"^""' 14. 39. 84. 8s. Gilford, 70, 73. Glass, 80, 93. Glover, 83. Goddard, 99. Goderis, 39. Godfrey, 87. ^d. 40, 45, 63, 103. Golding.67,68. Good, Y5- Goodale, 39. Goodhue, so, 53. S3. Gooding, 46. Goodridge, 63, 63. Goodwin, 37, 63. 6s, 108. SsbX^' 33- 34. 77. 86, 87, 93. Gould, 6s, 93, 104. Grant, 4a, 99. Graves, 68. Gray, Grey, 40. 86. Green(e) 67, 70, 95. G^'Shri:^''"''^''^- Greenwood, 99. Greer, 7a. Griffin. 74. Gnndal. aS. Grosse, 70. Grout, 68. Grover. 39. Guilford, 93. Gulliver, 41, 45. Guttendge, 6s. Gyles, so. Halett, so. HS;y?79?^''^-«3'«4'«S. Hambleton, 87. Hamblin, 87. Hammer, 9a. Hammond, S3. 74- Harber, 43. Harlow, 93. Harrington, 68, 69, loa Ha«sV,V'' '"'''• ''•^"•^• Ha,-t, 36, sa, 63, 81, 8a. Harishome, 74. Han--y, 83. Harwood, 106. Haskell, 53. Haskins, Hoskins, 8i, 83, 83, 85. *--e ( "8 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAX. WAltS. HMtingi, 31. 95, 99. Hatch, 39. Hay. 99. Hayward, aS. 75. Hazzen, 65. Heath, 74. 75. Hedge, 86. Heirs, see Ayies. ' Henchman, 34, 39. Hend)ey, 50. Henshaw, Heniha, Hinshua, 41, 43,45. Herrick, 38, 39, 40, 75- Hersey, 41, 74. Hewins, Hewen';, 41, 44. Heywood, Haywood, 46, 55. 93. 94-' Hibberd, 40. Hicks, Hix, 41, 4:1, 45, 95. Hide, Hyde, 68, laa Hidens, Hidden, 54, 63. HigRins, 87. Hiland, Hyland, &3, 93. Hildreth, 93. Hill. Hills, 35. 39, 6$. Hilliard, 50, 8x, Is. Hincklev, 34. Hine, 49. Hiskett, 6. Hobart, 70. Hobson, 47, SS.64»6S- Hodges, 83. Hoeg, 65. Hoit. 63. Holbrook, 68, 87. Holgate, 36. Holland, 65. HoUingsworth, 50. Holioway, 81, 83, 83, 84, 85. Holmes, 40, 54, 63, 93. Hooker, 53. Hopkinson, 63. Hosmer, 48. Hovey, 31, 51. How, 46. Howard, 80, 93. Hudson, 65. Hull, 4. Humphrey, 70, 73. Hunt, 37, 33, 50,75, 93. 112. Hunter, 81. Huse, 63, 65. Hutchinson, 33, 34, 99, lot. Huttson, Hudson, xo6. Ilsley, 65. Ingalls, 50, 53, 61, 63. Ivie, 63. Jackson, 96, 41, 4a, 50, 6a, 9a, 96, 97. 99. *«>• , acob, 73, 81. ames, 87. aquith, 68. arvis, 73. eckewot, 8x. effries, 37. enison, 53. ; ewett, 53, 53, 54, 63. oChlnson, a6, 58, 63. 65, 70, 73, 8a. ones, 41, 45, 67, 69, 80, 81, 83, 83, 84, 8s, 87, 93, 109. Jorda.', 83,84,85. ' oslyn, 91. ; by, 37, 70, 73. Joyce, 93. Judkins, 70, 73. Keith, 75. Kell(e)y,43.<6. Kelton. 30, 41, 45, 83. Kent, 63, 65, 93. Kibby, 67. Kimball, 53, 6a, 63, loi. King, 37, 33, 35, 46, 47, 48, 49. 