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Title: Soldiers in King Philip's war; being a critical account of that war, with a concise history of the Indian wars of New England from 1620-1677, official lists of the soldiers of Massachusetts colony serving in Philip's war, and sketches of the principal officers, copies of ancient documents and records relating to the war, also lists of the Narraganset grantees of the united colonies, Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Conneticut; with an appendix, 3d ed., with additional appendix containing corrections and new material
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bodge, George M. (George Madison), 1841-1914. cn
Subjects: King Philip's War, 1675-1676 Indians of North America
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Printed for the author
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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rn,and in the mean time Major Willard and his force arrived, and sointent were the Indians about the machines, that his company,coming about an hour after dark, gained the yard of the gar-risoned house before the enemy perceived them. There was alarge body of Indians posted about two miles away, on the roadby which the Majors company had come, and another party ofover one hundred in a house nearer the garrison. The outposthad let the company pass unharmed, depending upon thosenearer to strike the blow; and these latter depending upon theothers for an alarm, which either was not given, or else, in theexcitement of building the machines, they did not hear, bothmissed the opportunity of attack. As soon as they saw theirmistake they attacked the Majors party with fury, but withoutmuch avail, and all were soon safely within the house. TheIndians seeing their devices defeated and the garrison reinforced,set fire to the barn and meeting-house, and in the early morningof August 6th, withdrew.
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SIEGE OF BEOOKFIELD. Ill Such is Capt. Wheelers account, in brief, of the famousencounter at the Quabaug Swamp, and the subsequent defenceof Brookfield. And I have followed his account thus fully andat some length, because most of the published accounts that Ihave seen have either conflicted with his or have been otherwisemisleading. As to the locality where the above surprise, and almostmassacre, took place, there has been much interesting discussionwithin the last ten years. Two places seem to answer veryclosely the conditions of the account of Capt. Wheeler and theothers, whose testimony has been used in the matter. One ofthese places is situated in the north-westerly part of New Brain-tree, where was an ancient Indian town called Meminimisset,afterwards Wenimisset. Dr. L. R. Paige, D.D., of Cambridge,advocates this location, and by an able and convincing array offacts and arguments, in the New England Historical and Gene-alogical Register of October, 1884, leads to the conclusion

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