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now here prefent at their Randezvouz at Portfmouth / and 

 they are alike required to obey you : and with them to Sail 

 Eaflivard by the firjl opportunity to Cafco, or Places Adja- 

 cent, that may be mofl commodious for Landing with fafety 

 and fecrefy, and to vijit the Enemy French & Indians at 

 their head quarters at Ameras-cogen, 01 Pejepfcot, or any 

 other Plat, according as you may have hope or intelligence of 

 the Refidcnt of the Enemy ; nfing always your utmofl in- 

 deavour for the prefervation of your own Men, and the kill- 

 ing, deflroying and utterly rooting out the Enemy wherefocver 

 they may be found ; as alfo as much as may poffibly be done 

 for the redeeming or recovering of 07ir Captives in any 

 Places. 



You being then arrived, & undcrflanding your way, to 

 take your Journey back again either by Land or Water, 

 as you fJiall judge mojl convenient for the accomplifliing of 

 the end intended ; and to give intelligence always of your 

 motions whenfocver you can with fafety and convenience. 



Laftly, in all to confult your Council the Commanders or 



91 Androfcoggin. On a rude pen- map is clearly contemporaneous, and 



drawn map [in the Connecticut Ar- may have been traced by Church to 



chives, War. Vol. III. Doc. 86 (for affift their deliberations, — this is writ- 



a copy of which I am indebted to ten in two words, thus, Ambrofs Coga?i, 



the kindnefs of the Hon. J. Hammond and is ftated to be " about So myle from 



Trumbull)], bearing notes in the hand- the fea." It was fituated upon a terri- 



writing of Hon. William Pitkin, who tory which ufed to be called by the 



was one of the two Connecticut Com- Indians Roccamccco, and was the head- 



miflioners at the meeting in Bofton, quarters of the Androfcoggin tribe, and 



which declared war with the Eaftern feems to have been near the great Pcn- 



Indians, and appointed Church com- nacook falls on the Androfcoggin river, 



mander (fee note 27, ante), — which in Rumford. [Me. Ilift. Coll. iii : 323.] 

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