FOUNDEDBY GOLDWIN SMITH
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HARRIET SA\ITH
COLLECTIONS
OF THE
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
SECOND SERIES
to.
^DOCUMENTARY
HISTOEY OF THE STATE OF MAINE
VOL. X
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CONTAINING
THE BAXTER MANUSCRIPTS
EDITED
BY JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER, A. M.
PUBLISHED BY THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AIDED BY
APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE STATE
PORTLAND
LEFAVOR-TOWER COMPANY
1907
Copyright 1907
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PREFACE
THE documents in this volume fall within a period of
great interest and importance to students of Maine
history, and have been selected to largely embrace Indian
affairs and questions of ownership of lands, which agitated
those who were struggling to establish themselves along the
outposts of civilization. This volume closes the present
series, and the next will begin a new one.
JAMES PHTNNEY BAXTER.
MACKWORTH ISLAND,
July 31, 1907.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
(2J962-3 Feb. COLL. LEDGELS MEMOR^ TOUCHING TRADE
WITH THE INDIANS, &c., 1
1692 Oct. 12 Sir William Phipps to Earl of Nottingham, . 2
1692-3 Feb. 21 Sir William Phipps to Earl of Nottingham, . 4
1693 Aug. 11 The Submission and Agreements of the Eastern
Indians, 7
French Designs in New England, ... 12
1697 Dec. 2-12 Letter from John Nelson from Paris relating to
the Designs of the French, .... 13
Apr. 12 John Nelson's Memorial relating to Nova Scotia, 18
Apr. 13 Petition of John Nelson 16
July 2 Extract of a Memorial from Mr Nelson, . . 20
Nov. 2 John Nelson's Memorial relating to the Fishery
on the Coast of Nova Scotia &c, 21
1697-8 Jan. 4 Mr. Crowne's Acct of the Engl: Title to Penob-
scot, . 25
1698 Sept. 15 Letter from M. Villebon to Mr. Stoughton, . 30
Oct. 18 Affidavit of John Swasey and Wm. Jeggels, . 32
Oct. 24 Letter from Mr. Stoughton to ye Board, . . 34
Nov. 4 Letter from John Nelson relating to the French
pretentions to the sole Right of fishing upon
the Coast of Accadie, 37
Nov. 11 Letter from Benjamin Jackson concerning the
Claims of the French to St. George's River, . 40
1699 Nov. 10 Letter from Wolfgang Will? 1 Romer, . . 42
1700 Mar. 27 Letter from Jos. Storer, John Wheelwright &
Jonathan Hamond relating to ye Indians, . 43
Apr. *11 Letter from Wolfgang W Romer, ... 45
Apr. 13 William Rayment's Memorial relateing to the
Indians, . . . ... . . . 52
Address of Governor & als of New Hampshire, 54
Petition of Earl of Limerick concerning Pema-
quid, 56
May 10 Answer to Earl of Limerick's Petition concern-
ing Pemaquid, 57
1700 June 13 Cap* John Alden's Relation to the Earl of
Bellomont, ...*... 57
June 17 Letter from J. Laborie, 59
June 19 Capt. John Alden's Second Relation to the Earl
of Bellomont, 60
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June 21 Colossians Discovery, 63
June 22 Letter from Earl of Bellomont to Mr. Sec^y
Vernon, 65
July 9 Letter from Earl of Bellomont to Mr. Sec. Vernon, 67
Letter from Earl of Bellomont, . . . . 68
July 16 Letter from Earl of Bellomont, ... 71
Sept. 3 Letter from Is* Addington, 73
Nov. 20 Mem\ from Mr Crown relating to his Title to
Penobscot in New England, .... 74
Mr. Crown's Petition relating to his Title to
Penobscot in America, . . . 82
The bounds of Nova Scotia and Penobscot, with
the lands belonging to it, as they are exprest
in Cromwells Patent, and y deede of partition, 83
Dec. 20 Letter from Wm. Stoughton, .... 84
1700-1 Jan. 22 Report on John Crown's Petition, ... 86
1701 June 3 Memorial of Propositions made with the Eastern
Indians, 87
Aug. 8 Letter from Mr Brouillan, Govr of Accadie, . 96
Aug. 9 A Memorial of the Council & Representatives of
the Massachusetts Bay, ..... 98
Aug. 22 Isaac Addington to Govr of Accadie, . . 103
1718 Mar. 14 Letter from Mr. Carkesse, 114
1719 Feb. 17 Letter from Samll. Shute to Wm Popple Esq., 104
An Answer to the First Query Propos'd by the
Rt Honble the Lords of Trade &c referring to
the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, . 108
Mar. 14 Letter from Cha Carkesse to Wm. Popple Esq., 114
May 26 Letter from Edward Southwell, . . . .116
June 4 Answer to Several Queries relating to the State
of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, . 117
June 26 Letter from J. Bridger, 119
July 9 Letter from J. Bridger, 125
July 17 Letter from J. Bridger to Hon. Wm. Popple, . 126
July 23 Letter from J. Bridger, . ... . . 128
Several Affidavits & other Papers relating to the
Difference between Mr. Bridger & Mr. Elisha
Cooke, ...'... . . 130
1720 Apr. 8 Letter from E. J. Bridger, . ,. . . 134
Aug. 20 Mr. Blechyden to the Lords Commissioners for
Trade and Plantations, . . . . .142
Oct. 11 Letter from J. Dummer to Wm. Popple, . 143
1721-22 Feb. 2 Letter from Mr Newman, 145
1722-23 Mar. 23 Letter Col. Thos. Westbrook to Lt. Go v. Dummer, 146
1722 Apr. 10 Letter from Gov. Shute, .... 148
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Apr. 10 Votes of the House of Representatives (at the
Session of the General Assembly held at Bos-
ton March 15, 1722), 148
June 27 Elisha Cook Esq. per Order of the Committee on
the Petition of John Smith, .... 149
July 4 Letter from John Penhallow to Gov. Shute, . 150
July 6 Letter from John Wheelwright to Gov. Shute, 151
July 8 Journal of the House of Representatives, . 152
Sept. 23 Letter from Thos. Westbrook to Gov. Shute, . 153
Oct. 1 Letter from Zach Trescott to Judge Dudley, . 156
Nov. 16 Letter from Mr. Sharpe to the Lords Commig-
sioners for Trade and Plantations, . . . 157
1723 Dec. 16 Letter Thos. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 159
1723-24 Jan. 28 Letter Thos. Westbrook to Lt. Gov. Dummer, . 160
1723 Apr. 6 Letter Thos. Westbrook to Lt. Gov. Dummer, . 161
June 25 Memorial & Petition of James Woodside, . . 163
May 22 Letter from Mr. Dummer to the Lords Couiiss^
for Trade and Plantations, .... 165
1724 Jan. 6 Defence of Robert Armstrong, .... 166
Jan. 19 Letter Lt Gov. Dummer to Mons. Vaudreuil, . 176
1724-25 Jan. 25 Letter Capt. Saml Hinckes to Lt Gov. Dummer, 179
1724 Feb. 4 Letter Lt. Gov. Dummer to Lt Kennedy, . . 180
1724-25 Feb. 8 Letter from Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov.
Dummer, 181
1724-25 Feb. 16 Letter Col. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 182
1724 Mar. 23 Letter Allison Brown to Col. T. Westbrook, . 182
Mar. 24 Letter from Thos. Westbrook, . . . .183
Mar. 29 Letter Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, 183
Letter Richard Davenport to Col. T. Westbrook, 184
Apr. 1 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 184
Apr. 2 Letter Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, 185
Apr. 6 Letter Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, 187
Apr. 8 Letter Capt. Johnson Harmon to Col. Westbrook, 188
Apr. 11 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 188
Apr. 13 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 189
Apr. 16 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt. Gov. Dummer, . . 190
Apr. 19 Letter from Nathan Knight, .... 193
Apr. 20 Letter Wm. Peperell & others to Col. T. West-
brook, . . . ..-,. ... 190
Apr. 21 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 191
Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 192
Apr. 26 Col. Thos, Westbrook to L. Gov. Dummer, . 193
Apr. 27 Capt. Jos. Heath to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, . 194
Apr. 28 Letter Col. Thos. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, 195
Apr. 29 Capt. John Penhallow to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 196
May 1 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 197
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June 21 Letter Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer to Lt Gov. J.
Wentworth, 287
Instructions to Cola Noyes & Appleton, . 287
June 22 Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L Gov. Wm. Dum-
mer, 288
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, 289
June 23 Letter Col. John Appleton to Lt Gov. Dummer, 290
A. Cumings Esqre to Mr. Secy. Popple, . . 291
Letter Lt Gov. Dummer to Col. Johnson Harman, 292
June 24 Letter Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, 292
June 25 Letter from Mr. Delafaye, 292
June 26 Letter Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, 296
Letter Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer to Col. T. West-
brook, 297
June 28 Letter J. Stoddard & J. Wainwright to Lt Gov.
Wm. Dummer, .298
Letter John Stoddard & John Wainwright to Lt
Gov. Wm. Dummer, 298
July 3 Thos. Westbrook to Hon. Wm. Dummer, . . 299
Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Wm. Dummer, 300
Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 301
July 4 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Wm. Dummer, . . 302
July 6 Petition of Robert Armstrong, . . . 302
Affidavit, 303
July 7 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, 304
July 8 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, 304
July 9 Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer to Gov. J. Wentworth, 305
July 9 Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer to John Stoddard & John
Wainwright, x . . 805
Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer to Col. T. Westbrook, 806
Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer to Col. T. Westbrook, 307
Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer to Capt Sanders, . . 308
July 10 J. Stoddard, Sha Walton & Jn<> Wainwright.
Comm" to Wenemonet & other chiefs, . 308
July 12 Capt. Joseph Heath to Lt Gov. Wm. Dammer, 309
Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, 310
July 14 Josiah Willard to Col. T. Westbrook, . . .311
July 21 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, 312
July 23 J. D de St. Castin to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, 313
July 26 Capt. S. Wheelwright to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, 316
Capt. S. Wheelwright to Col. T. Westbrook, . 315
July 28 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, 816
July 31 R. Waldron to Lt Gov. J. Wentworth, . . 317
Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer to Col. T. Westbrook, 317
Aug. 7 Orders to Capt White & Wyman, ... 318
Capt. James Grant to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, . 318
Aug. 12 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, 320
Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Col. J. Harmon, . 320
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Aug. 16 Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer to Col. Armstrong, . 321
Aug. 18 John Bacon to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, . . 324
Lt John Pritchard to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, 326
Aug. 22 Lt Col. Johnson Harmon to Col. T. Westbrook, 327
Aug. 23 Sam* Jordan to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . . 328
Aug. 25 Sami Cranston to Lt Gov. Wm. Dummer, . 328
Aug. 27 Dr. Bacon liberty to wait on Lt Gov., . . 329
Orders to Capt. Smith, 329
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Wm. Dum-
mer, 331
Sept. 1 Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Wm. Dummer, 331
Sept. 2 Capt. Thos. Smith to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 332
Sept. 5 Johnson Harmon to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 333
Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 333
Sept. 6 Letter H. Holland & others, . . . .333
Sept. 9 Col. Thos. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 334
Orders to Col. Harmon & Capt Moulton, . . 335
L* Gov. Dummer to Col. Westbrook, . . 335
Sept. 10 H. Holland & others to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 336
H. Holland & others to Col? Partridge & Stod-
dard 337
Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 337
Sept. 13 Josiah Willard to Henry Hollard & others, . 338
Sept. 16 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . .338
Sept. 24 Lt Gov. Dummer to Col. Westbrook, . . 339
Sept. 26 Ch: Delafaye to the Lords Commissioners, . 340
Sept. 29 Col. Wm Pepperrell to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 340
Oct. 1 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 341
Oct. 4 John Minot to Col. Stephen Minot, . . 342
Josiah Willard to Col. Westbrook, . . .347
Josiah Willard to Capt Thos Smith, . . 347
Josiah Willard to Col. Wm Pepperrell, . . 348
J. Willard to Capt. Grant & Lt Bragdon, . 349
Oct. 7 Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Wm Dummer, 349
Oct. 14 Sami Willard to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 350
Lt Gov. Dummer to Gov. Armstrong, . . 351
Nov. 5 Letter from James Stevenson, .... 352
Nov. 15 Samli Stacy to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . .352
Dec. 21 Lt Gov. Dummer to Col. T. Westbrook, . 353
1726 Jan. 4 Resolve, . . . v 354
Jan. 13 Rev. Christopher Toppan to L* Gov. Dummer, 354
Jan. 28 Col. T. Westbrook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 357
Mar. 25 Lt Gov. Dummer to the Lords of Trade, &c, . 368
Oct. 4 Wenungenit to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . . 365
Dec. 15 Capt. Joseph Heath to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 366
1726-7 Feb. 27 Capt. John Gyles to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 355
Mar. 6 Capt Tho? Smith to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 357
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Mar. 14 Lt Gov. Dummer to Wenungennet, . . 358,
Lt Gov. Dummer to Cols Stoddard & Partridge, 359
Mar. 17 Capt. John Gyles to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 359
Capt. Tho? Smith to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 360
Mar. 21 Lt Gov. Dummer to Capt. John Giles, * . . 362
Mar. 22 Col. Sami Partridge to the Commissioners at
Albany', 364
1727 Mar. 24 Capt. Jos. Heath to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 867
Mar. 27 Capt. John Gyles to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . * 370
Ph. Livingston & others Commas to Col? Stod-
dard & Partridge, 371
Mar. 31 Wm Woodside to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 373
Apr. 3 Col. 'Partridge to LtG^ov. Dummer, . . .374
Capt Thos Smith to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 374
Capt. John Gyles to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 375
Apr. 8 Capt. John Gyles to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 376
Capt. John Gyles to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 379
Apr. 13 Capt. Joseph Heath to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 379
Secretary Willard to Commrs for Ind. Affairs, . 381
Apr. 25 Secrys Letters to Capt Heftth & Gyles, . . 381
Ca"pt. John Gyles to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 383
Cpt. Gyles Conference, 385
Apr. 23 Capt. John Giles to Lt Gov. Dummer, . . 385
May 4 Memorial of Capt. John Gyles to Lt Gov. Dum-
mer, '387
May 15 Capt. Tho? Smith to Lt Gov. Wm Dummer, . 388
May 15-16 Capt. John Gyles to L* Gov. Dummer, . . 389
May 16 Capt. John Gyles to acquaint Wennogenet, . 391
May 19 John Gyles Enterpet, ..... 391
James Blaggdon or Braggdon inlisted into service, 392
May 20 W m Vaughan to Hon. W^ Dummer Esqr . . 390
May 23 Letter L. Gov. Dummer, . . . . 393
Letter L. Gov. Dummer to Col. Wheelwright, . 397
May 26 John Gyles Enter* , . . ... . . 398
May 27 John Gyles Enterr , . . . ...,'; . 398
L. Gov. Dummer to Capt. John Gyles, . . 399
May 29 Wm Dummer to Capt. John Gyksp, . ,', . 392
L. Gov. Dummer to Capt. Heath & Capt. Gyles, 393
June 8 Letter Samuel Jordan to L* Gov. Dummer, . 400
June 12 Letter Chiefs of Norridgewock Woweenock &
Arressegontoogook to Lt Gov. Dummer, . 400
June 12 Letter Capt. Joseph Heath to Lt Gov. bummer, 401
June J4 Letter Capt. John Gyles to Lieut. Gov. Dummer, 403
June 17 Letter L\ Gov. Dummer to the Penobscot Sachem, 405
Letter Lt Gov. Dummer to Capt. John Gyles, . 406
Letter Lt Gov. Dummer to Lieut. Clark, . . 406
Letter Lt GQV. Dummer to Indians at Richmond, 407
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PAGE
June 17 Letter L* Gov. Dummer to Capt. Jordan, . 407
June 22 John Gyles, Enterpr , 408
June 26 Capt. John Gyles to L* Gov. Dummer, . . 409
Wenogent to L* Gov. Dummer, .... 409
June 27 Governor's Message, 411
June 30 Letter from Joseph Heath, . . . . . 410
Aug. 7 Letter from John Wentworth, .... 411
Aug. 24 Letter from John Wentworth, . . . .415
Oct. 10 Message from the House, ..... 416
Message from Lieut. Govr 417
Oct. 11 Vote, 417
Message from the L* Govr , . . . . . 418
Petition of Samuel Jones, * . . . . 418
Oct. 14 Message from the Governor, .... 420
1728 Petition of Domini Jordan et als, . . . 420
Falmouth Petition relative to Claims of Old Pro-
prietors, . . . . " . < . . 421
Petition of Heirs &c. of Ancient Proprietors &c.
of Falmouth, . . . . ... 423
Oct. 2 Letter from Mr. Ralph Gulston, . . . .428
Nov. 2 Capt. Jdhn Gyles to Gov. W"? Burnett, . . 430
^ Nov. 18 Letter Sam* Wainw^ight to Gov. Burnett, . . 430
1729 Mar. 26 Colonel Dummer to David Dunbar, . 431
Grant of land to John Beauchamp & Thos. Lev-
. erett, 434
Sept. 1 Petition of Robert Boyes & David Cargill, . 439
Oct. 9 Colonel Dunbar to the Lords Commissioners, . 440
The Claims of Christopher Toppan, . . 445
Nov. 14 John Gyles to Colonel Dunbar, . . . . 445
Chiefs of the Indians of Penobscot to Col. Dun-
bar, . . . 446
Nov. 15 Lieut. Gov. Wentworth to the Lords Commis-
sioners, 448
Nov. 28 Thomas Coram Esqr., 436
Dec. 3 Lieutenant Gov? Dummer to Colonel Dunbar, . 450
Dec. 4 Colonel Dunbar to Goyj Dummer, . . . 451
Dec. 10 Colonel Dunbar to Mr Secretary Popple, . . 453
Colonel Dunbar to the Duke of Newcastle, . 458
Dec. 26 Lieu* Gov? Dummer to the Duke of Newcastle, 468
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
OF THE
STATK OK MAINK
Coll. Ledgels Memor 11 . touching Trade w*^ the Indians $c.
The Northern parts of America called New England very
much distressed by a warr with y e natives assisted by y*
French is greatly added to if not wholy continued by some prac-
tises amongst themselves openly done without restraint. The
Peltry of y* Countrey is generally ^ & more espetialy in y e
Eastern part* taken by y e Indian natives, & from them pur-
chased by y e English with severall commodities viz Blanket-
ing & linnen for cloathing, corne, kettles, Iron, steel, liquors,
powder, lead, shot & gunns &c at very great rates which
turns to y* great advantage of y e concerned but is of fatall
consequence to y e publick by supplying their enemys with y e
necessaryes of their own destruction as may apear by y e vast
depredations made on many but most immediately those parts
where it hath been so done. In y e year 1688 when y e
Indians first broke with y e English y e Government then took
such care y* no person upon what p r tence soever should
trade or be concernd with either French or Indian by which
means y e Indians were vSO distressed for want of fire-arms
powder & lead y 4 they scarcely did subsist & y e Cheifs of
them came to make supplication for a Peace in y e moneth of
Aprill 1689 a few dayes before y e revolution there hapened
2 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
& y e Indians not finding whom they expected to apply to
returned in few dayes & continue a warr to this time w ch
they have been & are enabled to do by y e English themselves.
In y* begining of y e year 1689 a Briganteen of which one
Hunt was Ma r brought into Boston much Peltry purchased
as above at her going out upon y* voyage gave out to be
bound to Bermudas & so cleard at y e respective offices but
disposed y e goods then aboard to y e Indians or French or
both who then were in y e greatest want for powder &c with
which they were then supply d in great plenty. Since then
many have used y e same trade & continue so to do without
any contradiction.
End : Coll LedgeVs Mem 1 . 1 touching trade
with the Indians $ French in New England.
Rec* feb. 1692/3
Sir William Phipps to Earl of Nottingham.
My Lord
my duty obliges mee to Give their Maf! 68 and
Your Lordship an account of the state of their MajH 68
affaires here, I have in two letters Since my arivall informed
your Lordship of what had then occurred and now to avoyd
giveing your Lordship the trouble of reading a long letter I
have given the particulars of what occurs att present in a
letter to M? Blathwayt which I have intreated may be laid
before your Lordship, onely I beg leave once more to repre-
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 3
sent of how great advantage the Conquest of Canada will
bee, not only to their Maj*! 68 and to the English Nation but
alsoe to your Lordship as it may bee mannaged, if his Maj tie
will be pleased to give mee his instructions therein and a
Sufficient Supply of Ships and stores of warr among which
some Morters and bombs will be necessary & to be ready
here to attaque that place in the Spring I doubt not but
heaven will give Successe and the people of this Province
are inclined to goe with mee and declare if his Maj*! 6 is
pleased for to order it and to appoynt me to Comand in
that Expedition there shall bee noe need to presse men. My
Lord Your Noble and Generous disposition inclines you to
favour all designes that tend to promote Such good effects
w c . h makes multiplicity of arguments needlesse I will onely
beg that if this be ordered by their Maj^ es I may by your
Lordships Comand have an opportunity to expresse my for-
wardnesse in any particular service to your Lordship I have
with Six hundred men beaten our french and Indian Enemys
and gave the plunder and Captives to the Soldiers w c . h hath
much encouraged them many of the Enemy were killed and
but two of our men I have caused a new Fort to be built att
Pemaquid and have put the Gonns sent by their Maj*! 68 into
it and have put it into a Condition to secure our easteme
parts which much satisfyes their Maj 1 ! 68 Subjects in this
Province it being the first check given to the Enemy for
severall yeares past. I have alsoe caused the inhabitants of
Port Royall to renew their oath of alegiance to their Maj*! 68
there are some few persons here that two much Idolize the
old Charter and others who envy the favours conferred on
mee by their Maj ties that seeks my prejudice, I beg the
favour of your Lordship that I may have liberty to defend
my selfe in what relates to their Maj ties Service if any of
my Enemys attempt to lessen their Maj*! 68 favourable oppin-
ion of mee That their Maj ties may have a longe and happy
4 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
reigne, and your Lordships happinesse may be beyond
Expression Encreased is the harty and earnest desire of
Your Lordships most faithfull
humble Servant
William Phips
E:) & W Phipps
Boston Octob 12. 1692.
Ad:) To
the Right Hon ble the Earle of Nottingham
att Whitehall
in England
Sir William Phipps to Earl of Nottingham.
Boston in New England Feb : 21 st 169|
May it Please your Lordship
By the Captain of the Samuell & Henry,
I gave ye account, that at my arrivall here, I found the pris-
ons full of people, Comitted upon suspition of witchcraft ;
and that Complaints were Continually made to me, that many
persons were grieveousely tormented, by witches, and that
they cryed out vpon severall persons by name, as the Cause
of their Torments. The number of those Complaints increas-
ing every day, by advice of the Liev* Govern 1 ; and the Coun-
cill, T gave a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to try som of
the suspected witches, and at that time the generallity of peo-
ple, represented the matter to me as Reall witchcraft, and gave
very strange instances of the same ; The first in y e Comission
was the Liev* Governour, and the rest were persons of the
best prudence and ffigure that could then be pitched upon,
and I depended vpon the Court for a right method of pro-
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ceeding in cases of witchcraft ; att that time I went to Com-
mand the Army at the Eastern part of the Province, for y e
ffrench, and Indians, had made an attacque vpon som of the
frontier Towns, I continued there some time, but when I
returned I found people much dissattisfyed, at y e proceedings
of the Court, for about twenty persons, were Condemned,
and Executed, of wich number some were thought by many
persons to be inocent, the Court still proceeded in the same
method of trying them, which was by the Evidence of the
afflicted persons, who when they were brought into the Court,
as soone as the suspected witches, looked on them, instantly
fell to the ground, in strange agonies, and grieveouse torment ;
but when touched by them vpon the arme, or some other part
of their flesh, they imediately revived, and came to them-
selves, vpon which they made oath that the prison? at the
Barr, did afflict them, and that they saw theire shape or
Spectre, com from their bodyes, which put them to such
paines, and torments ; when Inquired into the matter, I was
Informed by the Judges, that they began with this, but had
humaine Testimony, against such as were Condemned, and
undoubted proof of their being witches ; But at length I
found that the Devill, did take vpon him the shape of inocent
persons, and some were accused, of whose Inocency I was
well assured, and many Considerable persons, of vublamable
life, and conversations were cryed out vpon as witches, and
wizzards : The Deputy Govern? notwithstanding persisted
vigorousely in the same method, to y e great dissatisfaction,
and disturbance of the people, vntill I put an end to y e Court,
and stopped the proceedings ; which I did because I saw
many inocent persons, might otherwise perrish, and at that
time I thought it my duty to give an account thereof, that
their Maj ties pleasure conferming this pplexed affaire might
be signifyed, hopeing that for the better ordering thereof, the
Judges learned in the Law in England, might give such rules,
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and directions, as have been practiced in England, for pro-
ceeding in soe difficult and nice a point : when I putt an end
to y e Court, there was at least fifty persons in prison, in great
misery by reason of the extream Cold, and their poverty,
most of them haveing onely spectre Evidence, against them,
and their mittimus's being defective, I caused some of them
to be lett out vpon Baile, and put the Judges vpon Consider-
ing of a way to relieve others, and prevent their perishing in
prison, vpon which some of them were Convinced, and
acknowled that their former proceedings were too violent,
and not grounded vpon a right foundation, but that if they
might sitt againe they vould proceed after another method ;
and whereas Mr. Increase Mather, and severall other Divines,
did give it as their Judgement, that the Devill might afflict
in the shape of an Inocent person, and that the look, and the
touch of the suspected persons, was not sufficient proof
against them, these things had not the same stress laid vpon
them as before ; And vpon this Consideration, I pmitted a
Speciall superior Court to be held at Salem, in the County of
Essex, on the third day of January, the Liev* Govern? being
Chief Judge, Their method of proceeding being altered, all
that were brought to tryall to the number of fifty two were
cleared saveing three, and I was informed by the Kings
Attorney Gen 1 . 1 that some of the Cleared, and the Condemned,
were vnder the same Circumstances, or that there was the
same reason, to Clear, the three Condemned, as the rest
according to his Judgem* The Deputy Govern? signed a
varrant for their Speedy Execution, and allso of five others,
who were Condemned at the former Court of Oyer and Ter-
miner, but Considering how the matter had been managed, I
sent a reprieve whereby the Execution was stopped vntill
their Mafl 68 pleasure were signifyed, and declared ; The
Liev! Govern? vpon this occasion, was enraged and filled
with passionate anger, and refused to sitt vpon the Bench at
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 7
a Superior Court at that time held at Charles towne ; and
indeed hath from the begining hurryed on these matters with
great precipitancy; and by his warrant hath caused the
Estates, goods and chatles, of the Executed, to be seized and
disposed of, vithout my knowledge, or Consent ; the stop put
to the first method of proceeding, hath dissipated the black
Cloud that threatened this province, with destruction, For
whereas this delusion of y e Devill, did spread, and its Dismall
effects, touched the lives and Estates, of many of their Maj tie *
subjects, and the reputation of some of the principall persons
here, and indeed vnhapply clogged, and interupted their
Maj tie8 affairs, which hath been a great vexation to me.
I have no new Complaints, but peoples mindes before
divided, and distracted, by different opinions, concerning this
matter, are now well Composed.
My Lord
I am yo? Lordships most faithfull humble servant
William Phips
21 1693
To The Right Hon ble
The Earle of Nottingham
att Whitehall London.
The Submission and Agreements of the Eastern Indians.
Province of the
Massachusetts Bay . At Fort William Henry in Pem-
in New England aquid the Eleventh day of Aug*
In the Fifth Yeare of the Reign
of our Soveraign Lord and Lady
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William and Mary by the Grace of
God of England Scotland France
and Ireland King and Queen
Defend? 9 of the Faith &c a 1693.
WHEREAS a bloody war has for some yeares now past
been made and carried on by the Indians within y e Eastern
parts of the s d Province against their Maj*! 68 Subjects the
English through the instigation and Influences of -the
French. And being sensible of the miseries which we and
our People are reduced unto by adhering unto their ill
Counsells. Wee whose names are hereto subscribed being
Sagamores and Chief Captaines of all the Indians belonging
unto the Several Rivers of Penobscot, Kenebeck, Amaras-
cogin and Saco, parts of the s? Province of the Massachu-
setts Bay within their s? Maj tie8 Soveraignty, having made
application unto his Excellency S? William Phips K n * Cap?
General and Governour in Chief in and over y e s? Province
that the War may be put to an end Doe lay down our Arms
and cast our selves upon their said Maj*! 68 Grace and Favour
And each of us respectively for our selves, and in the name
and with the free consent of all the Indians belonging unto
the several Rivers afores? and of all other Indians within
the a? Province of and from Merrimack River unto the most
Easterly bounds of s? Province hereby acknowledging our
hearty subjection and obedience unto the Crown of England
Do solemnly covenant, promise and agree to and with the
said S? William Phips and his Successors in the place of
Cap? General and Governo? in Chief of the afores? Prov-
ince or Territory on their s? Maj** 68 behalfe in manner fol-
lowing Viz*
That at all time and times for ever from
and after the date of these presents We will cease and for-
bear all acts of hostility towards the Subjects of the Crown
of England, and not offer the least hurt or violence to them
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 9
or any of them in their persons or Estate, but will hencefor-
ward hold and maintain a firm and constant amity and
friendship with all the English.
Item We do abandon and forsake the French Interest and
will not in any wise adhere to, aid or assist them in their
Wars or designes against the English, nor countenance, suc-
cor or conceale any of the Enemy Indians of Canada, or
other place that shall happen to come to any of our Planta-
tions within y* English Territory, but secure them if in our
power and deliver them up to the English.
That all English Captives in the hands or power of any of
the Indians within the Limits afores? shall with all possible
speed be set at liberty and returned home without any Ran-
som or Payment to be made or given for them or any of
them.
That their Maj ties Subjects the English shall and may
peaceably and quietly enter upon improve and for ever enjoy
all and singular their Rights of Land and former Settlem* 8
and Possessions within the Eastern parts of the s? Province
of the Massachusetts Bay without any pretentions or claimes
by us or any other Indians, and be in no wayes molested,
interrupted or disturbed therein.
That all Trade and Commerce which hereafter may be
allowed betwixt the English and Indians shall be under such
management and Regulations as may be Stated by an Act of
the General Assembly, or as the Governour of s? Province
for the time being with the advice and consent of the Coun-
cil shall see cause to direct and limit.
If any controversy or difference at any time hereafter hap-
pen to arise betwixt any of the English and Indians for any
real or supposed wrong or injury done on one side or the
other, no private Revenge shall be taken by the Indians for
the same, but proper application be made to their Maj tie8 Gov-
ernment upon the place for remedy thereof in a due course
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of Justice. We hereby submitting ourselves to be Ruled and
Governed by their Maj ties Laws and desire to have the bene-
fit of the same.
For the more full manifestation of our sincerity and Integ-
rity in all that which we have herein before covenanted
and promised. Wee do deliver unto S? William Phips their
Map! 68 Governour afores d Ahasombamet Brother to Edgere-
met Wenongahewet Cousin to Modochawando and Edgeremet
and Ragatewawongan alias Sheepscot John to abide and
remain in the custody of the English, where the Governour
shall direct as Hostages or Pledges for our fidelity and true
performance of all and every the aforegoing Articles reserv-
ing liberty to exchange them in some reasonable time for a
like number, to the acceptance of the Governed and Council
of s? Province so as they be persons of as good account and
Esteeme amongst the Indians as those which are to be
exchanged IN TESTIMONY whereof we have hereunto set
our several marks and Scales the day and yeare first above
written
Signed
Edgeremet ^-
The above written In- signed
strument was deliber- Madackawamdo
ately read over and the
serveral Articles and Wessembomet
Clauses thereof inter- of Noridgwock
preted unto the Indians Bi ned
who said they well un-
-, , , , , Weenokson of Teconet
derstood and consented
thereto, and was then [S i g i
j c i j j -r, m behalf e of Moxist ^1
signed, Sealed and De-
li vered in presence of us ^ 7
Katerramogis of \/
Noridgwock
OF THE STATE OF MAINE
11
John Wing
Nich? Manning
John Hornebrook
John Signum
Ragatawawongan
alias
Sheepscot John
Signed
Phil IXl Ousa
his Squaw
Benj a Jackson
Ahanquil 1 t si ]
of Penobscot " 1
Bomaseen
Inter-
T Signed
A
prets.
Nitamemet
1 Signed
| Signed
Webenes
1
Awansomeck
Signed
Robin
Madaumbis
X
Doney
E:)
t
Paquaharet si e ned
al! Nathaniel
A true Copy
E xe by Is* Addington Secry
Articles of Agreement of the Eastern
Indians in Massachu* 8 Colony
Aug. 11. 1693.
[Signed]
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The general! State of the Province we observe both from
your aforesaid Letter, and from the Representation you have
made of it in conjunction with the Council! and Assembly
together with other Papers that now lye before us; Your
proceedings upon the News of the Discovery of the late con-
spiracy here, appeare to have been suitable to the occasion ;
Your diligence also in the defence of Piscataqua, and other-
ways for the Annoyance of the Enemy, upon their taking of
Pemaquid is answerable to the Trust reposed in you, Th6
the easy surrender of that Fort by those that were in it is not
so but on the contrary a reproachfull Action unworthy of
English men ; And we shall therefore expect a further
Account of Your proceedings against the Governor of that
Fort, whom you say, you have put under confinement, and
as we are however upon this occasion to assure you that his
Majesty will always have a particular regard to the security
of New England, and the adjacent provinces, so we must
needs exhort you in the meane while ( and doubt not of your
readinesse in it) to continue your utmost care and vigilance
in putting things into such order, and giving such timely
assistance to Your neighbours as may hinder any new irrup-
tions of the French, and the Northerne Indians into those
Provinces, the preservation of which will be your best
security.
This we are so much more obliged to presse you in,
because the fresh News we have received from Newfoundland
gives us also fresh apprehensions of danger threatned to you ;
Monsieur D'iberville he that commanded the French Forces
and Indians the last Summer at Pemaquid has now in like
manner taken S* John's in Newfoundland, sent away all the
English Inhabitants ( whereof above 200 are already arrived
at Dartmouth) and made himself Master of the whole Coun-
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 13
trey ; threatning, as those that are arriv'd from thence report,
so soon as the Season permits, to fall upon New England.
This therefore we say, lays an obligation upon you, to exert
an extraordinary vigour in preparing for the defence of that
Countrey. Th6 his Majesty will certainly be mindfull of it,
yet he may well expect that the Inhabitants of that Colony
should also Act their part in repairing their Forts, and put-
ting all places that are most exposed ( Saccoe particularly )
into a condition of making a firm resistance. But more
especially we must also needs minde you of the importance
of resetling a Fort at Pemaquid, or rather at some convenient
place that may be pitched upon thereabouts, a little more
remote from the Sea ; By which means we conceive, it being
freed from the Attacks, which the former Fort was exposed
to by Ships, it will the more easily be depended against any
Attempts that can be made upon it by Land.
X X X X X X
(No Endorsement)
Paris, Decemb 1 : 1697.
May it please Your Lordships.
That having sometime before my coming
from England to this place laid before Your Honours a cer-
tain Memorial relating to the 8 th Article in the Treaty of
Peace concluded between his Majesty and the French King
which as you then did approve of, soe likewise were pleased
to lay your Commands for further information of anything
that might occur or come to my Knowledge by my being in
France, and by my acquaintance and frequenting those here
who are more particularly interested in those Countries,
wherein I have not been wanting to sound their intentions
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as far as opportunity has permitted and am thereby ye more
confirmed of the necessity of maintaining our Rights and
having them especially inserted by Articles conformable to
my Memoire as aforesaid. But what I have now further to
ad for Your Lordships Information is, That the French will
endeavour and accordingly Instructions will be given unto
their Commissioners to extend their limitts unto the River
of Kenebeck, designing to make that the boundarie between
us and them on the Eastern parts of New England, under
the plausible pretence that that River being most noted and
of the largest extent of any in those parts. Crossing
through the Land almost unto the Great River of Canada,
they thereby shall be able to withhold then: Indians under
such a noted boundarie from any future Excursions upon us
on the Westerne side, but presuming that it will not be disa-
greeable unto your Lordships that I give my sentiments
herein which I the rather doe to prevent any surprize or mis-
take which may arise from any their specious pretences. I
shall therefore expose before your Honours the nature con-
sequence and value of such a concession w? h in time to come
may be as fatall and irreparable unto the Interest of the
Crown and the prosperity of those Countryes as the late sur-
render of Nova Scotia ( by the Treaty of Breda ) has proved,
at first I cannot see any further security concerning the
Indians but on the Contrary those of that River being now
our greatest Enimies will rather be incouraged then other-
wise, seing their country delivered up to the French, which
those barbarous Nations will rather interprett to be for want
of Power to keep, then any voluntary resignation, so that we
shall thereby become the object of their scorne and con-
tempt, which will sooner incourage then restrain them in
their insolencies and enterprizes upon us.
Whereas if the French will bonafide endeavour to maintain
and promote the Publique Peace and tranquility nothing is
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 15
more easy then to restrain them under the limitts they were
formerly bounded in which is the River St George about 5
leagues to the Eastward of Pemaquid and was alwayes the
ancient Boundarie in my late Uncle S* Thomas Temple's
Patent further then which they have no manner of pretence
or claime, But the consequence to us on the Contraie will be
of utmost moment, at first we hereby shall deprive our
selves of 4 or 5 of our best fishing Islands and Harbours,
Secondly the said River being of much larger extent then
Pesquataqua will be a perpetuall supply of Masts, Timber,
Deal boards &c when the other will fail many parts of it
being almost exhausted by the Continuall Exportation that
has been made
3 d . ly the goodness of the land and its convenient situation
renders it advantagious to be re established, by which and
a prudent management with the Natives which I do not
hold it impossible to regain them to their ancient amity
with us, for that it will manifestly be their interest
soe to doe, by reason of their being amongst us, and that we
can and alwayes do supply them cheaper and give better
prizes for their peltry then the French, for it was not thr6
hatred to us, but by the mismanagement of some amongst us
of which the French took advantage to insinuate and influ-
ence them to break out into a War as at present ; I say that
notwithstanding all which they are to be regained, being a
people that love and studdy their own interest as much as
others &c
As to our Fisheries on the coast of the Cape Sables I find
they will obstruct us if they can, and that nothing but a vig-
orous asserting of our uninterrupted right and Custome
( ever since those Countries have been inhabited ) will pre-
serve us, But having in my former Memorial, said what is
requisite on this and other subjects, I shall not further
detain your Lordships, hoping about 3 weeks hence I may
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be in London, where if in anything I may be Serviceable to
the publique interest I shall allwayes be most ready to obey
Your Lordships Commands, being Your Lordships
Most humble and most obedient Ser*
J? Nelson.
Endorsed.
Copy of M r . Nelson's Letter from Paris relating to the
Designs of the French for extending their Boundaries on the
Eastern parts of New England Decemb r . 75 1697
To their Excellencies the Lords
Justices of England.
The Petition of John Nelson, Nephew and Exec-
utor to S r Thomas Temple Bar n * late Governor of Nova
Scotia &c
humbly Sheweth.
That the said S? Thomas Temple long since did purchase
from one Mons! Charles de la Tour, tho inheritance of Nova
Scotia, and part of the Country called L'Accadie and all the
Forts, plantations and trade thereof to him and his heires &c.,
which said Countries were first discovered and planted by
S? William Alexander, afterwards Earl of Sterling, and
others of the Scotish Nation in the time of King James the
First, and by the Authority of that Crown the Government
and proprietie thereof was granted unto the said Earl and his
heires &c. and by him afterwards conveighed unto the afore-
said M? Charles de la Tour, to hold under the Crown of
Scotland, and by him quietly enjoyed untill the then Common
Wealth of England, did in the year 1654 possess themselves
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 17
of it, It being in the hands of a Frenchman, who thereupon
Comeing to England, and makeing out his Title from under
the said Earl of Sterling, and the Crown of Scotland, his right
was allowed and he restored, and thereon conveighed his said
right unto S? Thomas Temple as aforesaid, who enjoyed the
same, untill the Treatie of Breda, did build divers Forts for
the Defence thereof and made other Improvements, which
cost above 16,000< notwithstanding which upon some false
Sugestions of the French Ministers, that it did formerly belong
unto the Crown of France, his late Majesty King Charles the
Second did without any Examination or Notice given unto
the parties concern'd at the aforesaid Treatie, article to
restore the same unto France, and by severall Orders of
Councill required the delivery thereof unto Mon" de la
Grand Fountaine a person sent by the FrenclrKing & which
was accordingly complyed with That the said S? Thomas
Temple dying did by his last will devise all his right and
title of the premises unto your petitioner, who during this
present war with France hath hazarded both his person and
Estate in the recoverie thereof where through misfortune
falling into their hands, has been kept a Prisoner in France
for this five years last past, and does yet so continue under
Caution &c. and hi the mean time the said Country being for
the most part regained by the English, the same hath been
by surprise included in the Patent of the Government of the
Massachusetts Bay in New England & this being the true
state of the Case and your Petitioner being informed of a
Treatie now on foot between England and France, and fear-
ing that his Majesty for want of information should be sur-
prized in this Affaire, by neglecting or quitting so considerable
a part of his Dominion and Trade, as well as the proprietie
of your Petitioner & Therefore Your Petitioner humbly prayes
that Your Excellencys will be pleased to make a timely rep-
resentation of this affair unto his Majesty that such due care
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and Consideration may be had thereof as to his Majesty in
his great Wisdome- shall seem Just and Expedient &c.
And your Petitioner shall ever pray.
Endorsed N 6.
Copy of M r . Nelsons Petition relating to his Title to Nova
Scotia as Nephew to S? Thomas Temple deceased /
April the 13 1697.
To the Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade &c
Conformable unto your Lordships desires some times since
signified unto me, I have here annexed a Breif and Summarie
Account of the Originall right and title the Crown of Eng-
land hath unto the Countries of Nova Scotia, and L'Accadie,
which memoire or paper tho' long since delivered in unto
M* Vernon may have need of your Lordships revivall, and
perticular instance in this Conjuncture, and for as much that
the French doe yet retaine some parts on the North side of
the Bay of Fundie, in those Countries it is not improbable,
but that they will yet continue their pretentious unto the
whole. Where as setting aside, all other our antient and
just Titles thereunto, we have a present and actuall right by
Conquest made upon them of Port Royall, The Mines and
Siganectoe which are in the bottom of the said Bay of Fundie
(or the Bay Francois, as the French call it) and so all along
the Coast of Cape Sables, unto a place called Merleguash
about 60 leagues beyond the said Cape Eastward, which said
Countries are very considerable from the fisherie, whereon
depends the chiefest of the Trade of New England, New
Hampshire &c which if well assured unto us, might in a
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 19
manner Equall and be of as much advantage as Newfound-
land therefore I presume it may be thought worth our Insist-
ing upon, Especially since it hath cost so much charge in the
reduction of it by S* William Phips in the year 1690, and
since by the yearly attendance and gard by his Majestys
Frigatts given unto the French Inhabitants of those parts,
who have all of them, that is to say the Inhabitants of Port
Royall the Mines and Siganectoe divers times renewed their
Submission and alleadgeances unto the Crown of England,
by oaths administred unto them, and by contracts in writing
&c one of which being an Originall Signed by the most Not-
able of the principall Inhabitants of Siganectoe, unto myself
in the year 1691. I here produce unto your Lordships, and
I am informed that since my restraint hi France, the Govern-
ment of the Massachusetts and the Commanders of his
Majestys Ships residing in those Countries have allmost
every year received the English pretentious of right by Con-
quest and have accordingly received the like acknowledg-
ments from the French who remain upon the place. This
being all I am able to informe your Lordships, what improve-
ment may be made thereon, is not for me to determine. But
am very sure that it is greatly the Interest of the Crown to
maintain our right herein, which may the more Evidently
appear from the great mischiefs which has befallen us ever
since that precipitant and unadvised rendition of the said
Countries unto the French by the Treaty of Breda, whereby
we have not only lost the greatest and best part of our Fishing
Coast, but also it has been the reason of all our differences
with the Indians, which has been so fatall, as to lay wast and
desolate near 50 leagues of the most flourishing parts in those
Countries and will for ever be of the same consequence if his
Majesty should forego, or give up unto the Enemy what does
belong and is soe necessarie unto us &c
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This is all att present what does offer in this affair from
your Lordships most humble and most obedient servant
J? Nelson.
Aprill the 12*? 1697.
Postscript.
Your Lordships may please further to take notice, that the
said Inhabitants of Port Royall &c have accepted as Majes-
trates such whom the Government of Boston did from tune
to time place over them, who for their greather ease and
Incouragement did all ways put in place such of their people
as were most agreeable unto them &c
Endorsed.
No. 7.
Copy of MT Nelson's Memorial relating to Nova Scotia and
parts adjacent April the 13 th 1697.
Extract of a Memorial from M r . Nelson dated the @ n . d July
1697.
You may please to take notice that after the surrender of
Accadie unto the French, in the year 1670 by S? Thomas
Temple the successive Governours of New Yorke did (by
virtue of orders from England as I suppose ) make claime
unto a part of said Countries, that is to say from Pemtagoet
to the River S* Croix as having of it inserted in the Duke
of York's Patent. But the French still kept Possession
until S! Edmund Andros made an attempt upon it by sum-
moning in one M* S* Costeine to acknowledge his Depend-
ance on the Crown of England upon whose refusal he went
with a Friggat to Pemtagoet pillaged his house of what he
found in it, but himself escaped on which arose ( by the said
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Costeins instigation ) the Indian War, with which we have
ever since been infested.
Endorsed. N 8
Extract of a Memorial from M r . Nelson relating to the
Country Westward of the River S* Croix annexed to the Gov-
ernment of New Yorke.
July the ^ 1697.
To the Right Honourable the
Lords Commissioners of the Council
for Trade and Plantations &c.
May it please Your Honours &c
That having some time since received from M*
Secretary Popple your Lordships commands whereby I am
required to lay before your Honorable Board what does
appear to me in this present Conjuncture of peace with the
ffrench to occur and be conducive to his Majestys and this
kingdomes interest in the northern parts of America &c.
Having from my Experiences in those Countries of Accadie,
Nova Scotia, Canada, and New England, made some reflec-
tions upon the 8* h Article of the Treaty now concluded with
the ffrench King, wherein I finde that Commissioners are to
be appointed for the settling of Limits or Exchange of
Lands, as also to determine all differences that may arrise
&c. Now to the intent that those who shall be so appointed
on our part, may not be under surprise or mistake or want
of information, I make bold to prefer unto your Lordships
consideration this following Memoriall &c.
1. That whereas one, of the greatest interests of this
Nation, both for riches and strength, does consist in the
maintenance and incouragement of our Navigation and Mari-
time imployments great care is to be taken that the ffrench
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do not by virtue of the 7 th Article ( wherein restitution is to
be made them of Port Royall and the Coast of Accadie)
exclude us from our Fishery on the said Coasts upon the
High Seas, which they formerly have endeavoured to do, and
on which pretext they have committed divers depredations
and surprisalls of our vessels in time of Peace, the original
and ground of their pretentious took its rise from what
had been acted under the Government of my late Uncle
S? Thomas Temple (before the Surrender of that Country to
them in the year 1670 ) who being at a great charge in the
building of Forts and otherwise for protection of our Fishery
from the neighbouring ffrench and Indians, did levy and
receive from every vessell so ffishing ( that is to say making
or drying of their Fish on the shoares ) the summe of five
pounds whereon the ffrench at first contented themselves
with the said summes for those that made use of their Coasts
not pretending or exacting anything for such as made their
voyages on the High Seas, or that wooded or watered in
their Harbours &c. But in process of time according to the
capriciousness of their Governours, they have often Extended
their pretensions unto any and every part of the said High
Seas, which tho we never did conceede to them, yet they
have often taken and made prize of our vessells so ffishing,
untill at length some provision and redress was made by the
Treaty of Neutrality concluded on in the yeare of 1686 (as
I best remember ) between My Lord Chancellor Jeffery and
other Commissioners then appointed and the French Ambas-
sador Barillen, referrence thereunto ought to be had for a
more perfect information in this affaire, but such is the con-
sequence hereof, that in case no permission or settlement be
made in express manner and forme, it will be a perpetual
cause of disturbance in those parts and will be the obstruc-
tion and hindrance of the imployment of above one thousand
fishermen, to the impoverishment of those Colonies, the
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Destruction of Trade, and Diminution of His Majestys reve-
nues, herein likewise is to be considered, that whatever by
our fishery is taken out of the Seas, is so much ready money
or Bullion imported into the Realm, from foreigne Nations,
and as we have justice on our side, so have we had an unin-
terrupted usage and Custom, from the first settlement in
those parts untill of late Yeares, and th6 fisheries upon the
High Seas have sometimes been the dispute of Nations, yet
we finde all to claime an equall right of possessing what
they can get in that unstable Element if without use of their
neighbours shoares &c. Now to cut off and prevent all
ground of dispute it will be of the utmost importance and
consequence not only to assert and maintain our liberty and
right upon the High Seas as aforesaid, but to renue and
Establish that mutuall permission of admitting each other
unto the Priviledge of refreshing themselves with all Neces-
saries, as Wood Water &c for their money on the Coastes
and in the Harbours of each others Territories &c.
2 d There are other things of deep weight and moment,
concerning the Boundaries and Limitations in those vast ter-
ritories and Trade with the Indians- especially between New
York and Canada, wherein the French have and will contin-
ually incroach upon us by the advantage they have from the
Rivers and Lakes running on the backside of all our Planta-
tions and Colonies, which tho they have no wayes Established,
nor have any settlements upon them, yet pretend to appro-
priate to themselves the sole right of Trafick with the Natives,
whereby we shall be confined unto the narrow bounds of our
settlements, whereas formerly this Limitation and pretention
was unknowne unto us and our people without interruption
were free in theire Voyages and Trafick with divers Nations-
situate on the Lakes and Rivers aforesaid which priviledge I
presume ought to be asserted and continue unto us &c
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3? It will be most necessary that such provision and reg-
ulation be made for the mutual peace and safety of each other,
in regard of the Indians, that neither party shall abett, incour-
age or supply the Natives in their Wars, or attempts, which
they may at any time undertake to the disturbance of either ;
but on the contrary upon the complaints of the party so suf-
fering, the other shall consult and agree unto such methods,
as may be thought fitting to reduce them unto Peace and
quiet, for which intent for more safety and assurance, and to
remove all suspicions and jealousies, of secret coniving and
underhand dealing, it shall be permitted unto the Governours
of either party for their own satisfaction as they may think
fitting, or the occasion may require, to send or cause to reside
with each other such person or persons as they shall see meet,
whereby not only to consult and advise what is to be done
for prevention of such mischiefs, but likewise to be Eye wit-
nesses of the faithfulness of each others intentions and pro-
ceedings, and for Detection and bringing to due punishment all
such particular persons, who for their private advantage, shall
at any time infringe the Regulations that may be concluded
on this subject &c.
The three foregoing heads as I humbly conceive them to
be of utmost importance both for His Majestys interest and
honour, the peace and prosperity of his subjects ; soe doubt
not but that your Lordships after due reflection will see cause
to make such Reports hereon unto his Majesty or those
appointed by him for the settlement of the Plantation affaires
that effectuall care may be taken for the securing and estab-
lishing the tranquillity of those parts and the Trade and
Interest of the Nations &c.
This being what I have to offer I hope that Your Lordships
will favourably overlook the defects you may finde herein,
and which is the rather to be excused since it proceeds from
the earnest desire I have of contributing what I can unto the
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publique good, as also in obedience unto your Lordships com-
mands, being with all possible respect your Lordships most
humble
and most obedient servant
J? Nelson.
Endorsed No. 9. Copy of M r . Nelsoris Memorial relating
to the Fishery on the Coast of Nova Scotia and other things
proper to be had in consideration in treating with the French
Commissioners pursuant to the Treaty of Reiswisck.
Novemfr the 2 n . d 1697.
A Memorial concerning the English title to Penob-
scot, and other lands adjacent, to be presented to y e
right hon b . le , the Lords Commissioners, of the Coun-
cill of trade, and plantations. /
King James the first by his Letters Patents, under the great
seale of Scotland, bearing date the lO^of September 1621,
granted to S! William Alexander Lord of Menstrue, and to his
heires for ever, all those lands lying in America, called Nova
Scotia. The said S? William Alexander, by his deed, bear-
ing date the SO 1 ? of Aprill 1630, made over all his right, and
title, in the aforesaid lands, to S? Claud de S* Estienne,
Lord of La Tour, and of Vuarre ; and to his son, S* Charles
de S* Estienne, Lord of S* Deniscourt, and to their heires
for ever. The said S* Claud and S? Charles de S^ Estienne,
were french protestants, who for the liberty of their religion
had many yeares before Jeft France ; and for their good ser-
vices done, in promoting the said Plantation, they were both
created Baronets of Nova Scotia.
About the yeare 1631, King Charles the first consented to
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give up the Aforesaid country of Nova Scotia to France ; for
what reason is not knowne, the French having not y e least
pretence of any kind to it. For it was both discovered and
planted, by the English, and subjects of England and named
Nova Scotia by King James the first.
Before the delivery of the said country, King Charles the
first articled w th the French, that the said Sir Claud and
Sr Charles de S* Estienne, should enjoy their rights, in the
said Nova Scotia, his Majesty thinking himselfe, bound in
honor to take care of 'em : as appeares by an originall letter,
from the said Sr William Alexander, to the said Sr Claud
de S? Estienne.
By vertue of this Article, the said Sr Claud and Sr Charles
de S* Estienne, did enjoy their lands in Nova Scotia ; though
w* h much molestation from the French Governor Sr Claud
dying, Sr Charles became proprietor of all Nova Scotia.
Many yeares before this, some inhabitants of Plimouth, in
New England, discovered Penobscot and began to seale
themselves there a place many leagues westward of Nova
Scotia. But being much distourbed, by y e French Govern-
ours of Nova Scotia, they began to neglect y e plantation ;
and when the said Charles de S* Estienne was proprietor of
all Nova Scotia, he built a fort at Penobscot, and tooke all
the lands, extending from Penobscot to Musconcus bordering
on Pemaquid.
About y e yeare 1654, Cromwell having a Fleete at New
England, under the command of one Major Sedgewicke, he
ordered 'em to saile to Nova Scotia, and require the French
Governor to deliver it; it being antiently a part of the
English dominion, to which the French had no just title.
Major Sedgewicke saild thether, and found the said Sr Charles
de S* Estienne, in possession both of Nova Scotia, ^nd Penob-
scot; both which, together with all the lands belonging to
'em, the said Sr Charles de S* Estienne quietly resigned.
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For having suffer' d great oppression under y e French Gov-
ernours, he desir'd to live under the English protection.
Not long after, he came over to England, and petition'd
Cromwell, that he might enjoy his lands, which was granted.
Then the said Charles de S* Estienne, by his deed, bearing
date the 20th of September 1656, made over all his right,
and title, in all the afore said lands, both Nova Scotia and
Penobscot, to Thomas Temple, and William Crowne, Esqui-
ers, and their Heires for ever ; for the summe of three thou-
sand three hundred and odde pounds. The said Charles also
reserved to himselfe, and his heires for ever, considerable
Annuall profitts from the aforesaid lands.
Then all the three aforesaid proprietors, went over to take
possession of their lands ; Thomas Temple going Governor
by Cromwells commission. Not long after their arrivall, the
said Thomas Temple, and William Crowne divided their
lands.
And William Crowne by a deed under his hand and scale,
made over to y e said Thomas Temple and his heires for ever,
all Nova Scotia, as it is limited, in the said deed and the said
Thomas Temple, by his deed, bearing date y e twelfe of Sep-
tember 1657, made over to y e said William Crowne, and his
heires for ever, all his right and title in Penobscot, and in all
the lands and Islands, lying without y e bounds of Nova
Scotia ; from the river Machias in y e East, to the said Mas-
concus bordering on Pemaquid. They also signed, and sealed
interchangeably bonds of twenty thousand, to bind each other
to performance of Articles.
For sometime the said William Crowne possessed Penob-
scot, and his other lands quietly. He also built a trading
house, far up y e river of Penobscot, at a place called Negue ;
to which he gave his owne name, and called it Crowne's
point.
But the said Thomas Temple, hearing there was a great
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beavor trade at Negue pretended the said William Crowne,
had broke some article or another, and by violence tooke from
him, his fort at Penobscot, his trading house at Negue, and
all his lands. And the courts of justice in New England
were so partiall to the said Thomas Temple, that William
Crowne cou'd have no justice from them.
Thus it continued, till the restauration of King Charles
the second. Then the said Thomas Temple and William
Crowne, came over, and proving their titles to the aforesaid
lands, before the King, and the Lords, and others, of his
Majestyes Privy Council, they were adjudged to be right full
proprietors, and were permitted to returne, and repossesse
their lands. Then the said William Crowne, threatning to
complaine to his Majesty, and the Privy Council, of the heavy
wrongs he had suffer' d ; The said Thomas Temple desir'd him
to forbeare promising him, not only the restitution of his
lands, but any reasonable satisfaction. And the said William
Crowne being desirous to returne to New England The said
Thomas Temple gave him letters, to his Agents in New Eng-
land, requiring 'em to restore to him his fort of Penobscot, &
all his lands. But when the said William Crowne arrived in
New England, he found contradictory letters, written from
the said Thomas Temple, to his Agents ; strictly charging
them to keepe him out.
The said Thomas Temple, was created a Baronet of Nova
Scotia by King Charles the second and got a commission from
his Majesty to be Governour of Nova Scotia and Penobscot;
upon his arrivall in New England, the said William Crowne
complained to him, of his unjust and shamefull proceedings,
which S? Thomas cou'd not vindicate ; and to end differences,
he prevaild w 1 * 1 y e said William Crowne, to grant him a short
lease of Penobscot ; and the rest of his lands ; and severall
New England merchants were bound for payment of rent.
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But the said S? Thomas Temple kept the lands, and never
payd any rent. Nor wou'd the courts of New England
intermedle w*! 1 the case, for they said, it was a debate about
lands, that lay out of their Jurisdiction.
Thus it continued till y e yeare 1668, when at y e treaty at
Bredah, y e French prevailed w*! 1 King Charles to surrender
up Nova Scotia. And accordingly, a commission was sent
under the great scale of England to S? Thomas Temple,
empowring, and requiring him to deliver it.
S? Thomas Temple knew very well that Penobscot, and
the aforesaid lands belonging to it, were no part of Nova
Scotia but they being the said William Crownes estate, he
out of envy and hatred to William Crowne, and to impoverish,
and totally disable him, from taking his advantages at law
against him, when he was out of his Governement, for all the
notorious wrongs he had done him, whilst he was in it ; the
said Sir Thomas Temple, presum'd to go beyond his commis-
sion, and deliver up Penobscot to the French.
When King Charles was informed of what' S? Thomas
Temple had done, he was extremely displeas'd with it ; and
wou'd not consent to it,- Not long after a war broke out
betweene France and Holland. And the Dutch tooke the
fort at Penobscot from y e French, levell'd it w^ y e ground,
and then entirely quitted it.
Not long after, King Charles, commission'd the Governour
of New Yorke, to take Penobscot, and the lands belonging to
it, under his jurisdiction. And the Governor of New Yorke,
did accordingly and put a garrison in y e said trading house
at Negue, alias Crownes point. William Crowne being
deceased, his eldest son John Crowne, having information,
that his Royall Highnes y e Duke of Yorke, had begg'd
Penobscot of y e King, the said John Crowne petition'd his
Highnes to restore him y e inheritance, which his Father had
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purchas'd ; and his Highnes referrd him to y e Commissioners
of his revenew. And the cause lay before 'em undetermin'd,
during y e latter end of King Charles's reigne, and all y e reigne
of y e late King James.
By what has beene said, it is apparent the French have no
pretence to Penobscot, for the English first discovered it;
the English, and subjects of England possest it almost forty
yeares. The French had it in King Charles's reign for a
short while, and got it, not by vertue of any treaty, but
beyond their expectation, it was put into their hands by the
treachery of S? Thomas Temple y e Governor.
And they lost it in a short time to y e Dutch, and the
Dutch quitting, both the last Kings quietly possessd it, to y e
end of their reignes.
End :) New England
M r . Crowne's Ace* of the Engl :
Title to Penobscot.
Reed I the 4^ Jan'?) ^.
Head } '
M. Villebon to M. Stoughton
Translation.
Sir,
I write to you by M? David Bassett whom I have detained
here ever since the last Year, and whom tlis Majesty is
pleased to pardon for whatever he has done against his
Interest upon condition of his settling in this country, as he
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 31
has engaged to do ; So that I am confident you will be will-
ing ( as I should be in the like occasion ) to suffer him to
return, and let him to make an end of his Affairs without
any wrong or hindrance.
I am much surpris'd, after what I writt to you about those
Indians of Ours that are in prison, that you have return'd no
answer to what I desird of you, and that you persist in keep-
ing them. I will say nothing more to you of it, referring you
to what I writt in my last of 27*? June 1698.
I am informed that you have many that Fish upon our
Coasts, and that you suffer your People to trade in the French
Habitations. You must expect, Sir, that I will seize on what-
soever English shall be found fishing or trading, the rather
for that you cannot but know that it is absolutely forbidden
by the Treaty betwixt the two Crowns, which you yourself
sent me ; And that M* De Bonaventure Commander of the
Kings ship L'Envieux confirm'd it to you, sending back at
his arrival on these Coasts some of your Fishing Vessels
which he had taken, & giving you to understand by the
King's Order that if any more came either to Fish or Trade
they should be made Prize of.
I am Order'd by the King my Master to conform my selfe
to the Treaty of Neutrality concluded at London the 16*? of
Nov b . r 1686 with King James as to the Affairs of America.
I have also express Orders from his Majesty to maintain
the Bounds between New England and Us, which are from
the head of the River of Kennebeck to the Mouth of it, leav-
ing the Channel free to both Nations. Therefore I make no
question, Sir, but you will act accordingly and give over pre-
tending to treat the Indians that are settled there as your
Subjects, thereby to preyent all those unhappy consequences
which may happen by reason of their neighborhood to you.
I have not else, but to assure you that I will do all that lyes
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in my power towards the execution of the Orders which 1
have received from his Majesty.
I am with all sincerity, Sir,
Your most humble servant
Le Chevalier de Villebon
From the mouth of S* John's River
SeptembT the 15** 1698.
End:) New England.
Lre from y e French Grov r . of Nova Scotia to M r . Stoughton
relating to their pretentions to y e fishing c in those parts.
Referred to in M r . Stoughton 's Lre of y e 24 Ocf. 1698.
Rec* Dec 1 : 19 1698.
The Testimony of John Swasey Master of the Sloop
Dolphin and William Jeggels master of the Sloop
Sparrow, of full age testifieth and Saith.
That on or about the Twenty second day of September last,
as we were on the Coast of Cape Sables, bound homeward,
We were forced by stormy weather to go into Chebucta, and
as we were going in we saw a ship in the said Harbour upon
which we tack'd and stood off and presently we saw a Boat
come off from said ship and came to us with about twenty
Men, many of them had Armes and came and boarded our
Vessels, and commanded us to go into the Harbour, which
we did, and we were carried on board the Man of War, and
the Captain by his Interpreter examined us what our business
was there, We told him we were poor Fishermen that fished
on the Banks, They ask'd how we dare to Be so bold as to
come on their Coast a fishing it being their Land and Coast
and Banks were their priviledge, and in some short time we
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 33
were sent aboard our Sloops and brought in under the Ships
Stern, and they took away our Sails and carried them on
board the Ships, and kept us there till the twenty fourth day
of said September, and then the Captain sent for us aboard
and he told us that he had given warning by David Hilliard
that the English were not to fish there, and that he had
power to take us for our fishing there, it being our privi-
ledge, and he said that he would dismiss us for this time, but
said he would take all he could and had power so to do, for
they did forfeit their vessels by fishing there.
The Ship was about foure or five hundred Tuns and had
about Twenty Guns mounted, The Interpreters name was
Perot who as he told us, had formerly lived with M? John
Nelson of Boston.
John Swasey
Salem IS*? October 1698. William Jeggels.
John Swasey and William Jeggels of Salem personally
appeared before us the Subscribers two of his Majestys Jus-
tices of the Peace for the County of Essex in his Majestys
Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, and
made Oath to the Truth of the above written Testimony at
Salem
this 24 th October 1698
Copy Benj* Browne
Examined p Is a Addington John Higginson
Secfy
Endorsed. No. . Copy of the Affidavit of John Swasey and
W Jeggels relating to the Pretentions of the
French to the sole Right of Fishing on the Coast
of Nova Scotia.
Octob' the %*> 1698. '
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Letter from M r . Stoughton L* Gov r . of the Mass: Bay
to y e Board
R* Hon w
In mine of the 25*! 1 of July past directed unto S* Henry
Ashhurst and M? Phips, Agents for this his Ma*? 8 Province,
I advised them of the Information I then had of the preten-
sions made by the French unto the Fishing ground or Banks
lying in the high Seas off & about the Coast of Accadie or
Nova Scotia, and that Eastern Country, which have all along,
even from the discovery and first Settlement of this Countrey,
been used and improved for Fishing as the just right and
priviledge of his Ma*7 8 Subjects until this time, when a Cap-
tain of a French Ship of War, meeting with some of our
Fishermen ab* their Imployment near that Coast, signified
unto them that he had orders from the French King to guard
that Coast, and to seize & make prize of all English Vessels
that he should find fishing in those Seas. And our s? Agents
were instructed to make your Lordp 8 acquainted therewith,
and humbly to move that due care might be taken to secure
unto his Ma*? 8 Subjects the benefit of the Fishery as hereto-
fore, and to prevent any thing that might in the least infringe
or deprive them of that liberty & advantage wherein I pre-
sume they have applied themselves unto yoT L? ships
accordingly.
Since which I have received some further Information about
that matter, and the peremptory challenge of the French unto
the Sole right of Fishing on those Grounds, As also to extend
the bounds of their Dominion through the Main Land, as far
as the River of Kennebeck, and from the head thereof unto
the mouth of the same as by a Letter of the 5*? of September
past from M? Villebon Governor for the French King in
L' Accadie or Nova Scotia, on behalf e of his Master directed
unto my selfe, which original Letter with the other Informa-
tion is here inclosed.
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It's advised by the Council, as necessary for the Kings Ser-
vice, that this matter, of so great import unto his Maj*? 8 Inter-
ests, be forthwith laid before your Lord? 8 that it may be
reported unto his Ma*? Apprehending there may be a proper
Season for asserting and establishing of the ancient Bounda-
ries of these Countreys, and the ancient usage, right and
priviledge of his Ma tyg Subjects for fishing in these Seas, At
the meeting of y e Comission r8 to be appointed on both sides,
conforme to the 8^ Article of the Treaty of peace for exam-
ining and determining the rights and pretensions of either of
the Crowns to the places situated in Hudson Bay.
M? John Nelson a Gent"? well knowing and experienced
in the State of the Country of Accadie or Nova Scotia, and
all circumstances attending the overtures and changes that
have hapned there of long time past, and of the utmost
bounds Westward ever pretended unto by the French, has
acquainted the Governm* here with some memorials, which,
in obedience to your Lordp? Commands, he has lately laid
before your Lordp 8 relating unto his Ma*? 8 Interests in these
Northern parts of America and particularly representing and
setting forth the utmost bounds of the Countrey of Accadie
or Nova Scotia to the Westward ever pretended unto by the
French, extending no farther than the Eastern side of the
River of S* Georges, and that only by virtue of the Treaty
of Breda before which all that Countrey was intirely in the
possession of the English and also setting forth the free and
ancient usage, right and priviledge of his Ma*-? 8 Subjects of
fishing on that Coast : Copys of which Memorials are here-
with inclosed; whereto I humbly pray your Lord p . s to be
referred, particularly that Dated from Paris January 26 t ? x
1698, wherein is humbly insinuated the fatal and irreparable
hurt and damage unto the Interest of the Crown & the pros-
perity of his Ma*? 8 Territories in these parts that will be
consequent of making any concession to the French in their
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unjust & unreasonable pretentions now made. And the
Argum*? therein offered against any concession thereto
( which to repeat would be to give your Lord p . 8 a needless
trouble ) seem to be very demonstrative and of great weight ;
Besides what might be added, that if so large a part of this
Province, as is now claimed by the s? Pretensions of the
French, should come into their possession, many of his
Ma^ 8 Subjects would be excluded from their ancient rights
and Settlements acquired as well by Grants and Confirma-
tion derived from y e Crown of England, as by purchase from
the Natives, and having by their hard labour and great cost
and charge, cleared and improved that part of the Countrey,
and planted several Towns therein And there are so
many large, coinodious^and safe harbours on that shore, that,
upon any eruption with France, and War hapning betwixt
the two Crowns, the French would have such advantage by
them, as greatly to annoy, if not wholy ruine, the navigation
of this countrey ; It would also utterly deprive his Ma 1 ? 8 Sub-
jects of a chief part of their Fishery, whereon they have so
great dependance.
Our Agents are Instructed to wait upon your Lord? 8
about this important affair.
His Ex c .y the Earle of Bellomont still remaining at New
Yorke (his Ma*? 8 Service there not dispenseing with his
Lord? 8 yet leaving of that Province) is made acquainted
with this application unto your Lord? 9 upon this Subject of
so great consequence, and is humbly requested to Second and
enforce the same by fresh application from his Lord? which
time would not allow of by this Conveyance by reason of
the distance, but I hope will be forwarded by y e next. I
pray your Lord? 8 that such early and effectual care and pro-
vision may be had and taken in this important and momen-
tous affair, as to prevent the evil and fatal consequences
attending the groundless and unreasonable pretensions of
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the French as afores? And that the ancient known Bounda-
ries of these his Ma tyB Territories, & rights and priviledges
of his Subjects as afores? may be asserted and established
that so they may reasonably hope to enjoy peace and quiet,
which is not probable, whilst the French in so neare a neigh-
bourhood persist in their unjust pretexts before mentioned.
Having nothing further at present of moment for his
Ma*? 8 Service to observe unto your Lord? 8 With my hearty
wishes for your Lord? 8 happiness, I am with all possible
respect
R l Hon ble Your Lord? 8
Boston in N : England Most humble faithful Servant
October 24* 1698.
W? Houghton
Lords Comiss" of the Council
for Trade and Plantations./
Boston New England
Nov? 4 th 1698
May it please Your Lordships.
While I was in England and also in France I then in
obedience unto your Commands did prefer unto your hon bl *
Board divers Memoires relating unto the French in those
parts. It is to be hoped ( that if the Commissioners on both
sides have entred into Treaty, as is stipulated in the 7th and
8th Articles of the Peace concluded at Riswick that due
reflections and improvements have been made of the said
Memorials, so that his Majesties Colonies and Subjects in
these parts may be protected from the Innovations and vio-
lences with which they are not only menaced, but have act-
ually been put hi Execution by the French upon them, under
pretence of the late Treaty of Neutrality made in London in
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the year 1686, between the late Lord Chancellor Jefferies
and the Ambassador Barrillon ; Whereby the Fishing on each
others Coasts seems to be debarr'd, but under collour of which
they are now endeavouring to extend their pretentious some-
thing like as they have formerly done in Flanders, where
their claime unto dependances did exceed the very conces-
sions made unto them so here much of the same nature, under
the Title of their Coasts, they now Endeavour to exclude us
from the priviledge of Fishing upon the High Seas, Whereas
according unto all Civillians who have wrote of this matter,
they do determine^ that fishing on a neighbours Coast is nat-
urally to be understood, when it is within the Rivers, Har-
bours, Bays Inletts or Creeks, or that use be made of the
shoares &c ft . but that the bankes upon the high Seas are and
allwayes have been the universall right and consequently free
to all nations. The drift and design of the French by these
pretensions is very obvious, as the increase of their Naviga-
tion both in Ships and Seamen Trade and Riches, so on the
contrarie in the same proportion our decrease herein is our
weakening in all these. I doubt not but whenever any cal-
culation shall be made it will be found that more Men are
Imployed more Riches Money and Bullion imported into Our
Nation by this Trade then by any other produce or Commerce
that the Nation does afford, so that from these reasons doubt-
less but that your Lordship 8 will see cause soe to represent
the Matter to the King and Councill as may put some rea-
sonable limitt unto the French pretentious and secure his
subjects in so antient and Uninterruped a right and privi-
ledges, I humbly Conceive that the matter, cannot admitt
much dispute, since that they themselves do dayly and of
necessity take most of their Fish that supplied France on our
Coasts of England, so that the distance, observed there by
them, may serve here for a very good direction and Example
for their Coasts of Nova Scotia also Accaddie as they now call
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them, Your Lordships having formerly admitted both my dis-
course and writing to you on this subject, what is now with
so much importunity represented unto your honours by the
Lieutenant Governour and Councill of this Province. I the
rather presume to second, for that having lately, made a
voyage unto those parts, and by reason of my affaires, being
conversant with them, am fully convinced that unless some
vigorous and resolute measures be taken in this matter not
only the welfare of these Countries but the Interest and
Trade of the whole Nation will in a short time come to
nothing in these parts.
Upon Your Lordships perusal of my Memorialls formerly
given, you will readily perceive that at the time of my Infor-
mations on this and other things, they were something more
then conjecturall, so that my apprehensions now being Joyned
with the Generall Consternations of this Countrey, and
wherein his Majesties honour and Interest has so great a
part I trust may have weight enough to induce your Lord-
ships strenous and Effectual working in our behalfs. The
liberty I have taken in representing this and other matters
before your honours I hope will be favourably interpreted as
an effect of my zeal for the Publick good, and in observance
of your Commands &c. being as I am in all humble Duty.
Your Lordships most humble and
most obedient Servant
Jo* Nelson.
Endorsed. N. 11.
Copy of M r . Nelson's Letter from Boston in New England
relating to the French ^retentions to the sole Right of
Fishing upon the Coaxt of Accadie.
Novemb r the 4 1698.
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May it please your Lordships
This is to acquaint your Lordships, that Mons? Vilbone
The French Governour of S* John's, Bordering upon this
Province Eastward, has lately by his Letters to this Gov-
ernment, Laid Claime to all that Tract of Land, lyeing
between the Rivers of Kenebeck, and S* Georges, pretending
it belongs to the French Government, And has alsoe Forbid
the English Fishery, upon that Coast. Threatning to make
Prize, of such as Fish there for the Future.
As this Claime is unjust, being an Incroachment upon
the English Dominions, soe it is likewise very Prejudiciall
to the Interest of his Majestic, and the English Nation, for
that Tract of Land (as I am informed by many persons
that have lived there formerly before the Destruction of
the English Settlements by the Indians) Abounds with
Masts, and Excellent Timber, For building his Maj*! 68
Ships of War, and is accounted the best part of all this
countrey, for the Plentifull Production of all sorts of
Navall Stores. And if the French get the same into their
Hands, it will not onely Defeat his Maj*! 68 designe, of being
Supply'd from thence with Navall Stores, and Destroy the
Rights & Propertyes of his Subjects to their Lands, and
Fishery there, but will be a vast advantage to the French, &
make way for their further Incroachments.
The bounds of the French Government, before the Treaty
at Breda, reach't noe Further ( as we are here informed )
Then the River of S* Croix, But because S* Thomas Temple,
Pattent for Nova Scotia, Extended as far West as S* Georges
River, the French obtained a Surrender of all that Pattent to
them, by the Treaty at Breda, which was more by Ten
Leagues on the Sea Coast, then what belonged to them.
And now they claime to Kenebeck River, which is yet Ten
Leagues Further West, It is not knowne upon what pretence
they make this Claime, Unlesse upon Acco* of the Indians,
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 41
who Inhabit there, and have Joyned with them in the War,
whom they call their Masters Subjects. And some designe
they have formed among themselves, to supply the French
King with Masts, and Navall Stores, from thence.
Being Employed as one of the four persons sent hither by
his Maj tie to inspect and send from hence Navall Stores, for
The Use of his Maj ties Royall Navy, I thought my selfe
bound in duty to his Maj tie , to give your Lordships an Acco*,
of this matter. That the Claime of the French may be
Opposed, by the Commissioners of his Maj tle , when they meet
those of the French King, to settle the Bounds, according to
the Article of Peace, which I am informed is to be this Win-
ter. Most Humbly Praying that this may find acceptance
with your Lordships, I beg leave to Subscribe my Selfe
My Lords
Boston in New England Your Lordships
November 11 th 1698./ Most Faithfull Obedient
Humble Servant
Benjamin Jackson
End:) For His Maj tie * Service
To The E\ Hon b ! e the Lords of the Councill
of Trade at Whitehall/
New England.
Lire from M r . Jackson Com* for inspection of Naval Stores con-
cerning the Claim of the French to S* George's River dated
Nov. 1698.
Rec* Dec 1 : 19 1698. Read the 23 th Dec r . 1698.
42 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Considerations upon the Iconographical Draught and
Profiel of Pemaquid and Piscataqua ( both to be new )
Forts, marked A & B.
I am of opinion That Pemaquid new Fort (marked in the
Draught with black prickt Lines ) ought in part to be made
and erected, as it is represented in the Draught A & B
afores?
First I premise that instead of filling all the Wall
Walkes & Breast workes (excepting 4 feet in the Breast
worke above the Stone wall which should be of good Earth )
they ought to be vaulted, which will render it an ever lasting
work and afford to the Souldiers Lodgeings &c must be built
by themselves, w c . h will augment the cost & entail a charge
of continual repair ~
Secondly, Piscataqua New Fort ( represented in the Draught
with red prickt Lines ) ought to be built almost in conformity
to the above mentioned Profiel of Pemaquid, only that it be
considered ( That as the Great Island on the Superficies near
& about the Fort is altogether very rocky and no earth to be
gpt near it) 'tis necessary that the Wall Walks be singly
vaulted in as much as the charge of bringing Earth to fill it
would much exceed that of the other.
Thirdly, It is not to be understood That all the Walls of
Pemaquid and Piscataqua Forts must be altogether precisely
alike built and vaulted ( as is laid down in the afores? Pro-
fiel ) but only a part of them, and for the rest a skilful Arch-
itect may governe himself e therein (by the Situation and
ground ) so as to improve all advantages and good husbandry.
Fourthly & Lastly, To anticipate an objection that may
be raised touching the Draughts & Profiels of the Forts of
Orange and Schenegtade in the County of Albany in the
Province of New Yorke and Castle Island in the County of
Suffolke in the Massachusetts Province, Why they are not
proposed in their construction, cannon proofe &c. It may be
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 43
added that only such Guns as are portable on horses which is
not well to be done through a Wilderness but with much
difficulty, can be improved against the two first, and the last
being a mile and some three quarters of a mile distant from
the n'earest of the adjacent Islands, is only exposed to an
Attack by Sea, which will be both difficult and dangerous to
Ships that shall approach against a Fort and Batterys regu-
larly and advantagiously raised by the Seaside : Under these
considerations I conceive an extraordinary charge may be
well Saved.
Wolfgang Will m Romer
Boston
November 10 th 1699.
May it please your Lord?
We the Inhabitants of this Town of Wells have rec? a
sutable supply of Souldiers for our present support, for the
which as our Duty we return to your Lord? as our acknowl-
edgements your great prudence Love and fatherly care
extended to us in this releife has much Incourag'd and
Cheared our hearts. Your Lord? 8 Quickness hi sending
such a supply unto us has prevented our Address for the
same. We do give our most humble thanks to your
Lord? and honoured Councill therefore. We would crave
leave to lay our present wants in your Lord?. 8 view Armes
and Amunition are of absolute necessity for defence if war
should arise, and we are but single arm'd at the best and if
any of them should faile here is no Recruits to be had. Our
store of Ammunition is too little, and that little is not good,
we humbly pray your Excellency to consider this want and
if it may be to Grant a Supply. We would also give your
LordP a short Informacon of some ill designs of the Indians
44 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
lately discovered by an Indian man of some account amongst
them : he coming to an English house, asked what made the
English go to Garrison there being some Remote families
removed, we told him it was not for any harm Intended to
them but upon some suspition of the Westward Indians.
We asked him if he knew any Reason why so many Indians
came from so many parts to Winnebessehkick and there
about he owned that there was many Indians there but what
their designe was he knew not. Two days after he came
again to the same house, and three English men with him,
there being one at that house could discourse with him in his
own Language then he did say that last Summer there was a
great plot among the Indians at Pennycook and Winnebes-
sehkick and other Indians to make war with the English and
had brought their design to an head about our Indian Har-
vest and was in Arms ready to set out upon the design and
had it not been for Kahton Bamet the Sagamoor of Peg-
nohket they had strok the blow upon us before Winter Wee
asked him if he thought that that Sagamoor could prevent
them now he said he could not tell but he had done it then
but there was now many Indians at the forementioned places
and some of them came from Canada, some of the Indians
have told this Winter that the peace that is now is no good
peace for it was but Two proud Rascally Fellows that made
it, and their Sagamoor did never consent to it. We have
Inform'd upwards of 40 of our Indians among us this Win-
ter to their perfect understanding of y e falsnesse of the
Report raised that the English designed their destruction,
and told them it was raised by Evill minded men and upon
their faithfullness and Truth the King and your Lord? would
protect and Love them and that the English would do them
no harm : but we find some of them very hard to believe it.
We humbly pray your Lord? to admit Cap* James Gooch to
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 45
give a further ace* particulars and of our State and Condicon
We subscribe our selves in behalfe of the Inhabitants
Your Lord? 8 most humble Serv*?
Joseph Storer
John Wheelwight
Jonathan Hamond
27*? March 1700.
End : ) Copy of a Lre from M r . Storer, M r . Wheelwright
M r . Hammond to y*. E of Bellomont, relating to y e . Indians.
Dated 27 March 1700. Referred to in y e E. of Bellomont^
I^e of y* 20 of April 1700
Rec* June 27
Read July 2* ' 17
To the R* Hon ble the Earl of Bellomont, Capt? Gen-
eral and Governour in chief of his Ma tys Provinces of
the Massachusetts Bay, New Yorke & New Hampshire.
The Memorial of Col? Wolfgang William Romer
his Ma tyf Chief Engineer in America -
Touching the five Rivers.
In obedience to your Lordp 8 Order I embarqued at Boston
the 28 th of last July on board the Province Gaily & arrived
in Piscataqua river the next day, where I had the honour of
meeting your Lord p and receiving your Order to take the
Plan of the great Island and Fort thereon, and also of the
entrance into that river, and to sound the s? river from the
mouth thereof as far as New Castle which accordingly I per-
formed with all the exactness I could, as your Lord? will see
in the Chart more at large.
I find the Fortification on the s? Island extream bad and
uncapeable of defending the entrance into that noble & impor-
46 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
tant River not being sufficient to endure three or four days
attack of an Enemy. The place where the s? Fort stands is
very proper if there were Workes built that were defensible.
The importance of that river, and the growing Trade of that
place and Countrey requiring it. But, besides that, a good
Strong Tower on the point of Fryers Island, a Battery on
Wood Island, and another single Battery on Clarks Island
would be very necessary.
As for the Great Island on which New Castle stands, a
good redoubt near to the horse Ferry would be very conven-
ient for maintaining a correspondence between the s? Great
Island and the Main Land because that, upon occasion, Suc-
cours might be conveyed thence to the Great Island Fort,
and also because an Enemy would be thereby hindred from
passing through little harbour in small Vessels up to
Portsmouth.
The SO** of August, Cap* Southack Comander of the Gaily
brought me your Lord p . 8 Order to go and visit S? Georges
river. We accordingly sailed out of Piscataqua river the
1 s * of September, and arrived in S* Georges river the 7*? of
the same month. I took the plan of the s<? River which I
found difficult of entrance, not only because of several Islands,
but also rocks w c . h lye under water. Yet when we were once
within those Islands and rocks we found fair large Bays where
Ships of a 150 Tun could ride. About those Bays we per-
ceived good store of rich Land fit for habitation and Improve-
ment but which was never inhabited by other than Indians.
On the out side of the largest of the Islands there are several
Plantacons or Farmes, which by means of the late War were
deserted by y e Inhabit*' There is little Timber there about
fit for building Ships, that which there is being only fit for
building houses & for Fuell
The Coast adjoyning to S* Georges River is reckoned
extraordinary good for Fishing, the French have taken the
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best part of it, which is from the river of Penobscott to that
of S* e Croix which s d River of S* e Croix is said to have been
formerly the Boundary between N England & Nova Scotia
before that Nova Scotia and Accadie were del? to the French
by S* Thomas Temple
Pemaquid River and Fort
This River is nine Leagues to the Westward of S* Georges
the mouth or entrance whereof is spacious and noble and
without any difficulty or danger Ships go imediately into safe
harbour from the main Sea there being but two Leagues from
thence to a Point called the Barbekin which is close by the
Fort. The Chart will shew the Situation of the Fort and
depth of the River.
The Land of Pemaquid is much better than that about S*
Georges there was there formerly a Village of 36 well built
houses on a neck of Land, where stood the Fort, the Inhabi-
tants had their Farmes in the neighbouring country where
there were a great many Farmers besides who had not houses
hi Pemaquid yet were forced to retire thither in the Wartime,
and 'tis supposed that had the peace continued till this time
Pemaquid would have been a place of importance because of
its Fishery, its Trade with the Indians and the Trade which
would have arisen from the productions of the Countrey.
Besides, this place is considerable because of its Frontier
which covers and Shuts in the rivers of Damarascot, Sheep-
scott and Kennebeck
The French have intirely demolished the Fort of Pemaquid
which appears to have been extreamly ill built & not defen-
sible your Lord? may observe by the Profil of the s? Fort in
the Chart, that there was no order or proportion observed in
building it, its Walls were made of clay mixed with Sand
brought from the Sea shore instead of Lime. Insomuch that
( as I have been informed ) when the French besieged it the
Commander having ordered two great Guns to be fired at the
48 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Enemy the Wall of the Fort was so very much shaken that
he was forced to have it supported with great Beams of Tim-
ber which was partly the cause that the place was shamefully
Surrendred to the French. This was the Fort that made
such a noise and which the Countrey were made to believe
was impregnable the loss of which disheartned them extremely
and made the Inhabitants desert the whole Eastern Country.
For the better Security of this Frontier and its port or har-
bour, I am of opinion there ought to be a good Fort built
much about the same place where the former Fort stood &
care taken for conveying in fresh water to furnish the Garri-
son in case of a Seige. And that the defence toward the Sea
ought to be lower down or more horizontal than formerly :
Besides, for its better defence in case of a Seige by Sea, I
am of opinion there should be a good Battery guarded by a
Redoubt, or by a round Tower on Johns Island, and another
Battery of Six pieces of canon 18 pounders, on Cuckolds
point. This being done that Bay would then be Secure.
Kennebeck River
This River is a fine one and convenient for great Ships
when they are once got two Leagues within y e Islands that
are before its mouth which Islands lye to the Main Sea they
are then safe from all danger and afterward the river is navi-
gable for great Ships up as far as Newtown And tho it be
navigable higher up yet 'tis somewhat hazardous by reason of
the little Islands and rocks which lye in the middle of y e
river whose rapid course makes it stil more hazardous for
ships.
As to the Soil, that of Rowsick Island, on which Newtown
formerly stood is very good, and so is the Land that lies
towards the West and South West along the s? river. There
are also several excellent Meadows thereabout, Your Lord p
will see in the Chart the course and depth of the s? river.
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 49
There was never any other Fortification but that at New-
town, which was a small square Fort palisado'd, Therefore I
have marked on the Chart the places which ought to be for-
tified not only for the defence of the mouth of the river but
also for that of the river itself within the countrey, and this
last I hold very necessary because the Savages have two Forts
at the head of the River which are cald Naridgewack and
Comeso quantick. They have two Jesuits in each Fort which
do great hurt to the Kings interest, and that of the Publick
because they instil into those people an aversion & hatred for
his Ma** & his Subjects. Before the War there was a palisa-
do'd Fort on Damarascove Island for defence of the Fisher-
men & a little higher there was another place cald Cape
Newagin where the people cur'd their Fish, and two harbours
where they secured their Vessels from Storms. And th6
those harbours lye open to the Sea yet in case of necessity
they serve turn, when the Fishermen cannot get into Kenne-
beck river.
Casco Bay.
I find Casco bay the noblest, as I do the Countrey about it
the fertilest thats in all New England. There are in this Bay
a great many Inlets from the Sea those that lye on the North
East and South by West sides are the deepest, and are 15
miles from each other. The s? Bay is cover'd from the storms
that come from the Sea, by a multitude of Islands, great and
small there being ( if one may believe report ) as many Islands
as days in the year. Your Lord? may observe the Situation
of this Bay in the Chart and of part of the Islands, and also
its Soundings, wherein I was particularly careful, as I was in
all other places, where I thought it necessary.
The Plan of the Fort in great as I have taken it will give
your Lord? an intire view of its Situation, and of its strength
formerly. The French and Indians burnt it during the late
War it was built of Wood & very ill contrived being so seated
50 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
on a neck of Land, that it could not be relieved. And as it
was ill built so was it as ill kept in repair Yet in confidence
of this Fort people were encouraged to build a pretty large
Village called Falmouth, consisting of 46 houses and a good
church but all lys now in ruines There are stil to be seen the
remains of houses of two stories high with 'stone walls and
Chimneys, and there are 180 Farmes, besides a great many
Fishermens houses.
'Tis great pity that so fine a country should be deserted,
And in case it were to be resetled I could advise a much more
comodious place for building a Town which without doubt
would thrive and grow a pace and it would be much more
capeable of being relieved and defended than the former Town
was. I have marked the place for this new Town on the
Chart with red lines where your Lord? will see my projection
thereof.
Saco River
From Casco Bay I came to Winter harbour, four miles
from the mouth of Saco river, and went up in the pinnace as
high as the first Falls or Cascades where I found a small Fort,
ill seated and worse built it was made of clay and sand instead
of Lime and the most considerable part of it, which is a small
Tower in forme of an irregular Pentagone, is ready to fall,
and in a word useless. The Fall or Cascade makes so great
a noise that one can scarce hear ones selfe speak. This place
is not so much a Frontier as a place of defence for the Salmon
Fishing.
That which I shall observe ( because this River is only deep
enough for sloops ) is,
(1) That in my opinion there must be a good redoubt
made a mile and halfe from the Cascade or Fall, and a Boom
cross the river to hinder the Indians in their Canoes from
coming round about the s? Falls, and so to the Sea for which
reasons we ought to be Masters of the river. At the head
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 51
whereof the Indians have a Fort cald Narracomecock, where
they have also two Jesuits. The redoubt and boome I have
mark't on the Chart with red lines.
(2) Since the people of New England have enriched them-
selves by their Fishing which is their principal Trade, it
would be proper in my Judgement to make a good Battery
guarded by a redoubt at Winter harbour or Stage gut point
to secure their Sloops and other Fishing boats ; which, indeed,
ought to be done in several places on the Eastern Coast where
at present have no Sort of refuge to the Eastward of Saco, to
shelter them from Pirates or other Enemies. The Land along
this river is very good & fertile & well stor'd w*? woods for
Ship building & for houses.
What remains to be observed is, That at the head of this
River above the first and greatest Falls, it takes its course
N. N. E. where the last mentioned Indian Fort which is built
at some distance from the s? River, and the two former
Indian Forts ( which I mentioned in the Article of Kennebeck
river ) do center all three within two or three days Journy of
each other by w 6 ? 1 means the Savages can conveniently corre-
spond. And upon occasion draw together in a body as often
as they please, which is a thing well worth reflection espec-
ially against another War do happen.
It is likewise observable That all these Indians I have been
mentioning were our cruellest Enemies all the late War which
they made appear on all occasions, They took & burnt Fal-
mouth and besieged Wells, a Village to the Westward of
Saco, consisting only in 10 or 12 houses which were forti-
fied & well provided with provision & Amunition who ( th6
they were besieged by 500 French and Indians ) so well
defended themselves that the Enemy were beaten and forced
to retire with considerable loss. Among others, three of their
best Captains were killed one whereof (& he the most
regretted ) was a Kinsman of y e Count de Frontenac, and as
52 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
a token of their revenge, having taken an old Englishman
they roasted him alive on a spit in sight of the English hi
Garrison This is one mark, among many others, of the horri-
ble cruelty of French Papists and Indian Infidels
All which is humbly submitted to your
Lord p . 8 consideration by
Your Lordships
Humble and obedient Servant
Boston Wolfgang Will? 1 Romer
the II" 1 April 1700.
To his Excellency the Earle of Bellomont
Province of the Massachusetts Bay
in New England
The Memoriall of William Rayment Lievtenant
of the New Detached Company Posted in his
Ma tys Service within the County of York in the
Province aforesaid.
Sheweth
That within the space of three weeks last past at sundry
times divers of the Eastern Indians to the number of Twenty
or thereabouts of men and women have first and last showen
themselves at and about the Town of Wells where this Nar-
rator with a party of the said company are posted, and dis-
coursed with some of the Inhabitants of said Town, profess-
ing themselves for peace, particularly on Saturday the 6 th
of April Instant Twelve Indians came into the Town of
Wells ( who for some days before had shown themselves to
some of the Inhabitants but seem'd shye, avoiding to be
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 53
spoken with) of which number there was one named Tom,
who bears the title of Cap* and is said to have been very
active in Comitting of murder and rapine dureing the time of
the late Rebellion, who at first pretended not to understand
nor speak English, but afterwards having discovered that he
could do both, he then began to be free of discourse, and
Inquired of this Narrator the reason why there was so many
souldiers posted there and the Inhabitants went to Garrison,
I replyed because the Indians threatned to make war and
burn the English houses, he said there was no such thing
Intended, the English and they were as Brothers, the Nar-
rator then demanded of him why the Indians were gathered
together in bodys at severall places, he replyed that the
English Governour meaning Governour Winthrop had seized
the Natick Sagamore, and said he would kill the Indians, and
fifteen of Natick Indians had come to Pennicook to stir up
the Indians there to make war, and also to Uncas another
Sagamore to the Westward, and the Penny cooks had sent
unto the Kennebeck Indians to acquaint them therewith and
to excite them to Joyn them in making of war but they
utterly refused. Then this Narrator demanded of him what
the Pennycooks would do, seing the Eastern Indians would
not Joyn them he replyed the Pennycooks were but a few
and could do nothing were ( as he expressed himselfe ) no
more than all one a Papoos or Child. The Narrator laboured
to disabuse him and Confute the falsehood of such a Report
that the Governor had seized upon any Indian, or Intended
any harm to the Indians, and read your Excellencys Procla-
macon unto him and the other Indians who seem'd to be well
satisfied and say very good Governor, and professes the
Indians have no designe for war they have hunted much this
Winter and taken but little Game are very poor and pinch't
for want of provisions and further saith they are now going
54 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
out a hunting for the space of Two moons as he term'd it,
and then would return back againe
W Rayment
Boston
April 13* 1700/
signat. Cor. Is a Addington Secry.
End : ) JV? 9. Massachusets Mem 1 , of Lieu* Rayment to y e
E of Bellemont, about the Indians. Dated April y*. 13* h
1700 Referred to in y* E of Bellemont 8 Lre of the 20
April 1700
Rec* June 27
Read July f 17
William RaymenCs Memorial relateing to the Indiana -
Ap r . 13 th 1700. a Irue Copy
Bellemont
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty
The humble addresse of the Governor Councel and
Representatives of your Majesty's Province of
New Hampshire in America Conven'd hi Generall
Assembly
May it Please your Maj ty
Wee your Majesty's most dutifull and Loyall Sub-
jects having a deep Sense of the many blessings we Injoy by
means of your most auspicious Reign and Just administra-
tion, the happy Influences whereof reach and effect us that
live in one of your remotest Provinces hi America. We
blesse God with all the powers of our souls y* yo r Maj ty has
by his Divine assistance accomplish'd those great and glori-
ous atchievments whereby you have rescu'd the Liberties of
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 55
England and of all Europe from Popish Tyranny and oppres-
sion. The present peace which under God we owe to your
Majesty's matchless bravery and Conduct must be acknowl-
edged a wellcome Relaxation to us that are but a handfull of
people in this province and have had to do all the Late war
with a barbarous and Treacherous Enemy the Eastern
Indians, whose bloody Nature and perfidy have been much
aggravated and Improv'd of late years by Popish Emissaries
from ffrance who have taught 'em that breaking faith with,
and murdering us is the Sure way to gain paradise ; and so
far have they deluded their Indian Disciples with their
Inchantments and vile Superstition, that they are taught to
Spare neither age nor Sexe, having kill'd and Scalp'd all
( Except a very few ) both old and young that came within
their power during the whole Course of the war, and we
know not how Long these bloody Indians will forbear their
hostilities. The ffrench Missionaries continuing among them
as they do, and poysoning them with their Hellish doctrines
to the withdrawing them from their former Obedience and
Subjection to yo r Maj*7
We have great reason to Blesse God for your Majesties
uniting the province of New York to that of Massachusetts
Bay and this province under the Governm* of the Earle of
Bellomont, it being the happiest Step your Maj*/ could have
made for our protection, Inasmuch as it is the likelyest way
to subdue or exterminate these Eastern Indians that Infest
us, to Ingage the five Nations of Indians in the province of
New Yorke ( who have always been a terror to 'em ) to make
war upon them.
That your Maj*?* unwearied Care and vigilance for the
Interest and happinesse of your people may raise in all our
hearts and affections that Just veneration and respect that's
due to the Lustre of your glorious name and actions : and
that your Maj*. y may after a long and prosperous Reign over
56 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
us receive an Immortal Crown of glory as a reward of the
unspeakable blessings and advantages you have brought to
all your Subjects is the most earnest and Incessant prayer of
May it please your Majesty
Your Majesty's most devoted most
humble and most faithfull Subjects and Servants
Bellomont
John Hinckes Nath Fryor Peter Coffin W? Partridge Sam 11
Penhallow, Speaker Robert Elliot John Gerrish Rich? Wal-
drom Moses Lewis John Pirkerin James Render Joseph
Gruett Henry Dow Nath Hill John Fuller John Woodman
John Smith Theodore Attkinson
Petition of Earl of Limerick concerning Pemaquid.
To the Kings most Excell* Majesty.
The humble Petition of Thomas Earle of Limericke.
Sheweth
That your Petitioner being desireous to retire to and pass
the Remainder of his life in your Majesties Dominions in
America ; And there being a Tract of Land Called Pema-
quid, which was formerly the private Estate of the late King
James, and Yields little or no benefit to your Majesty.
Your Petitioner most humbly prays that your Majesty
will be graciously pleased to grant him the said Tract of
Land, with such Franchises and Priviledges & under such
an Acknowledgement Regulations and Reservations of all
Legall Rights to any former Grants there made by the
Kings Governors of New York or New England as to
your Majesty shall seem meet
And your Petition 1 shall ever Pray &c.
(No endorsement)
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 57
Answer to Earl of Limerick'' 8 Petition concerning Pemaquid.
L? Stamford & others to the Earl of Jersey.
To the R* hon b . le y. Earle of Jersey
My Lord.
In answer to your Lordships Letter of the 27th Aprill
signifying To Us his Majesties pleasure that we should con-
sider of the Earl of Lymerick's Petition to his Majesty for a
Grant of some Lands in America called Pemaquid, We desire
you would please to inform his Majesty that the whole Coun-
try between Nova Scotia and the Province of Main, in which
Pemaquid is included, has already by his Majesties Royal
Charter to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachu-
sets Bay, been granted to them with pow* to make and pass
Grants of particular Tracts of Lands within the whole Boun-
daries of that Province, but with a Reservation nevertheless
that no Grants of any Lands between the River of Sagade-
hock and the Gulph of S* Lawrence ( in which Pemaquid is
also included ) should be of any force untill his Majesty his
heirs or Successors shall have signifyed his or their approba-
tion of the same ; By which it appears that his Majesty can-
not gratify the Petitioner in the Matt 1 ; of his request, untill
a Grant of such Lands be first obtained from the Corporation
of the Massachusets Bay. We are :
Signed
Stamford
Ph. Meadows Wm. Blathwayt
John Pollexfew Abr. Hill
Whitehall May \ Geo. Stepney,
the 10^ 1700
Gap\ John Alderis 'Relation to the Earl of Bellomont.
Capt* John Alden was with me the 13'? of this Instant ^
June, and told me he was newly returned from Penobscot
58 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
River to y e Eastward where he saw and discoursed with
Mons* de Saint Castin a French Gentleman that lives there,
and with whom the s? Alden has traded Several years.
Mons* de S* Castin told him he hop'd he should Shortly
come under the King of England's Government, for that he
had much rather be a Subject of England than a Slave to
France ; he likewise said that the true Boundary between
England and France to the Eastward was the River of S*?
Croix and said the English would do well to insist on it vig-
orously, otherwise the French Court would try to cozen
'em out of it. Cap* Alden desired him the s? Castin to
write by him to the Governour of N. England what he had
then related about the Boundary but he said he could not
venture to do such a thing least his Letter should be carried
to Quebec, he, Viz* St* Castin told Cap* Alden That the
Jesuits had taken indefatigable pains to stir up the Indians
everywhere to make War upon the English and said they
were very wicked in so doing. I desir'd Cap* Alden to put
what he told me in writing by way of Memorial, and set his
name to it but he desir'd to be excused, Saying, That
S* Castin was his Friend and Correspondent, and he, viz :
Alden, could not do anything that would expose Mons* de
S* Castin This I imediately writ down after Cap* Alden had
left me.
Mons* de S* Castin is said to be a Gentleman of a good
Family who leaving France on Some disgust in his Youth,
came & settled on Penobscot River married the chief Saga-
more's Daughter, Speaks the Indian tongue, lives after the
Indian manner, and is become Chief or Sagamore of the
Penobscot Indians consisting hi about 130 Families, being
grown rich by Trade. 'Tis said the French Governours of
Canada & S* Johns have sent several times to him to go to
them, but he would not go near 'em He professes great kind-
ness to the English and Speaks English. He gave advice to
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some of the late Governours here, of the designes of the
French against this Countrey, and the return he had was the
sending a Frigat & some souldiers, who ravag'd his Country
and burnt the Wigwams or houses of him and his Indians,
Which faithless action he complains of to this day.
E ' : Cap* John Aldem Relation to the Earl of Bellomont, of
what passed between him $ Mons r . de S^ Castin, about the
Eastern bounds between us the French.
