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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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was 527; the number actually impressed was 540, including troopers, 75. The returns made at Dedham Plain give 465 foot, troopers, 73. The Connecticut quota was 315, and there were also two companies of Indians,150. Plymouths quota was 158. The scene of the battle is well identified. It is situated in West Kingston, R.I., and belongs to the estate of the late Hon.J. G. Clark, whose residence was about one mile north-easterly from the old battlefield. Many relics of the battle are in possession of Mr. Clarkes family. Saving the changes incident upon the clearing and cultivation of contiguous land, the place could be easily identified as the battlefield, even if its location were not put beyond question by traditions and also by relics found from time to time upon the place. It is now, as then, an island of four or five acres, surrounded by swampy land, overflowed except in the dryest part of the year. The island was cleared and plowed about 1775, and at that time many bullets were found deeply
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THE SWAMP FORT BATTLE. 185 bedded in the large trees; quantities of charred corn were plowed up in different places, and it is said that Dutch spoons and Indian arrow-heads, etc., have been found here at different times. The accompanying map is a section — slightly reduced — of the large map of Rhode Island, made from surveys under the direction of H. F. Walling, Esq., and published by him in 1862. It takes in the line of march from Pettisquamscot (Tower-Hill) to the Fort. There is no scale of miles upon the large map, but by a careful comparison of known distances it appears that it is about seven miles in a bee line, nearly west, from Tower-Hill to the battlefield; by way of McSparran Hill in direct courses, about ten miles. The army, following the higher land, with frequent halts and probably much uncertain wandering and careful scouting, consumed the time from five oclock in the morning to about one oclock P.M.; and it is likely that in this roundabout march they made about fifteen or six

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