… The next we hear of Capt. Mosely is on September 14, when he marched into Hadley with sixty Bay soldiers, and thence to Deerfield, where he was quartered and scouting on the 18th when hearing the guns of the attack on Capt. Lathrop at Bloody Brook, he hurried with seventy men to join the fight, and though too late to prevent the terrible disaster, he and his men attacked the great body and “charged them through and through” several times, chasing them seven miles or more. … Finally, after long and severe fight, but strangely enough, with a loss of only two killed and eight or nine wounded, they were being forced slowly backward by great numbers, when Major Treat with a force of Connecticut troops and Indians came up and joined them, and before these untied forces [King] Philip retreated in haste.
In regard to the killed and wounded I have the names, John Oates, and Peter Barron. The will of the Latter shows that he was a servant of Elias Hendly of Marblehead, and was pressed to go against the Indians.1826

His will says that he was “pressed and commanded to go against the Indians.”1827