rched from Boston that day, yet he moved immediately for the
relief of Sudbury. Presuming that the hill where this monument stands
is that to which Captain Wadsworth was forced by the Indians, their
decoy-outposts must have been a mile or a mile and a half on the way
to Marlboro'.

Captain Wadsworth estimated the number of Indians first discovered at
one hundred. These he pursued about a mile, when he found himself
surrounded by a body of savages four or five hundred strong. Captain
Wadsworth was probably at the bloody fight of the 19th of December, he
was in the Narraganset country about the 1st of January, and he had
marched at the head of forty men to the relief of Lancaster, yet he
appears from the little truth within our reach, to have neglected those
precautions essential to safety in Indian warfare. But is should be
remembered that Captain Wadsworth and Captain Brocklebank were born
about the time of the Pequot War, and could have had no experience in
similar service previous to hostilities with Philip.

The loss of men is not certainly known, nor do writers agree that the
fight took place on the 18th of April.

The inscription upon the monument follows the authority of President
Wadsworth of Harvard College, son of Captain Wadsworth, and for a
portion of his life minister of the first church in Boston. He had
superior facilities for ascertaining the truth and strong motives for
stating it. He puts the loss at twenty-nine officers and men, and
fixes upon the 18th of April as the day of the fight.

His statement is sustained by the evidence I have gathered. Some
writers have put the loss at fifty, and others as high as seventy men,
but these numbers exceed the truth. Wadsworth had fifty men;
Brocklebank may have had as many more. We can account for about
ninety-six. On the 24th of April, Lieutenant Jacobs acknowledges the
receipt of his charge as Captain, in place of Captain Brocklebank, and
informs the Governor and his Council that his company consists of
about forty-six men, a portion of whom were left at Marlboro' by
Captain Wadsworth.

Hubbard says, that of Wadsworth's company, not above twenty escaped,
and Daniel Warren and Joseph Pierce, who buried the dead, say that
fourteen or fifteen of Captain Wadsworth's men were concealed at Mr.
Noist's mill. Taking the statements of Hubbard and Jacobs, we
account for ninety-six officers and men, viz.: forty-seven left at
Marlboro', twenty-nine killed