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gave testimony at Boston to the Commissioners in 1797, stated on their 
return that they had been bribed to say that the eastern river or Maga- 
guadavic was the St. Croix. This statement of theirs is either true or 
not true; if true it helps to explain their testimony; if not true it 
shows that their word was not to be relied upon. I think it is quite 
possible, as earlier stated, that there is some truth in the Indian tradi- 
tion that a cross was erected by early voyagers at the mouth of the 
Magaguadavic and that hence that river became known to them as the 
River where the Cross was erected, and hence from their point of view 
the St. Croix. But at the same time it must be noted that there was 
at this time another influence at work among them sufficient to explain 
their testimony on other grounds. John Allan, well-known in local 
annals as the active and enterprising Nova Scotian who endeavoured to 
carry Nova Scotia, and especially the part of it now forming New 
Brunswick with the American Colonies,’ was at this time Indian agent 
at Passamaquoddy and held great influence with the Indians there. 
Allan was a violent partizan, and took a most active interest in the 
efforts to advance the interests of the American States in this quarter. 
It was he who warned the St. Andrew’s settlers to remove in 1783 (page 
244), and his correspondence shows his activity in other respects. 
Naturally all his efforts would be directed to furthering his belief that 
the Magaguadavic was the boundary. His opinion on this subject is 
shown not only by his letters in 1783, already (page 244) referred to, 
but also by his map of 1786, reproduced herewith (Map No. 21). If, 
then, the Indians were instructed or even if they were bribed, we can 
hardly doubt that it was through Allan’s influence. At the same time 
there is no direct proof of this, and it is but a presumption, though 
one as I believe having the greatest probability. The testimony of the 
white settlers was also taken in 1796 and though several testified they 
had known the Magaguadavic as the St. Croix, Alexander Hodges testi- 
fied that the Scoodic only had been known to him as the St. Croix, and 
this was sustained by two other early settlers, named Brown and Frost. 
John Curry, another early settler, testified that Scoodic Magaguada- 
vic and Cobscook were all known as the St. Croix? Of much import- 
ance in this connection was the map of Wright, prepared in 1772, by 

1 As fully set forth in Kidder’s Military Operations in Eastern Maine and 
Nova Scotia during the Revolution (Albany, 1867). 
2 Kilby, who takes the American view of the boundary question, published 
in his “ Eastport and Passamaquoddy ” a number of these depositions. TE 
happens however that all published by him favor the American claim to the 
Magaguadavic, while none of those opposed are published. It is however very 
probable that Mr. Kilby’s set of these papers (which are now in the Library 
of the Maine Historical Society) was incomplete, and happened to include 
only those he gives. 
