KING PHILIP'S WAR]. RAWSON, EDWARD, Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. . Autograph document signed ("Edw:Rawson" and initialled). [Boston], 22 April 1676. 1 page, oblong, 98 x 136 mm. (3 7/8 in. x 5 3/8 in.), docketed on verso. PROTECTING CONCORD AND MEDFIELD, THE DAY AFTER THE INDIAN ATTACK ON SUDBURY A document reflecting the first stirrings of resistance to European settlement on the part of indigenous tribes who had previously been charitable and cooperative to the early settlers in Plymouth Bay Colony. After the death of the Sachem Massasoit in 1672, a new generation of Indian leaders were less acquiescent with English aims. King Mettacom, or Philip, began a series of strong and sudden attacks against outlying European settlements, which raged through 1675-1676, until King Philip was killed (11 August 1676). In the course of the brief war, sixteen towns in Massachusetts and four in Rhode Island were destroyed, and settlement on the frontiers was retarded, but the native tribes were forced to relinquish thousands of acres of ancestral lands. In the present agitated order, written one day after the Indians attacked and burned Sudbury, 17 miles west of Boston, Rawson orders the mayor of Suffolk to "forthwith issue out his Orders to rayse forty troopers or as many as they can presently get together well Mounted and Compleately armed and furnished with Ammunition under the Conduct Cornet Jacob Elliot...to march to & vissit Sudbury & make Discovery what they may of the Enemy's motion & where they be & if they finde the motion of ye Enemy to be either towards Concord or Meadfield [Medfield] to vissit those Towns also & give ye Council speedy Information of what they finde as to ye Town's condition & ye Enemy's motion...."
KING PHILIP'S WAR]. RAWSON, EDWARD, Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. . Autograph document signed ("Edw:Rawson" and initialled). [Boston], 22 April 1676. 1 page, oblong, 98 x 136 mm. (3 7/8 in. x 5 3/8 in.), docketed on verso. PROTECTING CONCORD AND MEDFIELD, THE DAY AFTER THE INDIAN ATTACK ON SUDBURY A document reflecting the first stirrings of resistance to European settlement on the part of indigenous tribes who had previously been charitable and cooperative to the early settlers in Plymouth Bay Colony. After the death of the Sachem Massasoit in 1672, a new generation of Indian leaders were less acquiescent with English aims. King Mettacom, or Philip, began a series of strong and sudden attacks against outlying European settlements, which raged through 1675-1676, until King Philip was killed (11 August 1676). In the course of the brief war, sixteen towns in Massachusetts and four in Rhode Island were destroyed, and settlement on the frontiers was retarded, but the native tribes were forced to relinquish thousands of acres of ancestral lands. In the present agitated order, written one day after the Indians attacked and burned Sudbury, 17 miles west of Boston, Rawson orders the mayor of Suffolk to "forthwith issue out his Orders to rayse forty troopers or as many as they can presently get together well Mounted and Compleately armed and furnished with Ammunition under the Conduct Cornet Jacob Elliot...to march to & vissit Sudbury & make Discovery what they may of the Enemy's motion & where they be & if they finde the motion of ye Enemy to be either towards Concord or Meadfield [Medfield] to vissit those Towns also & give ye Council speedy Information of what they finde as to ye Town's condition & ye Enemy's motion...."
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