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wink, and Blew Point ; 59 and went up Kennebeck River/' 0 

 but to little effect. And now Winter drawing near, he 

 received orders from the Government of the Majfachufetts- 

 Bay, to fettle all the Garrifons, and put in fuitable Officers 

 according to his beft difcretion, and to fend home all his 

 Souldiers the Volunteers and tranfports; which orders he 

 prefently attended. 01 Being oblig'd to buy him a Horfe to 



39 Blue Point was in the S.-W. part 

 of the town of Scarborough, on Saco 

 line, not far W. of Black Point. The 

 garrifon appears to have been at Philip 

 FoxwelPs (fon of Richard) houfe, near- 

 ly oppofite to where Mill Creek flows 

 into the Ozvajkoag. 



m The mouth of the Kennebec is 

 fcarcely more than 30 miles N. E. from 

 Falmouth. Williamfon fays Church 

 afcended the river " feveral leagues." 

 [Hijt. Me. i : 617.] 



61 The following document — among 

 the valuable additions recently made to 

 Baylies's Memoir of Plymouth Colony, 

 by Mr. S. G. Drake — demands a place 

 here, defcribing, as it does. Church's 

 action not merely, but difclofing, alio, 

 the names of fo many of his com- 

 panions, and the proportions in which 

 they were distributed among the vari* 

 ous garrifons : — 



" Province of Maine 



"Scarborough the tith 

 Nouember, 1689. 



" Att a Councill of warr held at the 

 point Garrifon Prefent Major Benjemen 

 Church, Capt Sylvanus Dauis, Capt. 

 William Baffin, Capt Simon Willard, 

 with the reft of the Comiffion Offecers 

 of Saco, Felmouth and Scarborough. 



" Itt is Ordered that one hundred 

 theire Majefties Horfes now in this pref- 

 ent Exspedition againft the Coman 

 Enimie, be detached out of the feu- 

 erall Companyes, which mould number 

 for the fecurity of the Garrifons there 

 Refident, and in Cafe any of the Ene- 

 mie be difcovered or Any tracks of 

 them be made in this winter Seafon. 

 untill further force be fent that may 

 Advance to theire head Quarters. 



"Souldiers Quartered in the towne 

 Ship of Saco twenty men ; in theire 

 two Garrifons. In the townfhip of 

 Scarborough twenty men in theire 

 Garrifons viz: three Sperwink In- 

 cluded. 



"Felmouth the 13 Nouember: Att 

 a Councill of Warr held in perfuance 

 of what is above written, by Major 

 Benjamen Church, and the officers 

 abovefaid. Added Capt Nathaniel 

 Hall, Leiut Thaddeus Clark, Leiut 

 Elilha Andrews, Mr. Elifha Gallifon. 

 Leiut George Ingerfoll, Leiut Ambrous 

 Davis, Mr. Robert Lawrance, Mr. John 

 Palmer and others &c. 



" Itt is ordered that fixty fouldjers be 

 Quartered in Felmouth, befides the 

 Inhabitents, and the Souldjers that 

 mall Belonge to the ftbart, which fliall 



