(COLONIAL WARS) Dudley Joseph Letter ordering a veteran Indi

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(COLONIAL WARS.) Dudley, Joseph. Letter ordering a veteran Indian fighter on a scouting expedition along the coast. Letter Signed "J Dudley" as Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, to Winthrop Hilton. One page, 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches, with docketing on verso; foxed, worn, early paper repair on verso, but text all complete and legible. Portsmouth, NH, 23 April 1705

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Governor Joseph Dudley (1647-1720) and Lieutenant Colonel Winthrop Hilton (circa 1671-1710) were an established team by this point, three years into Queen Anne's War. Most notably, during the previous winter, Dudley had sent Hilton to attack an Indian village in what is now central Maine. Hilton failed to find the Indians, but burned the village in what is remembered as the Raid on Norridgewock. Here Dudley orders Hilton to perform a ten-day scouting expedition in the more thickly settled area along the coast between Kingstown, NH and Wells, ME. In full: "Lt. Colonel Hilton: You are to detach twenty choice able men out of the several companys of militia in Exeter and Dover in order for their scouting tenn days under your command betwixt Kingstown and Wells, and to have them ready very early at Exeter on Thursday morning next with arms and ammunition well fixed for such service, and herein you are not to fail. You are also hereby required to take under your command for the like scouting twenty souldiers detached out of the forty under the comand of Major Walton, who will be ready to joyne you at Exeter on the same day early."