13 June 1700 -
A New Oxford ce 17 Juin 1700
Monseigneur
Lors que Jeus Ihonneur d'ecrire a v6tre Excellence Je ne luy
enuoyay pas le certificat de nos habitents sur le sujet de
Mons* Bondet, parce qu'ils n'etoient pas tous Icy : Je 1'ay en
fin retire et 1'envoye a v6tre Excellence, au sujet de nos
Indiens Je me sens oblig D'avertir V6tre Excellence, que les
quatre qui etoient revenus non, obstant toutes les protesta-
tions qu'ils me firent a leur arrivee leur retour n'a eu d'autre
but que d' engager ceux qui avoient ete fidelles a sen aller
avec eux, de sorte qu'ils en ont gagne la plus part, et partent
Aujourd huy pour Penikook au nombre de vint cinq hommes
femmes et enfans; Je leur pr^chay hier en leur propre
Langue et les exhortay Aussy fortement qu'il me f tit possible
a rester ; mais Inutillen. Us me dirent pour raison que les
habitans de New roxbury Les troubloient Incessament, que
tout le monde les tromppit, mais ces raisons ne me satisfai-
sant pas, Je voulus en avoir quelque autre, Us me dirent
ensuite, que la religion des Indiens de Penikook etoit plus
belle que la n6tre que les frangois leur donnoient des croix
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d'argent a metre au col. Je fis tout ce que je peus pour leur
faire voir le contraire. Us ajouterent qu'on leur faisoit de
grandes promesses dans ce pays la, au lieu qu' Icy ils avoient
au Roy qui les maltraitoit, les ayant fait coucher tout Driver
sur la dure sans aucun secours, la dessus je leur ay repre-
sent, que la on ils alloient ils servient tous esclaves, que
quand on auroit besoin de soldats on les fair oient marcher
par force, au lieu qu' Icy ils joiiissent d'une entiere Liberti,
et que le Roy n'a D'autre dessein que de les proteger, &c
enfin Ils m'ont asseur qu'il y avoit une autre forte raison
qu'ils ne pouvoient pas dire mais qu'on la sauroit bientot, ils
sont encore Icy pour tout ce jour, et II m' apergois qu'l y en
a plusieurs qui commencent a changer de dessein Je ne per
dray point de moment pour les ?etenir s'il m'est possible
etant secouru de ceux qui restent, si j'avois sceu plustot leur
dessein, j'aurois mieux reiissi ; dans tout ce qu'ils disent je
voy que les pretres agissent vigoureusement et qu'ils couvent
quelque entre prise qu'ils fairont Eclore quand Ils en trouver-
ont loccasion favorable, voila Monseigneur ce que mon devoir
m'obligeoit a faire s^avoir a votre Excellence J'ajouteray
seulement que Je feray gloire dans quelque occasion que ce
soit de faire connoitre a vdtre Excellence que Je tacheray de
ne me rendre J'amais Indigne des graces que 1'ay receiies, et
de temoigner toute ma vie que Je suis.
Monseigneur
De Votre Excellence
Le tres humble tres obeissant
et tres soumis Serviteur
sign J Laborie
Oapt. John Alderfs Second Relation to the Earl of Bellomont.
on Tuesday morning the 1 s * of aug : 99. Coll Allen Came to
my Lodging at M? Waldron's house at Pescattaway and
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desir'd I would Let him have a Tryall for the Lands of the
province of N. Hampshire, and that if I would favour his
Cause he would make me a handsome recompense, but I told
him I would keep Clean hands and that I never had taken
nor ever would take a bribe.
on Tuesday evening the 8* of aug. 99. Coll Allen came
to me at M* Waldron's house at Pescattaway, and offer' d me
if I would favour his Cause ag* the people of N. Hampshire,
he would match a younger daughter of his to my younger
son and would make her worth 10000< in mony, and that
he would divide the province with me besides but I told him
that I would not sell Justice, if I might have all the world,
and that both my sons were children, and not fit to marry,
he desir'd I would be there, but I told him I would not do
such a thing for the world, because it would be very unfair
so to do. he still press'd my marrying my younger son to
his daughter, and told me a third part of y e people of y e
province had already turn'd tenants to him at a Quit rent of
3* p acre : that the woods and timber of the province would
be of a vast value ; and there had been and still is an extrav-
agant wast Comitted in his woods by men who had made
estates out of 'em.
on Saturday morning the 12 t] ? of Aug: 99. Coll Allen
walking with me before M* Waldron's door, renew** his offer
of a match between my son & his daughter, and told me his
pretension in N. Hampshire & other parts of N. England was
worth 22000 X p an. at 3 d g acre Quit rent, that the Lands
were 1700000 acres, and that his patent gave him a right as
far as Cape Ann and to Salem in the Boston Government.
on Tuesday morning the 15^ of Aug: 99. Coll. Allen
Came to my Chamber ;n Mr. Waldron's house and shew'd
me some writings relating to his title to the Lands afores? and
then renew'd his offer of 10000X w*? his daughter to my
younger son, if I would favour his Cause, and he told me
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again that he valu'd his Interest at 22000< g an. besides
the woods.
on the 17*** of aug. 99. I left Pescataway to Come tow d>
Boston, and Coll. Allen conducting me as far as Hampshire
(where I din'd at M? Cotton the Minister's house) where
walking on the green before M* Cotton's house, he again
urg'd me upon the former proposition of a match between
my son and his daughter, and that I would favour his Cause
against the Inhabitants of N. Hampshire. I made answer I
would do him Justice but no favour.
ab* the Latter end of this Last f eb : or beginning of March
Coll. Allen was here at Boston, and press'd me w*! 1 more
earnestnesse than ever, to accept of his former proposition of
a match between my son and his daughter, and that upon
the terms afores d viz : 10 00 OX in mony and half his preten-
sion to the Lands and woods afores? but because it was the
same proposition he had made me so often before I did not
write it down in my table book as I had done at all the fore-
going times.
I have severall Letters from Coll Allen, some whereof do
plainly hint the foremention'd offer to me, and more particu-
larly and plainly the match between my son and his daughter.
all which premisses I am ready to declare upon oath when
thereunto required
Bellomont
Boston the 19 t] ? of June 1700 -
Memorandum. That Coll. Allen told me twice or thrice he
was very sure the Inhabitants of N. Hampshire upon my
Countenancing his title were ready to turn tenants to him
Imediately, and that severall of them had told him so, and
that in a week's time he Could raise 20000< on the s d . Inab-
itants by way of fines half of which sum he would pay me
as his daughter's fortune.
Bellomont
E: ) An Account of Coll. Allen's
Offer to the JE. of Bellomont c.
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Colossians Discovery June 21 : 1700.
Colossians drawing off, because he is assur'd of war this
Suiner and that peace can't be continued, neglects to hill his
corne on that Accompt, th6 he now and then doth a little,
that the English may not suspect his Resolutions.
The reason of his not being gone Nenequabbens brother's
being Scalded, but upon his being well and able to travail he
and all the rest must be gone Woodstock must be clear'd of
Indians within three weeks because there must be no Indians
about the Towns in the heart of the Countrey.
The Indians now publickly own their intentions of drawing
off bid Neighbour Farewell, and cunningly to blind them tell
them they have no ill designe intend no hurt would not have
them frighted nor go into Garrisons, Yet tell John Sabin pri-
vately that this is only to blind the people whom th6 they
promise to return again after a while viz six weeks yet also
to him aver they never will they know they must not
June 23* at night.
Colossians came and told John Sabin It might be he might
never see him more As for the War he could not tell which
side might prove strongest yet as to his concernes if the
Indians prevail'd he should not be endamaged. On his reply
concerning the Governours improving other methods than
ever yet were taken he rejoyn'd, some say the Govern 1 ?
intends to use dogs against the Indians but if they would
have such as would do any service they must be doggs that
bullets would not enter they would carry a Quiver of Arrows
they valued little what could be done against them We have
had Wars with the English so long that we see what they
can do. Upon proposing to him the unlikelyhood of their
being supplied with Amunition he replied they should never
want, for, divers French had married Indian Squaws, and
they had promised to supply them and others had promised
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to do the same privately th6 they must not be seen in it
unless a War commence between Engl: & France & another
way Towns will be taken by surprize either by lesser or
greater numbers as we shall judge needful There's Mendon,
such a Town we can take in two hours, and in every Town
we heare there is a barrel of powder & private men have some
a pound, some more, and they won't have opportunity to
shoot much of it away before we take them.
His projections about ruining the Countrey built upon
their designe to kill all Cattle Swine &c. destroying fields by
which means he concludes men will be soon starv'd out par-
ticularly Woodstock, he reckons himselfe and another can
starve that Town out by such methods in a years time and
then when people are so starv'd out they will apace draw off
for Europe, Ships would walke very fast
As to the Maqua's
He is assur'd (else he would not go) that they would
stand by the Indians, and that they would find quarrel one
way or another with my Lord when he should treat them for
Maqua's so bigg cunning the/ have sent great quantitys of
moneys to the M to the value of one hundred pounds, and
one told him for his part he had sent 20 s Solomon tells him
that the Macqua's love John Sabins name on the score of his
service to the Permecook Indians at Woodstock.
Nenequabben on 24*? instant.
He is sorry for trouble arising in a str eight what to do his
Family gon to Pennecook already yet unresolv'd w* to do,
thinks best for him to be English side, the Indians disgusted
at him English and Indians all say Governour very cunning
man but Indians can, for all that, and will blind his Eyes, for
he can't see they'l speak him fair and he little thinks how
near trouble is
To his Cousin Eben : Sabin Menequabben with tears in
his Eyes said he was in a great Streight his Family was gone
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to Pennecook to the other side, and he thought he must go
too, And if he did he must fight against the English and that
lookt hard.
Some Indians drawn off, before they went away, a man
who had lett Land to them complained ( when they told him
they were going ) that they had promised him pay for his
Land, to which they replied they freely gave him all their
Labour and so drew off.
Keensotuk ( who is Grand Child to the late King Philip
Sachem of Mount hope ) informed John Sabin that the Pen-
necooks would certainly this Sufiier make war upon Owaneco
the Sachem of the Mohegin Indians for their discovery of the
Plott to the English and added that if the English helpt them
then it would draw y e Warr upon them if not it was likely
the Mohegins would privately kill John Sabin or some other
English man and then lay it on the Pennecooks, and that
would occasion a War betwixt them and the English so that
a War would certainly commence.
Colossians informed John Sabin that the Macqua's are
every week some or other of them at Pennecook and some of
other Indians from Canada & y e Eastward, that the Penne-
cooks do labour to prejudice the Macqua's against the Mohe-
gins, laying the blame of y e discovery upon them and belying
them, to incense the Macqua's, tell them that the Mohegins
out of scorn hung up the Present of Wampum in the smoke
and made a derision of it.
The Earl of Bellomont to M* Sec r y Vernon
, Boston the 22<* June 1700
Sir
if you have patience to read my Long letter to the Co. \jK
of Trade w ch I now send you, it will give you I hope an
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Idea of the rise that might be made of these Plantations, for
therein I have writ for the Last time ab* Naval stores^and
Masts and Ship timber. The papers I send Inclosed w th this
Letter will surprize, especially that w c ^ discovers Blathwait's
bargain w th Coll. Allen for half his pretended Interest in N.
Hampshire and a great part of this province. I have now
sent the same papers to my Lord Chancellor, and my Lord
Jersey, and I hope among you, he I mean M? Blathwait will
be Crossebit by. this bargain of his w*^ Allen 'tis plain who
sold the Lands in the province of N. York to ffletcher. if it
could be Lawfully done, the seizing Coll Allen's papers
would discover this villanous bargain of Blathwait's w th him
w ch would a thousand times more deserve an Inquisition of
the H. of Comons than that they bestow'd 9 hours debate on
the 6^ of Last Dec? I hope those two Lords and yourselfe
will with vigor oppose M? Blathwait's treacherous sale of
these plantations from England. The Management of them
has been hitherto most ridiculous, and all by that man's
means who has made a milch Cow of 'em for many years
together we have a fresh account of the Indians w ch is bad
enough but the hasty departure of this Ship will not permit
me to relate it to you. I have not had any Letter from the
Co : of Trade since that of the 21 s * of Last aug : w ch is very
discouraging I wish you Ministers would set a right value
on these Plantations, and then we Governors would be more
regarded and should hear from you oftener.
one Robinson the Master of a Ship belonging to this
Town arriv'd here a moneth ago from London, and tells me
he met Mr. Weaver at the Sun CofTy house behind the Royal
Exchange a week before he left London, and M? Weaver
having a packet of Letters in his hand for me, Robinson
desir'd he might bring it to me, but M? Weaver told him he
had positive orders to send the packet to N. York ; and M?
Weaver deliver'd the packet before his face to one Jeffers
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Master of a ship bound to N. York, and Robinson says Jeffers
deliver'd it to the Master of the Coffy house, and desir'd him
to keep it for him. now this Jeffers was the Master that
petition'd the Council of Trade against me. This was about
13 weeks ago, and Jeffers pretended to be ready to sail the
next day ; yet he is not heard of at N. York, and I suspect
some foul play is done to the Letters sent me. There ought
to have been duplicates of the packets from the Ministers :
for 'tis a terrible Thing to be us'd as I am.
I am w^ respect
Sir Your most faithfull humble Servant
Bellomont
Cap. Alden's second relation to me of the Eastern bounds
between us & y ffrench I now Inclose to you as a thing worth
your observation 'Twere worth while to Inquire who order'd
M* Weaver to send y? packet to N. York and if there be a
Trick in it, that will discover it.
E: ) Earl of Bellomont 22 June R 9 Aug. 1700
The Earl of Bellomont to M r . 8ec r V Vernon
Boston the 9* July 1700
Sir
I write now in the anguish of my soul, being quite dis-
pirited for want of orders from you Ministers to support the
King's and Nation's Interest in these Plantations, you will
see that I have writ by this Conveyance to the Council of
Trade, and I will trouble you no more on that subject, refer-
ring you to a Copy of my Letter to them, w ch I send you.
There Came hither two ships from London, the Last week
in May, w cb brought me not a Letter from any of the
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Ministers, and another ship four days ago, but not a Letter by
that neither, what must the people here and in N. York thinke,
but that either the King and his Ministers have no sort of
Care or value for these Plantations, not minding whether they
fall into ffrench hands or no : or else that I am in disgrace
w th the King, and that all this neglect proceeds from a per-
sonall Slight to me. I never in all my life was so vex'd and
asham'd as now ; I put the best face I can on it, but I find
other people take the liberty to Judge of the present Conduct
of affairs in England.
it had been kindly done of the Ministers to have rebuk'd
M* Weaver's Impertinence in staying all this while in Eng-
land from the duty of his Imployment, where he has no just
pretence of businesse, unlesse taking his pleasure may be
Call'd so ; In my opinion, he should be order'd peremptorily
to Come away with the first ship, or be turn'd out, and
another Capable man sent in his place.
I am with respect Sir
Your most faithfull humble servant
Bellomont
E:) Ea of Bellomont 9 July R 16 Aug 1700
Boston the 9** July 1700
My Lords
The reason of my troubling your Lo p . 8 again so soon after
my Letter of the 22*? of last moneth, is to acquaint you
w 1 * some things that have occurr'd since then, w c . h I think
deserve being Transmitted to your Lo p . 8
A The Indians about the Towns of Woodstock and New
Oxford ( consisting in ab* 40 families ) have lately deserted
their houses and corn and are gone to live w*? the Penicook
Indians, w c . h has much allarm'd the English thereabout, and
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some of the English have forsaken their houses and farms
and remov'd to towns for their better security, that the
Jesuits have seduc'd those 40 families of Indians is plain
from severall accounts I have receiv'd ; some whereof I now
send viz : MonsT Labourie's Letter to me, w c . h is a very plain
evidence of the French Jesuits debauching those Indians.
Mons? Labourie is a French Minister plac'd at New Oxford
by MT Hough ton the Lieu* Governor and my selfe at a yearly
stipend of 30 1 . 1 out of the Corporation Mony, there are 8 or
10 French families there that have farms, and he preaches to
them, and at the same time Instructed those Indians having
for that purpose learnt the Indian tongue to enable him to
preach therein.
I also send some Memoranda deliver'd me by M? Rawson
a Minister, who writ 'em down from M? Sabin's mouth ;
M? Sabin's the person I formerly nam'd to your Lo p8 that gave
me severall advices concerning the Indians. M T . Sabin is so
terrified at the Indians of Woodstock and N. Oxford's quit-
ting their houses and corn, that he has thought fit to forsake
his dwelling, and is gone to live in a Town. All the think-
ing people here believe the Eastern Indians will break out
against the English in a little time.
B MonsT d'Iberville is lately come to N. York from build-
ing Forts at Mechisipi in the bay of Mexico and manning
them, I shall not animadvert on his coming to York, but refer
your LoP. 8 to the Lieu! Gov? of N. York's letter to me, a
Copy whereof I now send your Lo p . 8 Mons? d'Iberville came
in a 50 gun ship call'd La Renom^e.
C The Assembly is still sitting here, but will break up this
week, and I must be gone to N. York, to keep touch w 1 * the
5 Nations of Indians , whom I have promis'd to meet at
Albany the 10*? of next moneth th6 to litle purpose I fear,
for having not yet receiv'd orders from your Lo p . 8 or any of
the Ministers about those Indians or any of the things I writ
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to you of, I am quite in the dark, and know not w ch way
to move, if I could have had orders this spring, I would by
this time have had a good sod Fort at Onondage's Castle,
w c . h would have cover'd that and the rest of the 5 Nations
from the French, and have Incourag'd those nations above all
the things that can be thought of, and that for about 1200 1 . 1
but the sumer is now almost gone, and I am in great fear our
Sloath and neglect of those Indians all this time, will be the
losse of them. I thanke God I shall be no way accountable
for the mismanagement that will probably loose us the Indians,
and our plantations on this whole Continent, having given
frequent advices home of the condition of the Indians, and
what 1 thought would secure their affection to us.
D I have rec? no letter from your Lo p . 8 since that of the
21?* of last Aug : w c . h is almost a year, except 3 or 4 lines
w c . h serv'd for a cover to the King's Lett? of the 10 th of last
Nov r they write me word from N. York that a pink was
newly arriv'd there from London in 8 weeks, who assures 'em
that Jeffers to whom M? Weaver deliver'd your Lo ps packet
ab* the 15 th of March was in the River of Thames on the
23 rd of April. Tis wonderfull to me that M r . Weaver could
find no body to send the packet with but Jeffers who had
complain'd against me to your Lo p . 8 as I have been Inform'd,
a crosse ill condition'd fellow, and who hates me. I sent
yesterday for Cap* Robinson the Ma? of a ship belonging to
this town, who arriv'd here from London the last week in
May, he repeated to me what he had told me before, that a
week before he sail'd he met M? Weaver at the Sun Coffy
house behind the old Exchange, and seeing a packet w*? him,
he desired he might have the bringing it to me, Mr. Weaver
refus'd, saying he was positively order'd to send it by Cap*
Jeffers to N. York, and Cap* Robinson saw M? Weaver
deliver the packet to Jeffers and Jeffers deliver it to the
master of the Coffy house to keep till he should call for it.
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and Cap* Robinson sail'd out of the River the 21?* of March
every body believes Jeffers has plaid the Rogue.
E it were to be wish'd in such a Conjuncture as this, that
your Lo pB would write often and that your secretary would
take care that all your packets be delivered into honest hands,
and receits taken for them, and I desire it may be hereafter
observ'd that ships coming to Boston are accounted among
the seafaring men to have the advantage of those bound to
N. York at least a 3? part of the way, tho in point of dis-
tance N. York is but a 100 leagues further from England
than this place is.
F I hope your Lo p . 8 will not suffer M* Brenton and M?
Weaver to loyter any longer in England from their duty
here, their ramble is most unaccountable, and so far from
being reasonable, that 'tis not honest : and they make very
bold w 1 * the Ministers at home
G I had bespoke 400 wheelbarrows and other Tools to be
provided for building a Fort for the Indians, but to my great
amazement and discomfort, I am not directed in that or any
thing else.
I am sorry there was not a duplicate of your Lo p . 8 packet
by Jeffers, sent by another ship.
I am w*! 1 respect My Lords
Your Lords p . 8 most humble and obedient servant
Bellomont
Boston the 16* July 1TOO/
Sir
I am now in the hurry of leaving this place, being to
imbark to morrow for N. York
My letter to your board will Inform you among other
things, of the addresse of my selfe and the Gen 1 . 1 Assembly
to the King, wherein we complain of the Incroachments of
the French on the fishing and Eastern bounds of this province,
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and supplicate his Ma*? for his Royall Charter of Incor-
poration for Harvard - Colledge. I make it my earnest
request you will favour and promote the Charter w** 1 your
board, and that you will please to advise and assist S? Hen :
Ashhurst in carrying it on, and managing his solicitations
rightly.
I had news yesterday by the Captain of the Galley whom
I sent w th goods and provisions to the Indians on Kenebeck
River, that there is some mischief hatching between the
Jesuits and those Indians, that there was a generall meeting
of the Indians at one of their Castles call'd Naridgewack on
that River, and that upon the last day of June, where all
the Indians took the sacrament at the hands of those Jesuits.
Moxes the chief Sagamore told the Captain he had lately
receiv'd an angry Letter from the Governor of Canada, chid-
ing hun severely for holding any sort of Correspondence w th
me and threatning him what the King his master would do
to punish him and his Indians if they held any intercourse
w th me. he likewise told the Cap* that the Jesuits had Insin-
uated to 'em that the King their Master was resolv'd to
maintain all the country eastw d of Kenebeck River against
the English and that they viz : the Indians were great fools
if they suffer' d the English to enjoy any lands to the West-
ward of the s? River, he told the Captain the Penicook In-
dians would fall on the Monheags very soon. Cap* South-
ack deliver'd me a memorial containing these and severall
other matters, but I have not time to get it transcrib'd. you
may please to tell the lords of the Council of Trade of this,
if you think it worth the telling.
I am unfeignedly Sir
Your humble and faithfull servant
Bellomont
I find I forgot in a late Letter of mine to your board ( wherein
I desir'd some tools if we were to fortifie our frontiers) to
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bespeak 10 or 12 dousen of pick axes, w c . h I desire may be
sent, if y e rest of y e tools be sent.
Boston Septf 3? 1700
Hon b . le S*
Inclosed herewith are the Minutes of Council begining the
28' 11 of March 1700 and continued down to the 17^ of July
following inclusive, And the Journal of the General Assem-
bly at their Session begun and held the 29 t ? 1 day of May last
past; As also the Acts and Laws then made and passed, all
which are made up in one packet and committed to the care
of M? David Robinson Commander of the Ship Elizabeth ;
whose receipt I have taken for the same, and wish them safe
to your Honours hand. The last I sent was by Henry Low-
der Master of the Ship Sea Flower of this place ; who sayled
for London something more than a fortnight since.
This Province is in present quiet; but the Government are x,,
not without just fears and Jealousies of an Eruption and
general Insurrection of the Indians; who seemed to be
fastned to the Interests of our ill neighbours the French,
being debauched by the Priests and Jesuits that are sent
among them, his Excell c . y has lately sumoned the Sachems
and principal Indians of the five nations to attend his
Lord? at Albany in order to recover or prevent their defec-
tion ; the Issue whereof is not yet known here ; It would
greatly endanger his Ma*? 9 Interests in these Territory's, if
the Indians should enter into a general Combination, our
Frontiers are of so large extent, that it would be impractic-
able to secure our Towns from their Inroads ; And it's no
less difficult to have access to the Indian Settlements ; which
are far remote in a dismal wilderness and their manner of
liveing far different from the English.
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This Government have ordered the Erecting of a Fort and
Trading house at Casco Bay ; which is now in doing and may
probably prove of some advantage to engage the Indians by
makeing reasonable supplies to them, and to check their
Insults, if they should breake forth into rebellion.
I have not farther at present, onely to pray your Hono
acceptance of the tenders of my humble service and to
believe that I am, with much Respect
Hon b . le S*
Yo? Hono r ? Very humble & obedient servant
Is a Addington
Cap? Robinson will be going for N : Engl d about Feb y next :
And may be heard of at the Sun Coffee-house behind the
Exchange
t he 4th 1700
Mr. Crowne's title to Penobscot ; and other lands adjacent.
King James the first, by his Letters Patents under the Great
Scale of Scotland, bearing date the tenth of September, 1621 ;
graunted to S? William Alexander, Lord of Menstrue, prin-
cipall Secretary of State, of the Kingdome of Scotland, and
to his heires for ever, all that country in America, call'd Nova
Scotia.
King Charles the first, confirmed this graunt, in the yeare
1625.
The said S? William Alexander, by his deede, bearing
date, the thirtyeth of Aprill 1630, made over all his right,
and title, in the greatest part of the said Nova Scotia ; to
S* Claud de S* Estienne Lord of La Tour, and of Vuarre,
and to his son Charles de S* Estienne, Esq? Lord of S! Denis
court, and to their heires for ever.
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The said S? Claud, and Charles de S* Estienne were French
Protestants ; who for the good service they did, in discover-
ing the said lands to the English ; and assisting, and promot-
ing the plantation, both with their persons, and fortunes,
were naturalized, and created Baronets of Nova Scotia.
The said S* William Alexander, by authority of the afore-
said Letters Patents, erected two Baronyes in Nova Scotia ;
one he call'd La Tour, and the other S* Denis Court. And
in the afore mention'd deede, he graunted to the said S?
Claud, and his son Charles de S* Estienne, and to their heires
for ever, all jurisdictions, and priviledges in those countryes
that a scotch Marquesse, Earle, or Baron, has in Scotland
and the titles of Baron La Tour, and Baron S* Deniscourt.
About the yeare 1630 ; the French put in their claymes to
Nova Scotia, pretending it to be a part of Canada; and not
long after prevaild with the King to surrender it.
They also earnestly sollicited the King, to abandon the
interests of the said S* Claud, and S? Charles de S* Estienne,
but that his Majesty absolutely refusd ; it being against his
honor so to do ; as appeares by an originall letter, written
from the said Sir William Alexander, to the said S? Claud de
S* Estienne, dated the 16*? of Aprill, 1631 : which letter can
at any time be produced. Accordingly when his Mat? deliv-
ered Nova Scotia to the French, he articled that the said S?
Claud and S? Charles de S*. Estienne shou'd enjoy their
lands.
Penobscot, was first discovered by some inhabitants of New
Plimouth, in New England. They sent one Cap* Willet,
with a vessell and some men, to take possession of it, and
build and plant there, for their advantage ; which he did, and
possesst it quietly, till. Nova Scotia was delivered to the
French ; and one Mounsieur D'Aulney seut Governour of it.
Then y e said Mons* D'Aulney sail'd from Nova Scotia,
towards Penobscot : and hearing that Cap* Willet was design-
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ing to saile to Boston ; Mon* D'Aulney way layd him : and
meeting with him at sea, he invited him aboard his vessell,
pretending he was desirous to entertaine him as a friend.
Cap* Willet was aboard; but when Mons? D'Aulney had
him there, he told him if he wou'd peaceably deliver Penob-
scot to him, he would at a certaine time he nam'd, give him
the full value of it in beavour, and other f urres : but if he
refus'd he let him know he was his prisoner, and he wou'd
cariy him to Nova Scotia.
Cap* Willet finding himself e in a dangerous snare, thought
it was his safest way to accept of Mons^ d'Aulneys proposall,
for the price, and time of payment, and in the meane while
to gain his liberty, he surrenderd Penobscot to D'Aulney;
and then saild to Boston, and acquainted his owners, and
employers, what a tricke D'Aulney had put upon him.
When the time of payment was come; his owners sent
him to receive the beavours and furres, D'Aulney had
promisd. when he arrived at Penobscot, he found D'Aulney
there. D'Aulney hearing Cap*. Willet was in the harbour,
went with some men aboard him, and pretended his beavours
and furres were ready, and he shou'd have 'em next day, if
he pleas'd. Meane while he desired to make him welcome
and treate him aboard his owne vessell, which he did very
liberally. The treate lasted till midnight then D'Aulney
cuts Cap* Willets cable, turnes him a drift ; goes with his
owne men aboard his own boates, and then call'd out to
Cap* Willet, and let him know, he had payd him for Penob-
scot, as much as ever he intended, and bad him begone.
Cap*. Willet then saild to Boston, and once more acquainted
his owners, how he had beene abus'd by D'Aulney, and what
litle hopes there was of payment ; then they acquiesc'd, and
never troubled themselves about Penobscot more.
By this treachery Penobscot was gotten by D'Aulney and
the French.
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D'Aulney's next endeavour was to get S* Claud and
S T . Charles de S* Estienne out of their estates.
They resided in Nova Scotia, in a large fort they had built
upon S* John's river, and calld it S* Johns fort ; and mannd
it w h Scotts. D'Aulney beseiged the fort, and forc'd
S? Charles to fly to New England for succour, where he bor-
rowed five hundred pound of one Major Gibbons ; and with
that money, mannd a vessell, for the relief e of his Fort ; but
when he came thether he found his fort taken, most of the
scots put to y e sword his lady dead; poysond as he was
inform'd by her enemyes the Fryers.
Then S? Charles went to France and complaind. The
French King abhorr'd D'Aulneys wickedness, and gave
S? Charles commission to be Governo r of Nova Scotia,
authority to resume all the lands MonsT D'Aulney had taken
from him, and orders to send the said D'Aulney a prisoner
to France, to answer for all his villanyes.
And to make the said S? Charles de S* Estienne farther
satisfaction, for all the dammages he had suffered by the
tyranny of D'Aulney, which were upwards of thirty thousand
pounds the French King gave the s? S? Charles Port Royall,
and Penobscot.
Then the said Sir Charles saild to Nova Scotia ; but before
he arrived, D'Aulney had by his insolence and tyranny, made
himselfe so hate full to his owne people; that crossing a
river in a canoe, one of his servants that went w* 11 him, over-
set the canoo, and drownd his master- When S* Charles
arriv'd the Fryers having lost their friend, made peace with
S* Charles and S T . Charles marryed D'Aulneys widow.
Then the Fryers delivered up to him, not only his owne
lands, but all that D'Aulney had possest.
In the year 1654, some English men o'war were at Mana-
hadas, then a Dutch colony, now call'd New Yorke ; in order
to beseige it, for then there was a war between England, and
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Holland. But newes arriving of a peace, before they had
taken the Towne, and the Souldiers loath to returne without
plunder, they saild to Nova Scotia, and found S* Charles de
S* Estienne, in possession of all Nova Scotia and Penobscot,
both as governour, and proprietour, his father S* Claud
being dead.
Then though at that time there was great amity betweene
England & France, the English Fleete landed men upon
S* Charles tooke severall of his houses, plunderd 'em, and then
burnt 'em, and at length made him yeild up all Nova Scotia,
Penobscot, and all the lands belonging to it, and then they
carry ed him with them to England. When S* Charles was in
England ; he complained to some Members of one of Crom-
wells Parliaments, which was then sitting of y e violence, and
injustice done him, at a time when there was full peace
betweene England & France. Cromwell, to stop complaints
in Parliament against him let S* Charles know after he had
petition'd him that if he wou'd compound for his lands, as
other subjects of England did, he shou'd enjoy 'em, otherwise
not S? Charles consented, then Cromwell enjoynd him to pay
of all the English souldiers that were in Nova Scotia, and
that cost S* Charles above two thousand pound.
Then the said S? Charles, by his deed, bearing date, y e
twenty eth of September 1656, made over all his right & title
to Nova Scotia, to Penobscot, and all the lands belonging to
it, from the river S* Croix, to the river Musconcus, bordring
on Pemaquid, to Thomas Temple, and William Crowne
Esquiers, and their heires forever for the summe of three
thousand, three hundred and seventy odde pounds. The
said S? Charles also reserv'd to himselfe, and his heires for-
ever, the twentyeth skin of all kinds of Peltry, of equall
value, with the rest; as also the twentyeth part of all the
fruits and productions of the earth, of what kind soever.
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Then the aforesaid three proprietours, went over, and
tooke possession of their lands; the said Thomas Temple
going governour by Cromwells Commission.
Not long after their arrivall there, the said Thomas Temple,
and William Crowne divided their lands, And the said
Thomas Temple by his deede, bearing date the twelfe of
September 1657, made over all his right and title to Penob-
scot, and all the lands from the river Machias, on y e East, to
the river Musconcus on the west, bordring on Pemaquid, in
New England to the said William Crowne, and his heires
for ever. And the said William Crowne, made over all his
right and title to Nova Scotia, to the said Thomas Temple
and his heires for ever.
Then the said William Crowne, tooke possession of Penob-
scot, dwelt in it, and built a considerable trading house, some
leagues up the river, at a place antiently call'd Negue ; but
by himselfe Crownes point.
In the yeare 1662, the said Thomas Temple, and William
Crowne came over to England: and had a hearing before
King Charles the second, and the Lords and others, of his
Majestyes most hon b . le Privy Councell then in being. And
by the Lord Chancellour Hide, and the major part of the
Privy councell, their titles to the aforesaid lands were
adjudged to be good, and they permitted to returne, and
repossess 'em, which they did. The said Thomas Temple
was created by the King a Baronet of Nova Scotia, and com-
missiond to be Governour. S* Thomas Temple, being once
more Governour, oppress'd the said William Crowne; and
forc'd from him a lease, of Penobscot, and all the lands
belonging to it ; for a rent far short of the value ; and two
considerable rich New England merchants, were bound for
the payment of y e rent and for very good reason, for they
farm'd, all the said lands of S* Thomas Temple : but neither
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they nor S* Thomas payd the said William Crowne a farthing
rent.
Then the said William Crowne sued 'em before the Gov-
ernours of New England, but the Governours, and merchants
being all brethren of one Independent congregation in Boston
in New England, y e Governours protected their brethren in
their dishonesty ; and pretending the dispute was, about a
title of lands, which lay out of their jurisdiction, they refus'd
to give y e said William Crowne judgement, upon a bond
made by their owne brethren, in their owne towne of Boston,
nay they rejected a verdict given by one of their owne juryes,
at the tryall, in behalfe of the said William Crowne ; By ver-
tue of the aforesaid partiall and corrupt judgement; S?
Thomas Temple, and the said merchants, enjoyd the said
William Crowne estate, and payd him nothing for it.
Thus it continued, till the yeare 1668 ; when King Charles
consented to deliver Nova Scotia, to the French ; and sent a
commission under the great seale, to S? Thomas Temple to
deliver it.
S? Thomas being at that time, in possession of Penobscot,
and all the lands belonging to it, by vertue of the aforesaid
lease, presum'd to deliver 'em all to the French, pretending
they were a part of Nova Scotia ; which he knew to be false,
but they were the estate of the said William Crowne. There-
fore to impoverish, and totally disable the said William
Crowne, from following him to England, and sueing him
there, for the many hundred pounds he owed him, for non-
payment of rent, he gave up Penobscot, and all the lands
belonging to it, to the French; for which when he came to
England, King Charles sent him to y e Tower.
Before S* Thomas deliverd Nova Scotia, he demolished all
the Forts there, and brought away y e gunnes, because they
were his owne : but Penobscot he delivered entire, with all
the gunnes, and ammunition hi it ; because they belonged to
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the said William Crowne. Therefore if he had brought them
to Boston, the said William Crowne, might have seiz'd and
sold them.
To conclude ; Penobscot, with all the lands belonging to
it, was originally an English Plantation ; discovered by some
inhabitants of New Plymouth, in New England ; and they
were the first of any Christian nation that settled there. The
French got it, by an impudent cheate, put upon the English,
by Mounsieur D'Aulney, the French Governour of Nova
Scotia.
Some yeares after, it came againe into English hands ; and
the French got it, a second time, not by any right or title
they had to it, but by the falsehood, and corruption, of S?
Thomas Temple, the English Governour, for which he was
punish'd, but not so much as he deserv'd.
Not many yeares after S* Thomas Temple deliver'd it;
a war broke out betweene France, and Holland. Then y e
Dutch sent a man of war or two, to Penobscot, who beate
downe the Fort there, carried away all the French they found
there prisoners, brought all the great gunnes, and ammunition
that were there to Boston, in New England, and sold 'em to
y e Governours and people of Boston, for almost six hundred
pounds ; and they put 'em in the Castle, which guards their
harbour. When the Dutch had done this, they tooke no care
of Penobscot, but entirely abandond it. Then King Charles
once more tooke possession of it ; and put it under the com-
mand of the Governour of New Yorke ; who made considera-
ble benefit of it ; suff ring none to trade there without his
leave. And an order was issued out, by the Governour and
councell of New Yorke, bearing date the 28^ of November
1683, for the disposing, and planting, Penobscot, and all the
lands belonging to it, lying betweene Nova Scotia, and Ken-
nebecke river.
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And no opposition was made to the said order, by y e
French, notwithstanding the great interest they had at that
time in the English court.
Penobscot was under the dominion of England & y e com-
mand of the Governour of New Yorke, all the latter end of
the reigne of King Charles the second ; and all the reigne of
the late King James, By consequence his present Majesty,
has beene in possession of it all his reigne ; and the French
have not the least pretence to it.
By the death of the aforementioned William Crowne, all
his right and title, to Penobscot, and all the lands from the
river Machias, on the East, to the river Musconcus on y e
west, bordering on Pemaquid, is descended to his eldest son,
and heire John Crowne who now humbly petitions for res-
tauration or compensation.
End : New England
Mem 1 , from M r . Crown relating to his Title to Penobscot
in New England.
Nov r . 20 1700.
The Peticon of John Crowne Gent.
To the Right Hono ble the Lords Com? 8 for Trade and Planta-
tions.
The humble Peticon of John Crowne Gentleman.
Sheweth
That your Pet? is rightfull Proprietor of Penobscot, and
other Lands in America, lying westward of Nova Scotia;
from the River Machias on the East, to the River Musconcus
on the West, bordering on Pemaquid. The said Lands were
purchased by your Pet r ? Father; and possest by him, till
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1668 ; when S r Thomas Temple, Governour of Nova Scotia,
being in Possession of them, by virtue of a Lease from your
Pet r ? Father, presum'd to give em up to the French, for his
own Sinister ends, without any authority from the King.
And now your PetT is inform'd that the Limmits of his
Maj 1 ? 68 Dominions in America, Are to be settled by English
and French Cornm
Your Pet 1 ; therefore does most humbly Pray your Lord p . ps
that his Claime to the aforesaid Lands may be heard.
And Y r Pet? as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c
End : New England
M r . Crown's Petition relating to his Title to Penobscot in
America.
The bounds of Nova Scotia, and Penobscot, with the lands
belonging to it, as they are expresst in Cromwells
Patent, and y e deede of Partition
In Oliver Cromwells Patent, the bounds of Nova Scotia, are
thus mentiond From Mereliquish on the East, to the Port
and cape of La Heve, leading along the coast, to Cape Sable,
from thence to a Port, now called La Tour, heretofore named
L'omery. From thence following the coast, to the cloven
cape. From thence to the cape, and river of Ingogen ;
thence to Port Royall ; and from thence following the coast,
to the bottome of the bay. From thence along the bayes to
S* Johns Fort. After this, Oliver Cromwells Patent, men-
tions no other place, in Nova Scotia by name ; only sayes, all
along the coast, to fentagonet, alias Penobscot, thence to
S* Georges river, and thence to Musconcus.
The true bounds of Nova Scotia, are only to be found, in
the originall Patent, graunted by King James the first. But
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they were alwaies judged, by Si Charles S* Estienne,
Thomas Temple, and William Crowne, the Proprietours and
possessours to be Merelequish on the East, and the river
S* Croix on y e west. And beyond the river S* Croix, Nova
Scotia extends not westward.
The said Thomas Temple and William Crowne, divided
their lands ; And Thomas Temple by his deede bearing date
the twelfth of September 1657 made over to William
Crowne, and his heires for ever, Penobscot, and all the lands
lying westward of the river Machias to y e river Muscongus,
bordring on Pemaquid Machias Penobscot, and Musconcus,
are the only remarkeable places, mentiond in the deede of
Partition. Machias is a river that runs some few leagues
westwards of S* Croix ; the utmost westward boundary of
Nova Scotia. In Si Charles de S* Estiennes deede to
Thomas Temple, and William Crowne, no places are perticu-
larly named, only in generall all New Scotland, as it is
bounded, in the originall Patent, graunted by King James
the first, to Si William Alexander, and his heires ; and as it
is mentioned in the said Si William Alexanders deede to
Si Claud and the said Si Charles de S! Estienne and their
heires : And all New Scotland, with other lands adjoyning,
as they are mentioned in Oliver Cromwells Patent, to the
said Si Charles de S* Estienne, Thomas Temple, and William
Crowne.
R* Hon ble
A In obedience to the Commands of Their Excellencies
the Lords Justices in Council by Their Order of the 18^ of
July last signified in your Lord?. 8 Letter of the 1 s * of August
( a copy of s? order being also inclosed ) Directing the respec-
tive Governours of his Ma 1 ? 8 Plantations in America to trans-
mit an Accompt to your LordP. 8 in the most particular manner,
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 85
of the method of proceedings in the several Courts upon
Tryal of all Sorts of Causes in the s? Courts in those parts
respectively ; I have taken care ( in the absence of our Gov-
ernour the Earl of Bellomont, who is now within his Govern-
ment of New Yorke ) of the observation of the s? Order, and
accordingly herewith transmit to your Lord p . 8 the Accompt
thereby required in as particular manner as well can be, hope-
ing it will answer his Ma 1 ? 8 and ybur Lordships expectation
and satisfaction.
B I crave leave further to observe to your Lord?. 8 the pres-
ent repose and quiet of this his Ma 1 ? 8 Province after the late
Alarm of troubles threatned to arise from the Indians by a
fresh Insurrection & breaking forth in open hostility, and
how necessary it is in order to y e continuance of this quiet
that the French Priests and Missionaries be removed from
their residence among them, the Indians taking measures from
their evil counsels and suggestions, and are bigotted in their
zeal to their pernicious and damnable principles; But the
removal of those Incendiaries is rendred difficult whilst the
claims and pretensions to the Boundaries of Territory and
Dominion betwixt the English and French are depending
undetermined, or at least the determination not known in the
Plantations.
C This Government have lately erected a Trading house
with a Fortification, and setled a Garrison at Casco Bay for
accomodating of Trade with the Indians and by kind usage
and treatment of them therein hope to oblige them and to
divert their conversation & commerce with the French and
have likewise made provision for Trade with them at Saco
Fort and other places, and by meanes of their drawing thither
to gain the advantage for instructing of them in the true
Christian Religion, To which end two English Ministers are
sent to reside in the Eastern parts, one at the Fort at Saco,
and the other at Casco Fort.
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I am also credibly informed That the French in Nova
Scotia or L'Accadie have slighted their Fortification at the
River S* Johns, and are removed to Port Royal where they
are fortifying and setling a strong Garrison, having Artillery
and souldiers sent from France this year for that purpose,
and are likewise about to settle a Garrison at the River S*
Georges ; and possibly think to make Encroachments further
Westward into his Ma 1 ? 8 Territory, even as far as the River
of Kennebeck whereto they have lately made pretensions, th6
altogether groundless and without any Shew of Reason or
Justice ; however, hereby they will strengthen and confirm
the Indians in their Interests and have the Command over
them, and annoy our Fishery unless a stop be put thereto by
an adjustment and Settlement of the Boundarys ; The which
I thought necessary for his Majesties Service to lay before
your Lordships.
Having nothing further to give your Lord p . 8 the trouble of
at present. I am with all imaginable respect
Right Hon b . le
Your Lordships
Boston Most humble & obedient Servant
December y e 20* 1700. Wm. Stoughton
Lords Cornmiss of the Council for Trade &c.
Report on John Crown's Petition.
To the Kings most Excellent Majesty
May it please Your Majesty.
In obedience to Your Majestys Commands upon a Peti-
tion of John Crown Esq? where of a Copy is hereunto
Annexed, We have examined his Title to the Lands therein
mentioned, and thereupon humbly Report.
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That the Country called Penobscot lying South West
from the River S* Croix, (the Ancient Boundary between
Nova Scotia and New England) appears unto Us to have
formerly belonged to his Father M* William Crown and to
be descended to the Petitioner.
But that in the Execution of the 10** 1 Article of the
Treaty of Breda for the Surrender of Accadie (or Nova
Scotia) to the French the said Country of Penobscot was
delivered up to them, tho it be not truly Comprehended in
the Treaty, as being no part of Accadie ) and that they have
thereupon claimed a Title to it, which has ever since remain'd
in dispute between England and France, Whereby the Peti-
tioner has been deprived of the advantage which he might
otherwise have made by his Right to the Propriety of the
said Country, without any Compensation from the Crown
( that we know of ) either to his Father or himself for the loss
arrising to them by the Surrender of more than was required
by the Treaty.
All which nevertheless is most humbly Submitted.
Signed
Stamford Lexington
Whitehall Ph : Meadows Blathwayt
January the J. Pollexfen Ab : Hill
22 n . d 170?- G: Stepney M? Prior
(No Endorsement)
Casco Bay June the 3<* 1701
A Memorial of those heads or Propositions on which
Col? John Phillips, Col? Penn Townsend, Cap* Nathaniel
Byfield & John Nelson, being Commisionated by the \tf
Hon b . le William Stoughton Lieu* Governour and the Hon b . le ^ *
the Council, for the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in
88 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
New England, did treat with the Eastern Indians, and were
as followeth viz*
Sometime after that the Commissioners and the Indian
Sagamore or Chiefs had taken each their places at a Table
set under a Tent spread in the Woods, The Commissioners
began and told them, by two English Interpreters and one
Indian
Com : We are here sent by his Ma*? to treat with you and
renew our Friendship with you.
Ind : We are here also generally met together and are very
glad to see you.
Com : 1 Prop : That our great Master King William having
been duly informed of that renewal and confirmation of
Friendship which you offered unto our late Governour the
Earl of Bellomont in that great Assembly of Indians, with
whom you did desire to joyne in a mutual & publick
League of amity with us he has ordered us to informe you
how well he has accepted the same and that he has com-
manded the Government of the Massachusetts punctually
to perform and conforme themselves to all things contained
in the s? Treaty concluded with you at Albany in October
1700.
We know that King William hath power to make peace
when he will, and we are glad that he hath accepted us
into the League of Friendship & that you are now sent to
confirme it.
2 Pro : That since the death of the s? Earl of Bellomont,
there is come new and express Orders from our Comon
Father the great King William by which we are com-
manded to come unto you in this country to renew & keep
fresh in memory the afores? Treaty, and as Brethren &
Friends to rejoice with you in the happy fruits of so well
a setled peace amongst us, whereby all former mistakes
and injuries may be for ever buried and forgot, and at the
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 89
same time to shew you our hearts, both in setting the
Trade so to J T . advantage as that for the future you may
never want anything and at cheap rates and prices, as also
to bring unto you the presents which the King has been
pleased to send you.
Ind : Ans r We are very glad that the great King William
hath so far taken notice of us as to send you amongst us that
the friendship between us may be confirmed which we do
from out hearts agree to, and from this day forward it
shall be for ever talked of amongst us, and we also desire
that all former inquiries and Mischiefs that have been
committed on either side may be forever buried under
ground. We are also thankful for the good Settlement of
the Trade for us, and we pray that we may have Goods
sold to us at a cheap rate, and that no Rum may be sold
the Indians.
3 Pro : That the experience of the benefits of the present
peace & quietness is sufficient to convince how it ought
inviolably to be maintained and that neither party believe
or hearken to any who by false or subtle perswasions shall
seek to disturb it, but rather hold them Enemies for so
doing, and if unhappily any misunderstanding should arise
by any wrong done unto you by our People, upon yo r
Complaint due punishm* shall be inflicted & satisfaction
made which we likewise expect on your parts to be per-
formed to us.
Ind: Ans r We promise to observe it and desire the same
thing of you.
4 th Prop : That in future confirmation of your amity &
freindship, we are to offer unto you the protection of our
great and mighty Prince King William who under this
Covenant of peace looks upon you as his Children, and
therefore is ready to defend you against any that shall
invade or disturb you
Ind : AnsT In case any Nation should make War upon us
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we do not desire that our Uncle King William (which
Title we esteem equal to Father ) should loose any men on
our Account until we have tried what we can do for our
own defence.
5*? Prop: That we are likewise to note unto you our Jeal-
osies concerning the French by whom you have been so
often seduced, that through their false reports you may
not again be deceived, but rather call to remembrance
those times when by a full confidence and love we were
useful unto each other, which same Trust you may see we
are again endeavouring to restore not only by a free Trade
and supplying of you with powder, lead, Armes and all
other things you may need at such prices as the French
( who cheat you ) cannot do whereby you may be the better
enabled to keep your promises so lately made unto the E :
of Bellomont, in cutting down trees in the path so for ever
stopping the way to Quebec since we shall for your safety
furnish whatever you want, at your own doors and spare
you the labour of going so far.
Ind. AnsT In case we should stop up our roads to Canada
many of our Brethren would be hindred from coming over
to us, besides many amongst us care not to be deprived of
the liberty of going whither they please, yet we think there
will be little necessity of going to the French since we may
be so well supplied with what we want from the English.
6 Prop: That from the repeated Treatys made with you
whereby you have put your selves under the protection of
the Crown of England &c our great King William do's
expect the punctual performeance of your promisses for the
future, and on his part you shall ever receive such favour
& protection as is due unto his Children
Ind : Ans? We do not mind any talk but what we now say,
we resolve to stand to it, and it comes from our very
hearts.
7 Prop : That alth6 a Solemn peace had lately been con-
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eluded between his Ma*? and the French King which was
to have lasted for ever Yet thr6 his perfidious and false
dealings therein, our King will be forced to enter into a
new War with him, unless satisfaction be made for the
prosecution of which he is making greater preparations
than ever. We are therefore the rather desirous of mak-
ing this known unto you, to the intent you may not be sur-
prized at it, nor receive any reports which the French may
make of us on y r regard, since we design nor intend any
thing that may break our covenants with you but that in
whatever shall happen you may be assured of perfect peace
and quiet from us, and unto all those Indians who shall
not take any part or assist the French in case the War
should break out again with them.
Ind: Ans! We thank you that you will give us notice of
the likelyhood of a War between the French and the
English, and we desire to keep ourselves free, and not to
be under the command of any party, and we will endeavour
what we can to bring the Indians that live upon the French
Ground under the same Obligations with our selves. And
if any damage happen to be done upon the English by the
Indians that may pretend to belong to any of our three
Forts of Norridgawog, Ammassakuntick or Narrakamagog,
we desire the English would not believe it till they have
sent to us for information, and we promise to make inquiry
into the matter and if they belong to us we will endeavour
to do you Justice for if we should not, we should all
become equally guilty.
8 Prop : That for your further assureance and advantage in
abiding in y* Country the Government has thought good to
settle with you an Armourer who for the future shall
repair or mend any or all of your Guns that may prove
defective, and that gratis so that you may have no pre-
tence or occasion of going to Canada or to the French in
these parts for want of this or any supply whatsoever.
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Ind : Ans r We are very thankful that we can have Guns
mended here for nothing especially because formerly when
any of our Guns were but a little broken we lookt upon
them as lost, and we promise to bring in no Enemies Guns
to be mended. Here the Indians Queried whether the
Penobscot Indians might not be included in benefit of hav-
ing their Guns mended, on which condition they promised
to use their best endeavours to engage them as themselves
in this same Treaty.
The Answer was that all Indians in friendship with us
should have the same priviledge.
9 Prop. That to the intent of perfecting our future &
mutual friendship & acquaintance we have thought good
to offer and invite your sending of some of your Children
to live amongst us whom we shall take care of both for
their maintenance and Education & to return them at such
times as you shall desire, and that if you are any ways
inclineable to have your young men see England and King
William, we shall send them whereby you may be better
informed of the circumstances of our Nation.
To this ninth Proposition they desired time to consider,
and whereon it being near night and bad weather, we
broke up until the next day.
June the 4 1 *
Ind. Ans* We conclude not to send any of our Children to
England, because Moxus his son when he was sent to
France, he died there, And we conclude not to send any
of our children to Boston because we formerly had two of
our children at Boston, called John & Robin, which we
believe have by this time learned to read & write English
enough, and they never yet have been returned amongst
us
10 Prop; That it is left unto your selves seriously to con-
sider what may yet remain or be most for your ease safety
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and advantage which as we earnestly desire, so shall read-
ily hearken unto, and perform anything that may be con-
sistant with his Ma 1 * honour and the safety of his Subjects
in these countrys &c
Ind : Ans r We desire to be informed about the two Children
mentioned in our answer to the 9* Paragraph
Comiss r ? Reply Those two Children were taken in War, and
disposed of by those to whom they did belong, and we
hear that one of them is dead and the other is now in
London where he is well provided for and we believe he
hath lost his Language and that he will not incline to
return but if he be willing we shall use our Endeavours
to procure him
Ind ; You ought to force him to come home for we have a
great mind to see him we forced some of your Captives to
return home
Com? He is but of our Government, and we can't force him
but we shall use our utmost endeavour to obtain him.
2 ] y We desire that if you should hereafter have occasion to
treat with us we might meet together at Merry Meeting
Reply The Indians must then be at the Pains to prepare a
house for our Accomodation.
Ind ; We are willing to do it, and we desire that always we
may have timely notice of the time of meeting by a Letter
from this Fort at Casco bay, and we shall not hearken to
any other.
3 1 * We desire to have a Trading house erected at Merry
Meeting.
11 Prop That we cannot avoid taking notice of your affect-
ing or wearing a french flagg or Colours, which if you
purpose to maintain any setled correspondence or friend-
ship with our nation must for the future be forborne in
this or any part of his Ma^ 8 Dominions, and that you meet
and treat with us under English Banners which at your
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desire or request we shall take care to supply you with as
occasion may require.
Ind : Ans* We thought it necessary to have some flagg or
other, and having no other we put up a white one, but if
you will please to furnish us with an English flagg, we
promise to wear it for the future as a signal between us.
12 Prop: That we are in an especial manner directed to
invite you unto an Union with us in the true Christian
Religion, separated from those foolish superstitious and
plain Idolatries with which the Roman Catholicks and
especially the Jesuits and Missionarys have currupted it,
to which intent we are to offer you the assistance of
Teachers for your Instruction in like manner as is prac-
tised amongst those Indians who live amongst us, of whom
great numbers have happily received, and live in the faith
of our Lord Jesus Christ, in which great undertaking we
shall expect nothing more on your parts than your good
treatment of those Ministers whom we shall at any time
send amongst you.
Ind : Ans! It much surprizeth us that you should propose
any thing of Religion to us, for we did not think any thing
of that nature would have been mentioned.
1i
Furthermore nothing of that nature was mentioned when
the peace was concluded between all Nations, Furthermore
the English formerly neglected to instruct us in Religion
which if they had then offered it to us, we should have
embraced it and detested the Religion which we now pro-
fess, but now being instructed by the French we have
promised to be true to God in our Religion, and it is this
we profess to stand by.
Com : We propose that for a perpetual remembrance of our
good agreement, each party should raise a heap of stones.
Ind : We do well agree to it, and we understand it better
than signing of a writing.
Two heaps of stones were accordingly raised in the
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place of Treaty that is to say, the Commissioners on the
English part each of them laid one Foundation stone, and
the men then present w^ them made up the heap in a
square Pyramide. And the Indian Sagamore each of them
for their part likewise laid a Foundation stone, and then
all the Indians and their children made up their heap in a
roundish Pyramide, to west of the English, upon the point
formerly called Andrews his point, now mutually agreed
forever hereafter be called the two Brothers point, from
the two Pillars.
Upon information of some English Captives yet remain-
ing amongst them, a demand was made for their release.
The Indians replied, We know not of any amongst us
but if we can possibly see that Child of ours which is in
England it will be great encouragem* & we will endeavour
to redeem any captives of yo" that we can heare of either
at Canada or elsewhere.
Concerning the Indians that treated with the Maqua's
in October last. The Indians say that those Indians that
then treated with the Maqua's went on their own heads.
Com : Shall we then tell the Maqua's that all y* Treaty goes
for nothing. .> .
Ind : After a considerable non plus, they replyed that those
Indians were only sent to know the Issue of the Earl of
Bellomonts Treaty with the Maqua's.
The names of the Chief Sachems.
Moxus
Dondomhegon } of Jolm phfl]ipg
Wasahombomet J Penn Townsend
Abomhomeri al? > of Amassakantick Natha 1 Byfield
Jn? Maherimet ) Tn , T ,
J? Nelson
Adeawanadon ) XT , .
Madagwunesseak | of Narrackamagog/
A true Copy Exam d
Is? Addington Secry.
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My Lord
I should think I ill upheld the character of those of my
Nation, and the perfect union which we ought to endeavour
to preserve with our Neighbours if, at my arrival by order of
the King my Master on the Coasts of Accadie, of which his
Ma*? has honoured me with the Command, I did not witness
to you by the advice I give you of my arrival in this Prov-
ince, that I desire nothing so much as to imploy all my care
and all the knowledge which a long experience in the trade
of War ought to give me, in keeping in an exact discipline
the Souldiers Inhabitants and Indians of our Colonies, that
nothing for the future may interrupt, by any offence on their
part towards you the good Sentiments which we have of
entertaining a loving & advantagious Correspondence as long
as it shall please the King of England yo* Master and him
whose most faithful & humble Subject I have the honour to
be
Having left the Affairs of Europe when I came from thence
is a doubtful situation as to war or peace, I thought it my
duty, My Lord, to represent to you as far as I can, and the
King my Master has left it to my disposal, that it seems to
me of consequence for the publick safety of your Inhabitants
as well as ours, to find out away to avoid the havock and
crueltys of the Indians who breath nothing but blood and
all sorts of inhumane and odious torments to us as well as our
Enemies, which cannot be hindred but by a particular treaty
from you to us, during all the courses and acts of hostility on
our Coasts, in not espousing the differences which our Sov-
eraign Princes may issue in Europe by force of armes./
My Lord, I do not propose these sorts of agreements but
as far as the consent of the King of England your Master
may resolve you, and if, after having well examined our com-
mon Interests, you be determined in case of War, to a sus-
pension of Armes on your side as well as ours, till you have
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informed and have received Orders from his Ma^ of Britain
on this Subject we do assure you, that on our side shall be
held, till then a firme and sincere peace, expecting a declara-
tion made faithfully on the Resolutions which you shall take,
of which we pray you to give us advice with the same fidel-
ity which we promise on our part.
My Lord, If hereafter the proposal which I make you
singly for the good of yours and our People do not suit the
Interests of both Crowns we will make to you as we expect
you will to us, a publick declaration before we enterprize any
thing which may break our Treaty of Union and good
Correspondence.
My Lord, This is what I dare promise my selfe to have
ratified by the King my Master ; if yours will do the same, I
pray you would let me know it with speed that so I may
know what to do.
I cannot omit advising you that I have orders to hinder,
conformeable to the Treaty of Ryswick, all English Vessels
from coming to fish in sight of the Lands of this Province.
I pray you would let it be known in your Ports.
Assuring you nevertheless, My Lords, that in all things,
that shall not hinder the Interest of the King my Master, you
shall never have a Neighbour more desirous than I shall be
to contribute to every thing that may be for the good of our
Colonys, and of yours in particular that so I may attract the
honour of your esteem and good will being perfectly
My Lord Your most humble & most obedient Servant
At the Fort at Port Royal Brouillan
the 8*? August 1701./
Superscribed
To my Lord Bellomont Govern? General of New
England, or, in his absence to him that commands
at Boston
Copy Exam? g Is* Addington Secry.
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To the Kings most Exellent Majesty
A Memorial of the Council & Representatives of your
Ma*? 8 Province of the Massachusetts Bay hi New Eng-
land.
May it please your Majesty.
Upon perusal of your Ma*? 8 several gracious Letters of the
19* of January and 2? February of 1702. directed to your
Ma 1 ? 8 Governour or Commander hi chief for the time being of
Province, and on mature consideration of your Ma 1 ? 8 Royal this
Commands therein signified, We crave leave in all humble
and dutiful manner to represent to your sacred Ma*?
As to the Complaints of the Spoil of woods by cutting
down & converting to private uses such Trees as are or may
be proper for the service of your Ma*? 8 Royal Navy.
We are ignorant of any grounds for complaints of that
nature, none having been made to the Government here of
any such practice within this Province which had it been we
should have endeavoured to restraine and prevent the same.
Your Ma*? having been pleased by Your Royal Commission
in y* second year of your Ma 1 ? 8 Reign to grant unto Jahleel
Brenton Gent, the office of Surveyor of all and singuler
Woods, Fir trees and other Timber trees within these your
Territories fit and proper for the use of your Ma*? 8 Royal
Navy Impowring him his Deputy or Deputys to view Survey
and marke all such Trees and to register the same &c., And
the s? M T . Brenton & his Deputys being hi the actual Exer-
cise of S? Office: We might reasonably expect, had any
obstruction been given them therein or any spoils made, they
would have made application to the Government for redress
thereof, but they have not offered at any time any such Com-
plaint. And Timber proper for Your Ma 1 ? 8 Service is of so
great value and esteem here that no persons who have any
such will readily spoile imbezel or convert it to other use
because it would be much to their disadvantage.
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As to Fortifications.
The last Summer we caused a small Fortification to be
erected at Casco Bay, where there is a Garrison posted,
upwards of fifty miles to y e Eastward of any present Settle-
ment of the English whereby we design'd to Accomodate the
Indians for Trade, and to supply them at easie rates tho with
loss to the Publick to prevent their going to the French
therefor, and to fix them in the English Interests, as also to
encourage the resettlement of that part of the Province.
And a Plantation will be speedily set forward there in case a
new War do not commence.
The Fort formerly erected at Pemaquid, cost us not less
than Twenty Thousand pounds to build and maintain the
same, and we are not sensible we had in any measure a pro-
portionable advantage thereby. The Situation thereof was
on a Promontary towards the Sea Much out of the ordinary
roads of the Indians Yet were we careful to furnish & sup-
ply the same with all necessary Stores and provisions & had
newly reinforced the Garrison ( which with that recruit con-
sisted of more than four score men ) and sent them fresh
supplies a little before it unhappily fell into the hands of the
Enemy. Had the Commander been as well furnished with
conduct and Resolution it had probably been defended.
We are humbly of opinion That the building of a Fort at
Pemaquid, lying upwards of one hundred miles distant from
any part of y e Province at present inhabited by the English,
can be no security to our Frontiers, or Bridle to the Indians.
The only benefit we conceive might arise thereby would be
to shelter a few Boats that may be imployed in fishing
towards those parts and at some times put in there. And it
would draw such a considerable charge upon your Ma*? 8 Sub-
jects as they cannot possibly support.
We are actually at work in raising New Fortifications on
Castle Island near Boston (the place of greatest Import
within this your Ma*7 Province) under the direction and
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oversight of Col? Romer, your Ma*? 8 Engineer, which workes
will amount to considerable Sums of Money. And 'tis
further necessary could we be able to support the charge
thereof ( which indeed we cannot ) that Fortifications should
be made in Several other places within this Bay near Boston,
as Salem, Marblehead, Glocester, Plymouth and Hull, being
so many Avenues by which the Enemy may make Impres-
sions upon us.
Our incapacity for doing what is necessary in this respect
where we are more nearly concerned We hope with Submis-
sion, will sufficiently excuse us from contributing to the
charge of building and maintaining of Forts in the Province
of New Hampshire. Their ability to maintain the Fort hi
that Province is proportionably much greater than that of
your Ma*? 8 Subjects in this to do what is necessary as to For-
tifications here. This Province was at very great charge to
give them assistance during the late War, and must necessa-
rily further assist them if War arise again, th6 they have not
done any thing towards reimburseing what was before.
As to the Quota of assistance in men or money for New
Yorke. We cannot be able to comply therewith without
apparent hazard of exposing your Ma*? 8 Interests within this
Province. The Line of our Frontier both by Sea and Land
is of far larger extent than that of New 5Torke and do's nec-
essarily require by far, a greater number of men to guard the
same We lye much more open & exposed to an attack by sea
than New Yorke do's, and if they be in hazard much more
shall we, And if War happen with France we must expect
the Indians will break forth again. The Line of our Frontier
against them is upwards of two hundred miles in length, and
the French Indians in the late War found none, or little Dif-
ficulty to come from Canada down the Rivers* either in their
Canoes or on the Ice in the Winter Season and infest our
Northern & Western Towns whereto they can have a more
easie access than to Albany, and 'tis not to be thought but
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that they will again make use of such advantage, The Inland
Frontiers of New Yorke are strengthned with some of your
Ma*? 8 Foot Companys being constantly upon duty, and have
the five Nations a Barrier to them who will be ready at all
times to give them notice of the approach of an Enemy and
afford them assistance Also, other of your Ma 1 ? 8 Colonies lye
more contiguous to New Yorke and can more readily afford
them Succours than this Province they lying less exposed.
The vast Expence this Province was at in the time of the
late War for the preservation of your Ma*? 8 Interests within
the same, and in the Province of New Hampshire ( which
without assistance from hence would become an easy prey to
the Enemy ) besides y* devastations then made by the Enemy
have reduced your Ma 1 ? 8 Subjects here to an extream depth
of poverty. The Wounds they have received both in their
persons & Estates are so recent, that they would labour of
insuperable difficulty to be anew embroyled in War, and lia-
ble to be transported to Serve in another Province whilst
their Families & Estates lye exposed at home.
As to the sending Accessories in Piracy into England for
Tryal ; We fear the practice thereof will put discouragement
on persons to discover any such Accessories they may know
or be informed of, lest they themselves be obliged to accom-
pany them into England as Witnesses which may prove ruin-
ous to many to be taken upon a sudden and carried away
from their business and Families. And the like may be said
as to persons accused or taken up on Suspition who may
appear innocent & be acquitted on their Tryal.
By the afore going Representation, In which we have
endeavoured truely to set forth the danger your MaV 8 sub-
jects and Interests within this Province will be in, of being
exposed by a new War with France .... together with the
Indians breaking out again upon us, and our incapacity
of doing what is necessary for our defence against so potent
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an Enemy as the French and to counter worke the crafty
designes & surprizes of the barbarous & bloody Salvages, who
have such advantages against us ; Your Ma 1 * may be pleased
to take a view of the State of our affairs and to judge of our
wants especially of Canon, small armes & other Stores of
War for the furnishing of your Ma*? 8 Fortifications within
this Province as also some ships of War of greater force than
those at present assigned to this Station for the better guard-
ing and securing of the Coast hi case of War : For which we
humbly implore your Ma 1 ? 8 Grace.
We humbly crave leave further to subjoin to the answer
made by S? Henry Ashhurst to the Petition preferred to your
Ma* y by the Earl of Lymrick for the grant of a Tract of Land
called Pemaquid, That, besides the Grant thereof made in
your Ma 1 ? 78 Royal Charter for this Province, the s? Land with
others lying both to the Eastward and Westward thereof was
anciently granted by the Council of Devon to particular per-
sons as their own property and by them since allotted out,
and a great part thereof actually improved, until the Inhabi-
tants were forced away by the hostility of Indians, and will
be again resetted, if peace continue which Lands are also
purchased of the Indians.
All which is most humbly submitted by Your Ma 1 ? 8
Most dutiful, obedient and Loyal Subjects
Boston John Foster JaiRussell
August 9th 1Y01. Peter Sergeant Elisha Cooke
Joseph Lynde John Hathorne John Higginson
Penn Townsend Elisha Hutchinson Barnabas Lothrop
E Hutchinson Sam Sewall Natha 1 Byfield
Benj* Browne Jonathan Convin Wm Browne
John Thacher
In the Name, and by the Order, of the House of
Representatives./ Nehemiah Jewett Speaker.
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s*
You having been pleased by your Letter of the 8* of
August currant directed to the Earl of Bellomont our late
Governour and in his absence to such as have the Command
within this Province ( which by y e death of the Governour is
devolved by his Ma 1 ? on us his Council upon the place ) to
informe us of your arrival on the Coast of Accadie, and that
the King your Master has honour'd you with the Command
thereof, therein also expressing the good sentiments you
have of entertaining a friendly and neighborly correspond-
ence with this Government ; We assure you of the like on
our part in all things not inconsistent with the Interests of
the King our Soveraign Lord and Master & shall studiously
avoid all occasions to the contrary.
S? We approve your generosity in proposing to find out a
way to restrain the rapines inhumane and barbarous crueltys
practised by the bloody Salvages in time of War towards the
people of Your Nation and ours, and shall be ready to agree
with you in concerting of such methods as may be effectual
to that end.
We also take notice of your other Proposal for a Suspen-
sion of Armes within these Territories if it happen that War
be declared betwixt the two Crowns until we shall have rep-
resented the same unto our King, & have received his Orders
on that Subject, which you assure us till then shall be held
firm on your side if we so agree, and to have the same rati-
fied by the King your Master.
Concerning which : Being by late Intelligences from Eng-
land given to Understand the peace do's continue and no
Declaration is made of War, and being in daily expectation
of the arrival of a General to be sent us by our King, and
know not what Instructions he may bring; we cannot at
present take any resolutions in that affair; But whilst on
your side, all acts of hostility shall be forborn, we shall not
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be forward to be the Aggressors, or to enterprize any thing
to interrupt our mutual quiet and repose.
S? As to the orders you intimate in yours to have received
to hinder, conformeable to the Treaty of Ryswick, all English
Vessels from coming to fish in sight of the Lands of Accadie ;
We must observe to you, that such orders are so far from
being conformeable to the Treaty of Ryswick as that they are
directly contrary to the V^ Articles of the s? Treaty it hav-
ing been the accustomed indubitable right and priviledge of
the English to fish in the high Seas on that Coast for time
out of mind.
We trust and expect you will not suffer any obstruction
to be given to our Fishing Vessels in that their lawful
Imploy whereof we shall have a just resentment, and esteem
it not only a breach on your part of that good Neighbourhood
which you profess to maintain but also to be contrary to Jus-
tice ; Whereas we shall on our side contribute all that is nec-
essary, not derogatory to the honour and Interests of the
King our Master to preserve intire a good understanding
betwixt your selfe & us, Praying you to believe that we are
S? Your most humble Servants
Boston August 22. 1701 By command of y e Council
Is* Adding ton Secry.
Superscribed To M* Brouillan
Governour of Accadie at Port Royal
Boston N England Feb: 17 th 1719.
Sir,
I hope my Letter that I wrote in Answer to Yours is
long before this come safe to your hands.
I send you now Inclosed an Answer to the Queries you
transmitted to me by Order of the Lords of Trade and Plan-
tations relating to the Province of the Massachusetts Bay
w ch I desire you will lay before the Hon ble Board and that
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 105
you will also acquaint them that I cannot get the Queries
relating to New-Hampshire well answered untill I go to that
Province which will not be till the latter end of April, by
which time I believe the Map of the Province will be fin-
ished. So that I shall be able to send the Queries answered
with the Map of the Province of New Hampshire by the first
Ship that shall Sail in May.
I desire also you will Acquaint their Lordships, that the
73 Article of my Instructions runs as follows
" And for as much as great Inconveniences may arise by
" the liberty of printing within His Majestys said Province
u you are to provide by all necessary Orders, that no Person
" keep any Press for printing nor that any Book, Pamphlet
" or other Matter whatsoever be printed without your espec-
" ial leave and licence first obtained. These His Majestys
Instructions have been notifyed to all the Printers, yet not-
withstanding due Notice has been given Nathaniel Proone
has not only printed a Book without Licence but has even
ventured to print what I have absolutely forbiden. Upon
which I Summoned the Council and Acquainted them with
His Majestys Instructions, who told me they could not find
out any method to Punish the Printer because there was no
Law against it. I afterwards Applyed my self to the Kings
Attorney General who advised me to Acquaint the Lords of
Trade & Plantations with this breach of His Majestys Orders
and to get further directions from them in this matter.
I desire you will let me have a line in answer as soon as
possible to assure me that this Letter came safe to you, I am
Sir Your hum ble Serv 1
Samll Shute
To William Popple Esq*
End : ) Massachusetts
L r . from Coll Shute to y e Secry, dated y e 17 Feb r y 1719/20
with answer to Queries, promising a map, $ desiring advice
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upon a Case relating to Ms Instruction against Printing there,
without his Licence.
An Answer to the First Query Proposed by the E* Hon ble the
Lords of Trade c referring to the Province of the
Massachusetts Bay.
By the best Computation That I have been able as yet to
make the English Inhabitants within the Province of the
Massachusetts Bay may be reckoned at Ninety four thousand
Souls ~
Whereof the Regular Militia as they have been returned
to me by the Officers of the Several Regiments &c : Amount
to Fifteen thousand Six hundred and Eleven Men ~
Besides which within the said Province there are of the
Indian Natives who are Civilized, and make some profession
of the Christian Religion, and dwell in several parts of the
Province in perfect friendship with the English Improving
their own Lands &c to the Number of twelve hundred ;
Including Men Women and Children ~
With respect to Slaves either Negros or Indians ( but most
Negros ) they may be computed at about two Thousand ~
Within this three years last past there have come from
Ireland a Considerable Number of Famillys & Persons to set-
tle the Eastern parts of the Province, & Else where to the
Number probably of five or Six hundred Men Women and
Children ~
As for white Servants Imported and Sold in this Province
in the year 1717. there was entered at the Impost Office the
Number of One hundred and Twenty Six Viz* 113 Males &
13 Females, the most of them from London Dublin & Belfast
in Ireland, and the Island of Jersey ; of Negro Slaves fifty
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107
three Imported the Same year Viz* 37 males 16 Females a
particular Account whereof is Annexed ; No great difference
for seven years last past.
Servants Imported from June 29 th 1717 to June 29 th 1718.
as reported in the Impost Office Boston
In what month
from whence
males
Females
1717 July
Antigua
1
London
15
August
South hampton
4
Dublin
14
Leverpole
2
London
1
September
Dartmouth
26
4
France
5
Belfast
9
London
2
October
Glasgow
1
November
Newfoundland
1
Bristol
2
3
London
1
Glasgow
4
December
London
1
January none
February none
March
Connecticut
1
1718 April
Topsham
2
Ditto
3
London
2
June
Jarsey
19
2
London
1
113
13
Negroes Imported in said year 37 16
of which Several Exported
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At the Enterance of the Harbour of the Town of Boston
there is Castle William, a regular Fortification and in good
Condition Eighty great Guns Mounted a Captain with other
Officers and a Company of thirty Men. There are also in the
Town two small Batterys, but of no use, wholly out of repair.
At Salem and Marblehead there are two small Forts both
gone to mine and not supported in a time of Peace.
In the County of York. There's a small stone Fort at
Brunswick with fifteen men and an Officer a pretty good
defence against the Indians.
At Winter harbour, a small Fort in a poor condition with
ten Men and an Officer.
To the 2<? Q
In the Neighbourhood of this Province to the North East
or towards Nova Scotia there are two Tribes of Indians one
of them known by the name of the Kennibeck Indians One
hundred fighting men who live chiefly at a place called
Neridgiawack within a Sort of Fort made of Wood and
where, is a small Chappel and a Jesuit. There are two or
three other small Settlements of Indians that may make out
in all fifty fighting men at Pennicook Amarascogin and Peg-
woket. One other Tribe called the Penobscot Indians lying
up the River of that name One hundred and fifty fighting
Men, both Tribes too much inclined to the French Interest
thro the Influence of the Jesuits who have allways one among
them, and during the late Warrs between England and France
they have been bloody Enemys to the English ; At present
they are pretty Quiet; but there is no depending on them ~
To the Westward near Albany there are several Nations
or great Tribes of Indians that are in Alliance and Friend-
ship with the English Government of New Yorke, but are so
far distant, that we have Scarse any thing to do with them ~
Northwest and towards Canada there are some Tribes of
Indians, but their Situation is so near the French Settlements
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 109
that we call them the French Indians and they are perfectly
under their Governm*? and at three or four hundred Miles
distance from us ; their Numbers not very great ~
To the 3<? Q.
At Canada the French have Considerable Settlements, the
principal are Quebec & Monreal ~
Quebec is not very populous, but well Fortifyed, There
lives the Governour, the Intendant and a Bishop and there
are some Religious Houses. The City and the Governours
House have several Batterys and Platforms of great Guns-
To Quebec the Ships from France goe once a year Viz* in
the Summer, and carry Merchandize from France for the
Trading part, pay, and Supply for the Soldiers ; There may
be about two hundred Soldiers at Quebec, the Countrey
thereabout not much Peopled ; Upon the Isle of Orleans a
little below the City are good Farmers that raise good Wheat
and Beef. Up the River two hundred Miles near Southwest
is Monreal, an Island, a pretty Strong place, There lives the
Liev* Governour and two Companys ; near Mon real live
also the French Indians & thither they resort for the most
part, from thence they Trade and Correspond with Albany
and the Indian Nations thereabouts from Mon real the French
also carry on their Trade to Missasippe. There is also a
small Settlement of the French at Trois Rivieres & at
Chamblay still nearer to Albany but not very considerable ~
From Canada it is That in a time of Warr between Eng-
land and France, the French Influence and Actually Imploy
their Indians to Annoy and Destroy the English Settlements
both of this Province and the Colony of Connecticut and
some times the Province of New York. This Province have
had two fair Towns destroyed in two years Successively in
the last Warr by a party of two hundred Indians headed by
French Officers from Canada And it is difficult, considering
the Vastness of the Frontiers to know how to prevent such
110 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Incursions in a time of War, unless the two Crowns should
Agree never to Imploy the Indians on either side against
each other even in Case of a Warr _
As to Cape Breton,
The Province of Nova Scotia lyes between us and the French
Settlement there, and without doubt Governour Phillips will
transmitt your Lordships a particular Account of the Cir-
cumstances of the French there ; they have yet no regular
Fortification in that place. But in Case of a War between
the two Crowns the French would certainly be very trouble-
some to all the English Plantations in North America. It is
generally thought that it might be of Service to His Majesty
and a Security of the Trade of his Subjects if there were a
small Fort built at the Isle of Canso which is near Cape
Breton, and so another between that & Annapolis Royal.
But of these things the Governour of that Province will be
the best Judge.
It hath been of the last Mischief to His Majesty s Govern-
ment and People of these Countreys to suffer the French
Jesuits to reside among the Indians that are under the Eng-
lish protection & particularly at Kennebec & Penobscut both
which are within His Majestys Territory. This is what I
have had the honour to represent once and again to your
Lordships.
To the 4" 1 Q.
The Trade of the Province has been of late years under
great discouragements occasioned as is Judged by the most
thinking People chiefly by want of Silver and Gold for a
Medium of Trade in lieu whereof the Government have made
and Issued out near Two hundred Thousand Pounds in Bills
of Credit ~
The Fishery of this Province ( which indeed is the best
and chief Article of their Trade ) is much increased since the
Cession of Nova Scotia. As to the remaining part of this
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 111
Question I must beg leave to refer your Lordships to Gov-
ernour Phillips those places being in his Government ~
To the 5? Q
To prevent illegal Trade I do my utmost Indeavours to
put the Laws now in force relating to the Trade of the
Plantations in Execution ; and also take all Imaginable care
that the Kings Officers may be protected in doing their
Duty -And I am also of Opinion farther to prevent illegal
Trade If two fishing Shallops were Imployed, under the
Inspection of the Surveyor General or Principal Officer in
each Port (the charge of building which would be about
Three hundred pounds Sterling ) to be Manned & Victualled
by the Station Ship as there may be Occasion and a Custom
House Officer on board, would be of great Service. But if
this is not thought practicable the Appointing more Waiters
in each Port as four at least in this Port ( whereas there is
but two ) which I believe might answer the End and very
much prevent the running of Counterband Goods _
To the 6 th Q
According to the best Inquiry & Information I find belong-
ing to the Massachusetts Province and mostly built in it
nearest One hundred and Ninety Sail of Ships and other
Vessels being in all nearest Eight Thousand Tunns and
Navigated with about Eleven hundred Men. Besides about
One hundred and fifty Boats with Six hundred Men employed
in the Fishery
To the 7^ Q
As to Manufactures, the Inhabitants in some parts of the
Province work up their own Wool and Flax and make an
Ordinary course Cloath for their own use without exporting
any. But the greatest part both of Woolen and Linnen
Cloathing that is wore in the Province is Imported from
Great Britain, and some times Linnen from Ireland; and
considering the Excessive price of labour the Merch* can
112 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
afford what is Imported Cheaper than what is made in the
Country - There are also a few Hatters set up their Trade in
the Maritime Towns - And the greatest part of the Leather
used in the Country is Manufactured among themselves ~
There has been for many years some Iron works in the
Province that have afforded the People Iron for some of their
necessary Occasions: But the Iron Imported from Great
Britain is Esteemed much the best, and the Shipping wholly
use that which is Imported. And besides the Iron works of
the Province are not able to Supply as to the Common use
the twenty th part of what is wanted ~
To the 8* Q
Upon the best Computation I find it to be nearest Two
hundred and twenty Thousand pounds this Country Currency
which is about One hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling
according to the present course of Exchange between Great
Britain and this Place ~
To the 9* Q
The Trade of this Province is principally to Europe by
Codd Fish to Spain Portugall and the Mediterranean the
produce whereof is remitted chiefly to Great Britain either
P bills of Exch a or Gold -
Great part of the Trade of this place is directly to Great
Britain by Whale Oyle, Finns, Furrs, Turpetine and other
Naval Stores ~ Trade from hence to any Foreign Plantations
is Inconsiderable, except that to a Dutch Plantation called
Suraname which is carried on mostly by exporting small wild
Horses not fit for Service here, nor Saleable in our English
Plantations, for which is brought back in return chiefly,
Molasses, In which Trade may be employed twelve or fifteen
small Vessels - As to the Trade we have with Barbados
Antego &c* the Account of the Export and Import which I
remitt yearly will make that Trade appear in it's proper
light ~
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 113
To the 10 1 * Q.
The French Plantations in our Neighbourhood are the
Country of Canada and the late Settlement at Cape Breton ~
Canada is a vast Tract of Land lying on each side the great
River of the same name, begining at the Mouth of S* Law-
rence extending up to Quebec from thence to Monreal, from
thence up to the great Lakes and so to Messasippi River as
the French pretend in all which vast Country they have not
above 1500 Effective Men and about 5000 Souls-They have
Thirty Comp as as they affect to reckon, but I'm very credibly
Informed they dont make 12 Men one Company with
Another~The Government of the Country is like other
French Governments Despotick & mostly Military M? Vaud-
rovil the Govern our has the Character of a very good Offi-
cer ~ They have also an Intendant General who manages the
Civil Affairs and is a Sort of Check upon the Governour ~
Quebec is the principal Town in Canada a handsome well
Fortifyed Town but small, but I have said something of that
City already under a former Query- Their next best Settle-
ment is Monreal of this also I have spoken before. There
lives the Governour Maj r Ramsey a Scotchman. The Trade
of Canada consists chiefly of Beaver & some other Furrs
which is managed by a Comp a who are Supplyed by the
Indians and French Hunters as far almost as Messasippi
River and some even from Hudsons Bay : tho' by what I
can learn there are but few Indians in those parts it being a
Desart Cold Country. The value of the Furrs Exported
from thence to France annually may be computed at Sixty
Thousand Pounds Sterling ; They also Export to the French
West Indies some Flower Pease and Lumber to the value of
about Twenty Thousand, pounds Sterling annually. If the
Furr Trade of Canada should fail the Country would be but
of little worth for it does not afford English Grass, Cattle,
Corn equal to other Countrys that lye more Southward and
114 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
hardly any fruit at all The Navigation up that river is very
Inconsiderable Except once a year when the Ships comes to
Quebec-As to Cape Briton of w c . b place I have also spoake
before, to which I have nothing to add, but that the French
have there a very considerable Fishery for these two or three
last years having in the Season from Sixty to Eighty sail of
Ships besides small Craft loading with Fish &c
Sir
I Received your letter of the 6** 1 Ins* inclosing among
other Acts Passed in His Majesties Province of Massachusets
Bay, in May 1718, An Act for Granting unto His Maj*7 sev-
eral Rates & Duties of Impost and Tunnage of Shipping on
which Act the Lords Comm" of Trade & Plantacons desire
the Opinion of the Commissioners of the Customs And hav-
ing laid the same before them, they have made the inclosed
Observations thereon which they direct me to transmitt you
and to returne you the Acts above mention'd, be laid before
their Lordships
I am Sir
Your most humble Serv*
Custom h : London
14 March 1719 Cha Carkesse
W? 1 Popple Esq.
Observations on the Act for granting to His MafV several Rates
Duties of Impost $ Tunnage of Shipping made at
Massachusets Bay in New England.
By the act of Trade 15 C. 2. no Goods can be Imported
into any of the Plantations but from Great Britain, ( salt for
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 115
the Fisheries, Madera & Azores Wines Servants horses &
provisions from Ireland excepted: And also except Irish
Linnen from Ireland g act 3 & 4 Annae ) and th6 Madera's
& Azores Wines &c. may be carried into the Plantations from
other places in Europe than Great Britain yet it must be in
British Shipping duly navigated. Wheras this Act seems to
allow their being Imported into New England in any shipping
there being no words to restrain such Importation to be in
ships allow'd by law to Trade thither.
This Act which lays a Duty on Wines not Madera or
Azores Imported from the place of their Growth is contrary
to the Act of Trade 15. Car. 2, if they be not imported from
Great Britain and likewise all other goods ( except as afore-
said ) not Imported from Great Britain is contrary to the said
act.
This Act lays a double Duty on all Goods Imported from
any other Ports than the places of their Growth or produce
which will be a prejudice to the Trade of Britain & the other
English Plantations.
This Act seems to give liberty to all persons who have
Goods consigned to them to make Entrys &c which may give
liberty to Aliens or persons not made free Denizens to Trade
as Merch*? or Factors which is contrary to the Act of Nava-
gation 12. Car. 2.
By this Act the Ship, with her Tackle apparel and Furni-
ture, is liable to answer such Penalties & Forfeitures as the
Master shall incur by not observing the Directions of that
Act. Which seems to be very unreasonable and a great
hardship on British Owners and other Plantation Owners of
Shipping to forfeit their Ships, through the Default or Neg-
lect of the Master, by a la\v made in the Plantations,
The Duty laid on all Shipping, except as in that Section is
particularly mention'd, seems to be an unreasonable law and
116 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
a great hardship on British Owners and other Plantation
Owners of Shipping.
Signed by Order of the Comm
Custom ho : London Cha Carkesse Scy
14 March 1718
End : Massachusetts
L r . from M r . Carkesse of y e Up* March 1718, with the obser-
vations of the Oomm rs of the Customs upon An Act of y e Mas-
sachusets Bay, passed in 1718, for granting to his Ma* several
Rates $ Duties of Impost $ Tunnage $c
Reced 1^ March 1718/19 Read 17 Do.
End : Massachusets=Bay
Copy of an Order of Council, dated the 26 May, 1719, Sig-
nifying y e Lords Justices Disallowance of an Act for Granting
several Rates $ Duties of Impost $ Tonnage of Shipping: $
that M r . Secretary Craggs give y e Grov r . of y e Massachusets-Bay,
a severe Reprimand for Consenting to y e Passing an Act so con-
trary to his Instruct 11 . 8
Rec* June 30 th
Read July y* 3* f 17W
At the Councill Chamb? Whitehall
The 26* of May 1719
Present
Their Excellencys the Lords Justices Councill
Upon reading this day at the Board , Representation from
the Lords Commiss 18 of trade & plantations dated the 24 ** of
Aprill last in the words following viz*
" Memo d Here was inserted the said Represen tn at length,
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 117
"relating to the Massachusets Act, past in May 1718,
** Enti tuled An Act for granting unto His Ma ty severall
" Rates & Dutys of Impost Tonnage of Shipping.
Which Report being taken into Consideration Their Excel-
lencys the Lords Justices hi Councill, were pleased to
Declare their Disallowance and Disapprobation of the said
Act, and were further pleased to order as it is hereby
Ordered, That the Right Hono ble James Craggs Esq* His
Maf? Princip 1 Secretary of State, do write to the Governor
of the said Province of Massachusets Bay in conformity to
the said Report, and give him a severe Reprimand for con-
senting to the passing an Act so contrary to his Instructions
and to the Laws & Interest of England.
A true Copy
Edward Southwell.
Queries to Co 1 . Shute Q-ov r . of the Massachusetts Bay in
No 1 We desire you to Inform us, what Number of Inhab-
itants there is at present in the Province of the Massachu-
, setts Bay, under your Government? distinguishing the
Number of Frenchmen, Women and Children, and of ser-
vants white and black; how they are Increased of late
years; and what number of Servants, Men and Women
have been Imported of late and from whence ? what Forts
or places of strength are there ? and in what Condition are
those Forts ?
2 What is the Strength of the several Nations of Indians
in your Neighbourhood ? and are their Inclinations for us,
or for the French ?
3 What is the condition of the French Settlem'? at Canada
and Cape Breton? and how may they affect any of his
118 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Majestys Plantations and what can be done to prevent any
hazard or inconvenience from those Settlements ?
4 How and in what particulars is the Trade of the Province
increased or decreased of late years and what has been the
reason of such Increase or decrease? and what Changes
has been observed in the Fisher's since the Conquest or
Cession of Nova Scotia to the Crown of Great Britain,
and what Scattered Settlements are there either of French
or English along that Coast without the Bay of Fundy ?
5 What are the present Methods used to prevent illegal
Trade ? and what farther Methods do you think advisable
for that purpose ?
6 What Number of Ships or other Vessels are there belong-
ing to the Massachusetts, where built? and what number
of Sea faring men ?
7 What Manufactures are settled in the said Province of
any sort whatsoever? what Mines are there? and what
Improvements made in the working of them?
8 What is reckoned to be the Annual produce one year
with another of the Several Commodities in the Massach-
usetts?
9 What Trade has that Province with any Foreign Planta-
tions or any part of Europe besides Great Britain ? how is
that Trade carried on ? what commodities do they send to
or receive from such Plantations, or any forreign Nation
in Europe ?
10 We further desire that you would send us the best Accounts
you possibly can get concerning the French Plantations in
your neighbourhood ; what is the Number of the Inhabi-
tants, and of the Militia, or what other Military Force is,
in each of th'ose Plantations ? what are the several Com-
modities produced in them ? and how much is the Annual
produce one year with another of such Commodities?
what Trade is carried on to and from these Plantations ?
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 119
what form of Government is Established in them, and
what Methods are used to encourage and Improve the
products and the Trade thereof
By their Lordp! Command
Whitehall June 4"? 1719 W m Popple
End : Massachusets
Answer to Several Queries relating to the State of the Prov-
ince of the Massachusetts Bay.
referred to in Col Shutis letter to the Sec r v Dated 17 th
Feb : 1719/20 Reced d.
Boston June 26 th 1719
S?
I beg leave to Acqu* their Lordships that 5 years since I
Obtained Execution against one Elisha Davis of Haverhill in
the County of Essex Planter for Destroying one pine tree
marked w*! 1 the broad Arrow which would have made a mast
of 32 : inches diameter, the Execution was laid on his Estate,
w c . h he had made over before hand to avoid the Law, then he
was Imprisoned, but he broak Goal Just as I departed for
England,
The Lawyers say I cannot proceute now being out, I lay
that Judgment not being Satisfied I can, they are like wise of
Oppinion that a Subject cannot be in one writt with the
Queen, or King it being in the Late Queens reign, the Act of
Parliament gives one moiety to the King his heirs and Suc-
cessors the other to the Informer that shall Sue for the same,
the Lawyers are at a loss how to draw the writt or lay the
action, the Execution orders the forfeiture to be paid to me,
nor could it be other ways here being no other Officer but
my self, So that the property of y e Execution cannot be
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altred, and if I recover the forfeiture I must be Accountable
and will give Notice thereof accordingly.
I have another Execution against John Sincler, and Jere-
miah Bean, both of Exeter in the Province of New Hamp-
shire Planters for cutting down and destroying one mast tree
of 28 : inches diameter which would have made a Bowl spritt
this Execution was laid on their Land as the other above,
these hi my absence have re entered on the land and are now
in Possesion the same Objections are made to this Likewise
I humbly pray their Lordships directions and oppinion in this
great affair, for should these Criminals go unpunished Instead
of dettering others it would Incourage them, who Inclined to
such vile practises, of this Sort there are great numbers
I have vsed my vtmost Endeavours to bring these Offend-
ers to y e obedience of the law th6 they have proved Ineffect-
ual. I have none to make my complaints or adresses to but
their Lordships in behalf e of his Majesties Intrest : If those
Offenders are made Publick Examples of, It will do his
Majesties Intrest very Eminent Service in General.
My prayer to their Lordships is, that they would be pleased
to give theire order and directions to the Attorney General
here to proceute those Offenders with the Severity of the Law,
as well those in New Hampshire ( there being No Attorney
Gen 11 as him in this Province, and a short time to the Gover r
to see it put In Execution, or other ways as their Lordships
in their Great Wisdoms shall see most necessary for Obtain-
ing the End hereby Intended.
The Assembly here after more than a months sitting with
great perswasion and arguments and dificultys were prevailed
upon to droop the duty upon English goods Imported here.
I offered and gave the Gover? the same Act that I got pass'd
in New Hampshire relating to the preservation of the Tar
Tree, but It was not minded but shall Endeavour for it the
next Sessions
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 121
I am very well Informed here that the Agent offered my
Post to M r . Coram, but he asked so much money that Coram
refused, what M? Burinston gave I cannot tell, but by his
leter to me it appears very much like it for he says he was
wholy a Stranger and Knows nothing of the Employ but is a
perfect stranger to the Employ and Every thing belonging to
it this he writes me, but what he gave for it I cannot tell,
but the Agent made the most he could of it certainly, and now
advisses him in the best manner he can, but the Agent missed
his mark very much, for upon his knowing the Contents of
the leter your Honour sent me from their Lordships or
whether he Knew of the recomendation made to the Treasury
in my favour I can't tell but he tells me what was done in
his leter for me, upon this he kept the leter you gave for me,
and goes forthwith to M? Burinston acquaints him what was
done in my favour, he Imediatly sends a Deputation to M?
Rob* Armstrong knowing that the sallary was precarious till
he had a Deputy on the Spot, the Agent Keeping my leter
till about the 15 1 * 1 of Aprill and then put it on board one
Cap* Osburn who arrived the 8 June, by which inanagment
M* Armstrong had the Deputation before I had your leter.
the Agent as he was the only person to Act this base and
falce action, in the Infancie of it gave out that M? Burinston
was a man of very great Intrest with the King and might
have had this Goverment if he could have acted by Depu-
tation at another time he was a Germain Count, &c. from
which I must degress, for had M? Burinston been a person
of common Intrest certainly he could have gott Instructions
for his Deputy for the Agent must know better, I think, and
to put in an Improper person at last lookes very far from a
man of such Intrest, the Agent has screen'd him by his mak-
ing him a great man and of such great Intrest, w*? 1 the King
that it has kept my friends from atempting to restore me so now
he will droop him I suppose and since he could not procure
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any one for a deputy before he will be at a very great loss to
find a person now Knowing in the raising, and manufacturing
of naval stores, Knowing in the Production of all those woods
here, and knows the Country, the people, & the woods, and
I hope he must pass his Examination as I did after 20 years
Experience and have the approbation of the navy, the admir-
alty, and their Lordships. I humbly hope it will be no
Dificulty at this time for their Lordships to restore me, for
M? Burinston has no Intrest but the Agents ; and now he
has got his money and keept him in so long he now must
stand on his own Intrest, the Assembly here has not given
the Agent any money, and are very angry with him and say
they will have no more to do with him.
I cannot omit giving your Hon r an account of the Growth
& Progress of the Woolen Manufacture in this Province In
a great many sorts, as Cloths, Serges, Shaloons, Kerseys, all
sorts of Stuffs allmost and some Linnen and there is scarce a
Country man comes to town or wooman but are clothed w*^
their own Spining Every one Incourages the Growth and
Manufacture of this Country and not one person but discour-
ages the Trade from home, and says tis pitty any goods
should be brought from England, they can live w th out them
There is one thing which very much helps In this most
pernitious trade to Great Britain, and that is Cotton wool
Imported here from the west Indies, which is mixed with
wool & flax and they make both woolen and linnin there
with. If it should be agreeable to their Lordships oppinions
to prohibit the Export of any Cotton Wool from the West
Indies Into this & Road Island Goverm* 8 It would prevent
near the halfe of the Woolen, and Linnin, that is wrought
up in these two Go verm* 8
There Is on an Island at this day called Nantucket about
12 or 14 leagues from Cape Cod more than twenty thousand
Sheep, and all that wool for want of the Officers looking
after the proceuting the Act w c . h makes or renders all wooll
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 123
watter bourn seizable, by which the wooll is brought Into
this Goverm* and supplys all those parts with wooll which
raises little It is the same case at Road Island w c . h breeds
many thousand sheep, and upon an Island called Block
Island about 5 leagues from thence many thousand more and
In the Naraganset Country more yet.
Here has been many years a Jealosie, of some March 18
Shipping some of those woolls above mentioned for france,
and I querey whether the Carieing of such wooll to france,
be a greater Prejduce to the Manufacture of Great Britain,
than for the People here to Spin and Cloath themselves with
such wooll.
If some care be not soon taken those people here will be
able to live without Great Britain in a little time than there
ability Joyned with their Inclinations will be of very 111
Consequence, I cannot say here are any that have a duty full
regard to England or promotes Its welfare thd : It gave them
breath.
I Beg your HonT would be pleased to remind theire
Lord p . 8 of my being of the Council and the first of those now
to be appointed If it be only for the Insewing winter I am
well assurd it will be a great advantage to his Majesties
Intrest In Generall and by it the People will see his Majesties
Supports his Officers for Defending his Just right and
Intrest ; There is one of the Council that Died in May last
Theodore Atkinson of New Castel.
I have further Considered of the Settling of Annapolis
Royal and humbly propose for to Incourage or Introduce the
Sowing and curing of hemp there, That the Tenure and hold-
ing of the lands there should be, so many hundred weight of
hemp according to the Quantity of Land Granted, and that
all the french, that would Sware alegence to King George
should be under the same Tenure this wold give life to the
Sowing of Hemp, there being so much land proper for it, and
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none would refuse land on these conditions, others near the
Woods should be Obliged to Deliver one or two Masts Anu-
ally of such a Diameter at such a place as should be apointed,
and if it could or should be proved upon them that they Cut
any Mast tree without leave such person or persons should
forfeite his or their Land so held or had from his Majestic.
These Tenures one would Incourage Hemp, the other pre-
serve the woods Infalible & to make it more firme the
Informer should have *^, ^j of the Offenders land or how or
else as It shall be order'd, that Cuts a mast tree w th out any
Diameter "Sett or fixed, for all must be Saved Except Those
Trees w ch he or they should have leave to Cutt for under a
pretence of cutting such a Diameter they Cutt what they
please as Is done here to his Majesties Irreparable Loss ;
There are many persons now settled at Annapolis who
have built houses and have Improved lands all ready theire
Titles thereto cannott be good till a proved by such an
authority and under such a seal as your Lordships or his
Majestie shall appointe No Saw Mills to be built without
leave from his Majestie or the person by him appointed to
give leave who should be a good Judge of the Peace, and
Concequencies that may attend such Leave
Others if a Proper place for the product of Tarr should
pay so many barrells of Tar anually or forfeite his Land,
others Terpentine or according to what was most natural
produced, as may be Easily seen upon a Survey of that place,
the like may be Done at Menes and Sheconneto about ten or
fivteen Leagues from Annapolis.
If I shall be thought worth by their Lordships to Lay out
this place I will do it with all Faithfullness, and the man of
war might Carrie me and Assistants thither and back, w ch will
save the Hire of a Sloop the Gover r to assiste with a guard,
at all times when required the boats and other things must
be had which may be had there I suppose, the spring and fall
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is tjie proper time to do this worke in, all which is most hum-
bly submitted to their Lordships Great Wisdoms, by your
Hon most obedient and most humble Servant
J Bridger
Boston July 9? 1719./
In Council
Voted
That the Thanks of the General Assembly be given to
Jn? Bridger Esq? for his good Service in projecting & pro-
moting two Acts for the Encouraging of Naval Stores
within this Province which so Immediately concerns His
Majesties Intrest./
May 2* 1719 Rich d Waldron Cler Con
Province N: Hamp r May 8 th 1719/
The Above is a true Copy from the Council files
compared g Rich d Waldron Cler Con
Examined g the Originall
May 23 d 1719 g J Bridger
End : New-Mngland
Two letters from M* Bridger late Surveyor of the Woods
on the Continent of America to M r . Popple, dated at Bos-
ton, the 26 of June $ 0** of July 1719.
Boston July 9 th 1719/
8!
I have since my last Concidred the Setlment of Annapolis
Royal, and have given' their Lordshp 8 my thoughts how
Naval Stores may be raised there, with some certainty ; to be
added to, or Amend, as shall be thought most proper for his
Majesties Intrest./
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I pray your Hon r " favour and Intrest w th their Lordships,
that I may be Employed in that Service, which I hope will
be no hinderance to the preservation of the woods the most
proper seasons being after the people are out of the woods
In the Spring, or before they go in, in the fall./
M? Armstrong who M? Burinston appointed his deputy
has no Instructions to Act by therefore I shall not suffer him
to act in that station, as to his being an Improper person I
leave that to their Lord p . 8 determination, but had M T . Burins-
ton been a person of such Intrest, as the agent first gave out,
he could not have failed of having Instructions Granted him
upon his application and tis my humble oppinion, that it is
not dificult to restore me againe, his being in above a year
and at last to appoint such a person under whose care the
woods must have been Ruined. I made an Offer to him
rather than to want I would serve for 150 1 a year ; but his
neglecting that, and puting in such a person, and his taking
no care to comply with his Commission, I hope will open a
way for my being restored./
S* Your Inestimable friendship to me lays me under the
Deepest sence of gratitude which I in the most humblest
manner shall forever own, praying for your long health and
life, and the Continuance of your good Offices I am
With the most Senciere and greatest regard
Yo? Hon r ? Most Obedient serv*
J. Bridger.
I most humbly aske pardon for my long leters w c . h I could
not avoid and hope they will be read
Boston July 17 th 1719
S*
I had not troubled you with any more accounts of this
nature, but the continued malice of M* Cooke & now he is a
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representative labours with all his Envie, subtilty, and
Intrest, to Delude his fellow members, and by vile artifices,
has brought a great number over to his Oppinion, having
lay'd a very long leter before the House of Representatives
and a memorial Directed to the Spaker wherein he wholly
Insists against the Intrest of the crown that being Chiefly
aimed at and his Majestys Just rights & Perogative Invaded
in the Province of Main & Denies all claime, right, or Power,
of the King or his Officer, in and over the woods belonging
to and being in the said Province, Notwithstanding y e
charter reservations, and the Act of the 9*! 1 of the Late
Queen, w ch act is according to the restrictions in said Charter,
wherein the Province of Main is particularly Named/, The
chief Strength of M? Cookes Arguments, consists in this,
That that Province was purchass'd and annexed to the Prov-
ince of the Massachusetts in the year 1677. but I find this
easy to answer, by Observing that his late Majesty King
William of Glorious Memory in New Charter w c . h he granted
thought fitt to Incert abundance of considerable Limitations,
and alterations, amongst w ch this is not the Least Material,
And if the Province of Main be under y e Charter of the Mas-
sachusetts, it must be liable to the Reservations, and restric-
tions, of that Charter. What confirms me in this Oppinion
is, that the Kings Right was never called in question till
M* Cooke ( that Incendiary ) with unparlleld Insolence, has
Endeavoured, to poyson the Minds of his countreymen, with
his republican notions, in order to assert the Independency of
New England, and Claime greater Privileges than ever were
designed for it :/ 1 find by M* Cooks long leter and Memo-
rial he has not taken any Notice of iny 2? Memorial and on
further Examination, find* that the GoverT never delivered it
to any of the Council nor layed it before them nor the
Assembly, which has very much surprised me, had that
Memorial been laid as I design Cooke had been long since
128 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Silenced, or been In a nother place ; but y* never, being laid
Either before the Council nor Representatives, nor was I ever
in place to make any other answer, Depending that I had
Fully answered in s? Memorial ; & pray leave to Inclose a
Copy of my 2? Memorial for their Lordships reading and
consideration, I am
Your Hon r ? Most obedient & most humble Serv*
J Bridger
S?
