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Commiffion Officers of yottr feveral Companies, when it may 

 be obtained, the greater part of whom to determine, and fo 

 the Lord of Hofi the God of Armies go along with you, and 

 be your Conducl. Given under my hand the day and year 

 abovefaid. Per Robert Pike. 



Being read}', 92 they took the firft opportunity and made 

 the beft of their way to Pejepfcot Fort, 93 where they found 

 nothing. From thence they March'd to Ameras-cogen? x 



92 Church's letter to Gov. Hinckley, 

 of date 30 Sept., 1690, narrating the 

 events of this expedition — lately printed 

 by Mr. S. G. Drake in his additions to 

 Baylies's Plymouth [pp. 90-97] — fays, 

 "We fett faile from Pifcataqua upon 

 the io ,h inftant, at 2 in the afternoon, 

 and came the 11 th in the night amongft 

 the Illands in Cafco Bay." He proceeds 

 as follows : — 



" Laid the veffells clofe out of fight 

 — went on fhore at breake of day, upon 

 an Ifland that had been inhabited by 

 the Englifh, called Capoag \_C//ebcagne, 

 or C/tebacco, now known as Great Gc- 

 bcag, and called- " Sheab " on the " An- 

 cient Plan."] We ranged about, found 

 where the enemie had lately been, but 

 were drawn off. This was the twelfth 

 day. In the evening we wayed and 

 came down to Macquait \Maquoit, or 

 Marquoit, the N. E. termination of 

 Mngocook bay, in Freeport, Me.], and 

 the 13th day about 2 : of the clocke in 

 the morning we landed our men filently 

 upon the Maine ; and leaveing fouldiers 

 on board to keep the veffells, we marched 

 in the night up to Pochipfcutt [Pejep- 



fcot] fort, — diuided the army into : 3 : 

 companies, furrounded the fort, and 

 when daylight appeared we found that 

 the enemie were removed not long be- 

 fore we came there ; alfo the fouldiers 

 found fome little plunder, and a barn 

 of corn." 



93 Williamfon \Hift. Me. i : 624] 

 makes the carelefs miftake of repre- 

 fenting the flight of Doney, the releafe 

 of the captives, &c, which really took 

 place on the next day (Sabbath, 14 

 Sept., 1690) at the upper falls, as 

 taking place here at Brunfwick Lower 

 Falls. 



9* Church fays in his letter [fee note 

 92, ante~\ that he went up "on the S. 

 W. fide of the river altho the way was 

 extream difficult : yet it was a more 

 obfeure way : the enemie ufeing to 

 march on the N. E. fide." He further 

 fays [p. 91] that they marched on the 

 fame day (Saturday) on which they 

 reached Pejepfcot, " above the middle 

 falls, about 20 miles," when it rained 

 hard, and they there encamped. This 

 was at Lewifton Falls, called by the In- 

 dians Amityonpontook. They marched 



