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being secure, vapord & talked high, but eh Eng. solds. cld. not get to ym, because the bridge was cut off, as is before mentioned, before the eng. retreatd. they burned abourt 40 dwelig houses which was near 1/2 yr town & slew & wounded about 20 persons, whereof the Lieu. of the town twon named Adams * ( a perso nsomewhat severe against the pray. Inds. was one) & the same night ye Leut's. widow being at Mr. Wilsons the ministers house that stood near the main guard being upon a bed in a chamber, divers solds.& commanders being in the room underneath, cap. Jacob having a gun in his hand 1/2 bent, with the muzzle upwardward towards the chamber, he being taking his leave to be gone to his quarters, by some accident, the gun fired thro', & shot floor, mat, & thro' & thro' the body of the Lieut's widow that lay upon the bed, & Slew her alao; this was a very strang accident, but god is awful in Such tremedous dispensations. This intelligence of burning Medfield coming to the gewet?. & so soon after the burng. of Lancasr. occasioned many thot's of heart, & hurrying motions, & gave opportuning to the vulgar to cry out,"O Come let us go down to Deer Isd. & kill all the pray. Inds,": they cld. not come at the eny. Inds., for they were too crafty & subtle for teh Eng. therefore they would have wreaked their rage upon the poor unarmed Inds. our friends (had not the authority of the county, restraind then) for about this time the council was informed by good testimony, that about 30 or 40 men were entering into a combination to convey themselves out to the Isld, at Pullen pt. the narrowest place between it & the main & to have cut off all the poor Chr. Inds.
- Lieut. Henry Adams, the oldest son of Henry Adams of Braintree, who was born in England in 1604, & setted in Medfield with 3 of his brothers. His wife was Elizabeth Paine.