I have some other affairs of Importance to Lay before
their Lordships but the ships say ling now, I most ommit till
the next Oppertunity
End : To the Hon b ! e William Popple Esq r .
End: Letter from M r . Bridger, late Surveyor of the Woods on
the Continent of America, to M r . Popple, dated at Bos-
ton the 17 th of July 1719, with Copy of his Mem 1 to
Col Shute, G-ov r of New Engl d concerning the Right of
the Crown of England to y e Woods in y 6 Province of
Maine
Rec d Aug st 28 th Read SepV 10 1719.
E: New England
Letter from M r . Bridger Surveyor of the Woods in Amer-
ica to the Secretary, Dated the 8 of April, 1720
R* June 17 th Read Sept b T 5 th 1721 1720
Boston July 23 1719.
S?
Since my last to yo u of y e 17 th Instant one James Smith,
Judge Advocate here was suspended by the Gover r about 3
weeks since for what reason I know not,
Smith by way of revenge upon the Gov* with the assists
ance of some people here who has loaded him with Complaints
against the Gover 1 upon many Occasions, is gone home
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M? Cooke not to be behind his neighbours, has scraped
together all his old Complaints and afidavits procured by him
self when Clerk of the Superiour Court In the Province of
Main last year, some 12 years since, some 8, some 6, some 4
years agoe, some when I was not in the Country, all these
against me : In order to Lay them before their Lordships and
thereby render me Obnoxious to their Lord ps and unfitt ever
to serve the King againe as Cooke setts forth to the Assembly.
I pray you to Observe to their Lord ps that what ever
papers Cooke has sent g Smith pretending to have been done
by the Assembly is not true, but has prevailed on some of
that people to signe something by way of Leter persuant to
An Order from the Assembly, or by way of Memorial, or
Remonstrance, & by the way of Committee against me which
the Spaker nor none of the other Assembly men so much as
knew of therefore never consented to much less signed. This
James Smith is the person that would have been Surveyor of
the woods.
I most humbly pray leave hereby to give you some knowl-
edge of this mans Designe w c . h is General, against all or any
boody whereby he might obtaine something, and by the same
see the Lible, and continued Malice of M* Cooke not many
days since asserted to the Gover" face in Council, that the
King has no Right Claime or title to any woods in the Prov-
ince of Main, this I has from the Gover r
I am Your Hon? most Obliged and most humble Serv*
J Bridger
S* I sent all the Affidavits last year to you, that I thought
most material against myself
Smith sayled on friday last in one Cap* Osburne by whom I
wrott you
End : For his Majesty 8 Service
To the Hon ble William Popple Esq r . Secretay to the Right
130 DOCUMENT AKY HISTORY
Hon ble The Lords Commissioners for Trade $ Plantations
In Whitehall
New England
Letter from M r . Bridger Dated 25 July 1719 relating to
M r . Smith, the Judge Advocate, there, being suspended by the
Gov r . $ his coming to England, to complain against the Crov r . $
M r . Bridger $ being assisted therein by M r . Cooke.
A Memorial of the Governour Council and Assembly of
Her Maj* 1 . 6 ' Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eng-
land for their Vindication against the Suggestions and Insin-
uation of Any who may accuse them of harshness and sever-
ity towards such as are of different perswasions from us in
matters of Religion
It must alwaies be remembered That the Professed chief
Design of the first Planters of this Country was Religion &
the Gospellizing of the Wild Ignorant Indians Natives, to
bring them to the knowledge and Obedience of the only True
God & the Saviour of Mankind, as is declared and set forth
hi the Royal Charter or Letters Patent Granted them by His
Majesty King Charles the first.
The Gentlemen the first undertakers in this Noble design
were generally Persons of Education Piety figure Esteem &
had plentifull Estates in the several Counties & places
within the Kingdom of Great Brittain from whence they
came; Yet chearfully parted from their Native Land &
Enjoym^ ventured themselves with their Families & servants
over the Ocean into a Wild Desolate Wilderness at so great
Distance, to pursue & lay the foundation of that Glorious
work; In which they laid out themselves & Estates, not
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murmuring or repining at the unaccountable hardships, dan-
gers & difficulties they were necessitated to Undergo, as well
thr6 the Intemperature of the climate as many other wayes
for the subduing & cultivating of a rude Wilderness & to
secure themselves from the Violence & Insults of the Bar-
barous Natives ; To whose Spiritual & Eternal, as well as
outward, good they had a special regard.
They early and very soon, by order & direction of the
Government disposed themselves into Vicinitys, not only for
their better Security & regular carrying on their secular
Affairs but more especially for divine Worship. And it was
the pious care of the Governm* to make & Enact good and
wholsome Statutes & Ordinances for the reforming of Man-
ners, & the Propogating of Religion & to see to the due
Execution of them. And in Grants of Lands for New-
Settle*? or Townships, A Proviso or condition is & has been
inserted That the Grantees do procure & Support a Learned
Orthodox Minister to dispence the Word of God to them.
Upon these their just & pious Endeavours the Plantation
Increased, Towns & Churches were orderly settled & by the
Blessing of God it is become a province, not of the least
name among Her Map! 68 forreign Plantations: To the
Enlargement of Her Ma*? 8 Empire, & Advantage to the
Crown.
Under the present Constitution by Letters Patent Granted
by their late Maj 1 ! 68 King William & Queen Mary of Glori-
ous Memory, The Governm* have taken alike care to Enact
good & wholsome Laws for the Support of Ministers &
Schools, and that no Town or plantation should be unpro-
vided & destitute thereof. As also for the suppressing of
Vice prophaneness & Immoralities; Which Laws have the
Royal Approbation. And the Governm* have Enforced the
Execution of them, by Issuing forth Proclamations from
Time to time; Therein Comanditfg all Justices & other
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Inf? Officers strictly to Observe & perform their respective
Dutys in that regard ; & to make diligent inquiry & detect
all such who shall presume to trangress the same, In Imita-
tion of the most deservedly commendable Examples of Her
Maj*7 & Her Late Royal Predecessors by their Royal Procla-
mations And hi Countenancing Encouraging & promoting of
Societys for the Reformation of Manners who by their Let-
ters have recommended the same to be pursued here
Whatever complaints may have been made of over much
rigidness & Severity practiced by the former Governm* toward
persons of different perswasions in matters of Religion, pertic-
ularly those called Quakers.
We go not about to plead their Justification in things
wherein possibly an over warm zeal may have carried them
too far. There is none in y e present Governm* that were
concerned at that Time; And it cannot be expected we
should make that answer for them as they could have made
for themselves : nor are those that go under the denomina-
tion of Quakers now such as were then ; who were some of
them open bold disturbers of y e publick peace, & their Prin-
cipals Notoriously known to be Heretical but are much
refined both in Principals & Conversation.
We strictly observe & yeild due Obedience to the Direc-
tions in the Royal Charter to allow Liberty of Conscience in
y e Worship of God to all Christians except Papists. Nor
have we any Sanguinary or Pecuniary Laws against those
who are of Diffirent perswasions from us in that matter.
The Laws of this Province provide only against Irreligon
& Prophaneness That the People are not brought up in
Estrangment from God, and perish for want of Instruction ;
But that the Publick Worship of God be upheld in the sev-
eral Towns & Plantations That the Lords Day be duly
observed & not openly prophaned by persons attending their
Secular Imploym* Or, which is wose, by Re veilings, Drink-
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ing & other Debaucheries, which is too sadly true in some
places, not far distant from us.
And we justly fear that Infection has too much taken in
some later settlem* 8 begun in the remoter parts of this Prov-
ince that have been destitute of the Ministry ; being planted
by a mixt company many of them vain profligate persons, of
disolute conversation who combine together to Obstruct &
oppose the Endeavours of the better disposed part of y e
Inhabitants for y e Obtaining of a Learned Orthodox Godly
Minister to come unto them. And out of a Sordid Spirit
refuse to contribute to his Support, alth6, Encouraged by
Assistance from the Governm* in their begining chosing
rather to continue in Ignorance & Irreligion than to be at
the lest Cost to have the meanes of knowledge & the preach-
ing of the Gosple among them; But reject it tho freely
offered, To the just Scandal of the Indian Native Tribes who
have their Settlem t8 near them, & their several Assemblys &
Ministers who preach constantly to them ; and Shame such
disolute English to y e last Degree, by their Sobriety & better
manners.
They are strengthened in this their Opposition in some
places, by the Quakers th6 but few in Number to the rest of
the Inhabitants by their Aversion to Orthodox Ministers &
labouring to Infuse their Wild delusions into them & the
plea of Liberty of Conscience w c . h they make for themselves,
but disclaim them as not of their Society ; Their manners
are so openly Vile ; But if any time they come to their
Meetings, th6 only to Observe their Devotion (for which
they afterwards ridicule them ) & arrive to that Morosness
as to deny the Courtesy of pulling off the Hat & shew an
indecent unmanerlyness'to their Superiours, then they Shelter
themselves under the Umbrage of y e Quakers if they be
demanded a penny for the Support of a good Minister ; Th6
at the same Time the Quakers are Ashamed to own them.
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This Government have at no times imposed upon any in
matters of Worship, but as is before said, allow Liberty of
Conscience, as they are commanded yet account it their Duty
to God to Her Majesty & the Souls of the People under
their care, by proper and the most easy methods to see they
be taught the knowledge of God & Jesus Christ; And to
reclaim them from immoralities, Vice & Prophaneness.
These are the Ends the Laws are pointed to, & to Constrain
their Obedience and no further
A true Copy as of Record Examined
g I Willard Seer*
End : Massachusets=Bay
Several Affidavits $ other Papers [ X in number^] relat-
ing to the Difference between M r . Bridger, late Surveyor-
Gren 1 . of y e Woods in North= America $ M r . Elisha Cooke,
formerly one of y e Council for that Province.
Rec? with M r . Dumers Memorial
Reel Feb r y 25 th Read March 30 th 1719-20
The Intrest of the Crown is grown so very low, and the
Prerogative trampled on to that degree, That no good officer,
or a lover of his King and country can be Silent : but Duty
and a Strict adherence to his most Sacred Majesty, Amies me
with Due resentm* to Lay it before their Lord?. 8 in a true
light and Nothing but fact shall be related, Therefore by
their Lordsp? to heare it read.
The Clause in the Charter of New
England for the Preservation of the Woods Saves no trees
but 24 in in Diameter and upward, all the young trees may
be cut at the pleasure of the people and tis at their choice
whether ever they let a tree grow to be 24 in Diameter or
not, w c . h Clause is the Distruction rather than the reservation
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of the woods, there is an Act of Parliament and an Act of
this Province that has the Same Clause in them, which must
be repealed, for the Small trees being in Demand at home in
Great Britain, the people cutts all these trees under 24 Inchee
Diamtf and plead the act for it, and I am Obliged to be
Silent, the large trees they cut at pleasure w th out regard to
Acts of Parliament the Royal Lycense or my Warrant, as I
shall make appear hereafter.
I shall say nothing of M* Cooke but
what relates to his actions this winter, M* Cooke having pur-
chased two old grants for land that were granted by the Gov-
ernment of New England In the years 1641 : & 1671 Never
taken up till now the first for 800 acres the other for 500
acres of land, and to prove his assertion, that the King has
no woods here, has laid out these two grants of 1300 acres of
Land In the Province of Main, without all the Townships or
town Bounds, in his Majestys woods as I allways thought &
preserved as Such, but M* Cooke bids Defiance to any Right
or Title the King has to any woods.
The Province of Main was a Distinct Goverment 40 years
after the first of these grants and many after the last, I was
upon this Spot of land last winter was 12 months that he has
laid out & lie in the Best parcell of Pine trees I ever saw in
this Country, Now if M? Cooke is allowed in this action he
has fully proved that his Majesty has no woods for all within
the townships are the peoples, and if all without are as M?
Cooke says they are by Consent of the Goverment the King
is Shoved out, there being none else. These old grants being
of no value to the owners or possessors M? Cooke purchasses
them for a very Small Sum and has got them Confirmed, he
has Sold a part of this 1300 acres for 300 11 this is to my
Knowledge true having Read the Deed, Cooke gave a Gen-
erall warrante to the purchasser : and why not an} other old
grant or any new grant be laid out in the woods as well as
136 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
M? Cooke. Certainly if one can, all may: one of these
grants was Consented to by Co 1 . 1 Dudley in 1710 but never
laid out till now, the other was Consented to by the Present
Goverment in No? 1718 Since the woods was Denied to be
the Kings, and Thus he has proved what he asserted I have
Inclosed Copy of the original and Confirmed grants for their
Lordships perusall.
I have this winter Discovered a Sort of People that under
pretence of Getting masts Destroy es more trees than any peo-
ple, these men are Employed by the Agent of him that Con-
tracts w*? 1 the Navy one M? John Taylor; 8ber last his
Agent M? David Jefferies comes from Boston, to Contract
for a great number of masts, he takes no Notice of the Royal
License, Nor me, Employs 5 Setts of Men to get what Masts
he pleased, and what Number, these people goes Into his
Majestys woods ( as I think they are ) and to cutting down
of mast trees, which I forbid to Cut one tree without leave
according to the Act of Parliament & Royal Lycense Imedi-
ately all these, Save 2 Setts, came to me for Leave which
they had there 2 setts have been In the Kings woods, & have
fell'd above a 150 trees notwithstanding I forbid them, before
the Agents face & before the Leiv* Gover? and to Several
of their friends, and all the ways possible I could, but all in
vaine for they at last Bid Defiance to me and laught at me.
Thes setts of men, they say to a Country fellow do you
get me Such a Tree and I will give you 4 11 according as they
agree More or less, and so to another and another &c* away
goes all these fellows, ranges where they please, under the
Notion of Mast men as they call themselves, and Cutts these
trees Into loggs and often Supplys their Neighbors with loggs
till they have Cutt enough, or what they Want yet the Tree
agree'd for is not minded nor are they Seldom or never gott,
this is the practise I am very Sure of it.
on the 6** of the last month I apply d to the Leiv* GoverT
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here for a guard of horse w c . h he Imediatly granted, and on
the 9 1 ! 1 with the Sherife having the Gov r ? Warrant, psuant
to a Warrant before obtained from the Lords of the Admir-
alty, I went into the Country and Seized Sixteen of the Trees
Cut in his Majestys woods, for his Majestys Service, but the
owners told me publickly they would Hew there the next
week, I have given the Ace* to the Lords of the Admiralty
and hope they will not release the Seizure, for it will be to
the great Damage of his Majesty, it being made so Publickly
That all Expects the Issue, if released no bounds or laws will
reclame the people for the future. The offenders Names are
Timothy, and Paul Gerrish, and Thomas Hanson, all of this
Province of New Hampshire and Men of Estates I could have
Seized more, but would not fearing it might have hindred
the Loading of the mast Ships Expected this Spring w c . h these
will not, these very men have Cutt 12 large trees on that land
Cooke has sold, but they Dare me to it, and Say I Durst not
Seize one of them trees, nor shall I without order, for every
one is upon me and against me, and that the King has no
woods here which puts me upon my gard in this respect. I
have Inclosed a bill for the prevention of all those Eviles if
it meet w*! 1 their Lordships Approbation will Entierly Secure
all the woods, and make it possible for the officer to do his
Duty w c . h now tis not,
The first paragraph in the Bill is that all the woods with-
out the Townships are to be reserved as his Majestys, and to
Support this, I humbly answer, That it is of absolute neces-
sity his majesty has Some woods, to Supply the Navy with
Masts &c* if this be granted I then say
That all the woods without the Townships are not a Par-
ticular, or any properity, if So the King takes no right from
any man only Secures the woods to him self, So no body is
damaged thereby, and In case there Should be a Necessity,
for laying out a New Town for the Benefit or good of his
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Majestys Subjects, there is a Clause in the Bill, That the
Cover? or Leiv* Govern? with the Surveyor of the woods,
to lay out a proper place in these woods to be reserved ; why
the Gov? or Leiv* Gov? with the Survey? should lay out
this place is, That as tis the Prerogative of the Crown
his Majestys Officers are the properst for that Service, but
let that be put in whose power it will, tis no great concern
So the woods therein be preserved to the use of y e Crown
There are no woods Else can be preserved, for all within the
Town bounds are the peoples, and all w^out too M? Cooke
Says, but that I submit to their Lordships, I hope I have
hereby given Sufficient reasons, that these outwoods may be
his Majestys
This forbiding to Cut a Pine tree, is like the forbidden
Tree, tho the Tast was Death, that did not deter it, but all
thereby was lost.
There is in this case but one Tree reserved, yett these peo-
ple will Cutt, tho they loose their all, their Idol the Charter ;
for no mens actions will ever Submit, while the apprehension
rebel, and those Disturbers of Government, have always laid
their first Train in Contempt, and endeavouring to blow it
up in the judgements and Esteem of their fellow Subjects,
Contempt of his Majestys Authority, like the Planet of
Saturn, has first an 111 aspect, and then a Destroying Influ-
ence how Studiously has these people layd about them ever
Since, In the Assembly and in all their publick meettings, to
Cast a Slur upon the Kings rights and Title, and to bring
under a Disrepute the Prerogative amongst the Country peo-
ple, the pyson is spread thro the whole, to his Majestys great
and never to be recovered loss unless the bill recovers it.
There are many other ways by which His Majestys woods
are Destroyed, and will be in spight of fate, as long as there
is but one person to Secure so vast a District, against 40000
men scatered thr6 the whole and tis in any of their Powers
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to goe and Cut Down what tree they please it is as Impossi-
ble for one Officer to Secure all these places, as tis for him
to be at them all the same Moment of Time, besides the New
Settlements making Every where no less than three In this
Province. In the province of main tis all going to be Setled,
if this be rightly Considered, the^ will be of my Oppinion.
This affair being of the first consequence, as it is either Sup-
ported or Neglected, that can befall a Kingdom, Whose
Safty, Whose Strength, Whose wealth, and Whose Glory,
Depends on Naval Power, and have Dominions of its own,
(which were they made more Dependant) could Supply,
and Support, this Naval power forever, this is a happines no
nation else can boast of.
These may make Great Britain, and his most Sacred, and
most Screen Majesty King George a noun Substantive, and
not Depend upon any Nation under heaven for Naval Equip-
ments, I am well assured the Bill will Entierly save all the
woods if passed as tis drawn, that is to the same purport,
and tho I am never restored I have done the Duty faithfully
2 years the 19 th June
The paragraph in the Bill wh. Obliges the Person, that
Employs the Labourer, to pay 6/8 ps every Sound Tree ; is
for the reasons following it will first, bring the people to
acknowledge that they are his Majestys woods which now
they do not. The Surveyor will then know how many trees
are cut and by whom, it will give a great Cheque to the
Employers of these Labourers being under oath and let the
Contractors agent know that the woods are under the Direc-
tion and Protection of the Survey? and not for him to
Employ Men before hand and at his pleasure, which has been
practiced without the knowledge of the Surveyor and greatly
to his Majesty s Damage, by Cutting what he pleased to
order without taking any Notice of the Royal Lycence or
Acts of Parliament, for these reasons I hope that paragraph
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may stand, which is all I need answer for the rest carrys
their own reasons in them I hope.
Thus I have playd the Misser who never Discovers the
hidden treasure till near Death.
I have herein, and Inclosed all my Experience all my
Judgment and Contrivance resulting from thence, for the
good and Support of his Majestys Intrest here, under the
Strictest Duty, as a Servant, and a Subject, and in the most
obedientest manner to their Lordships, and In these have
made known all my Treasure which for 23 years I have been
Colecting in this Country, the Difference is the hiden treas-
ure could not Continue life, Th6 the Lords of the Treasury
Can Continue their faithful Serv 1 and tho it can be true that
I have out lived his Majestys Intrest here I humbly hope I
have not out lived their Lordships favours nor forfeited their
good oppinions.
Humbly begging their Lordships to represent my hard
Case to the Lords of the Treasury for an alowance or my
Salary, No person appearing to Superceed me.
There is yet another sort of People called Loggers which
live every where and go where they please, these are the
Common Enemies to all and Does great Damage to the
Woods, they have now a Tacit Leave to go into the Woods
upon, the notions that they may Cut any Tree that is not
marked, w ch this bill Intirely cutts them off, Nor is the mark-
ing any Tree of any regard, for an Ignorant man will fall
that tree soonest, for says he tis good for the tree is marked
and Down that tree goes a Crafty man when he sees a Tree
marked, he Imediately Cutts out the rnarke and Tree Down
& Into loggs and so tis of all, for tis only an Amusem* and
a Deceipt Instead of a gard, for no man Carrys a Witness
with him when on Such vile actins, and tis as impossible to
marke all the good trees, as tis to Count them all.
What is related being Truth their Lordships will see the
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true State of his Majestys Intrest, and if no more officers or
Deputys be allowed, nor more power given to the officer I can't
pretend to Secure the woods as they ought to be, much more
a Stranger, for he will Not be Able to Do any thing till by
his own Knowledge, and Traviling he learns his Duty, for
these people will keep him Ignorant most Certainly, and tis
hard to learn, where all will obstruct, there are many other
things I would have laid before their Lordships, but must
heartiely begg their Pardon for this long Narration, and
pray the Continuance of your honours good offices in my
behalf for my Case is very Severe w c ?> I beg may be Consid-
ered to my reliefe for I cannot Subject my self, and Expect
to be Troubled for the Money that has Supported and feed
me.
Some reasons why 50 11 is put In lieu of 100 in the Bill
answer.
That a hundred pounds Sterling keept their Neighbours
from Informing against them knowing it would ruine them
if they should Informe, now the Sum is less, they will
Informe and the people will be able to pay that when they
could not pay a 100 11 Ster 1 . 1 but if it be not agreeable I hum-
bly Submitt it.
And as to the Woods, there was never any other woods
but those without the Townships, ever thought to be his
Majestys, nor has there been any other preserved So that I
humbly hope it will not meett with any Dificulty in the pass-
ing, by reason twill Secure them better than ever before;
and without it, will every day be worse for the People are
grown so Numerous and so bold that nothing but an Act of
Parliament well Executed upon offenders will be able to
restrain e the Liberty they fake.
I have only to add my most humble Duty to their Lord p8
Praying the Continuance of the favours by representing that
I have Done the Duty two years the 19*? of June next with-
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out any Salary, and Whereas there has not any Person yet
appeared to superceed me here, I am as much Surv? as ever,
there being no other Commission but mine In America & if
M? Barington Continues In England his Commission Shall
never be good or In force here, and that he Designes to act
by Deputy is Impossible, it never being the Intent or mean-
ing of the Crown. I am sure here is business Enough for
many persons that understand the Duty, but how many
Ignorant persons this Service will require I cannot say.
I am
Your Hon r ? Most Obedient and Most humble servant
April 8 th 1T20. E. J. Bridger
M r . Blechynden to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations.
Salem in New England 20 th August 1720
My Lords
I am directed by my Hon b . le Masters the Comm r ? of His
Majesties Customes bearing date the 31 8 . fc Oct? Last ( w c ? did
not come to hand till the 5*? ult.) to lay before your Lord-
ships what progress is made in New England, in the Manu-
factures of Woollens and linnens and how the Same are
Encouraged.
As for the Woollens, the Country in Gen 11 make it for
their own use and weare it commonly themselves here are
Several Fulling Mills they make very good Druggetts Camb-
letts & Serges which are Sold to the Shops and wore by the
meanest Sort of People as for the Tradesmen they are very
Ambitious of appearing above themselves and will not be
seen in anything beneath the Merch* or more Substantiall
which, is in the Produce of Europe.
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As for the linnen Manufacture the Comon people wear
what they call Homespun which is made of Cotton and Lin-
nen, tho wee have had lately Some hundreds of Irish Fam-
ily s Setled at the Eastward which make as good Linnens and
Diaper as in Ireland itself. This is what I have at present
to offer to yo* Lordships upon this Head and hope yo? Lord-
ships will believe that while I have the Hon? to be Collet? of
his Majesties Customes in these Parts I shall take all possi-
ble Care to prevent as farr as in mee Lyes the Exportation
of any woollens and to informe yo? Lordships from time to
time what I think detrimental to the Trade and Manufactures
of Great Britain as becomes
My Lords
Your Lordships most dutifull and most
Obedient Hum ble Serv*
Chas: Blechynden
x
E: New England
Lrefrom M r . Chas. Blechynden relating to the Woolen Manu-
facture in New England Dated at Salem Aug* 00** 1720.
To the Right Hon bl . e The Lords Comm of Trade Plantations,
Att Whitehall Reed 23 rd Septemb r 1720 Read July 5, 1722
Letter from J. Dummer to W Popple Esq r . of Oct. 11, 1720
with his answers to the Circular Querys, relating to the
Massachusetts >
( Enclosure )
Queries for M* Dummer.
Massachusets-Bay & New Hampshire
14th. What Forts & Places of Defence are there within
that Province ? and in what condition ?
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Castle Will is the Cheif which defends Boston Harbour
& is kept in very good condition. There are other little
Forts in the Province of Main. There's a little one in
Brunswick at y e head of Casco Bay called George's Fort,
which has in it 15 souldiers, and a Capt. Lieu* & Serjeant.
It is built of stone & lime, with four bastions, having 14
pretty large cannon mounted on ye Walls : There's another
at a town call'd Augusta about 22 miles from Brunswick : &
a third at Winter harbour a place about 4 miles westward of
Casco. There is also a Garrison in Arowsick Island, where
the inhabitants keep guard by turns, there being no Soldiers
in pay.
15. What Number of Indians have you, & how are they
inclin'd?
We have but very few Indians well affected to us that are
able to go to war, excepting the Iroquoise ( who are call'd
the 5 nations ) & they onely guard New York & keep a con-
stant newtrality with the French Indians.
16*? What is the strength of their Neighbouring Indians ?
We reckon the Eastern Indians ( as they are call'd ) not to
exceed five hundred fighting men. These are Situated at
Penobscot & towards Nova Scotia. But the Canada Indians
who some times come down upon our Western Setlements
consist of many Nations, as the Hurons Illinois & others.
17th What is the Strength of your neighbouring Europeans?
We have none but the French of Canada, who can't
hurt us but by Surprizing our Frontier Setlements, & so pre-
venting the growth of the Colonies. Their Number is incon-
siderable, compar'd with the British Subjects.
The same queries for New Hamshire.
End :) Queries for M r . Dummer, relating to the Provinces of
the Massachusetts Bay $ New Hampshire.
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(SEAL) Additional Instruction for our trusty and well
beloved Samuel Shute Esq* our Governour and
Commander in Chief in and over our Province of
New Hampshire in New England in America or for
the Commander hi Chief of the said Province for
the time being, Given at our Court at Hampton
Court the 27*? Day of September 1717. In the
ffourth Year of Our Reign.
Whereas by our Instruction to you you are required not to
pass any Law of any Extraordinary or Unusual Nature and
Importance whereby our Prerogative or the Property of our
Subjects may be prejudiced without having either first trans-
mitted unto us a Draught of such a Bill or Bills and our
having Signified our Royal Pleasure thereupon, or that You
take care the passing of any Act of an Unusual and Extraor-
dinary Nature, that there be a Clause Inserted therein Sus-
pending and deferring the Execution thereof untill our
Pleasure be known concerning the said Act.
It is our further Will and Pleasure that you don't for the
future pass any Act which may any ways affect the Trade or
Shipping of this our Kingdom without a Clause expressly
declaring that the said act shall not be in force, untill it be
approved and confirmed by us, our Heirs or Successors and
you are to Signify our Pleasure herein to the Councill and
assembly of our Province of New Hampshire in New England
under your Government, and to take Care that the same be
punctually observed for the future upon pain of our highest
Displeasure. G. R. A true Copy from the Original
JE ': New Hampshire
Lre from M r . Newman inclosing the Extract of some Lres
from Col. Shute G-ov r . of New Hampshire relating to the
Powder Money
Reed Febry 2* Read 8 th Felry 1721/22
10
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Letter
Col. Tho! Westbrook to Lieut. Gov. Dummer. March 23.
1T22/3
S* Georges March y e 23 d 1722/3
May it please yo r Hono r
My last Inform'd yo r honour of my Arivall in Penobscot
river, and would Crave leave to acquaint you that on y? 4 th
Instant I sett out to find the fort, and after five dayes march
thro' y e woods wee Arived abrest of Severall Islands where
y e pilot Supposed y e Fort must be ; here we were obliged to
make four Canoo's to ferry from Island to Island and Sent a
Scout of 50 men upon discovery, on the 9 th Instant who Sent
me word they had Discover'd y e Fort & waited my Arivall,
I left a Guard of a hundred men w th the provisions & Tents,
and with the rest went to y e Scout being forc'd to ferry over
to them, they had, & wee cou'd see y e Fort but not come to
it by reason of a Swift River, and y e Ice at y e heads of y e
Islands not permitting the Canoo's to come round, we were
obliged to make 2 more, w th which Wee ferry'd over, and by
Six in the Evening Arrived at y e Fort, "Leaving a Guard of
40 men on the West Side of the river, to facillate our return.
The Enemy had Deserted it in y e fall as we Judge and
Carry'd every thing with them except y e Inclosed papers,,
nothing matteriall was found. The Fort was 70 yards in
Length and 50 in breadth. Well Stockado'd 14 foot high
furnisht with 23 houses Built reguler ; On the South Side
close by it was their Chappell, 60 foot Long and 30 wide
Well and handsomely finish'd within & without and on y e
South of that y e Fryers Dwelling house.
We Sett fire to them & by Sun rise next morning Con-
sum'd them all. Wee then return'd to Our first Guards &
thence to Our Tents, & so proceeded to y e Sloops being
Judged to be 32 Miles Distant. M r Gibson & Severall other
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Sick with a Guard not being Arived; And when they
Arived, Wee fell down the River. At y e Mouth whereof on
y e 16 th Current at 3. of y e Clock in y e morning the Reverend
M r Gibson Dyed. Wee Arived at this place the 20^ Instant
where we Decently Interr'd him, and three more of our men
with y e usuall form, Wee have 50 men now Sick which has
Exhausted our Stores for y e Sick, I have Wrote to M r Treas-
urer Allen for a fresh supply or y e men Will, & do already
Suffer Extreamly for want. I have made bold to give Lib-
erty to Liev* Buckminster to Wait on your honour for Leave
to See his family while y e forces are Recruiting. Liev* Hil-
ton has been 111 all this March and is now grown so weak
that I am Obliged to give him a furlow home, and at his
request Given y e Charge of his men to Liev* John March a
Gentleman of great care & good Conduct and One I hope
yo r honour Will favour w th a Liev ts Commission. I have
not heard from Cap* Harmon Since I left him, only as
Cap* Penhallow Informes mee he met him at York, & that
he return'd from his March in 5 or 6 days, th6 yo r Hono r
Will See by the Inclosed his Instructions from mee & what
Orders he had. Your honour Will Excuse my not Sending
a Journall of our proceedings hitherto as I fully purposed to
do, but am prevented by the badness of the Weather &
Incumbrance of our Cabbin by M r Gibsons Sickness & Death
but shall not fail to do it g next op r tunity. Wee are now
preparing our whaleboats w th Clabboards &c to be in a readi-
ness for pitching them as soon as any shall Arrive that we
may be ready for a March as soon as wee are furnished with
provisions, with all Dutifull Respect I am
Yo r Hono r ? Most Obedient Humble Serv*
Tho Westbrook
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Letter from Grov. Shute.
Sir
Since my last Letter to you, I have rec? Advice from
Cpt Heath of a Party of eleven Indians that appeard the 25
of March at Richmond & Shot one of that Garrison thr6 the
Body, Cpt. Heath is of Opinion that there are only a Scout
for Discovery & that there is a greater Number near at Hand ;
You must be very vigilant & careful, & employ your Men in
the best Manner you can for the Annoyance of the Enemy &
Defence of the Frontiers, & if any Place should be distress'd
Let them have speedy Relief. It is necessary that there sh? be
a Vessel of some Force to carry Supplies to Richmond, and
therefore you must Order the Sloop that was Strattons for
that Service.
Ap. 10, 1722.
Votes of the House of Representatives ( at the Session of the
G-eneral Assembly held at Boston March 15 1722 )
MT Cooke from the Committee Reported, That they hav-
ing at sundry times made enquiry of the Situation and Cir-
cumstances of Fort Mary at Winter-Harbour, are humbly of
opinion, That that Fort is of no Service as a Barrier or Secu-
rity to the Inhabitants of that Town, nor any Bridle to the
Indians. And there being now, as we are informed, but five
centinels, and three of them old Men, the Guns belonging
to the Garrison both Great and Small unfit for Service, and
that in dry Seasons they are obliged to go two or three miles
for Water for the use of the Garrison.
The Committee are therefore of opinion, That that Fort,
being of no Publick benefit, It is for his Majesty's Service,
That it be slighted and no longer continued. And that no
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pay or Subsistance be allowed and paid out of the Publick
Treasury for any Officer and Soldiers there, after the 12*? day
of July next, and that M? Treasurer Allen be directed to
take speedy Care that the Provisions, Ordnance, Arms,
Ammunition and all other Stores of War at that Fort, be
Transported to Boston and lodged with him.
Read and accepted.
Marginal * Contrary to the Charter without consulting me
note & the fort so advantageous y* the Country would
have been undone if demolish They did not lyke
the Commader.
27 June 1722
Elisha Cooke Esq? from the Committee on the Petition of
John Smith &c Reported, The Committee having had Con-
sideration of the petition of John Smith, &c. Proprietors of
the Town of North Yarmouth, and the several Papers there-
with Exhibited find that on the 26 th of July 1684 Thomas
Danforth Esq. President of the Province of Main, and by
Order and Authority of the Colony of the Massachusetts who
had purchased that Province of the Assigns of Sir Ferdinando
Gorge did Give, Grant, Bargain, and Confirm unto Messieurs
Jeremiah Dummer, Walter Gendall, John Royal and John
York, Trustees on the behalf and for the Sole Use and Ben-
efit of the Inhabitants of the Town of North Yarmouth men-
tioned in said petition. And that a Settlement was begun,
but broke up by the Indian War. The Committee are there-
fore humbly of Opinion that Five Suitable Persons be
appointed and constituted Trustees in the room and stead of
Jeremiah Dummer and otners first mentioned to carry on and
perfect the Settlement of that Township according to such
Rules and Methods as was then proposed, having special
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Regard to the Original Proprietors and Settlers ; and that
the Number at present be sixty at least, and that the Town
Book now in the hands of Capt. Samuel Phipps of Charles-
town be put into the Hands of this Committee, a fair copy of
all to be drawn out and sent to North-Yarmouth ( the Origi-
nal to remain in Boston ) for the present ), under the Custody
of a Clerk to be appointed for that purpose, that Attested
Copy's may be given to such as want them. The Charge of
this Committee to be born by the Proprietors and Inhabitants
of said Town.
Elisha Cooke, per Order of the Committee.
Letter from John Penhallow to G-OV. Sliute. July 4i
George Town July 4 th 1722
May it please y r Ex cy
I rec d y r Ex^ 8 Letter of Express of y e 20 th ult: but Last
night, this morning I Dispatched away my whale Boat up
the river & Called the Inhabitants. I also order'd y e Boat
to Richmond to direct the Officer there to keep good Guards,
inasmuch as I had then but Just heard of Cap* Westbrooks
being Attacked at S 4 Georges & the Dam a that was done
there, but as soon as the Boat had got as far as Merrymeet-
ing Bay they Saw about 30 of the Indians, who as soon as
they found 'emselves discover' d man'd out their Canoos in
chase of the Boat w ch was then obliged to return & soon got
Clear of them, the Houses in the Bay were Just then Sat on
fire, & after the Boat return'd to me w th the above Ac 1 , we
Observ'd Smokes to rise in Long reach, & M r Allen y e bearer
being at his own House about three Miles of, I was willing
to try to save him, & Immediatly man'd out y e boat w th
fresh hands & releaved him, who had been in defence of his
House about two Hours, it happened we did not Loose a
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man tho they fought the Indians about half an hour before
they could get m r Allen away, it's probable our men
wounded if not killed some of them. There is five Garrisons
in this Town but can keep but three w ch will defend One
Another & we are in a good posture of Defence. I am
further Strengthening 'em according to y r Ex cys order, they
are within Shot of one Another & some good Houses between
that we are able to recieve & Entertain a good Number of
men.
M r . Allen who now Comes up will give your Ex cy a more
particular Ac* of his Loss & what happen'd to him this day,
I have divided my half Comp a that are here among the three
Garrisons for their better defence, am fortifying for the
security of the Stores, would pray y r Ex cy to order me two
Swivil Guns to fix in the fflankers for the Security of the
Same, there are here Several smart Lusty Young men that
have been robb'd of all they had by the Indians, who would
be glad to be in the Service if y r Ex cy would be pleas'd to
admit of it, they Cannot possibly Subsist here without, I have
detained 'em till y r Ex cy8 order inasmuch as their going off
now will weaken the Country
I am y r Ex cy8 Most Dutifull & Most Ob* Hum : Serv*
[ Superscribed ]
On His Maj ts Especial Service To His Excellency Sam 11
Shute Esq r Cap* Gen 1 , Gov r & Command 1 in Chief of
the Province of the Mass a &c a
p M r Allen. In Boston
Letter from John Wheelwright to 0-ov. Shute July 6,
May it Please your Excellency
That whereas the late disturbance given by the Indians hath
put us here all in a great Consternation and sum places in
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great Confusion of which I can do no less but Informe your
Excellency and of our present state : The people Eastward,
Arundoll Bideford & Scarbrough seme to be under discourag-
ments they being but in a mean way of Defence I mention
nothing of those farther East they being more Imediatly
under the Care of Maj r Moody : This town are Generaley in
Garison but vnder many difacaltys too many to bee Inumer-
ated and are but short of A monition York Kittery & Barwick
remain yet Generalley at theire own perticuler Houses) I
have latly given orders to every place for theire repairing of
theire respective Garisons assigned them in each town the
last year by your Excellencys order to the Militia here : and
that all be vpon theire Guard of Defence and go armed to
prevent a tame and Gentle submition unto any that may in
a violent manner attemt to seize or disturb them in their
lawfull Imployment or business/ I humbly pray your Excel-
lencys direction 8 and Comands for the managing these difa-
cult affairs at this Juncture and shall be ready to attend and
observe them to the utmost of my power / And am
S r your Excellencys most Dutifull & obediant Serv*
John Wheelwright
Journal of the House of Representatives
[ At a great and General Court or Assembly of His Maj-
esty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England,
Begun and Held at Boston on the 30 th day of May 1*722 &c ]
July 8, 1722
At a Council held at Fort George in New-York.
Part of a Letter from the Governour of Boston viz :
" I find Commissioners will not be appointed to come meerly
" to treat upon a Neutrality - if they may have the liberty
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"to engage Five of the Mowhaws to go to the Eastern
" Indians, and acquaint them that they will take part with
the English in case a War should break out, Our Commis-
sioners will wait on you at the time appointed."
Upon taking which Expressions into Consideration, This
Board are of Opinion, That the Five Nations ought not to be
engaged to leave this Province and concern themselves with
the Eastern Indians since it may draw an Indian War on the
Frontiers of this Province in its Consequences. That no
more can safely be treated of by the Commissioners of Boston
with the Five Nations then to renew the Covenant Chain
with them, and to engage them to be no ways assisting or
encouraging the Eastern Indians in the presence of the Gov-
ernour of this Province or Persons appointed by him. And
that they hold no private Conference with them directly or
indirectly.
Letter from Th. 8 Westlrook to Crov. Shute Sept. 23, 1722.
Falmouth Sep r 23? 1722
May^it Please your Excellency.-
I take this Opportunity to Inform You that I Arrived at
Piscataqua at 10 a Clock in y e Morning The. 15 1 ? 1 Instant
& Immediatly Waited on y? L* Governour Of Whom I
reced a Confirmation That There was 5 or 6 hundered
Indians at Arrowsick upon which I Immediately returned to
y e Sloops In Order to Sail but the Wind proving Contrary I
was Oblidg'd To Stay till y e Next Morning. 3. of y e Clock
And then proceeded to Arrowsick, where I Came to an
Anchor at One a Clock on Monday Morning. I Waited
upon Coll Walton who Told me y e Indians were Withdrawn
& that he Intended to March that Day with 180 Men To Way-
lay the Indians In Their Carrying Places and Desired our
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Company. Butt In as Much as the Indians were withdrawn
I was willing To make my best way To S* Georges fearing
y e Enemy might Attack it. Tuesday About five a Clock we
Came To Sail & Came To the Mouth of S* Georges River on
Wednesday Morning And not having a fair Wind went up
In five whaleboats To the fort which I found In good Order
the Indians having Attacked it y e 24 th of August and Kill'd
5. Men y* were out of the Garrison They Continued Their
Assault 12 Days. & Nights, furiously Only now and Then
under a flagg of Truce They would have perswaded them to
yeild of the Garrisson Promissing Them to give Them good
Quarter's and Send them To Boston. The Defend 18 Answ ri
Were That they Wanted no quarters at their Hands. Dar-
ing them Continually to Come on, and told them it was King
Georges Lands And That they would not Yeild them up but
with the Last Drops of Their Blood, The Indians Were
Headed by y e fryar who Talked with Them und r a flag of
Truce, and Likewise by Two french Men. as they Judg'd
them to be. they Brought with them five Captives y? they
took at S* Georges 15 1 * June last, and kept them During the
Seige. But upon their Breaking up. Sent M r John Dunsmore
One of the Said Captives to y e fort to know Whether they
would redeem them or no, Our people Made Answ* they had
no Order So to Do, neither Could they do it upon which
M? Dunsmore return'd to the Indians and they Carry'd the
Captives Back to Penobscutt Bay and Then frankly released
Three of Them Vizt M r John Dunsmore M r Thomas Foster
and M r William Ligett.
One Joshua Rose y* was Taken at y e Aforesaid Time and
place And whom the Indians had left Behind at Penobscutt
Fort. Made his Escape. & After Six Days Travell Arived at
y e Fort y e Second Day After the Seige Began he being
Oblidged To make his Way Through the Body of y e Indians
To Gett To The fort and was Taken In at One of the Ports,
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I now Detain the four Captives to be as Pilotts to Penob-
scutt Fort Untill I Know your Excellency's Pleasure About
them. They Inform me that the Indians have rebuilt Their
fort at Penobscutt Since the 15 th of June Oblidging Them
To Work on it It Contains Ab* 12 Rodd Square Enclosed
With Stockado's of 12 foot High it has 2 Flankers on the
East The Other on y e West and 3 Gates not at That time
Hung they Have Likewise 2 Swivell Gunns. It is Situated
On an Island In a fresh water River Twelve Miles from y e
Salt Water The Captives Judge their is no way of getting to
the Island but by Canoes or flatt Bottom'd Boats & it is
Impossible to Carry up Whale boats by reason y e falls are 8
or 9 Long & Very Swift. That They Saw 12 or 13 Barrells
of Gun Powder Brought To The fort By the Indians as they
Said from Canada Ab* The Middle of July, They have a
Meeting House within a Rod Thereabouts on y e Outside of
y e South Wall of the Fort, it Being 60 foot Long. 30 wide
and 12 foot Studd With a Bell In it which They Ring Morn-
ing & Evening- The s d Rose Informs me They had a Con-
siderable Quantity Of Corn Standing when he made his
Escape. After I had Viewed y e Garrison I returned In ab*
an Hour & ^ to my Sloop Lying In y e Mouth of the River
and Sent up one of them With a few Hands upon Deck as
to Carry up stores To The fort and Sail'd with the Other
Sloop for Arrowsick full of Men; To Induce the Indians
Spy's To Beleive that We had Intirely Left the place, and
That there was no Design, against Penobscutt, and Likewise
To Inform Coll Walton of y e State of Affairs, not knowing
but that he Might have Orders To Make an Attack upon
Them.
This Being all y* is Materiall I make Bold to Subscribe
my self
Your Excellencys Most Obedient Humble Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
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P. S. The Captives Inform'd me That y e most part of y e
Indians food During y e Time of y e Seige was Seals which
they Caught Dayly Keeping out a party of Men for that Pur-
pose They Also Inform us & do Assert That there Is great
Quantity's of Sturgeon Bass and Eels to be Caught Even
Close by y* Island where Penobscut Fort is.
Coll Walton Desired me to Come Along with him To This
Place To see what forces that he Could Draw, which I Did
Accordinly and Brought M r Dunsmore and Rose along with
Me. The Garrisson at S* George has Expended most of
their Amunition During y e Late Seige and I Desire your
Excellency To Send p r y e first Opportunity 4 or 5 Barrells of
Gunpowder with Ball, Swan Shott and flints Answerable for
y* Indians are resolved To Take y e fort if Possible. If there
be no Opportunity of sending it to S l Georges please to Order
it to Arrowsick and I will fetch it in my Whaleboats.
[ Superscribed ]
To His Excellency Samuell Shute Esq r
Cap* Generall and Governour In and Over His Majesties
Province of the Massachusetts Bay. In New England
At Boston/ On his Majesties Service These
Letter from Zach Trescott to Judge Dudley Oct. 1, 1722.
Safransway Octo. 1 - 1722.
Honered
S r As you have all ways ben my frind on all ocasions :
I am the moor incuraged to write to you in my present
curcumstances I am now after maney removs with the Canada
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indiens at Safransway hamelton with the mohaks Edgar and
loue with the indins at worenock Hansard at cabeck.
S r I humbly intret of you to interseed with his exelency the
govener to send the three naregwock indiens and thay will
let us 5 go free I cannot think it aney atvantage to the gov-
mant to keep 5 men here for three indiens.
S r I beg of you to do what you can for me I beleve the best
way will be to bring the indiens to albeney I am S r your most
humble servant
Zach Trescott
S r if you would pleas to write me a line to let me know how
things are you may direct it to M r Jacob Wandol an Albaney
gentman who is now at moreal to lam the french tongue who
will send it to me
Z. T
[ Superscribed ] To Judge dudley in Roxbury
MT Sharpe to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations.
My Lords
In obedience to yo* Lordships Reference I have
Reconsidered the Charge Exhibited by me to yo* Lordships
Ag 8 * M? Armstrong, Collector of his Maj*? 8 Customes in New
Hampshire in New England and Deputy Surveyor of his
Ma] 1 ? 8 Woods hi America and upon the most Impartiall and
minutest Inquisition, I Cannot find occation to Recede in the
least from what has been allready said ; but Rather to agra-
vate his Crimes by Repeating his own Imprecations but he is
without doubt unfaithfull in his trust as will appea to
yo* Lordships thus- In the first place, He made Seizure of
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Some Goods of Capt. Henry Slopers, who giving him some
Moidores ; as the S? Sloper told me, and the S? Armstrong
Confessed he had Received; the goods were never more
Enquired after. Secondly, The s? Armstrong in Conversa-
tion Said; that Cap* Henry Sherburn Was an ungrateful
person : for that tho he had permitted Sherburn To Run
great Quantitys of Spanish and Itallian silks ; and Spanish &
french Brandys & wines ; and many other Things out of east
India ships homeward Bound which Sherburn mett at Sea ;
Yett the S? Sherburn never gave him anything Equivalent ;
but a Peice of Silk for his wife and some Brandys and Wines
and Tea and muslin. Thirdly, The S? Armstrong Seized
Some Spanish wines part belonging to M? George Jaffrey
and another part to M? Tobey ; the first was Discharged and
the latter Detained by Armstrong M? Jaffrey telling M? Arm-
strong to his fface in my hearing : S* if you keep my wines
you shall not enjoy your Place ; for I 11 write to England you
Know I have Enough against you ; and you will be Removed
as Soon as my Letters are Received; this is allso Confirmed
by Studlys affidavit. Fourthly, He Suffered two Thousand
or therabouts of his Majest} 7 s mast Trees to be Cutt Down
Which were afterwards Cutt into Loggs Then Seized by order
of Assembly & Sold. Tis Submitted whether he Could Be
ignorant in this Affair if he had attended his Duty ; the like
never happening in any former Surveyors time This is allso
Confirmed by Cap. Husk. Fifthly, he has permitted Com-
mand 1 "? of Vessells Bound to Spam, to carry Masts and other
Timber fitt for Building Ships ; which I believe Gives the
King of Spain that Encouragem* for Increasing his Navall
Power w c . h we are Dayly Alarmed with in our Dayly news
papers. Sixthly, He uttered himself in the following man-
ner In relating a Story Disagreeable to him as I informed
yo! Lordships concerning Coll? Philips Is it not a shame
Says he that we must be Governed by Germans and have
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such a fine English Prince of our own ; but I hope I shall yet
Live to See the Right Heir upon the throne
Besides that he is a noted Irish Jacobite 1 subscribe my-
Self with the profoundest Respect
My Lords
Your Lordships most Devoted most obedient & most
humble Serv* Rich* Sharpe
London Nov b . r Y 16: 1722.
E: New England
Letter from M r . Sharpe containing articles of Complaint
against M r . Armstrong Collector of the Custom* $ Depy Sur-
veyor of the Woods in New Hampshire Dated Nov r . 16,
Rec* 16 th Novem r . 1722. Read do.
Letter Col. Tho s . Wesibrook to Lieut. Grov. Dummer
Portsm? Decem* 16^ 1723
May it please y r Honour
M r Secretary Willard wrote me y e 27*? of the last Month
that it was y* Hon" pleasure forthwith to know w* men are
Entitled to be released or exchanged are desirous of it and
who ( that are so Entitled ) are Willing to Continue in the
service I have made it my business since the recept of his
Letter w c . h came not to my hands till the 10*? Ins* to Acquaint
my self with what your Hon r would be Informd of, but not
knowing certainly what entitules a man to a release ( tho' I
suppose it to be a two yeares Continuance in the service ) I
have therefore herewith Inclos'd to your hon* lists of all the
persons ( save some few which I have sent to the Officers for
but are not yet come to my hand ) who have been in his Majes-
ties service two years & upward the lists mentions y e Captains
names to whom they belong the Towns from whence they
160 DOCUMENTARY HISTOBY
came & likewise shew wether the men were Imprest hired
or Voluntiers and the time of their entrance into the Service,
who are willing to Continue in it which are I think but three
or four & all the rest are desirous of a dismission what
remaines I shall send y r Hon r as soon as possible. Cp* Har-
mon returnd from his Cruise a Wensday last, I have not
received his Journal. I shall transmitt it to y* honour as
soon as I do w ch will be next week, he Informs me that while
he was at Mount Desart he was advis'd by Cp* Elliot who
was in a Sloop from Canso of a party of Indians on an Island
call'd Titmanan ( I think ) w ch is but a little to the Eastward
of Mount Desert, but out of y e limits of his Instructions as
he Conceiv'd wherefore he proceeded not after them. I came
hither a Saturday night last from York in Ord? to send y r
honour this Dispatch, and am now hasteing to Berwick with
all possible Expedition. I am Honb 1 . Sir
Your most Obd* humb 1 Serv*
Tho* Westbrook
P. S. If I Receive no further Instructions I shall Improve
Cp* Harmon on Amus Coggin river & East side of Saco after
his men are a little refresht but if wee Cou'd be left at large
I am humbly of Opinion that Eastward is the only place to
Catch Indians.
T W
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to Lt. Q-ov. Dummer
Yorke Jan r ? 28 th 1723/4
May it please your Hon r
Haveing already acquainted Your Hon* with the
recp* of some of the new raisd men, I have Sent this to
Acq* your Honour that one of them ( Viz* Elisha Dow who
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 161
I receive! from Coll n Noyce and posted under Lieu* Oliver at
Berwick ) deserted the 26 t . h Inst* , as soon as I heard of it I
dispacht the bearer with a Warrant to have him Secur'd, and
to wait on your Hon r with this after he has made diligent
Search
I have receivd no more men since my last
I am y r Hon rs Dutiful humble Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook.
Letter Col. Tho s . Westbrook to Lieut. Gov. Dummer
George Town April 6, 1723.
May it please your Honour ~
You have herew th an Account of my proceedings Since my
Last, I waited at S^ Georges, in hopes y* M r Talbert whould
have Arrived there with provision So that I might have took
a Suitable Number of men to y e Eastward, but his Not Com-
ing Oblidged me to come to Kenebeck. and at y e Mouth of
the River I met him & left him there & came hither where I
had Appointed Sundry of the Officers to meet me whome I
met. I immeadiatly Enquired into y e State of that part of
the Army w ch I found in a Miserable Condition, on w ch I
call'd a Council of Officers to know what might be best for
the presant Service of the Government, the result whereof I
send your Hon r a Coppy Inclosed. I detained 140 men at
St Georges in Order to go further East when I Should be
Inabled by receiving provision, but when I came away from
there I left 30 or 40 of y m Exceeding Sick. y e most p* of y m
I hope on my return I shall find So many well men as to
return, down East over y e same Ground. I went before in
part; & Spend about 3 Weeks and then return to George
town on Kenebeck river, to know Y re Honours further pleas-
ure about the fforces left at Kenebeck river, & West of y e
11
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Same. I formerly Wrote y* I heard nothing of Cap* Harmon
but only by Word of mouth by Cap* Penhallow I have Since
Seen him & he has given me his Journal & tells me he has
Sent you a Coppy of y e Same. & at the Same time he Shews
me a few Lines w ch you had Wrote to him on which I
rejoyce that he has given so good Satisfaction. I now Send
part of my Journal Imperfect being not Compleated to this
day. w ch I intended. w ch you will please to Excuse. I trust
your Hon? will look over all faults I having not had time
to keep my Journal forward by reason of y e many y* are Sick
and Inconveinances Aboard. M r Wittemore who has heith-
erto Assisted me in Writing, is Sick, & has been so for a
Considerable time, as for my own part I bless God I Still
retain my health in a great measure & had a Design if y e
Army had remained so to have kept marching Constantly in
the back of the country w th part of y e Army to Intercepted
the Enemy in there hunting Ground, & on there Carrying
places for this time of y e Yeare being one of their cheif times
for y r Hunting, & with the other part, I intended to have
kept them on y e Sea Coast in Order to Intercept there fish-
ing & fowling I have not received a Letter from y r Hon r
Since the 30 th of JanT I am Induced to beleive y* you Wrote
me a line because Sundry of the Officers tell me they have
received Lett" from you. Liev* Allen Informes me he
Desires a Dismiss6n for himself. Cap* Heath Still Informes
me of y e faithfullness of M r Coleby one of his Serj** whom
you Order' d a Commission to be Wrote for. I beleive the
Mistake was In the Penman, for I found 2 Commissions for
Cap* Heath, But none for M r Coleby. Cap* Heath tells me
he Should rejoyce if you would give him a Commission to be
his Liev*. Liev* Winslow, Notwithstanding being dropt.
went East with me & Marcht to Pernobscout. I doubt not
but he will make a good Officer, & I hope y r Hon r will bear
him in Mind when there is an Opportunity to Improve him
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 163
Liev* Moulton Informes me he has Wrote to you for a Dis-
mission from y e Service & likewise Urges me for leave to go
home. I tell him I doubt not but you have Thoughts of
Advanceing of him as soon as Opportunity will permitt. by
what Experiance I have had of him & y e Carracter I here of
him I doubt not but he will make a good Officer. s r my
Extream hurry at present Will not Admit of any Enlarge-
ment Crave Referrence to Cap* Temple & Cap* Harmon
who have yo r Liberty for coming home. I am
Yo r Honours Most Obed* Humble Serv*
[ Indorsed ]
On His Majes t8 Service To the Honourable William Dum-
mer Esq r Liev* Q-overno r Commander in Chief of the prov-
of the Massajhusets Bay In Boston
To the Kings most Excellent Majesty in Council
The humble Memorial & Petition of James Wood-
side late Minister of the Gospel, at Brunswick, in
New England.
Sheweth
That he with 40 Familys, consisting of above 160
Persons did in the Year 1718 embarque on a ship at Deny
Lough in Ireland in Order to erect a Colony at Casco Bay,
in Your Majestys Province of Main in New England.
That being arriv'd they made a settlement at a Place called
by the Indians Pegipscot, but by them Brunswick, within 4
Miles from Fort George, where ( after he had laid out a con-
siderable sum upon a Garrison House, fortify'd with Pali-
sadoes, & two large Bastions, had also made great Improve-
ments, & laid out considerably for the Benefit of that Infant
Colony) the Inhabitants were surpriz'd by the Indians who
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in the Month of July 1722 came down in great Numbers to
murder Your Majesty's good Subjects there.
That upon this Surprize the Inhabitants, ( naked & desti-
tute of Provisions run for shelter into your Pet? 8 House
( which is still defended by his sons ) where they were kindly
receivd, provided for, & protected from the rebel Indians.
That the S d Indians being happily prevented from murder-
ing Your Majesty's good Subjects ( in Revenge to your Pet? )
presently kill'd all his Cattel, destroying all the Moveables,
& Provisions they could come at, & as Your Pet r had a very
considerable Stock of Cattel he & his Family were great suf-
ferers thereby, as may appear by a Certificate of the Gov-
ernour of that Province, a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed.
Your Pet r therefore most humbly begs that in Regard
to his great undertaking, his great Losses & suffer-
ings, the Service done to the Publicke in saving the
Lives of many of Your Majesty's Subjects, the
unshak[en] Loyalty & undaunted Courage of his
Sons, who still defend the S d Garrison. Your Majesty
in Councel will be pleas'd to provide for him, his Wife
& Daughter here or grant him the Post of M? Cum-
mins, a Searcher of Ships in the Harbour of Boston
N England, lately deceas'd that so his Family, reduced
to very low Circumstances may be resettled, & his
losses repair'd where they were sustain'd.
& Your Pet* shall ever pray &c.
I do hereby certifie that the Rev? M? Woodside went over
from Ireland to New England with a considerable Number of
People, that he & they sate down to plant in a Place they
called Brunswick in the Eastern Parts of New England there
he built a Garrison House, which was the Means of saving
the Lives of many of his People in the late Insurrection of
the Indians in July last. That his Generosity is taken Notice
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of by both Doctors Mathers & that the Indians cutt off all his
Cattle, whereby he and his Family are great Sufferers
Samuel Shute
Copia vera
London June 25. 1723
E: Memorial $ Petition of James Woodside to His Most
Excellent Majesty in Councel.
June 1723
Lieu* G-ov 1 : Dummer to the Lords Oommiss r ? for Trade and
Plantations.
My Lords
Haveing directed the Secretary of the Province to
transmitt to your Lordships by this Ship Coppyes of the Acts
Orders resolves & votes of the General Assembly & of his
Mag 1 ? Councill which have passed from the last of Sep* to
the last of ffebruary I thought it a proper occation to psent
my humble Duty to your Lordships & to Express the Satis-
faction & Alacritye with which I shall receive & Obey your
Lordships Comands Soe long as I have the Honour to Serve
his Mag 1 ? in my psent Station
Since the Departure of his Excellency Govern? Shute I
have received advice that ffive English Prison 1 "? taken the
last Summer uppon Kennebeck River were Carrid to Canada
amoung the ffrench & some of them to the Towne of Que-
beck the Metropolis of that Governm* where they are now
detain'd Prisoners which I looke uppon to bee Such a Coun-
tenance & Encouragement given the Salvages in their rebel-
lion as I thought it necessary to acquaint your Lordships
with & that wee should have & much nearer prospect of
reduceing those rebels did not the ffrench ( at least undehand )
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Sustains them, there is nothing further in the Affaires of
this Province propper to trouble your Lordships with at
psent.
I am My Lords
Your most Obed* & Most humble Serv*
Boston 22 May 1T23 W? Dummer
E : Massachusets Bay
Letter from M r . Dummer Lieu 1 . Grov r . of the Ma&sachu-
sets Bay Dated the 23* of May 1723.
Eeced Aug. Ij* 1723 Read July 23*
Defence of Robert Armstrong.
To the Right Honorable the Lords Com r ? for Trade
& Plantations.
The Defence of Robert Armstrong Deputy Surveyor of His
Majesties Woods in North America and late Collect? of the
Province of New Hampshire.
Is most humbly offer'd
May it please Your Lordships
The complaints against me are of three Sorts : That I have
been unfaithful in my Office of Collect' That I have suf-
fer'd His Majesties Woods to be destroy'd contrary to my
Duty as Deputy Surveyor, and, That I am a Man of Disloyal
Principles, and a Noted Irish Jacobite. As this last Charge
affects me most nearly, I shall beg leave to begin with That.
Richard Sharp is the person that brings this Charge and
says, that I delivered myself in the following manner ( relat-
ing to a Story disagreeable to me concerning Col? Phillips )
Viz* " Isit not a shame we should be govern'd by Germans
and Dutch, and have such a fine English Prince of our own,
But I hope I shall yet live to see the right Heir upon the
Throne ", and then adds, That I am a Noted Irish Jacobite.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 167
To this I reply, first, That the Accusation is very general
and uncertain ; neither mentioning the time nor place nor
Company before whom these words were utter'd, which are
Circumstances that carry at least a presumption of the ffalse-
hobd of it.
2diy That my accuser is a Person of very profligate Char-
acter & had a particular Malice against me, and had often
declared that he would, upon his arrival hi England endeavour
my Ruin.
His Character, I prove, by Col? Armstrong, who has
already acquainted Your Lordps, That he was so profligate
that no person of Reputation would admit him into their
Company : By a letter from M* Bacon my Successor to his
Brother S? Edmund, wherein having assured him of my good
Behaviour, He declares That Sharp was a Man of a wicked
& scandalous Character, & that no Credit was to be given to
him ; By two letters from the Lieu* Gov. Wentworth, one
to M? Secretary Carbass, & the other to M? Jeremiah Dum-
mer in London; and by another Letter from M? Samuel
Dummer Naval officer at Boston to his Brother the S? Jer.
Dummer.
His Profession was that of a Quack Doctor as appears by
one of his printed Bills ready to be produced.
The Ground of his prejudice to me was occasioned by an
Action I brought against him for Male practice in his profes-
sion, he having my Wife, ( then ill ) under his Care ; and it
was upon the clearest proof of his vile Character attested by
the greatest Physicians & Surgeons in Boston that I recov-
er'd of him thirty pounds for damages ; I have this attestation
to produce.
His particular Menances to ruin me in England are sworn
to by the Rev? M? Emerson Minister at Portsmouth in New
Hampshire ; and M? Story where he lodged.
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To prove my General Character of Loyalty & Attachment
to His present Majesty, I have a Cloud of Witnesses Partic-
ularly, A Certificate from the Govern? & Council of his
Maj tle8 Province of New Hampshire, & another from the
Bench of Justices there. As also, a Letter from the Lieu*
Gov? of New England ffrom the Secretary of that Province,
ffrorn the Judge of the Court of Admiralty, ffrom the Sur-
vey? General & all the officers of the Customs ; And, ffrom
the principal Merchants of the Country, who have known me
more than Twenty years. And if all these be not sufficient
to establish my Character ag* the Malice of one Infamous
Man, I must then have recourse to Col? Hunter Govern?
Shute Gov? Phillips Col? Armstrong M? Dummer M? New-
man and the Principal Merchants on the Exchange trading
to New England, who will be ready to do me Justice.
So that, May it please yo? Lordsps, if it were possible
( after these Proofes to the contrary ) for me to have been a
Jacobite yet I must have been a very secret conceal'd one
and not a Noted Jacobite, as this false witness affirms, And
I must beg leave to take notice of the Infatuation of the
Man in not being contented to call me a Noted Jacobite;
when in truth I was neither born in that Kingdom, nor ever
lived there, nor any of my ancestors, that I know of.
Having thus, my Lords, as I hope abundantly justified my
General Character of Loyalty and ffidelity in the Posts I sus-
tained ; I shall proceed to vindicate myself from the Partic-
ular accusations bro* ag* me.
Cap* Bolam's letter, upon Yo? Lordships ffile, That I
stopt his Ship, laden only with Lumber, and demanded fforty
pounds above my stated fees, and that he at last gave me
Twenty pounds to let her go. It is said, laden only with
Lumber, to insinuate that I stopt his Ships arbitrarily, &
without Cause, only to extort money out of him ; whereas I
have his Clearance to produce, whereby it will appear That
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he had on board fforty eight Masts, and some above 24
inches ; which made it my duty to stop the Ship, and I made
him give Bond according to Act of Parliament That he
should on his Arrival in England tender them to the
Crown: And in consideration of my extraordinary trouble
which he thereby occasioned me, He left me upon his sailing
Twenty pounds, N : Engl? mony, which is ab? seven pounds
Sterling which He has declared upon Oath was Civility
mony, and what I well deserv'd. It further appears very
plainly, that he was influenced by Cap* Huske to make that
Complaint ag* me ; ( either wilfully ag* his own knowledge,
or as I am rather apt to believe inadvertently ) by one par-
ticular, which is This: In the Complaint which he sign'd
with the said Husk and Sharp, He charges me as being noto-
riously disaffected to the Governing whereas in his Affidavit
he affirms he never heard either in New England or else-
where, that I was in the least suspected to be Disaffected to
His present Majesty, but really believes the contrary, And
that what the said Sharp had sworn to that purpose was
groundless false & malicious. What credit therefore is to
be given to his Information is humbly submitted to
yo! Lordps. And for Yo? Lordpps further satisfaction, I
hope to bring him personally before your Lordships. In the
mean time it is not pretended but I did my duty faithfully
to the Crown, hi not suffering the Masts to be exported till
I had taken the proper Bonds in that Case.
The next accusation is a Paper in the name of James
Stoodly Master of the Sloop Endeavour from Cales & ffyal,
which charges me with Seizing a Quantity of Wines on
board the said Vessel & then releasing them, having a par-
ticular part to myself.
I must beg your Lordpps to view this Paper, it carrying
apparent marks of Imposture ; His name tho' but a dissyla-
ble is spelt false in four letters ; The Justices name is set to
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it instead of the Deponent's ; And the Captain of this pre-
tended affidavit is Coram Ellis Huske & John Ray, instead
of the Justice ; They are both private men, and one of them
Viz? Ellis Huske the very man who has stir'd up all this
Mischief ag* me.
I heard of this attempt before I left New Hampshire, and
therefore cited Cap* Stoodly before the same Justice, whose
name is to the Paper ; where he made Oath That Ellis Husk
often prompted him to make such an Affidavit, but he
refused it, the matter of it being entirely false ; I have also
the Justice's own Affid* taken before another Justice of the
Peace & one of His Majesties Council for that Province,
That the said Husk did bring before Him the said
Cap? Stoodly with an affid* ready drawn & prest him to
swear to it but he refused it. Both these affid*? were
authenticly taken, and for a further Connrmacon of them are
attested by the Publick Notary ; To this I am ready to add
my own Oath That I never Seized the Ship : and the wines
being a small Quantity mencon'd in the affid* for the Ship's
Stores & a few presents, and I never had the value of a
single Bottle from either the Master or Owners for myself.
I come now in the last place to the Articles drawn up by
this Ellis Husk himself ag* me, which are General Charges,
& those not sworn to.
To invalidate this man's Evidence, I pray Your Lordps to
consider
First, That I have just prov'd him guilty of attempting a
Subornation of Perjury ag* me, both by the Oath of the Jus-
tice of Peace & also of the Person, whom he would have
suborn'd
2 d . ly This is the same Person, who has accused me of being
a Notorious Jacobite, which I have already prov'd to be false
by all the principal Persons in both Provinces & by the
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worthy Gentlemen who appear'd before yo* Lordships in my
Vindication.
8 d . ly It is the same Person who has charged me as one
noted for being guilty of Perjury upon Record, and yet no
other Person in the Province knows any thing of it, I having
produced to your Lordships, attestation of my honesty &
Good Character from the Governour & from all the Judges
& Justices who must have known this had it been fact, nor
does my answer produce a Copy of this pretended Record, or
mention any Punishm* inflicted on me upon my conviction,
which surely he ought to have mention'd ; I must therefore
flatter myself, that yoT Lordship will not give the least
Credit to the Testimony of a Man who has been guilty of
such flagrant Malice, and improbable falsehoods.
4 1 * 1 * It is the same Man, whom I prosecuted & brought to
Two Trials for having cut down trees contrary to Act of
Parliam* The last Trial Gov? Shute & Lieu! Wentworth
were both present at, a Copy of the Proceedings I sent to
your Lordships And this is the true & only Cause of his
inveterate Malice.
It would, My Lords be an insupportable Hardship if such
a Man's evidence should be taken ag* an officer, who has
faithfully done his duty, and for that very reason only
because he has done it, and it would discourage any officer
for the future from discharging his Trust. Had I conniv'd
at Capt. Husk's illegal Practices it is very plain he would
never have complain'd agt me.
His charge of my suffering many Mast Trees to be cut into
Logs being a bare assertion I can only confute by as plain a
denial of it ; And the attestations of Col? Wentworth Lieu*
Gov 1 ; M* Minzies, Judge of the Admiralty, & several other
Persons of Distinction ; who declare not only my fidelity &
diligence in preserving the Masts, but particularly that I had
brought on me the Malice of several Traders & especially of
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Ellis Husk for selecting & prosecuting them according to my
Duty.
There were no Trees converted into Logs in my Time, save
300 which were cut in M? Bridger's time ; The great Waste
made then, and the care I have taken since to preserve His
Majesties Woods will appear by the Affidavits of Edw? Hall,
Capt. Elisha Plaisted & Capt Benj* Wentworth ( who were
imploy'd ) as Deputies under M? Bridger and since by me )
and likewise the Certificate of Mr David Jeffries who has
been many years Agent & ffactor for supplying His Maj*! 68
Navy with Masts. The care I took of those Trees will
appear from Col? Wentworth's Certificate & the Copies of
my Proceedings in getting the said Masts appraised & exposed
to Publick Sale.
There is one particular article .w* 1 Capt. Husk charges upon
me, That he being ready to sail with the Ship Lancaster for
Great Britain laden entirely with Lumber, I stopt him a
Month because he would not comply with my unreasonable
Demands. This is false in every part of it, for ffirst, she was
not laden nor had any sails bent to the Masts, nor the Ship's
provisions on Board when he demanded his Clearance ; as I
am able to prove by my officers affidavits whom I sent on
board to view the Ship. And Yo? Lordships will please to
observe that it would have been no way proper or safe for me
to have clear'd the Ship till she had her full lading, and was
on the point of Sailing. In the next place, it is false that
she had nothing on board but Lumber ; for it appears by her
Clearance which I have, ready to produce, that she had on
board 27 Masts from 18 to 23 inches and 21 Bowsprits, &
therefore I could not give him a Clearance without Bond,
these being enumerated Comodities. I must likewise take
notice to Your Lordships That he had an ill design in
demanding his Clearance at the time he did, because it was
near a month after he sail'd or was ready to sail.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 173
What this man says, that I suffer' d Cap* Macphedris and
Cap* Sherburn to export Masts directly for Spain, is equally
false ; It is true May it please Your Lordships, That there
have been Ship loads of Plank & Timber carried from New
Hampshire to Lisbon, & that I have clear'd those Ships,
because there was no Act of Parliam* to forbid it, tho' at
the same time I did it with extreme Regret ; ffor a proof of
this, I humbly refer myself to my letters to your Lordships
for several .years running, and in particular my letters of the
20*? NovF 1T20 & the 20^ Octf 1721 in which I complain'd
of this practice as an Injury to Great Britain, & therefore
inclosed in those letters the Specimens & Quantities of Plank
& Timber so exported, which I presume no officer ever did
before me, And for this Information I received the Great
Honour of Your Lordships thanks. If there were any Masts
exported to fforeign parts while I was upon the Spot as Dep-
uty Servey* it was by ffraud & Stealth; And this very Com-
plainant was the likliest man to be guilty of it ; he having
practiced that Trade & also insinuated to others, That the
King had no right to the Woods there, and built a Ship for
the Carrying on that very Trade & made two Voiages since
I came away, as Capt. Bolam can inform yoT Lordships.
My Lords, having thus gone through my Defence, I must
humbly beg leave to observe to yo! Lordships.
That it is Two and Twenty years since I first went to
New-England as Secretary to the Earl of Bellomont, being
recom ended by the late Sir Matthew Dudley, & was soon
appointed Naval Officer for N. Hampshire. But His Lord-
ship dying in a little time, I came home & making a Repre-
sentacon of the State of the American Woods & of the nature
& produce of the Northern Colonies, and how they might be
made more beneficial to the Mother Kingdom ; a new Estab-
lishm*. of the Customs was thereupon made, and I was
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presented to the then Lord High Treasurer to be Survey*
General of the Customes in N. America.
His Lordship having promised (to another) This place,
appointed me Collect 1 ; for New Hampshire assuring me that
I should be better provided for, and in that office I have
continued till now being fifteen Years. I might also mention
that it was upon my Memorial, that an Encouragement was
given to raise Naval Stores in America, which presently sunk
those imported from the East Country to half the value.
For your Lordships further satisfaction as to my former
Services, I humbly refer to the two Presenting from those
Com r ? of the Customs to the Lord High Treasurer dated the
25^ June 1709, setting forth at large all my former Services ;
and likewise to their Original Certificate annexed to the same.
Upon the whole, My Lords, I most humbly hope and pray
That after having for so many years faithfully serv'd the
Crown, & laid up nothing for my Support, ( and having the
Misfortune of being cast away in coming over ) I may not be
blasted in my Name and Character & ignominiously turn'd
out of His Majesty's Service upon the accusation of Two
men, One of them being infamous & Both, of declared Malice
ag* me.
All which is humbly Submitted to your Lordships
By your most obedient humble Serv*
6*? January 1724. Robert Armstrong.
JE: New Hampshire
M? Robert Armstrong's Defence With Sev 1 . Papers
referred to Preferred 5. Jan :
Reed Janry 12 Read Febry 25
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 175
Letter L* Grov. Dummer to Mons. Vaudreuil
Boston N E Jan** 19, 1724
8'
Your Letter Dated Quebec Octob r 29 th g Henry Edgar
one of the English Captives came safe to me on perusall
whereof I am greatly surprized at the matters contained
therein, which are so unjustly represented that I cannot sat-
isfy my sejf to pass them by unanswered.
In the first place As to what you say relating to the Death
of M r Ralle the Jesuit which you set forth as so inhumane
& barbarous, I readily acknowledge that he was slain
amongst others of our Enemies at Norrigwalk, And if he had
confm'd himself to the professed Duty of his Function viz* to
instruct the Indians in the Christian Religion, had kept him-
self within the Bounds of the French Dominions & had not
instigated the Indians to War & Rapine, there might then
have been some ground for complaint. But when instead of
preaching peace Love & Friendship agreeable to the Doc-
trines of the Christian Religion he has been a constant &
notorious Fomenter & Incendiary as flagrantly appears by
many original Letters & Manuscripts I have of his by me to
the Indians to kill burn & destroy, and when in open viola-
tion of an Act of Parliament of Great Brittian & y e Lawes
of this Province strictly forbidding Jesuits to reside or teach
within the Brittish Dominions he has not only resided but
also once & again appeared at the head of great Numbers of
Indians in an hostile manner threatning & insulting as also
publicking assaulting the Subjects of His Brittish Majesty, I
say, if after all, such an Incendiary has happen'd to be slain
in the heat of Action among our open & declared Enemies,
Surely none can be blamed therefor but himself, nor can any
safeguard from you or any other Justify him in such pro-
ceedings ; And I think I have much greater cause to com-
plain that M r Willard the Minister of Rutland ( who never
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had been guilty of the Facts chargeable upon M r Ralle ) who
applied him self solely to the Preaching of the Gospel was
by the Indians you sent to attack that Town, assaulted,
Slain & Scalp* & his Scalp carried in Triumph to Quebec.
As to the next Article you mention "That S* Georges
"River was in the year 1700 by order of the Two Crowns
"mark'd as the bounds of the English & French Lands
" whereby it appeared that Penobscot was given to you, &
" that one La f evre had a right to the Land thereabouts & that
" all Vessells paid a Duty to him & that M r Capon Envoy of
" Engl d when K : George came upon the Throne went to ask
"the Penobscot Indians to Submit themselves to England
" which they refused," I have no difficulty to answer to each
of the aforesaid points, & as to the Last relating to M r Capon
you labour under a very great mistake to mention him as an
Envoy of England he being far below any such Character, &
only an Inferiour Officer, Comissary or Victualler to the
Garrison of Annapolis, & some time after that was taken &
yielded up to the English sent by the Lieut Gov r of that
place to visit the French Settlements within that district &
to require the Oath of Allegiance & Fidelity from them to
Queen Anne, but he had no occasion to come and entice the
Penobscot Indians to submit themselves to England, for they
ag well as the Narigwalk Indians & many other Tribes had
done that long before even in the year 1693 at a Treaty with
S r W m Phips Gov r of this Province, by which Treaty I can
make it appear that they not only submitted themselves as
Subjects to the Crown of England but also renounced
French Interest & quitted claimes to the Lands bought &
possessed by the English, But since King George came to
the Throne M r Capon has not been in those parts at all as I
am inform'd by the People of that Countrey. As to S*
Georges River being the Bounds & La Sevres pretended
Right, it seems very wonderfull you should make any
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 177
tion of these things or lay any weight upon them at this
time, when if the Case were formerly as you now represent
it which I do not allow, all such Claim & pretention is
wholly superceded & at an end whereof you may soon &
easily satisfy your self by consulting the Treaty of Peace at
Utrecht concluded between the Two Crown in the Year
1713. by the twefth Article whereof it is provided " That all
" Nova Scotia or L Acadie with its antient Boundaries &c
" together with the Dominion property & posession of the s d
" Isl d8 lands & places & all Right which the most Christian
"King, the Crown of France or any the Subjects thereof
" have hitherto had to the Isl ds Lands & places & the Inhab-
" itants of the same are yielded & made over to the Queen
" of Great Brittain & to her Crown for ever " Now by the
afores d Resignation the French King quitted all Right not
only to the Lands but also the Inhabitants whether French
or Indians or whatsoever they were & transferr'd the same to
the Crown of Great Brittain for ever, whereby you are
entirely cut off from any claim to the Subjection of the s d
Indians from thence forward.
And We are not ignorant how far the French King under-
stood the Countrey of L'Accadie to extend Westward by
Patent granted to Mons r D'Aulney though you seem to be
a Stranger to it.
" As to the whole Nation of the Indians exclaiming against
some of their Tribe as pretending they were Suborned to give
Deeds for their Lands, if it be matter of Fact that they do so
which is hard to be conceived, it is a most unjust Imputation
& must argue a wonderfull deceitfullness & self contradiction
in them, since they have upon all Treaties when the whole
Tribes were together constantly acknowledged & submitted to
the English Titles & possessions which they had by honest &
lawfull purchase acquired.
As to the building of Forts any where within the Brittish
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Dominions, I suppose you will not Scruple to acknowledge
that the King of Great Brittain has as good a Right to erect
Fortresses or places of Defence within his Dominions as the
French King has in his, & therefore when you ghall please to
give me Instances of the French Kings applying himself to
the Indians for leave to build a Fort or Forts for the Defence
of his Subjects, I shall then give you a further Answer to
that Argument. And in the mean Time I must tell you We
have alwaies treated the Indians with Sincerity, & never
thought it proper to make Apologies for Building Forts
within our own Jurisdiction ( as you insinuate ) but on the
Contrary in all our Treaties with them have asserted our
undoubted Right so to do.
You likewise signify that we must blame no Body but our
selves for the Violence & Hostilities committed against our
Nations by the Indians, but Sir, if the Blame must ly where
it ought, we must impute their Outrages & -falseness & 111
Conduct towards us not so much to their own Inclinations,
as to the Instigations of the Jesuit Ralle & others under
your Government whereof we have had sufficient information
from time to time, as also of your own forcing the Indians
against their Wills upon our Fronteirs to destroy & cut off
our people, which cannot be otherwise lookt upon than as a
Direct & notorious Violation of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht
Nevertheless Sir after all, I have much greater Inclination
to live in Amity & good Correspondence with you than oth-
erwise, & therefore I have sent Col Sam 11 Thaxter one of his
Maj tle8 Councill & Col? William Dudley Speaker of the House
of Represent^, 68 who are commissionated to confer with you
pursuant to such Instructions as they have rec? from me
And I desire you will give Credence to them accordingly.
I am S r Y r most humble &
most Obed* Serv*
Wm Duminer,
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 179
Letter Capt. Sam 1 Hinckes to L* G-ov. Dummer.
Fort Mary Jan r 25 th 1T24/5
May it please your Hon r
This comes with my Dutie & humble Service and may
Acquaint your Hon? That Corr 1 Westbrook with all y e Rest
of the officers Called in here are passed forward & according
to y r Hon rB Direction, y e Corr! 1 Sayes I shall have men as
soon as possible, but am not backward in my Endevours hav-
ing sent a man on purpose to New Hampsh 1 for thre men.
my misfortune in this affair Lyes in Conception that if they
inlist in the Kings fort they can* be Cleared in a years or I
could have Enough if your Hon r Sees Cause I may Discharge
them in 12 months; I would not trouble y r Honour for men,
which Hetherto I have found the fort mostly with, at my
charge.
Cap* Heath has taken a Rough Sceam of My fort & well,
which cost so much money & Labour ) & all thats Necessary,
Except Cape porpus & Cape Elizabeth between two which
bayes I Lie in sight, & will send forward to M r Pell, ( Dedi-
cated to y r Hon r / & in order to be lanskipped, & as he
informes me I must pay 30/ shillins So I have ordered the
money to m r Pell. What news offers Coro 1 wrote y r Hon r
from hence he is now at Casco & Corn Harmon.
if any thing new offers I shall Dutiefully acquaint Y r
Hon*
One Benjamin Downer a soldier of mine came from Nor-
wich west of Boston & while I was at Boston he run from
the fort, he carryed of Six pounds, & gave order to Cap* Jor-
don & to me to take his pay, but M r Jordon gott it out of my
Role, I must petty my selfe that other men take away my
poor previledge.
Downer has forged a Discharge & shown it also my name
in Severall papers Some have by me as furloes & I hope your
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Hon r will give orders to Comanding Officers to Secure him,
for the service I heard of him being at Newberry & Cap*
Kent can Secure him, he was born their & his friends are at
Nowich.
"l hope y r Hon r will forgive my Teadiousness & give me
leave to se my family for 15 Dayes, for I have been sick a
season & was all the time at Boston So I am Y r Hon r s
Humble Serv*
Sam 11 Hinckes.
Letter L* Grov. Dummer to L* Kennedy
Sir,
I have given Saccamakten one of the Hostages Leave to go
Home & visit his Friends vpon his Parol To return in about
Six Weeks. You must send out a Scout with him under a
discreet officer as far as may be convenient, & so that he may
be conducted in Safety out of y e Reach of any of our Parties
that may be in the Woods, And when your People Leave
him let him be furnish'd with twenty Days Provision to
carry him to some Indian Settlem*
Agree with him for some Signal to be made upon his
Return, And thereupon receive him kindly be with him & if
they think proper to accompany him And if two or three
other Indians offer to come in peaceably with him, receive
them likewise kindly Advising me immediately of it And
send them to Boston by y e first good Conveyance
Feb. 4. 1724
To L* Kennedy
Passport
Whereas Saccamakten ( one of the Indian Hostages ) has
obtained my Leave to visit the Indian Settlem*? & see his
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 181
Family & Friends in those Parts upon his Parol to return
back in the Space of forty Days ; These are to Require all
officers Civil & Military & to desire Persons within this
Governm 1 & all his Majesties good Subjects to suffer the said
Saccamaksen to pass forward to Penobscot or other Indian
Settlem* 8 without Lett or Molestation & to return back to
the English' Fort at S* Georges River Provided he pass &
repass peacebly without offering any Injury to his Majesties
Subjects :
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to It Grov. Dummer Feb. 8,
1724/5
May it please Your Honour
Yesterday Cap* Bane returned from his March he has
made no Discovery of the Enemy Since last Fall in any part
of his March, He informs me that Persumscot River and
Sebagook Pond was so open that it very Much hindred him
from getting to Madumbessuck and the hunting Ground
thereabout. I have Sent for about twenty five Men who are
to meet Me at Saco Falls on the eleventh Instant in Order
to make y e Second attempt, whom I design shall march away
light So that they may get there if possible, I design likewise
another Party to follow them up Saco River to carry Pro-
visions with Sleds in order for thier return. I Judge it is
Your Honours desire to Search that Ground well in order to
Intercept & Destroy those Fellows. Notwithstanding Per-
sumscot River and Sebagook Pond was so open the other
Ponds and Rivers are generally fast
I am Your Honours most Obedient Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
Falm th Feb? 8 th 1724/5
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Letter Col. Westbrook to L* G-ov. Dummer
Fort Mary Febr. 16. 1724/5
May it please/
Y r Honour /
I Believe Cap" Heath Marched Exact to y e Time y r
Honour Ordered on his Return I shall Einplythe men on
This side off Cannebick River persuant to y r Hon r8 Orders,
Leiut Brown Marched for pigwoket the 13 th off this instant
with twenty nine men -
Rec d the inclosed the 15 th of this month About nine a
Clock at night.
I am Y r Hon r8 most Dutifull Serv"
Tho 8 Westbrook
post
I have advised the front, teer's to be on their gaurds, untill
y r Return off Those Indians.
The place where the indian stop'ed That Did not Come into
the Fort is about seven miles Distant
I am Dispatching Cap" Slocum immediately with Cap" Bean
for georges Their Being an interpreter wanting.
Letter Allison Brown to Col. T. Westbrook March 23,
Arundal Mch 23 d 1724
Sir
This day being up at M? Perkins Sawmill and returning
back five men together a Scout of Indians fired on them and
wounded Sarj* Sam 1 . 1 Smith very badly. I being Informd
went directly out and could not meet with them but brought
the wounded man home, from S r
Your Hum bl Serv*
Allison Brown
To Coll? Thomas Westbrook
A True Coppy Town Clerk
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 183
Falmouth M c . h 24. 1724
Sir
You are to see y l the Soldiers under your Command keep
a very strict watch & ward lest the Enemy should Surprise
any of our people w ch is to be feard
Given under my hand
A true Coppy Tho" Westbrook
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to Lieut. Grov. Dummer
Falmouth March 29, 1724
May it please your Hon r
My last Inform' d of my Arrival here
and my makeing the best of my way to visit all the Frontiers
but I have been stopt by a long and Tedious storme, not-
withstanding I wrote Orders to all the Officers on the 24 th
Ins* about eleven a Clock, and about three a Clock in the
Afternoon, wee heard an Alarm from the Westward, but
could not hear the Occasion of it till the 27 th Currant, whereof
I Enclose a Coppy. they have taken a great deal of pains to
get a Doctor for the wounded man, they went to Portsmouth
and brought one as far as York, and there he was taken sick,
so they returnd and went as far as Greenland but could get
none from thence, they came to ffalmouth for Docter Negus,
who was taken sick the 27*? Ins*, and died the 29*? between
Eight & nine a Clock in the Morning, wee have had an
Instance of the like Sudden death in the past week, a Stout
man about twenty five years of Age was taken sick and died
in about forty hours - we stand in Absolute necessity of two
Docters to visit the sundry sick among us and likewise to
Dress the wounded man 'Docter Bullman haveing his hands
full at Richmond & Arrowsick. I doubt not but your Hon r
will take speedy care to send them. I wait with patience as
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it is my duty to hear what your Hon r ? pleasure is relating to
the Affairs in the frontiers. If Docter Moody be not Engag'd
he would be very Acceptable in general wee haveing had
Experience of him last Summer and his Practice generally
Attended with Success
I am your Hon most dutifull and Humble Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
Letter Richard Davenport to Col. T. Westbrook
M r Cor: nal: tomous: wes: brok: Sor: idono: Pray: that:
yo v : will : : let me : have : a : Pass : to boston : Se : in : that :
i dontknow: what: capten: iam: under: and: i Pray: yov:
to: Send: me: a few lines: how things: be: your: most:
humbel: Sarvent
Richard: davenport
[ Superscribed ]
To the Honble Thomas Westbruk
Corinall and Command 1 of his Mag is ties
forces
Col T. Westbrook to L* Crov. Dummer
Falrn April !* 1724
May it please your Hon r
My last of the 29* of March Inform'd
of the death of Docter Negus, and sundry sick people that
wanted a Docter and not haveing heard from Richmond in
Eight or Ten days I had some small hopes that Docter Bull-
man might be spard to make a visit to Falrn to give direc-
tions what might be best to do for the sick but when the
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 185
Express arrived there they found two men had lately died
and that Cap*? Heaths brother and two or three men were
still sick Captain Penhallow writes me that there were sev-
eral sick at Arrowsick so y fc Docter Bullman could not be
spared. Here is no less than Ten or twelve sick, several of
them are recovering Cap tn Penhallow Judges y* the Indians
was about there garrisons on the 29^ of March. I directed
Cap 1 ? Gray to write to Cap 1 ? Heath to let me know what
forwardness he had got the garrison in, In answ? to it he
Informs him that the house design'd for the Maquois, he
hop't would be fmisht in ten days, and all the rest of the
work by the last of May, I suppose the bad weather and
sickness has put him back.
The Inclos'd is a request of M r Davenport for a pass to Bos-
ton, he being but just come down and it being a sickly time
amongst us I thought it best to Inform your Hon? of his
request. According to your Hon r ? Ord r ? to make him a Sar-
jeant I have done it and shall rejoyce if he shou'd carry him-
selfe so that he might be worthy of a better post.
I am your Hon r8 dutifull Hum bl servant
Tho Westbrook
P. S
I wait for a wind to go westward as
far as York so that I might get to
Berwick to visit all y* frontiers.
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to U Gov. Dummer
Falrn April y e 2? 1724
May it please your Hon r
I rec'cl your Letters & orders dated the
20^ of March last on the first of this Ins 1 and am heartily
sorry we have not a sufficient numb!; of men to pursue every
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part of them for wee have not more than will be sufficient to
way lay Saco & Amuscoggin rivers & keep our garrisons, for
in my Letter of the OS 1 * of March I gave an Account of as
small a number as I thought nepessary to be on those rivers
and which are as many as I can possibly draw and leave the
garrisons and Towns their Quota as your hon* has ordered,
there being but three Comp ya to march which if full is 150
and your Honours orders is that the garrisons of York Wells
and Berwick be not lessned which I believe are as few as can
be for their security, all the other Towns and garrisons are
not better provided for altho more Exposd, and had I rec'd
the 114 men according to your Hon r ? Letter to me some time
since I should not have had more then the 3 Comp ys full but
I want Twelve of them and I believe your Hon? has dismist
ten or Twelve more and it has pleas'd God to take of Eleven
or Twelve by death so that the raising of 30 men more will
but make up the old Number theres 15 men out of the
Marching Comp y . 8 to Cover Dunston, Scales and Mitchels and
they are daily beging for more and my orders is to Call them
off to march which if done they must draw off also wee have
not then 30 men sick so that they are not fitt for any service
but must be tended, I have lookt over my Journal and
Enclosd an Ace* of those deceast, taken Captive, & deserted,
since I gave in my Account, by This and what I have already
writt your Hon* may see how wee are decreast. The thirteen
men that I enlisted to stay at Georges on Ace* of the propri-
etors in the fall I promist to release in the Springe and they
now Claim it of me w c . h I must Entreat y? please to Enable
me to pform
I am your Hon rs dutifull and Humb 1 Serv*
Tho 9 Westbrook
P. S.
April Since the above was written I am got to Cape Porpoise
5th I believe I Can Enlist the number of Thirty men &
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 187
more generally young men and such as must leave the
County if not Enlisted. Some of them may be desirous
of a dismission in a Short time others may be willing
to stay longer so that what I Enlist shall be Condition-
ally either to be dismist in a Short time or to stay
longer as your Hon r shall See cause and their Inclina-
tions shall lead them as to the time. The wounded
man died the 1 st Ins* I am afraid for want of a Docter
Sarj* Brown was obliged to press a Sloop to carry him
to Portsm
Col T. Westbrook to L* Gf-ov. Dummer
Yorke April 6* 1724
May it please your Hon r
My last of the 12*! 1 Currant gave an Ace* of my being at
this place & the measures wee were takeing, the people are
not steddy in what they pretend, one day they say they will
Enlist, another they don't know, and want promises how far
they must march out of Town, finding them of so many
minds, I have sent Coll? Wheelwright your orders to Impress
fifty men, w ch are wanting to Compleat the Comp y8 & to
make up Thirty more, notwithstanding wee have Enlisted
sundry.
Your Hon r will see what is wanting by the Inclos'd List #
Cap tn Harmon as he Informs me he has not had time to make
up his Accounts with the Treasurer this long time, he desires
to wait on your Honour to ask leave, which I have Consented
to, it being such a time that there is no marching far into the
Country the Swamps & Rivers being so full of water, of
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which he will be able to give a more gticular account, and
also of the State of the Army and the present Affaires.
I am y r Hon r ? dutifull Humb 1 Servant
Tho" Westbrook
P. S
* I mean your Honour will see by the Inclosed list and
the Ace 1 ? I sent in my Letters Dated the I 8 * & 11 th
Currant, I cannot send Cap* Moulton to Richmond till
Cap*? Bourn comes to receive the men and arms.
Letter Oapt. Johnson Harmon " to Col. WestbrooJc."
York y" 8 th of April 1724/
The reason I sent not the men you orderd, To Serf Brown,
All were in the Woods, till yesterday, Since I saw your Order,
I had none but Sick and Creeped, I now Send Corp 11 Aver'll
with Six men, as p* your Order, My men are allmost off
their Leggs many Sick att this Time. I hope to See your
Honour this Way in a Short time, I shall do all I can with
what Men I have able to Send. I heartyly Wish your
Hon Wellfair, With the Enclosed you'ave this, which is All,
From your Humble Servant att Command
Johnson Harman
A True Coppie
P. S I have discovered nothing Worth Mentioning
J H.
Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Dummer
Kennebunck April 11 1724
May It Please your Hon r
I rec d your Lett and Orders y e 9 th
Currant, By Ensign Pyke which were dated on the First &
Second of This Instant. I have Enlisted some men, and wait
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 189
A Few Days for the answer of Sundry more, I have sent
Orders To Cpt Harman, To Enlist Some, he being where the
Boddy Of The Inhabitance live, If these measures do not
do in A Few days I shall send Coll Wheelwright his Orders,
I Shall make the best of my way To York & Berwick, to
morrow If The Weather will permitt, I have Gaurded y e
People of This place, This Week with a Small number of
men to Gett Down their Lumber : The Indians were Like to
Catch A Man, att Wells y e 9 th Currant. The Inclosed is a
Coppy of Cpt Harmans Lett r , Which gives the State of his
Company which I Fear will in Some Measure defeat your
Hon" Projections att pressent
I am Your Hon" Dutiful and Hum bl Ser'
Tho 8 Westbrook
P S May It Please your Hon? Paper is Very Scarce, with
Me - -1- - -
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj ties Service To The Hon ble William Dummer
Esq r Lieu 1 Gov r and Comander in Cheif &c in Boston
Col. T. Westbrook to Lt. G-ov. Dummer
York April 13 th 1724
May it please y r Hon r
Since mine of y? 11 th Ins* I am come
to this place Cap* Harmon is Endeavouring to Enlist men,
so wee shall see w*. men will Enlist in a few days
Cap* Harmon has 12 men sick and sundry of Cap* Moultons
there is two more dead then I gave an Ace* of being in
great hast I must beg y r Hon" pardon I cannot be more
pticular the Sloop being under Sail
I am your Hon" dutifull humb 1 . Serv 4
Tho 8 Westbrook
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Col. T. Wesibrook to L* G-ov. Dummer
Yorke April 16** 1T24
May it please your Hon r
The bearer hereof Samuel Choate is
troubled with Convulsion fitts, & therefore uncapable of Ser-
vice. I have gmitted him to wait on y r Honour, he was dis-
mist the Service on this Account in Coll? Waltons time- &
now has taken Six pounds of one Kembal of Bradford &
came in his room
I am y r Hon r ? dutiful Hum bl Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj tles Service To the Honbl William Dummer
Esq r Lieu* & Comander in Cheif &c at Boston
Letter W m Peperell others to Col. T. Wesibrook.
Hon d Sir
There is a house Lately made defenceable near y e
head of York river built by M r Robert Cutt and some few
Inhabitants reside there the keeping of which house will be
a very great Annoyance to y e Enemy and will be a great
Security to the greatest part of Kittery and all the Inhabi-
tants on the south side of York river it being the place where
the Indians frequently come in with their Scouts. You being
at y e head of the forces doubt not but it is in Your power
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191
therefore our humble request is that Six
posted there for the reasons above said.
Wee are Sir y r Humb 1
April 20 th 1724
To the Honb 1 Tho 8 Westbrook Esq?
Comander in Cheif of y e forces
in y e County of Yorke
Rich d Gowel
Elihu Jimmison
Nich? Morril
Roger Bearing
Clement D earing
Joseph Moulton
A true Coppy
Jn Tompson
Rich? Cutt
Geo: Jackson
Nicholas Weeks
Eben r Moore
Joseph Sayward
or Eight Soldiers be
Serv t8
W m Peperell
Jos: Hammond
John Leighton
Nicho 8 Shapley
Stephen Tobby
W m Peperil Jun r
W m Fernald
Tho 8 Jenkins
Sam 11 Came
Joseph Young
Jon a Bean
Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Dummer April 21, 1724.
May it please your Hon r
Leiu* John Lane has been so Imprudent to suffer
his men to kill sundry Creatures belonging to the people of
the County of York as soon as I heard of it I sent for and
examind him before Cap* Moulton & Capt? Harmon he did
not deny the fact, but own'd it and made satisfaction to the
people rece'd the damage and promises to amend for the
future, I informd him I must acq* your Hon r of him and if
he desird it I would give him liberty to wait on y r Hon* and
so more p'ticularly informe. I am heartily sorry for his
Imprudence
York April 21 s * 1724 I am your Hon dutifull Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
I gave Franklyn a written order not to let Anderson go
ashore till he had known y r Hon" pleasure concerning him,
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notwithstanding he took him ashore at Casco where he made
his Escape from him. Ens e Wright found him at Piscataqua
had him before Justice Penhallow who committed him to
Portsm Goal the keeper gave him the liberty of the Yard to
walke in, w ch gave him an Opportunity to make his Escape
and w ch he never gave y e authority notice of till Six days
after.
[ Superscribed ]
To the Honb 1 William Dummer Esq r
Leiu* Gov r & Comander in Cheif &c at Boston
Col. T. Westbrook to L\ G-OV. Dummer.
York April 21 st 1724
May it please your Hon r
I receiv d the Inclos'd at one a Clock
afternoon, I have receiv'd but Twenty Two of the Fifty men
Coll? Wheelwright was to Impress, I design to get out a
Scout on Saco and Amuscoggin rivers as soon as possible, I
wrote by Cap* Harmon w c . h will Inform your Hon? there is
sundry scattering garrisons which I expect will be Surprised
if not calld in by the Coll? of the Regiment, The people gen-
erally preach up peace to themselves if the Indians do not
knock some in the head in Six or Seven days.
I am your Hon dutiful humble Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
I mean what is wrote by Cap*? Harmon will give a more
gticular Ace* relateing to Coll? Wheelwrights impressing
men the 19*? Ins* ab* sunsett I went to Piscataqua & arrived
here again on Monday following.
A Sloop man that lately arriv'd here brings news that a gen-
tleman in Boston that the Maquois had offered to bind
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 193
themselves and Estates over as a Security that they keep y*
Indians off us, which very much Lulls our people in
Security :
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj tie8 Esspcial Service To The Hon ble William
Dummer Esq r Leiu* Gov r & Commander in Cheif &c at
Boston
with Speed
Letter from Nathan Knight
Black poynte Apr 11 y e 19 th /1724
S<
This is to Inform you that the Indans yestarday Kild M r
Michell of Spurwink and tooke Captive two of his eldest
Sons and this morning we hard fourteen or fiftean guns up
at Winicks neck up black poynte Reaver
Nathan Knight
Col Tho* Westbrook to U. Gov r . Dummer April 2
May it please your Hon*
This morning about Eight a Clock I rec'd
the Inclos'd w ch gives the Ace* of three mens being killd at
Kennebunk they were trackt on the back of this Town the
23? Ins* & two seen at Cape Nettick the Same day ; Lieu*
Jn Harmon marcht with thirty one men the 23 d Ins* to Ber-
wick & from thence to march through the wood to Osibye
River and then to fall down Saco River to the most likely
places of the Indians passing and repassing there to Spend a
Months time before he returns, his men not being able to
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carry Provision enough to last them y e Scout, I have ordered
him about sixteen dayes hence to meet a Scout of men at
Saco Sammon falls by w ch I intend to send him Provision
Enough to Enable him to tarry out the time. Cap tn Moulton
with part of his Comp y marcht to Joyn the Remainder at
Richmond and immediately to proceed up Kennebeck river
there lie in Ambuscade for the same term of time -
Cap tn Harmons Comp y is likewise on their march to Royals
river and from thence to proceed to Amuscoggin river where
they are to tarry dureing the same term of time.
I proposed to some of the Commission Officers of the Mil-
itia that when our Scouts are lodg'd that they rally together
the Inhabitants & that with the remainder of the Soldiers &
part of them they range the woods on the backs of the Towns
In hopes to find them out or else drive them to our Scouts
but I have reed no Answ r from them.
