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very bare, lying fo long at Bqfton before they imbark'd, 

 that they had Sold every thing they could make a Peny 

 of; fome tying Shot & Powder in the corners of their 

 Blankets. He being in Town, juft going to Breakfaft, 

 there was an Alarm, fo he ordered all the Souldiers in the 

 Town to Move away as fall as they could, where the firing 

 was; and he with what Men more were with him of his 

 Souldiers, Mov'd immediately, and meeting with Capt. 

 Brackits^ Sons, who told him their Father was taken, and 

 that they faw a great Army of Indians in their Fathers 

 Orchard, 40 &c. By this time our Indians that wanted 

 bags and horns were fitted, but wanted more Ammunition: 

 prefently came a Meffenger to him from the Town & in- 

 formed him, That they had knock'd out the heads of fev- 



33 Anthony Brachett, perhaps fon of 

 Anthony, who was at Portfmouth, 1640, 

 was at Falmouth as witnefs to a deliv- 

 ery of poffeffion 1662 ; married (1) Ann, 

 eldeft daughter of Michael Mitton, and 

 fettled on the 100 acres granted her at 

 Back Cove by George Cleeves. He 

 fubfequently enlarged his farm to 400 

 acres. He was conftable 1664; juror 

 1666; commiffioner 1668; was taken 

 captive, with his wife, five children, 

 and a negro fervant, by the Indians 11 

 Aug., 1676, but efcaped by the bold 

 ufe of an old, dilapidated birch canoe : 

 his wife Ann died foon after, and, 30 

 Sept., 1679, he married (2) Sufanna, 

 eldeft daughter of Abraham Drake, 

 sen., of Hampton; was Lieut. 1682; 

 Capt. 1689 > was U1 °t D y the Indians in 

 this engagement at his houfe on Back 



Cove. He had by the firft wife (1) 

 Anthony, (2) Seth, (3) Mary, (4) Ke- 

 zia, (5) Elinor; by the fecond, (6) 

 Jane, (7) Zipporah, (8) Zachariah, (9) 

 Ann, (10) Sufanna. [Willis's Hijt. 

 Port. 101, 106, in, 13S, 141, 156, 159, 

 169, 172, 176, 181, 187, 202, 20S, 214, 

 219, 225, 251, 26S, 2S0, 290; Drake's 

 Hubbard, ii : 139.] 



40 Brackett's farm lay on the W. 

 fhore of Back Cove, above the creek, on 

 the ground now occupied by the man- 

 fion of James Deering, and the orchard 

 extended toward the point. [Willis's 

 Hiji. Port. 278.] The Indians had gone 

 round, under cover of the darknefs of 

 the night, with their canoes from Peak's 

 Ifland up Cafco River or Back Cove ; 

 from either of which Brackett's farm 

 was accelfible. 



