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run, 113 who left their Canoo's and Provifions to ours; 114 and 

 old Doney, 115 and one Thomas Baker an Englifh Man who 

 was a Prifoner amongft them, were up at the Falls and heard 

 the Guns fire, expected the other Indians were come to 

 their Affiftance, fo came down the River in a Canoo, but 

 when they perceived that there was EngliJIi as well as 

 Indians, old Doney run the Canoo a more, and ran over 

 Bakers head and followed the reft, and then Baker came 

 to ours ; and gave an account of the Bever hid at Pejepfcot 

 plain: and coming to the place where the plunder was, the 

 Major fent a Scout to Pejepfcot Fort, to fee if they could 

 make any difcovery of the Enemies Tracks, or could dif- 

 cover any coming up the River; who return'd and faid 

 they faw nothing but our old Tracks at faid Fort, &c. w ' 



fents the enemy as being all vipon the 

 other fide. He lays : — 



"The enemie being on the other fide 

 the riuer, ours could not come at them : 

 they made fhot at them : killed one 

 Dicks, a baco [Mr. Drake fuggefts Abaco 

 (the larger! of the Bahamas) ; but is 

 Sebago (a nearer and fo likelier word) 

 impoffible ?] man, and got him on fhore : 

 2 more men lank in the riuer : fome of 

 ours fwam ouer the riuer, took their 

 cannoos and plunder." [Ibid.] 



1" The letter ftates that " at this fcir- 

 milh Lt. Hunniwell was fhot thorrow 

 the thigh." \_Ibid.~] This was Richard 

 Hunniwell, concerning whofe famous 

 adventures as an Indian killer, fee Me. 

 Hift. Coll. iii: 144-148. 



114 "There we took a pretty deale of 



powder, fhot and lead, and other plun- 

 der, and 8 or 9 cannoos." \Ibid.~\ 



115 Thomas Baker, Folfom fays (on 

 the authority of the Scarborough rec- 

 ords), was " an inhabitant of Scarbo- 

 rough, in 1681." Saco, 194.] 

 Willis \_HiJl. Portland, 286] enumerates 

 among thofe taken prifoners by the In- 

 dians, at the fall of Falmouth, 20 May, 

 1690, "Thomas Baker (a boy)." 



116 "The man we took from them at 

 Salco, told us that the enemie from 

 Cape Sables and all quarters were 

 looked for by that time to rendevou/.e 

 att Pechepfcutt : alio that he knew that 

 the enemie had brought beauer and 

 other goods to Pechepfcutt Plaine, and 

 hid them : he fuppofed it was a gratuity 

 for the eaftward Indians : alfo, that he 



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