York April 26 th , 1724 I am your Hon" dutifull
Humble Servant
Tho? Westbrook
P S
Those Scouts & that I propose to send to Saco Falls with
provision are all the men I can find Capable to march into
the Country, there being many Sick & weak among us.
To the Honb 1 . W Dummer Esq r Leiu* Gov r &c
Copt. Joseph Heath to L\ &ov r W m Dummer
Richmond April 27 th 1724
Honourable S r
Yours pr Ensigne Clark I had the Honour of Receiv-
ing- The large house for the accommodation of the
Mohawks is up & finished Except the Chimneys for which
the brick are making & will be Ready in few Dayes. In case
the Mohawks come Down I Believe they will expect Such
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 195
things as they Shall want will be Lodg'd here, I Desire there-
fore that Such Necessaryes as your Honour shall think it
proper to Supply them with may be Sent, with instructions
for my Govennent in Disposing there of, as well as the pro-
vision & ammunition I am to Deliver them from time to
Time. I have lately buryed three of my men who Dyed
Suddenly with a pluretick Fever.
Collo 1 Westbrook Order d me to Dismiss 16 men of my
Company & Sent me but 14 of the Recruits, he also Detein?
an other of my men ( Viz Ebenezer Nutting ) as an Armorur
at Falmouth, & I understand the Recruits are all Dispos? of ;
Nevertheless I Don't mention this by way of Complaint
against the Colo 1 , in the least. But only to Discharge my
Duty in acquainting your Honour with y e State of this
Garrison
The Season to Expect the Enemy is now come & they are
gathering to gether, And in order to be Enabled to Entercept
some of them And also Fit out a party of y e Ablest, to march
with y e Mohawks (if they come & your Honour thinks it
proper ) I should be very Glad to be made up a full Company
But Humbley Submit And with Dutifull Respect
I am Your Honour most Humble Obedient Servant
Joseph Heath
[ Superscribed ] On His Majesties Service
To The Hon ble William Dummer
Lieu* Governour & Commander in Chief of his Majesties
Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England
present In Boston, pr Cap* Gyles.
Letter Col Tho* Westbrook to D. Crov. Dummer
May it please your Honour
The house that the Gentlemen Sett forth lies about a mile
and quarter from Major Frosts garrison so that the posting
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some Soldiers there that they might have a Communication
one with another would be very much for the security of all
the lower part of Kittery and the people on the south side of
York river and to the people in getting their hay out of the
marshes.
It being so great a Service to so many people I have pre-
sumd to lodge five or six Ineffective men that were not fitt
to march till your Hon" pleasure be known in that Affair.
I am y r Hon r ? dutifull Humble Servant
Tho s Westbrook
York April 28*? 1724
Capt. J n . Penhattow to U. Gov. Dummer
George Town Ap 1 29 th 1724
May it please y r Hon r
I rec d y r Hon rs Letters of March 20 th , One respecting
Sam 11 Hopkins, whom I Percieved had made a Compl* he
was not discharged with y e Other men, altho he was intitled
to a Dismission -it can be no Little perplexity to your Hon r
to be troubled w*? Such Matters.
Your Hon r will find g my List I return'd him a man that
was in y e Service above 2 years, & was therefore directed to
be dismissed g your Hon order, but inasmuch as y* men
did not Arrive here ( to exchange others ) 'till sometime in
Feb r he took Occasion to write to your Honour by way of
Comp*; he was one of the men I dd into y e Marching
Oomp* under y e Comm d of L* Bourn & was dismissed as
soon as y e New recruits Arrived here, so y* I am no ways
Culpable, but in Case he had not been dismissed it had not
been my fault, that Matter being Committed to y e Col. Yet
alth6 he was discharged he hired himself into y e Service in
y e room of Another that was released.
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 197
g your Hon Other Letter am inform'd your Hon r has
taken into Consideration the State of this place & pursuant
to your directions I have ordered the Inhabitants into Garri-
son.
I Rejoyce your Hon? has a Reguard to Small point, of
w ch should speak were I not a person Interested there, yet
would Crave leave to Say, its a place of Importance it being
a Cover & Security to the fishery &c a it will be a Damage to
y e Government Such a place should be Slighted, Especially
Considering there is so good a Garrison w ch every body will
Say is y e Best in y e province, save Castle W m & more Easily
defended with a few men
The Latter end of May will be above 6 months Since I
made up my Roll, if your Hon r thinks fit I should come to
Boston in May Sessions for that end, I would pray your
Honours Liberty by the Next Sloop.
I am, Y r Hon r8 Most Dutifull & Most Ob* Serv*
John Penhallow
we have Nothing New respecting the Indians }
Except a Small Scout we fired at about
our Garrisons about 8 Nights past- )
To The Hon rble L* Gov r Dumrner.
Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Dummer May 1, 1724.
May it please your Hon r
The Enclos'd is a Coppy of an Impertinent letter from M r
Peter Nowell Representative of York, which I am almost
ashamed to trouble your Honour with neither should I have
presum'd to have done it had it not seem'd to have reflected
on your Honour he asserting that your Honour promised the
men should be dismist in Convenient time to help to put
their seed into the ground his daily declareing he has brought
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a present dismission for the men has Created a great deal of
uneasiness among the people- I have nothing material to
Acquaint your Hon? with since mine of the 26 th
I am your Hon dutiful humble Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
York May l!* 1T24
To his Honour the Lieu* Gov r
I rec d y r Hon rs g m r Nowell and shall observe your ord r8
therein on their return w ch will be in a Month or Six weeks
T W
[ Superscribed ]
On His Maj tles Service
To The Hon bl William Dummer Esq r Leiu* Gov r
& Commander in Cheif &c in Boston
Jeremiah Moulton to IA Gov. Dummer
Richmond May 6 th 1724
Honourable
S r I Take this Opportunity to Tender Humble
thanks for the Late Expression of your Honours Favour &
Goodness towards me And shall Endeavour to the uttermost
to act worthy of y r Good Opinion
I have been in the woods Continually Since I came from
York an ace* of which Collo 1 . Westbrook Saith he will Send
you to which please to be refer'd
I have two Rolls to bring before your Honour And the
Souldiers Contained there in being in Suffering circumstances
for want of their pay, I intreat a permission to come and
present them At this Session If it be thought proper.
I Am Your Honours Humble Obedient Serv"
Jeremiah Moulton
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 199
Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Dummer May 16, 1724.
May it please your Honour
According to my letter of the 26 th of April
w ch Informs that Leiu' Harmon marcht the 23? and was not
able to carry provision enough to stay out the time your
Honour had ordered, I ordered Sarj* Brown with Twenty
men to meet him at Saco Sammon Falls who mett Leiu* Har-
mon on his return, who was not able to stay by reason of so
much bad weather and all the back of the Country so full of
Water Especially the Intervale land on the Rivers where he
was to way lay, they were oblig'd to march nine miles
together up to their Middles in water, and some of the men fell
into holes and had like to have been drown'd they Inform me,
Brown notwithstanding is gone about Twenty Miles up Saco
River there to stay a few days and way lay two Rafts where
Leiu* Harmon had perceiv'd the Indians had come over the
River, I doubt the Scouts on Amuscoggin and Kennebeck
Rivers will meet with the same disappointments, I am send-
ing Cap tn Harmon as soon as the Country Sloop comes
down which I supposed would have been here ere this had
there not been so many Easterly winds with what men I can
make down to the Islands to range there these moon light
nights it being the time of the Indians gathering Eggs and
Catching Sea Ducks as they sitt, the Officers are very desir-
ous to go and make up their Rolls in a little time therefore
desire y r Hon r to send directions thereabout
York I am your Hon ra dutifull Humb 1 Serv*
May 16 th 1724 Tho 8 Westbrook
Capt. John Penhallow to L* Gov. Dummer
George Town May 18 th 1724
May it Please your Honour
Yesterday morning about 9 of y e Clock three of my men
going, within a Gunshot of y e Garrison ( to drive up some
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Cows ) were ambushed by about 50 or 60 Indians whom we
Judge fired upon the Enemy, who Immediatly discharged
upon 'em about 20 guns, & then ran directly upon our men,
after that they fired upon this Garrison sometime, while a
party of 'em were destroying the Cattle, they tarryed here
three or 4 hours before we discovered 10 Canoos going off,
who landed about a Mile distant from us upon this Island, I
then Mustered of our Little party what I Could Venture to
draw out of y e Garrisons, w th the Assistance of Cap* Tilton
& five or 6 fishermen, I went out to bring off the dead men,
Supposing they had been kill'd, & after we had Scouted an
hour or two about a Mile round upon this point, we return'd
with-out finding them, so that we Judge they Carried 'em off
alive.
The Indians are Still about us, this morning before Sun
rise Severall appeared runing into the woods, who Skulked
near y e Garrison Last night- I expect we shall have 'em
about us till we have Some reliefe, our weakness being now
discovered, the Men being posted in the three Garrisons I
Could not at this Juncture Send off a Boat w th Intelligence
without danger of having her Surprized as well as runing y e
hazard of Loosing the three Garrisons, So that I have desired
Cap* Tilton to be the beare thereof as far as Falmouth other-
ways must have run y e risque of Sending off a Boat.
I hope we shall soon have a recruit from the Col : as your
Honour has inform'd me, in the meantime, shall be as diligent
& Carefull as possible
I am Y r Hon Most dutifull, & Most Ob* Hum : Serv*
John Penhallow
the Names of y e men taken are
Viz* Morgan Miles >.
Thomas Gillis I
Corn! Pass J
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 201
Col. Tho 8 . Westbrook to L* G-ov. Dummer May 20, 1724.
May it please your Hon r
I came to this place about Ten a Clock forenoon where
I heard that there was a Packett gone along the day before
to acquaint your honour that the Indians had been at Arrow-
sick and killed or carried away three men Its said there
was Fifty of them seen I cannot say much about it not have-
ing my Letters they being carried along also.
I have dismist forty Two of the new rais'd men and shall
dismiss the rest as soon as they return.
The Indians are seen frequently all along our frontier from
Arrowsick to Kingstown where they killd or took four peo-
ple on the 16 th Ins* the Inclos'd is a Coppy of Sarj* Browns
Journal
I am your Honours dutifull humble Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
ArundalMay 20 t M724.
Letter from L* G-OV. Dummer to Col. Tho 3 Westbrook
May 21, 1724.
Sir
I rec d your Letter by Cpt. Cox with your Projection
respecting a Decoy for the Indians by Sending a Number of
Soldiers in the Fishing Vessels ; W ch I approve of & Direct
you to man the said Fishing Vessels accordingly & send
some Commission Officer with them : I hope Cpt Bourne &
his Indians will be with you in a few Days & y* you 1
Imploye them dilligently according to my last instructions
Concerning them & that some notable Impressions be made
on the Enemy in the Eastern Parts, as have of late ben
made Westward Where our Forces have behaved themselves
202 DOCUMENT AEY HISTORY
with a Gallantry worthy all our Soldiers Imitation. And
w ch by good providence has ben attended w th answerable
Success in the Destruction of a great Number of the Enemy
Y re humble Serv*
Boston May 21, 1724 W m Dummer
Col T. Westbrook to * Gov r . Dummer June 2 d , 1724.
May it please your honour
This morning about Five a Clock at M r Yorks garrison
at Pernooduck the Indians killd one man and wounded
another there appeared Nineteen I was at Falmouth Side
with Eight men with whom I immediately put of a whale-
boat and went to their assistance, but the Enemy were drawn
off, wee Immediately pursued them with about fifteen men
about a mile & halfe but could not come up with them, our
number being so small, wee concluded it best to return, It is
Judged that there was Canoes seen comeing from the East-
ward on last Sabbath day night by Captain Franklin
Falrn June 2 d . 1724
I am your Hon rs dutiful humble Serv*
P. S. Tho 8 Westbrook
Since I wrote my letter I find wee want five or Six more
men then what I then Inform'd y r Hon! off T W
Col. T. WestbrooJc to L* Gov. Dummer
May it please your Hon r
My letter of the 21 "5 of last month w ch gave an Ace*
that Leiu* Bean was not returned This accompanys him
with a Coppy of his Journal by w ch your Hon* will be
Inform'd of his march
Cap tn Harmon went East among the Islands the 26 th of last
month in quest of the Enemy with fifty five men. I am this
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 203
day sending the Sloop down to Monheigen Island where he
is to repair to in case he want anything.
I sent Leiu* Lane from this place the 30 th of last month
with twenty four men a Scout on the backs of the Towns
from this place to Berwick only to stop at Saco Falls to
guard the people to get down their Logs.
Wee have not heard anything of the Indians for some time
past so that its generally thought they are getting into a
body Mine of the 20*? of last month gave an Ace* that I
had dismist Forty Two of the new Imprest men there is dis-
mist thirteen Since. I have p'mitted Leiu* Bean to wait on
your Hon? by which he is in hopes he may get his back wages
for his being Pilott, whome I have Improv'd according to
your Hon" orders from the date of his Warrant to this day -
I am y r Hon" Dutiful and humb 1 Serv*
Tho Westbrook
The number of men as near as I can get the Ace*
that are now in the Service is about Four hundred.
Falmouth June 2? 1724
Col. T. Westbrook to It. Gf-ov. Dummer
May it please your Honour
Captain Harmon is return'd from his Cruise, whom I mett
at Monheigon, he informs me, your Honour has given him
leave to go to Boston to make up his Roll, the Enclosed is a
Coppy of his Journal by which your Honour will be Informed
of his Cruise
I am your Honours Dutiful Hum ble Serv 1
Tho Westbrook
Sagadahock June 5 th X724
P-S-
I have ordered Cap tn Harmon to send the remainder
of his Comp? to Saco to Joyn Lieu* Lane, whom I gave
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your Honour Ace* of in mine of the 2? of this Ins* he is
to take with him M* Stephen Harden as a Pilot who is
an Expert one on Saco Kennebunk and all the rivers
as far as Winipeesiaucut Ponds he haveing hunted on
that ground for many years past, He was Pilot to Lieu*
Jn Harmon on his last march who says he never Saw a
man have more Judgm* in the Woods, than he
T W
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj ties Service
To The Hon ble William Dummer Esq r Lieu* Gov r
& Commander in Cheif &c at Boston.
Col. T. WestbrooJc to L* Gov r Dummer June 6. 1724.
May it please your Honour
Cap tn Harmons Company is ordered on the backs of
the Towns between Saco and Berwick as 1 gave an Ace* of
in mine of the 5 th Curr*. the rest of our men are ordered to
Cruise hi Casco Bay amongst the Islands Pemequid and
East as far as Musconkus and from thence back into Dama-
riscoatty and Sheepsgutt rivers and to Mountsweeg bay so
on the back of Arrowsick to Kennebeck river up to Rich-
mond and so to keep on this Cruise till your Hon r ? pleasure
be known Indeavouring to hinder the Indians from passing
and repassing with their Canoes for its Judgd since wee have
not had men to pass in our boates that they frequently pass
by water, when they came to Arrowsick they went off in
their Canoes to Casco bay as it is Judg'd Cap* Franklin
waites here for a wind to carry provision to Georges. I hope
your Hon* will ord* what must be done relateing that garrison
the above Cruise is ordered by the advice of the officers
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 205
present Viz* Cap* Harmon, Cap* Penhallow, Cap* Heath,
Cap* Moulton, Leiu* Kenady
I am your Hon r . 8 dutifull Humb 1 Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
Sagadahock June 6* 1724
P. S. Cap* Heath haveing acquainted me with your
Hon r ? Furlo comes up to Boston accordingly by whom
I write T. W
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj tie8 Service To The Hon ble William Dummer
Esq r Leiu* Gov r & Commander in Cheif &c at Boston
g Cap*? Heath.
Col. T. Westbrook to U. G-ov. Dummer June 13.
May it please your Honour
This morning about Ten a Clock Cap tn Franklin brought
us this Maloncholly Account Viz*. That the Indians on the
first of May last way layd Cap tn Winslow on both sides Saint
Georges River as he was going to the garrison with Seven-
teen men in two Whalboates, whome Indians have killed or
taken all but three that made their escape and got to the
garrison they say there was a great number of the Indians,
who fir'd on our people first from the Western side the river,
as soon as they had fired they put off in their Canoes and
fell on our people very furiously, so that our boates were
oblig'd to part they over powering them with a superior
number. Cap tn Winslow endeavoured to land on the West
side and so long as he was seen by our people fought boldly
and bravely, And it is, Judgd killd several of the Indians,
Sarj* Harvey landed on the East side hopeing to get clear of
them but as soon as they landed there was another Consid-
erable party mett him and shot him down after they had
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changd some shots on both sides our people were then
obligd to draw off as well as they could, one of them did not
get into the garrison till three days afterward he saw an
Indian that day, our people trackt some about a week after
not more than one hundred yards from the garrison. It is
Judg'd there is a party lurking about the river and garrison
still ~
Where they fird on our people first, they Judge there
would not be less then Thirty Canoos besides three Ambus-
cades more One on the West and two on the East sides the
River, Wee have not men to look for the Dead bodies of our
friends so that our Enemies have a double triumph over us
- Cap*? Harmons CompT being at the Westward and the
army is so decreast as I have already given your Hon r an
Ace* of in part and shall be able to give it in full when I
come to Boston.
I am your Hon rs dutifull humble Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook.
George Town June 13 th 1724
P. S. Cap tn Winslow went out of the garrison on the 30 th of
April to the Green Islands hopeing to meet with a Canoo or
two of y e Indians ~
Capt. Joseph Heath $ Col. T. Westbrook to L* Grov. Dummer.
Boston June 24 th 1724
Honourable S r
Having your Orders to returne to the Fort at
Richmond, thought it my Duty to Lay the State of that Gar-
rison before Your Honour by Several Deaths & Dismissions
my Company is reduced to Twenty men, And the fort being
large & far from Relief, I would Humbley Suggest to your
Honour Is in danger of being lost with out a reinforcement
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 207
& your Honours Designe of Sending Some able Souldiers to
Scout with the Mohawks altogether imprackticable. The
number of men posted at Casco Fort in y* last warr, and the
present Company at north field are presidents, & Seem to
plead for a recruit to be Sent to richmond, which is farther
in the Enemyes Countrey than Either of those.
All which I Humbley Offer to your wise Consideration
& with Dutifull Respect remaine
Your Honours* most Humble Obedient Serv"
Joseph Heath
May it please your Honour
Cap* Heath has acquainted me with the above
report design'd to lay before your Honour, which appears to
me very reasonable
I am your Honours dutifull and most obedient Serv*
Tho* Westbrook
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj*! 63 Service
To The Hon ble William Dummer Esq r Leiu* Gov?
& Commander in cheif &c in Boston
Zach Trescott to " Edward Hutchinwn Esq."
Mont royal iune 29~ 1724.
S r
I rec d yours dated November 29 and return you harty thanks
for intersesion with the French gent men for my redemption
I have ben 13 months with His Excelency gouerner Voud-
reill I hope by the devine permision to set out for boston
with in three weeks
M r lorie hath writen hear that the hostages aear dead in
boston preson which has put the indiens in a grate rage
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agains the English thay say thay aear poysoned and thear
aear about 700 gon and going in small compeneys 10 12 15
20 25 in a company to al parts of New england the frontears
and if thear be not grate care taken I fear thay will do a
grate deal of mischef no noise from frans as yet but dayly
look for it I am S r your most obiged and uery humble seruant
Zach Trescott
John Minot to L* Grov. Dummw
Boston July 16 th 1724
May it Please your hon r
This Waits on your hon r to advise you that the Two
Coxes that were bound to the East are put into Marblehead
where they are indeavouring to get more men having on
board boath scooners but fourteen men, and our people here
being so very uneasy about so many of their freinds and rela-
tions being now in the hands of the Indians are very back-
ward to goe against them in a Hostile manner, they begg the
favour of your honour, that there be some emediate measures
taiken to redeme our people and Vessells out of their hand
Mr. Cox tells me he will willingly taike on board anything
that we shall send to redeme our men and Vessells out of
their hands and if your honour will please to give direcktions
to the two skippers to ackt according to the measures the
Indians have proposed it will be a great Obligation uppon
the Widdows and fatherless that are now in some hopes of
some of their freinds remaining still in their hands this favour
the distressed people in Marbleh? desired me to aske of your
hon r
I am Yo r Hon rs most Obed* Hurnb- Serv*
John Minot
I would further say to your hon r that our people would
chearfully goe here what number your hon r pleases to make
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reprisals on the ennimie provided they can meet w th y m to
advantage at sea but if they have hal'd up our Vesels into
the Countrey as we understand they have it will be impossible
to come at them without a flagg of truce and If your hon r
pleases I will go Down with them if your hon r sees meet to
act in this affaire its my humble Oppinion that its emediatly
requisite a post be Dispatcht to Marblehead to Stop these two
Coxes to reseive your Hon rs orders I am Yo r Hon Most
Obed* Humble
Jn Minot
they may call at Casco for Jos Beane & the Vessel that
is there which the Indians desire to come.
[ Superscribed ]
To The Honor* Will m Dummer Esq r Command 1 in
cheife of his Maj tles Province of the Massachusets Bay
Letter IA Grov. Dummer to Q-ov. Saltomtall, of Conn.
S r
I wrote your Hon r 30 th Decemb r last in order to obtain
from His Maj tles Government of Connecticut a supply of
Forces to join with the Towns of this Province in covering
some of the most exposed Towns in the County of Hampshire
& thereby your own Out Towns from the Attempts of the
Indian Enemy, At the same time in compliance with the
desires of your Gen 11 Assembly of OctobT last, An account
of the just Grounds this Government had to declare War
against the Eastern Indians was by the Secretary transmitted
to you, as also our Treaty with the Mohawks & alth6 noth-
ing has yet been done on your parts in answer to our propo-
salls at that time, yet the Occasion still remaining & the
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General! Court of this Province being now again convened
& having under their consideration the Defence of the West-
ern Frontiers, they have unanimously desired me to renew
my Motion to you on that Head. The Season of the Year
being now come on when the Indians suppose they can make
their attacks with the greatest advantage to them & the
most disadvantage to us, & there being advices from abroad
that there is not now an Indian Man to be seen in such
places as they use to frequent gives us strong grounds to
conclude they are preparing to make a violent Effort on some
place or other as soon as they can meet with a fit opportun-
ity for it, so that it appears absolutely necessary to have a
considerable Force on the Fronteirs either to keep or beat
them off : & this Province having Fronteirs of so large an
extent we are exposed to a most heavy charge for the
Defence of them. Now alth6 War has not been proclaimed
against the Indians in Form by the Government of Connecti-
cut as by this Government yet inasmuch as we are both
embarqued in the same Bottom, are under the same Crown,
our Interests are the same, inasmuch as His Maj* y has given
his commands & directions to the severall Governm 18 on this
Continent for assisting one another in case of a War & most
especially inasmuch as our Western Towns are the immedi-
ate Barrier & Cover to yours & that if ours should be broken
up or drawn off, yours would be exposed to the Fury & Rav-
ages of the Enemy in the same manner as ours now are. We
cannot but judge it highly reasonable & we doubt not but
upon mature Deliberation you will do so too, that you should
join your Forces to ours for the Mutuall Defence of both.
Besides the Forces which have been formerly posted in
those Towns, I have upon the advices rec d lately made a
further addition to them, but these also are not sufficient to
give the Enemy a warm Repulse & altho it appears by the
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 211
Votes of your Gen 11 Court that you have 200 men in readi-
ness to march yet that provision does not seem likely to
attain the desired End, for you are sensible that the Indians
alwaies make a Sudden onset & then retire forthwith so that
if your forces remain as they now are before they can be
got together & march to the places attackt the enemy will
probably be got out of reach & so it will be too late to fol-
low them. Upon all which considerations we desire Your
Governm* will send 100 Men to be posted at Northfield
Deerfield & Westfield in such proportion as shall appear
most necessary, to continue there for a few months till the
time of the greatest danger is over, if some part of them were
trusty Indians who are used to the woods it might be an
advantage.
This comes g who it is hoped will
wait upon you before your Generall Court rises & request
you will make use of your Influence & Authority that what
is proposed may be obtained whereby you not only do Service
to the Crown will gratify a Province that is always ready to
testify their Respect to you & will likewise oblige
Y? In the name of the Committee
- W m Tailer
In Council June 9, 1724.
Read & Ordered that this Report of the Draught of a Let-
ter to the Govern? of Connecticut be Accepted
Sent down for Concurrence J Willard Secry
In the House of Representatives June 9** 1724-
Read and Concur'd & that His Honour the Liev* Gov? be
desired to Express the Letter to the Gov? of Connecticut as
soon as Possible
W Dudley Speak?
In Council, June 9. 1724 Read & Concur'd
J Willard Secry
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Samuel Hinckes to L* Gf-ov. Dummer.
Fort Mary July 19, 1724
May it Please Y r Hon r
This comes in Company with a Letter from Leiut Beans
to Coro 1 Westbrook who was Sent here and arrived the 17
instant,) & in order to give y r Hon r an account That y e 18 :
I supplyed him with ammunition &c to hasten to Spurwink
where the Enimy were & Burnt one Perryes house. Killed
one Solloman Jordan near y e garrison of Leiut Jordan L*
Bean Hastned from hence 19 instant fought about 30:
indians Killed one & Recovered his Scalp gun &c. took from
them Beafe Blankets & Sundry es Drove the Enemy : & took
about 25 packs & they Ran away naked, this day
We Lost one Robert Brown of plymouth and one Simon
armstrong was scarred on his head flesh wound, the Enimy
fought smartly while they stood, M r Bean & men are here &
as to any particulars farther I beleive Corr 1 Westbrook will
forward, M r Beans Letter to y r Hon r for who I wrote the
particulars & pray I may be Excused for my not inlargeing.
I hear M r Buckman's garrisen at N Yarmouth is Burned &
of Alarums their, this morning Large fires appeared up Saco
River, at Cape porpus, we dont hear the Reason but guess
the Enimy to be Every where, & having no incorragement
that I may have men to fill my Complement up as yet I hope
y r Hon r s not forgot y r Direction you gave me to Leave a
jnem in the Secre: Office that I may have them, by y r
Direction to Corn 1 Westbrook & Especially one fit for a
corporell.
the 14 instant went hence volenteers from piscatt a after
indian pirets as also sundryes & one Capt Salter from the
Sholes & 4 men at green Islands, said Salter ) since parting
form his Conserts who arrived here to day ) informes me he
meet with the indian privateer a sooner once of Marblehead
full of indians Extraordinary well fitted who Chased them 3
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 213
hours & she Takes all She Can come up with, so that the
fishermen dont go East of this place or scarce to sea, with my
Dutie is what offers from y r humble Servant
Samuel Hinckes
[ Superscribed ]
To His Honour William Dummer Esq r Cap" Generall
& Comander in Cheife In Boston
On His Majesty es Service
John Wainwright to L\ Q-ov. Dummer
Ipswich July 13 th 1Y24
May It please Yo r Honour
Just now arrived a fishing shallop from
the Eastward, the Skipper whereof appearing before me made
Oath to the inclosed Declaration, which I thought necessary
to Express to your Honour.
The Skipper of the shallop informs me & I am apt to be
of his opinion that there is a great probability of making
reprizall of the shallop the Indians have taken if not of
recovering the men & Surprizing Some of them, who are at
present very bold in Enterprizing & boarding the fishing ves-
sells on the Eastern Shore, There is a Sufficient Number of
the ffishermen & other men & vessells now ready, who are
very willing to go with all the Dispatch & Expedition your
Honour may please to order down to the Eastern shoar &
who I am fully persuaded will do their Utmost to decoy &
surprize the Enemy, if they may have yo r Honours Commands
& Directions therein.
They may have provisions Ammunition &? as Soon as
orders are given therefor. M r Eveleth the Bearer is able to
give a more particular Acco* of the matter theres Time will
allow to inform yo r Hon r in writing
Y r Hon" most Obed' humble Serv*
John Wainwright
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" Letter to Capt. Durrell "
Sir
Having rec d Advice of sev 1 . 1 Vessels man'd with Indians
infesting the Eastern Coast to the great Disturbance & Loss
of those concerned in the Fishery,
I desire you to draw out
of your Ships Company fifty or sixty of your ablest men
which with such Men as I have Order'd to be impress'd here
& in the Out-Posts to be all under the Command of your
Lieu* & Lett them forthwith proceed East in three small
Vessels provided for that Purpose, Lett them keep near the
Shoar & look into the Harbours as they go along & endeav-
our to get Intelligence of the Enemy, & decoy them by
Sounding for Fish & Concealing their Men & such other
Methods as are proper for that End & by all possible Means
to find out the Enemy & suppress & destroy them as well as
any Pirates that may possibly be on the Coast. I do not
limit you as to the extent of Coast for this Cruize, But leave
it to you & the Discretion of your Officer how far East he
may proceed in w c . h he must govern himself according to the
Intelligence he may meet. If he can hear of the Enemy on
shoar & his Men be capable of Service that Way Lett Him
land such a Number of his Comp* as he shall think fit &
prosecute the Indians vigorously on the Shoar. If after all
proper Methods for the Discovery of the Enemy, There be
no likelyhood of Meeting with them & intercepting them by
Sea, He must endeavour to find out the Vessels the Indians
have taken & if practicable secure & bring them off : Put one
good Officer in each Vessel to be under the Direction of your
Lieut. & to proceed by his Orders : They must return back
in thirty Days; Unless Circumstances shall be such as to
give great hope of Doing Service by Staying out longer.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 215
Sir
I have rec d your sev 11 Letters respecting M r Banes Engage-
ment & the March of the Forces to Kennebeck River, And
am well satisfied with the Dispatch you have given to that
Affair ; There being such a Number of Troops in your Fron-
tier, I have determined they sh. be employed ( after the
Marches to Norridgewock are over) on an Expedition to
Penobscot & on the Sea Coast in those Parts. Therefore
after a proper Time allow'd for the Soldiers Refreshm* you
are to proceed at the Head of them yourself to Penobscot &
other Places to the Eastw*? where it is likely in order to
w e . n the Enemy to gett y e best Intelligence possible, & to pro-
ject the particular Circumstances of this Affair & Send to the
Treas r to furnish you with every Thing necessary & Let me
know your Thoughts immediately upon it, that so there may
be no delay.
Col. T. Westbrook to L\ Gov. Dummer
May it please your Honour
Cap tn Harmon arrived this day with the Fryars
and Twenty Six Scalps more from Norridgewock and brought
Bombazees Squaw and three more Indian Captives retook
three English boys, he Informes a great number of Indians are
comeing on our fronteir Sundry from Canada and Two Hun-
dred from Penobscutt for a more account I refer to him ;
They have taken Leiu* Kenadys Coat at Norridgewock who
resided at Saint Georges, which makes us doubt they have
taken the garrison, I am Sending Cap*? Sanders in his Sloop
strongly guarded to that place and am likewise dispatching
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orders to all the fronteirs to be strict on their guard. Cap*
Harmon and the officers Judge, that by the modestes Compu-
tation besides the Scalps and Captives they brought in, what
they killed and drowned there could not be less then thirty
or forty, God has now been pleased to Crown your Honours
unwearied Endeavours with success, which I desire to rejoyce
at. I hope y r Honour will smile on Cap tn Harmon and favour
him with a Commission for a feild Officer.
I am your Honours most Dutiful Humble Servant
Tho? Westbrook
FalmAug* 18^1724
I have Imprest M r Dokes Scooner
to convey Cap* Harmon to Boston
Col. T. Westbrook to L* G-OV. Dummer
May it please your Honour
I received your Instructions dated the 25 th Curr* on
the 28 th Ins* and shall put them in Execution Immediately -
I hope the Hostages will Pilott us through from Kennebeck
to Penobscut which will be the best way to get to their Town
undiscovered - As to Bombazeens widow I have examined
her and she knows little or nothing about the Penobscut tribe
and is so sick she is not able to travel. My advice to the
Inhabitants and orders to the officers has always been not to
go out with less then Fifteen or Eighteen men or more as the
occasion may require but the Inhabitants are so obstinate they
will go out not above Two or three at a time Two or Three
miles from their garrisons if they cannot all have a guard in
one day and the Officers of the Militia in each town do not
take any care to regulate them, they refuse to help in watch-
ing in their garrisons at night where the soldiers are but Two
or Three especially the Inhabitants at Perpooduck point I
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 217
acquainted them it was your Hon rB orders but they refused
to comply. There lies this difficulty with me which I can't
tell how to get over -
Viz* Wee must have a strong guard with our Whaleboates
up Kennebeck River lest wee should not get through and be
obligd to return, neither are wee able ( in Case wee should
get through ) to leave a sufficient number of men to bring
back the boates to Richmond without weakening the Army
too much to pursue the march, besides it will be of absolute
necessity to have some boates on our return with the Sloops
at the mouth of Penobscutt river to search after the vessels
taken from the Subjects of this Province w ch wee cannot have
unless y e Sloops bring some with them from Boston or unless
your Honour will please to send Fifty men more for the above
mentioned designes Wee must have Two Doz? of falling
axes to make either Rafts or Canoes to get from the Main to
the Island where the Indians live and those men that have
the charge of the Axes must have pistols sent them they not
being able to carry their guns Packs and Axes there is want-
ing Thirty or Forty Firelocks for the men already in the
Service which must be sent Immediately, I shall not be able
to get the men so soon as my orders direct, to Richmond, by
reason I sent a Company to releive Georges and Intercept the
Enemy there and they are in quest of them now by the verbal
Ace! I had brought me this day from Cap* Sanders who is
Just come to Richmond from thence and brought a Captive
Leiu 1 . Kenady redeemed, as y r Hon r will see by the Enclosed
which is a verbal ace* I received from one of my Sarj* 8 whom
I sent Express to Cap* Heath and who met Sanders going
to Richmond from whom he had the Information
When I had ordered the men to Scout at Saint Georges I
had thoughts y e army would have mov'd that way - Here
being only Docter Bullman that is Capable of marching with
us and he being very much fatigued I must entreat your
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Honour to send another Docter down to march that he may
have some respite
I am your Hon rs most dutifull Hum bl Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
PS-
I pray your Honours to excuse every thing amiss for I
have been writing and dispatching orders from Sun rise till
Nine a Clock this night so y* my brains is quite Addled
Letter Lieut. Q-ov. Dummer to Secretary Willard
Sept.l,
S?/
Coll? Westbrooks Packett is enough to make one Sick
what Hee has done allready as well as what Hee further
insists on seems to tend directly to Confound our hopefull
designes. What Hee sayes of a Strong Guard for the Whale-
boat is a mere jest. 10. men is Sufficient for that, What Num-
ber of Men Can Hee expect to bee there at this time when
Hee expects so many at Penobscutt. . Those 10 Men with
the Whaleboats may have a Communication with Richmond
fforts & Can't be better Imploy'd then by lying at such a
pass to intercept a Smal Scout of the Enemye. . It was
Impossible to express in more Strong termes My orders above
all things that Hee should make no delay & yett Hee seems
to have no Idea of it. for My part I will write no More to
Him it's an unaccountable thing that without orders Hee
should Send away a Number of Men to S* Georges. I all-
wayes intended a March to Penobscott as soon as the fforces
should be return'd from Norridgawalk & therefore would not
hearken to anything that Could prevent it.
Pray Communicate this Letter to the Bord this Day &
write a Line to Westbrook that Hee make no further delay &
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 219
thereby mine this Project if phaps it bee not allready ffrus-
trated by Intelligence gott to the Enimye, & Lett Him give
such orders to His People about Georges as is necessary if it
bee not done allready, & if Hee don't incline to go Lett Har-
man take his Command. The Pistolls axes and Guns you
say are ready. Pray Coll? Fitch to get the men on Bord &
Let the Vessell Sail to night or in y e morning.
Col? Westbrook Sends a long Story of New Projections to
Amuse us they may bee putt to the Tryal in the Winter
phaps when we have nothing else to do but now the is the
time to finde them in their planting, for thor they may
have gatherd their Corne by this they have not had time to
dry it & Carry it away & an old settlement is not Suddenly
broak up & quite deserted.
If the Councill are of opinion to stop Winnett & all the
Annapolis Vessells for two or three days it shall be done
Y r
W Dummer
Letter John Grray to L* Grov. Dummer
Falrn Sept r y e 8 th 1724 -
May It Please your Hon?
By a Vessell Bound to Boston I take Leave of
Obeying your Hon rs Commands, in Sending My Comission
your Hon r was pleased to tell me that you'd alter and Send
another To me. I Heartyly Congratulate with y? Sr. In The
Success your Troops has obtained over the Enemy. So may
you prosper in all y r Und'rtakins For the general good of
your Govennent Is, and shall always be the Prayer of Y r
Hon" Most Dutifull & Obedient Ser* Att Comand
% John Gray
P S
My hum we Service To Your Lady
We have no Indian News here
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Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gf-ov. Dummer
May it please your Hon r
I received your Hon rs two letters not before
the Seventh of this In 8 * One was dated the 28^ of August &
the other the 1 st of Sep* wherein your Honour blames me for
haveing a project of my own. I do assure your Hon* my let-
ter of the 28 th was in obedience to your Hon" order to me,
in your letter of the 6^ of Aug st and was wrote the day
before my Instructions came and if it should please God that
I should return from this march, I doubt not but I shall be
able to satisfie your HonT that I have not delayed my time
Cap* Slocom arrivd the 7 th Curr* with 24 fierlocks w c . h was
not as many as wee wanted and sundry necessarys as Blank-
etts shoes stockins &c which the men could not march before
they had y 13 ? as to the boates I did not expect any for this
Expedition, but have Swept all garrisons clear of their old
boates they had to fetch their provision and have been mend-
ing them night & day ever since I received your Hon r * orders-
I must be obligd to send up part of the body first and a
party of them to bring back the boates, I hope wee shall be
on the march near y e time I wrote in my last Falm? Sep*
8 fc * 1724
I am your Hon rs most Obed* Humb 1 Serv*
Tho Westbrook
P S
I did not receive your Hon letter of the 6 th
of August till y e 27 th of the Same Month
by the hands of Cap*. Gray
OF THE STATE OP MAINE 221
Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Dummer
Dated 60 miles up Kennebeck river on Dummer
Island on grape Street Just by the great fish
Market Sep' 12 th 1724
May it please y? Honour
We sent up part of the army on the 9 th Currant not have-
ing Boates enough to carry us up all at once and arrived with
the army here the 11 th of this Instant where wee are detaind
by rainy weather - As soon as the weather will gmit we shall
be diligent on our march which I desire and hope will answer
your Hon rs Expectation - I ordered the Sloops to be at Penob-
scut in fourteen days from the 11 th day of this Instant.
I am your Hon most dutifull & Humble Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
P S
Written by the pure blood of the grape
gathered on Dummers Island
L* Gov r . Wentworth to the Lords Oommi88 r8 for Trade and
Plantations.
Right Honorable
I shall not trouble your Lordships with Copy
of what wrote the 5 th of Aprill, hope the Collector 8 Acco*?
came safe which is the remaining Six months that makes up
y e year to the 25 th June as also Fort William and Mary
Ace* of Expence of Gun powder to the 5 th day of July 1724,
I am not yet out of hopes of his Majesties Royall Bounty
to ffort William and Mary, Our Stock being next dore to
nothing, it would be a great pleasure to me to see something
come that way our Trade being small, dos but a little more or
less, bring the year about sometimes a little Over and other
Years Under and in case we Should be attack* by Our Ene-
mies we have not above one Round of Gunpowder in the
ffort.
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I have been greately perplexd in my minde about it.
The Assembly of this Province Say the people are so
oppresd with the Indian war that they cant pay the charge
that ariseth thereby I hope your Lordships will not take it
amiss in giveing much troble, this affair has been laid before
your Lordships by Our Agent the last Year and your Lord-
ships was pleasd to report in our favour, but it Stop't at the
Board of Ordinance, as I would not be tho't Troblesome, so
neither would I be Negligent of my Duty in reporting the
truth, least any Acsident should happen (which God All-
mighty divert ) for want of recruites about the Midle of the
last Month Capt Harmon with a party of Troops came upon
one of the Chiefe of the Indian Towns and about one hun-
dred & Twenty Miles from the Sea called Noridgeawag, and
distroyed about one hundred Men, Women & Children, which
is the greatist slaughter we have made upon them for many
years, or indeed Even on the Eastern Tribes, I have Joyn d
the Massechuset Governo* with fifty Men On a Second March
to Penobscot, we have found out a new way to Penobscot,
and So intend to attack em by Sea and land at the same time,
This Indian war is greately Impoverishing to New Hampshire
in particular & all the Towns in this Province Excepting
Portsm? & New Castle are in Close garrison Men Women
& Children Crowded all to geather, and a full Tenth of the
whole Province Constantly upon Duty, and Notwithstanding
all possible cear is Taken Yet Every week some or other is
Taken Captive or killed So that your Lordships may Judge
how we are wasteing boath in Numbers, and allso the Impov-
erishing the pore Inhabitance. I am
With Greatist respect May it Please Your Lordships, Your
Lordships Most Obed* humb 1 . 6 Serv!
J: Wentworth
Province of New Hampshir
Sept' 12 th 1724.
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Letter L* G-ov. Dummer to Mons. Vaudreuil " Sept. 15, 17&4-
S r
Haveing Lately Seen your protection Commiss to Sebastian
Ralle I thought it a proper ocation once more to write to you
& to acquaint you that the Norrigawalke & Penobscott
Indians are by long & often repeated Submissions the
undoubted Subjects of the King of great Brittain who also
living in his Territorys they Cannot bee any otherwise
Accounted your Alleyes then by Virtue of the Allyance
between the Crownes of great Brittain & ffrance & that
therefore you Ought not to Concerne your Selfe in their
affaires without my gmission & I Cannot but esteem it an
open Violation of the Treaty of Peace & allyance our Masters
have entred into for you to Commission ate Hun to reside
amounghst them. And you might as well pretend that y e
Protection is sufficient to justify those of y r ? religion in Com-
mitting the most flagrant Acts of Violence & Hostility in any
other Parts of this Governm* & whatever disputes there may
be between us & those Indians Concerning the bounds of that
Country it does not belong to you to engage your Selfe in
their quarrell but rather to assist us to reduce them to obed-
ience, when it shall bee desired but instead of that I am sorry
wee must Charge you with having animated them together
& others belonging under your owne Government to ffall in
the most outrageous Manner upon the Subjects of the King
of great Brittain in all Parts of the ffrontiers of these His
plantations. I must also add that I have many assurances
that the Indians would have long since made their Submis-
sion had they not been Stimulated by your gswations &
encoraged by the protection & rewards you have given them.
However I doubt not but Ere this they are Sensible of the
ruine that is like to fall upon them if they psist any longer
in their Hostilitys wherefore I resolved againe to recomend
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to you the good dispositions that ought to be Cultivated
between the respective Governours of the Two Crownes that
are so Strictly united in ffriendship & intrerest that no incon-
veniency or Jealousys may Arrise by our unequal Conduct
here & that you'l give no further ocation for these disagree-
able remonstrances but rather use your influence to the
Salvages to a Peace & I thinke it proper further to acquaint
you that we have hitherto restrained our Indian Allyes who
have expressed great inclinations to revenge the Injurys done
us upon those whoe abetted our Enemyes but are not sure
wee shall bee any longer able to do it unless a Spedy Stop
be made to Such practises.
Sir Your humble Servant
William Dummer.
Letter John Penhallow to L* Gov. Dummer.
George Town 8 br 16 th 1724
May it please y r Hon r
S r
Col : Westbrook being indisposed at my Home, Orders
me to give you an Ace" that he has Diligently Searched after
the Vessells belonging to this Province ( that were taken by
the Indians ) but Could find none, we were detained several
days at the Fox Islands by bad weather, as also in this place T
The Col : has not as yet rec d any Orders from your Honour,
concerning the Officers going to Boston to make up their
Rolls, nor how to dispose of the Army.
I am y? Hon rs most Dutifull & most Ob* Humble Serv*
John Penhallow
To The Hon eble W m Dummer Esq? L * Gov r Comm r in chiefe
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 225
Letter L* G-ov. Dummer to Ool Wheelwright
Boston IS*? Septem br 1724
S r
There is lately come over the lake a very Considerable
Body of Indians, more then what are Supposed to be come
upon the Western Frontier, tho there be a great Number of
them there You'l do well to Charge the people within the
District of Your Regiment, to be very careful when they go
into their fields, not to expose themselves by going out Weak
and without Arms, but that they associate in their worke in
partys of 10 or a Doz. Men well Arm d keeping a Centin 1 . with
their Guns, & I desire You' 1 forthwith Acquaint all the Gar-
risons as far as Cap* Heaths at Richmond, to keep a Watch-
ful Guard at this Juncture - - I am S* Y ur Serv*
W m Dummer
Col Wheelwright
Letter "L* Gov. Dummer to Col. Wesibrook.
Sir,
I hope this will meet you safe arrived at Falmouth after a
successful Campaign
Upon Sight hereof you must forthwith dismiss Cpt. Bournes
Comp* of Indians & send them hither in one of the Sloops,
That so they may lose no Time for Following the Whale
Fishery, w ch is agreable to my Promise made to them at
Enlisting. Let Cp? Bourne come with them to see them safe
returned.
You must send a Party of fresh men that have staid at
Home, in the Garrisons consisting of fifty or sixty effective
Soldiers to make one more visit to Norridgewock Ameseconti
& Parts adjacent near Kennebeck & Amerescoggin Rivers in
15
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Order to surprize y e Enemy. It being probable the Corn left
in those Parts or the Hunting may have drawn thither some
of the Indians that escaped at Norridgewock.
The other Captains being probably fatigued w th y e past
Marches Let Opt. Heath have the Command of them & send
with him other proper Officers & Pilots. Let this Affair be
proceeded in as soon as possible.
Sept. 28. 1724.
May it please your Hon r
Wee have got through the body of the County from Rich-
mond to Penobscut River but either by the willfullness or
Ignorance of the pilot he brought us near Fifty miles below
the Indian villages when wee came into our knowledge
Wee traveld up the river as high as the falls where there was
a large River to Cross here wee found the freshetts very high
by reason of the late rain. The army not haveing more than
three or four days Provision sundry men haveing lost their
bread in wadeing the rivers as I acquainted in my last of the
20 th Currant and sundry men much Indispos'd it was likewise
Judged that wee could not march to their Village and back
to the falls where the Sloops were to meet us in less than
Eight or Nine days whereon wee desisted and waited for the
Sloops they not being come was oblig'd to go down the River
in quest of them and verily beleive had not wee found two
Indian Canoos and sent four brisk men to look for them some
of the men would have perisht before wee could have got to
them but the men found them and brought up some boates
in which we got to them, and the freshet run so strong they
could not possibly get up the river - Coll Harmon Cap*
Moulton, Cap* Wentworth and sundry other officers are so
much indispos'd that I am oblig d to let them go home I shall
stay with the well part of the Army and search the rivers and
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sea coves Well before I come off. The officers all desier to
go to Boston to make up their Rolls and there is great
necessity that Cap* Moulton and Cap* Bourn go their
accounts lying very Intricate I desire your Hon" to make up
my Roll.
Sep* 28 th 1724
I am your Hon most dutifull Humb! Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
" Letter to Mass. Agents in London"
Gent.
We desire & direct you to solicit with all proper Earnest-
ness & Speed the Matters contained in the Mem? of the
Gen 1 . 1 Assembly to his Majy sent last Winter to his Excy :
the Gov? & by him ( as we are inform'd ) either presented to
his Majy or laid before one of his Maj ie8 Principal Secrys of
State in Order thereto, A Copy of w ch Mem as also of the
Journal of our Commiss late Conferences with the Five
Nations at Albany are herewith sent you :
By w c . h last, together with y. r other Advices from hence,
You will find how much the Distress of this Province is
increased, & what little Prospects We have of being brought
safely & hon bly out of the War or having any Assistance to
prosecute it with Vigour & Success ; The Gov* of Canada
having ( as he has threatened in his Letters ) drawn many
remote Nations ; viz, The Hurons & others with whom We
have never had y e least Concern, into a Confederacy with the
Eastern Indians ; So that our Western Frontiers have been
more annoy'd this last Summer than the Eastern, Almost
every Town in the County of Hamps. One Half in Middx.
& sev 11 in Essex beingxiriven into Garrison & much distress'd
by this new Enemy : And alth6 We have had great Advan-
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tages over y e Indians by such a Slaughter of them at Nor-
ridgewock as has not been known in any of the late Wars,
Yet by Inaction of the Western Tribes, the Enemy is become
more formidable than before And the Service in the War &
the Charges for the Support of it are so heavy as greatly to
impoverish the whole Province ; & drive away many of our
Inhab*? to the Neighbouring Colonies : all w ch ( Connecticut
& New Hamps. excepted ) being in perfect Peace & Prosper-
ity them selves, sit still & see us languishing under all the
Calamities of War without Affording us any Succour either
of Men or Money In Consideration of w ch You must earnestly
Supplicate his Majesty That his positive Orders may be given
to the sev 11 Governm* 9 To furnish & maintain a necessary
Force for our Assistance in such Proportion as his Majesty
shall think fit to Order.
And whereas you will observe by the enclosed Conferences
That the five Nations have denied to enter with us into the
War partly under a Pretence of Waiting an Answer to their
Message to his Majesty dd: with their Belt, & for his Majesties
Approbation of the Conduct of this Governm* in Declaring
War, & his allowance of their Engaging in it, You must
humbly apply to his Maj? for his gracious Answer to that
Message, That so the Five Nations may have no such Pre-
text for Declining this Service, for w ch they have given their
frequent & solemn Engagem* 8 & in Prospect of w ch this Gov-
ernm* has made great Presents to them w ch with the sums
expended in the Treaties with them amount to many Thousand
Pounds.
As was before observed to you, You must use your utmost
endeavours to obtain his Majesties Consideration of this Mem
And that he would be graciously pleased to direct his Minis-
ter at the Court of France so to represent the unjust & bar-
barous Proceedings of the French Gov* in Encouraging &
Exciting the Savages to this War, as that effectual Orders
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may be sent to the said Gov r & others concern'd not only to
withdraw their Assistance & Countenance from the S d Indians
in the Prosecution of their Hostilities, but to use their Influ-
ences y l for y e future they live in Peace with his Majesties
good Subjects in these Prov. And unless such Orders be
given & effectually complied with There seems to be no other
Method left us for putting an End to this ruinous War than
We shall be obliged in our own necessary Defence to pursue
the Enemy into the French Territories where they are not
only shelter'd but rewarded for their Barbarities.
" And if matters sh? come to this Extremity with us, We
cannot promise the French ( who have been the Fomenters of
this War) better Quarter than the Indians, This last Hint
you will observe & make what Use of it the State of our
Affairs will require & admit of.
And if there be no Prospect of any speedy Relief by such
Order to the French Gov r ; You must endeavour to know his
Maj is Mind as to what is hinted to you respecting the Pursuit
of y e Enemy into the French Territories : You will give us
the speediest Advices you can as to these Particulars, And
unless such Orders be given & effectually complied with or
Liberty given us to carry the War into the French Countrey
& distress them as they have done us, We can see no
Method that will save us from Ruine
Letter Joseph Heath to L* Gov. Dummer.
Richmond Octob r 7 th 1724.
Honourable
S r Having Your Honours Permission I was on the
way to Boston But meeting an order from L* Colon 1 . Harmon
to march to neridgwalk Ammisquenty &c am attending that
Service, Ready to march assoon as the Quoto of men
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appointed are Delivered me And Rejoyce in this Oppertunity
you are pleased to give me.
This Accompanies the three Mohawks who returning from
Penobscut were got as far as Falmouth in the way to Boston
before my marching Orders came & so could not returne back.
I have Lay? before the Treasurer an acct of what provision
& other necessaryes I supply? them with
It's Obvious to all the Army that these Mohawks proved
them selves good men in the Late action at Neridgawalk
Since which they have met with some Rough Treatment And
in case they should not be made Easey with the method of
Dividing the Captives & scalp money ( which now they are
not ) I Doubt the Consequence will not be good. Thus much
I thought it my Duty to premize to your Honour and Beg-
ging pardon if I have Ignorantly Exceded
Remaine Your Honours Most Hum ble Obedient Servant
Joseph Heath
[ Superscribed ]
On His Majesties Service
To The Hon ble William Durnmer Lieu* Governour
& Commander in Chief &c In Boston
g Cap* Giles
Letter James Parker to L* Grov. Dummer Oct. 15, 1724-
May It please y r Hon r
I rec d y r Letter & with all Thankfulness acknowledge y r
Hon rs favour In granting me Liberty to make my Deffence
before you'd proceed against me. I am Sensible Major
Moodey hath no great affection for me. but w d Endeavour to
Ruin me were it in his power, occasioned by an Old Grudge
he has to me. The Select men of y e town of Falm th gave me
a permitt to sell Drink In October 1723 and I did presume
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to sell by vertue of y r Authority Designing to take licence as
soon as y e Court usually granting Licences sh d come about,
never y e less I was present d & y e Court notwithstanding my
permission from y e Select men proceeded against and fined
me wh. I p? This is w* refers to y e first Conviction. Con-
cerning my Recognizeing & y e forfieture by my Default, I
never did Recognize nor know any thing of It. But upon
y! new Complain* I have waited upon Maj r Moodey time
after time for y e papers & Coppys of y e Evidence If any Such
y re be against me that so I may be able to make my deffence
to the Court, but he tells me I am a Rogue & a Dogg & he'l
give me none nor take any notice of me. I have waited upon
him since I rec' d y r Letter & y e matter is still y e same And
for my Endeavour to Elude y e Law as he hath misrepresented
to y r Hon r by my Enlisting into y e Service there was time
Enough before such Enlistment for prosecution. If not I
have Estate Enough for to answer all such forfietures or
bonds of Recognizance as shall apear ags* Me. So y e Sum
of y e Whole Seams to be y* he was In hopes y* y r Hon r w d
have grant' d my Dismission without giveing me notice of It.
Not y' he was so strenuous to bring me to y e Court. Other-
wise he w^ not have denyed me y* Copys, but to do me a
displeasure by misrepresenting to y r Hon r y r Hon r s most
Hum le & Obedient Serv*
James Parker
^ 8 b . r y e 15 th 1724
Letter Sam 1 Hincks to L* Gov. Dummer
Hon d S r
The 8 th instant in the Evening, Ten indians way layed
The path near 3 garrisen houses in This town and Killed
one Allen a Soldier ( posted at Casco ) sculped him & carryed
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his babbit & gun away & sbot at a Boy wbo Escaped, and
directly I alarumed Tbe Town & adjacent places wbo all
Took itt. at Saco falls we beard one great gun fired wbo
cannot bear us. but Can't Learn Tbe meaning, as yet Tbeir is
m r parker up Their Loading, & I fear This Scout surprized
Them.
Corr 1 Harman some Dayes since, passed This Harbour,
westward, with other officers. Corr 1 Westbrook is Expected
Ever} r Day & in The Sloop this Comes is Capt Born with his
indians, we have Lost no man in This march but are Dis-
appointed
Your Honours bumble Servant
Samuel Hincks
Fort Mary : Winter Harbour Oct r 9 th 1T24
[ Superscribed ]
To His Honour William Dummer Esq r
Leiutt Gov? Comand 1 & Cbeife// In Boston
Letter L* Gf-ov. Dummer to Gap 1 Wheelwright
Bost 17 th Nov br 1724
I received your Letter by Express this Morniog & you are
hereby directed Immediately to draw out of the Souldiers
Posted at York & Wells 50 good Men Well armed & Sup-
plyed with Sutable proviss. for 5 Dayes or more if need bee
& with them to March forthwith to Piggwacot in Search of
the Indians Liveing there According to the relation you have
from the Captive Peter Tallcott who made his Escape from
them & is arived with you whome likewise Stephen Harden
or such other person or gsons as shall be knowing of the
place & the Way to it & the Officer Commanding at Yorke
is hereby Order' d without delay to furnish his part for this
Service which 25. Men. & inasmuch as the Success in this
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Expedition will in a great Measure depend under God on
your dilligent dispatch & I expect from you that the uttmost
Care bee taken therein.
So wishing you good Success I am Y r
P. S. You are to take with you M r Allison Brown of
Cape porpus who is hereby Authorized to Act as Your Lieu 1 ,
& inasmuch as You may probably not be Able to Muster the
whole Complement of fifty good & able Men fit for the Ser-
vice out of the Two towns aforemention'd L* Brown is hereby
Directed to bring with him 10 or 12 good Men from his
Detachment to make up your Number.
Cap* Wheelwright
Letter John Szhuyler to L* Grov. Dummer.
honoured S r //
Some Time agoe one Mons r Daguiell, of mont Reall
was here in Albany by whom I forwarded Your honours Let-
ter to marq 8 Vaudreuiell ~
1 had at y e Same time Some descours with said Daguiell
Concerning y e warrs between New England and y e Indians I
Told him of y* unjustice and barbarity of y u warr, and Some
further discourse Thereabouts, which it Seems s d daguiell
has partly Imparted unto Monsieur Lachassaigne Govern 1 of
mont Reall as I Can perceive by a Letter I Recei d of Mons r
Lachassaigne g the bearer hereof that Mons r Vaudreuill is
very sory and weary of that warr and as far as I can perceive
would willingly See one or two gentlemen Inpoured by New
England Gov" to Endeav r to make an End of that warr
which would bee Very Acceptable in Canada, by this Con-
veyance Goes a Letter For Your honour from Gov r Vaudreuill.
here are now some French Indians in Towne I designe to
keep two of y m about a 14 days or Longer which I Can Easy
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doe for Little or no Charge if his honour may write an
answer to Gov r Vaudreuill upon his Letter that I Can Soon
dispatch itt.
This is att gsent y e most needfull from
Your honours most humb 1 Serv"
John Schuyler
Albany 21 th Nov r 1724 ~
Letter, Grov. W m Burnet of N. Y. to L* Gf-ov. Dummer.
New York 16* Dec r 1724.
S r
I received the favour of yours of the 30*!* Nov r by the
Express, on the 14*! 1 at Night, and have made all convenient
Dispatch to return you an Answer, after that I had taken the
Opinion of the Council which you will find enclosed, and in
which Opinion I cannot but agree with them, Since I look on
the Threatning the French Governour with the Insults of our
friend Indians, in Case of his not complying, tho expressed
ever so cautiously, naturally makes us responsible for what
they may do.
And by our threatning to pursue the Eastern Indians
to the uttermost, must be understood into Canada, which will
be entring that Country in a hostile manner ; and this my
Instructions expressly forbid in these words.
" Provided always that you do not by Colour of any power
" or Authority hereby given you, commence or declare War
" without our knowledge and particular Commands therein,
" except it be against Indians upon Emergencys, wherein the
"Consent of the Council shall be had, and speedy Notice
" thereof given unto us.
And as to entering into a War with the Eastern Indians it
is what Assembly of this Province did in 1722. refuse to con-
tribute to, which Resolution of theirs I then communicated
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to your Government, and therefore need not now send you a
Copy of it.
Under these Circumstances, a Message to the Governour
of Canada, which this Government is not able to support by
any one Action, in Case of Refusal, would be not only of no
use, but of very ill Consequence by acquainting him with our
feebleness.
I see no reason to expect that our Assembly will be pre-
vailed upon to alter their Resolutions, But I cannot have an
opportunity of trying that, till after Harvest next, it being
impracticable to meet them while the River continues shut
up, and the Affairs of New Jersey obliging me to meet that
Assembly in the Spring : So that upon the whole, tho' my
wishes and Intentions are to serve your Province to the
utmost of my Power, I find myself intirely incapable of join-
ing with you in the present Proposal, or any part of it : Being
with great Esteem,
S r your most obedient humble Servant
W Burnet
Letter Hez. Wylly* Sec y of Conn, to L* Q-ov. Dummer
Hartford DecembT 22 d 1724
S r
I have Received yours of November 30 th with the Enclosed
Referred to therein and Wish that a Copy of the Act of Your
Assembly respecting the Message to Canada had also been
Inclosed which Your Hon? Can Yet Supply.
I have Advised with the Gentlemen of the Councill that I
could ( at this Season with Convenience Speak with and am
not Unsenceible of the great difficulty and Charge the Warr
with the Eastern Indians hath bro* upon the whole Province
under Your Coinand I Wish this Government were able to
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Render the Circumstances of Your Province ( in that affair )
more Easie but as to what Your Hon? Intimates respecting
Sending Messengers to Canada Altho' that project Seemeth
Likely to make Mons r Vaudrevill Senceible that his Conduct
Can! be Justify ed neither will it well Support the french
Cause when the Same Methods shall be Taken by New Eng-
land against Canada the Letting Loose the Indians ( as Inti-
mated in Yours ) will doubtless give Conviction when those
things proper to Convince Reason fail And therefore tis to
be hoped at Sight of it at a distance as Represented by Mes-
singers may do something with that Governour.
But Yet would further propose to Your Hon" Advisement
whether it may not be proper to Close the Message to M.
Vaudrevill with a representation that it it is very Apparrent
that our Indian Enemy have Such a dependance on him to
Support them in the Warr that he Can Easily reduce them to
Quietness and that his Exerting himself in So good a Work
( as reduceing those Indians to Order would be ) may hapily
prevent many Mischieffs that Seem to Threaten us as well as
the people under his Comand.
And also give us a Speciall Instance of his good Neigh-
bourhood and if this or any thing Else proper to Insert in
the Message to the Governor of Canada might gaine him to
Influence the Indians to peace it would be well but if he
Should Slight the Motion of being an Instrument to gain a
peace for us I think he would Still be the Less Excusable
and must Thank himself when he is Saught by other Means.
But Yet after all must Let Your Hon* know that it is not
in my power with the Councill to Comply with Your desire
And if I Should Call our Assembly together ( who Can only
Authorize a person to go upon the Errand You mention I
fear the Same Scruples ( as when Col Stoddard was with
us ) will Still be Started which were principally two. first
that the Indians had been wronged in their Lands- Secondly
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 237
that the Hostages received by Your Government of the
Indians were only to Secure the payment of Some Beavour
which the Indians Say they have Since paid and therefore
the Warr not Just on the English Side. These things our
people have had Confirmed to them by Many persons (and
Some of distinction ) of Your Government I would Charitably
hope these reports are wholly groundless I should be very
Unwilling to Entertain Such things without the Clearest
proof. Notwithstanding which in Order to Sattisfy our
Assembly possibly it may be best to Send to me the fullest
Accounts that may be Come at Our late Very Hon bl * and
Excellent Governor Col Saltonstall Sometime before his
death received One of Your Treaties with the Eastern Indians
which now Can* be found doubtless Your Treaties and other
Writings respecting the Eastern Lands if Cofnunicated to our
Assembly might be of Service and a Copy of the Entry made
when the Said Hostages were delivered up (which Entry
Certainly doth Include what they were received for) will
Certainly Sattisfy our Assembly how the Matter is as to the
Hostages Y r Hon* won* think it Strange that there is Need
to Sattisfy our Assembly in these things when You Consider
our people had the Said reports from Among Your Selves as
is above hinted and that what persons Confess against them-
selves is Easily beleived and in many things there wants no
other proof I have Insisted the more Largely that if possible
I might prevent all difficulties for I would Always Cultivate
that good Understanding that hath been between the Two
Governments.
By Order of the Governo 1 of the Colony of Connecticut
Signed p r Hez : Wyllys Secret 17
[ Superscribed ]
To The Honourable William Dumer Esq r L* Gov r
of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay
att Boston These
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Letter Col. T. WestbrooJc to L* Col. Johnson Harmon
Dec. 29, 1724.
Sir
It is his Hon? the Leiu* Gov order, on sight hereof you
give orders that all the frontier garrisons under y r Care be
strict on their guard, and that you order a Scout of men from
Pesomscutt River to Saco River, some distance above those
Towns, And let a Scout of Fifty men be constantly kept
from Saco River a Cross to Berwick, some considerable dis-
tance, ( not exceeding Twenty Miles ) above the Scout that
are already allow'd to those people, a Loggin at Berwick and
Saco River, and in Case you hear of the Enemy, you are to
draw out a sufficient number of men according to the Intelli-
gence you receive and pursue them. Cap* Sanders will Sail
this week for York with a Sufficient number of Snow Shoes
and Moggisons. & in the Mean time you Must Make a Shift
with those that are in the Hands of the Commissary at Casco
which the Treasurer Acquaints the Leu. Governour are about
One hundred as well as those in the several Towns where
they are lodg'd
Boston Decem r 29. 1724
I am Sir yours to Serve
Tho 8 Westbrook
To L* Col Johnson Harmon at York
A True Coppy
Letter - Thomas Sanders to L* Gov. Dummer
Agemogen Reach Febr* 18*? 1725
May it Please your Honour
Pursuant to your Honours Orders I made the
best Dispatch I cou'd to land the Indians at this place, but
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not finding any Indians here We fir'd two Gunns and the
next day six, Indians came to us who inform'd that the Tribe
was at Mount Desert. We thereupon made sail and went up
into a large Bay on the Back of Mount Desert where we
found them. Wheti they had done trading they Consented
to our Departure and the twentieth of Jan? we sail'd for S*
George's. Night coming on We harbour'd in Agemagen
expecting next day to have gain'd S* Georges but contrary
to what the Indians told us & our own Expectations we were
wholly debarred moving by reason of Ice. The Weather
continuing extream cold at times we are still detaind but the
first oppertunity I shall make all possible Dispatch home.
Sundry of the Indians came seven or eight miles on the Ice
to trade with us and as far as we can discover <there is only
Ice to be seen. I have no news to Communicate to your
Hon r so Conclude and am
Your Hon" most Dutifull & Obedient Serv*
Thomas Sanders
Letter Edmund Mountfort to L* Gov. Dummer
Agemogen Reach Feb r y 18 th 1725/6
May it please your Hon r
These Serve to Enclose a Letter deliv'd me by the Cheifs
of the Ind n . 8 for your Hon r And as we are frozen up here I
tho't it proper to send it by the first Opportunity not know-
ing but it was of importance ; the Indians seem to be very
well Satisfied in y r Trade ( but by preswasion of the Jesuit )
disapprove of some Artickles in their Submission ; but Cap*
Beane being present fouijd y fc he misinterpreted them ; & he
inform'd you of the true meaning yr of w cb was to their Sat-
isfaction ; the weather hitherto has been very Cold and all
the bays are so frozen y* y r s no moving by water unless out
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to the Sea ; having nothing farther at present to Add I Con-
clude & Am
Y r Hon" Obedient Humble Serv*
Edmund Mountfort
Falmoth March y e 3 1725/6
May it please your Honour y e 26 of febuary theire came in
fourteen Indens to S* Georges and brought the express
which accompanyes this and I as soon as posibel brought it
to falmoth but through some Diffecelty for wee drew our
boate ten miles on y e Ice for I was obliged to make our num-
ber of men smaller by reason of our Stores being spent wee
have not had anything but bread above this month and but
little of that for wee depended on Cap* Sanders and he being
disappointed Cap* Gyles sent his Leu* to take charge of the
garison but I thought it not proper to deliver it by reason of
so much Ice in y e river that I could not bring of y e men and
my things : I hope it will not bee long before Cap*. Gyles will
bee down with y c sloope and I shall deliver y e Garison to his
sattisfaxshon and shall hasen to Boston to waite upon your
Honour.
I am your Honours most humbel and obedient Servant att
Command
William Canedy
Albany March 22 th 1725
Ron* 1 ' S'
Yours of y e 16 Instant I have Received Last Night with
y c Franch Packet.
I have been Very Much Wondert I had not a Line from
y r Honour Since I must be Some times at a Littel charges.
Ever Since I have heard of y r Pease Made with y e Indians
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 241
I have always Inquier'd to heare of y e S* France Indians but
Cant Gitt no Other Intelligence from them but that there
Designe is to Come to Albany in Order to Make Pease with
your Honour Some time in June Next, but its Not to be
Trusted it is Only flying Neuws
I have Consiedert y e Case & take it to be y e Proper Meanes
& to send Two Discreet faithfull Pearsons to Gitt it Out of
them who will be the Bearer of the Packet and Dont Doubt
but they Will Come to a Certain Knowledge thereof, I
Remain
Your Honours Most Hum and Most Obedient Sarv*
John Schuyler
To the Hon d Will : [ Dummer ]
Letter S. Thaxter W. Dudley to L f Gov. Dummer
March 26, 1725.
May it Please your Honour
This is the first opportunity we have and this obtained by
Secrecy & great Dificullty by one Cagnawaga indian only
which is to informe Your Honour & y e Goverment that all
the easterne indians were gone before we arrived here which
was on the third Day of this month after much hardship &
Dificulty and that the Designe of those indians were to hunt
some time & then to fall on the frontiers we pray God to
Defeat & blast all their Designes if the frontiers particu-
larly on Merrynack & Connecticutt were at this juncture
strengthned itt might be for their Security and of great Ser-
vice to the facilitatig the Peace with them we cannot partiu-
larly Relate the treatment we have had here where we rnett
the Governour we have made our Demands and in as Strong
terms as we can the Governour most of all insists on their
land and is intirely Governed by Pere La Chace the chief of
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the Jesuitts we have Sent Down Captain Jordan to the
Indians places St Francois, Recancourt, Wewenock &c where
he Saw a few indians and many Squaws they all aquainted
him the indians were for Peace & Desire us earnestly to Stay
for the indians Returne We have aquainted the Governour
on his talk leading that way that the Goverments Desired no
Grace or favour of him butt Demanded only justice and if he
was not for that & would cause the indians to go to Boston
or piscataqua to talk of & conclude a just honest & honorable
Peace he must be looked on by God & man as the instigator
of the warr which we could & Did prove by his & other
letters and the hinde r of Peace Sometimes he tells us he has
nothing to Do then again he is angry if any thing is Done or
Said without him and Refuces to give his answer in writeing
to our Demands in writeing how this matter will come out
we cannot yett tell but hope for the Best if the Governour
had that Stedyness & Sway he Ought only to have we should
have nothing to Doubt.
We shall Dispatch as Soon as possible and gett home
again And in the mean while we are your
Honours most Obedient hmble Serv ts
Sam 11 Thaxter
W Dudley
Mont Reall 26 march 1725
verte
Honble S r
Col Thaxter and all the Gentlemen are in good health &
pray the favour that our family & frinds may know the Same
and that we hope to be back by the middle of May at furthest.
OP THE STATE OF MALNE 243
Letter John $ Hannah Hunt to L\ G-ov. Dummer
March 30, 1725
To the Hounorable L et Goviner William Dumer Esqyr
Ouer Humble Request to your Honer is that your honer
wold Relase Ouer Son Jacob Hunt Hov is now att Richman
fort for I am In grate wont of him I being uary Lame and
haue no help and all so Liue uary Remote thearefore wold
Pray your Honour to Consider me And Haue him Relased
as Soon as Posoble and we wold Pray Your Honor to Send
uss A Return whether ouer Request may be granted and in
So doing you Will much oblige your Honours most Humble
Saruants Dated att Almsbury March : y e 30 : 1725 -
John Hunt
Hannah Hunt
Letter, Col T. WestbrooJc to L* G-ov. Dummer April 4,
May it Please your Hon r /
Cap* Bourn will be able to acquaint your Hon?
relating what I wrote from Spurwink the twenty eighth of
last April, I sending him and L fc Dominicus Jordan to make
Discovery. I have Enquired into the Affair of M r Benj a
York mentioned in your Hon Letter Dated April y e 5 th and
by Examining your Hon" Orders to me from time to time
there is no men Allow'd him neither did the General Court
vote him any in the Year 1723. Six men has been Allow'd
at the Ferry Place and upon Enquiry I find by the Coll? of
the Regiment and the Select men of the Town that M r Saw-
yers is the Establisht Garrison. Their houses standing not
above three hundred Yards distant I thought it best to put
part of the men in one house and part in the other and M r
Sawyer having five and York but three York is thereupon
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uneasy. I posted five men at M r Sawyers because the Cap*
and Doct r are there and the Doctf has Occasion very Often
to cross the River to Visit the Sick.
I am Your Hon rs most Dutifull Serv*
Falrn April y e 4 th 1725
Tho 9 Westbrook
P. S. The Enclosd is the List of the ineffective men
which I omitted to send with the other Account.
Letter L* @ov. Dummer to Col. Westbrook
Aprill 5^ 1725.
Colo 1 Westbrook
I have two of yours of the 17 th past & one of the 27 th
recv d yesterday, the Councill have voted 12 - & no more
towards the repairing of Georges ffort w ch you are to husband
to the best advantage In making the Lodgings Comfortable
for the people & having visited your ffamily lett the next of
the Sloop in the Countrys Service that goes east ward take in
the Boxes & Nailes At Saco Mills & You may go down with
them to see the repairs gformed as you proposed & as far as
,12 - You may draw on the Treasurer for the s d service
rendering an Ace? thereof Cap* Canada acquaints me that he
has made the Wharfe allready which you spake of, to whome
for his good Service in gallantly defending that Fort I have
given a Commission for the same.
Gett all your Whaleboats mended that are Capable of it
( for it Will take time to gett New ones ) & order a party of
about 50 men under a dilligent prudent Officer downe to
Penobscott Bay & as much further as you shall think for
the Service especially at Passamaquoddy where y r Lett?
informs the Indians have bin y e last Winter under such
orders as if well Executed they May by Gods blessing Sur-
prise some of the Enemys if there be any of them there I
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have wrote a Letter to all the Collonells in y e E. & W. to
warn the People to be on their gaurd & to go out in Com-
panys to their Work well Armed. I finde you have sent out
divers parties of about 14 Men to Ambuscade the Indians in
their lurking places it will be well if they gform it patiently
& faithfully which I recomend to you to inspect well into &
that they be releived from time to time by Fresh parties so
as their Ambuscade be Continued without intermission untill
you have further orders & that you require of the Several
officers an Account of what passes in their turne, & minute
down every thing any wayes worth notice.
You shall hear further from me very Soon. I shall be glad
when Cap n Vo : with the Indians he promised to bring
with are come to Penobscott. You shall hear from me in a
Short time pray do every thing thats possible to keep us the
Territory of the Enemy
I am s r Y* friend & S*
Wm Dummer.
Letter John Gyles to Col. Westbrook
fort George April 14: 1725
Col 10 Westbrook
April 13 th an Indian Dogg appeard on y e North side of y e
River, a Gainst fort George, which my People shott, & by y e
Carkes of it is not Long since, it straid from y e Indians,
whear vpon I ordred a Larom to Notify y e a iecant Garricons
to be on thier Guard, for in my Opinion y* huntars or a small
scout of Indians ar sculking a boute & Came Down this River,
if it might Pleas, a small Party of men to Reng Might
This is from your humble Sar' to Command John Gyles
S r since I wrote y e a boue,- I Reed an accompt
from Maquaitt y* a soldiar is missing, & Supposd
to be taken
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Letter L* Q-ov. Dummer to Col T. Westbrook
This Comes by M r Moses Markham your Clerk Who
informes me that Hee has On divers Occations been Imployd
by you in Affairs relateing to the Service wherein there has
been no allowance - for his Expences which seems not reason-
able & I think Hee should Make out a Just Account thereof
Which being Avouched by you will doubtless bee Allowed
him by the Government. & if you have Supplyed the Birth
Hee had with you by any other g son & there be any other
vacancy Sutable for Him Lett him have it.
I am Y r friend & S*
Wm Dummer
Letter, John Q-yles to L* Gov. Dummer
May it Pleas your Honour
April 15 : 1725
this Day a Soldier taken from Maquaitt Made
his Escape to this Garrisson, who in forms me y l he was taken
by two Indians y e 13 Currant, one of spake good English &
askd him many questions Particuler Concarning myself &
this fort, he being well acquainted with. & tould him he kild
Moses Eaton, & a negro & an English Man at black Point, &
he tould him y* six Indians wear now gon towards falmouth
to kill & take, and y* our Gentaen Commitionars wear
Returnd from Canaday, and y 1 y e Indians wear Resolved for
war. & y 1 Many Indians & Mohewks would be Down this
summar to Destroy y e English & thier Cattle, and now thier
wear 50 or 60 Indians with a friar at Naraugawock, & seueral
Indians at a Vilig Vp this Riuer, ( Part of his Discours I take
to be. french Aier, tho My humble opinion is as I mention d in
my mean Lins, to your Honour Dec br 12: 1724 Date) the
Sund night after y e Presonar was taken, y e aboue s d 2 Indians
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after hunting & killing Seueral beauer & authers in y e
Euning they being tird, then Camp* about 15 or 20 Mils Vp
this Riuer a boue our fort, and when sound on sleep, y e youth
James Cochron y e Presonar, Ris & nockt them bouth in y e
head, & took of thier sculps one of he brought to this Garri-
son y e auther lost by y e way, and a fin gun in a small Riuer
Passing ouer, I aduised y e Presenar to giue a full accompt
of to y e Col 11 by y e first he being now much tired, I have also
Rote a gain to y e Col 11 of affears since y e Presonar Came in.
I though also to send to Cap tn heath for Men, to go up &
secure y e Canew & authers, that y e Presenar Left w th y e Corps
of, but it being difucult Sending to Ritchinond, I thought it
Proper to mustar a few hands of my Little number & from
Maquaitt, to Prevent y e auther Indians getting y e Plunder.
April 18 th this Day our People went Vp y e Riuer to Vew y e
Indians corps & bring of y e Plondar and if any further
Discouery.
April 17 th then Returned, but* no fur ther Discoury, they
brought of y e auther gun hatchets kniues & Stove y e Canew
brought y e auther sculp, skins & in all to y e Value of 6 or 8
Pounds.
I have often Prayed for a Reinforcement of men to this
Garrison, to scout & ambush this Riuer & auther Places
which Depending on authers for it. I now renew my humble
Request for your Honours feauer to this Garrison,
fort George April 16 th : 1725:
I am your honours Most Duty full seruant
John Gyles
I inclose a Copy of a few Lins to Col 10 Westbrook of our
furst Discouery of y e Enimy
//y e Indians also toulH y e Presenar, y* Jn Legon & more
Indians wear to y e westward, & by & by go kill English, but
Samson Leagon his brother was at Canaday, which y e Pres-
onar furst Enquired after Samson Le n .
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//the Indians tould y e Presonar they took a Vew of this
fort f urst, but seeing no ( Raspict ) of, went to Maquaitt thier
Lay all night by y e garrison, & in y e morning Dog d y e soldiar
a bout y or a mile distant, then took him as they said, y e
Presonar advised them to go back to y e garrison, & take an
auther they s d no, a nough Now & struck a ( Coross ) to this
Riuer, towards thier Canew, as y e Presonar says
Pray Pardon my Long Scralls.
York 16 th April 1725
May it Please Your Hon? /
We have no Account of the Enemy at present,
but fear they are endeavouring to be reveng'd on us for their
Brethren, I hope our constant putting Your Hon r ? Orders in
practice will prevent them. I have no Sloop yet arrived
here with Stores to send down to the Eastward according to
Your Hon Orders to distress them which I was in hopes I
should have had some time ago. Lieu* Jaques has been for
some considerable time past very desirous with me to write
to your Hon* for his Dismission which at last has prevail'd
he assuring me of his great necessity to be with his business
and what damage he shall sustain if not granted L 1 Coll?
Harmon tells me he had Your Hon word to dismiss him
when his business earnestly call'd for him which it doth at
this time, Both of them thankfully Acknowledge Your Hon r ?
favours to them from time to time. If Your Hon r shou'd be
pleas'd to Dismiss Lieu 1 Jaquesh and Commissionate En!
Carlile in his room Lieu* Coll Harmon informs me he will
be very agreeable to him, and I do assure your Hon? I have
known him ever since I have been in the Service and have
always found him a modest and sober Young man and very
ready & faithfull on all Commands The last Orders I rec d
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from Your Hon r were dated the 16 th of last Month. Having
nothing more that offers worth Your Hon" notice
I remain Your Hon r8 most Dutiful! Serv 1
Tho 8 Westbrook.
P. S. Lieu 4 Coll? Harmon is very desirous if Your
Hon* shou'd order any Sloop to guard the Fishery that
he may Command her.
I have askd leave some time ago to go home for a few
days my business there being very urgent but have not
yet rec? Your Hon r8 Smiles.
Letter L* G-ov. Dummer to Capt. Sane "April 17, 1725."
Cp? Bane.
You must acquaint Sackaristis & the other Indian That at
the Desire of Sackamaten ( as well as their own ) & allso M r
Minotts motion I permit them to visit their Friends & Fami-
lies Upon their Promise to return again punctually in Fifty
Days : That Sackamacten has much recommended him self to
me by his Honesty & Faithfulness and therefore I shall
alwaies treat him well, as I shall them If they prove them
selves as faithful as he has done.
That Sackamacten has inform'd me That the Indians are
desirous of Peace, If they find so, when they come among
them And any of the Chiefs are disposed to come in to treat
they may bring them in upon their Return & the Chiefs shall
be well received & dismiss'd with Safety ; That We shall be
very ready to receive their Submission & let them live in
Peace if they are desireous of it, Alth6 God has given us
great Success against them of late, And our Soldiers are now
so well trained & used to the War & have so good a Knowl-
edge of the Indian Countrey, That We doubt not but that by
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the Help of God we shall force them to submit, If they con-
tinue obstinate : But we don't delight in War any otherwise
than as the Injuries they have done us make it necessary.
That if the Indians have any Distrust of being safe in
Coming in Because of our March to Penobscot & Cpt. Heaths
burning the Houses, They make a wrong Judgment of y e
matter, they must not expect that I shall at all slaken the
Prosecution of the War till their Chiefs come in : And that
is the Method of all wise Governments, but when they come
in y e Name of their Tribes & express their sincere desires for
peace then they may depend on it I will desist from all fur-
ther Acts of Hostilitye & give orders Accordingly to all the
fforces everywhere.
Be very careful to make them fully & clearly understand
you.
Would have You to let nothing hinder You from Return-
ing to S 1 Georges Fort So as to Receive the Indians at their
Return thither To which purpose I have also Wrote the
Colonel.
Letter John Minot to L* Q-ov. Dummer
Portsm Apr 1 20 th 1725
May it Please your hon r /
/ Having formerly tacken some minets of a Conference
that I had with twenty of the Eastern Indians that were
heads of those Tribes, my buissness allowing me a Leasure
hour and hearing of y e many miseryes and callamityes that
acrew by reason of this unhappy Warr I think it a Duty
incumbent on me to give your hon? a relation of it ; It was a
few months before I left that part of y e Countrey that if
your Hono r should be so happy as to have a Treaty with
them some things might be Effeckted that I have a great
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Assurance would be for y e promoting & Establishing a Last-
ing peace and being Assured of your having the Publick
good so much at heart & my rearl freindship and Intimacy
with those people imboldens me to write, One morning as I
was walking in y e town I met one of y e Saggamores he tould
me there was a Com a of Indians that desired to speake with
me, when I came to them I found the number before
inserted, & they were all elderly men After a little silence
one of them spake to me asking if I knew them, I tould
them I knew they were the , Leading men of Panopscoat and
Nerigwalk they tould me the time of year allowd them to
meet there, and they took this Opportunity to talke with me
uppon some heads which they sayd they would fully Com-
municate to me, taking me far their friend, & uppon it, tould
me they were very much wrongd & Abus'd in many things
and sayd if there were not some speedy methods taiken to
prevent these abuses, and to perform our Promises made by
Coll~ Shute and the Saggamores that were at that Congress,
there would be A Warr Acrue in a little time, and as I was
there and heard what was said, desired me to remonstrate it
to some of the Governm* how they were agreived, and
farther added that if they did not prove their cause to be
just in troubling us this time they would desist, and that it
only wanted their assent and y e warr began, but farther
added that they were old men and warr was troublesome &
they urgd peace provided the English would come into just
methods with them and perforate what was promised at that
Congress and that notwithstanding what the Jesuit should
Excite them to, it would have no influence on y m for it was
Interest & not religion that Obliged them to live in peace &
freindship with any People, Uppon which I tould them I
was very much surpriz'd at what they said, and that their
now speaking of Warr was Contrary to what they have often
tould me of Living in peace and as Brothers with us, and
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that it was agreable to their former treatment of y e English
in breaking their many truces that were made with them in
Coll. Dudleys time & w th other Gentmr that had the Gov-
ernm* of the provinces: they tould me we were their Ene-
mies & that we lookt on them as ours & when ever we were
an Anoyance to them as we were now they made warr, giv-
ing me many Instances of our Breach of ffaith perticularly
Cap* Chubs treating with them on the Sabath day calling
some of y m togather ( as he said ) in a freindly manner & at
the same time drew Pistolls and shot them while they had
his bread between their teeth and another time of hard treat-
ment by Coll Walton of Cochecho which your hon? may not
be unaquainted with, but said as those things were past they
should be overlookt on bouth sides, And added that we
could not have a greater Manifestation of their Intentions
for a Lasting freindship then by their paying down the hun-
dred & od skins for to Compensate in some measure for y e
damages their people had done, when they might at the
same time have come down on our frontears and made the
same depredations that they had formerly done, And farther
said that they had concluded on those methods which the
Gov r chearfully came into & unless they were Effected the
peace would not last I askt them what they were they tould
me I could not so soon forget what was said there, Asking
me if I did not heare the Gov* promise that he would be a
Constant succor and help to them and that he would taike
caire to prevent those Abuses that were Constantly impos'd
on y rn by the Inhabitants in this part of y e Countrey and that
to prevent these abuses he would build them a Traiding
house or houses and Appoint some just men to Transact
with them that should doe them justice, and said their peo-
ple were Constantly made Drunk by our People selling y m
rum, and all the Laws and Severe penailtyes the province
could inflict would never prevent it without this Trading
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house and thatt the Killing of y e Cattle and all y* Diffirences
arose from our letting their rude people have rum, I then
askt y m how it would prevent it though I was very Sensible
how it would / they tould me I was not unsensible of the
nature of their trade and that when an Indian came downe
with a quantity of beavour many of them that were drinking
men would first ask for a skin in rum which was worth 7 or
8/ and that they often gave for one quart which is 30/ g g 1
notwithstanding (sayes they) they are often deny'd and
your people tell them: there is a Law of our Province
against it, and you give us a great deale of uneasiness by
breaking open our Doares &? a this great profit on the rum
sometimes will not prevaile but here is a Temptation sayes
they that few or none of you will withstand - this Indian tell
you he has a large quantity of beavour, and he nor any of
his friends shall deale with you unless you grant this request
& the Temptation of loosing sometimes ten pounds aday
which I have known som Experience is dificult to resist & if
the Trading house undersold every bodey else no body
would be tempted to sell rum only for the profit they get on
y* Commodity by reason they give the people so great
uneasiness after they are drunk with it. Another of y e
same Community tould me he had lately gave 28/: bush 1 for
Com and askt me if I were not A witness to it I tould them
I was, that I was sorry it was so, they tould me the promises
that were made by the Gov r would prevent these impositions
- Another of y e Same . number tould me that af ew Dayes
past, he had stole from at a House up the River 30 saple
skins which I had great reason to beleive was true, he tould
me Two witnesses were enough in our Law to prove any
thing, but he had brought three and could get no justice
done him, saying he was Unhappy last night to drinke too
much at the said mans house & that it was a villanous
thing in him after he had got away agreat deale of his
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substance for rum to rob him of great part of what was left I
tould him he must goe to the Gov r to Boston for Justice he
tould me it would cost him 50 skins to goe there, and that it
was a great hardship there was no bodey appointed here to
doe them justice & then askt me what Two oxen were worth.
I tould him it was a wrong way to doe himselfe justice he
tould me he had no other way & in a few days I heard the
man had lost Two oxen. They farther added that there
was a Trading house Appointed by the Governm* formerly
but that the man that kept it was a Rogue & made the yard
V^ to short and impos'd on y which gave many of them a
Disgust against the Governm* , & uppon y e Conclusion tould
me they had never Broke their faith with the french but had
allwayes liv'd in peace with them and that it was their kind
treatment of y m induc'd them to be their freinds & tould me
that when once their people Experienced that we were a
Constant Succor to y m it would induce them to keep alasting
freindship with us for sayes they your giving us a Present at
once is soone forgot by our young men, but this would be a
Constant Obligation on them that they would daily see their
dependance on us. Its my humble Oppinion that some
methods might be taiken with the Expense of about 500 g
Annum that would keep them in perpetuall peace which I
hope your Hon r in your great wisdome will be so happy as
to Effeckt I am
Yo r Hon" most Obedient Humb Serv*
John Minot
[ Superscribed ]
To The Hono r William Dummer Esq r Leu* Gov r of y e
Province of y e Massachusets Bay &c a Humbly present
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Letter John Gray to Col. T. Westbrook.
Falrn aprill 20. 1725/
Hond S'
Ensign Woodside waits on you With the Ace* of the
Action Latly Performed By the Lad against the Indians,
Who with a Party of Men, on the return of s? Coughran
Went to View the Corps of the destroyed Enemy, I did
Imagine it might be proper To send him in Case of any dis-
pute that might arrise referring to their Scalpes - of Which
your Hon r will be a sufficient Judge.
I am your most Obedient Ser*
John Gray
M r Woodsides has taken a great Deale of pains and
been very Expeditious
Letter from Col. J. Wentworth
Portsm Aprill 21 th 1725
Sr
Yesterday was with me a Young Man who is a Souldier in
Your Servis by Cocharain An Ireish lad, Two Indians Took
him at Maquoite and carried him up Amoscogen river a Day
& halfs Journy The Second Night, this Cocharain found The
Indians fast asleep went round em. feeling for a hatchet at
length found one with which he Dispach* em boath & has
bro* away there Scalps, but makes the Story more Manly,
this Cocharain lost one of his Scalps on his March home So
that wen he came to Our Garrison he got three men more 1 of
his minde and went up to the place w c . h they Judge Neer forty
Miles from Maquoite, and there found the Indians as he had
Saide, So the Took An other P 8 of his Scalp and brings with,
I Sent them Down Yesterday in Order to get apassage to
Boston, where I hope you will See him this Evening.
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it was a Manly Action and doubt not but you will reward
Accordingly, but in these cases our hands are Tied up, which
is Verry Greaveious to me, I think Such actions should be
bountifully rewarded, it would animate attempts, which would
Discourage our Enemies ) The Young Man Tells me that our
Gentlemen were returning from Cannada and that no peace.
I have a letter from Govern 1 Shuler who Tells me his
three Reports Now lyes before a Committe of Council, and
all reported in his favour, and that he has the promiss of
comeing over in better Cercumstances then before if you
have any thing New shall be glad to Know it ,
I am D r Sir Your Most Obed* Humbl Ser*
J: Wentworth
Letter L* Q-ov. Dummer to Capt. J. G-yles
Letter to Col Westbrook D to Cap* Gyles
April 27 th 1T25 "
Sir
I have enclosed a Warr* to the Commanding Officers of
the Marching Companies to deliver to you thirty Men, You
will see that they be good Men & well ann'd & fitted & after
a short Refreshm* at Fort George You must march with
them up Amerescoggin River in Quest of the Enemy taking
with you Cpt Joseph Bane to command under you & as a
skilful Pilot for this Service, And the said Cpt Bane is
order'd to attend you accordingly. You must take with you
as much Provision as you can conveniently carry, & march
as high up the River as possible, & if you can find no Tracks
or Signs of Indians on that River or the Branches of it, You
must cross over to Kennebeck River if it be practicable ( of
which you will be the best able to judge ) & March down
that River to Richmond, Let your Motions be perform'd with
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 257
great Silence & Secrecy, & be patient in Lying wait for the
Enemy in such Places where it is probable they will pass :
If any Opportunity of Service may present that may require
a different Rout from I have here directed : You have my
Leave to proceed accordingly.
I lay very great Stress upon y nr Seeking out y e Enemy y*
may be in that River at this Juncture & expect that you per-
form some notable Service as may be expected from two such
good & experienced Officers.
If you are of opinion that you may not be Safely Spared
from your Garrison at this Season I Order that Cp* Bean
have the Command & gsue these instructions & Hee may
take Some Sutable good Officer to Command under Him
M* Trescot is the bearer hereof whom I Appoint for the
third Officer in this March And in Case You don't go Your
Self he is to be the Second.
Warrant.
By the Hon ble the Lieut. Gov r
These are to direct the several Commanding Officers
of the three Marching Companies or of such of the said Com-
panys as are at or near Casco Bay forthwith to detach out of
them such a Number of Men from each as shall make up in
the whole thirty effective Men to be deliver'd to Cpt. John
Gyles who is to Command the said Party vpon a particular
Service for which he will receive my Instructions.
Letter L* Gov. Dummer to Col. T. Westbrook
Sir
I have Order'd Cpt. Giles & Cpt. Bane with a Detachm*
of 30 Men from the Marching Companies to go in Quest of
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the Indians upon Amerescoggin River & Parts adjacent: If
this should meet you at Casco or thereabouts, You will gee
that this Matter be expedited.
I Can't be of any other opinion but there has been a great
Neglect in the Officers at Falm? That a Scout was not imme-
diately sent to ly for some Days about the dead Bodies of the
Indians W ch being upon a Carrying Place It was highly
probable the other six Indians would pass that Way I desire
you would strictly examine into this Matter & find where the
Fault lies : for I am much ashamed that there should be so
little of a Spirit among the Officers to make any brisk
Attempts upon the Enemy w n such proper occasions offer. I
will finde out oificers if it be possible of more spirit. You
must Order that the Muster Rolls of the sev. Companies be
made up as soon as may be that they be ready to pass upon
the first Sitting of the Court: You must not let too many. of
the Captains or Subalterns be off from their Posts at a Time ;
but the Clerks or one of the Sergeants of the sev 11 Companies
may bring up the Rolls, & make Oath to them. The Enemy
being now about, The Frontiers must be carefully protected,
& the Marching Forces be upon constant Duty in the Woods,
& if any demurr should hapen that requires the officer to
Clear up I shall gmitt them to Come downe w n they will
have time enough to doe if they make up their muster rolls
forthwith, w ch may be done directly, as farr as the Electr
Day.
9 I have no direct application from Coll Harman or LR
Jaques for a dismiss 11 which is proper in such Cases, & th6
they are good Officers I Will not keep them from better
opportunityes for their advantage if there should be any
other Vessell & Company then what are allready in the service
to protect the ffishery I shall be glad if Coll 1 Harman serve
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Letter Nathan Knight to John Gray
Worshipfull sir
These are informing you that by the noise of such a
great number of guns which we hear in the woods hard by
us killing the cattle as we supose, we understand there are a
great number of the Indians in the place, and we are mightily
afrayed haveing so few souldiers and the inhabitants utterly
refuses unanimusly to watch 1 " and to asist us, in such a
strait, we therefor earnestly desire you would be pleased as
you are a Civil magistrate we intraiet you to Sympathize with
us in useing some present method to oblige the Inhabitants
if possible to watch and asist us in this so perilous time
under such eminent and iminent danger Dear Kind sir we
repose much confidence in your favour and speedy care of us
and oblige and help
Sir Your humble servants
Hugh Henry minister Nathan Knight
Black point April 28. 1725.
Sir I request fauour to deliver the inclosed at your con-
venience.
[ Superscribed ] To Captain Gray at Casco these
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. W m Dummer
May it please y r Hon r
You will see by the two Ace 1 * Accom-
panys this that the Indians are down upon us in great num-
bers I am sending to L* Coll? Harmon and the Officers on
the Frontiers to Muster what men they can to meet them but
they being at such a Distance fear it will be to little purpose
being in hast cannot Enlarge
I am your Hon" most Dutifull Humb 1 Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
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To the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners for Trade
& Plantations.
The Memoriall of Thomas Lechmere Esq? Surveyor Generall,
& the Severall Collectors, and other officers of His Majesty's
Customes In New England
Most humbly sheweth
That wee being obliged by your Lordshipps letter dated
the 26 June 1719 to lay before your hon b . le board the proceed-
ings of the severall Governments in our districts, cannot omitt
the repeating of our observations upon the great Priveledges
& advantages ariseing to the Dutch & French plantations in
America being supplied with horses for the Mills, Provisions,
Lumber &c. without which they cannot subsist, & in a more
perticular manner the horses for their Mills to grind e their
Canes, they having few or none of Watermills or Windmills,
so consequently must have Cattle Mills, and the cheif returns
wee have from thence are in Melasses, some Sugar, Rum,
Cocoa Nutts Indigoe &c* soe that the Melasses which wee
cheifly import from those forreign plantations, being of no
use to them, and the freight to Holland and France so high,
will nott admit of being by any shipped off, besides the prohi-
bition of it in France, as alsoe if we consider the great Impo-
sitions they lay upon our Vessels tradeing to their ports, its
more destructive than advantagious, unless a duty was laid
upon such forreign Comoditys imported into our plantations,
payable to His Majesty's Collectors, as allsoe that those
Comoditys from forreign plantations, when unloaden be under
the same restraints, as the produce of our plantations, which
will be of great advantage to Trade, and raise a considerable
revenue to the Crown.
But what we now proceed with humble Submission to
acquaint your Lordshipps with is, That y Severall Acts of
Parliament made in Great Brittain, to render America more
usefull and depending thereon by giving great premiums for
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raiseing Navall Stores, by which the lands may be improved,
and the people enabled to keep a Correspondence with & to
make Returns for their Trade to Great Brittain, are in a
manner frustrated by a great omission of such improvements,
and the Inhabitants are dayly running into the makeing of
Brittish manufactures as Woollens &c a by which they will in
some time have no occasion to Correspond with Great Brit-
tain for such Comoditys, and to which great Encouragement
has been given of late Years by severall Acts which have
passed in the respective Generall Assemblys of each Govern-
ment in the said districts
And as allsoe we take leave most humbly to observe, That
they very much encourage the circulation of province bills
of Creditt, and letting them out to interest upon land secu-
rity, and by the said Acts enforceing them to be received by
all his Majesty's Subjects in all payments & Contracts ( Spec-
ialties excepted ) as equall to mony, though the Tenour of
said bills say's only, shall be in all publick payments accepted
by the Treasurer of each province and by reason of the great
number of these bills which amount to Four hundred Thou-
sand pounds or upwards in the severall Governments, and
notwithstanding the publick Faith and Sanction to support
them, and annually to sinke the Number of them, as by their
Acts doe's more fully appear, and which they sometimes
evade by which the Creditt of their said Bills is sunk so low
that they have lost in their Value more than a Moiety.
This we must humbly conceive doth evidently shew to
your Lordships That, we being obliged to receive them hi all
publick payments at the full vallue, how prejudiciall they are
to his Majesty's Revenue, and of what dangerous consequence
to Trade & Commerce, and how destructive to the Industry
and property of the Subject, and those proceedings leading
us to the source of such Evills, which we presume to take
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notice off in the following manner may open a Scene which
will not a little surprize Your Lordshipps
The Gentlemen of this Country ( Merch*? and monyed men
excepted) who possess most of the improved and waste lands,
are the majority of Members in the severall Generall Assem-
blys, they for the most part take up those bills & circulate
them upon the Creditt of their own lands, without any mony
or treasure laid up in bank to support them, and by their
laws obligeing them to be received in all payments by all
persons ; as lawfull tenders as hath been before observed by
which they have taken in all moneyd Men's Estates, and are
now in these bills, and the Merchants & Traders who are
generally the possessors of the bills must take the Growth
and Produce of the Country for them, which are risen to
most extravagant prices ; and the said Gentlemen are allso
enabled by the said bills to carry on the Manufactures before
mention'd, and to purchase more land, which is a great
Engrossing thereof, so that poor people comeing from Great
Brittain & Ireland upon the prospect of having lands to set-
tle on, & are the great riches of this large and uncultivated
Country, are in a great measure debarred, the land being in
their possession, and raised to such great prices which is the
greatest discouragement that can be to a farther improvement
of these parts of his Majestys dominions.
And wee most humbly conceive it to be incumbent on us
to make a Representation at this juncture, because these
Evills being seen into by most of the Substantiall men in the
Country, a Comittee of whom was appointed by the Generall
Assembly at Boston, the Metropolis of North America, to
consider of ways & means to redeem the Credit of the bills,
& unanimously agreed upon the following propositions - 1 s *
That no more bills of Creditt should be made. 2 d . ] y That
what mony the Country should want upon publick Expences
should be borrowed in these bills of Creditt allready made.
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3 d . ] y That if those persons who had the bills upon Mortgage
would pay them in should have Ten g cent Discount, which
proposalls being so advantagious to those Men who had the
bills upon Mortgage, and would pay them in, and now not
being half the vallue, for which they received them. Yet
notwithstanding these proposalls were rejected, & the said
Men now in the Massachusetts bay have made an Act for
emitting Thirty Thousand pounds more in these bills, without
any alteration of Tenour or Form or Indenture or Escutcheon
for carrying on an Indian warr, and postponed the cancelling
or burning of Twenty seven Thousand pounds of bills of
creditt, but continue them in currency, and obligeing all per-
sons in all payments to receive, which with Submission is a
manifest Breach of publick faith.
And the Government of Rhode Island in like manner, th6
no way concerned in the Warr and not at all in Debt, and
are not above Eight hundred pounds g annum charge for
supporting the charges of Government yet at this time have
passed an Act for continueing Eighty Thousand pounds at
Interest in these bills, which is very destructive to Trade.
And wee thinke it our humble dutys to observe to your
Lordshipps that, before the assemblies concluded on these Acts
they received his Majesty's letter dated at the Court of
Windsor the SI 8 * of August last signified by his Grace the
Duke of Newcastle to all the Governours of New England,
comanding each of them not to pass any bills in their
respective Assemblies there of an unusuall or extraordinary
nature, and importance, wherein the kings prerogative or the
propertie of the Subject might be prejudiced, or Trade any
ways affected, untill the draught of such bill or bills had been
transmitted home and the Royall approbation received there-
upon, unless there was a Clause inserted therein, suspending
the execution thereof untill it has the Royall Sanction ; And
notwithstanding such repeated comands these Acts have
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passed, and are putt in force without any such Clause which
matter so tenderly affecting his Majesty's perogative & reve-
nue ( wee having no fare of mony but only in those bills ) as
likewise Trade in Generall and perticularly the Commerce of
Great Brittain, and soe injurious to the Industry and property
of the subject, these bills being sunk soe greatly in their
Vallue, many of them being very often counterfeited, the
Indenture worn out, and allmost quite defaced, that nothing
can be foreseen but the uttmost Confusion even to the totall
ruine of these his Majesty's dominions, unless the Royall
Grace intervene for their preservation.
