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upon then actual possession, a right partially at least admitted by the 
French. Despite this treaty, however, and the earlier cession of all 
Acadia to the Penobscot to the French, the English, basing their claim, 
of course, upon the charters of 1664 and 1674, continued to claim Sag- 
adahock, to which they had put forth a claim as early as 1681 (N.Y. 
Colonial Documents, IX., 917).4 Their efforts to take possession of it in 
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1688 brought reprisals from the French and Indians, and, as a counter- 
reprisal by the English, the taking of Port Royal in 1690. In conse- 
quence of the capture of this place, the English again claimed Acadia, 
and, in the new charter granted Massachusetts in 1691 by William and 

? The claim of Massachusetts to the country between the Kennebec and 
the St. Croix is elaborately set forth in an appendix to the Votes of the 
House of Representatives (of Massachusetts) for the year 1762. 
