that ever fell in battle; and Capt. Jacob Allen and Abner Robinson, who were killed at Saratoga at the capture of Burgoyne during the war of the American Revolution, in 1777, were the next.   Gideon Washburn was killed at sea about the same time.

   Hubbard inform us that "in June, 1676, (it was 1675) a man and woman were slain by the Indians at Dartmouth; and that another woman was taken; but, because she had kept an Indian child before, so much kindness was shewn her as that she was sent back, after they had dressed her wounds; and the Indians guarded her till she came within sight of the English."   The man and woman alluded to were probably Jacob Mitchell and his wife; and Dorothy Hayward, who afterwards gave the following deposition, was probably the woman who was made a prisoner, and treated with such exemplary humanity;—

   "Dorothy Hayward, aged 30 years or thereabouts, being engaged upon oath testifieth, that she being taken by the Indians in June in the year 1675, in Dartmouth, in Plymouth Colony saith, William Palmer was slain by the Indians, and Jacob Mitchell and his wife, and John Pope.   This deponent saw these Indians, Ponoho, Watanom, John Bryant, Nenpos, Potak, Tosanem.   These be the names that we know to be in being.   No further this deponent saith.—Taken before me upon oath,

   During the American Revolution, Bridgewater was firm and patriotic, entering heartily into the struggle, and bearing her full proportion of its burdens.   Those who fell in battle were not numerous, and some of the principal names have been already given.

   The first settlements having been in the west parish, the first church was of course formed there, and although social worship on the Sabbath had not probably been omitted or at all neglected, yet having been few in number and feeble in substance, they were at first unable to maintain a minister, and, by thus