And wee most humbly propose it as absolutely necessary,
That the bills of each Government may be called in, or that
the possessors of them, upon paying them into the Treasury,
may have Security from the Government for them, and law-
full Interest paid, untill the Government hath redeemed the
principall, by which the Merchant, who doth not lett his Cash
lye dead, may dispose of the bills he hath received, instead
of being obliged to part with them at a great discount for
the produce of the Country, which hath been raised to meet
prodigious prices.
And wee further most humbly take leave to represent to
Yo* Lordshipps, That whereas this Continent carrys on a
considerable Trade to the Bay of hundoras in the Spanish
West Indies for Loggwood and great Quantitys being annu-
ally brought into these parts, and his Majesty haveing been
most graciously pleas'd with advice and Consent of Parlia-
ment to take off the Duty from Loggwood and other Dying
woods and Druggs to encourage the importation thereof to
Great Brittain, as the Mart of Trade; That all the said
Loggwood soe imported into the plantations, be subject to
be bonded to be carried to Great Brittain, or if allowed and
permitted to be transported to forreign Marketts, to pay the
Duty of Twenty Shillings Sterling g Tunn upon Exportation
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 265
for the Use of his Majesty, which will consequently prevent
Forreigners from haveing it at a cheaper Rate then the Brit-
tish Merchants ; as by the Act of the Eighth year of his
Majesty it is paid at the Exporting thereof from Great
Brittain.
All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordshipps
consideration by
May it please Your Lordshipps Most humble ffaithfull
and Most Obed* Servants
Thos : Lechmere Hilbert Newton
John Jekyll Arch? Cuming
Nath 11 Ray W m Lambert
Boston New England Aprill 30 th 1725.
E: New England Plan 8 Gen.
Letter from M r . Cuming with a Mem 1 , from the officers
of y e . Customs Setting forth the great detriment the Plantation
Trade suffers by Selling Horses to Forreign Plantations, by
bills of Credit in New England $ by a deficiency in the Act
relating to the Importation of Logwood here Dated June
23 d 1725
Rec d July 8 \ 1725
Read Aug\ 11 } 1726
Add : On his Majesty's Service
To Allured Popple Esq* Secretary to the Righ? Hon-
ourable The Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations
att White Hall
g Cap* Barlow
Letter, Oapt. John Gray to L* Q-ov. W m Dummer
Falrn May. The 4 th 1725
May It Please Your Hon r
The Inclosed is what I rec d This day From the Minister
of Black Point, and the Serg* of the Garrison Their. This
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I thought my duty To Acquaint your Hon* of. Opt Bourn is
Bound To Boston With some Lett From Coll Westbrooke.
Which prevents my Futher Inlargement.
I am Hon d S r your most Hum ble Ser* Command
John Gray ~
[ Superscribed ]
The Hon b . le William Dummer Esqj Liev* Governour of
the Massachusetts Bay & c Boston
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gf-ov. W m Dummer
Falrn May y e 4 th 1725
May it Please your Hon r
I rec d your Hon r ? Orders g En! Tris-
cott who coming by Cape Porpoise last Saturday with four
men was fir'd on by a party of Nine or Ten Indians. Tris-
cott is shott through the Thigh and through the Ankle, two
of the men with him had the Stocks of their Guns shott.
They immediately made up a party of about twenty four
men some Soldiers some Inhabitants and some Fishermen
from Cape Porpoise & followed them but could not come up
with them.
As to sending Cap* Gyles thirty men just now I cannot
possibly make them up, all the Marching Forces & sundry
from the Garrisons being already Employ'd in your Hon
particular Orders as your Hon r will plainly see by comparing
the State of the Army, I now send with your Hon" Orders.
As soon as I can call off such a part I shall immediately
send them, the Enemy is certainly down on us in consider-
able Numbers, so that we have as much as we can do to
keep the weak parts of our Frontiers from their Incursions.
I have ask'd the Officers of Falrn the reason why they didnt
make up a party and lye by the dead bodies of the Indians,
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 267
their Answer is they did not hear of it till six days after it
was done and not more than seven or eight hours before the
Enemy was down w* h them and kill'd two men and the place
where y e dead bodies lay was sixty Miles from them, so con-
sidering the Enemys being amongst them judg'd it not safe
to march so far from their several Garrisons, for a small
scout at that Juncture drawn out wou'd have very much
expos'd them their Number not being above five or six in a
Garrison and the Garrisons very scattering. As to the
marching Forces and sundry of the Garrisons they are con-
stantly in the Woods in sundry small Scouts and are faith-
full in their Duties by what I hear from them from time to
time.
I shall Direct the Officers to prepare their Rolls as fast
as they can.
Cap 1 Bourn being indisposd and desirous to wait on
your Hon* I have permitted him to carry the Express for its
more speedy Arrival. If your Hon r should be at Newberry
in a short time I would be glad to have leave to wait on You
there for a few hours.
I am Your Hon rs most Dutiful Serv*
Tho' Westbrook
L* Gf-ov. Dummer to Capt. Bourn.
11 th May 1725_
Sir
This Comes by Capt Holman & I hope this will finde
you diligently Imployed in Enlisting & getting your Men
ready for their Embarcation. Cap* Holman Carried you 80.
for bounty money for so many Men. & I desire you'l Exert
your selfe so as to gett your ffull Number. th6. you should
go as far as the Vineyard to make them up but I hope there
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will be no need of that. Gett them on Bord assoon as possible
& when it shall please God you arrive safe with them at ffal-
mouth you are to take Coll Westbrooks order for your fur-
ther proceeding. See that the Men be well used & well
disciplined. Shall bee well pleased to have Leu 1 Dimock
first Lieut. & you must have A second Leu* w ch will bee
appointed you when you gett to your Rendezvous. I have
nothing more at gsent but to recomend to you all possible
Y
Letter Corp. Benj. Hassell to It Cf-ov. Dummer
Dunstable May y e 11 1725
to his Honor y e Govener
An Information from Cap" Louewell Companey at Ossepye
pond a man being Sick we Left nine men with him we made
a forte thare And sent out scouts Discouerd tracks then we
marched towards pigwackit we heard a gun then marched to
Saweco River Discouerd more trackes then Coing to pigwacket
found whare Some Indens went into Conowes then marched
and See one indon kild him and Returning two milds thare
we ware shot upon Cap" Lovewell wounded and non Returnd
but I to y e teen men and we and no more are yet Come to
Dunstable.
Superscribed Benj n Hassell Corp.
To His Honor the Left Gouner
William Dummer
Letter JEleazer Tyng to L* Gov. Dummer May 12, 1725.
May it Please Your Hon r
Upon my hearing of thee Newes Early This Morning This
Twelfe Instant and Benj a Hassel Gave me This account ~
OP THE STATE OP MAINE 269
That on the Ninth of this Instant about Nine or Ten of The
Clock in The Morning Cap* Lovewell Saw an Indian on The
Opposite Side of Sawco pond and Then Imediately Left Their
packs and went about Two Miles before Thay Came To him
Thay Coming Within about five or Six Rods Before Thay
Saw The Indian and The Indian Made The first Shot at Them
and Wounded Cap* Lovewell & Sam 11 Whiting & Thay Ime-
diately Killed The Indian and Returning back To Their packs
Came Within forty or fifty Rods of Them The Indians
Walaid Them under The bank of a Little Brook Cap 1 Love-
wells men being between The Brook and The pond it being
a pine plain The Indians fired upon Them both in The front
& The Rear Shouting and Runing Towards Them Cap* Love-
well fell at The first Vollee The Indians Shot and Groan'd
This man being Clost by him & Then he Saw Several of
Cap* Lovewells Men Gitt behind Trees ; upon This he Seeing
Such a Grate Number of Indians Thougt it best To Return
To Some men Thay had Left With a Sick man at a fort
Thay Made about Thirty Miles back By ossipe pond and he
Got To the fort The Next Morning about Nine of the Clock.
And if your Hon* Thinks fitt I Will March up To The place
Your Hon" Most Hum 11 Ser*
Eleazer Tyng
P: Sergent Nat 11 Woods Desiered me To acquaint Your
HonT That he was Left with The Nine Men at The fort &
upon hassels Coming To The fort The Men Would Stay No
Longer. Woods both Desier'd & Comanded Them to Stay
but Could Not prevail w th Them & Then he Made The Best
of his Way home.
P : Lev* Blanchard came home Last Night.
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i
Letter L* Q-ov. Dummer to Col. Wentworth
May 13, 1725.
Sir
I have just Time to tell you That One of Cpt. Love-
wells Men is run from him & left him engaged with the
Indians at Pigwacket last Lords Day, & pretends that they
were overpower' d by Numbers & that he saw Cpt Lovewell
fall & heard him Groan, & that he him self was cutt off from
the Comp* by the Indians Pressing between them tho. Hee
Cant Deny but our people were Chargeing y e Enemy briskly
when he left I have Order'd out Coll n . Tyng with forty
Men to make the best of his Way to Ossapy & Pigwacket in
Quest of the Enemy, & Cp* White to follow him with his
Comp a of Voluntiers ; And I must pray that you would act
in Concert with us in this Affair & send from N Hampshire
a Party of Men upon the same Ground, For if the Enemy in
that Ground are of such Strength as to defeat Lovewell
They will thereupon be in great Security : It is of the utmost
Importance that something be done vigorously & expedi-
tiously on this Occasion.
Coll Wentworth
Letter If. Gf-ov. Dummer to Col. Eleazer Tyng May 13, 1725.
Sir
This Morning I rec d y" Ace* of the Indians Engaging
Cpt Lovewell at Pigwacket, I have not Time at present to
make any Observations on the ill Managem* of Hazzel & the
ten Men at the Fort who have so cowardly deserted their
Commander & Fellow Soldiers in their Danger.
Your Readiness to go out forthwith after the Enemy is
well Accepted & Approved of by me & the Council, And
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 271
accordingly I direct you to a make up a Body of forty effec-
tive Men well arm'd & provided (if you think so many
necessary ) & proceed without Delay to Ossapy & Pigwacket
& the Country thereabout, & make careful Search for y e
Enemy in Order to kill & destroy such as may be found
there And at the Place of their Engagem* with Opt. Love-
well endeavour what you can to find the Bodies of the
Indians or English that may have been slain there, You are
hereby Impowered to draw out of Cpt. Willards Company
twelve Men to join you, And he is accordingly Ordered to
detach them & send them to your Rendezvouz forthwith : If
you find it necessary, You are Directed & hereby Authorized
& Impowered to Impress out of the nearest Towns in your
Regim* twelve or fifteen Men for this Service, if you can
not enlist y m Cpt. White is Order'd to follow you as soon as
he can possibly get his Men ready ; And have written Lieut.
Gov? Wentworth That a party may be sent from that Gov-
ernm* to Pigwacket as soon as may be. I depend upon your
Acting in this Affair with the utmost Diligence & Vigour.
You must take your L* Blanchard with you in this March,
Take one or two sufficient Pilots with you & ( if it be neces-
sary ) Hassel who left the Comp* I would have you rather
go without your full Complim* than make any Delay.
May 15. 1725.
Letter Eleazer lyng to L* G-ov. W Dummer
May it please your hon, :
I Rec d your orders about Eleven of y e Clock today and I
forthwith sent to Cap* Willard for twelve of his best men
and to Robert Richardson Cap 1 of y e volunteere Shoe men
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for fifteen who I Expect to morrow night so that I hope to be
ready for them to march by Sabbath morning, I have also sent
one of Cap* Love wells men the Bearer hereof who was in the
whole Engagement a man who by the account the rest gave
of him behaved himself couragiously to the last I should be
very glad of this man or some other that Escaped to go with
me for a guide.
there is five wounded men come in and Doc r Prescot is
with them and I hope none are Dangereusly wounded. Has-
sell says he is sick & cannot go with me.
I Remain Your Hon humble servant
Eleazer Tyng
Dunstable. May 14. 1725.
Letter L* Cf-ov. Dummer to Col. Eleazer Tyng "May 14. 1725"
S'
This Comes with an Indian of note belonging to a Tribe
of the ffrench Mohawks who with all the Nation are well
affected to us. This Man Came downe with the Commiss 1 " 8
from Canada & being desirous to see Xtian I have sent Him
to you, give directions if Hee getts to you before you are
Marched that Hee bee very well used & that good care bee
taken of Him & Lett Him bee sent to Me againe when Hee
shall desire it. I have this Moment reed your Express this
Day with Blanchards Acc u of the action between Lovells
men & the Indians, taken from Melven. & thor the loss of so
Many brave Men be great I am very much Comforted to finde
they behaved with so Much bravery & Gallantry. I hopet
it may please God to favour you with an opertunitye to take
a Just revenge for the blood of your Country Men
I am Y r humble S r
W m Dummer
Boston 14 th May 1725
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Send downe to me forthwith w th the Bearer hereof M r
Calef the most Inteligent gson Among Lovells Men returnd
that I may have a gfect ace* of that Action.
The Indian Seems Dispos'd to Go this March with you in
Company with Christian, And You must by all means
encourage it Pray make the best Search You can when You
come into the Ground where the Action happened for the
Dead and Wounded that none may perish for want of our
Care.
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* G-ov. W m Bummer
Falrn May 17 th 1725
May it please y r Honour
I receivd your letter of the fourth
Currant on the 15 1 ! 1 of the same wherein your Hon* orders
me to give a particular account of the black point Scout
whom your Hon r calls Eighteen men if so my Clark has
made a mistake in Coppying, for there was but Eight men
and most of them Inhabitants, so that there was no Officer
with them, but a Soldier or two to go with them to look
for their cattle. As to the men in Falmouth I immediately
drew out all that I could Judge was proper which did not
exceed Twenty and sent Cap* Bourn & Liu* Dominions Jor-
dan, I did not give them orders to pursue the Enemy let
their numbers be what they would but left them to their
own Judgments according to what discovery they should
make knowing they had behav'd themselves very well when
they had an opportunity on the Enemy, and are reputed men
of Courage and by the Ace*? they had from Black Point peo-
ple, and Mitchels and Spurwink Garrisons they were a con-
siderable number as I acquainted your Hon* before, and by
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what discovery they made by the Indian Tracks they could
not Judge themselves to be a number sufficient to follow
them.
I do assure your Hon* I did not leave more then three
men in a Garrison with the Inhabitants and Soldiers for their
Defence which was as little as possible could be left In as
much as the place where they were burning our houses and
killing our Cattle, was not less then Eleven or Twelve Miles
through the Woods the nighest way wee could get to them.
I Humbly subscribe my selfe your Hon
most Dutifull Servant
Tho" Westbrook
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Crov. Dummer
Falmouth May IT*? 1725
May it please your Honour
I rec'd your Hon r ? orders of the
Eleventh Currant and shall Endeavour when I have reed the
recruits to Improve them in the best manner I can to Inter-
cept and destroy the Enemy & follow your Hon r ? Orders.
Cap* Bean arriv'd here from York the 15 th Currant, I
immediately dispatcht him to Capt. Gyles with directions
that nothing may be neglected relateing the March on
Amuscoggin haveing before sent the Quota of men Pursuant
to your Hon r ? orders. I have since that made up a Scout of
Twenty Eight Men Soldiers and Inhabitants whom I sent out
the Sixteenth at night under the Command of Lieu* Domini-
cus Jordan diligently to search the most likely places on the
backs of the Towns from this place to Saco Salmon Falls,
and intend to continue & strengthen them with more men as
soon as possible if your Hon" orders do not call them off,
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 275
these being the places the Enemy cheifly aim'd at both last
Summer & this
I am your Hon most Dutifull Humb 1 Serv*
Tho" Westbrook.
PS.
I herewith send y r Hon* a Journal of our Proceedings
Since I left Boston. _ I have not yet rec'd the recruits
T W
Falm? May 20 th 1725
Letter IS Gf-ov. Dummer to Oapt. Bourn May 18, 17&5
S r I have Rec? Your Letter of the 15 th Curr* by M r
Holman, And am Glad You have proceeded so far in Raising
the Voluntiers I Ordered And that there is a Good prospect
of Your Speedy Accomplishment of this Affair which I pray
You would proceed in with all possible Expedition, It being
of great Consequence to the Dispatch herein. According to
Your proposal I have Sent a Warrant to M r Young to remove
his Sloop to Barnstable and have Sent an Impress Warr* to
Col? Otis Which may be Used to forward the Affair of the
Indian Enlisting or to Supply the Deficiency with Such Eng-
lish Men as are So perverse as to Obstruct the Affair. I am
Satisfied with Your Nomination of Mess" Bacon & Hawes
and Shall Commissionate them Accordingly, If You can make
Your Number of Voluntiers One hundred Men I Direct You
so to do And Desire you would Advance the Bounty Money
And it Shall be repaid You with other Necessary Charges
Put Maj r Gorhain upon Expediting the Affair of the Whale
Boats And if need be his Sloop must be Employed in Trans-
porting the Boats & Men. M r Holman Returns to You with
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these Dispatches And will Continue to Assist You in the
Affair
I am Y"
W m D^
Boston May 18 1725
Cap* Bourn
Letter It Gov. Dummer to Col. Otis
Boston May 18 th 1725
S r
M r Holman Informs Me that You Desire a Warr* for
Impressing Twenty Men Which You would make Use of in
order to Awe those people that Instruct the Indians enlist-
ing I have accordingly Enclos'd a Warrant which You will
Use at Discretion for the End aforesaid If You Actually
Impress any persons that Conceal the Indians or any ways
hinder the proceedings, And they afterwards do their Duty
by producing the Indians and assisting the Design, You may
Dismiss them, Not accounting them as Men that have Served,
But if they Obstinately Continue to give obstruction to his
Majestys, You must not dismiss them but put them on Board
the Transport as Recruits. I have Directed Cap 1 Bourn to
make up his Number of Indians, One hundred men, and Doubt
not of Your Assisting in this Important affair to the Utmost
of Your power, M* Holman Returns to You with this Dis-
patch, And will Still assist in the Affair, All he is able.
I have Chosen this Method rather than Impressing but if
there be any so evil Disposed to the Service as to Discourage
Voluntiers from Enlisting, Such are very proper persons to
be Impress'd ~
I am Y r Humble Serv*
W : Dummer
Col Otis ^
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Letter Col. Eleazar Tyng to If. Q-ov. Dummer May 19, 1725.
May it please your Honour
This Day I marched from Amuskeag having 55 of my own
Men & 32 of Capt Whites. The men are all well & proceed
with a great Deal of Life & Courage - Yesterday I was forced
to lie still by Reason of the Rain.
I would humbly offer something to your Honour on the
behalf of our People who are left very Destitute & naked,
that you woul d be pleased to consider Their Circumstances
& order what you shall think proper for Their Defence till
we return.
I am your Honours most Obed* humble Servant
Amuskeag May 19, 1725 Eleazar Tyng.
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L t G-ov. Dummer
Falm? May 21 st 1725
May it please your Hon r
Lieu* Dominicus Jordan ( who I inform'd of in
mine of the Seventeenth ) is returnd about three a Clock, and
informs, that he Tract Two parties of Indians, that came out
of the Country & returnd in two parties, the least of their
paths much larger then what his Scout made who consisted
of thirty two men, haveing added four to his Scout since my
last, Wee Judge that the greatest part of the Enemy are
drawn some Distance back on the great Rivers, this being
their time to fish for Salmon & sundry other fish up the fresh
Rivers on which the Indians yearly make a fishing voyage.
Our winter scoutes discovered sundry of their fishing places
on Saco, Pesomscott & Amuscoggin Rivers where they made
large Quan^. 8 last Summer, The new recruits are not yet
come notwithstanding we have had so many Westerly winds,
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as soon as they arrive if Arm'd, I will endeavour to visit
some of their fishing places.
I have since my last examin'd Henery Mckenny relateing
the Indians he saw when they burnt the Houses at Black
Point and charg'd him to relate no more then he could give
his Oath to. He attests that he told betwen Thirty &
Forty on the plain Marsh from the Ferry Garrison where he
was on his Guard in the Watch Box and at the same time
there were others Scattered fireing the houses up and Down
I am your Hon rs most Dutifull Humb 1 . Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
P. S.
I have permitted Ebenezer Nutting the Armourer
to wait on y r Hon r he wanting sundry Tools, I think
it of absolute necessity that he be sent down again as %
soon as possible Sundry of our Arms being out of repair.
T. W.
Letter, L* Q-ov. J. Wentworth to L* Q-ov. Dummer
Portsm May 23 d 1725
Sir
Just now came Express to me from Cap* Chesly who
Commanded the men I sent to Osaby &c. they came into
Cochecho this Morning.
On Thursday they came to Ossaby Pond ( it rayning all
Tuseday March 4 but little but Sent out Sauvrall Scouts all
that day in hopes of finding some of Cap* Lovewells wounded
Men ) On thirdsday, before they came up with Oseby Pond
they Discovered a Track of Indians much longer then theres,
and then quickly found Lovewells Fort fast Shut up they
soon got into the Fort where they found a Considerable
Quantity of provisions and sundry other things, with a
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writeing on a bark, That the men that went out were all
lost, the Day our people discovered Severill Indians and
heard the Dogs bark, So found they were Discovered and
Missing Your Men, They thot it advisable to return, least
they met w th y e same fate Cap* Lovewell did.
I finde thers agreate Uncertainty in our meeteing in the
woods, so would propose that your Commanding Neer to us
as Maj r Hammond or Coll? Westbrook have fourthwith
orders to Raise one hundred Men or More out of Your East-
ern Forces or from the Melletia of Your Towns. You have
Stout men in Berwick Kittry York &c* and send up Emedi-
atly I will not Disband these 53 that now came down Untill
I heare from You, You may Depend Sir that they will be
down on Some of Yours or Our Frontiers Uery Soon, and it
may be boath, I will make our Number up Sixty On that
March, I verryly beleive They will Stay in hopes of Our
comeing up to bury Our Dead, and have a Considerable
Number togeather thers fish Enough & Good other Huntting
we may range all that Country as Pigwacket &c* but this
must be Don with all possible Dispach.
we can have no Dependance on The men You Sent from the
Westward, wheather shall find em or not.
I am D r Sir Your Most Obed 1 Humb 1 Ser*
P. S. J Wentworth
I am of opinion that Cap* Lovewell wounded many of the
Indians and that thay can't Get them off, J W.
Liev* Goverfl Dummer.
Letter Richard Davis to L* May %4, 1725.
Much Honoured S r I your Humble Petitioner belonging to
Captain Samuel Hincks att Fort Mary in Biddiford Do
Humbly Desire your Honours favour to Dissmis me from the
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Fort because if it may be your Honours Pleasure I would
get into Cap! Jordans Company; I am Honoured S r Your
Most Humble Dutifull and Obedient Servant ;
Biddiford May: 24: 1725 Richard Davis
Letter, U Gov. to Capt. Cornwall, May % 1725
Sir,
It being highly probable that the Indians of Penobscot
will speedily be out in the Vessels they took last Summer
from the English, & will infest the Eastern Coast to the
great Disturbance & Loss of those concerned in the Fishery ;
I desire you to draw out of your Ships Cornp* fifty of
your ablest Men to proceed East so far as Passamaquody or
the Mouth of S* Croix River in two small Vessels provided
for that Purpose to be under the Command of your Lieuten*
& such Officer ( for the other Vessel ) as you shall think fit
to appoint : Let them keep near the Shoar, & look into the
Harbours & Bays & among the Islands as they go along,
more especially at Pemaquid, Penobscot Fox Island & Mount
Desert Bays the Mouth of Petit River & Passamaquody, &
Endeavour to get Intelligence of the Enemy & Decoy them
by Sounding for Fish, Concealing their Men & such other
Methods as are proper for that End, And by all possible
Means to find out suppress & destroy the Indian Enemy as
well as any Pirates that may haply be on the Coast at this
Time. And for their Encouragem* they will have One
Hundred Pounds for each Scalp of a Male Indian above
twelve Years old, & for other Scalps & Prisoners the high-
est Premium the Law Allows.
Notwithstanding the Direction before mentiond I don't
limit you as to the Extent of Coast for this Cruize, But
leave it to you & the Discretion of your Officer how far East
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he may proceed, In which he must govern him self according
to the Intelligence he may meet.
If he shall hear of the Enemy on Shoar Let him Land such
a Number of his Comp* as he shall judge fit to ambush or
gsue them. And particularly I think it advisable that they
ly some Time in Ambush on the Western Point of a small
Island at the Mouth of Petit River within two Leagues of
Machias & the usual Passage of the Indians from Passama-
quody & S* Johns River to Penobscot, For more particular
Information in these Matters your Officer had best consult
the Pilots.
This Cruize may be for fforty Days & if Circumstances
shall be such as to give great Prospects of Doing Service
Lett them Stay out longer. I am ( Sir )
Boston May 24, 1*725 Capt Cornwall
P S Lett your Lieut. Advise Coll. Dowcett L* Gov r of
Annapolis of his Cruize If he meet with an Opportunity of
Sending to him.
Letter Capt. Sam 1 Hincks to U Gov. Dummer
Fort Mary 25: May 1725
May it Please y r Hon r
This Comes with Expresses to y r Honour from
Col Westbrook.
I cant inform Y r Hon r any Thing more but what offers
here, one tarbox Lost a son by 9 : indians on our plains 10
Dayes since & Carried of his Sculp we alarmed yesterday
Know not y e occasion the Day before for Seing 3 indians
and in Such parcels They appear at Every place they Dis-
cover themselves, I beleive in order to Know our Strength
that we may issue out and as I informed y r Honour before
we want men to march, for now as well as other times I have
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ventered to Lend two or tlire to Carry & forward Expresses
which hope I dont offend in. I have heard y r Hon r is not so
willing officers may come to make up their Rolls but Send.
I would Humbly acquaint y r Hon r I have no Clark neither
any one within fort Knows anything about y 6 affairs y* Cor-
poral I have, tho hes of late sickened is a man to fight but no
man to send as I do not only victuall my men but look after
my forces I have to send one of my Officers & if one on
those does not go I must neglect my Role if yo r Hon r Doe
oblige my tarry which I Depend yet not blame me if I do
come since my fort is gone I try & strictly observe duty &
all things and as before, so now ask Leave I may tho cant
have a Return from y r Hon r before I humbly take leave to
come I would not be so tedious but would inform your Hon r
my interest at portsm is partly Disposed of with Loss my
wife left that place & is at Boston where she lately gone &
my private affairs are in confusion th6 I neglect no duty.
I hope y r Hon r will Consider these things and give
Leave to y r Humble Servant
Samuel Hincks
Col. Johnson Harmon to L* Gf-ov. Dummer May 26, 1725
May it Plese your Hon or
I have sent in my Role by Ensi gn John Carleyle to attest
he hath sarved y r Hon r &c his Country all most foure years
A man of Good Report with us beloved by all I pray your
Hon faviour toward him.
S r If you plese to Lett him have Liu" Jaques post its very
a Greeable to me & my Compny Liu" Jaques hath devoted
him selfe to the fishery at y r Leve.
S r My Compny by Dismissions &c Runaways Sum Turned
into other Compenys &c Sum Scatred to the farthest part of
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y e Est I Can Make but Thirty & we are Scouting Continuely
My Men at this time are up Saco River.
I should be Glad with a Su table Number to visit the
Indiens Hed qurters but w* Submission.
pray S r Give me Leve to visit Boston Sum time in June
on My one privit Affairs if it be but two days S r nothing new,
your Honour I hope hath a Good Representative from York
this year with Most Humble Duty am S r
Y r Hon" Most obedient Sar"
York May 26 th 1725 Johnson Harmon
To y e Hon obl William Dummer Esq r &c
Letter L* Grov. J. Wentworth to
Portsm May 28 tb 1725
Sir
I have Yours g Express without date, Observe the cear
you are and have taken, which must alarm The Indians who
are in pretty large Comp 8 come Down Eastward as I hear if
your 100 Indians are Sailed Eastward They may chance to
come in a Good time.
I am greately concern* 1 for the misManagem* of our Men
in the March to the Pond, we all accounted them Stout men,
what cheifely discorraged our men was there not marching
Your Men, indeed I tho't Coll? Ting was Two Dayes march
before us, but when they came to Cap* Lovewells ffort and
found no men there they were Discouraged.
I have as you hinted to me Passed a Note for paying our
Quota towards building a Fort at the Pond, as allso the Vol-
lentier Act One hundred pounds a Scalp and 2/6 g Day
while on Duty and have given all possible Incorragem* for
Vollentiers.
I did not Discharge our men untill I Received your letter,
which was Tuesday after noon we Thot then out of time, to
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Send againe, on that Errand, before those Indians are gon off,
and then you would have men enough to bury the Dead, its
a strange thing our people should be so dispirited, There was
in the 53 I sent out 40, as likely lusty Midle aged men as
can be found in our hole Province but So it was.
Yesterday came into Berwick Ezek 1 . Davis of Concord, one
of Cap Lowuel' men, who was Eleven dayes wandring before
he found the Fort.
I have him at Portsmouth where he is well Taken care of
he is wounded in the belly and part of His Thomb Shot off
& like to do well.
1 have Sent you what was taken from his mouth Yester-
day, I fear we shall have a hot Summer.
I am D r Sir your Most Obed* hum 1 Serv*
J Wentworth
Instructions to Copt. Sanders, June 1725.
You are directed to embrace the first favourable Season of
Wind & Weath* & Proceed East with the Comp* of Volun-
tiers under command in the Sloop Merry Meeting in Quest
of the Enemy Indians who now infest the Eastern Coast in a
Scooner by them taken from the English.
You must put into Falni? in Casco Bay & acquaint Coll.
Westbrook with your Design & shew him y e Instructions,
And there get what Intelligence you can of the said Indians,
And without Making any Delay at Falm? Proceed East
according to your Intelligence Keeping near the Shoar &
Sounding for Fish Concealing your Men & Appearing in all
Respects in such a Manner as may most probably decoy the
Enemy And Putting into the most likely Places to meet with
the Indians or gain any Advice of them, And upon Meeting
them Attack them with your best Courage & Conduct & do
your utmost to take Kill & destroy them.
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You must proceed East no further than Passammaquody
& Return in thirty Days your Departure from Casco, Unless
you have a very fair Prospect of Meeting the Enemy And in
such Case you may extend your Cruize farther both as to
Time & Place.
Send Coll. Dowcett L* Gov r of Nova Scotia an Ace* of
your Design & Proceedings with a Copy of y re Instructions
If you meet with any Conveyance.
Let me have Advice from you as often as you have
Opportunity.
Letter L* Q-ov. W m Dummer to Col Johnson Harman
S r
I have the Letters You lately wrote Me & Shall be Glad
to hear of Your Success Upon Your Return You may Come
to Boston to make up Your Roll which I understand labours
upon a Complaint given into the house by or on behalf of
Two of Your Men Sign'd by them pretending that You have
detain'd their Wages from them & Rec d the Wages of one of
them without his Order which he Says he gave only to Cap 1
Nowell I doubt not of Your Justifying Your self against
these Charges & am Your Humble Serv*
4 th June 1725 W D ~
The Names of the Men are, Jos : Crosby & Hugh Holman
Col? Harman
Letter L* Gov. W m Dummer to Col T. Westbrook
Boston 4 th June 1725
S r
I have Rec? many of Yours lately & perceive Your great
Industry to obtain an opportunity of doing Some Service
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against the Enemy & the Reinforcem* of Indians being as I
hope 'ere this Arriv'd You, I doubt not of Your Employing
them in Some Notable Enterprize, This Covers Doct r Bacons
Commiss? under Cap* Bourn & also Jerem y House to be
Lieu* of the other Compan y of Indians for They must be
Divided into Two Companys Howes' Commission has a
Blank for the Name of the Captain who must be Some Able
Active Man I hope Cap* Bourn will be with You in a Short
time with More Indians & by Cap* Franklyn You Shall have
so Good Whale Boats, for the present You will Send those
Indians out in a body or otherwise Employ them as You
Shall upon the Best Intelligence find most proper for the
Service. Two fellows of Col Harmons Company have put
in a petition to the Gen 1 Court to have him Sent for to
Answer to their Complaints of Detaining their Wages from
them, And the House have it Seems thought it worth while
to Address Me that he may be sent for accordingly, And tho
I don't think proper to Send for him Yet I would have You
to tell him that he may have Liberty to Come to Town to
Make up his Muster Roll which for the present is Demur'd
as I am Inform'd. M r Grant moves me for a Reinforcem* of
Two Men at the Garrison house of James Grey, Let him
have them if it be Necessary & You can Spare them. Tell
Cap* Moulton that I expect if you have a prospect of any
Eminent Service that he be Ready to March when You shall
Direct him, If it be Consistent with the present occasion of
Service let Cap* Oliver Come to make up his Muster Roll
I am Y r Humble Serv*
WD-A-
If it be necessary for You to come to the Court after You
have Dispos'd the Troops in the best Manner You Can You
May do it After the present Exigency the Indians
must be Employed according to my former Orders. ^
Deliver the Enclos'd to Col? Harmon
Col Tho 8 Westbrook
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Letter D. Gov. W m Dummer to L* Gov. J. Wentworth
June 21, 1725,
Sir
Upon Advice of the Motions of the Enemy I have
Order'd two Troops from Ipswich & Newbury for Securing
the County of York to have their Head Quarters at Berwick
& Wells, And am Raising four Companies of Voluntiers,
whom I intend to send a cross the Countrey from Dunstable
to Berwick ( which will be a great Defence to your Province )
to be employed for the Annoyance of the Enemy according
as they shall have Intelligence of their Motions after their
Arrival in the County of York; I have likewise sent into
the County of Bristol for thirty Indians, & Expect all the s d
Companies will be ready to March in a few Days.
I have likewise Order'd a Company of Voluntiers to be
raised in the County of York for this Service.
And I hope you will Levy 100 men at least in
your Governm* upon this critical Juncture.
L* Gov? Wentworth
Instructions to Col 8 Noye* $ Appleton, June 21, 1725.
[ In the hand-writing of Secretary Willard ]
Instructions to the Commanders of the two Troops to be
drawn oufof the County of Essex & sent for the Defence of
the Towns in the County of York.
You must march directly to the Towns of Wells & Ber-
wick one of them must be'posted at Berwick & the other at
Wells as their Head Quarters ;
They must generally be employ'd in passing through the
Woods from the Heads of the said two Towns, unless more
important business call them off & carefully look out for the
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Tracks of the Enemy, & pursue them in all Places that are
practicable, till they come up with them.
Upon Intelligence of the Enemies Assaulting any of the
Places in the said County, Whether the Eastern or Western
Towns, They must immediately Repair to the said Towns for
their Defence & the Annoyance of the Enemy ;
And in all Things they must act with the greatest Conduct
& Vigour for the safeguard of the Inhabitants & Destruction
of the Enemy: the Troopers must be assured for their
Encouragem* That the Governm* will allow them 100 1ft for
each Scalp, besides their Wages for such Indians as they shall
kill in their Marchings & Scoutings.
The said Commanders of the Troops must from Time to
Time follow such Orders as y y shall receive from T. W. Chief
Commander of the Eastern Forces.
[ Indorsed ; in the hand-writing of L* Gov. W m Dummer, ]
I supose you intend these instructions for Col Westbrook,
there must be instruction to each Cap* besides - agreeable
hereto, begining w 1 * an instruction to march forthwith to
those Towns
W D
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* G-ov. W m Dummer
May it Please your Hon r /
In my last of the 17 th Ins* I informd that
Cap 1 Bourn and Cap* Franklyn were not come, whom your
Hon r informd me in yours of the 4 th Curr* would be with
me in a few days ; We have not more than Six days Provision
left, if Franklyn do not arrive in a few days I shall not be
able to keep the Scouts out.
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Jo : Nebon asserts that the Penobscot Tribe have planted
a great Quantity of Corn at their old Town & at their new,
but Saccaristis will not own they have planted any below
their new Town. Saccaristis affirms that y e Indians fitted out
two of the Scooners y* they took last Summer & went a fish-
ing & getting Seils off at Grand Menan and the Mouth of S*
Johns River some time in the latter end of May last, I am
someth g surpriz'd the Indians are so still at this Juncture
I omitted to inform your Hon* of Cap* Moultons return
on the 15 th of this Ins! from Pigwocket, he made little or
no Discovery of the Enemy saving where Cap* Lovewell had
his fight there he found the place where the Bodies of twelve
of our men and four of the Enemy were buried.
As they went up by the side of Ossaby River they found
a dead body and judge it to be Cap* LovewelPs Lieu* I
would have sent Cap* Slocom with the Hostages before this
had there been any Winds tho loth to part with the sloop till
another Sloop arrivd, it being of absolute necessity to have
one constantly here, we having frequent Occasion to remove
Provision from place to place, according to our marches. If
you Hon r shou'd think fit, I believe it wou'd be best that all
the Officers return to their Posts assoon as their Affairs will
admitt of it, so that we may be in the best posture we can in
all our Frontiers to receive the Enemy in case they shou'd
make their Attempts on us.
I am Your Hon rs most Dutifull Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
Falmouth 22 d June 1725
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* G-ov. Dummer
May it please your Hon r
I wrote the Enclos'd about ten a Clock
in the forenoon, Cap* Franklin arrived here about Eight a
Clock in the evening by whom I rece'd your Honors orders
19
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Dated the 16 th Curr* which I shall strictly observe, I have
this morning landed the stores, and now wait for a fair wind
to send Cap* Penhallow with twenty men on board the Sloop
to proceed to Arrowsick & S? Georges to see wether the
Indians have not attackt those garrisons in as much as I
cannot learn any thing of them up this way.
I had forgot to inform in the enclosed that Sacaristy
says that there was Sixty Indians at Black point when they
burnt the houses and killd the Cattle there on the 29 * h of
last April and that it was the same Indians that fought
Cap* Lovewell at Ossiby which well agrees x with Lovells
fight that being the 7 th of May following
Falm? June 23 d ! 725.
I am your Hon* 8 most dutifull humble Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
P. S.
I would fain wait till Cap* Bourn comes down
that I may settle Indian Comp y8 so that they may be easy.
T. W.
Letter Col. John Appleton to L\ Q-ov. Dummer.
Ipsw June 23 d 1725
May it Pleas Yo Hon r /
You r Hon rs Order came to my hand on
Tuesday y e 22** the 23 th they March d Cap* Joseph Gold
Comand r w th a full Troop to the Estward according to
Yo? HonT order -
The Troops in y e Reigment of Late do not consist more
then 40. Men besides theire officers considering the diffi-
culty & dange r of theire Marching in the Estward parts, I
have taken out of Ipswich & Rowly Troop to make him a
full Troop to y e numb of Six*? Men, they are all likely Men
& are well fitted, & goe out w tb good Courage ( if I have
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 291
transgress* 1 1 pray that yo r Hon r woold Signify it to me I had
no ord rg , to subsist the men ; I ordered euery Man to take 3
or 4 days provition to carry them to Wells : & I Assured
them it woold be allow d as heretofore
I am Yo r Hon Most Obd* most Humble Serv*
John Appleton
A. Oumings Esq r . e to M r . Secretary Popple.
[ Inclosing Memorial.]
S!
Inclosed I have sent you the Memoriall of the Officers of
the Customes in these parts to the Right Hon b . le board repre-
senting the trade of these Plantations for the Lordships
Consideration.
I wrote aome time Since to the Hon b . le Board about a
Scheme for Saving the Nation ,80000 pound g annum which
if ther Lordships approve off shall be ready to obey ther
commands.
The fishery att Canso this year is very great and like to be
Successfull about 200 saill of Small vessels gone from these
parts to fish on that coast and if have protection will prove
very considerable and Beneficial to the British nations for
returnes of the Commodities Imported here.
The Great Currency of Paper bills of Credite very hurtfull
to Trade and the Expedient of Issuing them forth upon Loan
has been very prejudicial thesse affairs of Trade require Seri-
ous consideration and a Speedy releif which I doubt not but
ther Lordships will give ther ready Concurrence therto please
Give my humble duty to ther Lordships and accept of my
Sincere respects to your Self who am upon all occasions
S? Your most Obedient Humble Serv*
Arch? Cumings
Boston June 23? 1725
To Allured Popple Esq?
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Letter L\ G-ov. Dummer to Col. Johnson Harman.
Lett r to L*. Col Harman June 23 1725."
If you Can Inlist men to make up your Comp? It will bee
very acceptable to Me w 8h I choose rather than Impressing &
do hereby give you direction for what Able Men you Can
gett for that purpose who are not of the County of Yorke
Y /
To Coll Johnson Harman
Boston 25*? June 1725.
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* G-ov. Dummer
Falm? June 24** 1725
May it please your Hon r
Some hours after I had Seal'd my last the wind
came fair for Cap*? Penhallow to go East which he Embract,
and the Sloop had not been out of sight more than an hour
before I rec'd a verbal ace! from L*. Dominions Jordan ( who
was out with his Scout ) that the Indians had kill'd a man at
Spurwink garrison, and that he heard the Guns, and was
on y e spott in less then two hours, I cannot give a further
Ace* at present, Cap* Kenady will be able to inform your
Hon* the posture wee are hi at this time. If your Hon*
should think fitt I will give Lieu* Jordan the Command of
the second Company of Indians.
I am your Hon most dutif ull Humb 1 . Servant
Tho' Westbrook
To the Kings most Excellent Majesty
The Memorial and address of the Lieutenant Governor,
Council and Representatives of the Province of the
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Massachusets Bay, in New England in General Court
Assembled
Most Humbly Sheweth
That this Your Majesty's Government
after many unjust and insufferable abuses, Depredations and
Insults committed by the Indians ; Instigated and excited by
the French King's Subjects, and more especially by Monsieur
Vaudreuil Governour of Canada, were obliged contrary to
their own inclinations to enter into a War with them which
has now continued these Three Years and is become almost
insupportable to this Province, by reason of the Excessive
Charge thereof, besides the great Loss Your Majesty's Sub-
jects have Sustained both in their Husbandry and Fishery,
and in their other Business by Sea and Land the Slaying and
Captivating many of your Majesty's good Subjects w* is
owing to the Conduct of the said French Government and
the wicked practices of the Jesuits, and other Romish
Priests, although the s? Monsieur Vaudreuil has often by
your Majestys Governor and Lieutenant Governor been
wrote to on that Head, and of late Commissioners were sent
from this Your Majesty's Government to demand of him to
withdraw that aid and assistance he has afforded to our
Indian Enemys notwithstanding which, and all the measures
that have been taken to induce him to desist, he still goes
on, and even while the Commiss were in Canada the last
Winter, the said French Governor ( as he had often done )
was exciting and persuading, several other Tribes of Indians
to the War against Your Majesty's Subjects of this Province,
as the Indians themselves informed them, and after much
expostulation on this head with the said Governor, he had
the assurance in behalf of the Indian Enemy to insist upon
it. That this Government should quit and abandon all the
Forts and Towns for the Space of Thirty Leagues on the
Sea Coasts within the Grant to this Province, from Your
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Majesty's Royal Predecessors which has been settled and
peopled more than Seventy Years. In which Tract of Land
groweth most of the Timber fit for building Ships and Mast-
ing Your Majesty's Navy, and the Said French Governor
countenanced the Indians, then in his presence in their
Demand of the whole Country, or Territory of L'Accadie or
Nova Scotia, excepting only Your Majesty's Fort of Annapo-
lis Royal, and that the British Subjects should not Fish in
and about the Sea Coasts, whereby they would be stript of
the most valuable Branch of their Trade and an unspeakable
Damage happen even unto Your Majestys Realm of Great
Britain in both these Articles ; and althd it was strenuously
urged by the agents for this Government upon the French
Governor, That his Conduct herein was a manifest Breach
of the Friendship between the two Crowns, and the Treaty
of Peace concluded at Utrecht, whereby all Nova Scotia or
L'accadie was surrendred up according to its ancient bounds
or Limits to Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors for
ever, and the French King's Subjects to have nothing to do
therein, yet the S? Governor has constantly a French officer
in the Pay of the French King at the head of the Indians
who resides in Your Majesty's Dominions and we are
informed by some of our Captives, he hath been so inhuman
as to suffer five of Your Majesty's Subjects to be murthered
and burnt after they were taken, and upon this Government
demanding by their Commissioners Your Majesty's Subjects
Captivated by the Indians and in the hands of French at
Canada, the Governor of that Country refused to deliver or
return them, unless they were purchased, and that at an
exorbitant price, so that it cost the Relatives of some of
those distressed people upwards of Fifty pounds a piece for
the Recovery of their friends who are bought and sold and
treated more like Slaves than Christians.
We would with all humility represent to Your Majesty that
Mfc
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the plain design of the French Governor in this management
is to deprive Your Majesty of Your just Sovereignty over
these Tribes of Indians and to prevent Your Majesty's Sub-
jects settling in those parts of the Country, and Supplying
Your Royal Navy with Masts Planks and Timber of all Sorts
and threatens the Destruction of the Fishery on the whole
Coast of L'Accadie and as far Westward as Piscataqua River,
all which would not only be an unjust Diminution of Your
Majesty's Rightfull and extended Dominion in North Amer-
ica but also prejudicial to the Several Provinces and Govern-
ments therein, and even to the Trade and Commerce of Great
Britain.
And in as much as your Majesty's Colonies of Rhode
Island and Connecticut are covered by us and the Towns of
this Province are a Barrier and Security to them, and Your
Majesty's Commands have been heretofore given to Your
Severall Governing of the Massachusetts, New York Con-
necticut and Rhode Island for furnishing their respective
Quotas to each other in Case of a War, and pursuant thereto
we have made application to them for obtaining their Quotas
hi the present War, Yet we have not been able to prevail with
them to furnish the same altho* this Government have here-
tofore supplied a Considerable number of Soldiers for the
Defence of Albany, within the Government of New York
when in Great Distress by the Enemy.
We therefore humbly Supplicate Your most Gracious Maj-
esty that you will please to renew your Command to those
Governments for that End, and that Your Majesty will direct
your Governor at New York, to use his Interest with the Six
Nations of Maquois bordering upon his Government to joyn
with us against the Indian Enemy.
All which is most humbly offered and submitted to Your
Majesty's just, Wise and most Gracious Consideration and
Compassion by Your Majesty's Most Loyal Dutifull and
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Obedient Servants and Subjects The Lieutenant Governour,
Council and Representatives of the Province of the Massa-
chusets Bay
By their Order
Boston June 25*? 1725 Josiah Willard Secretary
E :) Copy of a Memorial from the Lieutenant Grovernour of
New England.
E: New England Lre from M r . Delafaye of y e . 25 of Septf
1725 referring to y e Board by order of y e Lds Justices a
Memorial $ address from y e . L* Gov r . Council Assem-
bly of y e . Massachusets Bay, relating to a Quota of assist-
ance from y e . Neighbouring Colonies ag* y e . Indians
Reed. Septem r . $7* Read Septem* 30 : 1725.
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Grov. Dummer
May it please your Hon r
I rec d your Hon" orders of the 19 th and
of the 21 s * on the 26 th of this Ins* ab*. nine or ten a Clock at
night, I immediately dispacth repeated orders to all our fron-
teirs in the County of York to be strict on their gaurds, and
orders to Cap* Moulton to Assist the Cap*? of the Troops
with experienct and faithf ull Pilots. I constantly keep out
Scouts some distance from the Towns endeavouring to make
discovery. I wrote some Letters g Cap tn Kenady which will
not be long before they come to your Hon r ? hands. I dili-
gently searcht to find out w ch way y* Scout came y* killed y e
man at Spurwink but cannot find out unless they came by
water.
I am your Hon r " most Dutiful Humb 1 Servant
Falm? June 26 th 1725 Tho 8 Westbrook
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Letter U Gov. W m Dummer to Col T. Westbrook.
Sir,
I am inform'd that the Indians lately enlisted under Cpt.
Bourne especially those 11. that Came last to you g Saunders
have complained of great Injustice done them by Defrauding
them of a Part of the Money allow'd by the Governm* for
their Enlisting which was 20/. a Man. I would therefore have
you take the first Opportunity, To enquire of the Indians if
they can charge any of the Officers concern'd in Detaining
from them their Money. And if any of them say they have
not rec? the whole of their Premium, Call the Officer that
gave them their Money & the Indians that complain before
you, And make the strictest Inquiry into the Truth of this
Matter ; For if I find the Indians have been any Ways
oppressed I shall take Care that full Satisfaction be given
them, And such Officers shall have the utmost Marks of my
Displeasure. Therefore I expect that you be very much in
Earnest about this Inquiry.
I enclose An Ace? of intelligence I have from some that
are acquainted w th the Indians affaires, which may be of use
to you th6. I doubt not but you have taken Care to gett the
best information in order to gforme some such service now
When you shall have a good Number of Men with you I have
two Deserters in Custody, one in Cambridge Goal & the other
In Newbury, who being notorious offenders I shall by Advice
of the Councill putt over into your Hands to be try'd by a
Court Martial for an Example of Terrour to others It being
of the highest Consequence to Check that Speritt amounghst
the fforces. they shall both of them be Secured in Newbury
Goal forthwith & I direct you send downe a faithfull Serjeant
w th Seaven Men to take them into Custody & bring to Fal-
mouth in order to their speedy tryal & you must take Care
to have a sufficient number of officers to Make a Court. You
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shall have a more gticular Ace* of these deserters in order
to your proceedings lodged at Newbury to go along wth.
Letter J. Stoddard J. Wainwright.
Portsmouth. June 28. 1725
S'
The Sloop Merry-Meeting arrived at New-Castle yester-
day about three of the Clock afternoon, and after the deliv-
ery of your Hon" Letter to Lieut 11 * Gov nr Wentworth he
called his Council together, and by their advice did appoint
Co 11 Shadrach Walton to Joyn with us in our Affair with
the Eastern Indiana, we hope he will be ready to goe on
Board alittle after noon.
Lieut".* Gov nr Wentworth thinks that the Indians will not
much encline to goe to Boston, but Choose rather to come to
Casco-Bay, or Winter Harbour, which places he Judgeth
more convenient for a Conference than Boston, where (he
saith) those Indians did never meet on such an Occasion,
and ( accordingly ) in his Instructions to Col 11 . Walton, does
allow him to agree to their coming to either of s? places, if
the Indians doe Insist upon it.
We are your Hon r ? most Humble Obedient Servants,
John Stoddard
John Wainwright
To His Hon r Lieut nt Gov nr Dummer &c
Letter John Stoddard $ John Wainwright to L t Cf-ov.
W m Dummer
from on board the Sloop Merry-Meeting
at New-Castle, June 28 1725.
S 1
Since we wrote, Cap* Slocum came into this Harbour with
the two Indians, which are now on board with us. they tell
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 299
us that the S nt John? and Cape Sable Indians have agreed to
abide by what the Penobscott Indians have directed him to
acquaint your Hon? that they are willing to be at Peace,
and that it lyeth with you whither there shall be Peace or
not. they are desirous to treat in their own River which
hath not been Stained with Blood, they further add that
when we Come to S nt George? they can soon find some of
the Penobscott Indians and bring them to us.
we are now weighing Anchour, and hope to be at Casco
Bay before too Morrow Morning :
And are your Hon rs Most Humble Servants
John Stoddard
John Wain wright
P. S.
This goes by Cap* Slocum Who we
desire may be dispatchd to Casco Bay
as Soon as may be where we shall leave
directions where we may be found
Falmouth July 3 d 1725
May it Please your Hon r /
I examined the undernamed Indians relating their
Enlisting with Cap* Bourn and they say they rec? no more
money than is Annex'd to each mans name. I immediately
sent for Cap* Bourn while they were present, and askt him
the reason, his Answer was that he agreed with them for that
sum and no more, which some of the Indians own'd and others
made Excuses and said they did not so well understand it.
Cap* Bourns says that he Enlisted them in the Room of some
that Deserted and inform' d them that they should receive
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wages from the time that the Deserters Enlisted & that they
were well satisfy'd therewith.
I am Your Hon" most Dutifull Humble Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
John Comshite rec? 00, 11, 00 David Job 00,10,00
Jacob Paul 00, 10, 00 Aaron Wummock 00, 10, 00
Thomas Tarah 00, 10, 00 Joshua Hood 00, 10, 00
Tom Kennaway 00, 10, 00
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj ts Service
To The Hon ble William Dummer Esq r Lieu* Gov r
& commander in cheif &c In Boston
Letter - Col T. Westbrook to It Gov. W m Dummer.
Falmouth July 3< 1T25.
May it Please your Hon r /
I rec d your Hon r8 Letters by Cap* Bourn of
the 24 th and those pr Serf Parker of the 28 th of last Month
with the enclos'd Information relating-the Indians. I always
make it my business to get the best Information relating-the
Enemy I can, and Informed your Hon! of the Indians living
on the back of Mount Desert in my letter last September and
that I was Inform'd they were supply'd from Annapolis by
some man that married in that Country who supply'd one
Bellisle, a frenchman who married with one of Casteen's
Daughters and mostly lives thereabouts so that it well agrees
with the Information Your Hon? Enclos'd and likewise with
what I inform'd in my Letter of the 17 th of March 1724/5
that two Friars and several of them liv'd at Passimaquoddie
and Adjacent to it ; as to that part of the Information that
they are up in the Countrey till the last of June about their
Corn interfers with their yearly Customs in coming down the
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 301
last of May or not exceeding the first of June to gett Eggs
and Fowl during wh cb time they generally leave their old men
& women to tend their Corn and then are down again the last
of July or August Catching Sea Fowl and Seil. before I
seald this I rec d your Hon rs g Coll Harmon the 3 d of July
which was Dated the 25 th of last Month. As to the Indians
planting their Corn I wrote g Cap* Kennedy the best Infor-
mation I cou'd get at present. By your Hon" Orders to me
I understand your Hon r intends to visit the Penobscott Tribe.
We have rec* but four Whale boats since I wrote your
HonT that we had few or none fit for service so that there is
necessity of having them from the Castle and ten or twelve
more, the Indians Cap* Bourn Enlisted are most of them
in the Woods, fourty are with L* Jordan up Saco River
whom I dont expect in this ten days and another party are
with Cap* Penhallow whom I have Directed to attend the
Commissioners Orders so that I cant Settle them Comp y . 8 at
present according to your Hon" Orders, I have therefore sent
Cap* Bourn with these Expresses to wait on your Hon r hear-
ing little of the Enemy and making no Discovery of them I
woud desire to wait on your Hon r a few days at Boston
before I be put on any further Service. I shall take Care to
leave the Frontiers on their Guard.
The Commissioners sail'd from this place y e 30 th of last
Month.
I am Your Hon rs most Dutifull Serv*
Tho g Westbrook
Letter- Col T. Westbrook to L* Gov. W m Dummer
Falrn July 3? 1725
May it please your Hon* /
The Enclosed is the Petitioners
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Petition and his Ace! by w ? 1 your Hon? will see the little
reason the poor fellow had to Complain.
I am your Hon r ? most dutiful Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
P. S.
I rec? your Hon letters j>
Cap* Bourn and M r Parker the 2? Curr*
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* W m Dummer
Falrn July 4* h 1T25
May it please your Hon r
As to the Two Deserters, wee have
no manner of place at Falm to secure them, so that they will
be a great clog to the service - neither have wee a sufficient
number of Commission Officers to try them unless wee call
them off from their several posts and Scouts so that the service
will suffer the fronteirs being so long it is difficult getting
them together. I would pray your Honour either to con-
tinue them where they are for the present till the Affaires
are in a better posture, or that they be tryed by the Justices
of the assises in the County where they were taken, as is
explain'd in the Sixtht Article of the Martial Law However
I submitt to your Hon" pleasure And am your Hon r ? most
Dutifull Humble Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
Petition of Robert Armstrong
To the Right Hon ble the Lords Commissioners for
Trade and Plantations.
The humble Petition of Robert Armstrong.
Sheweth :
That your Petitioner intends in a little Time
to return to New England to do his Duty as Deputy Sur-
veyor of his Majesty's Woods, which he has taken more Care
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 303
to preserve (as he hopes sufficiently appears by the Papers
before your Lordships) than any of his Predecessors have
done.
That being Sensible how great an Injury he has received
from Cap* Ellis Huske, by his false accustations of your
Petitioner, as being a Notorious Jacobite & a Person per-
jur'd on Record, He is resolved to do himself publick Justice
in New England by bringing an Action of Damages against
the Said Huske as soon as he arrives there.
That being advis'd by his Council here that he must
Carry over sufficient Proofs to Support his Action & nothing
less than an attested Copy from Your Lordpps Board of the
said Huske's Information will do, He most humbly prays
your Lordpps that such an authentick Copy may be Granted
him.
And your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall every pray
Robert Armstrong.
6** July 1725.
Affidavit.
Falmouth July 6th 1725
M r James March on his Arrival here informs y* on Satur-
day last y e 3 d Curr* in his coming from Kennebunk to Cape
Porpoise he spake with a Sloop one Barns of Plymouth Mas-
ter and informs y* he came from Cape Neger that the Indians
and French at that place had taken five Vessels that were his
Consorts they being seven in Company and about an hundred
Indians and French as near as they cou'd judge pursued after
him another Vessel but they made their Escape.
Y S/.
The Bear r M r James March personally appear'd before
me the Subscriber and Declares that the above mentioned
Ace* is what Barns the Master of s d Sloop told him.
A true Coppy John Gray Jus* Pacis
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Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. W m Dummer
July 7, 17%5.
May it please your Hon r
The Lieu* of the man of Warr
arriv'd here the 6*? Curr* with a small Sloop they took fiom
the Indians about Ten days ago, and one Samuel Trask whom
he redeem'd from Casteen of whom I got the Enclosed Infor-
mation and the other from Lieu* James March, It seem to me
as if the providence of God had sent him at this Juncture to
do great service. I designe this night to follow Sanders &
inform him of the Indian vessel for I question wether he be
gone from S* Georges, I hear nothing from M r Grant if your
HonT should draw my men from Berwick & Wells, I am of
opinion that it would be best for the service to Draw the old
Soldiers and let the new men gaurd the Inhabitants
Falm? July 7 th 1725
I am your Hon" most Dutiful Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
Letter- Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. W m Dummer
July 8. 1725
May it please your Hon r
I have stopt Sam 1 . 1 Trask for the present
by consent of Lieu* Prichard for a Pilott, he has on board
one M* Bell that is a very good Pilott, I have talkt with
him, he is willing to serve the Goverm* if he can get his
bread by it. if Cap* Slocum be not saild it would be for the
service to send him with Slocom and if he be to send him by
the first, wee very much want Slocom
I am your Hon r> most Dutifull servant
Falm July 8** 1725 Tho 8 Westbrook
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 305
Letter -L* Grov. W m Dummer to Gov. J. Wentworth
"Lett 1 to Gov. Wentworth, July 9 th 1725."
S r
I must pray you to excuse me that I have not of late
been more punctual in Acknowledging your Letters w ch I
don't use to be guilty of, but my time towards the End of
the Sessions was a Little more than ordinarily taken up &
has been Since. I Consulted the Council about your propo-
sal for the Indians coming to Winter Harbour &c. but they
were of opinion it was more honorable to Insist upon their
Coming to Boston & I have sent orders Accordingly to our
Commiss & as I have Little faith of the Sinceritye of the
Indians for a Peace at psent. & it seeming by Many Concur-
ring Circumstances that they are Seeking an opertunitye to
Surprise us & that they aime Cheifly at amusing us till they
have gott in their Corne which wee have an Undoubted
account that they have planted in Penobscott new Towne &
Some Say in y e old Towne too, I have ordered About Two
hundred & Twenty Men to March thether the Same Way
that Cap* Heath went the last Year & if you shall thinck fitt
to Send a Company of your Men with them it will strengthen
them & phaps Make the March More Chearful & I hope if it
shall please God to Succeed us herein the Indians Will then
be in earnest for a Peace & Come in whenever wee shall
think it proper. I have order our fforces to March the 1* of
August, if you'l please to keep the Affair Secret as possible
you may adjust the time of marching w th Coll Westbrook
who is under order to be very Secret.
Letter - L* O-ov. W m Dummer to John Stoddard f
John Wainwright.
"Letter to John Stoddard & John Wainwright, July 9 th ,
1725."
I hope ere this you 1 receive my L? by Cap' Heath in
20
306 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
answer to your last, who saild yesterday Morning with
Cap* Slocum, this incloses you M r Winslows Ace? of the
Indians proceeding at Sea & by this & Many other Accounts
wee have of their Tracks by Land & they Killed at Spur-
wink You'l doubtless be of opinion that they have no honest
intentions towards A peace as Yett & of the Necessity, (if
it shall please God to favour us ) of Making some other
Impression on them. & of retaliating the Injuryes wee have
rec? from the Penobscott Tribe & without that I doubt
whether wee shall ever make a good & honorable Peace. I
hope Sanders is seeking the Privaters before now. I have
sent by y e same bearer to be Conveyed to Him this inteli-
gence but if you have any opertunity of Communicating it
more directly you'l do well to do it.
John Stoddard & John Wainwright Esq Comiss rs &c
Letter It Q-ov. W m Dummer to Col. T. WestbrooL
Letter to Coll Westbrook July 9 th 1725
S'
I received Sundry of your Letters by Cap* Bourne by
whome you'l receive this. & I refer you to my L r ? by Cap*
Heath who Saild with Slocum the 8* instant by whome was
sent you 29 Indians from Bristol County Command by Leif*
Edw? Southworth.
I Cannot Consent to your Coming to Boston till the March
for Penobscott bee proceeded on & then If you Should not go
your Selfe, I shall be glad to See you in Towne but It would
give me greater Satisfaction to have that Important Service
Conducted by your selfe & desire nothing may hinder or
delay that March but that the fforces May be well on their
way by the 1* of August, the Gentlemen of the Councill to
whome I have communicated It are in great Expectation of
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 307
the Success of it & the Province being now at a Vast Charge
& the People generaly well Spiritted for a Vigorous prosecu-
tion of the Warr It will become us to Strike while the Iron
is hot.
You'l put 50 of the Indians under the Command of Cap*
Bourne forthwith and give orders to all the Officers & Corn-
miss' not to Lett them run in Debt for anything but mere
Necessaryes, for otherwise it will impead the getting Indians
in the Service an r time
You'l have a Sloop Loaden with Stores of Provisions &c
with you in a few Dayes. the Treasurer have taken one up
already for that Service. Slocum brings 4 Whale boats & I
shall order in a Little time.
If You have not sent to Newbury for those Deserters You
may Defer that Matter till further Order.
You Will always remember that this matter must be
kept an Inviolable Secret And therefore You must
make what Amusements You think proper for that
end.
Letter - U Gov. W m Dummer to Col. T. Westbrook.
"Letter to Coll 1 Westbrook & Cap* Sanders 9 th July 1725."
This incloses you An Ace 1 I just now rec d of the Enter-
prises of the Indians upon your Coast I have sent one to be
forwarded to Cap* Sanders if you have any opertunity you'l
do well to send Him a duplicate keep a good looke out The
Indians will Certainely Surprise you if they Can if it were
onely to introduce an honorable peace for them.
Colll Westbrook/
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Letter - U Gov. W m Dummer to Cap* Sanders 9 th July
This inclose You An Account I recev d this Day of the
Indian Enterprises at Sea. I make no doubt but youl do
the utmost to finde & Surprise them you have now an oper-
tunity by the favor of God to do Some good Service. I hav
nothing more to ad but depend on your Industry Vigilance
& Courage I shall bee in hope every Day to receive some
good Ace? from you & am Y r ffriend to serve you
Cap* Sanders.
Letter J. Stoddard Sha Walton $ Jn Wainwright. Oomm rs to
Wenemonet $ other chiefs.
S* Georges July lO" 1 1725
Sungamock,
We received Your Letter of the twentieth Instant
New Stile, wherein You Complain of Unjust & Unchristian
Treatment You have received from Liev* Manoor.
We know of no Man of that Name, yet doubtless we shall
be able when we arrive at Boston to understand who it is
that hath perpetrated So Vile an Action, and shall readily
use Our Interest that the Man may be brought to Justice.
The Action as Represented by you is detestable, and ought
not to be Countenanced by any Government, especially by
those that profess Christianity. Whether you are rightly
informed of the Facts we shall not be able to judge until we
hear what the Man can say for himself. We should more
readily conclude that the Relation of the Action Made to
You was reall, if We w<jre assured that the French man from
whom You had it was not a Gainer by the War, but if you
can produce those Letters, Your Messengers inform us, were
Sent on shoar by the officer You Mention, it will enable the
Governments to convict him of his perfidious Dealing.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE
309
We do assure you that no Vessell hath been Sent by the
Governments to Penobscot or thereabout with a flagg of
Truice, and if any Man hath pretended to Set up such a Sig-
nal, he hath done it of his own mere Motion, which is an
Abuse offered to the Governments, and tends to bring the
publick Faith in Question.
We were Sent hither by the Governments of the Massa-
chusetts Bay and New Hampshire, as we informed you in
Our former Letter, and have with us Cap* Bane and Cap*
Jordan who are known to You, and have been seen by divers
of your people.
We have already given you Assurances of your Safety in
Case You Come hither.
We are desirous to make a Speedy return, Yet shall make
Our Selves easy Six days by which Time You may doubtless
be here you being at little Distance, which Appears from
your Letter's being dated yesterday, which was the twentieth
New Stile.
In the Name & by Order of the Governments of
the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire
Jn Stoddard N
Sha Walton I Commission 1 " 8
Jn? Wainwright )
To Wenemonet & the other Chiefs of the Indian Tribes.-
Copy
Letter Capt Joseph Heath to L\ Gov. W m Dummer
Falmouth July 12* 1725
Honorable
S r The 11 th Currant I came heither & Delivered
to Colo 1 Westbrook the Indians with y e four whale Boats and
Your Honours Letters.
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I continue Exceeding week, & tho Heartily willing, fear
I shall not be able to march as appointed; And least I
should not have Strength to Travel, would Humbley Suggest
to your Honour that Cap* Wheelwright and Ensigne Brad-
bury who were with me last winter, are able to pilote the
army through, whose Greatest Difficulty will be the length
of y e way & want of water.
I am Your Honours Most Humble Obedient Servant
Joseph Heath
Colo 1 Westbrook has ( with a Suitable
Caution ) acquainted me with your
Honours Last Orders to him- which
is y 6 Cause of my writing as above.
Letter - Col. T. Westbrook to U. Gov. W m Dummer
May it Please your Hon* /
I rec d your Hon rs Orders g Cp* Heath
Dated y e 6 th Curr* on the 11 th Ins* whereon I immediately
Dispatcht Orders to Lieu* Coll Harmon with what men
of his Compy he had left to march immediately to this
Place, and to draw ten men from Berwick out of Cap*
Olivers Company and eight out of Cap* Wheelwrights
Compy concluding them Towns would be well coverd with
the Remainder and the Troops. At the same time sent
Orders to Cap* Grant to march in five or six days or I should
stay for him. I doubt not but to have the Army on their
March before ten days be out if I dont stay for some of the
Forces from York and Berwick. I just now rec'? your Hon"
Orders and Express to Coll Stoddard and Cap* Sanders g
Cap* Oliver about eleven of the Clock. Cap* Oliver informs
me that Cap* Grant was to march the 12 th Ins* so I am
oblig'd to draw 10 men more from Cap* Oliver. Our People
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 311
think it will be hard to march to the White hills at this time
of the year the Weather being so hot. Cap* Oliver heard
one of the Troopers who had been at Boston say that he was
in hopes the Troops would be dismist by the middle of this
week, if so those towns will be very much Expos'd. My
Express got to York on the 12 th Curr*
I doubt not but Cap 1 Heath will be able to march
altho' he seems to doubt it.
Falm? July 13* 1725
I am your Hon rs Most dutifull Humbl Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
PS
I don't expect to sleep much night nor Day till I have gott
the army on their march. I thankfully acknowledge your
Hon r * favour in leaveing it either for me to go or stay I hope
I shall be ready on their return to head the next party and
be able to satisfie your hon? why I stay now.
Tho Westbrook
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj ties Special Service to The Hon ble William
Dummer Esq r Lieu* Gov r and Commander in Cheif &c
In Boston
To be delivered to the Hon bl Lieu* Gov r Wentworth so that
there may be no delay.
I hope y r Hon r will not think I mistake your orders, for
if y 11 please to refer to y T . last y 11 see I understand them
Letter Josiah Willard, Secretary, to Col. T. Westbrook
Boston July 14, 1725.
Sir,
His Honour the Lieut. Gov r ( who is now at the Castle )
bids me tell you That upon Cpt. Bourns earnest Request, He
has given him a Dismission from the Service, And therefore
he Orders That Cpt. Dominicus Jordan ( whose Commission
312 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
will be sent in a few days ) command one Comp* of Indians,
And that Opt. Kennedy have the Command of the other for
this Expedition & that Lieut. Wright be Kennedys Lieuten-
ant; That with the other Indians & a proper Number of
English to be joined with them a Comp a be made up for Cpt.
Heath ; It being necessary that a good Number of Officers
should go upon this March, His Honour thinks it will not be
needful for you to have the Command of a particular Comp a -
I am likewise to inform you That his Hon* has dismiss'd
the Troops at Berwick & Wells. I heartily wish you Success
in y re Enterprize, And am with sincere Respects ( Sir )
Your most humble Serv*
J Willard
If you can project any particular Service by Sea wherein
M r Bell may be useful to you, his Hon? will very willingly
encourage him
J W
Letter Col T. Westbrook to Z* Q-ov. W m Dummer
July 21, 1725
May it Please your Hon r
I rec d your Hon rs Orders JD Cap* Kennedy on
the 20 th Curr* About half the Army marcht for Richmond
the 20*? Ins* and this day the rest will march if the Weather
will admitt and if something not now seen do not prevent
they will march from Richmond on the Twenty fourth of this
month. If there be any thing design'd against the Enemy on
the return of the Army at S fc Johns Passimaquoddi and in
Penobscott Bay, then M r Bell would be of Service.
Falmouth July 21 Bt 1725
I am your Hon r8 most Dutifull Serv!
Tho 8 Westbrook
P. S. This night since I wrote the above there is Run
Twenty two Indians out of Cap* Kenadys Company
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since I gave him the Command of it, notwithstanding
I shall have the Army on their march as soon as the
Weather permitts. I fear there has been some bad
advise given them which I am endeavouring to find
out
The bearer Ensign Williams has been in the ser-
vice about a year and has behav'd himselfe very well
of whom I shall endeavour to give y r Hon r a more
perticular Ace 1
I am as above T W
Letter J. D de S* Castin to L t Gov. W m Dummer
July 23, 1725.
Sir
j have the honour to acquaint you that the 9 th of this pres-
ent month as j rode at anchor in a small harbour about three
miles distant from Nesket, having with me but one jndian
and one Englishman whom j had redeemed from the Salvages,
as well as my vessel, j was attackt by an English vessel, the
Commander of which called himself Lieutenant of the King's
Ship, and told me also his name which j cannot remember.
Seing my self thus attackt and not finding myself able to
deffend myself j withdrew into the wood forsaking my vessel.
The Commander of the vessel called me back promising me
with an oath not to wrong me at all, saying that he was a
merchant who had no dessein but to trade and was not fitted
out for war, specially when there was a talk of peace and
presently Set up a flag of truce, and even gave me tow safe-
conducts by writing which j have unhappily lost in the fight-
Thus thinking my self safe enough j came back on board
my vessel, with my jndian and my Englishman, whom j
brought to Shew that j had no thoughts of fighting, and that
j had redeemed him from the jndians as well as the vessel.
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But as j was going to put on some cloathts to dress my self
more handsomly the Commander who was com in my vessel
with severall of his people would not permitt me to do it,
telling me that j was no more master of any thing, he only
granted me after many remonstrances to set me ashore. But
after j came down and They held forth to me a bag full of
bisket that was given to me as They said as a payment for
my Englishman, They did catch hold of me and the jndian
who accompanyed me. j got rid of him who was going to
seize upon me, but my jndian not being able to do the same,
j betook my self to my Arms, and after several voleys, j Kild
the man who Kept him, and got him safe with me. This is
the second time that I have been thus treacherously used,
which proceedings, j do not suppose that you approve off, as
being against the laws of Nations. Therefore j hope that you
will do me justice, or at least you will cause me to be reim-
bursed of the loss j have sustained, namely,
For the vessel that costed me 80 french pistoles
For the English man 10 pistoles
51 pounds of beaver that were in the vessel with 20 otters
3 coats that costed me together 20 pistoles. 56 pounds of
shot that costed twenty pence a pound. 20 pounds of powder
at 4 livres a pound. 10 pounds of tobacco at 20 pence a
pound. A pair of Scales 8" livres. Tow cloth blanketts each
23 livres Tow bear skins 8 livres apiece. 4 skins of sea-woolf
8 livres for the four. 3 axes. 15 livres for both. 2 Kettles 30
livres for both, and severall other matters which They would
not grant me not so much as my cap. The retaken English
man knoweth the truth of all this his name is Samuell Grass
of the Town of Salem near Marblehead
I have the honour to be Sir
Your most humble & most Obedient Servant
Joseph Debadis de S l Castin
At Pentagous_ 23 July 1725.
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Letter Cap* S. Wheelwright to L* Gov. W m Dummer
July 26, 1725.
May it pleas Your Hon r
This day about Eleven of the Clock In the
forenoon a man being on Some Occasion out att an old setle-
ment about a mile distant above the garisons discover'd ten
Indians being surprised hid himself untill they Passed not
knowing whither they ware Enemys or Deseaters :
As soon as I had the acount Geathering my men with
all Spead att the Severell Garisons My Enis 11 with four men
on Hors-back Coming to me discovred part of the Indians
Coming out: In the scirts of the woods Rode Quick upon
them and Requiered there Submistion Charging them with
Desertion which they submited too and on Examination
understood there was two more In the bushes he sent two of
the men to Search for them who Endevered to make there
Escape but the men being on hors back soon heded them
and then they allgo Submited and on Examination they all
Say that they ware Incoriged by Liv" Bacon Liv" House
and Ens n Stanfort to deseart and that Enis n Stanfort Prom-
ised that he would meet them att York : I heave Sent the
ten Deserters vnder geard to Liv" Brown Att Arondall to be
Convay'd too Co 11 Westbrook att Falmoth.
from your Hono rs Most Hum 11 and Duitfull Servant
Sam 11 Wheelwright
Wells July : 26 : 1725
Letter Capt. S. Wheelwright to Col. T. Westbrook
July 26, 1725
Hon? Sir
This day about Eleven of the Clock one of my
men being at Little River discovered ten Indians who run
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away from the Arm}' and thinking they were Enemeis they
came & made report thereof ; I immediately sent for my men
in ord r to Pursue them but while they were comeing together
they were discovered by some of them near the highway,
about a mile from my Fathers whom wee presently Secur'd
and took their Arms from them. I askt them the reason
why they Deserted from their Posts, they told me they were
Encourag'd by Leiu* Bacon L* Hows and En! Stanford
which was the reason of their Desertion and further said that
En? Stanford promisd to meet them at York I have sent
the above said Deserters under a Gaurd to L* Brown to be
Convey'd along to your Hon r
from your Hon rs most Humble servant
Samuel Wheelwright
Wells July 26 th 1725
a Coppy To Coll? Thomas Westbrook Esq r
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to IS Gov. W m Bummer
July 28, 1725.
May it please your Hon? /
The bearer En 8 Noble is the Gen-
tleman whom y r Hon or wrote to me of in the year 1723 to
take notice of and to acquaint your HonT of his behaviour,
he has always readily observed Command and faithfully
Complyed with all orders he has rec d from time to time.
Falm? July 28 th 1725.
I am your Hon rs most Dutifull Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
PS
When I have settled the Army in order
to gaurd the People, On your Hon rs
form 1 " ord'rs shall presume to visit my
family for a few days T W
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Letter R. Waldron to L* Gov. J. Wentworth
Cochecho 31 8t July 1725
Hon rble S r
last night came in here Cap 18 Wyman & White &
say that before they got to Penny Cook their men began to
be taken sick, w th a bloody flux, soe that they were forc'd to
Send Sundry back before they got to penycook & that the
distemper Increased daily till they had not men enough to
carry their own & Sick mens packs, & at last hardly 20 men
in a Company were the Successive rains were very hurtfull
& very much retarded their march by raising y e brooks &
rivers, & by that time they got to the upper end of Wini-
piciauky pond they found their further March as was
designed Impracticable so were forc'd to return bringing in
one of their Sick men upon their Shoulders. The two Cap 18
came to me this morning & were very sollicitous that their
L* Gov r might have an Ace" of their return assoon as possi-
ble, I told y? I w d Imediately dispatch it to our L* Gov r
who I was well assured w? Expresse it to L* Gov 1 : assoon as
if_ went hence direct, & this is the onely needfull at p r s* from
Yo r Hon most humble Serv*
Rich d Waldron
[ Superscribed ]
For his Maj ties Service To the Hon rbie
John Wentworth Esq^ L* Gov? of N Hampshire
In Portsm
Letter - L* Q-ov. W m Dummer to Col. T. Westbrook
Boston July 81, 1725.
Sir
This comes by Express to Acquaint you That I have
Agreed with the Penobscot Indians on a Cessation of Arms
every where to the Eastward of Kennebeck River, W c . h you
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must take Care to have strictly & exactly observed till my
further Order And give Directions y* y* Indians be well
received at the Fort on S* Georges River, and that what
Messages they bring in from their Tribe be forwarded to me
with all possible Dispatch : You must ( the Hour you receive
this ) Order Cpt. Grant to disband his Company of Volun-
tiers : And for the Rest of the Forces, They must be employed
in Guarding the Inhabitants in their Work in the several
Towns that so they may be as beneficial as possible. If any
other Companies of Volun tiers come in to your Posts, You
must acquaint the Captains that I Order them forthwith to
conduct their Companies Home in that they may there be
ready for any further Directions.
Notwithstanding this Truce You must take Care that the
Forts & Garrisons be carefully guarded to prevent any Sur-
prise from the Indians.
" Orders to Cap* White $ Wyman Aug t 7 th 1725 "
S rB /
I received an Ace? from Coll Westbrook of your returne
to Cochecho I am very sorry for the Sickness & the difficultys
of a Wet Season that has Attended your March, & make no
dout but you have done the uttmost practicable under those
pressures & Misfortunes, but Since It has Pleased God it
should be so & that we have lately Concluded a Cessation of
Arms w 4 * the Penobscott Indians in order to bringing about
a general peace. I Would have repair home & disband your
Companyes & make up your Muster Roll forthwith allowing
, :> each man to stand untill his Arrival home.
Letter Capt. James Grant to L* Gf-ov. W m Dummer
Aug. 7, 1725.
May it Please your Honour
I Have Rec? a letter from Col 1 Westbrook of the first
Instant, Wherein he Says it is your Honours Order, That
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Upon Sight Thereof I should disband my Company of
Voluntiers.
These are therefore to pray your Honour to Allow me to
Say That it looks very hard, if it be so. That we should be
disbanded almost as soon as Enlisted.
We have put ourselves out of the way to serve the publick
as Voluntiers, Upon the Encouragement given by the Gen 1 .
Assembly; And we had Never been at the Trouble and
Charge we have to, to fit our Selves for this Service, were it
Not that we Thought we had the publick Faith to Secure us,
as I think we have in the late Act, which Says, That the
Encouragment ( therein mentioned ) is to Continue from the
Enlistment to the first of November.
We Expect the Benefit of this Act, the war Continuing
and other Companys are Kept in the service, Else It will
prove but a snare to us, & we shall not have Justice done
us
I pray y r Honour to Countermand this Order for our Dis-
banding, And Allow us to make one Essay at least, if it may
be, after the Enemy, according to the Act, for we are In
Debt, and I have given Reciepts to the Comissarys for what
my Men were Necessitated to take up when at y e Eastw fl to
fit them for y e then Intended march und r Col. Westbrook ;
And Unless my men Can Get somthing this way to pay me,
I must loose it, as farr as I Know - Many of them being very
poor men
I pray y r Honours favour in this matter as farr as is con-
sistent with Justice and the publick Good
I am Y r Honours most obedient humble Serv*
Berw: Augst 7*? 1 1725 James Grant
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj*? 8 Service
To The Hon rble William Dummer EsqT Lev* Govern?
and Comand r in chief in and over his Maj ty8 Province
of the Massachusetts Bay &c
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Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. W m Dummer
Aug. 12, 1725.
May it please your Hon r
I receivd your Hon r ? orders on the
Eighth Curr* about Ten at Night and the next morning Dis-
patcht orders to the several Officers as g the Enclosed & am
now sending through the fronteirs to get a gticular state of
the Army gsuant to your Honours orders & shall send them
as soon as possible Leiu* Col Harmon expects to get on his
march by the 17 th of this Month at furthest if something not
yet known do not prevent
I am your Hon rs most dutifull Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
York August 12*? 1725
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Col. J. Harmon Aug. 12. 1725.
Sir
Pursuant to His Hon? Leiu* Gov r Dummers orders to
me to draw out one Hundred effective men for you to take
the immediate command of and march them according to the
Gov's Instructions to you delivered you by me on the
Eleventh of this Ins* the officers & their men are as follows
Viz*. Yourselfe & Thirty one of your Company, Cap* Heath
& Twenty three of his Company Cap* Sam 1 . 1 Jordan to send
En! Noble & Eleven men of his Company, Cap* Dominicus
Jordan & Thirty eight of his Company and I have sent
ord r ? to the officers of each party on the 9 th Currant to
march to Falmouth & there equip their men for twenty two
days march and wait further orders, excepting Cap* Heath
and he to be ready equipt at Brunswick, and I expect they
will be all waiting by the 13 th Curr* to receive your Com-
mands.
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I have nothing further to add but to recommend it to
you to make all the Dispatch with all the secrecy possible it
being his Hon r the Leiu* Gov rs gticular orders.
I am S r yours to serve
T.W
PS
On your return direct each Officer and his
party to their posts & Cap* Heath to send Cap*
Kenadys men to him. Docter Bullman is to attend you
T W
York August 12* 1725
Leiu* Col? Johnson Harmon
Letter U G-OV. W m Dummer to Col Armstrong Aug. 16, 1725
Sir
I have the Hon* of y re Letter of the 29^ of June last,
And cann't but be surprized at the Exceptions you take At
y r ? not being Advised of the two Sloops fitted out here to
cruize on the Eastern Coast of this Province, Since at the
time of their Departure Your Arrival in these Parts was not
known here, Nor have you since till on this Occasion thought
fit to Notify me thereof, Or of y re having his Majesties Com-
mission for L* Gov r of Nova Scotia, W ch I think would have
been but agreable to the Practice amongst Gentlemen in our
Station, & your Intentions express'd in your Letter such;
W ch duly considered, would have left no Room for Censuring
me as wanting in Complaisance & Friendship : And you may
assure y er self Nothing shall be wanting'on my Part to main-
tain a good Neighbourhood & for Acting in Concert with you
in such Matters as concern his Majesties Service & the Mutual
Advantages of the two Provinces, so long as I have the Hon?
to serve his Majesty in this Station.
I have communicated y re Lett r to his Maj le " Council of this
Prov. & have taken their Opinion as to those Articles in it
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that are of a more publick Concern, And with their Advice
I nowe inform you That some Time in June last divers
Indians of Penobscot came into the Fort at S* Georges under
a Flagg of Truce, had in their Discourse with the Officers
there manifested their Inclination to Peace and their Desire
that some Gent, might be sent from this Governm* to confer
further with them on that Subject. In Compliance with w ch
& at the Motion of the Gen 11 . Assembly, I sent two Gent, to
S? Georges with Instructions (of which you have a Copy
enclosed ) They mett a considerable Number of Indians, who
all express'd their Disposition to Peace, And sent two of their
Chief Men to Boston to ask a Cessation of Arms till they
could get all their People together & engage the Neighbour-
ing Tribes to act in concurrence with them in Sending their
Delegates to Boston to make their Submission to his Majesty,
& agree upon Articles of Pacification : The Issue of our Con-
ferences with these two Men was our Granting them a Ces-
sation in all parts to the Eastw? of Kennebeck River, for the
Space of Forty Days from the Landing of these Messengers
at their Return As you will see by the s? Conferences w ch I
have also enclosed. What further Intelligence I may have
of the Dispositions & Intentions of the Indians as to this
Affair I shall communicate to you, as I have Opportunity. If
jou think it will be for his Majesties Service & for the Ben-
efit of y re Governm* to send y r ? Deputies to this Treaty We
shall be very glad of their Assistance therein.
We thank you for the Regard you express for the Interests
of this Prov. as well in the Protection & Encouragem* given
to our Fishery ( W ch will very much contribute to the grow-
ing and flourishing Estate of y e Province under your Gov-
ernm* & be for the Advantage of the Trade of G* Britain
( & therefore ( without Doubt a Service very acceptable to
his Majesty ) As allso for y r . e Suspending y re Treaty with the
Indians, That so Deputies from this Governm* might act in
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Concert with you for the Safeguard of the Subjects of both
Provinces ; But forasmuch as our Treaty with the Penob.
Indians is ( in all Probability ) so near And y re * at Annapolis
so distant & uncertain, We have not concluded to send any
Deputies to appear for us at Annapolis, Confiding in your
wise & successful Managem* of that Affair, And that you
will have a Regard to the Interests of his Majesties Subjects
in Gen 1 . 1 as well as of your own Province at the same time
We promise you to have the like Care of the Governm* &
People of Nova Scotia in our Treaty with the Indians here.
As to your Proposal for our Sending 60 Indians to join with
your Forces to stike a Terror into the Enemy, We should
very cheerfully comply with this Motion, but for some invin-
cible Difficulties that ly in the Way of it ; For besides That
our Charter absolutely forbids the Marching any of the
Inhabitants out of the Limits of the Prov. without their free
& voluntary Consent or the Consent of the General Assem-
bly ( who are not sitting at this Time ) It will be esteem'd a
Breach of our Truce with the Penob. Indians If we sh? March
an arm'd Force into any Part of Nova Scotia ; as to the Sup-
plys given to the French in y r . e Neighbourhood, This Gov-
ernm* have it much at Heart & would be glad to come into
any proper Measures to prevent that Trade, And I have not
been wanting in my Endeavours to get an Act pass'd for that
Purpose, but unless the Governm 18 of New Hampshire Rhode
Island & Connecticut from whence the greatest part of the
Supplyes go, will join with us in this Affair, Nothing that we
can do will be effectual, And for the Members of his Majes-
ties Council, I have no Reason to suspect that any of them
are concerned in this mischievous Trade. I have nothing fur-
ther to offer at gsent but with my hearty wishes for your
Prosperity & the divine Protection over your gson & Gov-
ernment I am Sir Y r Most Obed. & Most humble S9
William Dummer
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Letter John Bacon to. It &ov. W m Dummer
Barnstable Aug st 18 th 1T25.
May itt Please Y r Honour S? These may inform Your Hon r
That On y e 12 th of May Last my Son Solomon Bacon was
here with us, And had Divers Patients under his hands.
And Cap* Bourn then Coming Down to Our Town was very
desireous that I should give my Consent that my said Son
Should go Out with him into the Country 8 Service, And
Said he thought if my s d Son would go itt would be a great
incouragement unto the Indians to List. And that he had
rather my Son should be his Second than Any Man And for
his Incouragement he Doubted not but that Your Honour
would give him A Commission therefor And that he should
have a Warrant to be the Doctor of all the Indians And
have both Doct r ? and Leif*f pay. Whereupon My s d Son did
Assist in Listing the Indians and was in that Service from
the s d 12 th of May until he came to Yourself e riding from
place to place the One way and Bourn the other to prevail
with the Indians to List On the terms Your Honour pro-
posed. And the Indians after they were inlisted were most
of them with me and Importuned me to give Consent that
my s d Son should go with them, And especially those
Indians that were with my son Att the fight att Norwichwak
Last Year Whereupon by my consent he Left his imploy
here And a Good Stock of Medicine which he had newly
purchased in Order to Serve Your Honour, God & the Coun-
try And went Down to Your Honour And what Incourage-
ment he had from Y r Honour is best known to Your Selfe
&c~. Yet notwithstanding I Rd A Letter from my s d Son
Dated June 23 d past wherein he Signify s that he had to that
time faithfully Attended Your Honours orders & Directions
but Cap* Bourn was not then Come to him, whereupon I
writ to him & Advised him to continue faithfull in the trust
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reposed in him, but On the 8 th Instant I rec? A Letter from
him Dated the 23 d of July Last And On Other this Day
wherein he informs me that all the Indians were put under
other Commanders And that he and Leif* Hows had a for-
low granted them to Come to Boston to your Honour, upon
which he saith they did all they Could to perswade y e the
Indians to be content with the officers they were put under
but notwithstanding On the 21 8t of s d July 21 of s d Indians
deserted And then forthwith the Coronall Confined my
s? son & s d Hows Aboard the Country Sloop And ordered
them to Richmonds fort. And in his Letters requests me to
go to Your Honour to intercede for releif. And saith every
word is true that he writes. And I should now come my
Self to Your Honour but bodily Infirmitys prevent And
Maj* Gorham Informs me that he informed Your Honour
how the case was And that Y r Honour would take Care that
they should be dismist but fearing Lest Your Hon r through
a Multitude of business should forget their Case I make bold
to send this to Y r Honour Humbly Intreating Y r Honours
favour to the Young men And order them forthwith to be
released And Consider y e imploy My son Left att home And
the Danger And hardship he has & did Ingage in to Serve
the Country, And the time & Moneys expended in Listing
said Indians And will Use Your Indeavours that he as well
as Leif? Hows may Sutably be rewarded.
From Y r Hon" Most Humble and Obedient Servant
John Bacon
May it please y r Hon r the above written being Shewn to my
self there are two things mentioned therein that moves me to
aske your Hon" favour in order to a Release of the s d Bacon
first his indefatigable industry in Raising the Indians. 2 ly his
Leaving so good & profitable a practice as he was in to Serve
his Country: which if your hon r shall Se Cause So far to
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Regaurd as to grant him a Release & dismission in order to
Return I shall Esteem it as a favor done to my self
I am your hon r Humble Ser* always Redy at Comand
Jn Otis
[Superscribed]
To His Honour William Dummer Esq r
In Boston // These
" Letter from U John PritcJiard " to L\ Cf-ov. W m Dummer,
" denial of Mons r Oasteens Complaints"
Boston Aug* 18 th 1725./
S'
He withdrew into the Woods before ever he was Attacked
or knew what we was. As to my Calling him back I could
not, for he was too farr off. But sent the Pilot in our Boat
to talk to him and Ordered him to Decoy them on Board ( if
possible ) I believing they were Indians. As to my Hoisting
a Flagg of Truce it was only for the time the Pilot was Talk-
ing to them, which was about a Quarter of an Hour, and
when he came on Board it was Haul'd down, That Signifying
that I had a Truce with them for the time the flagg was up
and no Longer. This was Two hours before any thing of a
Skirmage happened. We will State the Case thus. I am in
a Ship of Warr and send my Boat on Shoar with a Flagg of
Truce to the Enemy to Demand such or such things, ( They
Refusing my Demand,) When the Boat comes off I haul
down the Flagg of Truce, and am at Warr with them again
according to the Laws of Nations, and this was the Exact
Case with us. We never fired under the Flagg of Truce ; He
says we promised him safe Conduct under Writing which I
never did nor gave such Orders : He says thus thinking my
self safe I came back on board my Vessell with my Indian &
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English Man, I wish he had, for by that means we should
have got something by the Cruise, but as It is we have got
only our Labour for Our pains. The vessell Was Condemned
and Apprized at One hundred pounds & Odd Money of this
Currency, And was Delivered up to the Owners of her.
There was some Beavers, and Other Skins which was sold
together for about 20 pound, which Money I Shared among
the People which was but a Trifle among 60 Men, And Scarce
enough to enable them to Drink Your Honours Health, as to
the Other Trifles which He mentions : all of them were not
worth Twenty Shillings.
I am Your Hon most humble and Obed* Serv 1
Jn Pritchard
Letter U Col. Johnson Harmon to Col. T. Westbrook
Aug. 22, 1725
Sir
Not finding the Men So Ready at Falmouth as I expected
& high wind has delay'd the Marching till this Morning I got
to Casco y e 18 th Cur fc -but to send as far as Black poynt &
to fit on the 19 y e 20 th high wind got to North Yarmouth 21
to Brunswick whare I found no heath he had ben thair But
was gon home & so Send for him he Excuses by not being
well but sent his Goto of men I have taken three from Cap"
Gray & three from Cap* Moody, but left Several of My one
Not being able to March thare is not a Man in our armey
that has ben on Ammuscogin River above the falls but I will
march this Morning & dew as well as I can when I have
Closed this Letter have nothing More to Dew but to take up
our paks & walk with My harty wishes for your well fair
Excuse hast am S r your Humble Serv*
Johnson Harmon
Brunswick y e 22 d August 1725
Cor 11 Westbrook
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Letter Sam 1 Jordan to L t Gf-ov. Dummer.
Beddeford August y e 23 d /1725
Honrd S r After my duty to your Honour These may
inform yor Honour that I Racd yor Honours order Dated y e
Eleventh of August Instant wherein yor Honour orders me
to Suply Mr Tarbox with a Suficient Guard not Exceding
Twelve men to get in his hay these may inform yor Honour
that Colon 11 Westbrook hath orderd Elevn of my men to go
the march and I have but Two and Twenty men with me So
that if I take a Suficient Guard to guard Mr Tarbox I shal
Leave the Garisons wholy naked and now it is our only Sea-
son to get our hay and we are all of us in necessity to get
our hay as well as Mr Tarbox and our Garisons are Such a
Distance one from the other and not above two men in a
Garison that Since Colon 11 Westbrook hath ordrd Elevn of
my men to go the March I cannot Suply Mr Tarbox with a
Suficient guard without I Leave the garisons wholly naked
which is all from yor Honours most Dutyfull and Obedient
Servant
Sam 11 Jordan
Letter Sam 1 Cranston to L* G-ov. W m Dummer
S'
Yesterday arrived here a Sloop from New York, Wherein
came John Hanson (belonging to Dover New Hampshire) Who
has been to Canada after his Wife & Children & came away
from Mont Real the 26 th day of last Month for Albany & so to
New York & has brought with him his Wife & three children
& a Man & boy that were Captives there, And is now going
to take Passage for New Hampshire in one Thomas Millett
belonging to that place : They have had a very great Fatigue
in travelling which makes them Embrace this Opportunity of
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going home by Water. Otherwise they would have gone
thro r ugh Boston. I am informed by said Hanson That there
was 150 Indians fitted out publickly at Mont Real & Supply ed
with Provisions Ammunition &c And marched from thence
the day before he came away for a place called Shamlee
Where the Indians were detained 5 days / as s d . Hanson was
informed by a Frenchman he met with in his passage over the
Lakes / to prevent them from meeting with any of s d . Han-
son's Company in their Return home, But he rather believes
that they waited for more Men to joyn them, because he had
heard at Mont Real That there was designed 400 Men on
that Expedition for some part of New England : I thought
proper to communicate this Information & Shall continue to
be with the greatest Respect
Your Hon Most Obedient humble Serv*
Sam 11 Cranston
Newport Rhode-Island 25 th August 1725
Dr. Bacon has liberty to wait on His Hon r the L* &ov r .
Sir
Upon your Parole of Honour you have liberty to go to
Boston to wait on his Hon r the Leiu* Gov r I haveing rec d
his orders to have all the fronteirs strict on their Guard so
cannot have the Deserters and you face to face to make strict
enquiery why they Deserted
Given under my hand this 27 th Day of August 1725
To Doctor Bacon.
"Orders to Oapt. Smith Aug. $7, 1725"
Sir,
.
Board the Sloop Merry Meeting Cpt. Tho. Saunders Master,
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& Proceed to Casco Bay, where you must stay no longer than
to take on Board Cpt. Jos. Bane ( or in Case of his Absence
Cpt. Sam 11 Jordan ) who is hereby Order'd to go with you &
assist as Interpreter, And then sail for S* Georges River &
Remain at the Fort there to receive y e Penobscot & other
Indians that may come in in Order to be transported to Bos-
ton to the intended Treaty.
Cp* Saunders is hereby Order'd to attend you with his
Sloop till the Indians are come in & declare their Readiness
to embark & upon your Directions to him must return hither
with you & the s? Indians with all possible dispatch.
You must acquaint the Indians That you are Impower'd
by me to Receive the Chiefs & Delegates of the several Tribes
& Conduct them to Boston there to treat of a Peace accord-
ing to their own Motion & Desire, And that in the mean
Time You will transmit whatsoever Advices & Messages they
have to send to me.
If the Indians sh d enter into any Discourse of the War or
the Terms & Conditions of Peace You must carefully advoid
those Subjects & by no Means give them any Answer thereto,
But assure them your Business is only to Accompany them
to Boston to treat there & to receive & send forward any
Messages to & from them as aforeds d , However you must
note down in Writing any thing of Consequence that they
shall deliver in their Discourse. You must by no means
trade with the Indians y re self nor permit or suffer any other
Persons to Traffick with them on any Ace? And Inform
against any such Persons that they may be prosecuted with
the utmost severity of the Law, At the same time Acquaint-
ing y* Ind. that when a Peace is settled they will be well
supplied.
Let the Indians be treated civilly & no Affront or 111 Usage
offer'd them & especially be careful to prevent any Drunken-
ness among them.
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The Officers & others at Fort at S* Georges are hereby
Required to observe your Directions in all Matters that may
concern the Affair with w c . h you are charged.
Letter Col. T. Wesibrook to L* Gov. W m Dummer
May it please your Hon*
I have got most of the Officers Lists,
and am drawing fair Coppys of them to send your Honour.
Cap* Slocom arriv'd here last night from Falmouth but brings
no news, I hear Col Harmon marcht the 20*1* of this Ins*
wee have had an Ace* of two or three Indians discovered at
Berwick a few days ago, and of three at the head of Oyster
River at a place called littleworth, on which I immediately
gave orders to all the Fronteirs to renew their Care & be
strict on their guard lest the Enemy surprise them. Cap* Bean
has been here a few days & says he had your Honours orders
to visit his family, so that he returned to Georges in Twenty
five days after the landing the Indians but lest he should be
wanted I have advised him to get there before the time and
he designes to set out to morrow morning.
I am your Hon r8 most Dutifull Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L\ Gf-ov. W" 1 Dummer.
May it please your Hon r
I rec'd your Hon r ? orders dated the 28^ of
last month on the 31 st of the same about nine a Clock at
night which I immediately observed & ordered men to attend
Cap* Smith- I am surpris'd that your Hon? has not rec'd
any letters from me since the march ordered by your Hon r on
Amuscoggin River. I wrote one of y? 15 1 ! 1 of August with
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a Copy of the Draught of Officers & men which I now
enclose, and another by Cap* Slocom of the 25** which I
now enclose a Copy of. I should have had the state of the
Army ready before now had I not reo'd your Hon rs orders
dated the 23? of August that there were several parties of
Indians comeing on us, whereon I immediately went to Wells
& sent to all the rest of the Towns & garrisons on this side
Kennebeck river to be strict on their guard ~
I shall use my utmost endeavours to get a Canoo, I wrote
to Cap* Bean to endeavour to get one at S* Georges-and
shall lay out every where else
I am your Hon most Dutifull Serv*
York Sep* 1 st 1725 Tho 8 Westbrook
P S Col Harmons letter is Enclos'd which Informs when
he marcht.
Letter Capt. Tho 8 Smith to L* G-OV. Dummer
Falmouth Casco Bay Septem* 2? 1725
S? I gladly embrace this opportunity, by one Munrow of
Dorchester, to pay my Duty to y* Honour, tho' only to
inform y* I arrived here on Monday night y e 30 of August
& immediately Dispatcht a Whaleboat with your Honours
Letter to Coll Westbrook of Wells, Also wrote to Cap* Bean
at Black Poynt w? arrived here on Tuesday Night, I also
forwarded your other Letters according to Direction ; have
been becalmed ever since we came in here and shall improve
y e first Wind to proceed to S* Georges and now subscribe
Your Honours most obedient hum 1 Ser*
Tho 8 Smith
[ Superscribed ]
To the Honour 6 William Dummer Esq r Leiu* Governour
And Command' in Chief of y e Province of y* Massachus 68
Bay New England
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 333
Letter Johnson Harmon to L* Gov. Dummer Sept. 5, 1795
May it please your Honour
Pursuant to your Honours Instructions
I have been to Rockamagook & Six miles beyond & sent sun-
dry s parties to Scout to the Pond near Amuscoggin & Beaver
Damms adjacent but made no discovery of y e Enemy worth
noteing I this day returnd to this place & shall as soon as
possible send a more particular ace* of the March. Col? West-
brook gives your Hon? an Ace* of the Enemys being on the
Fronteir
I am your Honours most dutifull Hurnb! Servant
York Sep* 5 th 1725 Johnson Harmon
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Dummer Sept.
May it please your Honour
Leiu* Col Harmon is this Evening
returned from his March up Amuscoggin River, but made no
discovery of the Enemy worth noteing. on fryday last the
3? of this Ins* about Twenty Indians fought Scales garrison
for some time & killd sundry cattle & carried them away, &
the same day calld to M r Parkers garrison, I just now receiv'd
an Ace*, from Cap* Wheelwright of an Alarm at Mowson
whom I had ordered to march with about thirty men to Ber-
wick which now designes to go that way to Inform more
gticularly of said Alarm.
I am your Hon rs most dutifull servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
Albany 6 th September 1725
Gentlemen
We can't express the concern we have for the
unhappy Indian war your Governm'* is fallen into, and do
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heartily wish that it was brought to a happy Conclusion &
Lasting peace with those unhumane Eastern Salvages, whom
we hear are daly supported by the french Priests & people of
Canada, and assisted by the neighbouring Indians to annoy
the People of your Governm* we think we should not dis-
charge our duty as Subjects of one King and neighbours not
to Inform you of the Barbarous & Bloody designs of the
Indians whom as we are Credibly Informd this day are with
150 men about three weeks Since on their March towards
your fronteers, and probably are yet Skulking or hovering
ab* to comitt barbarities, we are also told that 140 Indians
were on their March above Chambly in one Body, 17 days
ago, but it is thought this last party would turn back by y e
perswasion of some from this tho* this is but uncertain. So
that its adviceable to be on your Guard, we hope this advice
may come timely and be of service to the publick and frust-
rate the designs of the Indians, this Express will Expect pay-
ment from you for his trouble or Journey, we hope youl
satisfy him. if in any thing we can be serviceable to any in_
of your place or Governing please to comand who are with
Esteem & Respect.
Gentlemen Your most humble servants
Henry: Holland Pieter Van Brugh
Evert Bancker Ph. Livingston
Hend Van Rensselaer
Col. Tho Westbrook to IS. Gov. Dummer Sept. 9, 1725.