75, 100, 113. Kingman, 93. Knap, 50, 80, 84, 93. Kneeland, 45. Knight, 31. Knowlton, 53, 63. Lamb, 74. Lambert, 50, 93. Lane. 31. Lasell, 70. Lawrence, 35, 63, 74. 87. Learned, 96, 99. Lee, 39. Leeds, 41, 44. Legroe, 50. Lelghton, 53. Leonard. 75, 78, 83, 83,f84, 85. Lewis, 86, 87. Liah, 39. Lilloo^, 73. Lilly, 103, 104. Lincoln, 54, 70, 7a. Linfield, 75. IJnnet, 87. Little. 77, 78. Littlehale, 65. Livermore, 99, 100. Lobdel, 7a, 76. Lobden, 70. Long, -II, 43. Lonefiellow, 35, a6, 65. Lord, 41, 53. Loring, 70. 73. Lothrop. 78, 80, 86, 99. Low, S3. 80, 93. I^wel, 65. Lucas, 37, 77. Ludden, 75. Lufkin, 53. Lunt, 63, 65. Luther, 81, 8a. Lynde, 50, xxa. ( "9 ) THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690. Maccantosh, 74, Maccone, 31. Macey, 83. Mack Clafelin, 69. Mackdaiillin, 68. Mackerwethy, 4a. Macomber, 84. Maker, 87. Manchester, 85. Manning, 95. Mansel, 109, Mansfield, 46. Mapley, 41. Marble, 9a. March^7.^.63.64.6s.„a. Marrion, 8a. Marscraft, 74. Marsh, 65. 7a, Marshall, 85. Martin, 49, 5a, 6a. mSsoV^.^''^^''^'' 9^.98.99. Mather, 3, e. Maud^sley.^odsley.4o.4M4. Mays. 70. 7a. Mayward, 10a. Meads, 4a Mears, 75. Mellins, 109. Meredith, 81. Meriam, 68. Merrett, 50. Merrow, 31. Metcalf, 4a, S3. Mifhill, 6a. Miller, 76. Millikin, 6a. Mills, 34. Milton, 76. Mitchell, as. 40. Mix(t)er,^.69,99. Moodv 84. 6s. Moonk(e),4i,44. Moor, 67, 68. Moquet, 69. Morey, 41, 44. Morgan, 39, 40, Momll, 41. Morris (e), 73. ten.'jr^'^''*'-^'^- Moseley, 43. Mossman, Morseman, 4s, 73. Mou(nton. 88. "»•"»• /J' MuUlckin, s6, 59. Musgro. as. Myraud, a. SeSon*^' •'"*''•''<». Sa. 81. 8a. Kka^''^-^3.74. Newton, 68. Nicuaman, 70. NiJes, y^. Norden, a6. Norman, 49. 50. Norton, sa. Noues, 4a. Noyes, a8, 30, S3. 6a. 69. Nunuit. 8s. •' • "^ Ormsbee. 8a. Ormsby, 81. Orn(e),sa Osgood, eo, 65. Osiaiid, 67. Otis,7S. Owen, 75. Owin, 43. Page. 40. 6a. 68. 7a. 93. Pajge. 31. 9S. 107. 108. Pain, 86. Palmer, 9a. l^rk. 69, 99. P^kjr, a9. 43. 68. 69. 74. 80, 87, 9.. Parkhurst, 67. Parmtr (Parmenter). 41. Parsons, 39. Patch, 39. Patteman, 30. Patterson, 68. Patuxin, 85. Peabody, 6a. Peachee, 109. Peacock, 74. Peal, so. Peck, 80, 8a. Peniman, 43, 7s. Penny, 6a. Perkins, 51. Perl, 63. Perley, 56, S9. 