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and when they came near the Fort Maj. Church made a 

 halt, ordering the Captains to draw out of their ieveral 

 Companies 60 of their meaneft men, to be a guard to the 

 Doctor & Snapfacks; 95 being not a Mile from faid Fort; 

 and then Moving towards the Fort, they faw young Doney m 

 and his Wife, with two EngliJJi Captives: the faid Doncy 

 made his efcape to the Fort, his Wife was mot down, and 

 fo the two poor Captives releas'd out of their bondage. 

 The faid Maj. Church and Capt. Walton'^ made no ftop, 

 making the belt of their way to the Fort with fome of 

 the Army, in hopes of getting to the Fort before young 



the next day at dawn, and came within 

 fight of the fort about 2 P. M. [Me. 

 Hiji. Coll. iii : 322.] 



95 f< i n fhort time came to the westerly 

 branch of the Great River, and there 

 left our baggage and thofe men that 

 were tired, and made them up to forty 

 men to guard the Doctor." Church's 

 Letter [Drake's Baylies., Pt. v : 91.] 



96 In his Book of the Indians [p. 307], 

 Mr. Drake gives it as his opinion that 

 this Doney, or Dony, family were French 

 refidents among the Indians, like Cas- 

 tiu, and that this fon was a half-breed. 

 Williamfon [i : 624] fays he was one of 

 the Sokokis (or Sockkigones), who were 

 the aborigines of the Saco valley. Sul- 

 livan \HiJt. Dift. Me. 180] calls old 

 Doney " a lavage." Mather {Magnalia, 

 B. vii : 86, 87] enumerates Robin Doney 

 among the Sagamores who figned the 

 " iubmiffion " at Pemmaquid in 1693, 

 and lays he was feized at Saco within a 

 year after. He is thought to have been 

 the '■ Old Doney " mentioned in a letter 



written by Church, and the father of 

 this fugitive. Williamfon refers to him 

 [i. 642] with Bomafeen. 



W ShadracJi Walton, of Great Ifland 

 (now Newcaftle, N.H.), was fecond fon 

 of George and Alice, was b. 1658, was 

 Captain in 1690; Major in the attack on 

 Port Royal in 1707; Colonel of New- 

 Hamplhire troops in 1710; Colonel of 

 the Rangers in active fervice the next 

 winter; was made a Royal Counfellor 

 in 1716; quieted the Eaftern Indians in 

 1720; was fenior member and Prelident 

 of the Council Board in 1733 ; was Judge 

 C. C. P. 1695-1698; Judge S. C. 1698, 

 1699; and again Judge C. C. P. 1716- 

 1737. He died 3 Oct., 1741, aged 83. 

 He was father of George; Benjamin 

 (H. U. 1729, a minifter) ; Elizabeth 

 (m. Keefe) ; Abigail (m. Long) ; Sarah 

 (m. Sbeafe) ; Mary (m. Randall, and 

 became g. g. m. of the founder of the 

 '• Free- V\ ill Baptift Connection.") [Rev. 

 A. II. Quint, D.D.. in N. E. Hijt. d- 

 Gen. Reg. ix : 57.] 