P. S. When I receivd your Hon" orders to be strict on our
guard and that there was several parties of Indians comeing
on our fronteirs I heard there was a letter on his Maj ts ser-
vice to Col Wheelwright which I was in hopes was from
Your Hon r to order the Inhabitants to be more carefull, I
hear since that it never came to his hand.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 335
My affairs at home more then ordinary wanting me for
Ten or Twelve days I pray your Hon leave in as much as
Col Harmon is on the Spott
I am your Honours most dutifull Servant
York September 9*? 1725 Tho 8 Westbrook
Orders to Col Harmon g Cap* Moulton Sept. 9, 1725
Sir
These are to direct you to march with thirty effective
men to Saco Salmon Falls & to cross the Countrey from
thence to North Yarmouth or Pesumpscot River Keep-
ing out in the Woods at least ten or twelve Days, Pass-
ing & Repassing between the said Stations or Lying in
Ambush in such Places where the Indians may probably
pass, Taking the utmost Care of your Silence & good
Order to prevent the Enemies Discovering you.
Coll. Harmon.
If you are too much fatigued with your last
March Let y re Lieut : command this Party
Cpt. Molton to march from the Head of
Berwick to Saco Salmon Falls
Sept 9 th 1725
Letter L* Gf-ov. Dummer to Col. Westbrook Sept. 9,
S r These are to Direct You forthwith to deliver Col Har-
mon & Cap* Moulton, the enclosed Orders & detach so many
Able Men Indians & others to make up their number for the
s d Marches w c I desire may bse gformed w th the utmost dili-
gence
Boston 9 th Sep? 1725 Y r Serv*
Col Westbrook
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Letter H. Holland others to L* Q-ov. Dummer
Albany 10 th Septem* 1725
Honourable Sir
We should think it a neglect of our Duty
as we have the honour to be appointed by his Excel 7 Gov r
Burnet Esq r & c to represent him here in relation to Ind n
Affairs, not to Inform you without Loss of time of a Message
this day brought us by one of this place / who arriv'd last
night in 13 days from Canada) who delivered us seven hands
of Wampam from the part of the Cachnawages, Rendax and
Skawinnadie Ind ns living in Canada, desiring thereby to speak
with you, or some deputed by you, his Excel? our Gov* &
the Sachims of the six Nations at this City by the first of
October next, but about what Subject this proposed meeting
is to be we cannot inform you tho its said that some Sachims
of the Eastern Ind n . 8 were at Cachnawage so that its conjec-
tur'd that there may be some proposals made of A Peace
between you & them which we heartily wish may be brought
to a happy & desired Issue. We hear the Ind? 8 themselves
are weary of this War but are vigorously sett on & supported
by the Gov r of Canada & their priests. We writt by this
Express to the Justices of Westfield Informing them of the
Motion of the Enemy, which we desire them to forward to
you for your better Information, We intend to advise his
Excel y Gov r Burnet of our proceedings in this affair which
we flatter ourselves will be approved of by him We remain
with Respect
Sir your very Humble Servants
Henry Holland Pieter Van Brugh
Evert Bancker Ph: Livingston
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 337
Letter H. Holland others to Col 8 Partridge $ Stoddard"
Albany 10 th Sept r 1725
Gentlemen
Since our last of the 6 th Instant we are assur'd by
one of this place who arriv'd last night in 13 days from Can-
ada that the 140 Ind n . 8 we Informed you lay Incamped near
Chambly with a Design to go out against your fronteers are
Actually returned home partly by the gswasion of the people
of this place and partly by their Sachims, that the 150
Ind n . 8 said to be out are gone to the Eastward, yet we hear
their Number is uncertain neither can we be informed whether
they be in one Body or in parties, but we are told that one
party of 9 & another of 14 Ind n . 8 are out who design to be
skulking about your western fronteerg of the last Graylock
is Leader, We hope these two parties may be discovered &
defeated by your out Skouts to gvent their further Attempts.
We hear the Ind n . 8 are weary of the War and would long
since have come to terms of peace & submission if the Gov*
of Canada & his priests did not encourage and Sett them on
against the people of your Governm* It will be a great Sat-
isfaction to Us to hear that our advice be of Service to the
public k as we heartily wish it may be The Inclos'd is for
your Gov* which we desire you to forward to him with all
possible dispatch/ as also this Letter for his perusal/ it being
as we suppose of Consequence with Respect We Remain
Gentlemen Your most Humble Servants
Henry Holland Pieter Van Brugh
Evert Bancker Philip Livingston
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Dummer
May it please your Hon r
The Lists now sent your Honour is as near as I can
get it at this time, there may be some small Error, but I
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know of none, some of the Officers have not given me an
Account of their Dismist men or dead, since the last account
given in, so I have not putt in any of them but shall get a
particular list by itself
York Sept io> 1725
I am your Hon rs most Dutifull Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
Letter Josiah Willard, Secy " to Henry Holland $ others "
Sept. 13,
Gent.
I am directed by the Hon ble the Lieut. Gov r & Council
of this Prov. To Acquaint you That they have received from
Coll. Stoddard your Intelligence of the Fitting out & March
of the Indians from Canada towards our Frontiers, And that
they thankfully Acknowledge your Concern for the Interest
of this Province express'd in your Letter & by your Advices
from Time to Time of the Designs & Motions of the Enemy,
And they desire you would please continue y e good Offices
to give speedy & seasonable Intelligence of what ever may
effect & concern this Governm* as Occasi shall require
J Willard
Boston Sep* 13, 1725
Letter Col. T. Westbrook to L* Gov. Dummer Sept. 16, 1725
May it please y r Hon r
I rec d y r Hon rs Order's about 8 of the Clock this night,
dated the 9 th Curr* , & immidiatly gave Cap* Moulton, the
command of so many effective Men, who will be on that com-
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 339
mand, the 17 th Curr* Col: Harmon, will take his own Men,
& in case he wants, I shall immediatly Supply him ~
The inclosed, will confirm the Villany of y e Penobscut
Tribe ~ When time will allow, I doubt not, but there is such
reason to be given, that will confirm it.
York SeptemV 16 th 1725
I am Y r Hon r ? most Dutiful humble Servant
Tho" Westbrook
Letter L* Q-ov. Dummer to Col. Westbrook
Boston Sep* 24, 1725
I have Yours of the 21 st Instant which came to Me by
Express whereas there was nothing in the Letter that
required Such a Charge but it might have come as well by
the Ordinary Post. I think well of the Disposition You
have made of Your Men And I hope they will be Vigilant &
faithful in their Duty otherwise they may Depend the Enemy
will make Some Incursions upon Us. It was very Absurd
for any Body to Spread Reports of 500 Indians being come
from Canada, especially for such who pretend & ought to
know the Indian Affairs, I observe the Soldiers make a
handle of it for Cowardice by every Small party they meet
with afterwards, I have a full Ace* of the Indians that are
come out from Canada which I rec? from Albany &c And
they are in all 180 part of which made Directly to the West-
ern frontiers where we have heard of them Divers times lately
And the rest March'd East amongst You some of whom I am
still in hopes You will give me some good Ace* of. Unless
Your business be very Urgent it won't be proper to leave
Your Command at this Juncture, but in that Case I Allow of
it. You have never yet sent me any Ace* of the Examination
of the Officers of the Indians pursuant to my Directions, it
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will be necessary to Set that Matter in a true light for they
Complain of Great Injustice.
I am S? Your Humble Serv*
W. Dummer
Col Westbrook
M*. Dalafaye to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations : (Inclosing Memorial from L*. Gov r .
Council of New England )
Whitehall Septem. 25! h 1725
My Lords
The inclosed Memorial of the Lieut Gov? and
Assembly of New England, Complaining, that the Indians in
their Neighbourhood are instigated and assisted by the French
to commit Hostility upon His Ma*? 8 Subjects, and that the
Neighbouring British Colonies do not give them any assist-
ance, being laid before the Lord Justices ; Their Ex ?* have
commanded me to refer it to yo r Lo p8 Consideration, that you
may inquire into the Facts complained of, and report the
State of the Case as it shall appear to you, with your opinion
what is to be done in it. I am
My Lords Y? Lo p . 8 most Obedient humble Servant
Ch: Delafaye
Letter - Col. W m Pepperrell to L*. Grov. Dummer
May it Please y? HonT
Sum time past, I inform* y? that there was
not an Ensign to y* company in y* Lower parte of y*
Town of Kittery w ch I have y* care off and at y* Same time
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 341
mention? M* W m Fernald Jim? as a Suteable man for that
place; Since dont understand that there is any commission
Sent for any person if y r Hon r Sees cause to send one for
s d Fernald I am of y e opinion he will behave him Selfe well.
there is one James Breddeane Jun? in the countorys Ser-
vice belonging to Coll? Harmons company and is indebt? to
me, he is able to pay but not willing because he thinks his
being in y e Service is a protection I pray y a fav? of y? to
Send his dismishon inclosed to me.
I ask pardon in being so troublesome
I am with much Duty & respects Yo r Hon r8
Most Hum ble Serv" W m Pepperrell
Kittery Sept? 29 th 1725
[ Superscribed ]
To The Honor ble W m Burner Esq r L* Governour &
command 1 in Cheiff of his Maj ty8 Province of the
Massachusets bay Att Boston
Letter Col T. Westbrook to IS Gov. Dummer, Oct. 1, 1725
May it Please your Hon r /
I rec d your Hon Letter of the 24 th on the
28 th of last month. How mine of y* 21 st came to hand by
Express I cannot tell unless Gov? Wintworth made such a
mistake in that as his Hon r did in not sending Cap* Canady's
Letter with mine of the 16 th of last month to your HonT I
sent it by a private hand and desir'd him to send a line or
two to your Hon* of his mistake which I hope your Hon r has
rec?
I never believ'd that there was 500 Indians come from
Canada but inasmuch as it came from Cap* Jordan to my
hand, I look't on it as my Duty to forward it to your Honr
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I always caution every body to make less rather than more
of what they hear or see, relating_the Enemy notwithstand-
ing some make y* most of everything. If my Affairs did not
more than ordinary want me at home I would not have
desir'd it after I rec' d your Hon ri Orders to have the Officers
of the Indian company & the Witnesses face to face. I
immediately sent for the Officers from Richmond in order to
examine them but the Indians were out in the woods pursu-
ant to your Hon Orders so that I coud not bring them face
to face. Doctor Bacon complaining that it woud be a great
damage to stop him till the return of the Indians, I permitted
Jiim to wait on your HonT as your HonT will see by the
Enclosd which is a true copy. Cap* Moulton is returnd from
his march a Journal of wh ch is herewith sent your Hon? The
Indians are uneasy wanting to be dismiss'd and threaten if
they are not to run away
I am Your Hon ri most Dutifull Serv*
York Octobr I 8t 1725 Tho 8 Westbrook
P. S. Lieu* Markham wanting to go to Boston I have per-
mitted him to wait on your Hon r by whom I have
sent an Indian Gun that was taken last year at Ner-
ridgwock which I pray your Hon r to accept.
T W
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj tles Service
To The Hon ble William Dummer Esq r Lieu* Govern'
& Command in Chief &c g Lieu* Markham
Letter John Minot to Col. Stephen Minot
Marblehead Oct 4 1725
Hofi S r
Our not hearing of any late damages done by the
Indians and Cap* Smith being still detained by them after the
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 343
limited time gives me some hopes, that we shall in a little
time be so happy, as to have peace in our borders, that we
may againe improve and injoye our Eastern Plantations, And
that which I most build my hopes on is that I think the eyes
of the Governm* seeme to be more open now then they have
bin formerly, and are more inclin'd to taike those measures
which may secure the honour and Interest of the province &
the Indians have justice done them the latter of which with-
out we have a Tender regard to we may not expeckt a lasting
peace-I shall now give you my thoughts on some heads which
I think very necessary to Establish our Interest with them
Tribes And the first thing I shall speak to is the Affaire of
the lands they claime, which I believe will be the only dificult
point, that the Governm* will have to Treat with them on- 1
am very sensible it was the greatest handle the Jesuits made
use of whereby they mov'd them to make Warr by telling
them it was our intent to take away all their Countrey not
only what we bought, of them, but what we had not bought,
and to make them & their Children in time miserable, Its my
Opinion if there were some measures taken to Assure them
that some Considerable part of that Country should alwayes
remaine to them & their Children to plant and Improve and
that no man should be able to bye it, and if they did it should
not be valid while they or any of their children were alive,
As it is at Natick and some other parts of our Province
where we have justly made reserves for them-if we put It to
our selves & examine by y e golden rule of doeing as we
would be done by, I think we should chearfully come into it,
And as I remember at the last treaty they had no Assurance,
that their planting fields at Nerigwalk and other planting
grounds should be alwayes enjoyd by them many of them
often tould me, that they Expeckted the English would in a
little time endeavour to taike them away, as they had done
by the Western Indians we should Consider they have a
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Native right to all the lands they have not sould I have
often admired at the Weakness of many people when they
have said if we should Confirme any land to them they would
emediately sell it to the french, and they would settle it, but
no man that is acquainted with that part of the Countrey
can think so when there might be so many reasons given why
the_ would not besides there might be Exceptions made
against it, no frenchman that is a man of any Consideration
who is not under our Govermn* would venture to lay out his
substance near so great a Province where they allwayes lye
lyable to be Destroyd & We have an instance to Confirme
this in the settlements the french made at S* Johns River
where the Indians gave them Liberty to plant & Improve
who after they were Destroyd by Cap* Southarick never made
any more attempts notwithstanding we have had so long a
Peace with france
It must be Confest the Indians are barbarous & Cruell to
us in time of Warr and God makes use of them as a rod in
his hand, and its to be fear'd he uses it with more severity
on us because we have not dealt justly by them in many
things
I can think of nothing that would sooner make them easy
in the Affaire of y r Land then by letting them know what
great care the Govermn' has taken to Confirme the lands to
the Naticks & other Indians in our Province, and it would
not be amiss that some of our Indians, that would make the
best Appearance be at the Treaty & there assure them of the
great promt & advantage that they reap by it whereby they
are enabled to raise Corn Sheep and Cattle & that many of
them that are industrious live very well If the G overran*
should ereckt Traiding houses (which I think very necessary
to keep them in our Interest.) Its my Oppinion that it would
give more satisfaction not to Confine the traide to them
houses only for they are a jealous people and love freedome.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 345
& if they bought cheaper there than others could afford, &
they had not liberty to trye they would not so apparantly see
their Obligation & Dependance on y e Publick. As to letting
them have rum I think it best it be not wholly restrained from
them, for there are many amongst them, that maike a Tem-
perate moderate use of it, and never Disguise themselves at
all & many of them will not drinke any. I believe it best that
matter be left to the prudence of the men that are entrusted
with the stores, and that they be Exceeding cautious before
they are well acquainted with the Indians that they dont let
any of them have more than a dram at a time, but I need not
say anything more on this head, the temptation of selling
them for any promt being wholly taiken of from them that
have the caire of the Stores, if they be men of any prinsipalls
of Honour & justice and have the good of their Countrey at
heart and I think few or none will sell them rum only
for y e Proffit they get on it the Indians giving them so much
trouble after they are made drunck which made the most
sober considerate indians tell me, that nothing would more
suppress that base Custome then by erecting Publick Stores,
for it was the temptation of getting promt on other goods
that causd many people to let them have rum and many of
our quarrells with them arose from their drunken revills, I
think it would be best also in my Oppinion that those Truck
masters should have orders not to trust any Indian-for it
might be a Temptation to them, as it was in South Carolina
in the last Warr they had,/ After they are a great deale in
debt to make Warr and then all is paid, besides its an Incour-
agm* to Idleness, and I observed many quarrells with them
arose from our demanding what was due from them. And
yet there are some of the most Considerate influencing men
amongst them, which I have Observ'd after they have bin
hunting a great while have met with little or no success, and
thereby their familyes brought to be very nessesitous. now if
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it were left to those that are intrusted with the stores at such
times to give them a small matter of Corne or other nes-
esaryes that they stand in need of, the prudent timeing of
those gifts would greatly ingaige them. A to bringing them
over to our Religion I hope by Gods Blessing in time it
might be Effeckted And I hope the publick will be so
happy in their Choice to have those men whose Conversation
will' be Exemplary and inofensive for the Indians will be
most with them.
I Observed the Jesuits allwayes gain'd more on them by
their blamless watchfull carrage to them then by any other
of their artfull methods. Example is before preceipt w th
them, their Religion being all superficiall they having but
little internall sence of their duty when at their Devotions
if the Govermn* would give those that have the caire of
those houses some rules and methods to use with them, which
they in their wisdome think proper to gaine them over to the
protestant faith. I have great reason to think by Gods
Blessing in time may have a good Effeckt, but at present
they are so biggotted to the Romish faith that will
require great patience & strength of Resolution in those
endeavours. There might be many things concerted which
at present does not Ocur to my minde which I hope the pub-
lick will not be wanting in if they should come into any
termes with them Ime sure if we look into Govern Burnets
last speach, whereby he is laying downe the great and happy
Consequence of their keeping in good termes with those
Tribes of Indians bordering on him. And the french on the
other side of us Assidiously & Artfully plotting and Contriv-
ing to keep them in their interest it highly conserns this
Province to taike some methods to get them into our Interest
who have suffered so much & which now groans under the
burden of this unhappy Warr. S T if you think my thoughts
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on these things may be of service desire they may be Com-
municated
Yo r Obed* Son John Minot
Superscribed
To Coll. Stephen Minot Merch* In Boston.
Letter Josiah Willard Secy to Col. Westbrook Oct. 4, 1725.
Sir, His Hon r the L* Gov (who is very ill of the Gout bid
me tell you That you must dispatch the enclosed to Cpt.
Smith without a Minutes Delay It being of great Conse-
quence that he sh? soon receive it.
His Hon r having promised the Indians enlisted by Cpt. Bourn
( being all those of the County of Barnstable ) to dismiss them
in the Fall that so they attend their Whale Fishing : directs
you as soon as you have Opportunity to send them up to
Boston in Order to their Return Home & let none of them
be detained on any Pretence whatsoever. The thirty Indians
of Bristol County must be Continued till further Order.
Take special Care that the Garrisons be strengthen'd & pro-
tected & that Scouts be sent out as often as the Number of
them will allow. His Hon r has sent Orders to Cpt Grant to
march to Norridgewock with his Comp* of Voluntiers. You
must take Care that the Design be conceal'd And give him
what Assistance is necessary. In your last List you sent no
ace? of the Soldiers that were dead deserted killd or Dis-
miss'd. W c . h Honour expects as soon as may be
Coll. Westbrook
Letter Jonah Willard, Sec? to Capt Tho Smith - Ost. 4, 1725
Sir
His Hon* the Lieut. Govern? (who is laid up with the
Gout) bids me tell you That this Morning he rec? your Let-
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ter of the 22? of September, That he is concerned at the
Indians Delay of Coming in, However Directs you to remain
at S* Georges till further Order, The Indians having
express'd their Doubts of being ready in Forty Days when
they were here & the L! Gov? declared his Readiness to
lengthen out the time so far as should be necessary without
any Limitation of Fourteen Days ; And his Honour wonders
whence the Discourse of fourteen Days Addition to the first
Term sh d arise, There not being the least Foundation for it
in the Transactions of the Governm! with the Indians. His
Honour expects that you express forward all Intelligence you
have of any Moment with all possible Dispatch. And that
when the Indians come in you bring them forward to Boston
without delay
Cpt. Smith
Letter Josiah Willard SecV to Col. W m Pepperrell Oct. If, 1725
Sir
His Honour the L* Gov r ( who is very ill of the Gout )
directs me to acquaint you That he has rec? y r Lett! of the
29 th pass'd & has according to your Desire sent a Commission
for an Ensign w ch is herewith enclosed : As to Breddeanes
Debt to you, You have not Said that it was contracted before
he enter'd into the Service, W c . h is the only Case wherein the
Law provides for the Dismission of Soldiers ; However his
Hon r hopes he shall soon have Occasion to dismiss him with
many others in the Service And in the Mean Time Advises
you to secure your self out of the Mans Wages.
Coll Pepperil
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 349
Letter J. Willard Sec* to Capt. Grant $ IS: Bragdon.
Oct.
Gent.
His Hon r the L* Gov r ( who is very ill of the Gout ) has
rec d your Letter of the first Instant, And bids me acquaint
you that he approves of your Readiness for the publick Ser-
vice & hereby Directs you with all possible Speed to March
your Company of Voluntiers to Norridgewock in Quest of
the Enemy, & to take kill & destroy all that you meet with
there or in your March, Taking effectual Care that no Hos-
tility be acted by you any where to the Eastw? of Kennebeck
^ .._.._ *- ~-_ur.- -
River but at Norridgewock, And that Nothing be done on
m ----------------- - fo 8
that Side the River contrary to the Cessation agreed on with
the Penobscot Tribe, for the March must be performed with
the utmost Secrecy & Silence. You must not divulge your
Designs to any Persons whatsoever any further than is abso-
lutely necessary. You must be very exact in your Journal
in Noting down every thing that is worthy of your Observa-
tion ; & send an Ace* of your Proceedings.
Cpt. Grant & L* Bragdon.
Letter Col. T. Wettbrook to L* Gov. W m Dummer
Oct. 7, 1725
May it Please your Hon r
I rec d Hon r * Orders from Secretary Wil-
lard Esq r Dated the 4 th Curr* at Portsmouth where I had
been a day or two I immediately sent forward Cap 1 Smith
and the next morning came to Berwick to forward Cap*
Grant in his Orders pursuant to your Hon rs Directions but
he marched out four or five days before. I sent Orders to
the respective Officers to deliver the Indians Arms & Ammu-
nition to M r Mountfort and then send them to Boston by the
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first Conveyance. M r Secretary did not inform me that the
Cessation of arms was out but by your Hon Orders to Cap*
Grant it seems to me it is over however not being certain I
shall not give any Orders to y e Eastward of Kennebec River
till I have your Hon particular Directions. The Officers in
general are very urgent to go to Boston to make up their
Rolls particularly Cap* Canady whom I have assur'd I wou'd
ask your Hon r for leave
I am Your Hon" most Dutifull Serv*
Tho 8 Westbrook
Berwick Octob? 7 th 1725.
P. S. I am not certain where Cap* Grant is march't,
but by what I understand from y e People here, he is
onely ranging on y e heads of y e Towns, & will be in again,
in four or five days I am rit supra
T. W
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj* le * Service
To the Hon ble William Dummer Esq r
Lieu* Gov* & Commander in chief &c
Letter Sam 1 Willard to U Gov. Dummer Oct. llf,
Saco October 14 th 1725
May it Please your Honvor pursuant to your Honvors
Instructions Cap* Blanchard arid I marched up Marrimack
About one Hundred and fiefty milles from Dun stable till we
came to Head of it we saw some Signes of a Wig warm where
we suppose Some Indians had Been about Six weeks sine and
from Marrimack in about 3 milles we Came up on Saco River
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 351
and came Down s d River to Saco falls on wensday October
13 and in y e Evening came to winter barber to Capt Jordens
and tooke some Stores of him for our Subsistinc for we had
not any Provision Laeft, for in the moring we Before we
came to Saco falls we fineched all our provisions so that we
had not any Leaft And we are now coming Home as fast as
we can we shall Give your Honvor amore particuler acovnt
in our Journall.
Which is all in hast from your Honvors Humble Sarvent
Sam 11 Willard
for the Hon ble W m Dummer Esq r
Letter If. Crov. Dummer to G-OV. Armstrong.
Sir
Since my last to you I have no other Advice from
the Penobscot Indians but that they have sent to Canada to
call in their People that are there to our Treaty at Boston.
And that those of them that are come in to S l Georges make
strong professions of their Disposition to Peace, & they wait
only for the Return of their Messengers from Canada.
If the War sh? continue after all these Overtures I shall
endeavour by the Help of God to push it on the next Winter /
with more Vigour than ever, and as the Penobs Indians retire
in that Season to a Place near Menis & other Parts of Nova \
Scotia where they are entertained & subsisted by the French, ~ '
I am thinking to send a Force there to dislodge them, But
shall do Nothing in this Affair without your Privity &
Approbation; As you have his Maj iei Commission for y e Gov-
ernm* of that Countrey And I must pray you would take this
Proposal into your Consideration & give your Answer to it
as soon as possible.
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Albany 5 th November 1725
Sir
Mr Livingston being from home am order'd by the
Com" of Ind n Affairs here, to acquaint you that they
received without Date, acquainting them that your Lieu*
Gov r and Council had received from Coll Stoddard their
Intelligence of the sitting out & March of the Ind? 8 from
Canada towards your Frontiers, which they hope has pre-
vented their Cruel Designs. This week arriv'd here some
Gentlemen from Canada, but bring no News save that Gov r
Vaudreille is Dead. The Com assure you to Continue
their Intelligence of the Motions of the Enemy from time to
time with all care & Dilligence possible as Occasion Offers
Am with much Respect Sir Your most humble Servant
James Stevenson
Letter - Sam 11 Stacy to IS Grov. Dummer
May it please your Honour
Being inform'd of y e Arrival of y e Heads or Representatives
of y e several Tribes of Indians, in Order for a Peace, I hum-
bly take Leave to acquaint Your Hon? That they have one
of my Schooners in their Hands, w ch they took from me some
Time y e Summer before last.
The last Time y e Indians were at Boston I came up, hop-
ing to have redeem'd my Vessel, and accordingly when your
Hon? met w th y e Counsel to have an Interview w*? them, I
prefer'd a Petition, Praying Liberty to purchase her of y e
Indian who had her in his Keeping, who was then at Boston,
but it was answer'd y* it was not cosistent w*? y e Honour of
y e Govemm* to buy y l of y e Indians w ch they had unjustly
taken away, especially when they were suing for a Peace
w 1 ? us. And that it was hoped y* I & every Body else y*
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 353
had anything in their hands w h they had taken from us,
should have it frankly restored to us without buying it of
them, when they came to a Treaty w*? us. and therefore I
would humbly entreat y* when y e Affair comes in Agitation I
may not be forgot
My Neighbour John Chapman has y e like Request, who
has a Vessel & Servant w th them.
I am your Hon" most Obedient & humble Serv*
Sam 11 Stacey
Marb'h? Nov r 15*? 1725
Letter L* Crov. Dummer to Col. T. Westbrook, Dec. 21,
Sir
The Peace being concluded with the Delegates of the East-
ern Indians, I have determined upon a Reduction of the
Forces on that Frontier, And therefore I desire you would
repair to Falmouth in Casco Bay with all convenient Speed
& reduce the Soldiers according to a List of the Numbers I
shall allow to each respective Place w ch you have herewith
(M you ; The Rest of _Men must be forthwith dismiss'd ; And
in their Dismission you must have a just & impartial Regard
to those that have been longest in the Service who are on
that Ace* first entituled to this Benefit, And more especially
the Men contained in the other List, who must be immedi-
ately discharged; The Garrisons at Fort George & Fort
Mary must stand according to their last Establishm* And if
there be wanting any Men at either of those Forts, You must
supply them out of the Forces before their Reduction.
You must Notify the sev 11 . Places in that the Peace is con-
cluded, And give Directions in writing from me to the sev"
Commanding Officers for the Observation of it & also That
They see a faithful Duty perform'd, and that they be not off
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from their Guard, The Danger not being wholly over till the
Ratification, But in the mean Tune, If any Indians come in
That they be well treated & a good Understanding culti-
vated with them & Friendship & After you have fully per-
f orm'd the sev 11 Articles of this Instruction, and are return'd
Home to your Family, you will look upon yourself Dismissed
from his Majesties Service as Commander in Chief of the
East" Forces, Thus giving you hearty Thanks for your Faith-
fulness, Diligence & Good Conduct in that important Trust : I
am, W. D.
Resolve.
In the House of Representatives Jan ry 4 th 1726 Resolved
That no Settlements be made by any person or persons what-
ever in the County of York beyond North Yarmouth in
Casco Bay without Leave therefor being first had and
Obtained of the Great and General Court.
Sent up for Concurrence
W m Dudley Spk*
Letter Rev. Christopher Toppan to L* G-ov. Dummer
Newbury Jan. 13, 1726.
Honourable S r
I have lately received Information that
severall persons have gone this Winter from Casco Bay to
Damiscotty ( A place belonging to me ) and Cut and Carried
away abundance of Pipe Staves, and Capt. Moody has sent
me Word, that there are Several more, fitting to goe down
Now the favour I would request of your Honour is, ( if such
a thing may be granted ) that you'd please to send an order
to Cap* Heath to send two or three men across the Woods,
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 355
to Damiscotty, ( w ch is I suppose about ten or a dozen miles )
and if any persons are cutting Timber in those Woods,
to see who y? are, and take an Account of their Names, and
forbid y committing any further Trespass there if yy.
should need a Pilot the Cap* may hire some Indian for that
purpose, and 'ile repay w* he gives him :
If your Honour can gratifye me in w* I request, it will
very much oblige me who am your Honours most humble and
Obedient Servant
my service to Madam/ . Christopher Toppan
Letter Capt. John Gyles to L* G-OV. Dummer
1726/7 S* Georges Riv er
Feb r 27 Gyleses Memorial
Lues an Indian Cap tn of the Penebscot tribe decleard y*
he had a Cecret to Deliver to me, that y e Govern ment
Might know of that at a Late Councell Concluded that
if y e Cap tn8 said War or Peace it must be so, which I had
thoughts of hideing from you,
Gyles Why should you & I hide from Each auther
anithing of moment.
Lues I Dont from you,
Gyles hath made sum Inquiary of y e above & Informd
that thier is no such Conclusion it is only the Pride of
that Cap tns hart &c
Lues I aquaint you that the new Gouv r of Canadey hath
sent to y e Chieffs & authers y fc ar willing of our tribes to
Give him a Vicett in y e Spring that he may Pay his
Respext to them & Give them Presents as he is ordred
by the King of france.
Lues one thing more I must aquaint you of y fc is about
y e 7 th Currant or 10 Days Past 12 of our tribe wear
ouer to Montinecous Islands to kill Sils but finding not
any & being Detaind thier sun d Days by wind & wether,
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they Lit of a Cow & hoggs belonging to the English
which they Kild & must Pay for.
March 3
a Privat Informar news from Caneday y* y e Preson- taken by
y e french in the Spring, & to be no more such actions
Commited, tho' all is kept Privat at yet, and the Persons
that Did ye mischief nameless, and at ye a Rival of our
Messengers to Canedy they Demanded who was the a
Casion of Killing after a Pece Concluded,
the new Gov r s d what was Don was Vnknown to him,
for he was Com by order from france to Do Justies, and
to have Pece & Love w th the English as it was at home,
and what the blackcots had Don, thier must be no more
such actions which was his Orders &c
Wowerena is Deracted to set Vp a mark in Keneback
River above taconack, two men shaking hands and if
Like to war, then to have a hatchet in Each hand, for
those y fc Pass & Repass to View and be on their Guard,
for Severall ar Expected w th thier families in y e Spring
to Settle a Gain at Narrangawawock &c
Gyles you Do well to Give me an accompt of all affears
of moment, and you shall be well Rewarded from time
to tune for your Good Service and not be made Publick,
Informar, the Messengars are Expected Daily from Canedy,
and Connawol is supposd to be ariv d thier by this Day,
for they have been Gon about fourteen Days
g John Gyles Entepe tr
The within newes Came from Canedy by y e way of Keneback
River, it is Calld Privat, it is Likely your honour hath an
account of all Redy, from, but Gyles is willing
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj ty8 Service
To the Honourd W m Dummar esq Liu tn Gov r In Chieff
of his Maj ty8 Province Masachussetts Bay
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 357
Letter Col T. Westbrook to U. Gov. Dummer
1*7
Portsm? Jan** 28 th 1726 [ '
May it Please your Honour .
I have been East as far as Fal- J
mouth and dismiss'd the forces agreeable to your Honours
orders, and have given directions to the Commanders of Each
party remaining, ( Pursuant to y r Honours order ) to observe
the Peace made with the Delegates of the Eastern Indians I
am
Your Honours Most Dutifull Servant
Tho 8 Westbrook
Letter Cap* T/w s . Smith to L* G-ov. Dummer.
S< George March y e 6 th 1726/7
S r This ( by way of Pascataqua ) is y e Second Oportunity I
have had since I came from Boston ( In Obedience to your
Hon Comand ) to write : & now have only, that the Indians
( more or Less ) Every day since my arrival have frequented
the Garrison They have not ( as they say to their admira-
tion ) any news from Canada. ; Cap 1 Lewe was here the first
of this Inst, and acquainted us, that about the begining of
Last month Twel v men of the Penobscot Tribe (Amongst
whome was Victor and his son's) being by bad weather
detained on y e Isle of Montenicus for some time ; were by
hunger Necessitated to Kill a Cow & a hogg they found there
( which I understand belonged to M r Vaughn of Pascataqua )
and were ready to pay for them ; on y e second of this Ins 1 ,
Victor, his two sons were here. One of them owned he had
killed three piggs there, tho at first they denyed it, & as I
saide nothing to them about paying, so neither did they say
anything about them, only that they were all so poore they
358 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
would have dyed of themselves if they had not killed them :
I shall carefully observe to Inform your Hono r w th all occur-
rencyes, & further now only repeat my desires to yo r Hono r ,
for Liberty to come to Boston for a small time about the
Latter end of May when the spring trade will be over here
I am Yo r Hono r8 most Obedient Humble Servant
Tho 8 Smith
[Superscribed]
To the Honou ble William Dummer Esq r
Lieu* Govonour &c Comand r in Cheif of His Majesties
Province of y e Massachusets Bay &c att Boston Q D C
Letter from L\ Crov. Dummer to Wenungennet
March U, 1726/7
Good Friend,
I think it proper to acquaint you that I have rec d
Intimations That an Indian call'd Grey Lock has enticed a
Party of Indians about Otter Creek & that they are prepar-
ing to come upon our Frontiers with mischievous Designs,
And as by the late Treaty I promised to inform you of all
Designs & Motions of such Indians as endeavour to disturb
us, And you have by your repeated Repeated Assurrances
undertook to perswade or Force the Western & other Tribes
to be peaceable & come into the Treaty, & I in confidence of
the Sincerity & good Disposition of the Indians have with-
drawn the Forces from the Frontiers that so you might be
assured of my Resolution strictly to maintain the Peace on
my Part. It is therefore incumbent on you to enquire into this
Matter & if you find the Matter as it is reported ~|~ that you
forthwith take effectual Care to prevent these Indians from
Acting their 111 Purposes & to oblige them to come in &
ratify the Treaty as you have done, Let me have an Ace* of
your Proceedings as soon as may be.
THE STATE OF MAINE 359
Letter L l . Grov. Dummer to Col 9 . Stoddard $ Partridge
Gent.,
Having considered the Report of Grey Locks
Designs I think the best Way to prevent him will be to draw
him by good Usage. I desire therefore that you would
endeavour to get some private Intimations to him that may
encourage him to come in, in order to ratify the Treaty ; I
suppose it will not be difficult for you to get a Message to
him to this purpose ; in w ch you may assure him not only a
Safety & Protection but Kindness & Good Usage, W ch I
leave entirely to y re Good Conduct, and in Case of his Com-
ing in with any other Indians of Note, & their Ratifying the
Treaty It will be proper to give them some proper Presents,
W ch you must provide for them according to your own Dis-
cretion, and the Charge will be allowed you as well as what
Expence will be otherwise occasion'd by the Managem* of
this Affair ; In w c . h if you succeed you will do singular Ser-
vice for the Province.
In the meantime you will take, prudent Care to prevent a
Surprize.
W. D.
Letter Capt. John.G-yles to L* Gov. Dummer
March 17 : May it Pleas your Honour
1726/7 This Day Moxses y e Chieff of Narangawock
Received his Lettars & Present,
and he Desiars me to aquaint, that he heartily salutes
your honour, and Councell w th his Cap of to y* Ground,
and is thankefull for his Present and Lettar and Reioyces
to see your well 'wishing to Loue, & wellfear of our Peo-
ple, on our Land, he Rackens him self weak, tho as God
would Inable him, they shall not be wanting on thier
Part, for the Same, hopeing this summar after his tribe
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Corns ouer and settled -your honour will see tliier
Resolve for Love & Vnity
g John Gyles Enterpreter
March 17 th
1726/7 Victor an Indian Desiars me to a quaint your
honour Concerning y e Loss of his Canew & Goods Lost
at awouck on his Return from y e trety at Casco bay his
2 Guns & Canew he sais he knows y e Value of, but y e 2
blankitts y* wear Precented to them y e Value of it
Vnknown, and as it was Done among y e English he
should be Very thankf ull to have sumthing to the Value
of Made to him, he sais he has & will Labour heartily
for the Continuance of Pece & Love in our Land,
And from his heart Salutes & to Serve your honour
which Did not before
g John Gyles Enterpreter
S r this Victor is a Leding fellow & was a Malcontent to_ -
& so was much made vse of by y e french Party I am of
opinion y l I have now much won him over to y e English
Intrest by Reasons
I am your honours Most Dutyfull Ser*
John Gyles
Letter Capt. Tho* Smith to It. QOV. Dummer
I
I am favoured w th yo r Honours Letter of y e 6 th Curr", of
>^ the same date I wrote yo' Honour via Pascataqua, & therein
Informed, that Twelve men of the Penobscot Tribe at
Montenicus killed a Cow & Several Swine belonging to M r *
Vaughn of Pascataqua, that the Indians Say ( to their admir-
ation) they have as yett no news from Canada, Also I
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 361
repeated my desires for Liberty of your Honour, that I might
returne to Boston ( for a small time in May ) when the Spring
trade will be over w
And now yo r Hono r being pleased to Advise me, ( from
some Intimations you have had) that you thought a good
agreement between Cap 1 Giles & my selfe was absolutly nec-
essary, to the well managing the Public Business &c at read-
ing w ch I was surprised, for here has not been the Least
difference or angry word past between us since my Arrival, I
know not ths designes of any ( unless Early to create a differ-
ence between us ) that sent missinf ormations to this place, of
my coming here with comand of the Garison twas whispered
about among the Soldiers tho I heard nothing of it ; And w ch
I think had Effect only to raise unreasonable Suspitions in
Cap 1 Giles, but soone after my arrival he asked me, whether
I had any orders or Instructions for him, To which I answered
I had no Instructions only relating to the Affair of Truck
Master of which I had the Concern, and upon his repeating the
Question (which I wondered at) I againe tould him I had noth-
ing to do with the Garrison or men, nor was there so much as
any mention of his name in my Instructions which I offered
to shew him, but refused to see them, And that I had only
brought a serv* with me,. w ch yo r Honour tould me, at the
Castle, that you Intended when he came to Boston to direct
him to putt into the Muster roll as my Serv* without his dis-
missing any man, Neither have I so much as by way of
Advice pretended to direct him, by word or wrighting to any
person complained of, or faulted his Conduct in any respect,
Neither have I given any one reason to gess what my
thoughts are concerning him nor have I ordered any thing
but in the truck house, or any man but my own serv* there,
Nor so much as desired any man without his Leave to do the
Least matter for me, tho for the Service of the Province in
the Truck house & then not without paying them somthing
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for it, thinking it most agreeable to Cap* Giles so to do ;
Cap* Giles also denyes that here is, or has been any disagree-
ment or Difference between us. So that as I am not Conscious
of any mismanagement or impudence ( notwithstanding any
wrong Intimations ) I hope still to share in yo r Hono rs favour-
able thoughts ^
I presume by this oportunity Cap 1 Giles acquaints yo r
Hono r that old Moxus has this day been here, rec d the Letter
& present for him with usual Expressions of thanks &c-
Wenogonott Loron & most of the Indians are out hunting,
no news from Canada.
I shall allwayes carefully observe yo r Hono rs Injunctions of
writing what Ever Offers to S r Yo r Honours most Obedient
Humble Serv 1
Tho 8 Smith
Cinow here bring boards for Service of the Truck house
&c If your Hono r will please to give orders that the Carpen-
ter here may be Imployed in doing whats of Necessity he'l
readily do it without w ch he is unwilling to Ingage in it I
hope yo r Hono r will Excuse what you see amiss in my writing
or Stile Sanders waiting to go off
T S
[ Indorsed ]
Orders to be given to ye Carpenter at S! Georges, to repair
y e Truck House.
[ Superscribed ]
To the Honou ble William Dummer Esq r Lieu 1 Governour
& Comand 1 in Cheif of His Majesties Province of the
Massachusets Bay N E att Boston Q d C
p r Cap 1 Sanders
,\ A Letter It dov. Dummer to Capt. John Giles March 21, 1726.
n
S r
I Rec d your Letter of the 27 th of February last And am
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Glad to hear of the safety of the Captives & doubt not, but
by the Care of the Tribes I shall soon see them returned.
I am much Displeased at the Action of the Indians at
Meintenicus in Killing the Creatures there; Upon which
Occasion You must Inform the Sachem & other Chief men as
well as the immediate Actors as follows.
" That I very much Resent this Liberty they have taken
in Killing the Creatures which belong to the English, which
is contrary to the Articles of Peace And that Common Justice
which the English and Indians owe to one another, Not to
Hurt one another in their Just Rights and Properties ; Which
Fault is much aggravated from the Constant Care I have
taken to have them supplied with all manner of Necessaries
at the Trading Houses : And as it was one View I had in this
free & Generous Trade which I have carried on with them,
To prevent such ill practices from them, So I flattered my
self it would have that good Effect ; And that as Justice &
Honesty are the surest Methods to preserve the Peace, so, on
the Contrary Violence & Robbery have a direct tendency To
disturb y e friendship & good Agreement w ch I have Endeav-
oured to maintain with the Indians & which I hope will
subsist between us & them to the latest Posterity : That if
they have not already made full satisfaction for the damage
done, I expect "They do it without delay. And that I insist
" upon it that their Chiefs do frequently warn all the Young
" Men That They never Meddle with any of the English
" Cattle or other things belonging to them : And that I expect
" They will make strict inquiry whether this Action was done
" either through Rashness and Wantonness or by the Instiga-
44 tion of Such as are both theirs and Our Enemies, who may
" have a wicked Design to make a Misunderstanding between
" us ; And that in this and all other the like Cases They do
"Examplary Justice to the Offenders, in order to deter
" others from Doing the like Mischief. This is what you
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are to say to them. No more at present from Your Humble
Serv*
W m Dummer
Boston March 21, 1726.
Capt. John Gyles
Letter Col. Sam 1 . Partridge to the Commissioners at Albany.
Hatfield, March 22 th 1726/7
Gentlemen
Inclosed as you will see is a Coppy of a Letter
from His Honn or Lef* Governer, to Co 11 Stoddard and my
selfe and Co 11 Stoddard being Indisposed I tho 1 Itt my duty,
as Well as the Interest of y e Gourment to write to your selfe
to Assist us In this Affair, And I would desire, and you will
see also that tis our Left Governers Mind that Gray Lock,
should be made a freind and Come Into y e Treaty of Peace,
And also y e Chiefs of St. Francewa Indians : In Pursute of y e
same I would desire that with all dispatch you Can, you
would Send an Indian or two, or any other way you shall
think Proper, to Invite Gray Lock, as also some of the Chiefe
of y e St. Francewa Indians to Come unto us some Where In
this County, In order to a Confirmation of Peace, and Gentle-
men you seeing our Lef 1 Gouerners Letter I make No doubt
of your Frindshipp that you will not Scruple of being Gar-
rantees for their Safety In Coming & Returning, and Well
Treatment while Amoungst us= but if by No Means that
Cant be obtained then that they be Prevayled with to Come
to Albany Which they Know that they may doe with all
Safty, And Please to advise mee by this Express, what is
Probable to be done, and so I will acquaint his honor Our
Left Governor with itt, that he may Imply some Meet Person,
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 365
or Persons to treat with y m there to Ratifie And Confirm y e
Peace y e Penobscott Tribes is Come Into, for if these Partys
was Quiet I hope Wee should be all Easey for Very Latly
Our Left Governor had advise from one of y e Norridgwolk
Indians that they and each of their tribes are Peaceably
Inclined, And Intend to Continue so, And that in y e Spring
they will doe their best Endevure either to Flatter or Force
Any 111 Minded Indians In or about Cannada to Joyne with
ym j n ye Ratification of Peace. Pray Gent Use your Pru-
dence and Interest to Accomadat this matter. As for y*
Charge In y 8 Affaire you see by his honnors Letter itt will
be Answered : Lett me hear by this bearer What Success
there is Like to be In y e Affair In all which Gen tmen very
much Oblidg o r Goverment and your most Hum bl Ser*
Sam 11 Partridge
To y e Commissioners of y e Indian Affairs att Albany :
Coppy:
Letter Wenungenit, Chief 8achem of Penobscot, to It Grov.
Dummer
S* Georges Octob r 4 th 1726
Great Gov r
I rec? your Letters, as also the peice of Cloath &
return you thanks y r for as also for the. Prisoners you sent to
me. I can not send you any News from Canada as my
Young men I sent their are not return'd and I Can't resolve
on comeing to Boston untill they come & bring me News
from Canada, & then I shall send you what News I have ; &
if I can conveniently I will wait on y r Hon r at Boston y 8
winter. In asmutch as you sent me the Ace** of the Cape
Sables men's Actions I shall likewise send to you if I hear of
any such things. I have talk'd w th my people about the
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Truck house being at S* Georges Garrison but most of them
choose it Should be mov'd to y e mouth of the River or any
other place you think fitt Near y e Sea the reason is y* S*
Georges River is sometimes frozen so that they can't come to
it in y r Canoes, I don't take on me to direct y r hon r only
mention these things to you I have on __ request to y r Hon?
w ch is that you would be pleas'd to Order a Gunn Smith to
mend our Locks &c I have nothing further to Add but
remain Y r Good Freind
Wenungenit /ft \^^ Cheif Sachem
X
mark
At a Meeting of y* Cheifs of the Tribe they
chang'd his Name from Wenemuit to Wenungenit
who was their former Sagamore ;
Letter Capt. Joseph Heath to L* G-OV. Dummer, Dec. 15,1726.
Honourable
S r Herewith is humbley presented An Ace*
of Disbursements for Building a Truck House & repairing
the Garison at S* Georges River, Agreeable to the Vote of
the Hon ble Board Herewith Exhibited .
I have strove to recommend my selfe to your Honour & the
Governments favour in this affair ( and the Difficulty of hall-
ing Timber with our Cattle Being Considered ) am persuaded
the Charge will not be thought to Exceed a Just proportion
to the work.
About sixty feet more of the Old Stockado work is almost
Rotten, but I let it alone, as thinking it soficient for this Year
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 367
which old work being made new ( next Summer ) like what
I have now Done will ( in my Humble Opinion ) make the
Garison Commodious & Defencable for many years to come
without any other Repairs of y e Out works
When I built the Fort at Richmond I annimated the Labour-
ers by working continually for y e space of Eighty Days And
have used the same method in the work at S* Georges for
Twenty Days. But did not ( in the Richmond Ace* nor do
I at this Time) make any Charge for my Own labour.
Neither do I mention it for any other reason then that your
Honour & y e Goverment may observe how freely I have
Imploy'd my hands as well as thoughts, in the publick ser-
vice On those Occasion s_
I am Your Honours Most obedient Hum ble Serv*
Dec r 15*? Joseph Heath
[ Superscribed ]
To The Honourable William Dummer Esq r Lieut Gove r
& Comander in Chief of His Maj ties province of the
Massach" 8 Bay &c
Letter Capt Joseph Heath to L* G-ov. Dummer
Richmond Fort March 24 th 1727
Honourable
S r Yours relating to M* Tappens Affair I ^
rec'd, but y e Trespassers were gon
I supply'd Quinows & two Others with Necessarys for their
Journey to Canada, who set out 17*! 1 of Last moneth and
said they should returne about the first of May Monsieur
De la chass superior of y e Jesuits in Canada & the Mission-
aries at y e Indian Villages there Exert all their powers to
prevent a General peace & y e Missionary at Penobscut is their
Echo on this side of y e Continent nevertheless there is
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nothing vissible in the face of these affairs that seems
soficient to remove the foundation which your Honour has
laid for peace ~ The Indians in these parts Desire a General
peace & Expect it And I percieve those of Neridgawalk &
Ammoscoggin Expect to Treat with Your Honour Some time
this Spring as the Penobscuts have done And I Desire to be
enstructed wheither their going Generally to Falmouth, Or
only some of their principal men to Boston, would be most
Acceptable to you I am Your Honours Most Obedient
Humble Serv*
Joseph Heath
Letter L l . Grov. Dummerto the Lords of Trade, c.,
March 25, 1726.
My Lords,
Some few Months after the Departure of
his Excy Govern r Shute for G fc . Britain I did my self the
Hono r to write to y r L dp8 Giving you some Ace* of the
Difficulties of this Province with Respect to the Ind. War
which has bin Excited by the Govern? of Canada who has
supplied the Salvages with all Stores of War has sheltered
them within his Governm* from our Pursuits, & has received
them in Triumph with the Scalps of his Majesties subjects
slain by this barbarous Enemy: W c . h Conduct of the said
French Gov r ( as I suggested to your Lordships in my for-
mer Lett r ) seems to me to bee a Notorious Violation of the
Treaty of Utriecht and in some Respects makes the War
with the Indians more difficult than if the French were our
declared Enemies ; For by our Successes in the last eight
Months We have driven them from their settlem t8 in our
Neighbourhood to the French Territories from whence they
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 369
make their Incursions upon us in small sculking Parties &
after Mischief done retire thither again where I am cautious
of allowing any of our Companies to pursue them till I can
know his Majesties Pleasure in this Respect. And I must
further inform your Lordships That notwithstanding the
Advantages we have lately had over the Enemy, and the
Distress'd Circumstances We suppose they are reduced to ;
The Expence of the War is so great & insupportable to this
Province that Unless it shall please God to put a speedy End
to it, It will inevitably ruine us ; w ch I humbly offer to your
Lordships Consideration & that you would please to make
such a Representation thereof to his Majesty as you shall
think necessary for his Maj 8 Service & the Safety & protec-
tion of these His Provinces. I should not trouble your L d8 -
ship any farther but that the ffrench Govern r of Canada has
given me to understand that he shall address a Complaint to
His Master on the Ace? of the Death of Been who was killed
by our fforces in the ffight at Norrigewock of w h please
to take the following account.
In the Action at Norrigewock within this Province w ch
was in Aug* last our Forces destroy'd a great Number of
the Indians & broke up that Settlem* amoung whome was
Sebastian Ralle a Jesuit Missionary to that Tiibe and the
great Incendiary of this War who was slain in Fight Making
actual Resistance to the Forces & at y e same time attempting
to kill an English Captive in his Hands and refusing to give
or take Quarter, To which Ace* of y e Death of the s? Ralle
Coll. Harmon the Commander of the Forces at Norridgewock
made solemn Oath before me in Council, As appears to y r
L dp8 by the Minutes of Council transmitted to you by the
Secry of the Prov.
:this Jesuit had all along push'd the Indians vpon their
Rebellions Marching at the Head of Two Hundred armd
Salvages through one of the Frontier Towns of this Province
25
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before the war was declared threatening Destruction to them
If they did not speedily quit the said Town, of w9 h & 'more
to y* purpose His Ex cy Goy r Shute is well knowing This I
thought proper to hint to y r Lordships in Order to obviate
any Complaints that may be made by the French Gov* whose
Conduct in Exciting & Supporting the Indians in this War
& Drawing down many remote Tribes with whom we have
no Concern to their Assistance y e truth of which I have
sufficient Testimonies to support I shall lay them before y r
Lordship If it be necessary for y r Satisfaction, should rather
have putt Him uppon offering at an Apoligy that a Com-
plaint. All which I humbly submitt to your Lordship & am
with the greatest respects y r Lordship Most Obed* & humble
S*
Wm Dummer
Letter Capt. John G-yles to L* Grov. Dummer
March 27 : 1727 May It Pleas your honour
A Message this Day from Panobcut Sent by Wanoganet
and Chieffs, to a quaint that their Messangers ar
Returnd from Canadey to their Villages who wear about
20 Days Coming, & 2 Days since their arival, they ar
much wearied & allmost Starved &c
Messangers We ar to say to you, brother, tel Gevernor
Dummar by y e first, that the Messangers ar returnd
from Caneday w tb Good news and y e Reason of thier
tarring so Long, they wear Detaind or taken, by y e
Chiefs thier, to finish the Great worke they went upon,
Which is Concluded on, to have Pece & Love Round
our Land, So that the People may Now, go about thier
affears without any Guard, for no Percon will Do them
any harm, but y e People taken from Kenebunke wear
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 371
kild on their Journey to Kenadey, Except one Little
boy, they wear all a most Starvd & y e English over took
them was y e Reason of thier killing em they say.
those y* Did us y 1 mischief wear Indians from Ercegon-
tagog nin in number Viz Wawhe & Peknabowet and
Sakenelakud &c
the New Governor Monsieur Bornoway Gives Good
advice y* is to Live in Love & Pece w th y e English &
sais he is Glad to hear y* their is such a Good agree-
ment Concluded between y e English & Indians
g John Gyles Enterpreter
May it Pleas your honour the formar account Concern-
ing Raesonars Proovs Missinf urmation as to y l articul of
Captives, which I am y e authers seem to be well Con-
firmed, and as to y e Chieffs say, Concerning ye Peoples
Goin about thier affeair w th out Danger of any, in my
humble Opinion they are Rale, by thier Coming over r ^
w th thier families In order to setle a Gain - Not y* they
ar a People to be Confide in, to fur, y e Jesuitts haveing
Such Great Influence on them, I am your honours Most
Dutifull Sar*
Jn Gyles
Letter Ph. Livingston $ others Oomm rs to Col 8 Stoddard $
Partridge.
Albany 27 March 1727
Gentlemen
Yours .of y e 22 th Instant with copy to you
from Gov r Dummer rverec d , desireing our Assistance that
gray Lock Should be made a frind to come into the treaty of
peace as also the Chiefs of S* Francois Indians, we could
372 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
wish that it was Effected to that end, we have not been
wanting in sending a message ab* y e 2? Jan r . y Last by Mal-
alemet Brother to s? Gray Lock inviteing him, and other
Chiefs who were hunting on our frontiers to come hither, but
unfortunately missd him, being gone home but brought to
this place on the first Instant three S* francois Indians, to
whom we thought fitt to Communicate that his hon r Gov r
Dummer had confirmd & ratifyd the peace with the penabscut
and Narrigewack tribes : that much blood had been Lost on
both sides in this last war, and Expected that these indians,
in behalf of S* francois should Ractify & Confirm s? treaty
of peace, that for the future none of their tribe should go to
molest or anoy any of our Brethren of N England or Else-
where, which if they do faithfully gform, they should at all
times be welcome to hunt on our frontiers, and be Civilly
treated at this place on this we gave them a gsent and a belt
amounting to 11: -they Promisd to use their uttmost
Endeavor to prevaile on their Chiefs to come hither on our
Invitation what Success we Shall have in our undertaking is
uncertain & precarious, Assoon as an opportunity Shall Send
Such a message to gray Lock & the Chiefs of S* francois as
you desire but have no belt as is Requird on Such occasion
we think it more proper to do it, in our name, that your
Goverm* may not be seen in this message for fear it might
miscarry And not to give the indians oppertunity to think it
comes from you. we Shall not Scruple to make ourSelves gar-
rantees for the Indians civill treatment with you and their
safe return tho' Sucpect they will hardly be prevail_on
especially the gray Lock to go into your County, for the
Latter has done much Mischief on your frontiers, and has
doubtless a guilty consience we shall at all times be ready to
do any thing which may Contribute towards Establishing
afirm and Lasting peace between your Governm* and the
Indians, and could wish it was already accomplished, we fear
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 373
that the french priests and their Govern? will if possible,
oversett all amicable measures that may be Sett on/foot to
Confirm or Conclude any treaty with you, these indians seem
to be Sincere, they told us that Last fall on Invitation of
some of our number while at Canada severall Sachims of s?
Indians were on their way hither as far as the Crown point,
with an intent to make a treaty with your Goverm* but were
gvented by false Reports Spread among them, which maiie
them desist from that design, the said Indians have faithfully
promisd us to use their best Endeavours to prevent the
indians from going to do mischief on your fronteers, tho
there is but little dependance on what they Come to promise,
is the needfull at gsent from who are with Esteem Gentlemen
Your very Humble Servants
Philip Livingston Myndert Schuyler
Hend r van Rensselaer Reyer Gerritse
Stevanv Groesbuk Nicolaes Bleuker
Letter W m Woodside to L* Q-ov. Bummer
Fort George March 31 : 1727
Hono ed Sir
I Make bold to trouble you with these few Lines
Begging the favour together with Maney other favours that
is allredy granted that is your Hon r would Grant the favour
of Granting the Lev: nt8y of Fort George to Samuel Eaton Son
to Cap 1 Eaton of Salsbury which Samuel Eaton was former
Leu nt at Fort George fo'r som years The favour of your Hon-
ours granting this Request & sending the Commission by the
bearer Cap 1 Sanders Jun r Noble being moving at this very
time
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Letter Col. Partridge to L\ Gov. Dummer
Hatfield Apri 11 3 d 1727.
May it Pleas your Honnor :
Sir I Recivd yours of y e : 14 th of March Last : and Note y e
Contents Am Very Much Pleased, with your desire, and
designe y* y e Western Indian Should Ratine y e Treaty of
Peace, your Letter also being Communicated to Co 11 Stoddard,
he declind Medling In y e Affaier, and I took such Measurs
as advis Lead me to ; for to Gett any Intimation to Gray
Lock, Any way by us ( att Present ) itt was Impracticable
and so I sent an Express to y e Comishoners Att Albany as
Enclosed you may see a Coppy of ' y e Letter sent : With a
coppy of your Honnr Letter Also : And here with is the
Letter sent to us by the Commishoners : I being tho* full
Busins did not Require so much hast, I Waited an Opportu-
nity to send itt, if I have done amiss In sending y 1 - way I
desire itt may either be Imputed to my Ignorance, or Elce to
my Earnest desire or Zeal y* Gray Lock and other Chiefs of
S* Francois Indeins, should Ratine the Treaty : Is any thing
Further to be done I wait your Honours Directions : who am
with due Regards & Submistion
Your Honours Most Hum bl ser"
Sam 11 Partridge
To y e Hon ble William Dummer Esq r Lef* Governor
and Comand r In Chiefe :
Letter - Cap* Tho s Smith to L* Gov. Dummer
S 1 - Georges Fort April 3 d 1727
S r
Its only in Obedience to Yo T Honou r s Comands ( laid on
me at the Castle ( Cap 1 Giles also writes ) That I trouble you
with this, to Inform that on Saboth day y e 26 th ffeb 1 ? about
Eleven at night, Two Messingers (y^ same day) sent by
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 375
Wenegonett from Penobscott Arrived here, who say that nine
Indians from S* Francois, of whom Woahaway was Cheiefe,
took & carryed away those persons Last fall from Kenebunk,
and apprehending the_ were pursued by the English ; killed
all but a Little boy, who being carryed before the Others was
Spared, further Say y* no more Such Actions will be comitted
by any Indians (Tho~ Mounse r y e Younger being here y e
next day who being treated w th Civility at my Lodgings, his
discourse tended to Direct us to Look to ourselves & be on
our Garde ) They know nothing of Quenoiees being gon for
Canada ; but a more pirticular Ace" we may Expect, when
those from Canada come hither which will be as soone as they
are recruited being greatly Indisposed by a tedious Difficult
Journy,
I am Yo r Hono rs most Obedient Humble Serv*
Tho 8 Smith
Letter. Capt. John Q-yles to L* @ov. Dummer
May it Pleas your honour
I: Expect a more full account after the annuel Praying
Meeting, which is on y e first or sacond Day of april, I have
Imploid on_ to be thier and if Lettars to y e Jesuitt & of
moment to Let me know &c Canawas was not a Riued to
Canedey when those Mescangest Came a way as they say the
Inclosd I was a bliged to Detain, we haueing no boate, & not
haueing Indians to Go to Casco it being thier Praying time
So this Day I send by 2 Soldiers g Canow S! Georges Riuer
April 3: 1727
I am your honours Very humble Servant
John Gyles.
'[ Superscribed ]
On his Ma^ tys Saruice
To the Honourd W m Dummar Esq Liu tn Gournor
in Chieff of his Maj tyB Prouince "Masachusetts Bay"
376 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Letter Capt. John Gyles to L* Gov. Dummer April 8, 1727.
May it Pleas your honour
I Recivd yours w th the Inclosd of y e 21 of march Last
g Exprece by y e hand of Liu tu Wright, April 5* and on
y e 7 th hear a Riu d Wenoggenet w th the 2 messangers that
went to Canadey Viz Exexces & Franceivexsabe w th Sund
auther Indians a bout 20 in numbar, & I Read & Intar-
preted to them y e s d Lettars & Delivrd y e fine Gun &c
Messangers We tel you now Gouernor Dummar, whereas
we wear sent Last fall of a Messeg to Canedey, which
you told vs to carry s d Message in answer to y e Caiied-
deians, you also tould vs at Casco that we knew best
what to say to our brother Indians, so at our a Riual
thier, we s d you Indians desiard a meeting to be at
Morial, we tould them we Could not Comply w th their
Proposall to meet thier, but much better to meet in our
Parts in our Lands, thier we shall haue opportunity to
discours all affears what may be for our fewter Good &
better vnderstanding of Each auther, now we haue heard
Each authers say.
Ercegentegog Indians, we have heard your Proposals,
which we a prove of, and according as you Desiar, our
meeting in your Land, we com according to your
Request, Expecting to haue a faier Debate of affears &
Good furnishing to &c this is y e fift time of your Inuit-
ing vs to com by y e way of Olbeni & this way. which I
now shall Com according to your Request ~ which I
Present you w th this wampom belt in token of &c
Ercegentegog we now speak to wenoggenet & all y e
Indian Chieffs in that Contenant, - hopeing & Desiar
that we all may accomplish in our Debats a Good Vnder-
standing & a Lasting Calm in our whole Land, which in
token of, we Present to you these strings of wampom.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 37 T
Messangers the aboue mentioned belts & anthers we
Deliver to Gouernr Duramar & wenoggenet in Presents
of our brother y e Enterpreter, in Pursuant to order,
which is our answer & Return &c
hear is also another belt & a Letter to Gouar" Dummar
y e Contents of s d Letter is Vnknown to Vs the belt is
from twenty Dissadisfied Indians that are not yet Con-
cluded in thier minds &c.
this is all y* we ar knowing of y* affear.
We 20 Indians say to you Wenoggenet & all chieffs we
Desiar y fc you may make a Good furnishing of y e worke
y* we hear you ar a bout to haue a Good Vnderstanding
& a Calm & faier wether in our whole Land, what we
say to you we. say to the _hole tribes on y e Contenant,
which we Present you w th a wampon belt in token of
&c
Messangers after said Depets & those tribes Concluded on to
send two of thier chieffs & sum authers in order to haue
a meeting in our Land they sat out w th Vs, but ar hunt-
ing for food by y e way, & to be Expected hear in a few
Days is y e whole truth from our hearts, & is y e whole
burthen or Lode or Messag y t was Put on our Shoulders
& haue Delivered it to you C : Gyles our brether & fel-
low Labourer &c In order to send to Gouernor Dummar,
we salute,-
g John Gyles Entarpreter
Wenoggenet Good frend I Reed your Letters of C :
Gyles & am heartyly theankfull for your mentioning of
affears, and y e Present you sent to me, and what you
mention as to any Doing vs harm I am not knowing of
I hide nothing fro>m you of moment, I speke from my
heart for we ar both Labouring to haue Pece & Love in
our Land, & we Promisd to a quaint Each auther of all
affears of moment, as our Great God hears Vs spake, &
if any Do Vs harm be it on thier own heds
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1 Dont Vnderstand writing Letters & if any thing a miss
& nott a Greeable to you in y e Lettar y 1 Goos w th y e
Exprece I Desiar you to Mention to Me, for I know not
y e Contents of &c
as to what you mention to me Concerning Gray Lock I
nor my old men haue no knowledg of him for we ar not
aquainted w th y e Olbeni Indians, we will Endeuour to
know Concerning that affear &c we haue had fouer men
in actiul Seruice 2 of them Returnd Last fall, y e auther
2 ar now Returnd w th y e f oregoin Messages your bounty
full thought for them, will be Incurridging for y e futer
&c. I salute you Gouernor Dummar & all y e Councell
hopeing if God willing we shall accomplish a Good
Vnderstand^ & a Calm in our whole Contenant,
S* Georges april 8 th 1727
g John Gyles Entarpreter
May it Pleas your honour
it is supposd by em that Sumthing mentioned in y e Letter
fromn Candeday will not be a Greeable to your honour
&c, is y e Reason of thier Say they Do not Vnderstand
Letters &c. it is surmised y e Jesuits haue ben Doing
they say they Expect y e 2 Chieffs of y e auther tribes in
short time Wenoggenet Desiars an answer by y e furst
Conuenient oppartunity, they much Plesd w th y e fine
Guns.
my Privat Informar is not Returned a Gain. I Inclose
and Send g Exprece to your honour by Leiv" Wright,
he being w th y e Last Packett
S* Georges April 8 th 1727
I am your honours Most Dutyfull Ser*
John Gyles
[ Superscribed ]
On his Maj ty8 Seruice
To the Honoured W m Dummer Esq Liu tn Gournor
in Chieff of his Maj tyB Prouince Masachussetts Bay
OF THE STATE OP MAINE 379
Letter Capt. John Gyles to L*. Gov. Dummer.
April 8, 1727.
May it Pleas your honour
fraucewexcabe one of y e former Deligats, Desiars me to
write to your honour, that you would be Plesd to feaveur
him w th a Pass such a one as Loraant or Connawoses,
this Indian has & is much made Vse of in Going of Messages,
he is one that Came now from Canedey, and Expects to be
sent there a Gain when anything of moment, he tells me the
new Goun r of Canedey tould him if y e GounT of boston
would Give him a Pass, he would Give him an auther, so y*
he might Pass & Repass on all occasions
this Indian seems to be a Serviceable man, and a well
wisher To - if it might Pleas your honour to Grant his
Request, &c
I am your honours most dutyfull Servant
John Gyles
S 1 George River April 7: 1727
Letter Capt. Joseph Heath to L* Gov. Dummer.
Richmond April 13 th , 1727
Honourable
S r / 25 th of the Last I acquainted you of the
Departure of Quinovis for Canada, his proposal to returne in
May, the Assiduety of the French Missionaries to break your
Honours Measures with the Indians, and the seeming good
state of affairs, their Efforts notwithstanding
I shall now Humbly suggest to your Honour that about y e
first of Jan ry Last Finding in John Hegon and Sebacomon a
Disposition to go to Canada & Endeavour to Mollify the
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Disafficted Indians there and thinking it for y e public service
annimated them as much as possible to Engage in the affair
which they did, and returned this day with y e following
report viz That when they came to Canada they found the
Indians of Wowenock in a peaceable Temper But those of
S* Francois for some time Inflexable to y e overtures of peace
here also they met with Two Captains sent by the Penob-
scutts who were likewise mediating for a General peace And
after a Conference of Twenty Days it was Concluded upon
And that Three of the Chief men of S* Francois and one
from wowenock with such as the Neridgawalk Ammoscoggin
and Pigwackets may Chuse to represent them, should wait
upon and Confer with your Honour for that purpose assoon
as they could Conveniently come together which they thought
would be toward y e latter end of June.
they add that the Elder Indians of neridgawalk Ammoscoggin
and pigwacket who fled with their famolies to, and resided at
Canada during y e late war & untill this Spring, are now on
y e way in order to people y e villages on this side y e Contenant
as formerly. These men Intreat your Honour to give orders
to y e frontiers. Especially near Connecticut River and Ken-
nebunk that none of y e English fall upon their people while
a Hunting. And they say that they them selves have neglected
their winters Hunting by improving their Time & bending
their thot's wholly to this bussenness ; which if they have,
and their report be True ( as I believe ) they seem to be
worthy of your Honours perticuler favour. The report of
the two Indians as above is further Confirmed by a Captain
of the S* Francois Indians who came with y m
I am your Honours most Hum ble Obedient Servant
Joseph Heath
P. S. I Believe that y e Indians who took y e people at Ken-
ebunk apprehending that they were Closely persew'd by y e
English Kill'd some of those Captives.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 381
Letter Secretary Willard to Comm rs for Indian Affairs in
Albany April 13, 1727.
Gentlemen I am directed by the Hon ble the L* Gov? &
this Prov. to acquaint you that They are Sorry to finde by a
U. d. 22 March last past from Coll Partridge to you that
Hee has so greatly mistaken the orders Hee rec d from him as
trouble you with Sending a Message to Greylock & other
Indians respecting a treaty with them whereas there was no
such thing intended or desired by us ( as you will judge by
the Copy of y e Lett r to Coll. Partridge w ch he informs he has
sent you tho without any Direction for so doing proper meas-
ures to bring those Indians in to Approbate the Peace lately
Made But the good People of the County of Hampshire being
more apprehensive ghaps then was Needf ull of the bad faith of
Greylock they had direction privately to discourse & notifie
Him to Come in then to Confirme them in his good intents.
His Hon r is however thankfull to you for your readines to do
good offices to this Governm* & desires this affair may be no
further preceded in onely as you may Ocationely see any of
those Indians to assure them of our friendship.
"Secry 8 Letters to Cap* Heath $> Q-yles April 25, 1727."
Sir,
His Hon r the Lieut. Gov r going to Newbury
soon after y e Rec* of y Letter by Saunders directs me to
write to you in Answer to it, That you acquaint Victor that
by the first opportunity after his Hon r ? Return to Boston, He
will send him the value, of 5 in Consideration of the Guns
he lost at Arrowsick& that M r Trescot is Ordered to pay him
what he sold the Canooe for ; But that for the time to come
he must keep himself sober, For he must not expect that the
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Governm* will pay him for what he foolishly loses when he
is in drink there being no Reason in that. I am further to
acquaint you that His Hon r has appointed the tenth of July
next to ratify the Peace with the Norridgewocks & other
Indians at Boston; and therefore he desires that you would
acquaint y e Indians with this his Determination, & by all
possible Means engage the Chiefs not only of the Norr. &
Penob. & oth r Eastern Indians but also of the S* Francis
Cagnawaga, Schohanadie & other Tribes of Canada Indians
to appear at Boston, And that you will use all Means in y re
Power to bring them down to this meeting : His Honour con-
sents to y re Coming soon to Boston to the Court, Provided
you take special Care that the Service be not hurt in y re
absence from y re Post.
Sir,
His Honour the Lieut. Govern? going to Newbury
soon after the Recepit of your Letter by Saunders, Directs
me to write in answer to it, That he thinks it most conven-
ient that the Indians should come to Boston to Ratify the
Peace, & has appointed the tenth of July next as the most
suitable Time to confer with them for that Purpose ; And
there He desires that you would acquaint the Indians with
this his Determination ; And by all possible Means engage
not only the Chiefs of the Penobscot & Norridgewock Indians,
but also of the S^ Francis Cagnawaga, Schohanadie &
other Tribes of Canada Indians to appear at Boston, And
that you would use all the Means in your Power to bring
them down to this meeting.
His Honour is surprized that he hears nothing of the
Repairs of Brunswick Fort, and desires if you have not done
it, that you would forthwith see the Matter effected.
Least you should have lost y e Coppy of y e Gen 1 . 1 Assemb.
Vote for y e Repairs, I herewith send you an other.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 383
Letter Capt. John G-yles to L\ Gov. Dummer
April 25 th A Short Memorial to his honour y e Liu tn Gou-
ernour In Chief &c of Discours betwen a Machies Indian &
Gyles at Georges.
Indian - I have a Good mind to tel you something
Gyles - So Do for I hide nothing from you of Moment.
Indian - I dont Gear to tell it, but I will to you, for y e Can-
eback Indians tel us y* y e English have taken one Indian &
keep 2 or 3 more Reconars and if they Dont send them to
us, it will be best this summar to kill & take sum of y e
English
Gyles- you know y e English have sent thier Preconers
accordingly to Promis at y e Confurrance.
Indeed thier may be one or 2 behind as you say, that
might be then at sum Distance.
but you have not sent in any, one you have at S* Johns, and
authers your People say at Caneday sold to y e french, and 3
young women Maried to Indians thier & have Children, and
authers you say y e Indians have taken for their own, but Let
them be brought in & Discours w th thier f rinds, & then if
they wont tary, they wont be compeld,
as to y e yong Indian you spake of Last fall, he was tendred
as a hostig, of your Peoples faithfullness in finding out those
that kild us, at Kenebunk and when Connawos Returns from
Caneday & is faithfull according to Promis Governour Dum-
mar will Do you no Rong you may Depend on it &c
Indian- I tould y e Canebacks that they wear forward in
killing & makeing war, but they Must Remember that they
Run away, & Left thier Country & ye Penobscut Indians
tow, and we stud by, and now we Desiar Peace &c.
Gyles - you tould them wright which is the truth &c.
Indian - the Jesuitt & I am at Differance, he tels me I Love v '
y e English but y e English, will Do by us as they have Don
by y e southern Indians to take away our Lands & Privi-
384 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
lidges and then Compell us to Pray as y e English Do, and
not to be aloude to use the Cross.
Gyles - I should be Plesd if I wear to travil a mong those
Southern Indians you spake of, and to see how they live, &
the Gear our Government takes of them that they have Jus-
ties Dun them, and y* they Dont tell thier Drunken fitts but
to have y e Governments approbation &c and as for Com-
pelling any to Pray as we English Do, is a mistake, for they
Compel non, but Parswad & Invite Ani that will Com &
Pray as we Do, and that is according to Gods word which is
our Guide & y e true Path, Christ Left for those y* lieve in
him, & their is but one God, & one Rite Path y* Leads to
happiness, but Many Rong ones, & y e french have Compeld
People so far as to burn em at y e Stake, to make them Pray
as they Do, which is not according to Gods word &c
Indian - I tould y e Jesuitt that I believed the English kept
the Sabbath best for they Praied all Day, but the french
Shott Guns and Go to Play, but y e Jesuitt tels me I am
above y e English which are not Good.
Gyles- I find in Gods word, (in his Book) whear God
Commands us to keep y e Sabbath Day holy which is y e Sev-
enth Part of time, Set a Part to worship y e only true &
Liveing God, that made y e heavens y e Earth y e Sea & all
Creaturs, and man in six days, and on y e seventh Day he
Rested, and ordred man to keep holy y e Seventh Day ( which
is the Sabbath ) to his service to Praise him, and to have no
Regaurd to other Gods which are Images & y e worke of
mens hands, they Can neither hear See nor smell nor Do us
any Good, but that only true & Liveing God, Knows all our
thoughts & actions & tis of him we Live move & have our
being, our health breath meet Drink & Clothing & all we
Enioy is from him &c
Indian - I like your Discourse & shall not hide anything
from you of moment, farewell,-
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 385
Gyles - I shall Do for you & your People the best I Can
( as our true God Enable me,) which is my Instructions from
Government, farewel,
g John Gyles Enterprter.
May it please your honour
if it might Pleas y e Government to apoint Sum Good Grave
teacher to Reside in those Parts it might be a means to bring
Over Sum of those Poor Deluded People to Worship y e true
God.
S* Georges River April 25 : 1727 :
I am your honours most Duty full Servant
John Gyles
Cpt Gyles Conference April 25, 1727.
Orders to be sent to the Officers in y e Frontiers to treat
well the Indians that may be Hunting.
Indians to be inform'd of it.
Cpt. Gyles & Cpt. Heath to stay till the Indians come.
To endeavour to bring the Indians to Boston, but if they
finally insist on treating in the East? Parts that they imme-
diately send Express
Cpt. Gyles to tell Lorone that the Insinuations of y e Eng-
lish Designs are false &c & that the intended Treaty is not
to be separate but a Confirmation of the last Treaty.
Cpt. Heath to countenance the Indians Settlem* of
Norridgewock.
Whale Boat.
Letter Capt. John Giles to Lieut. Gov. Dummer.
April y e 28 th 1727. A Memorial to his honour y e Liu tn
Governour in Chieff Discourse betwen an Informar & Gyles.
26
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Informal- At the a Rival of y e two Messengars from
Caneday We had 2 great Meetings & sundry Debate on the
Letter they brought, & others &c the Lettar w*as Red
by y e Jesuitt & Casteens and not well a Proved of by
Casteens nor the Chief of Panobcut, sum wear for
sending it back to old Wawenorawot and tel him to treat
for him self, for they had Dun what they thought Proper
w th thier brother English but on y e sacond Concediration
they thought it Most Proper to send s d Lettar to Gov-
ernour Dummar as Diracted &c
Informar - the Messengars say that many things Consern-
ing the English & Indians treaty, ar Endvered to be Stivefled
and not made known to those other nations, ( not Stifled by
y e New Governour ) at their f urst a Rival to Caneday the
Messengars had a wompom belt Presented to them to stop
their Eyes & Ears & mouths but they Returnd s d belt back,
& said they Came to Make Known y e truths to all, then they
had a Great Meeting, and then y e Praying Mohawks &
Mountain Indians and sinecours, wear Parmitted & they all
approved well of what was Don at y e Confurance Except
y e old Whithed Wawenorrawot ( he is half f rench ) and old
Onedahauet ( his old name is Com hommon thier ar 16 in
number of y e Malcontents the two named, ar chiefs, of
Excegontegog, thier is sidings tho but few of y e malcontents
Party, that sent the Letter, the auther Party y* ar for Peace,
have sent old Adamhegon & Amanequened as Messengars to
know the truths &c thier will be several more as Specttaters.
the Chiefs of Panobcut at their Last Great meeting have
Concluded to send Messengars to Caneback S* Johns Cap
Seples, To Invite two of each Tribe to be at thier Great
Annual Meeting at Panobcut which is about fourty Days
hence, and those from Canaday ar then Expected thier at s d
meeting.
OP THE STATE OF MAINE , 387
tho y e Canedeians sat out w th the Panobcut Messengars, but
ar to hunt by y e way &c
g John Gyles Enterpreter
Informar - this is y e truth of what I know at Present, thier
is nothing of moment in our Jesuitts Letter, what is, is
Relateing, y e friar affears, when I hear Enithing more, of
moment, I will inform you according to Promis.
Gyles - you will Do well, & I will be to my word to you,
So farewell.
Memorial of Capt. John Gyles to L* Q-ov. Dummer
May ^ 1727.
May it Pleas your honour
on y e 4th Currant Capt Loron a Riv d hear from y e west-
ward from hunting, & Rec d his Present y e Superfine Gun &
his Letter w th Great thankfullness
he mentioned to me y* he heard t* y e Canebeck Indians had
sum Expectation of your honours Meeting them to have a
Seprate Peace, if so it would as it wear Season the Panob-
cuts formar Proceedings as they acted for y e whole
Desiaring my opinion, I tould him I would Give him my
opinion, but he must not take it as any Diracttions from y e
Government, for I had non Concerning that affear I tould
him I Did not Supose your honour would meet them in any
of these Parts this Summar, I Did not know, but if Desiard
Sum of the Council might be apointed to meet them, but to
have a separate Peace I Did not believe any such thing, only
to Ratifie y e articols alredy Concluded on &c
he further said that he heard your honour this winter had
been treating w th y e Mohawks to Com & Distroy them for
they wear now much weakend &c
I tould him he might ashuer him self thier was no such thing
on action, it was only sum Devil seruars that would a Mues
388 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
them w th such Notions, for it was altogether Contrery to y e
English Profession to Use treachery, I Desiard him to Look
back ( for I had been aquainted in affears near 30 years Past)
and if he could mention to me one trecherous action Don by
^ y e English in s d time &c
1 S* Georges May 4 th 1727
I am your honours Most Dutyfull Servant
x John Gyles
Memorandom
this 4 th Currant Connawos a Riv d from Ritchmond and s d he
had tould thier, & was Com to aquaint hear, that he Pro-
seeded Part of y e way to Caneday & their meeting with sum
of y e Caneday Indians, who tould him it would be of no ser-
vice, of his Going to Caneday for it was a Greed on, that
thier Chieffs should Com over hear, to treat on y e affear he
was Going on, & authers, and it was well known who Did
that Mischief at Kenebunk, & thier was but one Presonar a
Live, which upon he went no further, but Returnd.
I Gave s d Connawos my advice, & Put him In mind of his
Engagements, & that, auther serviceses was Expected of him
then what he had Don, & that to Prove him Self an honest
man, & Do what he Promised y e Government Concerning
Presonars &c
g John Gyles Enterp rtr
S* Georges River May 4: 1727 :
Letter Capt Tho 8 . Smith to L* Gov. W m Dummer
S* Georges May y e 15 th 1727
S r
I am favour'd w th M r Secretary's Letter of y e 25th
Last in & (by y r Hono" direction, as he sayes ) signifying
THE STATE OF MAINE 389
Your being willing I should come up to Boston, w ch I should
not desire were I in the Least Suspitious, that the Governm* 8
business Comitted to my Care would suffer by it, but all the
Indians here, have been for Six weeks or more Aprised of
and Expect it, and in a few dayes more I Expect that th ey
will all be here supplyed, with what they shall need for some
time, I have also M r Treasu r Allen's Letter intimating the
fall in the price of Beaver & directing me to give but 7/6 d
g h, which Occations great dissatisfaction, but as I have Don,
so shall continue to do my utmost Endeavo rs to make them
sensible that they are justly dealt with, and may be assured
of having all Possible Justice don them, An unhappy acci-
dent falling out at this juncture, a Caske of Rum on board
Cap* Sanders ( coming to me ) Leaking out on the Passage,
w ch would, if he had come to hand, most of any thing have
shewn the fall also in the price of what they are supplyjed
w th from us, which makes the Indians seam suspitious of the
reallity of its being so f ollen in price, therefore I must desire
that without delay a hh d may be sent, with some Other things
according to Mem sent to M r Treason to whome I have now
also sent five hh* 18 of Beaver small furrs feathers &c amount-
ing to 705 : 14 : 2 : w ch being the pres' offers
I Subscribe Yo r Hono" Most Obedient Humble Serv 1
Tho 8 Smith
Letter Capt John Gyles to L\ Gov. Dummer May 15, 16 1727
May it Pleas your honour
I Rec? a Letter from M* Secretary, g Cap tn Sand ra and
have Communicated y e same to Wenoggenet & shall Notifie
y e auther Chieffs by y e furst, as to time & Place, according
to your honours appointment to Ratifie the Peace &c
390 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Wenoggenet seems to be hearty in y e afear, I have nothing
of moment to acquaint g Canow to Casco Bay
S* Georges Garrison May y e 15 th 1727
I am your honours most Dutifull Ser*
John Gyles
I hope to weight on your honour next trip in order to
make up my Mustar Roll &c for my Liu*? is Returnd who
is a Good Cearfull hand, & I Can Leve Charge w th him.
May 16, 1727. Wenoggenet Desiars me to aquaint that
he heartily Salutes your honour & y e honorable Council, &
wieshes you Long Life, & that nothing shall be wanting on
his Part In order to have a Good Understanding & Calm
Round y e Continant & y* he hath Sent in behalf of Govern 1 "
Dummar & for him self to y e Caneday Indians a belt of 13
Wampom Peges breath to a quaint them that they must
make no more breaches on us, if they Do he will Resent it,
and Consult w th Gov r Dummar and have Satisfaction of
them &c
g John Gyles Enterp tr
[ Endorsed ]
Cap 1 John Gyles L r
Georges Garrison May 15 & 16, 1727
Capt. Gyles to acquaint Wennogenet that His Hon r is sat-
isfied with his Message to the Indians Mess a to be repeated
w cb he has expected, It being agreable to the Treaty."
Sir
I have had your Honours Order to Cap* John Gyles
to dismisse my Servant after the Enlisting an other man-
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 391
which is a Very hard thing to D? there unlesse he can con-
trive to make a man & to Enlist him &c
A day or two since I Mett with Cap* Penhallow & L 1 Benj a
Wright, who say y* My Servant hath ben in y e Service ( Come
fall of y e year ) four years, & have given y r attestation to
it, y e one by wrighting, & y e other sighning of A Certificate
of it, as also y* he hath ben Confined to y e fort two years - 1
hope your Hon r will Reconsider y e Matter & y e hard ship y*
y e young man lays und r Especially, being a Volunteer as he
was - & favor me with a New ord r to Cap 1 John Gyles to
Deliver him on Sight; for I shall otherwise be a great
sufferer, & be at y e Charge of Sending for y e man & be
disap 1 ?
S? for fear of your Hon forgetting y e natere of your
Ord r have Enclosed it, & hope y* you'll oblige me with an
other, with out any Conditions or Reserves in it, w c is
y e Needfull from
Your Hon ra Obed* hum ble Servant
W Vaughan
Portsm? May 20 th 1727
To y e Hon abl W Dummer Esq?
L* Governour
May 19th, 1727.
May it Pleas your honour
an Informar from Keneback River to a quaint, that ten of
the Malcontant Indians sat out this Spring In order to Kill &
take English, and when y e Peacble Party heard of it, they
sent a Party affter them & over took them, & Reasoned y e
Case w th em, and told them if they wear Resolved to Go on,
they wold go w th them, & if they Did any harm to y e English,
they should Neiver Return to Caneday a Livef, for they
392 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
would Inform ye English & Rais men to am bush Every
Carring Place throw y e Continant, & if any made thier
Escape to Ercegontagog they would fetch them out, or if
they had a mind to tri thier Manhood they would see them
on a Pond that was hard by, but on Concideration of these &
auther arguements, they Desisted, & have Don no harm to
any.
thier ar several Indians from Caneday, a bout 50 or 60
men they Reside Chiefly at taconnock, Sum ar of y e Praying
Mohawks & of Ercegontagog som of Wowenog & sum of
those y* wear Drove from Norangowock & those Parts, they
ar a Mixt Crew, many of them Dont Pray and sum ar
Wisards a mong them, tho they Generally Seem to Inclin to
Peace w th y e English, & ar Calld English Indians, on y*
account
j) John Gyles Enterpet r
This Certifys all Concern'd That James Blaggdon or Bragg-
don now a Soldier at S* Georges under the Command of
Cap* John Gyles was uilisted into the service 'sometime in
Nov? 1723
as attests Benj n Wright
The s d Braggdon has been posted at S* Georges Two Year
Last January.
Portsm May 19^ h 1727
Capt John Gyles
Mr William Vaughan having represented to
Me That James Bragdon (his servant) now a soldier in
your Garrison, has been in y e service of this Province a long
time Desiring that he may be Dismiss'd.
These are to direct you to Enlist another able bodied man
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 393
in his stead, and then to dismiss the said James Bragdon
accordingly.
Given under my hand at Boston the 29 th day of May, 1727-
In the Thirteenth Year of his Maj*! 8 Reign
W m Dummer
Letter L* Gf-ov. Dummer to Oapt. Heath $ Oapt. Q-yles
May 23, 1727.
Sir
I rec? your Letter of the 13* h April while I was in
the Countrey. I am extreamly pleased with the accurate &
useful Accounts & Observations you give us upon the State
of Affairs with the Eastern Indians, & have great Depend-
ance on your Diligence & prudent Conduct as a considerable
Means to confirm their good Disposition. I have shall send
you by Sanders the Value of 10 in Goods w ch you must
deliver in my name & in the most proper manner to John
Hegon & Sebacomon hi Consideration of their Time & Ser-
vice in the Journey to Canada w ch you mention in your
Letter, and as a further Testimony of my Favour to them you
must present them with the Value of 40. each in Provisions.
I would have you do all you can to countenance & encourage
the Indians Resettling at Norridgewock & those Parts.
You must acquaint Loron that you have my Orders alwaies
to treat him as a particular Friend to the English.
& must tell them that I have given Orders that no. Body
shall molest them in their Fishing & Hunting, more especially
on Connecticut & Kennebunk Rivers as they have desire._
Letter L* Gov. fhimmer to May 23, 1727.
Sir
I rec d your sev 11 Letters sent by L* Wright & since
that those of the Latter End of the Last & Beginning of this
394 DOCUMENTARY HISTOEY
month, & am well pleased with y re Diligence getting the best
Intelligence you can of the Temper & Designs of the Indians.
The Secry by my Order informd you that I had appointed
the tenth Day of July for Ratifying the Peace with the
Norridgwocks & other Indians at Boston, & directed you to
endeavour that the Chiefs of the Indians repair hither accord-
ingly ; W ch Instructions you must observe & use all proper
Argum*? to induce them to make Boston the place of their
Meeting for that affair, But in case you shall find them
finally averse to treat here you must immediately send me an
Ace 1 of it by Express, that I may take measures accordingly ;
And altho I gave you Leave to come up to Court to pass y re
Muster Roll at the next Session, I think it absolutely nec-
essary that you stay to receive the Indians & conduct them
to the Place of Meeting ; & send an er Officer up with your
Roll.
As to what Loron tells you of a Rumour of our Engaging
the Mohawks ag 8t the Eastern Indians you must assure him
that It is a false & malicious Story invented by our Enemies
with a mischievous Intention, and that I wonder he will
open his Ears to such a vile Sugestion after the Indians have
had so many Marks of my Sincerity.
And as to the other Matter he mentions of a Design for a
separate Peace with the Norr. Indians, You may tell him
there is no Foundation for it. My Intention being to meet
the Indians in Order to ratify the Peace already made & I
shall come into Nothing but what is entirely conformable to
that Treaty. &
In answer to what you have written by the Desire of
Wenungenet & the other Indians & in their Name, You must
say to them as follows ;
That I rec d y r Letter of the 8 th of April last some time
since, but being then at my Countrey House at a considerable
Distance from Boston I had no Opportunity to send y m an
answer.
OP THE STATE OP MAINE 395
that I observe y rr Messengers are return'd from Canada with
Success, & that the Tribe of Indians at Arrasaguntacock are
entirely satisfied with the Peace you have made with me on
their Behalf as well & that they have sent two of their Chiefs
& others to meet me in Order to ratify the s? Peace : and
that altho twenty Indians of that Tribe were something dis-
satisfied yet they did at last approve of our Proceedings &
express themselves well pleased that there is now a Calm in
our whole Land, that I have likewise rec<? the two Belts you
sent me one from the s? Arrasaguntacook Tribe & the other
from the twenty Indians above mentioii'd. I am well satis-
fied with y re success on that Message, and hope that the
English & Indians throughout the Continet will live in per-
fect Friendship & Goodwill for the time to come & will pro-
mote each others Welfare all that is in their Power ; It being
alwaies my Desire & Endeavour to accomplish such a Peace
as would prove for the great & lasting Benefit of the Indians
as well as the English. I desire that the Chiefs & others
Messengers from the Arrasaguntacook Indians would pro-
ceed to Boston as soon as they can, in Order to meet & con-
fer with me upon those important Affairs, & that Wenungenet
& Moxus & other Chiefs of the Penobscot & Norridgewock
Tribes would accompany y m . And they may depend upon
my Receiving them very kindly ; And I hope our Interview
will be for the better Establishm! of the Peace between us :
That as to the twenty Men y y say were dissatisfied but are
now brought over to join with you in the Peace, I doubt
not but y r Account of them is true; But the French Letter
sent me w c . h y y say is from those Indians does entirely con-
tradict y r Representation of the Temper & Designs of those
Indians, For that Letter says they keep the Hatchet still well
up & makes unreasonable Demands contrary to y e Treaty at
Casco from w ch I am resolved never to depart, Pretending
that they twenty are the Chiefs of the Norr. Indians & Act
for y m , w ch I know to be false having rec d sev 11 friendly Let-
396 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
ters from Moxus & others who are the undoubted Chiefs of
that Tribe, & that Letter casts very unjust Reflections upon
me & the English W c . h I sh? much resent, But that I entirely
rely on the other Ace! of those Indians as true, & that French
Letter being without date & not sign'd by any Person what
soever, I take it to be a villanous Design of some evil minded
Men that mortally hate both the English & Indians & are
desireous to involve us in new Troubles ; And therefore I
shall reject the Paper as nothing else but a scandalous Libel ;
However if those or any other Indians may be so far prevail'd
upon by the Artifices of any ill minded Persons as to attempt
any thing upon the English contraiy to our Treaty & w ch
may lead to break the Peace I shall depend upon y or Solemn
Engagem t8 y y will effectually bind them to Peace & hinder
them from offering the least Injury to the English. I have
sent to Cp* Gyles a Reward to Alexis & Francis Xavier for
their Time & faithful Service in the Message sent to Arrasa-
guntacook & as a Token of my further Respect I shall Order
then a Supply-Pro vision.
That Upon Inquiry into what Victor mentions of the Loss
of his Canoe & Guns, I find Ensign Trescot has taken up a
Canoe & two Hatchets w ch is supposed to be Victors & he
has p d <3.10 for them W ch with 6 I shall give him in con-
sideration of y e Loss of his two Guns will be sent to him in
Goods by Saunders.
that I have rec d Advice from Annapolis that a Body of
Indians being assembled near Menis & Secanecto some ill
minded Men among them were meditating Mischief ag st our
Fisher Men in Revenge of y e Justice done to y e French &
Indian Pirates the last Fall. I think it proper to communi-
cate this to y m Agreable to y e Treaty Expecting that they
may inquire into this matter, And, if it be so that y y oppose
these Indians & Reduce them to a Peaceable Behaviour,
W ch is conformable to y e Engagem ts in y e s d Treaty.
In answer to what Loron says
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 39 T
Letter L* Gov. Dummer to Col. Wheelwright.
Sir
I have rec d from the Eastern Indians very full Testimonies
of their peaceable Temper & Intentions and as a Mark of
their entire Confidence in our Friendship, Many of them
( who have been driven by the late War into the Governm*
of Canada are now Returning back with their Families to
their old Habitations near our Borders, and they have desired
I would take the proper Methods for their Safety in their
Hunting near us ; more particularly at Connecticut and Ken-
nebunk River.
These are therefore to disire & direct you to take effectual
Care that the Inhabitants of the Frontier Towns in your
County be notified hereof, & that they give no Molestation
to the s d Indians in their Hunting & Fishing, but treat them
with Kindness & Friendship, and that they avoid all Occa-
sions of Quarrelling with them, W c . h is absolutely necesssary
In Order to preserve the Peace. You must more especially
restrain the People on Kennebunk River from any Resentm*
of the Injury done to our People there, For I have taken
Proper Measures for Satisfaction.
Mayy e 26: 1727
May it Pleas your honour
This Day Espequead y e sacond Chief of y e Panobcut tribe,
w th sum authers Desiard me to a quaint your honour that he
Desiars that y e yong Indian boy y* was Left as a hostig Last
fall, may be Returnd to them by y e furst, autherways he is
thoughtfull whether it will not Create Mischief to befall us
by sum,
he further Desiars y* whereas he in y e time of war, Lent a
vessell to three Maruelhed men that wear Preconars, to go
to thier home, & to" Re turn in a set time w th y e Ransom for
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themselves, and scoonar, but he sais as it is now Peace, he
hath Nothing to say to y e mens Ransom, but Expectes his
Vessel to be Returnd by y e furst, or satisfaction for her or
he shall think he is not Justly Delth w tb
W th Respect Salutes Governor Dummer
g Jn Gyles Enter**
May 27 th 1727
this Day y e 2 Indian Messengers y* brought y e Messuage
or Letter from y e Ercegontegog Malcontent Party, Say that
they Expect an answar to their Letter by y e furst & s d Mes-
sengars further say they ar of Opinion if they have no answer
sent them, they may be Incurridged to Do Us sum Privat
Mischief, for they ar not without Councelors to Do it. the s d
Messengars heartily salute your honour & y e honorable Coun-
cil & say they will Do to thier Uttermost for Peace & a Good
Understanding Round y e Contenant.
g John Gyles Enter 1
Letter L* G-ov. Dummer to Cap* Heath $ Cap* Smith
May 27, 1727.
Sir
I rec? your Letter by Cpt. Saunders, & observe what
you mention of the Uneasiness of y e Indians upon the Fall of
the Price of the Bever ; To satisfy them in this matter, You
must shew them by your Invoice that our Goods are likewise
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fallen especially Rum ( w ch is much lower in Proportion than
Bever ) That It was Agreed at y e Treaty that they sh? have
the utmost for thier Furrs that they would fetch in the mar-
ket at Boston. That we then told them that the Prices of Goods
were not fix'd but would frequently change according to the
Circumstances of Trade, And when they Come to Boston
They will have Liberty to try the Merchants & Shop Keepers
here they will find that we have allowed them the full Price
of every thing We have brought & sold our Goods to them
at very easy & moderate Rates. And they will certainly find
that no other People will give them so much for their Furrs
nor sell Goods so cheap to them as we do.
Cap* Heath and Smith.
Letter L* G-ov. Bummer to Capt. John Gyles May 27, 1727
Sir
The Letter herewith enclosed was design'd to go in a
Sloop bound for Falm? but Cpt. Saunders being come in I
have stop'd it till his Return to you : By him I have sent the
Goods mention'd in the other letter, W c ? you must deliver to
the several Indians in my Name in the most proper Manner
you can.
I have rec d your Letter by Saunders ; In answer to it
You must acquaint Wenungenet That I take it well of him
That he has sent a Message to the Canada Indians ( with his
Belt of Wampam ) " That they must make no more Breaches
" on the English, & if they do, that he will resent it & con-
" suit with me & have satisfaction of them. And that is what
"I have expected he would do. He being obliged to by
" Treaty.
May 27th, 1727
Cap* Gyles.
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Letter Samuel Jordan to L* Q-ov. Dummer.
Beddiford June 8 th 1727
May it please yo r Honour
Having this Opportunity I thought it my Duty as it con-
cernes the Publick Interest, especially at this Juncture
Affairs, to inform your Honour, of what happened of Late in
this Town ; There being several Irish Men settled in and
about this Place, and more perticularly at Saco Falls, they
prictice y e catching of all Sorts of Fish with Scains, began
last Spring, and continue the same Practice Still : By w ch
means prevent the Fish going up the Falls, into the fresh
ponds, as usual, which has been found of great Prejudice to
the Indians, insomuch, that many of them have come and
made their Complaint to me, & desired that the Governmt
might be informed thereof, that proper Measures might be
taken effectually to prevent the same. Otherwise y e Conse-
quence will terminate to y e Disservice of y e Province, as I
conceive. Since y e Indians have made their Application to
me, as I was a Town Officer, and a Well Wisher to the
Province's Wellfare, I, with the rest of the Town Officers,
thought it our Duty to forbid the afores? Practice, notwith-
standing which, they continue to go on, & will do so, without
some immediate Command from y e Governm* So I leave
the whole to yo r Hon" wise Consideration & Determination
in y e affair and remain
Yo r Hon re Obedient Faithful Serv* at Command
Sam 11 Jordan
Letter Chiefs of Norridgewock Woweenock $ Arressegontoogook
to L* G-ov. Dummer.
i
Richmond Fort, June 12 th 1727
Great Governour
We wrtie in love to Informe you that
its Fifty seven dayes since we came to Teconnock and we
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Desire to Know your Intentions concerning us. The Penob-
scut Indians also Invited us to come over from Canada,
but have not Told us your mind.
The Messengers Sent to us at Canada, Said nothing of our
meeting you at Boston, nor can we come there :
We have come a great way, waited long, and begin to want
victuals. Those who sent for their neighbours us'd to find
them provision.
Tho : wee are a poor people it's our custom when wee send
for any to find them victuals while they stay with us.
We desire you not to think our words Strange, For wee have
(heitherto) waited in Silance Expecting Our Brethen of
Penobscut ( who were first in making peace ) had long agoe
told you y e Time of our Coming and buisseness, as they
promissed to do.
We Ernistly Desire to meet you at this Fort as soon as may
be, it being very difficult for Our people to live altogether.
We Deliver this message to Cap* Heath by order of the
Sagamores & Captains at Taconnock in whose name and
behalf also, we Salute you & y e great Council
Marks
Witness Neridgawalk \ Wyworney
Joseph Heath /*""T*
of Woweenock *S J^ Ommoway
Joseph Bane "****
Arrisegoutoogook JU | !' Pere Sunc
Letter Capt. Joseph Heath to L* Q-ov. Dummer June 12, 1727.
Honourable
S? This covers a letter from the Sachems and
Captains of the Indians, Assembled at Taconnock in this
River.
27
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The Indians of Noridgawalk & S! Francois were made to
feal the frowns of Heaven in a more distinguishing manner
then any others Engeaged in the Late war. Yet being a peo-
ple to a great Degree Stubborn and Insolent, have been
dilatory : And the Emissaries of y e Jesuits amongst them, to
gether with the alteration of y e price of Beavour caused a
Demurr. They hoped also by their delay to move your
Honour to make the first Overtures of a Treaty ; neverthe-
less ( so far as I am able to desirn ) the result of all their
Councils is a general peace.
It's probable they'l be no less Exobitant in their Demands
about Land then they are Respecting provision For it has
even been their custom to be Extravagantly wild in their first
proposals and afterwards submit to reason. Nor is it con-
trary to former usuage for them to be sustained with provision
at a Conference ; hence it's likely that y e Treaty once
Opened, those affairs will soon be Accomodated.
It must be granted in their favour, that ( their furrs being
Exhosted ) they cannot long subsist in great Companies, And
if the Affairs of y e Government should not admit of your
Honours meeting them in a little time they seem to be under
a necessity either to prey upon the Cattle in these parts, or
Disperce their Company, which at present consists of 80 or
an hundred men whose famelies are Generally with them.
The Canada Indians Stifly Opposed going to Boston &
prevailed.
The messengers who signed the Indian letter proposed to
Insist upon An Answer from your Honour in Ten dayes,
which I resisted & persuaded them to leave it to you with
out seting any Time.
And when they Insisted upon having y e Congress at this
Fort, I laboured to have them submit that also, but they
would by no means Conceed to it. It appears to me that the
noridgawalk Indians being Disgusted at some former Treat-
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ment at Falmouth are resolved not to goe their they also
complain of 111 usuage at their last meeting at Arrowsick,
but if it be more acceptable to your Honour to Treat with
them at Arrowsick then in this place believe they will meet
you their if you Insist upon it.
And an answer to their letter with y e Time you propose for
y* s d meeting being speedily Dispatched heither will be
amighty satisfaction to them.
The Indians have been very urgent with me to goe to
Boston on this Occasion And apprehending y e Service would
not suffer by it did at least presume to promise them that I
would goe with Cap* Saunders whome I have Several Dayes
Expected from S* Georges to Take from this Truck House
about a Thousand pounds worth of Furrs. But that no
Time should be lost have sent these letters p r Express
& am with all my heart Your Honours
most Dutifull Obedient Hum b . le Serv*
Richmond Fort June 12* 1 1727 Joseph Heath
P. S. Lieu* Clark y e bearer hereof seems to be the most
likely person to bring your Honours letter to y e Indians as
being an Expeditious man & well acquainted with y e way.