6a Pemn, sa. 1^07,4^73. t'erson, Pearson, 63. mers, so. PWUips, 6, 34, 39, 75, 81, 8a, 83. 84, 85. Phinney, 87, 93. ^^JPS' ^'f- 3. 4. S, 6, 11, 14, 16, 19, ai 33. 34, 36, 28, 39, 63, 83, 86, 9s,^oo' Pick°iri°L^°^-'"'"3."4."'' ' PJckwortn/so. n ( 120 ) SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS. Pierce, Pe«rce, Peirce, 24, 53, 53, 55. 6a. 65. 8a. 95, 103. 104. Pierpont, 109. Pike. 54, 55. 56. 60, 63.'6s. Pilsbury, 25. 63. Pindar. 53- Pitman, 39. Pits, 83. Pittifer. 93. Platts. 37, 53,54, 58.61. 63. Plummer. 31, 63. Poland, 51. Pomeroy. Pumroy, 64. Pond, 43. Poney (Perry), 109. Pool(e), 37. 40. 103. 104, io8. Poor. 63, 63, Pope. 40. 41, 43, 44, 45, 105. Porter, 38, 39, 40. 73. Potes, 49. Potter, 63. Pratt. 49. 75. Prentice. 31. Presberry. 87. Prescott, 108. Price. 8r. Proctor, 5a Prout, 37, 39. 113. Prowse, 63. Prior. Pryor, 80, 93. Pulsifer, Pulcepher, 53. Pumshot. 81. Putnam, 4a Querk. 8a Quincy. 34, 39. 34. 88. Quinier. 99. ^ Rainsford. 39. Rand, 03, 94. Randall, 99. Ranee. 54. Rawson, 36, 38. Ray, 109. Raymond, Rayment, 36, 31. 33. 35, 37, 38. 39. 40. 67. Read, Reed, 103. 103, 104, 105. Re(a)dman. 41, 45. Reccords, 93. Remick, 87. Rice. 68, 69, lox Richards, 24. Richardson, 66, 67, 68, 83, 104. Richmond. 83. 84. 85. Rider, 87. Ring, 53. 63. 67. Riplev, 70. 71. 73. 81, 83. 83. 85. Roach. 93. Robbards. Roberts, 70. 7a. Robbins. Robins. 87, 99. Rob :son, 43. Robinson, 41, 44. 50. 80. 83, 87. Rock, 84. Roffers, 53. Rolfe, 55. Ronam, 81. Ross, 53. Rowly, 87. Royal, 46. Ruggles. 74, Russell. 34, 103, 104. Rust, SI. Sabin, 8c, 81, 8a. Sage, 65. Sale, 37. Salter. 83. Saltonstall. 34. 39. Samson. 87. Sanders. Sandras, 41. 46. Sanger. 99. Sargeant. 65. Savage. 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, ai, 37. 46, 108. Savory. 40, 65. Scoterbey. 31. Scott, 53. Scottow. 33. Searl(e8).50,S4. Se(a)ver, 4a. 74. Sewall, 33. Sharp. 73. 74. Shattuck, 30, 31. 99. Shautram. 87. Sheffield. 67. Shelley. 9a. Shepardson, Sheperson. 81. Ss. Shep(h)ard. 46, 74. 100. Shirley, 1x3. Short, 65. Shove, 84. Shute, 35, 41. 43. Silver. 65. Silvester, Sylvester. 37. 33, 77, 80. 88, 89. 90, 91, 9a. 93' Simmons, 7a, 80, 93. Simonds, Symonds. 63. 104. 105. Skeff, 78. Smart, 17. Smedley. 95. Smith. 35. 36, 38. 39, 43, 49, 54, 63, 65. 70. 74. 78. 80. 8a, 33. 84, 93, 95, 99, 109. Sneil. 93. Snow. 38. 