Miles Standish. Samuel Wadsworth was born in Duxbury about 1630, and
was therefore forty-five or six years of age when he died. He first
appears at Milton, in 1656, where he took up three hundred acres of
land near the center of the town. He was interested in obtaining the
separation of the town from Dorchester and in its incorporation in
1662. In the new town he was the first captain of the militia, one of
the selectmen, a member of the House of Representatives, a trustee of
the church and active in church affairs. That he was highly esteemed
in the town is apparent from these facts as well as from a memorial of
Robert Babcock, one of the selectmen of Milton. He feelingly alludes
to the loss in these words: _"Captain Wadsworth being departed from
us, whose face we shall see here no more."_
Capt. Samuel Brocklebank, of Rowley, was born in England, and was also
about forty-six years of age at the time of his death. In November,
1675, he informed Governor Leverett that he had impressed twelve men
for the war. Of these, seven returned to Rowley. His correspondence
with the Council shows him to have been a man of respectable attainments.
As then the colonies and the town shared a common grief in the loss of
these devoted men, so now it is appropriate that the State and town
should unite in the erection of this unpretending memorial of their
names and virtues.
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