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giving them the Victory, and caufing the Enemy to fly 

 with fhame, who never gave one fhout at their drawing 

 off. The poor Inhabitants wonderfully rejoyced that the 

 Almighty had favoured them fo much: laying, That if 

 Maj. Church with his Forces had not come at that junc- 

 ture of time, they had been all cut off ; and faid fur- [64] 

 ther, That it was the flrlt. time that ever the Eaftward In- 

 dians had been put to flight, and the faid Church with his 

 Volunteers were wonderfully preferved, having never a 

 man kill'd out right, and but one Indian mortally wounded, 

 who dy'd, 56 feveral more being badly wounded, but re- 

 covered. 



After this ingagement Maj. Church with his Forces 

 ranging all the Country thereabout, in purfuit of the En- 

 emy ; and vifiting all the Garrifons, at 5 " 'Black Point, 5S Spur- 



wrote. 27 Sept., faying, " We know not 

 yet what damage we did to the enemy 

 in our laft engagement, but feveral 

 tilings that they left behind them on 

 their flight we found yefterday, which 

 was guncafes and ftockings and other 

 things of fome value, together with 

 other iigns that make us think that 

 we did them confiderable damage." 

 [3 Mafs. I lift. Coll. i : 92.] 



53 Mr. Drake [Book of Ind. 270.] 

 ftates, on the authority of the MS. let- 

 ter of Capt. Baffett. that the Indian 

 who was killed was named Sam MoJ'es. 

 [See the letter. Drake's Baylies's Plym- 

 outh, p. 77.] 



Black Point lies in the town of 

 Scarborough, on the more E. of the 

 mouth of the Owafkoag River, and be- 



tween it and the Spurwink. Origi- 

 nally all the country between Saco and 

 Spurwink was called Black Point. 

 [Me. Hiji. Coll. iii: 17.] In 1681 a 

 ftrong fort was built " upon the plains 

 between Moor's Brook and the South- 

 eaft end of the great pond," at the in- 

 ftance of Capt. Jolhua Scottow, the 

 garrifon of which, at this time, was 

 under command of his fon Thomas. 

 [Ibid. 132, 133.] 



58 Spur-Mink fettlement lay between 

 the mouth of Spurwink River and Cape 

 Elizabeth, in the foutherly angle of the 

 town of Cape Elizabeth. The garrifon 

 feems to have been at the houfe of Do- 

 minicus, fon of Rev. Robert Jordan. 

 [Me. Hift. Coll. iii : 137 ; Williamfon's 

 Hijt. Me. i : 29.] 



