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dressed and painted like their red allies. " We 

 demanded," he says, " if there were any French 

 among them, and if they would give us quarter. 

 They answered that they were Frenchmen, and 

 that they would give us good quarter. Upon this, 

 we sent out to them again to know from whence 

 they came, and if they would give us good quarter 

 for our men, women, and children, both wounded 

 and sound, and (to demand) that we should have 

 liberty to march to the next English town, and 

 have a guard for our defence and safety ; then we 

 would surrender ; and also that the governour of 

 the French should hold up his hand and swear by 

 the great and ever living God . that the several 

 articles should be performed : all which he did 

 solemnly swear." 



The survivors of the garrison now filed through 

 the gate, and laid clown their arms. They with 

 their women and children were thereupon aban- 

 doned to the Indians, who murdered many of them, 

 and carried off the rest. When Davis protested 

 against this breach of faith, he was told that he and 

 his countrymen were rebels against their lawful 

 king, James II. After spiking the cannon, burning 

 the fort, and destroying all the neighboring settle- 

 ments, the triumphant allies departed for their re- 

 spective homes, leaving the slain unburied where 

 they had fallen. 1 



1 Their remains were buried by Captain Church, three years later. 



On the capture of Fort Loyal, compare Monseignat and La Potherie 

 with Mather, Magnolia, II. 603, and the Declaration of Sylvanus Davis, 

 in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., I. 101. Davis makes curious mistakes in regard to 

 French names, his rustic ear not being accustomed to the accents of the 

 Gallic tongue. He calls Courtemanche, Monsieur Corte de March, and 