77. 80, 86. 87, 93. Somerby. 40, 63. Soper, 93. Sortin. 50. Soul(e).79. 80. Southack. iia. Sparhawk, 69. 95. Spencer. 4, 38. Spofford, 54. Sprague. 78. 93. Spring, 99, 109. Squabscon, 85. THE EXPEDITION Squire. «a. 95. Slandley, 93. I. S "• 75. 83. aiartin, 109. Stpvens. 74, xos, 106, 109. Stevenson, 41. ^'^ Stewart, 55, 87. itoKlX^-'^-". ^.99.100. Stowel. 7a, 100. atratton, 109, !»»"». 6a. 6s. 76. Stud ley, 9a. Studman, 8a, Sturgis, »7. iigar°,"'4:""°"''''"- iutToT8a^9r^^-'»''^-'»5.»o6. Swan. so. 53, 6a. owasey, 50. Swayne, a8. 108. IS.',:i^.^^'«-«-49.Sa.63.6s. Swift, a8, 41, 44. awinton, ag. Taft 74, 81. Tapley, 50, Tarbaii, 50. Tarbox,7a. Taylor. ^3. 67. 106. Temple. 69. 103. 104. Thaxter. 70. 7a, 88. 89. Thayer, 43. 75. "^ Tliomas, 77, 80, 81, TTjojnpson.Tomso„.sa.79. Bo'P.43.73. &&?«*''-• «3.8S. Thurlo, 65. Tidd, 104. Toby, 87. Todd, 54- Toln1an.41.44, Tom, 81. Tooker, 106. Toppan, 6a, 65. Tory. 71. Totman, 93. Tower. 70. 7a. Townsend. 33. T^aintor, 81. "asJ^ 39, so, 81. ( rir ) TO CANADA IN 1690. T«(.)dwel,.5a. Sl;',y7l'"'*"'^-^^-^''^^-<^- Trivet. 7a. Trott. so. I'°W8.39.40. I rowbridge. 99, joo TS"ckerl';;;"""''"""*'^-'«'«9- Tueils.'Si. 8a. Tupper. 83. 87. Turner. 80. 91, 9a. Turrel, 75. Turusk, 81. Twi(t)chell, 67, 68. Twogood, 83. Tyler, 55, 56, 60. 63. 63. Umpatune. 81. Y"(^)y. SO. Vjckery. 76. Vie.y** Ivie. Vose. 37. WaUt)(e).4l °* Waldron, 83. Wales. 46, 7S. Walk, -o Walker 67. 68. 83. 84. Wal(l)es.4i. Wallis.39. Warner. 40. Wasunks, 8r. Watkins, i. Wat(t)ers, 106. ^EsVr?6a?^^- Week(e)s.40.4i.4a.44.4S. ^jl(e)s.34.3S.47.48.So.Si.S3.64. Wesson. 68, 69. Wefherby, 6a. Wh*eder'L^';?'"""<5^'«°'9»- me\tckfy'xof'''^5'^°S.xo6. Whipple, S3. Wn.e,6.38,5o.sx.73.74.7S.76.84. ,^!«'ng. 4a. 8a. Whitman, 7s. 93. Whitney, 69. 73, 99^ ,oa / >■ SOCIETY WUttemore, xoo. loi. Wickum, 8i. Wild, 93. Wilder 44.46. W ard. a7. 89. 106. Williami, so, 84. 00. Wllllamwn, 87; '^ Wllley. 37. Wi'»».4a.43.46,.84. W l(l)son, 37, 74. 8a, 109. Wing, 37, iia. Wingalive. 87. Winn Wynn, 37, loa, 104. Winslow, 65. Winsor, 18, at. Winter, 69. ( iw ) OF COLONIAL WARS. Wjnthrop, iia Wiie.9jS,a«.s* Wliwall, 3a Withington, WhUtingion, 34. 37. 40 Wixunj, 87. Woodberry, 39. Woolion, XM Wilson. Wormall, a6. Wormwood, 36, 73. Wright. 103, 104, Wyatt.39,46. Wyman. 103, 104.