Captain Mosely's Participation in King Philip's War
Below you'll find scans of pages from the book, History of New England During the Stuart Dynasty - Vol. III, authored by John Gorham Palfrey, Pub. 1865, Pub. by Little, Brown & Co. in Boston, MA.
Text on the preceding page, pg. 155 (no graphic here) states: The town of Swanzey, "consisting of forty dwelling-houses, most of them very fair buildings, was the nearest of the English towns to Philip's territory. On a Sunday a party of Indians approaced it, burned two houses, and then withdrew. Three days after this, "a dozen more of their houses at Swanzey were rifled"' the next day an Englishman was killed there; and the next day several others, upon whose bodies they exercised more than brutish barbarities, beheading, dismembering, and mangling them, and exposing them in the most inhuman manner." [new paragraph] By this time a small force from the Plymouth towns had marched, under the command of Major Bradford and Major Cudworth, to Swanzey, where they were presently joined by a company of foot under Captain Henchman, a troop of horse under Captain Prentice, and a hundred volun [here the text continues onto Image 2].
Image 2 - Linked is a scan of pg. 156. Names of towns or people mentioned are as follows: Captain MOSELY; Philip; Tiverton; Major Thomas Savage; Jamica; Boston and Mount Hope.
Image 3 - Linked is a scan of pg. 162. Names of towns or people mentioned are as follows: Marlborough; Hutchinson; Lancaster; Willard; Hadley; Philip; colony of Plymouth; Massachusetts; Captain Beers; Watertown; Captain Lothrop; Ipswich; Captain MOSELY; Boston; Hartford; Major Treat; Milford; Major Pynchon and Springfield.
Image 4 & 5 - Linked are a scans of pg. 170 - 171. Names of towns or people mentioned are as follows: Lothrop; South Deerfield; MOSELY and Major Treat; Springfield; Hatfield; Mather and Narragansetts.
Image 6 - Linked is a scan of pg. 193. Names of towns or people mentioned are as follows: Wadsworth; Massachusetts; Connecticut; Northampton; Hatfield; Hadley; Captain MOSELY and others.
