Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-06-14


your petitioners are employed and desired
bv many Others that each soldier may he
| allowed FIVE shillinss per day In case they
kill any enemy Indian aud produces their
scalps, they viii employ themselves in ln-
dian hunting one whole year and Il your
bonorS should ihus see III 10 encourage
them or take up with their proposal, they
! will readily proceed in We said service IN
case they have proper officers appointed
TO lead them, and /. they bring in any scalp
;hey are willing and DESTROYS 10 submit to
what the government shall see cause to
give them (oyer and above their wages a.
| a reward for their service.
Signed, JoHN LoyEwELI,
JosrIAu FARwEIL,
JONATHAN RoBBINs,
Nov. l7ii
The Humble Memorial met with
"incoura cement suitable, for on the ! eth
of November of that year, 1T was voted,
That his Honor the It. Governor, be de-
sired to commission proper and suitable
officers for the service, the number OF
men not to exceed fifty.
And sor their further encouragement
they shall be entitled over and above the
two shillings and six pence per diem, the
sum of one hundred pounds and the 9th
er premiums established by law to vol
untecrs without pay or substance. The
pound at this time was considered hb.
eral compensation, and, accordingly, we
find that Loyewell soon organized a COM
pauy of which he was chosen captain
and Josiah Farwell lieutenant. This
company. however. met with no 'rebe!
Indians, until late in December, when
theS cams TO lonely camp where an in.
dian with an Indian lad, probably his
son, were living together subsist;ng upon
such game as they could find in the
dense wilderness about them, where their
forefathers had probably subsisted for
centuries unmolested. These poor peo-
pie were living in fancied security, far
from their white brothers, when they
were surprised in their poor dwelling by
| Lovewell and his men, and the older In
dian slain and scalped before the eyes OF
the boy. as appears from the following
extract from the Boston NccS Letter:
Jan. l.. 1925. On Tuesday last arrived
| Capt. John Loveweli commander oI com
pany of volunteers in the pay or the FRO
vince and brought with him scalp OF an
| Indian man and captive, LAD ABOUT 10
years of age, who were taken about oy SAID
company about IL miles above Wlnnepl-
sockee Pond on the 10th OF December last
for which good service and for their iar-
| fAsr announcement, the Honorable the LII
| Governor and Council were pleased 10 give
them 1fty Pounds over and above one
hundred and ffty pounds allowed them by
law.
Who will say, after reading this, that
progress has not been made in humanity
since the DAYS of our good foreiathers !:
Surely no Governor and Council would
dare to endorse an act like this-no edl-
tor even would today dare to shock the
sentiments Of his readers by such an item
as this without dissentary comments.
I.ovewelrs success and the liberality OF
the authorities coupled with the praises
of the best men of the times inspired ad-
yenturers to unite their fortunes with
I.ovewell, who was called another Joshua,
and we find from his journal that men
from Groten, Haverhill, Lancaster and
Billerica fiocked to his standard, Here
follow extracts from the journal Of Love-
well which space does not permit US TO
copy but which records the killing while
asleep in their wigwams of ten Indians
Penhallow says, that in this expec.
ton, "Our men were well entertained
with moose head and dear, together with
Salmon trout some of which were three
feet long aud weighed twelve pounds
apiece. Capt. Lovewell gained great
fame by this expedition, and having
sold his scalps, he determined to try his
luck farther, for we find his letter adj
dressed to the Governor which is sup
posed to be the last he ever wrote, being
written on the very day Of his departure
upon that expedition which ended IN HI;
death at Piggwacket.'
PUNISHABLE April We 10, 1925.
Sir This is to inform you that marcl
from Dunstable with between forty an(
fifty men on the day above mentioned ant
| should have marched sooner II the wealth
er had not prevented me. No more a
: present, but remain, Your humble Serv't
> JOHN LovEwELL.
: A brief and soldierly letter, and worth.
Of better cause.
Here Symmes' "Memoirs Of the Bat
tie of Piggwocket," written in 1925
were drawn upon for much quaint mat
, ter, in which Lovewell is called Joshu
e and likened to the great generals of an
: tiquity.) Symmes' account of the battl
B. is doubtless the best extent and a synop
t sis is here given:
0 "'Twas there, about the 10th O
April, 1925, that the Brave Lovewel
{ begun his March from Dunstable 70
n Piggwocket with 46 men under his com
: mand."
, After relating all the incidents of tn
? march the Memoirs continued
e "When they'd Marched about a Mil
: and a Half or two Miles, Ensign Lyman
] Spy'd an Indian coming towards them
vbereupon he oave Sign and they al