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the uaval contingent of the New England expedition, does not afterwards appear in the 

 history of the times; but the oHicer next in rank, Captain Eons of the Shirley galley, a 

 two-masted vessel, with twenty-four guns, was of great assistance to the royal sloop 

 Mermaid in the capture of the Vigilante,' and after the capture of the town he carried 

 duplicate despatches communicating the news to the government of England, where his 

 vessel was taken into the British service, and he himself received a commission as post 

 captain in the royal navy. He took part in various expeditious for the reduction of 

 French America, and assisted in the second siege of Louisbourg. It was on board his 

 ship that Gi-eneral Wolfe issued his last order before proceediug to ascend the heights of 

 Quebec. He became, in later life, a member of the executive council of Nova Scotia, and 

 settled in the city of Halifax, at the foundation of which he was present as a commander 

 of one of the ships that accompanied Governor Cornwallis to the province. Of all the 

 officers of the colonial land forces General Wolcott was the most advanced in years, but 

 he lived to speak of this memorable expedition until the ripe age of eighty-nine, and to 

 fill the responsible position of governor of his province.- His name has been rendered 

 famous, not only by his part in the Louisbourg siege, but by his grandson, who was one 

 of the signers of the declaration of independence. Lieutenant-Colonel Moulton, who had 

 seen much service in the wars with the Indians previous to 1V45, filled several important 

 positions in the town of York, a place full of historic memories, in the state of Maine. 

 Among the tombstones of the burying ground, where the grass grows rank and matted, 

 there is one on which can still be deciphered, with a little trouble, the name, and part of 

 the epitaph, of one of those stern old Puritan ministers who accompanied the expedition 

 to Louisbourg. The whole epitaph once read as follows : 



'■ Here lies the body of the 



REVD. SAMUEL MOODY, A. M. 



The zealous, faithful, and successful pastor of the 



Fii'st Church of Christ in York. 



Was born in Newbuiy, January 4th, 1675. 



Graduated lGli7. Came hither, May IGth. 



Died here November ]3tli, 1747. 



For his further character read the 2nd Corinthians, 



3i'd chapter and first si.x verses." 



This old clergyman of York, an uncle of Mrs. Pepperrell, appears to have been remarkable 

 for the length of his prayers, and it is related of him, that, when he was called upon to 

 ask a blessing at a banquet given by the general to his officers at Louisbourg, in celebra- 

 tion of its capture, the guests awaited his performance with fear and trembling ; but 

 greatly to their surprise, instead of the long, tedious grace they expected, he contented 

 himself with a few memorable words which appear now to have given him a position in 

 history that none of his prolix sermons or supplications could possibly have done. 



' A galley is described as usually a snow, as the largest two-masted vessels were often calleJ, and would seom 

 to have carried all her guns on a continuous deck, without the higher tiers at the end, which was customary with 

 frigates, built low only at the waist. See Preble, " N. E. H. & Gen. Reg.," ISliS, p. 306, cited by the " Nar. & Crit. 

 Hist, of Am.," V- 438, n. C. H. Smith (ih. 411) has inaccurately given credit to ïyng for this exploit. 



^ Mr. D. Brymner ("Can. Archives," 1886) appears to think Wolcott was governor when he joined the expe- 

 dition ; the best authorities mention liim as deputy -governor. 