Letter Capt. John Gyles to Lieut. Grov. Dummer June 1
May it Pleas your Honour I Rec d your Letters g
Cap tn Sanders on y e 4 th Currant a bout a 11 of the clock at
night & then we haveing not any Indians w th us it being
their annual time of meeting for Prayer, &c which upon I
Ordred 2 Guns to be fired Daily to notifie them, which was
according to my a Greement w th Wenogenet when any
Exprece Came from Gov r Dummar,
on y a 8 th Currant hear a Rived sum Indians tho no
Message, but say y* they have had a Great Meeting of 2 or 3
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Days Debate of a fears, & y* a Canow from y e Canebacks w th
a Message to them and a Canow of y e Penobcuts Returnd
w th ye Canebacks to taconnock w th a nother message to them
in answer which ar not yet Returnd, and y e a bove s d mes-
sages ar not as yet made known, only Many Debates Con-
cerning y e moveing y e truckhousen & haveing new articuls &
to have a Line Run betwen y e Lands, and Concerning y*
french & Indian Pirotrs y 1 wear hanged Last fall, in my
opinion they ar set on by.
On y e 9th Currant I sent a Messag to Wenogenet & Chiefs
to Com & hear your honours Letter Red &c
on y e 12 th Currant hear a Riv d y e Caneback & Penobcut
Messengers from taconnock Returning to Penobcut AcCom-
paned w th a 11 yong Indians, I advis d s d Messengers to stop
w tb me, for I had sent for y e Chiefs of Penobcut to Com &
hear Gov* Dummars Lettar & answar, Red and Enterpreted
to them, In pursuant to my orders And I Expected them in
a Day or two &c
which they Concented to, Desiaring Provision &c
which after 2 Days waiting & the Penobcuts not a Riveing,
they went on for Penobcut but meeting w th Sum of y e
Penobcut tribe Returnd hether a Gain &c
June 14, 1727
g a Privat Informar sais y * many of y e yong men that Came
from Canadey ar wery of waiting for Gou r Dummars Coming
to meet them in these Parts and ar Returnd ( they say y*
Gov? Dummar & y e Panobcut Chiefs sent for them ) tho y e
Chief men ar all yet waiting at taconnock, and Expect Gou r
Dummar to Com to them, the Informar further saith y* a bout
half of those y* Came from Caneday will be unsadisfied if
y e truckhousen & authers be not moved further to y e west-
ward, not y* they will fall on to Do Us any Mischieff but
will not be asy about the Lands, ( Jesuitt for that ) the nams
of those Chief men now waiting at taconnock, is Moxses,
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Chief of Narangewock : Ya=ha=ham=ma=wit a Chief at Erce-
gontecock.: We=na=muggen : A Chief at Wowenog : Arsar :
rabarot : Wowerena : Pearis : & John hegon : is y.
June 16th 1727
this morning hear a Riv d a Canow from y e Chiefs of Penob-
cut w th a Messag, to Desiar me not to be out of patience, for
they wear holding a Council w th the Canebacks & S* John
Indians, & then they would be w tb me w tb all speed to hear
Gou r Dummars Lettar &c
June 19th
this Day hear a Rived y e Chief of S* Johns son, and
aquainted me, that sum Indians from Cape Saples, this sum-
mar had a meeting w th them at thier Chief Plantation & well
a Proved of y e a Greement y* the English & the Penobcut
tribe had made &c
y e 20 th
this Eving I Recud a Messeg from y e Chiefs of Penobcut
to aquaint y* y e Chiefs Propose to be hear tomorrow a bout
12 of y e Clock, & y e reson of thier not Coming soonar was
y e Death of y e Chiefs Child, which they tarried to bury her
&c
June 22
A Messeg from y e Indian Camp to a quaint y* thier Chiefs
& Jesuitt wear a Riv d this Evening & Saluted y e officers, &
the Chiefs s d the Reson of his Long stay was y e Death of his
Child & auther affears of moment
g John Gyles Enterpretr.
Letter L* Gf-ov. Dummer to the Penobscot Sachem
June 17, 1727.
Wenungenet & his Chiefs
I have a Message from the Indians of
Norridgawack, Woowenock, & Arraseguntecook (who are
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now to the number of 4 Score Men & upward at Taconeck
that they Come so far upon your invitation in your own &
my name in order to know my intentions Concerning them,
w b they say you have not inform'd them of. My answer to
their Message you have a Copy of herewith, by w ch you'l see
that I have determin'd to Meet them the 10 th of July next in
order to ratine & Establish the peace g & in the same Man-
ner as that Concluded with you at Casco. from w h I shall
not depart, & being resolved to Acquaint you our good
ffriends with everything I transact with the other Indians I
desire youl meet me at Falrn at the time appointed where
care will bee taken to provide for you in order to be gsent at
the ratification & Cap 1 Gyles will provide you a Passage.
Letter L*. Gov. Dummer to Capt. John Gyles June 17, 1727
Cap* Gyles
You'l see by the inclosed Letter to the Sachem
& Chiefs of Penobscots of my appointment to the Nor-
rigawaks &c. for ratifying the Peace. You will send for
them & Interpret the s d Letter to them forthwith assuring &
explaining to them at the same time my great regards to
them on all Occations as the first who Came in to a good
agreement & a happy peace with us. After w ch you are to
meet me at Falm? for w ch purpose & the passage of the Pen-
obscot Cheifs the vessell w ch Carrys Provision to Richmond
was Ordered to Call for you. I desire you'l acquaint
y e Indians hereof & Encourage them by all means to Come.
Letter Lt. Gf-ov. Dummer to Lieut. Clark, June 17, 1727.
Leif* Clark
You are with the greatest speed to repair to the Fort
at Richmond with my Message to the Norregawack Woowe-
nock & Arrasaguntacook Indians, & arriving there you are
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in y e absence of Cap 1 Heath to deliver the same to Cap* Jos:
Bean in order to be Communicated to the Cheifs of the
Indians whome you are forthwith to Notifie to Come in to
you for that purpose & you are to deliver to such Indians as
appear Provissions daily according to the Souldiers allowance.
& I shall take Care to send you a ffresh supply forthwith for
them & the Garrison You must take the utmost Care to keep
all in Peace & quietness & that the Indians have no Cause
of Complaint.
Letter If. Gf-ov. Dummer to Indians at Richmond,
June 17, 1727.
Good Friends xl
I rec d your Letter of y e 12 th Instant from Richmond,
W ch is the first Message I have rec d from you since your
being in these parts, & Accordingly to y r Desire I am Deter-
mined ( God willing ) to meet you on the tenth of July w ch
is the time I desired the Penobscots to acquaint you of. Cpt.
Heath will Lett you know the Place I shall judge most
proper. In the mean Time I have given Orders for y re Sup-
port till my Arrival When I doubt not but by y e favour &
blessing of God We shall establish a happy & lasting Friend-
ship between us agreeable to what has been already Settled
with the Penobscot Indians at Casco in their own & your
behalf e.
June 17, 1727.
To Wyworna, Ommaway & Pere Sune to be com-
municated to y e Rest of the Indians at Richmond.
Letter L* Gov. Dummer to Oapt. Jordan. June 17, 1727.
Capt. Jordan
I have determined to Meet the Eastern Indians
on the Tenth of July next, in Order to Ratify the Peace with
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them : and therefore desire That You would not fail of Meet-
ing Me at Falmouth at that time in Order to Serve as
Interpreter
I am Sir Your Humble Servant
Boston June 17th, 172T.
W Dummer
June 22, 1727.
May it Pleas your honour
On this Day p a Privet Informar from Ereeg-
ontacook being Improved by Gyles on y* service a bove 20
years
he sais y 1 Great Disputs this spring Concerning Affears, have
been betwen y e Indians of y e several tribes from Cape Saples
to y e mountain Indians, & y e french, & at thier Great Debats
& Councils was whether thier should be a treaty w th
y e English or not, the several tribes s d it was Proper to hear
what y e English said before any breach made on them, but
Arobree y e Jesuitt and Anadahouitt his Decon, & Amare-
guened, & Wewonorawed: Indian Chiefs, usd all Possible
mens to force on to Slay the English, before they heard what
they had to say & the new Gou r s d he was in frindship w th
y e English & would be well Plesd y* y e English & Indians
have a Meetting, but y e Jesuitt Utterly Declard against it,
and Pusht on for war, & sent out 10 Indians to Give a stroke
on y e English, before they had any Discours further, &c
which upon y e Chiefs, y* were well wishers to Peace sent a
Party & overtook them & Debeted Affears, as I find y e for-
mar, Informar Gave me an account of which this is a further
Confurmation &c the Informar further saith y* y e new Gov r
is over born & swaid by y e Jesuitts.
June 24 th
g an Informar that y e tribes have sent a Messag of two
Wompom belts to y 6 furren tribes beyond Ercegontecook to
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bury y e hatchet and not to offer any hurt to any for y e futer
for they ar in Good frindship w th the English &c
P John Gyles Enterp r
Letter Capt. John Gyles to L* Crov. Dummer June 26, 1727.
May it Pleas your honour
I Rec d your Letters to y e Indian Chiefs yesterday a bout
2 of y e Clock by y e way of Ritchmond by y 6 hand of Liu* n
Clarke and have notified y e Chiefs of s d Letter, they not
being Gon from thier Camp to thier Plantation.
June 26, 1727
the Chiefs Came & I Red s d Letter and they Like it well,
and Desiard me to write thier answar, which gos in Closd,
and I also Inclose (to the best of my skill ) the motions &
tempars of the several tribes, in my opinion is Chiefly Reali-
ties, if worthy your honours Pen-using, it may be of service
to y e officar, on y e whole &c
S* Georges River June 26: 1727
I am your honours most Dutifull Servant
John Gyles
I send your Canow & 2 Padles g Cap* Sanders.
My affears my wife Rites me word wants me much at home.
Letter Wenogent to L*. G-OV. Dummer
St. Georges June 26 : 1727.
Loven Gov r Dummar I Rec d your Letter of y e hand of
Cap tn Gyles, you say to meet you on y e 10 th of July at Casco,
I Like well, & shall Endever to Comply w th y e Place & time
& you will hear what I Wenogeenet & our tribe say to y e
author tribes for we could not finish by Reason of y e author
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tribes being absent, which now I hope we shall finnish to
Ratine y e Peace &c is what I have to say & heartily salute
you Gov r Dummar & Concil & hope we shall have a Good
meeting if God willing.
Letter
Richmond June 30 th 1727.
S* The Express g Lieu* Clark I rec'd 23? Currant, and
the same day Dispatch.d the other letters to Cap. Gyles at
S. Georges. The day following Toxas & Sosep of Noridga-
walk, Jummoway of S? Francois and Nemmageen of
Woweenock Accompanied w th men women & Children to
y e number of 120 came heither, Rec<? His Honour the
Lieu* Governours Letter and a Supply of Provision and
Desired me in their behalf to Thank him for his said Letter
to, & care of them.
Some of their young men are gon to penobscutt & pigwacket
& on y e 13^ Instant 15 of them went to Canada to bring
over their famolies.
In his Honour the Lieu* Gove rs letter to these Indians I
observe It's said that I am to Informe them what place he
thinks most proper for y e Conference which Instructions
have not rec.d as yet But apprehending ( by his honours
Letter to the Penobscutts ) that Falmouth is Intended have
acquainted these Sachems of it who seem mightily sattisfied
that he is coming but don't speak of meeting him there, which
together with what they said when they wrote to him maketh
me doubt they'l be somewhat stiff about it They intend to
be all together at merry meeting bay in 6 Dayes ( and ) upon
his Honours arrival at Falmouth ) I think a message to them
s O
would be for the service-
I observe also in his honours Letter to Cap" Gyles that its
proposed y e sloop which brought y e provision here should
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bring him & y e penobscot Indians to Falmouth by y e 10 th of
July which Time being at hand & m? Tarr ( master of y e
said sloop ) having no Orders in that respect have presumed
to Direct him to attend that service, as knowing y e said
Indians being Disappointed of a Conveyance ( as his Honour
proposed, would be Disgusted.
The Indians are very Gealous that the Missionary at
S* Francois has wrote a letter to his Honour reflecting upon
them and Intreat ( if it be so ) they may Know it. And I
should greatly rejoyce if such a letter could be produced at
this Juncture
I am S r Your Most Hum ble Serv'
Joseph Heath
Governor's Message June 27, 1727.
Gent, of the House of Representatives
In answer to your Message to Me this morning
I now acquaint you that besides a Guard of fifty or
sixty men ( which I shall Order to be Raised in the County
of York to save the Charge of Transportation whose pay
ought now to be Stated. I Expect that a Number of Gent :
of both Houses Accompany Me to the Eastward, that so I
may see the Indians in such a manner as may be Convenient
& for the Hon r of y e Governm* & I desire you would make
provision accordingly.
June 27: 1727"
Portsm? N. England Aug* 7** 1727.
May it please Your Lordships
Mj last bears date Aprill ye 8 th past Duplicates of
which I forwarded by y e Industry William Shepardson
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Comander which hope came safe to hand ; since which I
received a letter from M? Popple by your Lordships com-
mand bearing date Jan? y e 3d, last which letter came to my
hand about y e Middle of Aprill following with M* Attorney
& Sollicitor Generals opinion concerning His Majesty's right
to y e Woods. A Coppy gave to the Deputy Surveyor for
His better Government. 1 dont know but this will strengthen
the Surveyor something in this Province ; but in y e Massa-
chusets they will not mind it. Since M T . Attorney & Sollic-
itor General are of Opinion that it is His Majesty's just right
that all such trees should be reserved, humbly am of Opin-
ion that an additional Clause be to that Act, of the 6 th of
His present Majesty s Reighn ( Viz* ) in Townships as well as
out without respect to either ; for if the Act be not Severe
the people will break in upon it. I shall say no more Relate
ing the Kings Woods, least I should be thot troublesome,
but shall do my utmost to preserve the trees from being
destroyed. Those that are imployed, as Agents ; to the Con-
tracter for Masts. ( Viz* ) M T . Gulston they have great Opper-
tunitys to make waste of pine trees here, by falling more
then they want and those people that are Imployed in that
Service are generally concerned in Saw Mills that what they
dont make use of for Masts are free for y e Mill men. having
been told that great quantities have been cut down formerly
for that End. I dont know that it is so now. Neither do I
mention this by way of complaint. I only humbly offer that
a letter may be wrote by your Lordships Command to the
Deputy Surveyor or to whom your Lordships may think
proper which may prevent the Destruction of many a good
mast.
This Government Joyned with the Massachusets & Nova
Scotia in ratifying the peace made with the Eastern Indians.
When Lieutennant Governour Dummer myself & Major
Maskarene on the part of Nova Scotia was present at Fal-
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mouth in Casco Bay the 3 1 8 * July last past were three tribes
present ( viz* Arresaguntecooks, Norridgewocks & Wowe-
nocks that borders near Cannada made their Subjection to
King George and Confirmed the peace we made with the
Penobscots last Summer, a perticular account your Lord-
ships will receive from Lieutennant Governour Dummer.
That Goverment being cheifly concern'd in making this last
war. I hope we shall have a lasting peace with the Indians
which will very much contribute to the Settlement of this
Province.
According to your Lordships Order, I have given direc-
tions to the Naval Officer to be careful in sending home the
Account of all Negroes here Imported within this month we
have had more Negroes imported then for many years before
Viz* Twelve from Antiqua, Eleven from the Island of Ter-
cera one of y e Western Islands & two from Nevis most of
them new sent here for sale in our trade Vessels.
I have herewith inclosed the Journals of Councill with
what Acts I have passed from November 1726 to May 1727
together with the remaining Stores & Expence of Gun pow-
der to the 28^ May 1727. I hope your Lordships will be
pleased to be put in mind how verry bare we are of Stores of
all sorts at Fort William & Mary so I found it, at first when
I had the Honour of Commanding it, our agent had Instruc-
tions to Sollicit, am in hopes we shall succeed th6 we wait
long. Mr Bacon our Collector of this Port accounts will
come by the next.
The trade of the Country which is almost at a Stand,
partly Occasioned by the Warr with Spain its thot two hun-
dred thousand Quentols ffish now remains in y e Country for
want of the usual number of Shipping to carry it of, one
thing more that has greatly crampt our trade which is call-
ing in our bills of Credit With the greatest Submission to His
Majestys Instructions that was of late sent, to these Gover-
ments. Humbly taking leave to say a word or two ; I
414 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Designe it for the good of Trade & the Incouragement of the
Manufactures in England. The trade of this Country has
been four times more within these last ten years then before
( This reason ) that we have had a medium which has
Increased the trade & Incouraged people to run more into it ;
so that the makeing their own cloathing has Decreased by
reason of the Currency of paper Credit ; by this means we
have had more merchandise, perticularly woolens from Eng-
land within these Seven Years past then in twenty or twenty-
five years before and I am perswaded that the Custom
Houses in London & the Several Ports in England will
Evidence the Verity of it. I dont conceive that this great
trade has been so advantageous to this Country but Chiefly
to Support our Ambition. The common people are come to
that pitch that they will wear nothing but the best of Cloaths
and so in proportion now the calling in the bills of Credit
put every body upon th6ts. for if the Merchants has not
money, then the trademen, not Country men cant have it. so
that they will be obliged to spin their own Cloathing; or
wear none ; & live within themselves. The Contrary a Suf-
ficiency of bills of Credit makes them live in great plenty &
trade Circulates quick, but when no medium then it stagnated
to that Degree that the grass in Boston streets will soon
appear, its hardly possible to conceive the Difference that the
calling hi the last hundred thousand pounds has made ; nei-
ther gold nor Silver remains with us. The ballance of trade
is verry much in favour of Great Brittain. but as fast as it
comes in, so soon is it stript off. and there our whole trade
naturally Centers, if no paper Credit then the People will be
Obliged to keep the Silver here. I suppose three hundred
thousand pounds would answer the End their's not in boath
Goverments ( not Exceeding forty ) but would gladly peti-
tion the King for striking bills of Credit and those forty are
the great Usurers of the Country who layes wait for his
OP THE STATE OF MAINE 415
neighbours land &c as for my Own part I want it as little as
any, I'm no trading man my Farms brings me victuals &
Drink and for Cloathing I must do as I can, I beg your
Lordships will forgive the freedom I have taken with my
most dutifull respects, I take leave to Subscribe myself
My Lords Your Lordships most Obed* Humble Servant
Jn? Wentworth
Portsm? N. Engl. August y 24t h 1727
My Lords
Since the within we have the surprizing News
of the Death of His Majesty King George which has filled
our hearts with a Dutifull Sorrow, in proportion to the Great
Joy we had upon His Majestys Accession to the Throne. I
pray God that King George the Second, may long live to
reign Over us. on Thursday the 17* h Day of August the
Funeral Solemnities for King George the first was Observed
at Castle William & Mary by fireing half minute Guns,
attended by myself and His Majestys Councill with the
Representatives and a Considerable Number of Gentlemen &
others. This Afternoon the flag was hoisted & the Cannon
discharged three times with great Huzzas and acclamations
of Joy ( Let King George the Second long live ) A Regiment
of Foot & Throop of Horss also attended I have Summonds
all the officers ( Civill & Millitary ) to attend the next week
to take the Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to King
George the Second whom God preserve. ,
I shall alwayes be ready & willing to Obey your Lordships
Commands in Every thing in my power thats for the Kings
Interest
416 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
I am with great respect Your Lordships most Obedient &
Most Humble Servant
Jn? Wentworth
e, : New Hampshire
Lre from M r . Wentworth Lieu 1 . Grov r . of N. Hampshire,
dated the 7 of Aug* last.
Reed. Oct. % : 1727. Read Febry 16 : 1727/8
Message from the House.
In the House of Representatives Oct 10 th 1727-
Voted That a Message be sent to His Honour the Liev fc
Governour to acquaint him that it is the earnest Desire of
this House that his Honour would please to give His orders
for the Dismission of Cap* James Woodside from the Com-
mand of His Majesties ffort Mary at Winter Harbour, inas-
much as the Indians have desired another person to have the
Care of the Trade and be Truck Master there, whom His
Honour as we apprehend hi some measure promised the
Indians at the late Conference.
And the House would observe that it will save the Charge
of the pay of the Commanding there to have the Truck
Master the same person besides the Difficulty if not Impossi-
bility that will arise (if that officer should any longer be
continued in that Command ) in procuring a proper person
to have the Care and Management of that Branch of the
Indian Trade, which the House are very willing and desirous
should be carried on apprehending it for the Interest of the
province, and agreeable to the Indians Inclinations.
W m Dudley Sp*
In Council, Oct 11, 1727. Read.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 417
Message from the Lieut. Crov r . Oct. 10, 1727.
Gentlemen of the House of Represent :
I look upon it to be of great Importance at this
juncture to have a Supply made for the Arraseguntacook
Indians, either at winter Harbour or rather at Saco River, if
it be Considered that its not only in a manner necessary for
the Support of those Indians ; but the only favour they
insisted on at the Treaty & w ch they were also incouraged to
Expect from my Answer to them, with the Approbation of
his Maj tles Council, & in the presence of a number of the
Represent^ 68 sent down to attend Me on that Treaty ; And I
am of Opinion that the refusing of it will appear to them
very partial whilst its granted to the other Indians ; And I
can't but very much Apprehend that such a distinction will
greatly disaffect them, & give the French an Advantage, to
Recover these Indians, who have not without great difficulty
been gained to the English Interest, the Consequence of w ch
I leave to y r serious Consideration.
W m Dummer
Octo r 10. 1727
Read
Vote.
In Council Oct. 11. 1727.
Voted that a Message be sent down to the Hon ble House
of Represent' To desire they would pass on the Councils
vote upon the Committees Report respecting a supply for the
Indian Trade to be sent to Fort Mary ; The Board appre-
hending it to be of very great Consequence for the Strength-
ening & Confirming the present Peace That a suitable Supply
of Goods be sent there without Delay, And the Coun treys
Sloop being now ready to proceed thither.
418 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Message from the L\ Q-ov r .
Boston llth Octo r 1727
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives
In answer to your Message to me this ftiorning desiring
the dismissing Cap* James Woodsides from the Command of
the Fort at Winter Harbour, I must Acquaint the House that
I never made any promise to the Indians respecting the gson
proposd for a Truckmaster, nor do apprehend any difficulty
in procuring a proper gson for that Service, notwithstanding
the gsent officers Continuance there, or that His Continuance
Can any Wayes interfere with the good Management of the
Trade : I must also observe to the House that they did not
esteem the saving of a greater Charge for the pay of an Offi-
cer of any Consequence in their Choice of a Truckmaster for
the Blockhouse at Georges River.
Upon the whole as I Would be glad at all times in every
Way to Express the Esteem & regard I have for the Senti-
ments & desires of Y r Hon ble House so I am also determin'd
to give no Example of any Violent or arbitrary proceeding
during my Government but shall endeavour that all the offi-
cers of My Appointing may be assured of My protection
whilest they behave well : therefore as this affair now stands
I cannot as I Conceive with Honour & Justice Consent to
Cap* Woodside's dismission before Hee have a Hearing upon
what has been objected to Him in y e Sundry Votes & Mes-
sages of y r House
Wm Dummer
To the Honorable William Dummer Esq r Lieu* Gov-
ernour and Commander in Cheif the Honourable the
Council and House of Representatives in General
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 419
Court a sembled at Boston the 4 th Day of October
Anno Do 1727
The Petition of Samuel Jones of Boston
Humbly Sheweth
That Whereas your Petitioner went as a Tender on
Board the Ship Martha to Casco Bay at the late Treaty
with the Indians there and the Petitioner not only per-
formed that Service but Acted as a Drummer on board
and kept one of the Storehouses at Casco Bay, for which
Extraordinary Service the Petitioner was told he Should
have an Allowance, And Whereas your Petitioner at the
former Treaty with the Indians the last Year when he
Acted only as Drummer was Allowed Six Shillings g
Diem, But So it happens that in the Muster Roll of the
said ship lately made up the Petitioner is Allowed only
four Shillings g Day being Thirty one Days he was in the
Service which is one Third Less than he has heretofore
had paid him by the Government: Wherefore the Peti-
tioner humbly prays your Honours Consideration of such
his services, And that he may have Such further Allow-
ance for the Same as the Wisdom of this Great and
General Court shall seem meet.
And as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c
Sam Jones
In the House of Representatives Oct? llth 1727
Read and in Answer to this Petition
Resolved That the Sum of Thirty one shillings be allowed
and paid out of the publick Treasury to the petitioner in full
of the Services within mentioned
Sent up for Concurrence
W ra Dudley Sp r
In Council, Oct. 11, 1727 Read & Concur'd
J. Willard Secry
Consented to
420 DOCUMBNTABY HISTORY
Message from the Governor, Oct. I
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives
I shall be sorry to have this Court rise, untill a provision
be made for the supply of the Arraseguntacook Indians, &
those living about that Country, there being such frequent
Accounts & Instances of the indefatigable labour of the
ffrench Popish Missionary's to stir up the Indians every
where to Warr upon us : And it cant be strange if they
should find amongst those poor people some Instrum 18 for
their wicked purposes, And I look upon it next to impossible
by anything we can do to Oblige or restrain those Priests
from their Outrage. Wherefore I think the only Method
left us is to Cultivate, & Improve the friendship, good
Esteem & Affection w ch those Indians have at present for us,
who have signed the Peace, & which I make no doubt will
with prudent managemt render our Frontiers safe in all time
to come ; And therefore I now once more earnestly recommend
the aforesaid Supply to You.
W m Dummer
Oct? 14, 172T.
Read
Falm th June 28. 1728.
We the Subscribers Resident Proprietors in the Town
Falmth being Deeply Sensible of y e Necessity of Preferring
A Petition to y e Gen 11 Court at y e next Sessions to Represent
y e Unhappy Circumstances we are now labouring under per-
ticularly with resp* to the Irregular proceeding of Our
Select men & Comittee in laying out & granting Away y e
Undoubted Rights of y e Antient Proprietors w ch we humbly
conceive is contrary to y e Act of y e Gen 11 Court in y r Grant
made to sundry Petitioners for resettling s d Township do
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 421
therefore desire y* our Names may be Sett to such a Petition
as shall be thought propper for y e Informing y e Hon ble Court
of our present Unhappy Circumstances in order to our quiet
& peaceable settlem*
Domini Jordan John Robison
Jeremah Jordan Nathaneal Jordan
Robard Jordan John Jordan
Thomas Jordan Samvall Jordan
John Sawyer Ben gamin York
Samuel Bucknam Benj : Skillen
May it please this Hon ble Court
To Inforce & Maintain the Petition Now before this
Hon b . le Court
We Would Humbly Observe
That Falmouth was setled Anciently by
Lawfull Proprietors & their right confirmed by the Hon ble
President Danforth & No Man Invaded their rights till the
Heathen Beat them off.
That upon their resettlement in 1718 the Generall Assem-
bly from their Consciousness of this Ancient right Justly
provided that their Order shall in no wise prejudice &
Infringe any just right & title that any person have to Lands
there.
Therefore when the same Court then Order, that the
Inhabitants of the Town be Invested with Town priviledges,
And that fifty ffamilys more be Admitted as soon as may be
and Setled in the most Defencible Manner it can't be Meant
that all the Inhabitants that were Not before Proprietors
were thereby made Prop's : or that the Inhabitants in a Town
Meeting were thereby enabled to Vote in and settle nifty
Proprietors of the Common & undivided Lands throughout
422 DOCUMENTARY HISTOKY
the Town because with humble submission We believe No
One Member of a Gen 1 Court could have thought so, within
five years after the Province Act made to Order & direct
Proprietors meeting, distinct from all Town Priviledges : But
the plain sense is as We Most humbly conceive, that, The
Inhabitants shall have Town meetings & Act as a Town, And
the Proprietors shall have their Meetings & provide that
ffifty more ffamilys whether of the old Proprietors their
Heirs or Assignes or of Such persons as they shall give Pro-
prietys to, shall be there setled as aforesaid
But Notwithstanding the Inhabitants thinking or Desire-
ing to think, this Power was all given to them, have at their
Town Meetings taken all the Lands into their Own hands,
gone on Admitting Inhabitants and Making them Proprietors
to the Number of Above a hundred Instead of ffifty, given
Among them Not only the Common Lands but the Proper
Estates of Ancient Proprietors whose Titles Were Above
fourscore years old, & some where their Fathers, Uncles &
Grandfathers have been killed by the Indians upon the spot,
& Voted to Defend them against the Proprietors And Make
good their Losses, that it seems they are resolved Whether
the Indians or English have the Land, the right Owners shall
be Nothing the better for it.
Wherefore Upon the whole We humbly think it Necessary
in Order to Justice And a peaceable Issue of these Conten-
tions that a Comittee of Good & Prudent Men be Appointed
to Attend their Proprietors Meeting to receive the Claims of
the Old Proprietors & Allow them, that a fair list may be
Made of Such as may be come at ; What they can't supply
out of themselves, of the ffifty ffamilys, may be by the good
liking as well of the Proprietors as of the Committee made
up, out of the best of those persons that have been Irregu-
larly introduced into the Town, & the Same Committee may
report to this Hon ble Court their Opinion concerning any
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 423
others that May have been Innocently introduced into the
Town by the aforementioned Mistakes of the Town & Also
that sufficient provision may be made for any Ancient Pro-
prietors that may come hereafter & are Not yet Known : This
is What is Humbly Prayed or such other & better provission
as this Hon ble Court shall think fitt, Which is Most humbly
submitted by us.
John Higginson for self & M r James Lindall
Samuel Bucknam Edmund Mountfort
John Smith Benj Walker
John Walker Corn 8 Waldo for
Thomas Westbrook Esq r & Samuel Waldo
Peres Bradford
Petition of Heirs $c. of Ancient Proprietors, $c. of Falmouth.
To His Excellency William Burnett Esq r Cap 1 General
and Governour in Cheif in & over his Majesties Province of
the Massachusetts bay in New England, And the Hon We the
Council & Representatives in General Court Assembled
August 14, 1728
The Petition of the Subscribers the heirs or Assignes of
the Ancient Proprietors of the town of Falmouth in Casco
bay, for Ourselves, and at the Desire, and in behalf of the
other Proprietors of said town
Most Humbly Sheweth That Whereas the Hon ble The
Governour & Company of the late Colony of the Massachu-
setts Bay Proprietors of the Province of Maine Appointed &
specially impowered their Committee to Regulate & bring
forward the Settlements of the Eastern part of Country, as
may Appear of Record, And Whereas The Hon ble Thomas
Danforth Esq r , Commissioner & President of said Province,
424 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
by power and Authority derived from the Hon ble The Gov-
ernour & Company of the said late Colony of the Massachu-
setts bay on the twenty sixth Day of July One thousand six
hundred & Eighty four, did give Grant Convey & Confirm
The Lands in Falmouth Township unto Cap* Edward Tyng,
Cap* Silvanus Davise M r Walter Gendall, M r Thaddeus
Clark, Cap* Anthony Brackett, M r Dominions Jordan, M r
George Brimhall, & M r Robert Lawrence their heirs and
Assignes forever as trustees, for & in behalf of the inhab-
itants of Falmouth as Appears of Record, And the said
Trustees or Committee of said Town by Vertue of the power
and Authority so delegated to them did proceed to lay out
many lotts of land, & Gave Granted & Confirmed the Same
to sundry Persons, who builded thereon & made improve-
ment of until the late terrible Indian War, when the town
was almost destroyed entierely, they haveing taken the Fort
& laid most of the houses in Ashes, and what was As fatal
to the true Interest of your Petitioners the town book was
then destroyed for it Cannot since be found. So that it is A
difficult matter to find out the whole number that were
admitted Settlers & Proprietors by the Trustees aforenamed
Your Petitioners would further humbly Sett forth that they
have at Sundry times made Application to this Great &
Honourable Court Viz* in the year 1715, 1717 & 1718 for
their protection & authority in bringing forward An Honest
& Regular Settlement, that in the year 1715 the Court was
pleased to Appoint the Hon ble Coll Wheelwright & others A
Committee to prosecute the Reguler Settlement of the East-
ern frontiers, That upon the Petitioners Renewed Application
in the Year 1718 the Court were pleased to Revive the
said Committee & fill up the Vacancy of those that were
deceased, the said Committee on the 11 th of November 1718,
reported that it was Absolutely Necessary that we Should be
vested with the power of A town by the Mets & bounds
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 425
therein Sett forth & described in order for the Establishing
A Methodical proceeding in a fair & reguler Settlement of
the said town, which Report was Accepted & Confirmed, And
it was then further Ordered that the Inhabitants of said
town, for the time being Should have power to Act in all
town Affairs but with a Proviso so as not to prejudice or
infringe on any Just right or title that any persons have to
lands there, & that fifty family s att least more than now are
be Admitted as Soon as may be & Settled in a reguler and
Defensible manner as by the said Report and order thereon
herewith humbly exhibited more fully & perticulerly Appears,
Now Your Petitioners would with all humility Remonstrate
their Lamentable, and deplorable Case, to Your Excellency
& this Great and Hon ble Court, and doubt not but you will of
your Consummate Wisdom and wonted Goodness find out
Some way to Save our Rights and Estates, which we hold by
force & Vertue of our ( former ) & honest purchases of the
Assignes of Sir Fardinando Gorges And the Grant of the
Hon ble Thomas Danforth Esq r Aforementioned, President of
the Province of Maine, by Order & Authority of the late
Colony of the Massachusetts who purchased that Province
of the Assignes of Sir Fardinando Gorges ; Since the late
peace So happily Established with the Eastern Indians there
are Numbers of people from almost all parts of the Province
and many others from beyond Sea, have rolled in on your
Petitioners Estates, like a flood, and under pretence of the
authority of the vote of Court of the 11 th of November 1718
aforesaid for admitting fifty family s att least to Settle in the
said town, which your Petitioners Humbly Conceive must
undeniably be done by their Consent only who were & are
the true proprietors of said town, And they have without
the least Consent or Approbation of your Suppliants the
Proprietors in a most unjust and disorderly manner Sett
down on and possessed themselves of their known Estates
426 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
and Settlements which have been defended att the Expence
of the lives and blood of many of your Petitioners Ancestors
and predecessors, and they are dayly in the practice of these
their unjust proceedings, for they now set themselves up not
only as town Inhabitants but even proprietors of the lands, &
admit such persons as they See Cause into town, & Also
allow Others that are Neither Proprietors nor Inhabitants to
Vote in thier Meetings for Town Officers ( &c ) And by these
means get their Votes And Obtaine thier Ends And then
Grant away Such Parcells of your Petitioners Lands And
known rights, and Ancient Settlements as they see Cause ;
Also without any Reservations or Proviso's Altho' the Same
was Specially pointed att and so wisely guarded and pre-
served to iis by the Vote of November 11 th 1718 Aforesaid,
passd by this Court, Wherefore Your Petitioners take leave
to make known this their Sad & unfortunate Case to Your
Excellency and Honours, And Pray you would of your
wonted Goodness, Clemency & Justice interpose your author-
ity in Preserving our Estates to us, and order that M r
Danforths Deed may be deemed Good to the Trustees, there-
in named for the Use Specified and to those that hold under
them, or that you would Revive the said Committee Viz 1
The Hon ble Coll Wheelwright and others, or Raise another
with power to do what may be thought Equal and Just, as
to the bringing forward A fair & honest Settlement in said
town, as it was your pleasure in the Case at North Yarmouth
our next neighbouring town, whose Case would have been as
miserable as ours, had it not been for the happy Effects, of
the power and Prudence of that Committee, which is
Acknowledged by the proprietors And those that knows the
Case of that town, and that you would over rule the orders
& acts of ( those ) people who pretend to Act in town Affairs
Choosing Select men, Creatures of their own who will in a
little time if not prevented Grant away the whole township.
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 427
Your Petitioners need not put you in mind of your Exercis-
ing your Paternal Authority in Such Extraordinary Cases, of
Superceeding town Votes, as of the town of Sherbourn,
Haverhill &c. On the whole your Petitioners Pray and
Earnestly Intreat they may find a Speedy Releif & Redress
in the premises from the authority of this Great and General
Court, nothing less then which will Save us from Ruin and
Destruction, And your Petitioners as in duty bound Shall
ever pray &c
Edw? Tyng John Tyler Thomas Westbrook
Will m Thomas Sam! Sewall William Cooper
John Robrson Jon* Sewall
Joseph Otis Jos. Calef
Samuel Buckm
Joseph Maylem ) In behalfe of the heirs of Micaell
Eliner Pvllen ) Mitten And Anthony Brackett
Sam 1 Pousland
Thomas Fayrweather=
= in behalfe of M r Sam 1 Waldo
Grace Marshall for y e heirs of George Brimhall
Dom? Jordan
Jn Robinson John Sawyer
Jeremiah Jordan Benj : York
Nat thl Jordan Sam 11 Bucknam
Rob! Jordan Benj : Skillin
Thorn? Jordan
John Jordan
House of Representatives August 16 th 1728/
Read and Ordered Tnat the further Consideration of this
petition be referred to the next Session of the Court and
that the petitioners Serve the Select Men of the said Town
of Falmouth with a copy of the petition twenty days before
428 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
the Second Friday of the said Session that they then shew
Cause why the prayer thereof should not be granted
Sent up for Concurrence
W m Dudley Sp r
In Council Aug. 16. 1728.
Read & Concurd J Willard Secry
Consented to,
W Burnet
In Council April 18, 1729 :
Ordered that this Petition & the former Order thereon
be revived, And that the Adverse Party give in their Answer
on the first Tuesday in June next. The Petitioners season-
ably to notify them of this Order.
Sent down for Concurrence
J Willard Secry
In the House of Representatives, April 18 th 1729
Read & Concur'd
W m Dudley Sp?
Consented to,
W Burnet
Copy of a Letter from M* Ralph Chdston the Contractor for
New England Masts. Dated the 0* of October
Sometime ago I laid before you, that by reason of the great
Waste of late Years made of white Pine Trees, in the Prov-
ince of Newhampshire in New England ( from whence the
Royall Navy was formerly Supplyed with Masts ) I found it
impracticable now to get them there, which obliged me to
Send a Number of Men, Cattle & Materialls, further along
the Coast to the Eastward to a place called Casco Bay, but
my Agent there and likewise the Capt. of my Mast Ship who
lately came from thence, informs me, that for want of a Fort
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 429
to protect the Men they are very much exposed to the Indians,
who have already once annoyed them, so that they were
forced to retire and Quitt their Work, and they further add,
that unless a Fort is built there, the Ships may in Case of
Warr be taken out of the very Harbour of Casco, and if the
War should be with France, as they possess all that part of
the Country in the River Canada, which lays on the back of
the Continent of Casco, and not very farr distant, it is to be
presumed, that they would not only encourage, but join with
the Indians on their Side, who are Numerous, as they for-
merly have done to molest and destroy the Inhabitants at
Casco, as much as possibly they could ; the apprehension and
fear of which is chiefly the Occasion of that part of the Coun-
try being so thin peopled, whereas the Security of a Fort
would draw and Encourage the Inhabitants to go and Settle
there, and be a Means of Enabling them to Secure and
defend themselves in their said Settlements which in former
times they have been forced to abandon, and as to the charge
of such a Fort as will be requisite, My agent says it will not
exceed Five hundred pounds Sterling besides the Guns, and
as in Case of a War either here, in Europe, or with the
Indians in New England, the supply of the Navy for Masts
may depend thereon. I thought it my Duty to lay the
Affair before you
I am &c*
Ralph Gulston,
A Copy
Thos: Pearse
E: New Hampshire
Order in Countil dated the 5. Inst. referring to y e . Board
a Lrefrom y e . Admty. one from the Navy $ another from
M r . G-ulston in relation to y e Destruction of White Pines
in New Hampshire $ to y e building a Fort at Casco Bay
Reel Nov* 9. Read Nov* 26 : 1728
430 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Capt. John Gyles to Gov. W Burnett, Nov. % 1728
May it Pleas your Excellency
this Day M Casteen Gave me a Vicett, & says he Came
Diractly from Menos town, w th a Messeg from the Jesuitts
to the Indians Concerning a Jesuitt not being a Loued to
Carre on his service at Wanopolos Rial, and he thought it
his Duty^ to a quaint the Chieffs of Panobcut w th such a
Weighty affear &c that they Might a quaint your Exellency
w th it,
In my humble opinion it is a Jesuitt 8 Contrivance to move y e
Indians in that affear, but it being such a Distance from this
place, they ar not much Concernd at Present Not but y* y e
Jesuitts & will make y c Indians Vnasy if they Can on this
Affear at Wenopolos.
I Desiard of M Casteen whether s d Jesuitt Did offer to Gary
on his Service in or near y e Garricon he s d Just by y e fort, I
tould him if any Jesuitt should Presume to Carry on his
Service in this Garricon I Commanded, they might Depend
that I should also forbid him &c the indians s d they believed
it, they Could not Say to y e Contrary.
S* Georges fort
No br 2 nd 172 g
I am your Excellencys Most Dutyfull Servant
John Gyles
M r Sam 11 Wainwright the Truckmaster Gives his Duty to
your Excellency.
Letter Sam 1 Wainwright to G-ov. Burnett
St Georges No* 18 th 1728
May it Please Yo r Excellency
S r / This I hope will wait on Your Excellency in Safety
and in Good Health, and Serves only to Pay my Duty to
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 431
Your Excellency in the first Place and to pray your favour,
that I may make a viesitt to the Westward to See my ffamily
and the rest of my ffriends, when Your Excellency thinks
most convenient. As to the Affairs relating to the Indians
Cap ta Gyles Informs me he has Acquainted Your Excellency
therewith, soe that I have nothing of my own to Acquaint
off, only this to Begg Leave to Tell Yo r Excellency My
Opinion, That the Peace concluded on with the Indians
seem's to look with a good Prospect. I conclude with heart-
ily begging Yo r Excellency's Pardon for the Trouble of this
Letter, and with this Assurance to Yo r Excellency that I
shall, as I have been alwayes ffaithfull in my Duty to Yo r
Excellency and y e discharge of the Trust reposed in me - 1
am
Yo r Excellencys Most Humble and Most Obedient Serv*
Saml Wainwright
Colonel Dummer to David Dunbar Esq r ?
Boston N : England March 26 th 1729
Dear Sir
Since my Last to you of y? 14 th of Jan ry I have been to
the Eastward as far as Kennebeck River w ch is about 150
Miles from this Town ; in my way I went thro' the greatest
part of the Massachusetts Gover mt on this side the River
Merrimack, and from thence cross'd over into New Hamp-
shire as far as Piscataqua River, w ch is divided at y e Top into
5 Large Branches all w ch I went round and then rid thro all
y e woods in the Townships of Exeter, Nottingham, Chester
and Dover, and from thence cross'd over the great Salmon
Falls w ch divides New Hampshire from y e Province of Maine
on y? other side I entered the Township of Berwick in y*
County of York, and Rid all thro' y e woods to Cascoe Bay,
and from thence to Kennebeck in the whole I travell'd above
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800 Miles the most part of it up to the Horses Belly in Snow.
M? Haley has given you an Acco* by the Last Ship in my
absence that M r . Slade and I had Seiz'd 200 Large Trees in
New Hampshire, w ch I since Libell'd and they were Con-
demned ( no body appearing to claim them ) for the Kings
use : they were at that time so cover'd with Snow y* we
cou'd not examine them, but Since y* we have ; and there
was 60 of them veiy fine and sound from 26 to 33 inches
Diameter ; but while I was down at Cascoe the Country fel-
lows cut 40 of them into Loggs and carry'd them away, this
provok'd me so much that I went again to all their Saw Mills
w c . h are above a hundred in Number, where, and in the Woods
adjacent I seiz'd 1300 Loggs Some of which are 40 Inches
Diameter, and 280 fine white Pines w ch are not as yet cut
into Loggs ; I left M? Slade at Piscataqua to Libell them,
and they were to be tryed yesterday, but I have had no ace 1
of y? Success as yett. the greatest Difficulty y* I apprehend
we shall meet with will be in y e Province of Maine, where
the people are ( by y e instigation of one M? Elisha Cook of
y e Town who has a large interest there ) of opinion that the
King has no Right in y* Province ; however, I have seiz'd
94 Loggs in the Township of Berwick w c ? will be enough to
try the Title and then I shall be better able to tell you what
we may expect to do there, it would grieve you to see what
Distraction has been made in the Woods, there is Scarse a
Tree Standing anywhere within 6 or 7 miles, of the waterside
between this and Kennebeck that is worth hailing to the
Bank ; Coll? Westbrook who is Agent here for the Contractor
is forced to go 9 or 10 miles into the Woods for Masts, for
the carriage of which he is at a great Expence every year, in
Cutting Stay Roads thro* the Woods to the water side, he
has got very near as many Trees fit for Masts Yards and
Bow Sprits, as will load 2 Ships, but they not being as yet
Squared he cant tell what Dimentions some of them will be
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of. I have hired a Man to look after 20 very fine Trees y*
are Left of those y* were condemned w c ? I beg to know your
orders about ; in my opinion the Contractor should be Obliged
to take them from y? King at a reasonable price, otherways
it will not answer the Expence of trying them ; for by Order
of the Court of Admiralty here some of the Refuse of these
that were condemn'd were put up to pujblick Sale in order to
pay y e fees of the Court, but no Body wou'd bid one farthing
for them, So that as yet I am at the whole expence of the
Tryall out of my own Pockett. There is a great deal of fine
white Oake in this Country, and some very good Ash, but
without the government think proper to make some further
provision for the preservation of it, we shall not be able to
prevent its being distroyed, I hope what we have done this
Winter will be approved of at home I am very sure we have
prevented the cutting down Sev 1 . 1 Thousand pounds worth of
Trees more than would pay our Sallaryes w c ? will never bear
y? charges of any Body in y? Office, that will do his Duty.
I have been forced to draw upon you for fifty pounds Sterl
w ch I must intreat you to advance for me, I shall go with
M* Haley, Hamilton and Oldershaw, in the very first Vessel
for Annapolis in obedience to our Instructions and will leave
M T . Slade here to look after the Woods in these parts, but it
will be near 2 Months before any Vessel goes that way, with-
out we Hire one on purpose, and the people here ask us
200< this Currency to Seffi) us down there. I have no more
to add but to beg of you to represent this where 'tis most
proper ; and be assur'd y* nothing shall be wanting on our
parts to fullfill y e trust reposed in us. I have shew'd the
directions for raising Hemp, and making Pitch and Tarr, to
a great many of the People here, but whilst they can cut the
Pine Trees, and Steal them away, w ch I hope we shall in a
great measure prevent by proper care next Winter, they
think it less labour to Logg, than do anything else, So that
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as yet they dont seem inclined to make y e Least Step that
way, but laugh at us for proposeing it to them, however, I
design as soon as y c Governour calls the Assembly together
to give in a Memorial to pass an Act upon that head, I shall
sett out tomorrow morning for the Narraganset Country
where I am told there is some very fine Timber, of w c . h you
shall have an Ace* pr next Ship M r . Slade and I have
Mark'd upwards of a Thousand Trees with the broad arrow
in New Hampshire, and the Province of Maine, all upwards
of 24 Inches Diameter, but sev! 1 of them grow 16 : 18 : or 20
miles from the heads of Rivers
I am Dear Sir Your most affectionate and
obed* humble Serv* Jer : Dummer
P. S. There is one Reason in my opinion Sufficient for lay-
ing a Restriction upon cutting of white Oak, and ash, which
is, that sev 1 . 1 of the Merchants in this Country send great
Quantityes of them every year to Spaine ; as they likewise
do small Masts under 24 Inches Diameter, w c . b I think care
shou'd be taken to prevent, and our Instructions dont
empower us to Seize them w c . b I hope is only an Omission in
them.
Directed to David D unbar.
Copy of a Grant from y e Council of Plymouth to John Beau-
champ and Thos. Leverett of a piece of Land in New Eng-
land to the North and North East of Penobscot River
containing tenn Leagues square paying only a
fifth part of all Q-old and Silver oar found therein
Recd.w Co 11 Dunbar's L r . of 9 : Octo r . 1729
To All to whom these Presents shall come greeting
Know Ye that the Councell established at Plimouth in the
County of Devon for the planting ruling ordering and gov-
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erning of New England in America for divers good Causes
& Considerations them thereunto especially moving Have
given granted bargained sold enfeoffed allotted & set over
and by these presents do duely and absolutely give grant
bargain sell alien enfeoffe allott assigne and Confirm unto
John Beauchampe of London Gentleman and Thomas Lever-
ett of Boston in the County of Lincolne Gentle? their Heirs
associates & assignes all & singular those Lands Tenements
& hereditaments whatsoever with the appurtenances thereof
in New Engl? aforesaid which are situate lying & being
within or between a place there commonly called or known
by the Name of Muscongus toward the south or south west &
a streight Line extending from thence directly Ten Leagues
up into the main Land and Continent thence towards the
great Sea commonly called the south sea & the uttmost
Limitts of the space of Ten Leagues on the north East of a
River in New Engl? aforesaid Commonly called Penobscott
towards the north & north East & the Great Sea commonly
called the Western Ocean towards the East and a streight
and direct Line extending from the most western part and
point of the said streight Line which extends from Muscongus
aforesaid towards the south Sea to the uttermost Northern
Limitts of the said ten Leagues on the north side of the said
River of Penobscott towards the west and all Lands Grounds
soiles Rivers Waters fishings hereditaments profitts Commod-
ities priviledges franchises and emoluments whatsoever
scituate lying & being arising hapening or renewing or which
shall arise happen or renue within the Limitts & bounds
aforesaid or any of them together with all Islands that lie and
be within the space of three miles of the said Lands &
premises or any of them To have & to hold all and singular
the said Lands Tenements & hereditaments & premises
whatsoever with the appurtenances & every part & parcel
thereof unto the said John Beauchampe and Thomas Leverett
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their heirs Associates & assignes for ever to their only proper
& absolute use & behoof of the said John Beauchampe &
Thomas Leverett their heirs Associates & Assigns for ever
more To be holden of the Kings most excellent Majesty his
heirs & Successors as of his Manner of East Greenwich by
ffealtie only and not in Capite nor by Knight 8 Service Yeild-
ing and Paying unto his Maj fc ? 8 heirs & Successors the fifth
part of all such oar of Gold and Silver as shall be gotten &
obtained in or upon the premises or any part thereof In Wit-
ness whereof the said Councell established at Plimouth in
the County of Devon for the planting ruling ordering and
Governing of New Engl? in America have hereunto put their
Common seal the thirteenth day of March in the fifth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of
God King of Engl? Scotland France and Ireland Defender of
the Faith &c Anno Domini 1629.
Thomas Ooram Esq to the Lords Commissioners for Trade
and Plantations.
May it please your Lordships
Pursuant to your late Comands Concerning That
Large Tract of Country laying Wast and uninhabited Between
the Province of Maine in New England, and Nova Scotia
Bounded by the River Kenebeck and the River S* Croix
Which said Tract of Country was given up without Resist-
ance, by the New Englanders of the Massachusets Bay, In
the Reign of K. William, Anno 1696, To the French who
annexed it to their Government of Nova Scotia, and it remaind
to them at the Treaty of Riswick and many years after the
Peace Concluded there, In which Time the Jesuits of Canada
built a great Church at Noridgwok near the River Kenebek
as a Standing Proof of the French Right and Possession of
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the said Tract of Country Which was Anno 1710 taken by
Conquest with Nova Scotia at the Crowns Expence with
British Forces sent from England under Gen 1 . 1 Nicholson for
that Purpose ; By her late Majesty Queen Anne, To Whome
the said Tract of Country together with Nova Scotia was
Surrenderd by Articles by Monsieur Subrecass, the French
Kings Governor there, as may fully appear as well by the
said Articles as by the said French Governors Commission
and the same was Confirmed to the Crowne of Great Britain
by the Peace of Eutrecht.
As your Lordships were pleased to Require my opinion In
what part would be most proper to begin to make Settlem! 8
in Case the King should think fitt to Settle Inhabitants on
the North East side of the River Penobscot towards Nova
Scotia and to leave that part of the said Tract on the south
west side of the said river Penobscot, Towards New England
to be Settled hereafter, or for some other purpose ; I must
here beg leave to say again as I have heretofore to your
Lordships on like occation, That I humbly conceive If any
part of the said Trust should be Sufferd to go under the
Government of the Massachusets, It would Infalabley be the
Destruction of the whole thereof, by the provoked Native
Indians there ( let whosoever Settle on any other part of
it ) they having in time past received so many Injurious
provakations by the Base & fraudelent practices of the Mas-
sachusets in making them drunk, then enticing them to Exe-
cute Deeds of Conveyance for large Quantities of their Land,
when they knew not the meaning of those Deeds, and other
base practices which has already been the Cause of Long
warrs, and of sheding the Blood of Many of His Majesties
Subjects, and those Insenced Indians will never whilst any
of their Blood remain be Truely reconciled to the Massachu-
sets, or any Els who shall Settle on the said Tract whilst
they have any pretensions to it or any part thereof.
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But if His Majesty will never the Less have Settlements
began on the North East side of the River Penobscot I hum-
bly Conceive the Nearer that River and the Bay befor it the
Better on many acc tts , More Especially for that Penobscot
Bay will between the River & the Sea, hold a good fleet of
Ships Comodeously, and I conceive it highly Necessary That
the said Tract of Country ( which is very valuable ) should
be Settled, planted and Peopled under His Majesties Govern-
ment, The same having laid Derelect a long Time by Default
of the New Englanders, Who after having given it up as
aforesaid, They absolutely neglected and Refused to be at
any Expence for regaining or resettling thereof altho pressd
to it very Strenously by the Governours, The Lord Bellemont
and Coll Dudley in the Reigns of King William and Queen
Anne, by their said Majesties Orders.
Wherefore it is not Improbable but that the French King
may Claime it as his Right, and soon take Possession thereof
as belonging to France, with as good pretence as he did the
Hand of Lucia a few years past when he Dispossessed His
Grace the D of Montegua of it, Which in Truth belongd to
the Crowne of Great Britain as fully & amply as I humbly
Conceive, To all intents & purposes, as the fore said Tract
of Country now laying Wast & uninhabited.
Moreover it would be vastly advantageous to the French
to do so, For that tho the River Penobscot has one or more
falls in it, it is Navigable for the Indian Cano* a vast way up
into the Country and within forty miles of the River Canada
at their Cheife City Quebeck, from whence they may easily
have Communication with France at all Times of the Year
by the Atlantick Osean at & near Penobscot in Case they
take Possession of the said Tract of Country, and might
thereby have Supplys from France all the year round Whereas
they cannot have it now but by the River Canada a little in
the latter part of the Summer not 1/4 part of the year, That
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River being Frozen up all tlieir Long Winters, and the Great
Freshes from out of the Great Lakes runing very Strongly
downe in the Spring & all the fore part of the Somer renders
the Navigation thereof Impracticable for Shiping. Wherefore
it would be Greatly for the French Intrest to have possession
of the said uninhabited Tract of Country. All which is most
humbly Submited to yoT Lordships by
My Lords Your Lordships Most Obedient & most
humble Serv* Thomas Coram
London 28*? Novem br 1729
To the R! Hon b . le The Lords Com for Trade & Plantations.
Petition of Robert Boyes and David Cargill.
To the Honourable Colon : Dunbar Esq*
The Humble Petition of Rob* Buoyes and David Cargill
In Behalf of one hundred and fivety families whereof
your Hon r ? Petitioners when you were in England were a
part
May it please y* Honour that whereas y* Honours Peti-
tioners have Design upon your Hon r ? Encouragement to go
and settle at that place Comonly called Penmaquid and
their being such a number of us we Pray that the Lands from
the old part of Penmaquid Extending three miles Westwards
and four miles Eastwards and so Equivalent to that Extend-
ing Backwards into the Countrey with the Islands adjacent
to It and y? Honours Petitioners will Settle it as soon as it
Can be laid out and y? Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall
Ever Pray &c
Robert Boyes
D. Cargill
Boston 8 b . r I? 1729.
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Colonel Dunbar to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and
Plantation
Boston, New England Octf 9 th 1729.
My Lords,
I Landed here the 23? of Last Month, since
which a great many hundred men of those who came lately
from Ireland as well as some English & Irish familys many
Years settled here, & likewise many Natives of this Country
who are uneasy under this form of Government, applyed to
me that they might Settle to the Eastward of Kennebeck
River, haveing heard from England that a New province
was Erected between the Rivers of Kennebeck & S* Croix
by the name of Georgia & under my Government, and as the
greatest part of those who lately came from Ireland had
removed themselves to Pensilvania upon the ill treatment
they received here, where a very Numerous Mobb threatend
and insulted them as foreigners, I have presumed upon your
Lordships Report to the Lords of the Council in favour of
this New Settlement to promise all those people that they
should have grants of Lands from 50 to a hundred Acres pr
head in Each family, paying one penny sterl g pr acre quit rent
to his Majesty after 10 Years, subject to one penny more when-
ever his Maj* y should demand it to defray the expence of the
Governm* this gave such general Satisfaction that I have
been exceedingly pressed to begin the settlement without
loss of tune, so that I goe hence by sea in 4 or 5 days with
about 250 Men, w*? their own armes, in behalf of themselves
and many other familys who will follow in the spring to
make a beginning at a place called pemequid ; as soon as they
have got a Covering they intend to clear land, make staves of
all sizes & cutt timber for small Vessels, all these they can
do in the frost & Snow, and as soon as the spring opens, they
will open grownd & putt in garden seeds, grain & a little
hemp each ; the soil has formerly been tryed & is very good,
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so that I hope within 18 months to send samples of hemp for
the Navy and to give a good account of the other produce of
the lands; I intend to call the first town S* Georges and
doubt not it will in some Measure deserve that Name I am
told there are 5 fathoms depth of water close to the Bank at
this intended Situation, w c . h will encourage trade and ship
building :
Several people have been Avith me claiming large tracts of
land in this province by virtue of Antient grants from King
James & K. Charles the first, and from the Council of Ply-
mouth, and some Indian titles among them Doct* Cook at
the head of a Company of Gentlemen & Merchants who call
themselves the Muscongos Company, the name of a river a
little to the Eastward of pemaquid, these Gent? shew a grant
from the Council of plymouth for thirty Miles square dated
in 1629, tho never improved, they had since another grant
under the late Duke of York (since K. James y 2 d ) but
they would not claim under it because it was a reservation of
one penny g acre chief rent, least the arrears should be
demanded ; I told them that y title to those lands had been
often changed since their first grant & that it was now abso-
lutely in the Crowne, but that his Majesty intended it should
be given to such of his good Subjects as would go upon y e
immediate Settlement & improvement thereof upon y e same
Considerations as before mentioned, w c . h they positively
refuse to accept or to allow any consideration or acknowl-
edgement to the King th6 ever so small ; Doctor Cook sayd
they were in possession and would see who w? dispute it, for
his part he would as soon go to law with the King as any
private man, his character is so well known at the Council
Board, & Board of Trade, that I need not dwell upon it but
can't omit saying that he is here at the Head of the Obstinate
faction who oppose all the Kings Measures, and was lately
the instrument of procureing their Memorable act against
dwelling to putt all upon a level, so that a man is lyable to
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comon affronts to wear a sword or to be distinguished like a
Gentleman, for by that Act, to draw a sword upon any pre-
tence, without reserve, y e punishm* is no less than to be
drawn in a cart with a rope round ones neck to y e gallows &
there to sitt upon it 12 hours they have been remarkably
insolent since this law, & if their Acts are thought worthy o|
consideration at home I should hope this one might be
returned repealed w* h resentment, it would Mortify theme
extreamly and they richly deserve it.
to the Eastward of Pemaquid a few miles, there is a fine
Navigable river called shepscott, where two different setts of
people claime large tracts, one sett are 50 in Number the
other 32, they have the like old titles, but upon my telling
them as I did the first Company, they seem very well pleased
and are resolved to settle 2 towns compact, & to improve
each of them small tracts contiguous to the towns, some few
of them are of the stiff neckd generation here, and talk like
their Oracle D r . Cook.
It is very probable that from the Doc" party there may go
orders for application at home in behalf of their claim w c . h
contains more than halfe a million of acres, it is impossible
they can say anymore of me than what I Have here owned
to w c . h I added that any man y* has made any improvements
or cleard ground should have such included in their grant
provided they would goe upon the immediate Settlement. I
could wish that this famous Doct? could be stigmatized in
being particularly excepted from haveing any part or grant.
there are some small tribes of Indians near these intended
Settlements, who will expect some presents as those near
New York, a small Matter w* h the good usage I will allways
give them, will keep them in peace & friendship and this
with a few guns, small armes & amunition is all the Expence
I w? propose to the publique.
I Have received much Civility since my landing here, but
it has been I have observed generally from such as are well
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affected to his Majesty & heartily wish for a thorough reforme
in this Government by Act of Parliament, I sayd they might
w*! 1 reason expect it if it could not be done by y e comon
course of Law, and I added, for Joke sake, y* I did not doubt
but a Governour would be sent over in the Spring w* h a Com-
mission for a Kingly Governm* and a Charter of incorpora-
tion for this great towne, with Blanks to name a Mayor
Aldermen & Recorder in lieu of their boasted Charter, this
gave great pleasure, and one of the Gentlemen saying he
would give a great deal to see that joyfull day took a guinea
from me to give me 30 when he should be in that Number
this may be made a usefull Collony to England if it be
brought under a good regulation & in my humble Opinion it
is high time, it is very populous & y? people generally deem
themselves independent, as is their religion for they hate the
Church of England & presbiterians alike, and are a selfish
dogmatical people ; the town or Citty of New York is not
near so large as this ; & has a Charter w*? a Mayor &c. but
if his Majesty should be advised to give one to this town I
should humbly propose y* it be not too- Extensive at first,
but putt y? people upon their good behaviour to deserve
further favour in another.
the Church of England labours under some discouragen 1 ?
here there being no allowance but to one Clergyman, and
there are 2 Churches, but the clergy depending on y? Cour-
tesy of the people w c . h is very precarious; th6 these 2
Churches are large they are not well filled, and I am
informed that wherever churches have been built, people
have allways resorted ; this Continent may deserve a Bishop
resideing, his Residence may be in Georgia, where provision
may be made for him out of the quit rents & reserved penny
g acre. I am firmly persuaded y? a good man who would
take pains this way & encourage schools might in time work
a reformation among these independents, I could wish that
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Dean Berkeley's Colledge may go on, & that Georgia might
be thought a proper place for it.
It will be Spring before I can have any answer to this let-
ter and by that time I shall have a thousand familys settled
at pemaquid and Shepscott; upon Kennebeck up some
leagues there is a large forest of fine masts, w c . h will be part
of what I am to reserve for his Majesty, My Deputys are out
upon their duty, in y? Spring I shall send 2 of them to Nova
Scotia, and to Anapolis and one to Canso to Execute my
instructions, by y* time I hope to have the order for y e 40
men from Coll? Philips's Regim* sent me to cover y e Sur-
veyors in their duty.
before I conclude I beg leave to offer to Your Lordships
consideration whether as this New Colony is proposed to be
planted at little or no expence to the Crown, & to be wholy
governed by the laws of England until they are permitted to
form a Council & Assembly as in other provinces they may
not deserve the indulgence of a free trade for their own use
& consumption for 7 years, this would be noe small encour-
agement, & dureing my time I will take care such indulgence
shall not be Abused.
I am now afraid to be thought too impertinent and tead-
ious, & in matters y* do not belong to me, if any thing I
Have sayd may be of use it will be a vast pleasure to me, or
if any part of it can be induceing to give me discretionary
power in going on w* h the New Settlement where particular
instructions cannot be thought on, my best Endeavours shall
not be wanting, if I dare promise that the fruits of it shall
soon appear, particularly in Naval stores to the advantage of
England.
I am with great duty, My Lords, Your Lordships Most
Humble & Obed* Servant,
David Dunbar
Lords Com r ? for Trade &c.
& Read Novem* 20 th 1729.
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The Claims of Christopher Toppan to Lands in the Eastern
Country.
The Claims of Christopher Toppan to Lands at Munsneegs
Bay Lying on Munsneegs Great River and Little River, &
at Sheepscott, and at Damasscotty.
Att Munsneegs up the River as farr as Consegon, and four
miles due North from y? main River with the Priviledges of
both Rivers
At Sheepscott, all the Great Neck to Conefixit beginning next
Will Cole, and so up to Conefixit falls, with five miles in
length of the Great Neck as high as Wincittico falls and
thence down the River to the house where dwelt Elizabeth
Ghent.
At Damasscotty, on the west side of y? River from the fresh
falls over to Conefixit River and three Leagues upwards
above s? falls and downwards on the River to the house
where Walter Phillips first dwelt.
on the East side of the River 500 acres on the fresh falls
and all the Land thence extending upwards to the head of
the fresh pond or one branch thereof, and six miles in
breadth.
down the River next to one Kimbolt six miles in length,
and six in breadth.
Rec & Read Novem? 120 th 1729.
America and West Indies.
John Gyles to Colonel Dunbar.
May it Pleas your honour.
On y? furst Currant wenogenet y? Chief of y* Penobscot
tribe & other Princable Indians Gave me a Visett, & daily
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Messuages from y e Chief Viliag & a recent Party, & I Reherst
sum part of your honour's Letter to them, & assured them
y* I had itt from your mouth, y* you did not propose to
Plant further then S* Georges River at Present, only ye
timber for Mast &c as far as Pasmaquady which King
George had mead a Returne for his Vse in all this Continent,
& I expected if they knew of any Particuler trees to Give me
an account of them, which they promised to do, and at ye
Rehersing your Letter & what you say y? Indians Seem to
Look with new faces, they being Informed before (as I Per-
ceive ) by sum whitts & others that your Enimies to y?
Planning these Parts, have Informed ye Indians that your
honour was com to hinther them of all their Privileges to
Pasmaquady &c.
My humble Opinion is y* your honour & others y^ are
well wishers to ye settling this Continant w*? a Protistant
People, will meet with sum opposers, it is a Great work your
honour has Vndertaken ( but God is all sufficient ) and arrears
Look w'! 1 a faier Prospect for Settlements & I shall as I have
at all times Dun Vse ye Little Influance I have on ye Indians
to Passifie & Deliver to them ye truthes, & to promote ye
Planning of those Parts in what I may.
I am your honours very humble Ser*
John Gyles
S* Georges River No! 14: 1729
The Chiefs of the Indians of Penobscot to Col. Dunbar
St. Georges Nor 14 : 1729
Great
Sir we heard your Lettar, it was Red and Inter-
preted to Vs by Cap* n Gyles & we Like it well & we hear
you ar Planted at Pemaquid, it was Vnknown to Vs but
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since you ar Settling ye old Settlements that was formaly we
Consent to it, and not to Excead ye old boundarys of Pem-
aqu? we are well Plesd to hear of your Observing the
articles of Peace made between Vs & y? Province of ye
Masachussetts Bay.
Good frind you say you ar Imploid by his
Maj* y King George, if you Pass S* Georges River we shall
be Vnasy we mention this to you Bleiving you are Imploid
from his Maj* y & that you will be our frind
We say no more at Present & what we have
s? is from our hearts, & what we concluded on at our Chief
Village at Penobscot, and if any Pass S* Georges River to
Plant we shall not thinke them to be our frinds,
We salute you Col. Dunbar
g John Gyles Interpreter
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In the House of Representatives Sep r 26 th 1729
The within Petition Read and Ordered that the same be
Revived and Referred to the Consideration of the Next ses-
sion of this Court and that the Petitioners serve the select
men of said Town of Falmouth with a Copy thereof thirty
days before the Second Tuesday of said session that they then
shew cause why the prayer of the Petition should not be
granted.
Sent up for Concurrence
J Quincy Sp kr
In Council Sept. 26. 1729
Read & Concur'd
J Willard Secry
Consented to.
W m Dummer
In the House of Represent 68 July 3, 1730.
Read and referred for further Consideration to the
Second Tuesday of the next sitting of this Court.
Sent up for Concurrence
J Quincy Sp kr
Lieut. Grov. Wentworth to the Lords Commissioners for Trade
and Plantations.
Portsm? N. England Nov. 15 th 1729
May it please your Lordships
The following is a Coppy of my last w c . h I hope
came safe to your hands, This serves to inclose the Minuts
of Council & General Assembly in our late Governour Bur-
nett's time to the 15 th of May 1729. with the Expence of
Gun powder and the remaining Stores for Fort William &
Mary at Newcastle the of May 1729, I am still Complaining
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 449
for want of Stores, our stock being very small, I yet live in
hopes a good peice with Spain &c will give us Some, I hope
our Agent M? Newman will apply himself properly to the
Ministry at home.
I have the Hon* of your Lordships Letters of the 28 th May
Signed by M T . Secretary Popple w*? advice of the rec" of
my Several Letters and Papers therein inclosed, shall do
everything in my power to assist Coll Dunbar Surveyer of
his Maj ta . Woods, I have had two Letters from him, tho not
as yet seen him, he being gone to y e Eastward, and Sett
down at a place called Pennequid, where we formerly had a
strong Fortification, but the Country to save Charges gave
the Command of the Fort to a Scrub fellow, who in the late
War (ab! the year 1702) had for Some years been Sargent,
& a French Man of War of 40 gunns Engaging vith s? Fort
took it & Demolished it, and I veil Remember the Reason
why it was not rebuilt was, The Massachusetts suppos'd it
belonged to the Crown of Great Brittain. So it was layn
wast ever since.
I very well approve of Coll Dunbar settling first at Pen-
nequid, & Rebuilding that Fort, it may be means of keeping
the Indians at peace & thereby giving him an Opportunity
of Settling downward as he sees fitt. This Land Ten Miles
or more up the river is fine Land & Good Harbour. I hear
Coll Dunbar is very Expeditious, and in case the Season
proves moderate, he will soon be Strong Enough to Defend
himself from the Indians, its a very fine Country down as far
as Mount Desert, on the bay of Funda, and provided the ^
Coll Settle Strong on that Coast, The Indians in a few years
will be obliged to quitt that Country, or come into their Liv- /
ing as the English do, for the Settlements will drive all the *
Hunting far from them, and I don't know but a just Treat-
ment of them in all our Trade will bring them to be our
friends.
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I hope Coll Dunbar's coming, and alteration of former
Act, may pritty well answer, in Case the officers do their duty,
there has been no Complaint as yet, I have by Coll Dunbar's
desire issued forth Proclamation forbiding all persons going
into the woods to fell any Pine trees until further orders.
The officers have been diligent Since their Arrival, & I
hope things will be founded on a better footing than before,
& if I should at any time See any mismanagement in respect
to the woods, if I can't prevent it, I shall alwayes think it
my Duty to acquaint your Lordships therewith, with my
most Dutifull Respects I conclude
May it please your Lordships, your Lordships Most obed* &
Humb Serv*
Jno Wentworth.
Reced Jan r * 29 th 1729/30: Read June the 9* h 1731
Lieutenant Grov r . Dummer to Colonel Dunbar
& Copy of a Letter dated Dec? 3? 1729 to the
Honb le David Dunbar Esq?
S r
Having some time Since Shewed you a Clause in His
Majestys Commission for the Governement of this Province,
whereof I have at present the Honour to be Commander in
Chief, wherein the Lands lying between the Territory of
Nova Scotia and the Province of Main are expresly mentioned
and Included ; and having then & lately at your own House
desir'd you to shew me if you had any later Commission or
authority for the Governm* of that Country from His Maj ty
that I might duly conform my Self to His Maj^ 8 Pleasure,
you were pleas'd to assure me that you would in two or three
Days give me entire Satisfaction therein ; and since you have
lately had an Interview with the Eastern Indians, and have
been building the Fort at Pemmaquid, I find my Self obliged
THE STATE OF MAINE 451
to remind you thereof, that His Maj 1 ? Service, especially
relating to the Indians inhabitating there, may meet with no
Obstruction or Detriment.
And I am &c.
( Signed ) Will"? Dummer
E: N. England. N. Scotia
Copy of a Letter from Lieu* G-ov r . Dummer to Col. Dun-
bar. Dat. 3* December 1729.
Rec* Read Q* Septem* 1730
Colonel Dunbar to Gov r . Dummer
Boston Dec? 4*! 1 1729,
Sir
In answer to your letter w c ? I had y? Honour to receive
this Morning I beg leave to acquaint you that when it was
proposed to his Majesty to settle y? lands you mention,
between the province of Maine and the Territory of Nova
Scotia, all y e lands to y e Eastward of the River of Kenne-
beck were deemed to be Nova Scotia & were included in
M* Philips's Commission as Governour of that Province, &
was for Many years in the possession of the French King,
until given up to England upon the peace made, Anno 1712 ;
Moreover when his Majesty was pleased to Constitute me
Surveyor General of the Lands of Nova Scotia (w c . h Conris-
sion I shewed you ) I desired to be informed at the Board of
Trade of y? bounds of that Province, and was given to under-
stand that it extended from Kennebeck River Eastward ; if
any part of it had been looked upon to belong to this Gov-
erning I should have had no power over it as Surveyor of the
lands, because there is a Surveyor to every Government.
I Desire farther to Acquaint You that when his Maj ty in
Council was pleased to referr the Consideration of y? Set-
tlem* of this new Collony to the Lords Commissioners for
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Trade and Plantations, their Lordships ( who are not asett of
broken Merchants as some people have taken the liberty to
say, but Men of Quallity character & fortune, & members of
either House of Parliament ) in their Report were pleased to
say That the Tract of Land extending from the River Ken-
nebeck to the River S* Croix, should be Separated from the
Goverment of Nova Scotia, and erected into a New province
by the name of Georgia, and that a district Government be
Established there.
In the Instructions given me and signed with y? Kings
Own hand & Countersigned by the Lords Commissioners of
y? Treasury as Surveyor Gen 1 . 1 of the Woods I was directed
to Survey and lay aside not less than two hundred thousand
acres of land bearing Timber in the province of Nova Scotia
as Contiguous as may be to the Sea Coast or Navigable River
to be reserved as a Nursery of trees for the use of the Royal
Navy. And in the Report before mentioned, the Lords
Commissioners for Trade say that as this new Governmen* is
near one Moyety of the province of Nova Scotia, I am ( by
name) to lay out One hundred thousand of the said two
hundred thousand acres in this New province.
This Sir, are the express words as I quote them & are
Sufficient for me that the Masachusets province have no
jurisdiction beyond, or to the Eastward of Kenebeck, if any,
their complaint at home against me will be heard, but I can't
help observing y? motive for demanding my power Viz* that
I have been rebuilding a Fort at Pemaquid ; that ffort, Sir,
was destroyed 33 years agoe by the french and Indians, &
has layn in rubbish ever since, notwithstanding the repeated
Orders from England to this Government to rebuild it, until
it was included in Governour Philips's Comission which is
now devided as before ; it will be thought not a little extraor-
dinery at Court That any Servant of his Majesty should be
found fault with for rebuilding the Kings Fortifications by a
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 453
people who have often disobeyed Orders for soe doeing, it
looks like y e dog in y? Manger ( I beg pardon for the Com-
parison ) that would not let the Horse eat hay or eat it him-
self, I could have wished That yt objection against me had
been made by some body else, it would have looked more of
a peice with disowning the Fortress in this Harbour to belong
to his Majesty, when in some- late proceedings the words =
His Majestys fort, were left out, and onely called Castle
William.
I am in Hopes Matters will suddainly be put upon a New
footing here, being persuaded that his Majesty thinks it high
time to exert his Sovereignty where many are so audacious
as to disown it ( of which I can prove some instances ) &
make this a happy Collony in despight of them.
I would have Acquainted with what is herein related by
word of Mouth, & have shewn you the proper papers, but I
waited to have it demanded in writeing, that there should be
no mistake in what Might pass thereupon, & y? rather because
I heard it was intended by the assembly or House of Repre-
sentatives of this Province.
If what I have sayd, be not satisfactory you'l pleas to Sig-
nyfy any orders to me, which I will obey so far as I can be
justifyed thereby I am with respect, Sir,
Your most Humble & most Obedient Servant
David Dunbar
E: Boston Dec. If* 1729
Colonel Dunbar to M r . Secretary Popple,
Boston December y? 10* h 1729
Sir
Since my last about the middle of October directed to
the Lords Commissioners for Trade & plantations I have
been thro the provinces of New Hampshire & Main and am
glad to tell their Lordships that the publishing the new Act
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of Parlimen* seems already to have a good Effect upon the
Generality of the Loggers, who applyed to me in Numbers
to know whether they might cutt trees of any dimensions,
because there is a penalty for all trees of 12 inches diameter
& under, which includes all without any exception ; but as I
humbly Conceived it was not so intended, I have ventured
for this winter to indulge them so far as by the inclosed
Copy of what I have published, I consulted the Governours
of this Province & Main & of New Hampshire, who sayd the
the liberty given hereby was sufficient, & M* Slade, one of
my Deputys, who was bred in the Kings Yards, told me that
his Majesty could not be prejudiced thereby ; the winter is
yet open and as long as it continues soe there will be no
working in the Woods, I beg Sir, to have y e opinion of my
Lords Commissioners thereupon, & whether I may continue
the same from Year to Year. Notwithstanding this, there is
yet a sett of people who neither regard acts of Parliment or
any prosecutions upon them, the famous Incendiary Doctor
Cook, proclaims in the province of Main that the King has
no right there, he has built Saw Mills in the heart of y e Mast
trees one of which will saw eight thousand feet of boards in
24 hours, he says they are upon his private property, &
should a tryal be comenced against him, the people he
imploys would be his Jury, however, I am resolved to see
what they will do in that case.
the Agent for the Contractor for Masts &c. for the Royal
Navy has also lately built 4 saw Mills but pretends they are
upon his private property, w ch was a new acquisition on pur-
pose under his Lycence for cutting trees to supply his Mills ;
of this I have given a full account to the Lords of the
Admiralty, as the contract is more immediately under their
Lordships Cognizance.
I have been in several parts of the new Province of
Georgia and have began to settle the people who last year
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 455
petitioned his Matie from hence for leave to settle to y e
Eastward of Kennebeck River, most part of that Country is
claimed by people of this Province under old grants from the
Council of Plymouth hi 1629 and Indian deeds of later dates,
some for 30 miles square and for y e consideration of a few
skins, I told all these claimants that it was judged hi Eng-
land that the property to all those lands, w ch are included in
Nova Scotia, was intirely in the Crowne, and that his Majesty
being now desireous to have them settled, improved, & made
useful to England would give them to such of his good sub-
jects as would goe upon the immediate settlem* thereof,
reserveing only one penny sterl g g acre quit rent, many
seemed thankfully willing to accept the Kings favour, but
Dr. Cook and others of his turbulent kidny refused to pay
any the least Acknowledgement to his Majesty, of this I
believe in my former letter I gave an Account & of the
answer I gave to all, Viz* That until I should receive farther
instructions I would not concern myself with any lands thus
claimed, and Since there are so many of them that if they
are allowed, the King will have no more there than here, &
the Country as hitherto may lye for Ever a wilderness.
I made choice to plant the people I carried w th me at Pem-
aquid about 7 Leagues to the Eastward of Kennebeck River,
there was formerly a stone fort at that place but destroyed by
the French before the peace of Reswick, I rais'd a dry stone
wall upon the old foundation, & built barracks w th in side for
200 people, as soon as that was done I hoisted the Union
fflag under discharge of a few ship guns & 3 vollies of small
armes, and with all the people drank to his Majesty's health,
the Entrance into this Harbour is easy and open & very safe
anchoridge within, it was formerly much frequented by fish-
ing vessels, but since y e demolition of y e ffort, they have not
gone there fearing the Indians, whenever it is rebuilt, it will
be of great advantage to the shipping who trade hither, and
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instead of being blown from off this Coast in Winters as often
happens, they can put in there & ley safe until a favourable
opportunity to put to sea again, when in a little more than
one day they may reach Boston ; the land contiguous to it is
good but covered with small Spruce ; some Oak and brick,
the people are this winter employ' d in clearing the land for
gardens, pasture & corn. I have ordered a few acres to be
prepared for hemp which I intend to putt into the ground in
Aprill if the seed I now write for arrives in time, there is
very little of that useful Commodity raised in this Country
to y e Eternal shame of the Inhabitants, who are the worst at
improvements of any people in y e world, even their bread
corn comes from other provinces, & the pitch and tarr w c *
they export, is first imported from the 2 Carolinas.
I did intend to have honoured the first Settlem* with the
name of S* Georges, but there being a fine River by that
name 10 leagues to y e Eastw? of Pemaquid I have called it
ffredericksburg, I am afraid it may be thought I have been
too forward & have gone beyond my power ; here I found
such a spirit and Earnest desire in many people to make the
settlement, that to have delay'd it would have baulked it, this
I humbly hope will plead my Excuse.
within this New Province are many forests of large white
pine trees, so that the Royal Navy can never want a supply,
but even the lands whereon they stand are claimed with all
trees, woods, and a hundred et cetera's, as I have seen in
long lawyers deeds, if such are allowed' his Majesty has done
there, it may lye waste for ever, but if one common answer
is given to all & that the sole property is in the Crowne, I
dare answer that the Province of Georgia will soon recom-
mend itselfe to the Royal favour, & rival its Neighbours, in
y e Spring a Great Many hundred familys of substance and
the best of the fishermen of this Country will go thither if
not Countermanded, the Scituation was designed by Nature
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 457
for the fish trade, y e fish being taken now in great abundance
near y e shore, and made & cured in better time, is preferable
at Market to fish brought farther to the shore.
It gives me great concern to hear by letters from England of
the 3 d of October that M? Hinty was not then set out for
Germany to Conduct y e Pallatins I hope he did soon after
because I would willingly have them before I am to meet the
Indian Tribes in May or June next, not y 1 Numbers of peo-
ple will be wanting, but I am persuaded y? pallatises will be
very usefull : I Have wrote a very long Miscellany to His
Grace the Duke of Newcastle w c . h I believe will in course be
referred to y e Board of Trade, in it I have mentioned of
w* importance the Scituation of Pemaquid was for many
years thought to be in England, when from the year 1702,
the rebuilding of it has been strenuously recommended from
Court, without any regard had by the People of this province
to Royal letters and instructions relateing thereunto, & so
far are they at this time from shame or remorse on that
account, that they have even now printed an Abstract of all
their proceedings upon that Subject, and their obstinate
withstanding fixing the Governours sallary in so many years,
it has so hardened them that they are now firmly of Opinion
that if the Legislature at home could have touched their
charter, so many letters would not have been sent from
Court, I send you one of these New books for y e perusal of
my Lords Commissioners, and after dipping into a few pages
their Lordships will be much Surprised at a dispute between
the Governour & me for my rebuilding ( as he calls it ) that
ffort ; I have sent 2 of his Original letters & Copyg of my
answers to him to my Lord Duke of Newcastle, I intended
sending Copys to You but am prevented that as well as
erilargeing my letter (th6 I fear in the latter I am easily
pardond ) but that the Sarah Gaily, Cap* Irwyn, sails hence
sooner than I expected, so y* if M* Dummer writes to the
Board before their Lordships see my letter to my Lord Duke,
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I beg the favour not to be judged until his Originals and my
Answers appear.
I will not longer trouble you at this time but to desire you
will please to lay all this before their Lordships with my most
humble duty, & to beg that in any references to them relate-
ing to this New Settlement they will think a few small armes,
artillery & Amunition Necessary to y? undertaking in hand.
I am with respect Your Most Humble & Most Obed* Servant
David Dunbar
P. S. He has not time to send y e same account as he did to
y e D. of Newcastle ab? y? Indians. I intended sending
the same ace* as in my Lord Dukes Letter of my interview
with the Indians but for a Surprize in time, y? ship sailing
sooner than expected, & haveing no help nor hand but my
own, w? b puts me to some hardship.
Sir,
Since finishing my letter I am informed there has been a
meeting of Several of the claimants in Georgia and mony
raised by Subscription to imploy Agents in England to
Sollicit a Confirmation of their claims, some of them are for
whole Islands, 10 or 15 miles in length, where chiefly are the
forests of Masts, in short all the lands that are Valluable are
claimed by one or another, and now there is an appearance
of makeing settlements, those people would hinder them, who
from the beginning never made any themselves.
D. D.
Reed Janry 30 th 1729/30
Read May the 6^ 1730.
Colonel Dunbar to the Duke of Newcastle.
Boston, New England, Dec? 10* b 1729.
My Lord
Since I has the Honour of writeing last to y r Grace
I have been as far as Pemaquid in the New intended
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province of Georgia having Landed there y e 20 th of October
with about One Hundred men of those who last year sent
home a petition to his Majesty for leave to settle to the
Eastward of Kennebeck River, We made Hutts of Spruce
trees for our lodging : Pemaquid was formerly a Settlement
and there was a Stone fort built there about 50 yards Square,
with 2 Bastions, each Commanding or Covering 2 sides, that
Fort was taken and entirely demolished by the ffrench before
the Peace in 1697, and the whole Settlement destroyed ; I
imployed the men with me, to raise a dry stone wall upon
the old foundation to 9 feet high, and in building Barracks
w th in side, as soone as the Wells were finished I hoisted the
Union fflag under a discharge of 7 small ship guns w c . h I
carried with me & 3 Vollies of small armes & we all drank
to his Majestyes health, I called in at Piscatua in the
province of New Hampshire, & at Winter Harbour & Casco
bay in the province of Main in my Voyage, at the latter I
went on board the New Hampshire Mast ship then ready to
sail to England for the use of the Royal Navy. So soon as I
raised the Walls of the old ffort and hoisted the Kings
Colours I called y e place Fredericksburg, I would have called
it St. Georges, but that there is a large navigable River already
of that name 10 leagues farther East ; Pemaquid was form-
erly a noted place it has a fine harbour & good entrance
immediately from the Sea, I find since my return hither y*
frequent orders have been sent from Court, since the year
1702, to the Government of the Massachusets province to
rebuild that fort w 1 ? 1 some additions, particularly in the Year
1705, when on the 24*? 1 of October in y* Year the Council
and Assembly addressed her late Majesty against rebuilding
it, it has frequently been recommended to them since, from
Court without any regard had thereunto, as may fully appear
from a book w c . h 1 herewith take the liberty to transmit to
y r Grace, the design of printing this book at this time is
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expressed in the first page ; and appears to me to keep the
same spirit in this people who do not, for the most part,
stand in need of such help ; it may be worth persual th6
hardly to be read with any temper ; there are 100 instances
of refuseing the recommendation of the Crown to fix a sallary
on the Governours.
I was ffollowed to Fredericksburg by two other Vessels
full of people, and every day y e sight of the Kings Colours
brought in fishing Sconners & boats, crossing the bay, to see
w* was the occasion of it, their joy was very great, many of
them haveing formerly known the Conveniency of shelter
there, it being near the fishing places & has not for many
years been frequented for fear of the Indians ; I had Visits
AJ-' from many of them at different times, and on the 12 of
November about 25 of them came in a body with the chiefs
of the tribes of Penobscot and Narihwack at their head, they
sent to acquaint me that they were near & desired to see me,
upon invitation they came and I received them with much
Civility. I told them I was come from the King of Engl? to
settle some of his Subjects there & to renew settlements
w c . h were began 100 years agoe they told me King George
was welcome & I was welcome. One of their old men asked
me how little King William did & explained himself, by
saying King George's little son, when I told he was very
well, he sayd they were glad of it, for they had heard from
Canada that King George gave their country to his little son,
I sayd his Majesty might do so, but it was not declared when
I left England ; they seemed extreamly well pleased to have
settlements near them where they may be supplied with
blankets and provisions hi exchange for their furrs w c . h they
often carry to Canada, about 200 miles by land When I
entertaind them all together ( for there's no distinction but
in War & Council between the king and any other) some
were merry, and One of the Sagamores ( w9 b is noble among
OF THE STATE OP MAINE 461
them ) sayd that the Land about Pemaquid was his, & he
would sell it to me for what I pleased to give him, I told
him I did not come here to buy Land, no body had aright to
sell any for it all belongd to the King My Master, & had for
many years, the man seemed satisfyed, laughed & sayd, then
King George was welcome, he freely gave it to him and
would lay no other claim to it, but to desire he might have
the liberty of comeing thither as his Occasions should
require, I sayd, he and all of them should be free at all times
to come and goe when they pleased without interruption,
Wynongonet ( w ch is the name of the King of the penobscot
tribe, awell looking man, more like a frenchman than an
Indian, seeming grave & reserved, I asked y e reason of it, he
answered that it was in great respect to me that he was so,
and when he was better acquainted, he would be as Merry as
I pleased, they stayed aweek with me in the day time, but
retired every Evening to their Camp or Wigwam's made with
boughs of trees, covered with birch bark, at a small distance
from the ffort, I always gave them provision with them ;
When they came to take leave, Wynongonet, told me they
had dispatched 2 Months before a Messenger to the french
Governour at Quebeck to know his Opinion of an English
Settlement among them, they believed he would be against
it, & would by the Jesuits, stir up the Canada Indians
against it, but as for himself & the Indians on the Sea Coast,
they desired to live in peace, and would do so & keep friend-
ship with the English as long as they were well used, they
never made War but to resent an affront or revenge ill treat-
ment, they sayd y* Governour Dummer wu a good man but
he had not power like the Governour of Canada to performe
what he promised, all they desired of me was to suffer them
to follow their hunting & fishing without Molestation, & to
keep truck houses where they might trade with their f urrs
w*? out being cheated, and they hoped I would give them some
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few presents & Commissions as the Gov? of Cannada does, 1
promised them y e liberty as they desired and that nobody
should be suffered to abuse or wrong any of them, I then
gave them a few laced Hatts, blankets, pipes, tobacco & a
little powder & small shot for their hunting, We parted on
very good terms, they were very thankfull and desired they
might meet me in their Tribes in May or June next, to come
to an understanding with each other.
They are a poor Miserable people in comparison with
others, haveing no settled habitations, & even their food
uncertain, their dress is frightfull and upon extraordinary
Occasions they make themselves hideous with red paint,
they clean their hands in their hair & make large holes thr6
their Ears in which they put scutts of hares, long feathers &
long tobacco pipes.
All the Expence I was at by them was w*?in thirty Seven
pounds sterl g which I do not mention with design to ask it,
a small Matter so bestowed may keep allways quiet, and so
prevent a large Expence & much trouble.
During my stay in Georgia I went up three of the great
Rivers w ch are Navigable for large ships 25 Miles into y e
Country, they are wide and deep but in most places rocky
shores, the Names of them are Johns River Damarescotty
River, & Shepscot River, they all lye between Kennebeck
and ffredricksburg, w. h is about 7 leagues in all, so that they
must be very near one another, the land is neither mountain-
ous nor level, but in Easy Hills, where a plough may goe,
all is covered with trees mostly spruce, but there are good
white pines and large Oaks, nobody y* had care of the Woods
on this Continent ever was in these parts before me, and
'tis pitty, for the people from this Province have made it a
practice for many years to send thither to make cannoos and
Shingles of the largest Mast trees & staves of Oak fitt for
ship building, leaving the crooked parts to rott on the
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ground ; as those rivers w*! 1 others are wide & long it will
be difficult to prevent this practice, my best endeavours shall
not be wanting, but really it will be impossible without a
small sloop & six men to attend me, I burnt in one of the
Rivers above 60 Cannoos made this Summer out of trees fitt
for large Masts, & a parcel of shingles, I just in time pre-
vented a tree of 39 inches, w* b y? bark, in diameter, and a
proportionable length, from being Cutt by a Shingle maker,
& have left two Deputations in those parts to guard y e woods
this winter : I Have accounts of fine forests of Masts in that
province, on y e East side up Kennebeck River, besides many
w? h I saw myself, so that His Majestys Royal Navy can
never be in danger of wanting Masts yards & bowspritts, tho
in my humble Opinion as all the land, at least one hundred
thousand acres best wooded & nearest navigable water, are
to be reserved as a Nursery for the Royal Navy in this
new province, the Masts there should be preserved until new
Hampshire & province of Main are exhausted, which w^ 1 care
may yet supply England for several years, alth6 vast destruc-
tion has been made among the woods, where many Saw Mills
are Erected to cutt them into plank & boards ; Here it may
not be improper for me to refer to an Original letter inclosed
from Coll? Wentworth Leiu* GovF of New Hampshire before
my voyage Eastward, my deputy s here have told me the
same before, and when I was at Casco the like was confirmed
to me Coll? Wentworth is a Gentleman well affected to his
Majesty, but being a Native here he may be prejudiced by
this kind information, should it be knowne.
Upon my returne hither I took occasion to speak to M*
Walove the Agent here for y e Contractor in England with
the Navy office, upon ' the subject of those saw Mills, his
answer was that he built them upon his private property and
was at liberty as other owners of Mills, I told him this pri-
vate property was not very new and that it did not look well,
because he, under the Lycence of cutting trees for the Kings
464 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
use might abuse that power, he insists upon it as his right to
use his Mills & I onely sayd I would represent it at home.
Since I have mentioned this claim of private property I
beg leave to add to what I sayd in my former letter to your
Grace of the claims & titles to Lands in Georgia, that soe
Many of the like Nature were made to me that if they are
allowed, his Majesty has none there. I have seen some pre-
tended Indian deeds of different dates wherein 30 miles
square were sold for 50 skins, & even several deeds to dif-
ferent people for the very same tracts of land, & many of
the Indians say that the people pretending to sell those lands
had no claim or right to them ; most of these claimants are
willing & thank full to take new titles or grants from his
Majesty as proposed at One penny stirl? quit rent g acre, and
would go upon the immediate Settlem* and improvement
of the Lands, but they desire 3, 4, 500 and some thousand
acres according to their familys and abilitys, w? h is more
than was proposed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade
and Plantations to be in one Grant, the spirit to make this
new Settlement is now so strong in these parts that if it be
not baulked, a more Considerable progress will be made in
3 or 4 years, than ever was in any Collony in 40 years,
and I flatter myselfe be more usefull to England than some
of its neighbouring plantations, the land is extraordinary
good in many places, and will produce grain as in England.
I have opened some acres in w c . h I intend to putt hemp
seed in Aprill next if the seed arrives in time w ch I now send
for, and I shall hope to send some of the produce next year
to the Navy for a sample & tryal, If the pallatines come soon
after, they are skilled in dressing it, & are good husbandmen
and artificers.
As it was proposed to make this Settlem* without expence
to his Majesty, everything in my power shall not be wanting,
but if it be thought expedient at home that the ffortifications
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 465
should be rebuilt, and that a few pioneers tools be sent me
from the Ordinance Office & any sum of Mony payd as the
Lords Commiss r fof Trade shall appoint, I will husband it to
y? best advantage, their Lordships will see what Fortifica-
tions were ordered at & near this place by her late Majesty
about the year 1705, the Guns w c . h were at Pemaquid when
taken by the ffrench were carried to S* Johns in y? bay of
Fundy afterwards to Annapolis, where I am credibly informed,
24 of them lay last year in the Earth, useless ; at this town of
Boston are a great number of Cannon, some of them well
mounted in a fort, entring this Harbour, but close to the
towne are 34 large iron guns ab* 30 to 34 hundred weight,
mostly buried in rubbish & useless, tho they are called y e North
& South Batterys, I mention these to save expence of sending
from home if his Majesty pleases to order them, and Carriages
may be made, costing onely workmanship. If those I mention
are ordered with a few smaller from home I will endeavour to
dispose them to the best advantage, & in expectation of it, I
have Ordered a great quantity of Lime to be burnt from a
vast ridge of Oyster shells near y e place and I shall have Oak
plank ready for the carriages, all w c . b may be devoted to
other purposes if what I propose be not approved, w ch I
most humbly beg to know as soon as May be. I am very
fearfull, My Lord, that I trespass too farr upon your Graces
time & patience but as I am at a great distance I hope to be
pardond for laying before you at Once what Occurs to me
relateing to this undertaking, there is one thing w c . b I men-
tion w th reluctancy and this is this new Country being in y c
state ag Nature left it, wild and unimproved, it will be some
time before corn and provisions will be plenty, there are
many able labouring men that will want bread until then if
not supplyed by some means, it has been proposed to me
y* if they could be supported that they would repay the
expence in Hemp the 3? 4 th & 5 th year. What I most
31
466 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
covet at present is a few Small armes and ammunition, I wish
I could have some before I meet the Indians in May next,
that y e people May appear in Armes, there are none to be
brought here so that I have not been able to leave about 80
guns or firelocks among all y? Men. If this Affair does
recommend itself I have not the assurance to hope for any
Consideration on my own Account. The Indians all along
this Continent haveing Jesuit Missionarys among them are
much influenced by the french Governour at Quebeck. I
Have been thinking that if a letter was asked from the french
Court to their Gov? at Cananda to command him not to stirr
up y? Indians against the English, it might easyly be obtaind
& would be of good Consequence to us, and if a Copy was
sent to me I could convey it thro ye Country to him.
Since my return to Boston M* Dummer the present Gov-
ernour has seemed highly dissatisfyed that I have been to
make any foundation for a Settlement in Georgia, saying
that all the lands as far as Nova Scotia is under the Gov-
ernm* of this province, he asked me if I had any Com? or
Authority for what I did there, I answered that in a few
days he sh? be satisfyed in that point, hoping I might have
received farther orders from home & not careing to shew
him the report of the Lords Comission*? for Trade relateing
thereunto, made y e 14* h of May last, if it had been known
that I had not an Absolute Comission it would have spoiled
y? undertaking ; What passed hereupon between M? Dum-
mer and me will best appear from his Original letters here-
w*. h sent to your Grace and my answers to them, the behav-
iour of Many of the people here has often ruffled me, some
do publiquely say his Majesty has no right to the Woods
here, others have asked me what right the King had to any
land here, & how he came by such right, some have claimed
by Indian titles so late as dated in 1719, & in their deeds
they have warrantees to defend the prossession against all
OF THE STATE OF MAINE 467
persons whatsoever, the people of this province now sitting
here in Council & Assembly are upon laying out a line of
towns before they have a new Governour, the upper & lower
Houses do not agree, y e former w l * the late Governour
haveing nominated an Attorny General, the latter lately
upon y annual day of Election insisted to have aright of
Nomination, w c . h the upper refuseing, it was Moved in the
House of Representatives by the famous D* Cook That
there should be an Order of the House to the Grand jury
to regard any indictement or presentment of the Attorny
General onely as Wast paper.
they are upon some Methods how to raise y e vallue of
their bills of Credit, w c . h are now so low as 20 8h pounce for
silver there is about 3 hund d thous? pounds of these bills
from this province, they were at parr at first & some people
who then lent out Mony to interest, if they were now
rep? principal & interest, would not get back one half of the
vallue of what they lost at first. It is wonderfull to see how
little this province has been improved, & chiefly occasioned
by too great Tracts of land in few hands, some haveing sev-
eral hundred thousand Acres & the improved lands sells
very dear, th whole y? is layd out into townships does not
yield 3 pence g acre one with Another. I have been think-
ing that if y? Charter here be declared voyd or forfeited by
Parliament, and in the new form of Go verm* all new stragling
towns excluded from sending Representatives, their Number
w? be diminished to one third, and those for the principal
towns, might be men of some Substance, whereas at pres-
ent to see such as are sent from the New towns looks like
Mockery, if then a small tax of one penny sterl 8 was proposed
to be raised upon all lands layd out into townships & granted
to private people g acre, to pay off the debt & cancel their
bills of Credit, many w? relinquish their remote grants not
yet improved ( w c . h would thereupon fall to his Majesty )
468 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
and remove nearer the Sea shore so that the Settlements
would be more compact, and y e lands much better improved,
I dare say some Millions of Acres would be disclaimed
rather than pay this trifle especially for lands remote.
this Province of Main, w c . h is annexed to the Masachusets,
is divided from it by y e province of New Hampshire, w c . h is
a distinct Governm* & a very small one, it would certainly
be more for the Ease of the people either that Main &
Hampshire, were annexed or New Hampshire to the Masa-
chusets & Main to Georgia, to w c . h it now joyns, onely Ken-
nebeck River between them.
I shall be excused for not entertaining your Grace longer
at this time, but must humbly beg it for what I have sayd
extra officio, it is My Zeal for his Majesty's Service w c . h
prompts me to do it, I am with all possible respect and duty
My Lord Your Graces Most Obedient & Most Humble
Servant
David Dunbar.
Lieu 1 . Crov r . Dummer to the Duke of Newcastle. Extract of a
Letter from Lieutenant Governor Dummer to his Grace
the Duke of Newcastle dated Boston December 26 th 1729.
Colonel Dunbar, His Majesty's Surveyor General of the
Woods in these Parts, having ( as I am informed, tho' not by
himself ) given your Grace the trouble of perusing the Let-
ters I lately wrote him, which were intended for His
Majesty's Service : I beg leave to inclose Copies of his Letters
as well as my own, & submit it to your Grace to determine,
whether I have proceeded agreeable to the Commission I
have the honour to sustain. I have endeavoured to cultivate
a good Understanding with Colonel Dunbar, that I might be
able to give him my best assistance, as there should be
OP THE STATE OP MAINE 469
occasion for it, in the Execution of his Majesty's Commands
relateing to the Preservation of the Pine Trees in this Pro-
vince ; and if I have not had the Success I wished for, I can-
not impute it to any neglect or want of Inclination in my
self. The principal occasion of my desiring to see his Com-
mission was, ( as is intimated in my first Letter ) on account
of the Indians inhabiting those Parts, who, as I was informed
by my Officers in the Forts there were under some Discon-
tents and Jealousys that the late Treaty made with them
might be infracted by new comers ; and it seems necessary
that the Indians should know to whom they were to apply
themselves for their Satisfaction therein. It may not be
amiss to put your Grace in mind, that His Majesty has a
Fort in that Country between Kennebeck & Nova Scotia,
where there is a Garrison of Soldiers supported at the Charge
of this Province, and a Trade carry'd on with the Indians
from thence, according to the Treaty made with them at
Casco, at some considerable Expence, any Interruption
whereof may be a great Detriment to His Majesty's Service.
Reced.
Read 2 d . Septf 1780.
INDEX.
Amarascogin ")
ABOMHOMEN, 95.
Acadia, a portion of sold to Tem-
ple, 16, 17; the rights of
England to, 16, 18, 20, 34; res-
toration of , 22, 87 ; the French
claim the right to fish on the
coast of, 34, 38, 104; former
boundary of, 47, 87, 177;
French and Indians demand
the whole of except Annapo-
lis, 294; the French will pre-
vent the English fishing on the
coast of, 294; mentioned, 21,
35, 96, 103.
