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dirins of Canada, he meant to procure a force suf- 

 ficient to protect their own frontiers ; and to 

 h :ve always in reserve, a body of savages well 

 acquainted with the Enghsh frontiers, and the 

 iiiost favourable times and places of carrying 

 dcsol.uion among them.* The event justified 

 Ms ex^Tectations. From none of the Indian 

 tribes had the provinces of New-Hampshire and 

 Massachusetts suffered so much, as from the 

 savages of this village and tribe. They made 

 their incursions through the river St. Francois 

 to lake Memphrcmagog, and from thence down 

 Connecticut river to the English settlements ; 

 nnd had been much distinguished by the slaugh- 

 ter and destruction they had spread among the 

 advanced settlements, by the number of their 

 scalps and captives, and by the enormity of their 

 crueitv and barbaritv. 



M '.jor Rogers was appointed by general Am- 

 herst, to manage an excursion against this bar- 

 b.;rous tribe and to carry the horrors of war into 

 the midst of Canada. Rogers was from the 

 province of New-Hampshire. He commanded 

 a company so early as the year 1755; and had 

 become so flimous for the number, boldness and 

 success of his enterprises, that lord Loudon had 

 set him at the head of the ranging companies^ 

 put him upon the British establishment and pay, 

 till he rose to the rank of a major. Amherst 

 esteemed him a proper person to retaliate on an 

 I idian viliasce, sjme of the measures thev had 

 BO ofte.i aciel, against the advanced P^nglish 

 fori 3 and settlements. Tiie orders which he 



• ilutclxiajsn's Hist* MassicUus-tts, Vol. 2, p. iji. 