Account of Penobscot, 25, 30.
Adamhegon, 386.
Addington, Isaac, letter of, 73, 74;
mentioned, 11, 33, 54, 95, 97,
104.
Address of Governor, Council and
Representatives of New Hamp-
shire, 54; of Lieutenant Gov-
ernor, Council and Represent-
atives of Massachusetts, 292,
296.
Adeawanadon, 95.
Affidavit, of March, James, 303.
Agemogen Reach, 238, 239, 240.
Ahanquil, 11.
Ahasombamet, 10.
Albany, 69, 88, 100, 108, 109, 157,
227, 234, 240, 241, 295, 328, 333,
336, 337, 339, 352, 364, 365, 371,
374, 376, 378, 381, 396.
County of, 42.
Alden, Capt. John, relations of, 57,
59, 60, 62, 67; attempted brib-
ery, 61, 62; interested in a
matrimonial affair, 61, 62; his
property, 61, 66; bargains of,
66; traded with St. Castine, 58.
Alexander, Sir William, Earl of
Sterling and Lord of Menstrie,
16, 17, 25, 26, 74, 75. <
Allen, , killed, 231.
Lieut., 162.
Mr., 150, 151.
Jeremiah, treasurer of the Prov-
ince, 147, 149, 389.
Amanequened, 386.
Amoscoggin
Amuscoggin
Falls, 327.
River, 327, 331, 333.
Amassakantic \ 01 QK
Amassakuntic / y ' *
Ammunition in trade, 1; lack of
ends a war, 1; needed, 3, 102;
wanted at Wells, 43; in the
towns, 64; at Nova Scotia
and Penobscot, 80, 81; to be
brought from Winter Harbor,
149; needed at Georgetown,
151 ; general need of in Maine,
152, 156, 221 ; sent to Spurwink,
212; of the Indians delivered,
349; for Fort William and
Mary, 448, 449; needed in the
Province of Georgia, 458, 465,
466.
Amoskeag, 277.
Anadahouitt, 408.
Anderson, -- , 191.
Andrews Point, 95.
Andros, Sir Edmund, 20.
Androscoggin, see under Amaras-
cogin.
Annapolis, 110, 123, 124, 125, 176,
219, 281, 323, 396, 430, 433, 444,
465; Fort at, 294.
Anne, Queen, 176, 437, 483.
Answer to the Earl of Limerick's
petition, 67.
Antiqua, 107, 112, 413.
Appleton, Col. John, instructions
to, 287; letter of, 290, 291.
Armourer, an, among the Indians,
91 ; detained at Falmouth, 195 ;
desired tools, 278; gunsmith
wanted at St. Georges, 366.
Armstrong, Lawrence, Lieut.-Gov.
of Nova Scotia, 321.
Robert, defence of, 166, 174; pe-
tition of, 302, 303; mentioned,
121, 126, 157, 158, 159, 167, 168.
Simon, killed, 212.
Arobree, a Jesuit, 408.
Arondall, 315; see Arundel.
Arresaguntecook ) 396 405>
Arresegontoogook /
Indians, 395, 406, 413, 417, 420.
Letter from the chief of, 400, 401.
472
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Arrowsic, 153, 165, 183, 185, 199,
200, 201, 204, 381, 403.
Garrison at, 290.
Island, 144.
River, 204.
Arsar, 405.
Arundel, 152, 182, 201, 315.
Ashhurst, Henry, 34, 72, 102.
Ash trees, 433, 434.
Aten, 466.
Attkinson, Theodore, 56, 123.
Autograph, see Marks.
Aver'll, Corp., 188.
Awansomeck, 11.
Awouch, 360.
Azores, the, 115.
BACON, LIEUT. , of Barnstable,
315, 316.
Mr. , Collector at Ports-
mouth, 167, 413.
Sir Edmund, 167.
John, letter of, 324, 325.
Dr. Solomon, 286, 324, 325, 329,
342.
Bamet, Kahton, 44.
Bancker, Evert, 334, 336, 337.
Bean i ' killed at Norridge-
BeenJ wock > 369
Lieut. , 202, 203, 209, 212,
215, 239, 249.
Mr. , 215.
Jeremiah, 120.
Jona., 191.
Capt. Joseph, 181, 182, 256, 257.
274, 309, 330, 331, 332, 401, 407.
Barbadoes, the, 112.
Barbekin Point, 47.
Barillen, 22; see also Brouillan.
Barington, Mr. , 142.
Barlow, Capt. , 265.
Barnes, Capt. , of Plymouth,
Barnstable, 324.
County, Indians enlisted from,
347.
Baronets of Nova Scotia, 75, 79.
Barony of La Tour, 75.
of St. Denniscourt, 75.
Barrillon, Mons. de, 38; see also
Brouillan.
Bass, 156.
Bassctt, David, 30, 31.
Bay Francois, same as Bay of
Fundy, 18.
Bay of Furtdy, 18, 449, 465.
Bay of Mexico, 69.
Bean, see under Bane.
Beauchamp, John, 434, 435, 436.
Beauharnois, Charles, Marquis de,
Governor of Canada, 371.
Beaver trade, 28, 113, 389, 398, 399,
402.
Belfast, Ireland, 106, 107.
Bell, Mr. , 304, 312.
Bellisle, Mons. , 300.
Bellomont, Earl of, letters of, 65,
67, 68, 71; mentioned, 36, 45,
52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 62, 85, 88,
90, 95, 97, 103, 175, 438.
Belts of Peace, see Wampum Belts.
Berkeley, Rev. George, 444.
Bermudas, the, 2.
Berwick, people of in garrison at,
152; Col. Westbrook to go to,
160, 185, 189; Oliver deserted
from, 161 ; garrison at not to
be lessened, 186; Lieut. Lane
sent to, 203; Capt. Harmons
company sent to, 204; men
logging near, 238; Ezek. Davis
arrived at, 284; men to be
drawn from, 304; men from
march to Falmouth, 310;
troops at dismissed, 312; sol-
diers to rendezvous at to equip,
320; Indians at, 331; men
ordered to, 333, 335; Col. West-
brook at, 349, 350; Col. Dum-
mer at, 431 ; logs seized at, 432 ;
mentioned, 161, 279, 287.
Betting, one guinea against thirty,
443.
Biddeford, 152, 279, 280, 328, 400.
Bills of Credit, 110, 261, 262, 263,
264, 265, 291, 413, 414, 467.
Blackcoats, 356.
Black Point, 193, 246, 259, 265, 273,
278, 290, 327, 332.
Blanchard, Capt., 350.
Lieut., 269, 271, 272.
Blankets in trade, 1.
Blathwayt, Wm., 57, 66, 87.
Blechynden, Chas., letter of, 142,
143.
Bleuker, Nicholas, 373.
Blockhouse at St. Georges River,
418; see also Garrisons.
Block Island, 123.
Bolam, Capt. , 168, 173.
Bomazeen, signed treaty, 11; his
squaw a prisoner, 215; his
squaw examined, 216.
Bondet, Mons. , 59.
Book, a, printed without licence,
105, 106.
INDEX
473
Bornoway, Mons.,see Beauharnois.
Boston, 2, 4, 20, 33, 37, 39, 41, 43,
45, 52, 54, 61, 62, 65, 67, 71, 76,
80, 81, 86, 92, 97, 99, 100, 102,
104, 108, 119, 125, 126, 128, 136,
149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 156,
163, 164, 166, 167, 175, 179, 180,
184, 189, 190, 192, 193, 195, 197,
198, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208,
213, 216, 217, 219, 224, 225, 227,
229, 230, 232, 237, 238, 240, 242,
254, 255, 262, 265, 266, 272, 275,
276, 281, 282, 283, 285, 291, 292,
296, 298, 300, 301, 306, 308, 311,
317, 322, 326, 329, 330, 335, 338,
339, 341, 342, 347, 349, 351, 352,
357, 358, 361, 362, 364, 365, 379,
381, 382, 385, 389, 393, 394, 399,
401, 402, 408, 418, 419, 431, 435,
439, 440, 451, 453, 456, 465, 466,
468.
Harbor, 144, 465.
North Battery, 465.
South Battery, 465.
Streets, 414.
Bounty for scalps, 230, 280, 283,
288.
Money, 267, 275.
Bourn, Capt. , 188, 196, 201,
225, 227, 232, 243, 266, 267, 273,
275, 276, 286, 288, 290, 297, 299,
300, 301, 302, 306, 307, 311, 324,
347.
Boyes, Robert, petition of, 439.
Brackett, Capt. Anthony, 424, 427.
Bradbury, Ensign, , 310.
Bradford, 190.
Peres, 423.
Bragdon, Lieut. , 349.
James, 392, 393.
Brandy, 158.
Bread Corn, 456.
Breddeane, James Jr., 341, 348.
Brenton, Jahleel, too long in
Europe, 71 ; surveyor of woods,
98.
Brick, 456.
Bridger, J., letters of, 119, 125, 126,
128, 129, 130, 134, 142; vote of
thanks to, 125; mentioned,
134, 172.
Brimhall, George, 424, 427. *
Bristol County, Mass., Indians of
joined the Provincial forces,
287, 306, and did garrison duty,
347.
England, servants imported
from, 107.
Brouillan, Jacques Francois cle,
Governor of Acadia, letter of,
96, 97; mentioned, 22, 28, 104.
Brown \ Sergt. , 187, 188, 199,
Browne / 201.
Lieut. Allison, letter of, 182;
mentioned, 233, 315, 316.
Benjamin, 33, 102.
Robert, of Plymouth, 212.
Brunswick, 108, 163, 327.
Buckminster, Lieut. , 147.
Bucknam, Samuel, 421, 423, 427.
Bullman, Dr. , 183, 184, 185,
217, 321.
Burinston, Mr. , deputy, 121,
126.
Burnet, Gov. William, letter of,
234, 235; mentioned, 336, 346.
423, 428, 430, 448.
Byfield, Col. Nathaniel, 87, 95, 102.
CABEC, 157.
Calais, 169.
Calef, Mr. - , 273.
Jos., 427.
Calendar, the, new style, 308, 309.
Camblette, 142.
Cambridge, goal, 297.
Came, Samuel, 191.
Canada, 3, 9, 21, 23, 44, 58, 65, 72,
75, 90, 91, 100, 108, 109, 113,
117, 144, 155, 156, 165, 215, 227,
233, 235, 236, 246, 247, 272, 293,
294, 328, 334, 336, 339, 341, 351,
352, 355, 356, 357, 360, 362, 365,
367, 368, 370, 371, 373, 375, 376,
378, 379, 380, 383, 386, 888, 391,
393, 895, 397, 399, 401, 404, 410,
413, 460, 461, 462, 466.
Indians, 402, 461.
Canady "I Capt. William, letter of,
Canedy / 240; mentioned, 244, 341,
350; see also Kanady.
Canebec, see Kennebec.
Cannawoses, the, 367, 375, 379,
383, 388.
Cannebick, see Kennebec.
Canso, 110, 160, 291, 444.
Cape Ann, 61.
Breton, 110, 113, 114, 117.
Cod, 122.
Elizabeth, 179.
La He>e, 83.
Neddick, 193.
Neger, 303; see also Negue.
Newagin, 49.
474
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Cape, continued.
Porpois, 179, 186, 212, 233, 266,
303.
Sable, 15, 18, 32, 365, 386, 405.
Sable Indians, 299, 405, 408.
Seples, 386.
Capon, - , not an envoy but a
comissary, 176.
Captives, given to soldiers, 3; to
be delivered without ransom,
9; Indians forced them to re-
turn home, 93; released by
Indians, 154; as pilots, 155;
taken at Kennebec River, 165;
escape of Peter Tallcot, 232;
Hanson family reach New
York, 328; in safety, 363; re-
turned to Wenungenit, 365;
killed by Indians, 371, 375, 380,
383; misinformation concern-
ing, 371 ; not all returned, 383.
Carbass, Mr. - , Secretary, 167.
Cargill, David, petition of, 439.
Carkesse, Cha., letters of, 114, 115,
116.
i 248 ' 282 '
Carolinas, the two, 456.
Casco Bay, noblest in New Eng-
land, 49; trading-house at, 74,
85 ; colony to be erected at, 163 ;
prisoner escaped from, 192;
men to cruise in, 204; a soldier
posted at, killed, 231; Saun-
ders to report to, 284, 285;
Indians to hold a conference
at, 298; Slocum wanted at,
299; Harmon at, 327; Smith
ordered to, 329, 330; Indians
to make treaty at, 409; the
treaty of, 412, 413; mentioned,
87, 96, 179, 209, 257, 258, 259,
332, 353, 354, 375, 376, 390, 406,
407, 419, 423, 428, 429, 431, 432,
459.
Fort at, burned, 49, 51; new one
erected, 74, 85, 99; one needed
at, 429; mentioned, 93, 207.
Harbor, 429.
Casteen, see St. Castine.
Castle Island, 42, 99.
Cattle Mills, 260.
Chamble, 109, 337.
Chapman, John, 353.
Charles I, 25, 26, 74, 130, 436, 441.
Charles II, 17, 28, 29, 30, 79, 80.
81, 82.
Charlestown, 7, 150.
Charters, see Patents.
Chebecto, 32.
Chesly, Capt. , 278.
Chester, 431.
Choate, Samuel, 190.
Christian, 272, 273.
Chub, Capt. , 252.
Church of England in Boston, 443.
Cinow, 362.
Claims of Toppan, Christopher,
445.
Clark, Ensign , 194.
Lieut. , 403, 406, 409, 410.
Thaddeus, 424.
Clergymen sent to the Indians, 59,
69, 85; allowance for only one
in Boston, 443; see also Min-
isters.
Clothing in trade, 1 ; imported, 111;
of home manufacture, 122.
Cloven Cape, 83.
Cochecho, 252, 278, 318.
Cochron, James, 247, 255.
Cocoa Nuts, 260.
Cod Fish, 112.
Coffin, Peter, 56.
Coinage, needed, 110, 414.
Cole, William. 445.
Coleby, Mr. , 162.
College of Dean Berkeley, 444.
Collossians, 63, 65.
Comeso Quantic, fort at, 49.
Comshite, John, 300.
Concord, 284.
Conefixit, 445.
Falls, 445.
River, 445.
Conference of Capt. John Gyles
with the Indians, 385.
Connecticut, 107, 109, 209, 210, 211,
228, 241, 295, 323.
River, 380, 393, 397.
Connawol, 356.
Connawoses, 379.
Conscience, liberty of, 134.
Consegon, 445.
Convin, Jonathan, 102.
Cooke, Elisha, report of, 149; men-
tioned, 102, 126, 127, 129, 134,
135, 136, 137, 138, 148, 150, 432,
441, 442, 454, 455, 467.
Cooper, William, 427.
Coram, Mr. , 121.
Thomas, letter of, 436, 438.
Corn in trade, 1; poor in Canada,
113; imported, 456.
Cornwell, Capt. , 280, 281.
Cotton, 143.
Rev. , 62.
Wool, 122.
Cox, Capt. , 201.
Messrs., 208, 209.
INDEX
475
Craggs, James, 116, 117.
Cranston, Samuel, letter of, 328
329.
Cromwell, Oliver, 26, 27, 78, 79, 83.
Crosby, Jos., 285.
Crosses of silver given to Indians,
59.
Crown Point, N. Y.
Crowne, John, his title to Penob-
scot, 25, 29, 30, 74; petition of,
74, 82, 83; report on his peti-
tion, 86.
Point, Maine, 27, 29, 79.
William, 27, 28, 29, 78, 79, 80, 81,
82, 84.
Cuckhold's Point, 48.
Cumings 1 Arch'd, letter of, 291;
Cummins J mentioned, 265.
Mr. , 164.
Currency, 110, 112, 261, 414; see
Bills of Credit,
Cutt, Richard, 191.
Robert, 190.
D
DAQUIELL, MONS., 233.
Damariscotta 1 OKA OKK AAK
Damasscotta } 354, 355, 445.
Fresh Pond, 445.
River, 47, 204, 445, 462.
River, Fresh Falls, 445.
Damariscove Island, fort on, 49.
Danforth, Thomas, 149, 423, 425,
426.
Dartmouth, England, 12, 107.
D'Aulney, Charles de Menon, 75,
76, 77, 81, 177.
Davenport, Richard, letter of, 184;
mentioned, 185.
Davis, Elisba, 119.
Ezek., 284.
Richard, letter of, 279, 280.
Deal boards, 15.
Dearing, Clement, 191.
Roger, 191.
De Bonaventure, Capt. , 31.
Defence of Armstrong, Robert, 166.
Delafaye, Ch., letter of, 340; men-
tioned, 296.
Derry Lough, 163.
Deserters, place to try them, 297,
302.
Devon, Council of, 102.
County of, 434.
Diaper, 143.
Dimock, Lieut. , 268.
Disowning a fortress, 453.
Doctor, a Quack, 167; needed in
the army, 183, 184, 185, 187,
218; for Indians, 324.
Dokes, Mr. , 216.
Dondomkegon, 96.
Doney, Robin, 11.
Dorchester, 332.
Doucett \ John, Lieut.-Gov. of
Dowcett / Nova Scotia, 281, 285.
Dover, N. H., 328, 431.
Dow, Elisha, 160.
Henry, 56.
Downer, Benjamin, 179.
Druggets, 142.
Drugs, 264.
Dublin, Ireland, 106, 107.
Dudley, Gov. Joseph, 252, 438.
Sir Matthew, 173.
William, letter of, 241, 242; mes-
sage of to House of Represent-
atives, 416; mentioned, 136,
156, 157, 178, 211, 428.
Dueling, law against, 441, 442.
Dummer Island, Fish Market, 221.
Island, Grape Street, 221.
Jeremiah, letter of, 143; men-
tioned, 149, 167.
Samuel, 167.
William, letters of, 165, 166, 175,
178, 180, 201, 202, 218, 223, 224,
225, 232, 244, 246, 249, 256, 257,
267, 270, 272, 275, 276, 285, 287,
292, 297, 305, 306, 307, 308, 317,
321, 323, 335, 351, 353, 358, 359,
362, 364, 368, 370, 392, 393, 398,
399, 405, 406, 407, 408, 431, 434,
450, 451, 468, 469; message of,
417, 418, 420; mentioned, 134,
143, 146, 161, 162, 168, 179, 181,
182, 183, 184, 185, 189, 190, 191,
192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198,
199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206,
207, 208, 209, 213, 215, 220, 224,
229, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237,
238, 241, 243, 246, 254, 265, 266,
268, 271, 273, 274, 277, 279, 281,
282, 288, 289, 290, 298, 299, 300,
301, 302, 304, 308, 311, 312, 313,
315, 316, 319, 320, 324, 326, 328,
331, 332, 333, 334, 336, 337, 338,
339, 340, 341, 342, 349, 350, 351,
352, 354, 355, 356, 358, 359, 360,
362, 366, 367, 370, 371, 372, 373,
374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 383,
385, 386, 388, 390, 391, 400, 401,
403, 404, 405, 409, 410, 412, 413,
418, 448, 451, 457, 461, 466.
Dunbar, Col. David, letters of, 440s
444, 451, 453, 458, 468; men-
tioned, 431, 434, 445, 446, 447,
449, 450, 468.
Dunsmore, John, 154, 156.
Dunstable, 268, 272, 287, 350.
476
DOCUMENTAEY HISTOKY
Dunston, 186.
Durrell, Capt. , 214.
Dutch, the, 29, 30, 77, 81, 260.
Duties on shipping, 114, 115, 116,
117.
E
EAST GREENWICH, 436.
East India, 158.
Eaton, Capt. , of Salisbury,
373.
Moses, 246.
Samuel, 373.
Edgar, *>> imAmn, 157. s
Henry, 175.
Edgeremet, 10.
Eels, 156.
Elliot, Capt. , 160.
Robert, 56.
Emerson, the Rev. Mr. , 167.
England, 4, 5, 6, 8, 16, 18, 26, 64,
66, 71, 78, 79, 82, 90, 96, 101,
108, 109, 119, 122, 123, 158, 167,
169, 176, 414, 437, 439, 440, 443,
444, 451, 452, 455, 457, 458, 459,
460, 463, 464.
English, the, trade with Indians,
1; Indian war broke out with,
1; chiefs sue for peace and
continue the war, 1, 2; the
conquest of Canada of value
to, 3; the French instigated
the war with, 8; regulations
between the Indians and, 9,
91; expelled from St. Johns,
N. F., 12; Acadia regained by,
17; discovered Nova Scotia,
26; St. Estienne desired the
protection of, 27; discovered
Penobscot, 30, 75, 81; not al-
lowed to fish or trade on
French territory, 31, 38, 104;
Jesuits stir up the Indians
against, 58; St. Castine a
friend of, 58; those at Wood-
stock and New Oxford
alarmed, 68, 69; the French
determined to hold lands be-
longing to, 72; the Estiennes
had been in the service of, 75 ;
to besiege New York (1654),
77; French priests and mis-
sionaries to be expelled from
the territory of, 85; the In-
dians to be supplied by, 90;
Indian boys not to be sent to
learn of, 92 ; Indians desire a
banner of, 93, 94; captives still
with Indians, 95; Indians to
English, the, continued.
be fixed in the interests of, 99;
to seek the Mohawks in time
of war, 153; boundary between
the French and, 176; Indians
in a rage because hostages had
died with, 207, 208; boys re-
taken, 215; Mohawks kill cat-
tle of, 246; Indians desire
peace and just methods with,
251 ; many truces broken with,
252; bodies of those killed in
Lovewell's fight sought, 271;
Penobscots seize vessels of
and become pirates, 280, 284,
289; attack St. Castine, 313,
314; story denied, 326, 327;
Indians expected to be de-
frauded by, 343; Indians must
pay for creatures they killed
belonging to, 355, 356; Indians
must live in peace with, 356;
further depredations of the
Indians, 363; the French en-
deavor to prevent the peace
between the Indians and the,
367, 373, 386, 408; their relig-
ion compared to that of the
Jesuits, 884; not treacherous,
388; Indians prevented from
killing, 391, 392; Loron to be
treated as a friend of, 393; at-
tacked while the treaty was
being discussed, 408; Indians
will quit the country or live
like, 449; the French will not
like the planting of a colony
at Fredericksburg, 461; In-
dians desire to be at peace
with, 461; mentioned, 9, 19,
35, 44, 52, 53, 63, 95, 99, 112,
115, 275, 360, 371, 383, 386, 395,
396, 405, 422, 440, 466.
English Grass, not grown in Can-
ada, 113.
Espagned
Ercegontagog, 371, 392, 398, 405,
408.
Indians, 376, 386, 392.
Essex County, 6, 33, 119, 237, 287.
Eveleth, Mr. - , 213.
Exeter, 120, 431.
F
FALMOUTH, burned, 50, 51; mes-
senger came to for a doctor,
INDEX
477
Falmouth, continued.
183; Nutting the armourer at,
195, 278; Westbrook at, 202;
the Mohawks at, 230; officers
at neglectful, 258; Capt.
Bourne to go to for orders,
268; scouts sent from, 273;
three men left in the garrison
at, 274; scouts returned to,
277; Capt. Saunders to report
for orders at, 284; proposal to
try the deserters at, 297, 302;
March arrived at, 303; cap-
tured sloop at, 304; Trask at,
304; deserters sent to, 315;
soldiers to go to, to equip, 320;
soldiers delayed at, 327; Smith
arrived at, 332; the number of
soldiers at to be reduced, 353,
357; Indians will not go there
to settle the treaty, 403; Dum-
mer desires to meet Indians at,
40G, 410; Gyles to furnish pas-
sage of Indians to, 406, 411;
Jordan to act as interpreter at,
408; petitions of, 420, 421;
irregular proceedings of the
selectmen of, 420; second peti-
tion of, 421; petition of heirs
of, 423; lands are granted to
Tyng and others, 424; almost
entirely destroyed, 424; peti-
tions to be served on the se-
lectmen of, 427, 428; men-
tioned, 153, 181, 184, 185, 200,
203, 216, 219, 220, 225, 231, 240,
244, 255, 265, 266, 273, 274, 275,
289, 290, 296, 299, 300, 301, 302,
303, 304, 309, 311, 316, 331, 368,
399, 412, 413.
Ferry Place, 243.
Garrison, 240, 274.
Fayal, 169.
Fayrweather, Thomas, 427.
Fernald, William, 191.
William Jr., 341.
Finns, 112.
Fisheries, 15, 19, 22, 23, 31, 32, 33,
34, 36, 38, 39, 40, 46, 50, 51, 71,
86, 97, 104, 110, 111, 114, 115,
118j 162, 197, 214, 225, 249, 277,
280, 282, 291, 294, 395, 322, 396,
400, 455, 456, 457, 459.
Fitch, Col. , 219.
Five Nations, the, 55, 69, 70, 101,
144, 153, 227, 228.
Flanders, 38.
Fletcher, , 66.
Forts, to be built and repaired, 13;
sold to Temple, 16; built by
Forts, continued.
Temple, 17, 22; tools needed
to build, 71, 72, 73; the French
slighted theirs at St. Johns,
86; places at which they are
needed, 100; New Hampshire
able to build, 100; many re-
quired because of long extent
of territory; ammunition need-
ed, 102; desired at Canso, J10;
the English will build on their
own territory and not ask per-
mission, 178; men would not
remain at the, 269, 270; the
French demanded the English
to quit those on the sea coast,
293; needed at Casco, 429;
orders to build not fulfilled,
452, 457, 459; ''disowning a
fortress," 453.
Fort at Ammassakuntick, 91.
at Annapolis, 294, 295.
at Augusta, 144.
at Berwick, 186, 284.
at Brunswick, 108, 144, 382.
at Casco Bay, 49, 50, 74, 85, 93,
99, 146, 207, 429.
at Castle Island, 99.
at Comeso Quantic, 47.
at Georgia, the Province of, 449,
450, 452, 455, 459.
at Great Island, 45, 46.
at Damarascove Island, 49.
at Marblehead, 108.
at Mechisipi, 69.
at Mississippi, 69.
at Narracomecock, 61, 91.
at Newagin, 49.
at Norridgewock, 49, 91, 108.
at Nova Scotia, 80.
at Onondage's Castle, 70.
at Orange, 42.
at Ossipee Pond, 283.
at Pemaquid, 3, 12, 13, 42, 47, 48,
99, 449, 450, 452, 455, 457, 459,
461, 464, 465, 469.
at Penobscot, 26, 28, 29, 81, 154,
155, 156.
at Piscataqua, 42.
at Port Royal, 97.
at Quebec, 109.
at Richmond, 206, 243, 325, 367,
400, 403.
at Saco, 13, 85.
at St. Georges, 146, 154, 156, 181,
244, 245, 250, 290, 318, 322, 330,
331, 374, 430.
at St. John's River, 77, 83, 86.
at Salem, 108.
at Schenectady, 42.
478
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Forts at, continued.
at Wells, 144, 186.
at Winter Harbor, 50, 51, 108,
144, 148, 149, 416, 418.
at York, 186.
Castle William, 108, 144, 311,
361, 374, 453, 465.
George, Maine, 163, 247, 256, 353,
373.
George, N. Y., 152.
Loveweirs, 278, 283.
Mary, 148, 179, 182, 212, 232, 279,
281, 282, 353, 416, 417.
North Battery, 465.
South Battery, 465.
William and Mary, 221, 413, 415,
448.
William Henry, 7.
see also Garrisons.
Foster, John, 102.
Thomas, 154.
Fox Islands, 224, 280.
France, 13, 17, 18, 19, 26, 29, 36,
37, 38, 58, 64, 74, 77, 78, 81, 92,
100. 101, 107, 108, 109, 177, 208,
223, 228, 260, 355, 356, 429, 438,
466.
Franklyn, Capt. , 191, 202, 204,
205, 286, 288, 289.
Francewexcabe, 379.
Fredericksburg, name of Dunbar's
province, 456, 459; two vessels
filled with new settlers come
to, 460; fishing vessels at, 460;
Indians visit, 460, 461, 462;
the French may not like to
have the English there, 461;
the rivers of, 462; see also
Georgia, Province of.
French, the, assisted and influ-
enced the Indians, 1, 8, 15, 40,
41, 55, 60, 63, 69, 72, 73, 85, 86,
90, 94, 108, 109, 154, 155, 165,
175, 178, 223, 228, 229, 236, 239,
294, 300, 323, 329, 336, 337, 340,
346, 351, 355, 360, 368, 370, 373,
408, 420, 461, 466; illicit trade
with, 2; beaten by Phipps, 3;<
attack the frontier, 5; the In-
dians must forsake, 9, 176;
danger feared from, 12; at
Pemaquid, 12, 449, 452, 455,
459, 465; encroachments of,
14, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41,
71, 72, 85, 176, 177, 295, 436,
438; designed to hold control
of Indians, 14,96; the original
boundary of the territory of,
15, 58; obstructed the fish-
eries, 15, 19, 22, 31, 34, 37, 38,
French, the, continued.
71, 97, 294, 295; claim to the
shore of the Bay of Fundy, 18;
renewals of the submission of,
19, 20 ; the English lost by the
rendition to, 19; still holding
English territory, 20; disturb
trade, 23, 31 ; had no claim to
Nova Scotia, 26, 81; disturb
the people at Penobscot, 26;
Nova Scotia surrendered to,
29,75,80; Penobscot delivered
to, 29, 76, 83, 87; had no claim
to Penobscot, 30, 81, 82, 87,
176, 177; threatened to seize
English vessels, 31, 40; seized
fishermen, 32, 33, 34; designs
of, 38, 40; have the best part
of St. Georges 1 River, 46, 47 ;
destroyed fort at Pemaquid,
47 ; burned fort at Casco Bay,
49; besieged Wells, 51; re-
venge of, 52 ; cruelty of, 52 ;
St. Castine exposed the de-
signs of, 59; captured by the
Dutch at Penobscot, 81, 82;
have a large part of the trade
with the Indians, 85; slighted
the- fort at St. John's, 86; im-
proving garrisons at Port
Royal and St. Georges, 86; se-
duced the English, 90; Indians
not to trade with, 90, 99; In-
dians not to assist in the wars
of, 91; a potent enemy, 102,
110; had no fortification at
Cape Breton, 110; as hunters,
113; fishery at Cape Breton,
114; to swear allegiance to
King George, 123; still hold
English prisoners, 165, 207,
294; fermented war, 229, 293;
cause not supported, 236; priv-
ileges ariving to their planta-
tions, 260; demand Acadia and
Nova Scotia, 294; aim to hold
jurisdiction over the Indians,
294, 295, 346, 367, 373, 379;
seize vessels at Cape Neger,
303; endeavor to prevent treaty
between the English and the
Indians, 367, 373, 386, 408;
meditate mischief against fish-
ermen, 396; sent out Indians
to attack the English while the
treaty was being discussed,
408; the territory of the Penob-
scot advantageous to, 438, 439;
the Indians sent to know about
the English at Fredericksburg,
INDEX
479
French, the, continued.
461; mentioned, 67, 68, 70, 117,
118, 123, 344, 384, 396, 404, 417.
French Indians, 109, 272, 336, 382.
Mohawks, 272.
Friars, the, 76, 146, 154, 215, 246,
300; see also Jesuits.
Frontenac, Louis de Baude, Count
de, 51.
Frost, Major , 195.
Fryer's Island, 46.
Fryor, Nath., 56.
Fuller, John, 56.
Fulling Mills, 142.
Furs, 112, 113, 399, 402, 403, 460.
G
GARRISONS, to be repaired, 152;
men needed in the, 186; fears
that they will be surprised,
192, 195 ; people ordered to the,
197; attacked at Arrowsic, 199,
200, 201; at St. Georges at-
tacked, 205, 206; Indians near
the one at Winter Harbor, 231;
forces at can't be reduced,
266, 267, 328; to be guarded
against a surprise, 318; to be
strengthened and protected,
347; Indians frequented, 357;
Jesuits forbidden to hold ser-
vices in, or near, 430.
at Annapolis, 176.
at Arrowsic, 144, 199, 200, 201,
290.
at Black Point, 265.
at Casco Bay, 85, 99.
at Crowne's Point, 29.
at Falmouth, 240, 274, 278.
at Georgetown, 151.
at Negue, 29.
at North Yarmouth, 212.
at Pejepscot, 163, 164.
at Pemaquid, 99.
at Perpooduck, 202.
at Port Royal, 86.
at Richmond, 148, 195, 225.
at St. Georges, 86, 156, 205, 206,
290, 366, 367, 390, 418.
at Small Point, 197.
at Spurwinck, 212, 273, 292.
at Wells, 152.
Bucknam's, 212.
Cutts, 190.
Ferry, 278.
Frost's, 195.
Grey's, 286.
Heath's, 225.
Jordan's, 212.
Garrisons, continued.
Parker's, 333.
Sawyer's, 243.
Scales', 333.
Woodside's, 163, 164.
Yorke's, 202.
see also Forts.
Gendall, Walter, 149, 424.
George I, 123, 139, 154, 176, 413,
415.
George II, 415, 446, 447, 460, 461.
Georgetown, 150, 161, 196, 199,
224.
Georgia, Province of, named, 440,
452, 456; may have a resident
bishop, 443; a place for Dean
Berkeley's college, 444; should
have free trade, 444; Dummer
doubted Dunbar's right to
exercise authority in, 450, 451,
457, 466; a distinct govern-
ment to be established there,
452; Massachusetts had no
jurisdiction over, 452; settle-
ment begun, 454, 455, 459 ; con-
ditions and rent proposed to
settlers, 455; name changed to
Fredericksburg, 456, 459; land
claimed by others, 456, 460,
464; prosperous outlook of,
456, 457, 458, 464, 465, 466;
fort at rebuilt, 459; claimants
hold a meeting and decide to
send an agent to England, 458;
rivers of explored, 462, 463;
country of, described, 462;
Dunbar burned thirty canoes,
463; a nursery for the navy,
463; the future value of the
province to England, 464;
should be annexed to Maine,
468; see also Fredericksburg.
Germans, 158.
Germany, 457.
Gerrish, John, 56.
Paul, 137.
Timothy, 137.
Gerritse, Roger, 373.
Ghent, Elizabeth, 445.
Gibbons, Maj. -- , 77.
Gibson, the Rev. - , 146, 147.
Gillis, Thomas, 200.
Glasgow, 107.
Gold, Capt. Joseph, 290.
Gooch, Capt. James, 44.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 149, 425.
Grand Menan, 289.
480
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Grandfontaine, Chevalier Hubert
d'Andigny, 17.
Grant, Mr. , 286, 304.
Capt. James, letter of, 318, 319;
mentioned, 310, 318, 319, 347,
349, 350.
Grants, see under Patents.
Grape Street, 221.
Grass, English, not grown in Can-
ada, 113.
Samuel, 314.
Gray, Capt. John, letters of, 219,
255, 265, 266; mentioned, 185,
220, 259, 303, 327.
Gray lock, 337, 358, 359, 364, 371,
372, 374, 378, 381.
Great Island, 42, 45, 46.
Fort, 46.
Great Lakes, the, 113.
Great River of Canada, see St.
Lawrence River.
Green Island, 206, 212.
Greenland, 183.
Grey, James, 286.
Groesbuk, Stevans, 373.
Gruett, Joseph, 56.
Gulf of St. Lawrence, 57.
Gulston, Ralph, letter of, 428, 429;
mentioned, 412.
Guns, in trade, 1.
Gunsmith, see Armourer.
Gyles, Capt. John, conference of,
383, 384, 385, 386; letters of,
245, 246, 247, 255, 256, 359, 360,
370, 371, 375, 376, 379, 383. 385,
387, 389, 390, 397, 398, 403, 405,
408, 409, 430, 445, 446; memo-
randum of, 388; memorial of,
3^7; mentioned, 195, 230, 240,
256, 257, 266, 274, 361, 362, 364,
374, 377, 378, 381, 391, 392, 393,
396, 399, 406, 409, 410, 431, 446,
H
HALEY, MB. , 433.
Hall, Edward, 172.
Hamelton. 157.
Hamilton, Mr. , 433.
Hammond, Maj. , 433.
Jonathan, 45.
Jos., 191.
Hampshire County, 207, 227, 381,
Hampton Court, 145.
Hansard, 157.
Hanson, John, 328, 329.
Thomas, 137.
Harden, Stephen, 204, 232.
Harman ) Capt. and Lieut.-Col.
Harmon \ Johnson, letters of, 188,
282, 283, 327, 333; mentioned,
147, 160, 162, 179, 187, 189, 191,
192, 193, 194, 199, 202, 203, 204,
205, 206, 216, 217, 219, 222, 226,
229, 232, 238, 248, 249, 258, 259,
285, 286, 292, 301, 310, 320, 321,
331, 332, 335, 339, 341, 369.
Harvard College, 72.
Harvey, Sergt. , 205.
Hassel, Benj., brought news of the
death of Love well, 268, 269;
ill management of, 269, 270;
to go with Tyng against the
Indians,271; ill, 272; letter of,
268.
Hatfield, 364, 374.
Hathorne, Jx>hn, 102.
Hatters, 112.
Heath, Capt. Joseph, letter of, 194,
195, 206, 207, 229, 230, 309, 310,
366, 367, 368, 379, 380, 401, 403,
410, 411; mentioned, 148, 162,
179, 182, 205, 217, 225, 226, 246,
250, 305, 310, 311, 312, 320, 321,
327, 354, 381, 385, 393, 398, 399,
401, 407.
, a brother of Capt. Joseph,
185.
Hegon, John, 379, 393, 405.
Hemp, 123, 124, 433, 440, 441, 456,
464, 465.
Henry, Hugh, 259.
Higginson, John, 33, 102, 433.
Hill, Abr., 57, 87.
Nath., 56.
Hilliard, David, 33.
Hilton, Lieut. , 147.
Hinckes, John, 56.
Capt Samuel, letters of, 179,
180, 212, 213, 231, 232, 281, 283;
mentioned, 279.
Hinty, Mr. , 457.
Holland, 29, 77, 81, 260.
Henry, 334, 336, 337, 338.
Holman, Capt. , 267.
Mr. , 275, 276.
Hugh, 285.
Homespun, 143.
Hood, Joseph, 300.
Hopkins, Samuel, 196.
Hornebrook, John, 11.
Horses, 112, 115, 260, 265.
Houghton, Mr. , 69.
Wm., 37.
House, Lieut. Jeremy, 286, 315,
316, 325.
Hudson Bay, 35, 113.
Hull, 100.
INDEX
481
Hunt, Capt. , 2.
Hannah, letter of, 243.
Jacob, 243.
John, letter of, 243.
Hunter, Col. , 168.
Hurons, the, 144, 227.
Huske, Capt. Ellis, 158, 169, 170,
171, 172. 303.
Hutchinson, Elisha, 102.
Em., 102.
Hyde, Edward, Lord Chancellor,
79.
IBEBVILLE, MONS. DE, led forces
against Pemaquid, 12; master
of Newfoundland, 12; in New
York, 69.
Illinois, the, 144.
Importations, laws concerning,
111, 114, 115, 116.
Independency, 123, 127, 443.
Independent Congregation of Bos-
ton, the, 80.
Indians, touching the trade with
the, 1, 23, 99; assisted and in-
fluenced by the French, 1, 8,
15, 40, 41, 55, 58, 60, 63, 69, 73,
85, 86, 90, 94, 108, 109, 154,
155, 165, 175, 178, 223, 228, 229,
236, 239, 293, 294, 300, 323, 329,
336, 337, 340, 343, 346, 351, 355,
367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 373, 408,
420, 461, 466; the war of 1638,
1; illicit trade with the, 2; at-
tacked the frontier towns, 5;
the submission of Aug. 11,
1693, 7, 11, 176, 177; to forsake
the French, 9, 91, 99, 176; not
to disturb the English, 9; to
be ruled by English justice, 9,
10; led by the French against
Pemaquid, 12, 450, 452; the
French mean to control, 14,
96, 294, 295; will scorn the
English, 14; cause of their
trouble with the English, 14;
should assist neither the Eng-
lish nor French in war. 24; still
held as prisoners by the Eng-
lish, 31; on the Kennebec
claims of the French, "31; a
war prevented by Bamet, 44,
53; never occupied lands at
the mouth of the Piscataqua,
46; burned fort at Casco Bay,
49, 50, 51; their forts a means
of correspondence, 51; be-
sieged Wells and burnt Fal-
Indians, continued.
mouth, 51; cruelty of, 62, 55;
those from Natick stir up war,
53; in need, 53; to be subdued
or exterminated, 55; to go to
Pennycook, 59, 68; ministers
sent to, 59, 69, 85, 94, 133, 385;
crosses given to, 59, 60; treated
as slaves or soldiers, 60; must
be driven from the towns, 63 ;
they withdrew, 64, 65; to make
war against the Mohawks, 65,
72; the English fear an out-
break, 69, 73, 85, 192, 195, 210,
211; Bellomont's encourage-
ment to the, 69, 70; a fort
wanted for them, 71 ; in mis-
chief at Kennebec, 72; told to
shun the English, 72 ; trading
house built for, 74, 85, 99;
treaty of 1701, 88; want to
trade, 89, 91; and rum, 89, 345;
to induce their neighbors to
join the English, 91, 92; an
armourer to settle with the,
91; will not send boys to the
English for an education, 92,
93; forced captives to return
home, 93; want a trading house
at Merry Meeting, 93; used
French colors, 93; desire an
English flag, 94; raised a pyra-
mid on treaty-ground, 95; to
release captives, 95; cruelties
to be avoided, 96, 103; may
join in war with the French,
100, 101; had little difficulty
in attacking the frontier, 100;
the Five Nations a barrier, 101 ;
have advantage over the Eng-
lish, 102; number of civilized,
106; number of enslaved, 106;
Jesuits should not be allowed
among the, 110; bring furs
from the far west and north,
113; the aim of the planters is
to convert, 144; shot a man at
Richmond, 148; not hindered
by fort at Winter Harbor, 148;
attacked St. Georges, 150, 154;
attacked a party at Merry
Meeting, 150; at Long Reach,
150, 151; robbed the whites,
151; at Wells, 151, 152, 189;
Mohawks as deputies, 153, 272;
at Arrowsic, 153, 201; to be
waylaid, 153, 281; led by a
friar, 154; released captives,
154; rebuilt fort at Penobscot,
155; eat seals, 156; at Pejep-
482
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Indians, continued.
scot, 163, 164; killed the Rev.
Joseph Willard, 175, 176; sold
land to the English, 177; at
Arundel, 182; about the garri-
sons, 185; the Maquas to pro-
tect the whites, 192, 193; at
Spurwink, 193; at Winick's
Neck, 193; at Kennebunk, 193;
Lieut. Harmon marched after,
193, 194, 199; to be ambushed,
194; house for the Mohawks
finished, 194; at Georgetown,
199, 200 ; to be watched on the
Islands and rivers, 199, 201,
202, 204, 206, 277, 278, 280, 281,
284; all along the frontiers,
201, 225, 241, 258, 259, 266, 279;
at Pernooduck, 202 ; supposed
to be gathering, 203, 208, 210;
at St. Georges 1 River, 205, 251;
in a rage because a hostage
died, 207, 208; to march upon
the frontiers, 208; fears for
prisoners in their hands, 208;
war against the Eastern, 209;
their manner of attacking, 211 ;
at Spurwink, 212; at North
Yarmouth, Saco River and
Cape Porpois, 212; volunteers
sent after, 212; on a privateer,
212, 213, 214, 280, 284; to be
prosecuted vigorously, 214;
coming from Canada, 215, 352;
killed at Norridgewock, 222,
228; under English jurisdic-
tion, 223; in the whale fishery,
225; at Winter Harbor, 231,
232; held at Albany, 233; their
envoys depend on Vaudreuil,
236; brought an express to St.
Georges, 240; designs of the,
241; desire peace, 242, 249,
251; resolved on war, 256;
conference with, 250, 254 ; Bane
and Gyles to lead a party in
search of, 256, 257, 258, 274:
should have been waylaid, 258,
266; at Black Point, 259, 265,
278, 290; near Cape Porpois,
266; near Pequakett, 268, 269,
270,272,278; Tyng sent against,
270, 271, 277; a Mohawk to go
with Tyng, 272, 273; to enlist,
275, 276, 286, 309, 324; their
enlisting obstructed, 276;
tracked by Jordan, 277; the
fishing time of, 277; tracked
by Chesly, 278, 279; Love well
wounded some, 279; seize
Indians, continued.
English vessels, 280, 284; near
Fort Mary, 281; collected at
the eastward, 283; infest the
coast as pirates, 284; recruits
to be divided into two com-
panies, 286, 290; how to be
employed later, 286; enlisted
from Bristol County, 286, 306,
347; go fishing in stolen ves-
sels, 289; their stillness sur-
prising, 289; supposed to have
been at Arrowsic and St.
Georges, 290; killed a man at
Spurwink, 292, 296, 306; the
French mean to manage those
on English territory, 295 ; com-
plain of injustice, 297, 339, 340,
342; defrauded of their pay,
297, 299, 300; Walton to join
in the affair with Eastern, 298;
concerning the conference at
Boston, 298, 305, 332, 351, 382,
385, 394, 401, 402; they prefer
to meet at some other place,
298, 299; two more tribes de-
sire to treat, 298, 299; steal
vessels at Cape Neger, 303;
Dummer has little faith in
their sincerity, 305, 307, 318;
commanders of the companies
of, 307, 311, 312, 347; desert,
312, 315, 316, 325; cessation of
arms, 318, 319, 322; to be well
received at fort on St. Georges
River, 318; Dummer will not
send them to assist Armstrong,
323; a doctor for the, 324;
commanders of changed, 325;
planned an expedition into
New England, 329, 334, 338,
352; to be transported to Bos-
ton, 330; seen on the frontiers,
331, 332, 334, 337; at Scales'
and Parker's Garrisons, 333;
Harmon and Moulton to am-
bush for, 335 ; sent wampum
belts, 336, 376, 377, 386, 390,
395, 399; started to attack
frontier, but returned home,
337; still skulking about, 337;
false report of intended raid,
339, 341; those in the army de-
sire to be dismissed, 342; res-
ervation for, 343, 344; a rod
in God's hand, 344; not to be
entirely deprived of rum, 345;
concerning the conversion of
the, 346; dismissed from the
army, 347; delay in their com-
INDEX
483
Indians, continued.
ing, 348; their arms and
ammunition delivered, 349;
probably at the head of the
Merrimac River, 350; called
in to make a treaty, 351 ; cap-
ture vessels of Stacy and Chap-
man, 352, 353; one to be hired
as a pilot, 355; secret in re-
gard to the peace, 355; dep-
redations at Montinecous
Islands, 355, 366, 357, 360, 363;
frequented the garrisons, 357;
Gray Lock prepared to attack
the frontiers, 358, 359; want a
truck-house and gunsmith,
366; the French endeavor to
prevent the treaty with the
English, 367, 373, 386, 408;
those of the east desire a gen-
eral peace, 368; small skulk-
ing parties still out, 369, 372;
supplied at the trading-houses,
363; raid on Kennebunk, 370,
371, 375, 380, 383, 388; civil
treatment promised those who
signed the treaty, 372; the
dissatisfied would not make
peace, 377, 380, 395, 398; re-
turn from Canada to re-occupy
their villages, 380, 393, 397;
word sent to, to come and set-
tle the peace, 382; conference
of Capt. Gyles with, 383, 384,
385, 386; still holding captives,
383; desire a minister, 385;
hold a great meeting at Penob-
scot, 386; supplied at St.
Georges, 389 ; the malcontents
started on a raid, but returned,
392; settled at Taconnet, 392;
to be encouraged to settle at
Norridgewock, 393; Mohawks
not to fight the eastern, 394;
the dissatisfied will make
peace, 395; assembled near
Minas, 396; to be protected,
397; hostage to be returned to
the, 397; their fishing inter-
rupted by the Irish, 400; as-
sembled at Taconnet, 400, 401,
404; desire food, 401, 402, 404;
the tribes most injured'by the
war, 492; desire Capt. Heath
to go to Boston on their be-
half, 403; to be notified of
messenger's arrival by a gun,
403; have debates on several
questions, 404, 405, 408; Dum-
mer's letter to be read to the,
Indians, continued.
404, 406, 407, 409, 410, 446; de-
sire the removal of a trading
house, 404; names of the
chiefs at Taconnet, 404, 405,
406; a child's death causes de-
lay, 405; Bummer's letter to,
405; to ratify the treaty of
Casco, 406, 409; passage to be
supplied to Falmouth, 406;
provisions sent to, 407, 410;
instigated by the French to
attack the English while the
treaty was being made, 408;
jealous of the missionary at
St. Francois, 411; the governor
to be accompanied by a reti-
nue to meet them, 411; desire
a new master at trading house,
416, 418; supplies for the, 417,
420; disturb men cutting
masts, 428, 429; Jesuits desire
to have one of their number
among the, 430; provoked by
Massachusetts, 437; a few
near the proposed eastern set-
tlement, 442; visit St. Georges,
445; not to be disturbed at
Passamaquoddy, 446, 451; may
be kept at peace by a fortjat
Pemaquid, 449, 455; will quit
the country or live as the Eng-
lish do, 449; if treated justly
in trade they will be friendly
with the English, 449; Dunbar
had an interview with the,
450; visit Fredericksburg, 460,
461 ; sent to Quebec about new
settlers, 461 ; beg for presents,
461 ; presents given them, 462 ;
described by Dunbar, 462; ex-
pense of entertaining them,
462; jealous of new comers,
469; mentioned, 12, 22, 40, 43,
50, 55, 66, 99, 108, 109, 117,
157, 160, 176, 180, 181, 190, 192,
209, 210, 217, 224, 226, 227, 228,
232, 233, 234, 235, 237, 238, 239,
240, 241, 244, 245, 250, 255, 284,
296, 309, 313, 324, 326, 334, 342,
343, 346, 353, 354, 355, 357, 365,
375, 376, 379, 380, 390, 394, 395,
396, 399, 403, 413, 419, 422, 431,
437, 457, 458, 464, 466.
civilized, number of, 106.
friendly, 275, 276, 286, 292, 297,
299, 300, 301, 309, 312, 343, 392.
the Mountain, 386, 408.
the Southern, 383, 884,
484
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Indians, continued.
see also Canadian and French
and the names of the tribes.
Indigo, 260.
Ingogen Cape, 83.
River, 83.
Inhabitants of Massachusetts,
number of, 106.
Instructions for Noyes and Apple-
ton, 287.
Saunders, Capt. Thomas, 284.
Shute, Gov. Samuel, 145.
Ipswich, 213, 287, 290.
Ireland, 106, 111, 115, 163, 262, 440.
Irish, 440.
Jacobite, an, 159, 166, 168, 303.
settlers, 409.
Iron in trade, 112.
Irwyn, Capt. , 457.
Isle of Orleans, 109.
Shoales, 212.
JACKSON, BENJAMIN, letter of, 41;
mentioned, 11.
Geo., 191.
Jacobite, An Irish, 159, 166, 168,
303.
Jaffrey, George, 158.
Jaques, Col. , 268.
Lieut. , 248, 282.
James I., 16, 25, 26, 31, 83, 84, 441.
James II., 30, 56, 82, 441.
Jaquesh, see Jaques.
Jefferies, David, 38, 136, 172.
Jeffers, Capt. , 66, 67, 70, 71.
Jeffery, Lord. 22.
Jeggels, Capt. William, testimony
of, 32, 33.
Jekyll, John, 265.
Jenkins, Thos., 191.
Jersey, the Earl of, 57, 66.
Island of, 106, 107,
Jesuits, the, an injury to the pub-
lic, 49; at Narracomecock, 51;
stir up the Indians, 58, 69, 72,
73, 85, 94, 108, 110, 175, 239,
242, 293, 334, 336, 337, 343,
346, 367, 369, 371, 373, 383,
384, 402, 420, 430, 461, 466;
tell of the designs of the
French government, 72 ; to be
expelled, 85 ; letter of, read at
the peace conference, 386, 387;
endeavor to prevent the peace
between Indians and the Eng-
lish, 408; desire to have one of
their number at Wanopolos
Rial, 430; not permitted to
Jesuits, continued.
hold service in or near the
garrisons, 430; built a church
at Norridgewock, 430; men-
tioned, 375, 378, 404, 405, 461;
also called Black Coats, and
Friars.
Jewett, Nehemiah, 106.
Jimmison, Elihu, 191.
Job, David, 300.
John, an Indian, 92, 93.
John Negon, 379, 393, 405.
John Sheepscot, 10, 11.
John "Signum," 11.
John's Island, 48.
River, 462,
Jones, Samuel, petition of, 419.
Jordan ) M 17q
Jordon \ Mr ' ' 179 '
Lieut. Dominicus, 242, 243, 273,
277, 280, 292, 301, 309, 311, 320,
421, 424, 427.
Jeremiah, 421, 427.
John, 421, 427.
Nathaniel, 421, 427.
Robard, 421.
Robart, 427.
Capt. Samuel, letters of, 328,
400; mentioned, 242, 320, 330,
341, 351, 407, 421.
Solomon, killed, 212.
Thomas, 421, 427.
Journal of House of Representa-
tives, 152.
Jummoway, 410.
K
KAHTON, BAMBT, 44.
Katerramogis, of Norridgwock, 10.
Keensotuk, 65.
Kembal, , 190.
Kenady \Capt., 180, 205, 215,
Kennedy /292, 296, 301, 312,321;
see also Canady.
Kennaway, Tom, 300.
Kennebec, 316, 386, 431, 432.
Indians, 53, 108, 110, 383, 337,
404, 405.
River, the French claim it as a
boundary, 14, 31, 34, 40, 72,
86; of value because of the
lumber near, 15; safe for large
ships, 48; Indians at in mis-
chief, 72; Westbrook at, 161,
221; prisoners taken at, 165;
scouts at, 199, 256, 257; cessi
tion of arms at, 317, 322; no
hostility beyond the, 349, 350;
INDEX
485
Kennebec River, continued.
a marker to be set up at, 356;
the Indians hunting near not
to be disturbed, 380, 393;
Dummer at, 431; mentioned,
47, 49, 51, 81, 182, 204, 216,
217, 221, 225, 332, 391, 436,
440, 444, 451, 452, 455, 459,
462, 463, 468, 469.
Kennebunk, 188, 193, 303, 370,
375, 380, 383, 388.
River, 204.
Kent, Capt. , 180.
Kettler in trade, 1.
Kimbolt, , 445.
Kingston, 201.
Kittery, ammunition needed at,
152; value of Cutt's house at,
190; soldiers wanted at, 196;
stout men to be sent from,
279; has no ensign, 340, 341;
mentioned, 341.
Knight, John, letter of, 259.
Nathan, letter of, 193.
Laborie, J., letter of, 59; men-
tioned 69.
La Chassaigne, M. de, Governor
of Montreal, 233.
La Chasse, Pere, 211, 367.
Laffevre, - , 176, 177.
La Ne"ve, 83.
Lambert, Wm., 265.
Lane, Lieut. John, 191, 203.
La Tour, Charles St. Estienne, 16,
25, 26, 27, 74, 75, 77, 78, 84.
Claud, 25, 26, 74, 75, 77, 78.
Port of, 83.
Lawrence, Robert, 424.
Lead in trade, 1.
Leather, home manufacture of,
112.
Lechmere, Thomas, memorial of,
260, 265.
*."
Samson, 247.
Ledgel, Col. - . memorial of, 1.
Leighton, John, 191.
Letters of,
Addington, Isaac, 73, 74, 103,
104.
Appleton, Col. John, 290.
Arressegontoogook, 400.
Bacon, John, 324.
Bellomont, the Earl of, 65, 67,
68, 71.
Letters of, continued.
Blechynden, Chas., 142, 143.
Bridger, J., 119, 125, 128, 129,
134, 142.
Brouillan, Gov. J. F., 96, 97;
answer to the same, 103, 104.
Brown, Allison, 182.
Burnet, Gov. William, 234.
Canedy, William, 240.
Carkesse, Cha., 114, 115, 116.
Coram, Thomas, 436.
Council and Representatives,
103, 104.
Cranston, Samuel, 328.
Cumings, Archd, 291.
Davis, Richard, 279.
Delfaye, Ch:, 340.
Dummer, J., 143.
Dummer, William, 165, 175, 180,
201, 209, 218, 223, 225, 244, 246,
249, 256, 257, 270, 272, 275, 276,
285, 287, 292, 297, 300, 306, 307,
308, 317, 321, 335, 351, 353, 358,
359, 362, 364, 368, 392, 393, 397,
398, 399, 405, 406, 407, 431, 450,
468.
Dunbar, Col. David, 440, 451,
453, 458.
Grant, Capt. James, 318.
Gray, John, 219, 255, 265.
Gulston, Ralph, 428.
Gyles, Capt. John, 245, 246, 355,
370, 375, 376, 379, 383, 385, 389,
397, 398, 403, 408, 409, 430, 445.
Harmon, Capt. Johnson, 188,
282, 327, 333.
Hassell, Capt. Benj., 268.
Heath, Capt. Joseph, 194, 206,
229, 309, 310, 366, 367, 379, 401,
410, 411.
Hincks, Capt. Samuel, 179, 212,
231, 281.
Holland, Henry, and others, 333,
336, 337.
Hunt, John and Hannah, 243.
Jackson, Benjamin, 40, 41.
Jordan, Samuel, 328, 400.
Knight, Nathan, 193, 259.
Laborie, J., 59.
Livingston, Philip, and others,
371.
Minot, John, 208, 250, 254, 342,
347.
Moulton, Jeremiah, 198.
Mountfort, Edmund, 239.
Nelson, John, 13, 16, 37.
Parker, James, 230.
Partridge, Capt. Samuel, 364,
374.
486
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Letters of, continued.
Penhallow, John, 150, 196, 199,
224.
Penobscot Chiefs, 446.
Pepperell, William, and others,
190, 340.
Phipps, Sir William, 2, 4.
St. Castine, Joseph Debadis de,
313, 314.
Saunders, Thomas, 238.
Schuyler, John, 233, 240.
Sharpe, Richard, 159.
Shute, Samuel, 104, 105, 108.
Smith, Capt. Thomas, 357, 360,
374, 388.
Stacy, Samuel, 352.
Stevenson, James, 352.
Stoddard, John, 298, 299, 309.
Stoughton, William, 34, 84, 86.
Thaxter, S., and Dudley, W.,
241.
Toppan, the Rev. Christopher,
354.
Trescott, Zach., 156, 157, 207.
Tyng, Eleazer, 268, 271, 277.
Vaughan, Wm., 390, 391.
Villebon, Chevalier de, 30.
Wainwright, John, 213, 293, 299,
308, 309.
Walton, Sha., 308, 309.
Wells, 48.
Wentworth, Gov. John, 255, 278,
283, 411, 415, 448.
Westbrook, Col. Thomas, 146,
147, 153, 156, 169, 160, 161, 181,
182, 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 189,
190, 191, 192, 193, 195, 197, 199,
201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207,
215, 216, 220, 221, 226, 238, 243,
248, 259, 266, 273, 274, 277, 288,
289, 290, 292, 296, 299, 300, 304,
310, 311, 312, 316, 320, 331, 333,
334, 337, 338, 339, 341, 349, 350,
353, 357.
Wheelwright, John, 151.
Wheelwright, Capt. Samuel, 315.
Willard, Josiah, 311, 312, 338,
347, 349, 350, 351, 381.
Woodside, William, 373.
Woweenock, 400.
Wyllys, Hez., 235.
to Massachusetts Agent in Lon-
don, 227.
Leverett, Thos., 434, 435, 436.
Lewe, Capt. - , 357.
Lewis, Moses, 56.
Lexington, - , 87.
Ligett, William, 154,
Limerick, Thomas, Earl of, peti-
tion of, 56; answer to, 57; re-
ferred to, 102.
Lincoln, County of, 435.
Lindall, James, 423.
Linens, 111, 115, 122, 142, 143.
Liquors in trade, 1; permit to sell,
230, 231.
Lisbon, 173.
Little River, 315.
Littleworth, 331.
Liverpool, England, 107.
Livingston, Philip, letters of, 371,
373; mentioned, 334, 336, 337,
352.
Lock, Gray, see Graylock.
Loggers, 140.
Logwood, 264, 265.
L'Omery, 83.
London, 16, 37, 66, 67, 70, 93, 106,
107, 159, 167, 227, 435.
Custom House, 116, 414.
Royal Exchange, 66, 70.
Sun Coffee House, 66, 67, 70, 74.
Tower, 80.
Whitehall, 4, 7, 41, 57, 87, 116,
130, 143, 265, 340.
Long Reach, 150.
Loraant \ 362, 379, 385, 387, 393,
Lorone J394, 396, 447.
Lorie, Mr. - , 207.
Lothrop, Barnabas, 102.
Lone, 157.
Lovell ) Fio-hf
Lovewell f F ' g *'
Capt. John, 268, 269, 270, 271,
272, 273, 278, 279, 283, 284, 289,
290.
Lowder, Henry, 73.
Lucia, Island of, 438.
Lues, 355.
Lumber, 113, 119, 120, 124, 126,
127, 128, 168, 172, 173, 183, 203.
see also Timber.
Lynde, Joseph, 102.
MACHIAS, 281.
Indians, 383.
River, 27, 79, 82, 84.
McKenney, Henry, 278.
Macphedris, Capt. - , 173.
Madockawando 1 cousin to Wenon-
Madochawando J gakewet, 10;
signed treaty of Aug. 11, 1693,
10.
Madagwunesseak, 95.
Madaumbis, 11,
INDEX
487
Madeira Wines, 115.
Madumbessuck, 181.
Maherimet, Jno., 95.
Maine, Province of, 3, 57, 127, 129,
135, 136, 149, 423, 425, 431,
432, 434, 436, 480, 451, 453,
454, 455, 459, 463, 468.
Malalemet, 372.
Manahadas, 77.
Manning, Nicho., 11.
Manoor, Lieut. , 308.
Manufactures, 111, 112, 122, 123,
142, 143, 261, 414.
Maquas, the, 64, 65, 95, 185, 192,
295.
Marblehead, 100, 208, 209, 212,
314, 342, 353, 397.
Fort at, 108.
March, Lieut James, affidavit of,
303; mentioned, 304.
Lieut. John, 147.
Markham, Lieut. Moses, 246, 342.
Marks of,
Ahanquil, 11.
Arressegontoogook, 401.
Aten, 447.
Awansomech, 11.
Bomageen, 11.
Doney, Robin, 11.
Edgeremet, 10.
Epagned, 447.
Katerramogis, 10.
Loron, 447.
Madackawando, 10.
Madaumbis, 11.
Moxist, 10.
Nathaniel, 11.
Nitamemet, 11.
Phil-Ousa, 11.
Quonach, 447.
Sunc, 401.
Webenes, 11.
Weenokson, 10.
Wenungenit, 366.
Wessembomet, 10.
Woweenock, 401.
Wyworney, 401.
Marquoit, 245, 246, 247, 248, 255.
Marshall, Grace, 427.
Mary, Queen, 8, 131.
Mascarene ) Paul, Governor of
Maskarene / Nova Scotia, 412.
Massachusetts, 7, 8, 9, 17, 19, 33,
34, 42, 45, 52, 55, 57, 87, 88, 98,
104, 106, 111, 114, 116, 117,
119, 123, 143, 144, 149, 151,
152, 156, 163, 166, 195, 209,
222, 237, 263, 293, 295, 296,
309, 319, 332, 341, 356, 358,
362, 367, 375, 378 t 412, 423,
Massachusetts, continued.
424, 425, 431, 436, 437, 447,
449, 459, 468.
Masts, 15, 40, 41, 120, 125, 136, 137,
158, 169, 171, 172, 173, 294,
295, 412, 428, 429, 432, 434,
444, 446, 454, 458, 462, 463.
men, 136.
ships, 428, 459.
Mather, the Rev. Increase, 6.
the Doctors, 165.
Maylem, Joseph, 427.
Meadows, Ph., 57, 87.
Mechisipi, fort at, 69.
Mediterranean Sea, 112.
Meeting, a praying, 375, 403.
Memorandum of Gyles, Capt.
John, 388.
Memorials of,
Council and Representatives oi
Massachusetts, 98, 102.
Gyles, Capt. John, 358, 359, 387.
Lechmere, Thomas and others,
260, 265.
Massachusetts in regard to re-
ligion, 130.
Nelson, John, 20, 21, 25.
Rayment, Lieut. William, 52, 54.
Romer, Wolfgang Wilhelm, 45,
52.
Touching the trade with In-
dians, 1.
Mendon, 64.
Menis, 351, 396.
Mentrie, 25, 75.
Lord of, see Alexander, Sir Wil-
liam.
Mereliquish } 1ft ftq ,
Merlequash $ 18 ' 83 ' 84<
Merrimac River, 8, 241, 350, 431.
Merry Meeting, 93, 150, 410.
Messages of,
the Governor, 411.
Dummer, 417, 418, 420.
Metropolis of America, the, 262,
443.
Michel, Mr. , of Spurwinck
killed, 193.
Miles, Morgan, 200.
Militia, the, 106, 279.
Millett, Thomas, 328.
Mitton, Michael, 427.
Minas, 18, 19, 124, 351, 356.
Ministers for Indians, 59, 69, 85,
94, 133, 385; see also Clergy-
men.
Minot, John, letters of, 208, 209,
250, 254, 342, 347; mentioned,
249.
Stephen, 342, 347.
488
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Minzier, Mr. , 171.
Mississsippi, fort at, 69.
River, 109, 113.
Mitchell's, 186.
Mr. of Spurwink, 193.
Modochawando, 10.
Mohawks, the, 153, 157, 194, 195,
207, 209, 230, 246, 272, 394.
the French, 272.
the Praying, 386, 387, 392.
Mohegans, the, 65, 72.
Moidores, 158.
Molasses, 112, 260.
Monhegan, 203.
Indians, 72.
Montegue, the Duke of, 438.
Montinecous Islands, the, 355, 357,
360, 365.
Montreal, 109, 113, 157, 207, 233,
242, 328, 329, 376.
Moody, Capt. , 327, 354.
Dr. , 184.
Maj. , 152.
Moore, Ebenr , 191.
Morril, Nicho'., 191.
Moulton, Lieut. , 163.
Capt. Jeremiah, letter of, 198;
mentioned, 188, 189, 191, 194,
202, 226, 227, 286, 289, 296, 335,
338, 342.
Joseph, 191.
Mount Desert, 160, 239, 280, 300,
449.
Mountfort, Mr. , 349.
Edmund, letter of, 239; men-
tioned, 423.
Mount Hope, 65.
Mountsweeg Bay, 204.
Mowson, 333.
Moxes, 10, 72, 92, 95, 359, 362, 395,
396, 404.
Munrow, , 332.
Munsneegs Bay, 445.
Great River, 445.
Little River, 445.
Muscongus, 26, 27, 83, 84, 204,
435.
Company, 441.
River, 78, 79, 82, 441.
Muslins, 158.
Muster Rolls, 203, 258, 267, 285,
286, 318, 350, 361, 390, 394,
419.
N
NANTUCKET, 122.
Narihwacks, the, 460.
Narrackamagog ) 91, 95; fort at,
Narracomecock J 51.
Narragansett, 123, 434.
Narrangawawock, 356, 359, 405.
Nathaniel, 11.
Natick, 53, 343.
Indians, 344.
Nebon, Jo., 289.
Negroes, 106, 107, 413.
Negue, 27, 28, 29, 79, 303.
Negus, Dr. , 183, 184.
Nelson, John, letter of, 13, 16, 37,
39; memorial of, 20, 21, 25;
petition of, 16, 18, 20; men-
tioned, 33, 35, 87, 95.
Nemmageen, 410.
Nenequabben, 63, 64.
Nesket, 313.
Nevis, 413.
New Castle, 45, 46, 123, 222, 298,
448.
Horse Ferry, 46.
New England, 1, 4, 7, 12, 13, 14,
16, 17, 18, 21, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31,
33, 37, 39, 41, 47, 49, 51, 52, 56,
58, 61, 74, 77, 79, 80, 81, 87, 88,
97, 98, 117, 127, 128, 130, 135,
142, 143, 145, 152, 156, 157, 159,
163, 164, 165, 169, 173, 195,
208, 233, 236, 260, 263, 265,
293, 296, 302, 303, 332, 340,
372, 411, 415, 423, 428, 429,
431, 434, 435, 436, 437, 440,
448, 451.
Council of, 340.
New Hampshire, 18, 45, 54, 55, 61,
62, 66, 100, 101, 105, 120, 137,
143, 144, 145, 157, 159, 166,
167, 168, 170, 173, 174, 179,
222, 228, 309, 317, 323, 328,
416, 429, 431, 432, 434.
New Jersey, 236.
New Oxford, 59, 68, 69.
New Plymouth, see Plymouth,
Mass.
New Roxbury, 59.
New Scotland, 84.
New York, 20, 21, 23, 29, 36, 42, 45,
55, 56, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 77,
81, 82, 85, 100, 101, 108, 109,
144, 152, 234, 295, 328, 442.
Newberry, 180, 267, 287, 297, 298,
307, 354, 381, 382.
Newcastle, the Duke of, 263, 457,
458, 468.
Newfoundland, 12, 19, 107.
Newman, Henry, agent for N. H.,
145, 168.
Newport, 329.
Newton, Hilbert, 265.
Newtown, 48, 49, 305.
Nicholson, Gen. Francis, 437.
INDEX
489
Nitamemet, 11.
Noble, Ensign , 316, 320, 373.
Norridgewock, 10, 72, 95, 157, 175,
215, 218, 222, 225, 226, 228,
229, 230, 246, 324, 342, 343,
347, 349, 356, 359, 369, 385,
392, 400, 401, 402, 405, 410,
436; fort at, 49, 91, 108.
Indians, 157, 176, 223, 365, 368,
372, 380, 382, 394, 395, 400,
402, 406, 413.
North Carolina, 456,
North Yarmouth, 149, 150, 212,
327, 335, 354, 426.
Northfield, 211.
Norwich, 179, 180.
Nottingham, 431.
the Earl of, 2, 4, 7.
Nova Scotia, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23,
25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35,
38, 47, 57, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83,
84, 86, 87, 108, 110, 118, 144,
177, 285, 294, 321, 323, 351, 412,
436, 437, 444, 450, 451, 452, 454,
455, 466, 469.
Barons of, 25, 28, 75.
Nowell, Capt. , 285.
Peter, 197, 198.
Noyce "I Col. , instructions to,
Noyes/287; mentioned, 161.
Nutting, Ebenezer; 195, 278.
OAKS, 433, 434, 456.
Oil, Whale, 112.
Olbeni, see Albany.
Oldershaw, Mr. , 433.
Oliver, Capt. , 286, 310, 311.
Lieut. , 161.
Ommaway, 401, 407.
Onedahauet, 386.
Onondage's Castle, 70.
Ornery, L', 83.
Orange, 42.
Orders to,
Harmon, Col., and Moulton,
Capt., 335.
Smith, Capt. Thomas, 329.
White, Capt., and Wyman,
Oapt., 318.
Ossipee Pond, 268, 269, 271, 278,
283, 290.
River, 193, 289.
Otis, Col. , 275, 276.
Jno., 326.
Joseph, 427.
Otter Creek, 358.
Ousa, Phil, 11.
Owaneco, 65.
Oyster River, 331.
PALATINES, the, 457, 464.
Paper money issued, 110; see Bills
of Credit.
Paris, 13, 16, 35.
Parker, Mr. , 232.
Sergt. , 300, 302.
James, letter of, 230, 231.
Partridge, Col. Samuel, letters of,
364, 365, 374; mentioned, 359,
371, 381.
William, 56.
Pass, a desired by Davenport,
Richard, 184, 185.
for Saccamakten, 180.
Corns, 200.
Passamaquoddy. 244, 280, 281, 285.
300, 312, 446.
Patents, Charters and Grants,
Alden, Capt. John, 61.
Alexander, Sir William, 25, 74,
75, 83, 84.
Beauchamp and Leverett, 434.
Boston, 443.
Charles I, 130.
Cromwell, Oliver, 83, 84.
D'Aulnay, Charles de Menon,
177.
Georgia, Province of, 443.
La Tour, Charles de St. Etienne,
27.
Limerick, the Earl of, 56, 57, 102.
Massachusetts Bay, 3, 17, 127,
467.
Muscongus, 441.
New England, 134.
Nova Scotia, 82.
Temple, Sir Thomas, 15, 40.
William and Mary, 131.
York, Duke of, 20.
Paul, Jacob, 300.
Peace, see Treaties.
Pearis, 405.
Peas, 113.
Pegnohket, 44.
Pegwoket, 108.
Pejepscot, 163.
Peknabowet, 371.
Pell, Mr. , 179.
Peltries, 1, 2, 15, 78.
Pemaquid, treaty of 1693 at, 7;
surrendered, 12, 449, 452 t 455;
459, 465; Iberville at, 12; fort
at to be rebuilt, 13, 449, 457; a
boundary, 15, 26, 27, 78,; 79,
490
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Pemaquid, continued.
82, 84; -would have of impor-
tance, 47; why surrendered,
47, 48; fort needed at, 48; Earl
of Limerick desired grant of,
56, 102; already granted, 57;
Capt. Harmon ordered to the
neighborhood of, 204; Capt.
Cromwell ordered to cruise
near, 280; Boyes and Cargill
petition for land in, 439; set-
tlement to begin at, 440, 444,
446, 449, 451; boundary of, not
to be extended, 447; Dunbar,
the new Gentleman of, 447;
Dunbar rebuilt fort at, 449,
450, 452, 455, 457, 459, 464, 465;
Dunbar settled people at, 455;
of an important situation, 457;
formally of note, 459; a saga-
more offered to sell it to Dun-
bar, 461; but gave it to the
king, 461; mentioned, 441, 442,
456, 458; fort at, 3, 7, 12, 13,
42, 47, 48, 99, 449, 450, 452.
River, 47.
Penhallow, Justice, , 192.
Capt. John, letters of, 150, 196,
197, 199, 200, 224; mentioned,
147, 162, 185, 205, 290, 292, 301,
391.
Samuel, 56.
Pennecook ) 44 53 5g fi5 6fi 10fi
Pennycook f 44 ' Dd ' &y ' ' Ott ' 1Ub '
Indians, 44, 53, 64, 65, 68, 72.
Pennsylvania, 440.
Penobscot, title to, 25, 30; an Eng-
lish plantation, 26, 30, 75, 81;
La Tour built a fort at, 26;
resigned to the English, 26,
78; made over to Temple and
Crowne, 27, 78, 84; Temple
sold his interest to Crowne,
27, 79, 84; Temple captured
the fort at, 28; restored to
Crown, 28; Temple governor
of, 28, 79; leased, 28, 29, 79;
delivered to the French, 29,
76, 80, 81, 83, 87; the Dutch
at, 29, 78, 81; under the juris-
diction of New York, 29, 81;
John Crowne petitioned for,
29, 30; by right it belonged to
the English, 30; JohnCrowne's
title to, 74, 82, 87; Willet sent
to, 75; D'Aulney bound for,
75, 76; given to La Tour, 77;
La Tour governor of, 78; Wil-
liam Crown dwelt at, 79; to
be planted, 81; basis of the
Penobscot, continued.
claims of the French, 87, 176,
177; Indians at, 110, 144, 215;
soldiers march to, 162, 218,
222; Le fevre has no right
there, 176, 177; expedition
against, 215, 221, 260; sloops
ordered to, 221 ; new route to,
222; Indians may infest the
coast of, 280; Indians at, to be
watched, 280, 281, 305, 306;
Indians planted corn, 305 ; the
government sent to vessel,
with flag of truce to, 309;
Wenungenit, sachem at, 365,
366, 375, 386; a missionary at
endeavored to prevent the
proposed treaty, 367; Indians
hold a meeting at, 386, 404,
410; mentioned, 11, 20, 25, 83,
84, 155, 181, 216, 218, 230, 245,
311, 370, 438, 447; fort at, 154,
155, 156.
Bay, 154, 244, 312, 438.
Indians, letters of the chiefs,
446; mentioned, 58, 92, 108,
176, 216, 223, 289, 299, 301, 306,
317, 318, 322, 323, 330, 339, 349,
351, 355, 357, 360, 865, 372, 330,
382, 383, 387, 395, 397, 401, 404,
405, 406, 407, 410, 411, 413, 430,
445, 460, 461.
River, 8, 27, 47, 57, 58, 108, 146,
217, 226, 280, 281, 434, 435, 437,
438.
Pentagoet, 20, 83, 311.
Pepperell, Col. William, letters of,
190, 340, 341; mentioned, 348.
William Jr., 191.
Pequaharet, 11.
Pequakett, 108, 182, 232, 268, 270,
271, 279, 289, 410.
Indians, 380.
Perkins, Mr. , JL82.
Pernooduck, 202.
Perot, , an interpreter, 33.
Perpooduck, see Purpooduck.
Perry, , of Spurwink, house
burned, 212.
Pesomscott, see Presumpscot.
Petitions of,
Armstrong, Robert, 302.
Boyes and Cargill, 439.
Crowne, John, 82, 86.
Falmouth, 420, 421.
Heirs of the Proprietors of Fal-
mouth, 423.
Jones, Samuel, 419.
Limerick, the Earl of, 56.
Nelson, John, 16, 18, 20.
INDEX
491
Petitions of, continued.
Woodside, James, 163.
Petit River, 280, 281.
Philip, King, 65.
Phillips, Col. John, 87, 95, 158,
166, 444.
Richard, Governor of Nova
Scotia, 110, 111, 451, 452.
Walter, 445.
Phipps, Capt. Samuel, 150.
Sir William, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10,
19, 34, 176.
Physicians, need in army, see Doc-
tors.
Pines, 119, 135, 138, 412, 428, 429,
432, 433, 450, 456, 462, 469.
Pinkerin, John, 56.
Pipe Staves, 354.
Piracy, 101.
Pirates, 214, 280, 396, 404; see also
under Privateers.
Piscataqua, 12, 60, 61, 62, 153, 192,
212, 242, 357, 360, 432, 459;
fort at, 42.
River, 15, 45, 46, 295, 431.
Pitch, 433, 456. *
Plaisted, Capt, Elisha, 172.
Plymouth, Mass., 26, 75, 81, 100,
212, 303.
Council, 434, 436, 441, 455.
Point Barbekin, 47.
Pollexfen, J., 57, 87.
Popple, Allured, 291.
William, 21, 105, 114, 125, 128,
129, 143, 412, 449.
Population of Massachusetts, 106,
117.
Port Royal, 3, 18, 19, 20, 21, 77,
83, 86; fort at, 97.
Portsmouth, 46, 159, 183, 187, 222,
250, 255, 278, 282, 283, 284,
298, 349, 391, 392, 411, 415,
448
Goal,' 192.
Portugal, 112.
Pousland, Sarnl., 427.
Powder in trade, 1.
Money, 145.
Praying Meeting, a, 375.
Prescott, Dr. - , 272.
Press, the restricted, 105, 106.
Presumpscott River, 181, 238, 277,
335.
Priests, see Jesuits.
Prior, Mr. - , 87,
Privateers with Indians on board,
212, 213, 214, 280, 284, 306; see
also pirates.
Proone, Nathaniel, printed a book
without a licence, 105.
Pullen, Elmer, 427.
Purpooduck, 202.
Point, 216.
Pyke, Ensign , 188.
QHOUACH, 447.
Quack Doctor, a, 167.
Quakers, 132, 133.
Quebec, 58, 90, 109, 113, 114, 157,
165, 175, 176, 438, 461, 466.
Queries, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111,
112, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119,
143, 144.
Quincy, J., 448.
Quinovis, 367, 375, 379, 383, 388.
B
RABAROT, 405.
Ragatewawongan, 10, 11.
Ralle, Sebastian, 175, 178, 223,
369.
Ramesay, Claude de, Governor of
Montreal, 113.
Rawson, Rev. , 69.
Ray, John, 170.
Nathl., 265.
Rayment, Lieut. William, Memo-
rial of, 52, 54.
Recancourt, 242.
Relation of Alden, Col. John, 57.
60, 62.
Religion, Memorial of Massachu-
setts in Regard to, 130.
Rendax, the, 336.
Render, James, 56.
Report of Cook, Elisha, 149.
on Crowne's Petition, 86.
Resolutions in regard to settling
the Eastern parts, 354.
Revenue Commission, 30.
Rhode Island, 122, 123, 268, 295.
323, 329.
Richardson, Capt. Robert, 271.
Richmond, 148, 150, 183, 184, 188,
194, 198, 204, 206, 207, 217, 218,
225, 226, 247, 256, 312, 342,
388, 400, 406, 407, 409, 410;
fort at, 206, 243, 406, 407.
River of Canada, see St. Lawrence
River.
Robin, an Indian, 92, 93.
492
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Robinson ) Capt. David, 66, 67, 70,
Robison V 71, 73, 74.
Robeson J
John, 421, 427.
Jno., 427.
Rockamagook, 333.
Romer, Wolfgang Wilhelm, his con-
siderations concerning forts,
42, 43; memorial of, 45, 52;
forts built under his direc-
tions, 100.
Rose, Joshua, 154, 155, 156.
Rowley, 290.
Rowsick Island, 48.
Rum, Indians want none sold, 89;
in trade, 260; not to be kept
entirely from the Indians, 345;
a cask of, lost, 389.
Russell, Ja., 102.
Rutland, 175.
Ryswick, 25, 37, 97, 104, 436, 455.
S
SABIN, EBEN, 64.
John, 63, 64, 65, 69.
Saccamakten \ ., gQ ., o< 049
Sackamaten / ' '
Saccaristis, 249, 289, 290.
Saco, 51, 169, 192, 204, 350; fort
at, 13, 85.
Falls, 51, 181, 194, 199, 203, 232,
274, 335, 351, 400.
Mills, 244.
Pond, 269.
River, 8, 50, 181, 186, 193, 203,
204, 212, 238, 268, 277, 283,
350, 351, 417.
Safransway, 156, 157.
Sagadahoc, 57, 203, 205.
St. Castine, Jean Vincent, Baron
de, refused submission to Eng-
land, 20; his house pillaged,
20; instigated Indian war, 21;
traded with Alden, 58; hoped
to become an English subject,
58 ; feared to write to the gov-
ernor of New England, 58;
family of, 58; married an In-
dian, 58 ; a chief of the Indians,
58; would not visit the French
governor, 68; exposed the de-
signs of the French, 59.
Joseph Debadis de, his vessel
taken by the English, 313, 314,
326, 327; used treacherously,
314, 326; desired to be paid
for his loss, 314; his story de-
nied, 826, 327; a letter of his
read at the conference, 386;
St. Castine, Joseph Debadis de,
continued.
brought message to Capt.
Gyles, 430; mentioned 300, 304.
St. Croix River, 20, 40, 47, 58, 78,
84, 87, 280, 436, 440, 452.
St. Denniscourt, 74, 75.
St. Estienne, see La Tour.
St. Francois, 242, 410, 411.
Indians, 241, 364, 371, 372, 375,
380, 382, 402.
St. Georges, 146, 150, 154, 161, 182,
186, 204, 215, 217, 218, 219, 239,
240, 299, 304, 308, 318, 322, 331,
332, 348, 351, 357, 362, 365, 374,
378, 383, 388, 392, 403, 409, 410,
430, 440, 456; fort at, 146, 154,
156, 181, 244, 245, 250, 290, 318,
322, 330, 331, 374, 430.
River, 15, 35, 40, 41, 46, 47, 80,
86, 154, 176, 181, 205, 245, 318,
322, 355, 366, 375, 379, 385, 409,
418, 446, 447, 456, 459.
St. Johns, 12, 40, 58, 312, 383, 386,
465; fort at, 77,83, 86.
Indians, 405.
River, 32, 40, 77, 281, 289, 299,
344.
St. Lawrence River, 14, 113, 114,
429, 438.
Sakenelakud, 371.
Salem, 6, 83, 61, 100, 142, 143, 314;
fort at, 108.
Salisbury, 373.
Salmon Falls, 194, 199, 274, 275,
431.
Fishing, 50.
Salt, 114.
Salter, Oapt. , of Isle of
Shoales, 212.
Saltonstall, Gov. Gurdon, 209, 237.
Salutation of Wenoggenet, 390.
Saunders, Capt. Thomas, instruc-
tions to, 285; letter of, 238,
229; mentioned, 215, 217, 238,
240, 297, 304, 306, 307, 308, 310,
329, 330, 373, 381, 389, 393, 396,
398, 399, 403, 409.
Savages, see Indians.
Saw Mills, 124, 412, 432, 454, 463.
Sawyer, , 243, 244.
John, 421, 427.
Sayes, Col. , 179.
Sayward, Joseph, 191.
Scales, 186.
Scalps, 230, 280, 283, 288.
Scarborough, 152.
Schenectady, 42.
Schohanadie Indians, the, 382.
INDEX
493
Sichuyler, John, letters of, 233, 234,
240, 241; mentioned, 256.
Myndert, 373.
Scotland, 16, 17, 74.
Scouts, see under Soldiers.
Seals eaten by Indians, 156.
Sebacomon, 379, 393.
Sebago Pond, 181.
Secanecto, 124, 396.
Sedgewick, Maj. ,26.
Sergeant, Peter, 102.
Serges, 142.
Servants, white sold in the Prov-
ince, 106, 107.
Sewall, Jno., 427.
Saml., 102, 427.
Shapley, Nicho., 191.
Sharp, Richard, letter of, 157, 159;
mentioned, 168, 167, 169.
Sheconneto, 124, 396.
Sheep, 122, 123.
Sheepscot, 444.
Great Neck, 445.
River, 47, 204, 442, 462.
Shepardson, William, 411.
Sherburn, Capt. Henry, 158, 173.
Ships, see Vessels.
Shot in trade, 1.
Shute, Gov. Samuel, letter of, 148;
mentioned, 117, 119, 128, 145,
150, 151, 153, 156, 165, 168, 171,
251, 368, 370.
Siganectoe, 18, 20.
Signums, see Marks.
Silks, 158.
Sincler, John, 120.
Six Nations, the, 295, 336.
Skawinnadie, the, 336.
Skillen, Benj., 421, 427.
Slade, Mr. , Deputy, 432, 433,
434.
Slaves, number of in the Province,
106.
Slopers, Capt. Henry, 158,
Slocum, Capt. , 182, 220, 289,
298, 299, 304, 306, 307, 331, 332.
Small Point, 197.
Smith, James, (Judge), 128, 129,
130.
John, of Falmouth, 423.
John, of New Hampshire, 56. .
John, of North Yarmouth, 149.
Samuel (serjeant) 182.
Capt. Thomas, letters- of, 357,
358, 360, 374, 375, 388, 389;
orders to, 329; mentioned, 331,
342, 347, 348, 349, 398, 399.
Soldiers receive captives and plun-
der, 3; Wells supplied with,
43; Indians as, 60; go to Nova
Soldiers, continued.
Scotia and Penobscot, 78 ; paid
by La Tour, 78 ; number of the
militia, 106; number in Cana-
da, 113, 118; none on pay in
eastern forts, 144; to be re-
leased or retained, 159, 160;
desert, 161, 179, 186, 307, 329;
army in poor condition, 161,
marched to Penobscot, 162;
must keep a strict watch, 183;
dismissed, 190, 195, 196, 201;
203, 283; few impressed, 192;
to range the woods for In-
dians, 194; recruits, 195; at
Frost's garrison, 195, 196; de-
sire to go home, 197, 198; to
be sent in a fishing vessel, 201 ;
behave gallantly in the west,
201, 202; number of in the ser-
vice, in 1724, 203; needed at
Richmond, 206, 207; to scout
with Mohawks, 207; needed
from Connecticut, 209, 211; to
go against Penobscot, 215; to
be sent to surprise the enemy,
225, 226; to go to Piggwacot,
232, 233; well trained, 249;
should have been sent to way-
lay the Indians, 258, 266, 267,
274; muster rolls to be made
out, 203, 258, 267, 285, 286, 318,
361, 390, 394; start for Cape
Porpois, 266; bounty for, 267,
275; at Ossipee, 268, 278; re-
fused to remain in fort, 269,
270; men to be impressed for,
271, 275, 276; men from the
east, wanted as, 279; trouble
concerning the wages of, 285,
286; volunteers for the east,
287, 290; Harmon to enlist
men, 292; sent to Albany, 295;
deserters to be tried, 297, 302;
to be drawn from Berwick and
Wells, 304, 310; desire to be
dismissed, 311; dismissed, 312;
Grant's volunteers to be dis-
banded, 318, 319; to go to
Berwick to equip, 320; not to
be marched out of the Prov-
ince, 323; delay at Falmouth,
327; to march to Berwick, 333,
335; under Grant to go to
Norridgewock, 347; a list of
dead and missing wanted, 347;
forces to be reduced, 353; re-
leased, 392, 393.
Solomon, 64.
Sosep, 410.
494
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
South Carolina, 345, 436.
South Hampton, 107.
Southack, Capt. Cyprian, 46, 72,
344.
Southwell, Edward, 117.
Southworth, Lieut. Edward, 306.
Spain, 112, 158, 173, 413, 434, 449.
Spruce 456, 462.
Spurwinck, 193, 212, 243, 296, 306.
Garrison at, 292.
Stacy, Samuel, letter of, 352.
Stage Gut Point, 51.
Stamford, Lord, 57, 87.
Stanford, Ensign - - , 315, 316.
Steel, in trade, 1.
Stepney, George, 57, 87.
Sterling, Earl of, see Alexander,
Sir William.
Stevenson, James, letter of, 352.
Stoddard, Col. John, letter of, 298,
299; mentioned 236, 305, 306,
308, 309, 310, 338, 352, 359, 364,
371, 374.
Stoodly, see Studley.
Storehouse at Casco Bay, 419.
Storer, Joseph, 45.
Storey, Mr. - , of Portsmouth,
167.
Stoughton, Lieut. Gov. William,
refused to sit on the bench at
Charlestown, 6, 7; letters of,
34, 84, 86; mentioned, 30, 32,
87.
Studley, Capt. James, 158, 169, 170,
Sturgeon, 156.
Auger de, 437.
Submission of Eastern Indians, 7.
Suffolk County, 42.
Sugar, 260.
Sunc, Pere, 401, 407.
Surinam, 112.
Swasey, Capt. John, testimony of,
32.
TACONNET \ 10, 356, 392, 400, 401,
TACONNOCK / 404, 406.
Tailer, William, 211.
Talbert, Mr. , 161.
Tallcott, Peter, 232.
Tappan, see Toppan.
Tar, 120, 124, 433, 456.
Tarah, Thomas, 300.
Tarbox. Mr. , 281, 328. .
Tarr, Mr. , master of the sloop,
411.
Taylor, John, 136.
Teas, 158.
Teconet, 10; see also Taconnet.
Temple, Capt. , 163.
Sir William, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20,
22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 40, 47, 78,
79, 80, 81, 83, 84.
Terceira, 413.
Testimony of, Swasey, Capt. John,
and Jeggels, Capt. William,
32, 33.
Thacher, John, 102.
Thames River, 70.
Thaxter, Col. . Samuel, letter of,
241, 242; mentioned, 178.
Thomas, William, 427.
Tilton, Capt. , 200.
Timber, 15, 40, 46, 98, 158, 294,
295, 354, 355, 434, 440, 452;
see also Lumber.
Title to Penobscot, 25, 30.
Titmouse Island, 160.
Tom, Capt. , 63.
Toppan, the Rev. Christopher,
claims of, 445; letter of, 354,
355; mentioned, 367.
Topsham, Eng., 106.
Totems, see Marks.
Townsend, Col. Penn, 87, 95, 102.
Toxas, 410.
Trade, memorial concerning with
Indians, 1; commodities used
in, 1; Hunt's illicit, 2; to be
governed by the English, 9;
locality of New England's
chief, 18; hindered, 22, 23,
295; the French threaten con-
cerning, 31; design of the
French, 38; value of the Pis-
cataqua River for, 46; value of
Pemaquid for, 47; the fishing
the principal of New England,
51; with Indians desired, 75,
85, 99, 323, 344, 345; treaty
concerning, 89, 90; at Quebec,
109; at Montreal, 109; on the
Mississippi, 109; a fort at
Canso would assist, 110; dis-
couraged by lack of coinage,
110; paper money issued, 110;
to prevent illicit, 111; com-
modities issuedj 112; of Can-
ada, 113; laws concerning, 114,
115, 116; questions concern-
ing, 118; a pernicious material
in, 122; wool, 123; with In-
dians, 239; concerning duties
and freighting, 260; with Great
Britain, 261; injured by Bills
of Credit, 261, 262, 263, 264,
265, 291, 4 i 6T; value of the fish-
eries of New England, 294;
INDEX
495
Trade, continued.
between the French and In-
dians, 323; none with Indians
till after the peace, 330; at a
stand still, 413; Bills of Credit
and the, 413, 414; balance in
favor of England, 414; the In-
dians', 417; should be free in
the Province of Georgia, 444;
if just with the Indians they
will be friendly with the Eng-
lish, 449; will improve when
a fort is built at Pemaquid,
455.
Lords Commissioners of, 18, 21,
25, 37, 41, 66, 67, 72, 82, 86,
104, 114, 130, 142, 143, 157, 165,
166, 221, 260, 291, 296, 302, 303,
340, 368, 436, 439, 440, 441, 444,
448, 451, 452, 453, 454, 457, 464,
465, 466.
Trading Houses, at Casco Bay, 74,
85, 99, 419; wanted at Merry
Meeting, 93; for the Maquas,
185 ; the keeper of one a rogue,
254; will keep the Indians in
the interest of the English,
344; Indians supplied with all
necessaries at the, 363; amount
of furs at, 403; talk of moving
one, 404; new master desired
at Winter Harbor, 416; men-
tioned, 361, 362, 363, 366, 461.
Trask, Samuel, redeemed, 304; to
be a pilot, 304.
Treaties of,
Albany, (Oct., 1700), 88.
Breda, (July 31, 1667), 14, 17, 19,
29, 35, 40, 87.
Casco, (June, 1701), 87, 95, 395,
406, 469.
Neutrality, (1686), 22, 31, 37.
Pemaquid (Aug. 11, 1693), 7, 10,
13, 176.
Ryswick, (Sept. 10, 20, 1697),
21, 25, 37, 97, 104, 436, 455,
459.
Utrecht, (April 11, 1713), 177,
178, 294, 368, 437.
Treaties with,
Eastern Indians, (1725), 250,353.
Maquas, (Oct., 1700), 95.
Mohawks, (1724), 209.
Norridgewocks, (July 10, 1727),
382, 394, 406, 407, 409, 410, 419.
Penobscots, St. Johns and Cape
Sable Indians, (1725), 298, 299,
323, 351, 385, 413.
St. Francois Indians, (1725), 241,
371, 380.
Trees, 98, 119, 120, 134, 136, 137,
140, 158, 172, 432, 433, 434, 446,
450, 454, 456, 462, 469.
Trescot, Ensign , 257, 266, 396.
Mr. , 381.
Zech., letters of, 156, 157, 207,
208.
Trois Rivieres, 109.
Truck Houses, see Trading Houses.
Master, 361, 418.
Turpentine, 112, 124.
Tyler, John, 427.
Tyng, Edward, 427.
Capt. Edward, 424.
Eleazer, letters of, 268, 269, 271,
272, 277; mentioned, 270, 283.
U
UTRECHT, 177, 178, 294, 368, 437.
V
VAN BRUGH, PETER, 334, 336, 337.
Van Rensselaer, Henrich, 334, 373.
Vaudreuil, Philip de Rignaud,
Marquis de, 175, 207, 223, 233,
234, 236, 293, 352.
Vaughan, Mr. , of Piscataqua,
357, 360.
William, letter of, 390, 391.
Vernon, James, 18, 65, 67.
Vessels, number of and tonnage of
those belonging to Massachu-
setts, 111, 114; duties on, 115,
116, 117; number of the French
in the fisheries, 114; the Pe-
nobscots seize some belonging
to the English, 280; Indians
use them to infest the shore,
284; stolen to use in fishing,
289; seized at Cape Neger, 303;
taken from Indians, 804; In-
dians stole those belonging to
Stacy and Chapman, 352, 353;
mast ship of New Hampshire,
459.
Dolphin, 32.
Endeavor, 169.
Elizabeth, 73.
Envieux, 31.
Industry, 411.
Lancaster, 172.
Martha, 419. .
Merry Meeting, A 284, 298, 329.
Renome"e, 69.
Samuel and Mary, 4.
Sarah, 457.
Sea Flower, 473.
Sparrow, 32.
Stratton's, 148.
496
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Vessels, continued.
Victor, 357, 360, 381, 396.
Villebon, Chevalier de, letter of,
30, 32; mentioned, 34, 40.
Vineyard, the, 267.
Vo, Capt. , 245.
Volunteers, see under Soldiers.
Vuarre, 74.
W
WAGEB, one guinea against thirty,
443.
Wainwright, John, letters of, 213,
298, 299; mentioned, 305, 306,
308, 309.
Samuel, trtickmaster, letter of,
430, 431; mentioned, 430.
Waldo, Cornelius, 423.
Samuel, 422, 427.
Waldron, Richard, 56, 60, 61, 125.
Walker, Benj., 423.
John, 423.
Walove, Mr. , agent for mast
contractor, 454, 463.
Walton, Col. Shadrach, 153, 155,
156, 190, 252, 298, 308.
Wampum Belts, 336, 376, 377, 386,
390, 395, 399, 408.
Wandol, Jacob, 157.
Wanopolas Rial \ A q ft
Wenopolas / 4rfu<
Wasahombomet, 95.
Water Mills, 260.
Wawenorawot, 386.
Wawhe, 371.
Weaver, Mr. , 66, 67, 68, 70,
71.
Webenes, 11.
Weeks, Nicholas, 191.
Weenokson, 10.
Wells, suitably supplied with sol-
diers, 43; desired ammunition,
43; Indians about, 51, 52, 53,
151, 152, 189; soldiers to be
drawn from, 232, 304; a head-
quarters for troops, 287; Noyes
ordered to, 287; men to go to,
291; troops at dismissed, 312;
to be guarded, 332; mentioned,
315, 316, 332; fort at, 186.
We-na-muggen, 405.
Wenegonett
Wenoggenet
Wenogonet
Wenongahewet
Wenungenit
Wenungennet
405.
Wenemonet, 308, 309.
letters of, 365,
366, 409; men-
tioned, 10, 358,
362,870,375,376,
377, 378, 389, 394,
395, 399, 403, 404,
Wenongahewet, 10.
Wentworth, Capt. Benj., 172, 226
Lieut. Gov. John, letters of, 255,
256, 278, 279, 283, 284, 411, 415,
416, 448, 450; mentioned, 167,
171, 271, 287, 298, 305, 311, 317,
341, 463.
Wessembomet, 10.
Westbrook, Col. Thomas, letters
of, 146, 147, 153, 155, 156, 159,
161, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 187,
188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194,
195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 201, 202,
203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 215, 216,
218, 220, 221, 222, 226, 227, 238,
243, 244, 248, 249, 259, 266, 267,
273, 274, 275, 277, 278, 288, 289,
290, 292, 296, 299, 300, 301, 304,
310, 311, 312, 316, 320, 331, 332,
333, 334, 337, 338, 339, 341, 349,
350, 357; mentioned, 150, 179,
182, 184, 187, 188, 190, 191, 193,
195, 198, 212, 218, 219, 224, 225,
232, 244, 245, 246, 247, 256, 257,
266, 268, 279, 281, 284, 285, 286,
288, 297, 305, 306, 307, 309, 315,
316, 318, 319, 327, 328, 332, 333,
339, 340, 347, 423, 427, 482.
Western Islands, the, 413.
Westfield, 211, 336.
West Indies, 113, 122, 264.
Wewenock, 242.
Wewonorawed, 408.
Whaleboat, service, the, 217, 218,
244, 275, 286, 301, 307, 309.
Whale fishery, the, 225, 347.
Wheelwright, Col. , 187, 189,
192, 225, 232, 233, 397, 426.
John, letters of, 45, 151, 152.
Capt. Samuel, letter of, 315, 316;
mentioned, 310, 333, 334.
White Hills, the, 311.
White, Capt. , 271, 277, 318.
Whiting, Samuel, 269.
Whittemore, Mr. , 162.
Willard, Capt. , 271.
the Rev. Joseph, killed, 175, 176.
Josiah, letters of, 311, 312, 338,
347, 349, 350, 351, 381; men-
tioned, 134, 150, 211, 218, 287,
296, 349, 419, 428, 448.
Willet, Capt. Thomas, 75, 76.
William III, 8, 88, 89, 90, 92, 127,
181, 436, 438, 460.
Williams, Ensign , 313.
Wincittico Falls, 445.
Wind mills, 260.
Wines, 115, 158, 169, 170.
Wing, John, 11.
Winick's Neck, 193.
INDEX
497
Winnebessehkick, 44.
Winnepesaukee, 204.
Winnett, , 219.
Winslow, Capt. , killed, 205,
206.
Lieut. , 162.
Mr. , 306.
Winsor, Court at, 326.
Winter Harbor, 232, 298, 305, 35 ! ,
416, 417, 418, 459; fort at, 50,
61, 108, 148, 449.
Winthrop, Gov. John, 53.
Witchcraft, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Woahaway, 375.
Wood Island, 46.
Woodman, John, 56.
Woods, Sergt. Nath., 269.
Woodside, Ensign , 255.
Capt. James, 416, 418.
the Rev. James, petition of, 163,
165.
William, letter of, 373.
Woodstock, 63, 64, 68, 69.
Woolens, 111, 122, 123, 142, 261,
414.
Woweenocks, the, letter from the
chief of, 400, 401; mentioned,
380, 405, 406, 410, 413.
Wowenog, 392, 405.
Wowerena, 356, 405.
Wright, Ensign , 192.
Wright, continued.
Lieut. Benj., 312, 376, 378, 391,
392, 393.
Wummock, Aaron, 300.
Wyllys, Hez., letter of, 235, 237.
Wyman, Capt. , 318.
Wynongonet, 461.
Wyworney, 401.
XAVIEB, FBANCIS, 396.
Xtian, 272.
YA-HA-HAM-MA-WIT, 405.
York, 147, 152, 160, 183, 185, 187,
188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 196,
197, 199, 232, 238, 274, 279, 283,
310, 311, 315, 316, 320, 321, 333,
335, 338, 339, 342; fort at, 186.
Mr. , 202.
Benjamin, 243, 421, 427.
County, 52, 108, 191, 287, 292,
296, 354, 411, 431.
Duke of, 29, 441; see also James
II.
John, 149.
River, 190, 196.
Young, Mr. , 275.
Joseph, 191.
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