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' limit your return, but leave it to your Prudence, only 

 ' that you make no longer ftay than you can improve for 

 k advantage againft the Enemy, or may reafonably hope 

 ' for the fame. 



' 6ly. You are alfo to take care and be very induftruous 

 1 by all poffible means to find out and deftroy all the Ene- 

 ' mies Corn, and other Provifions in all Places where you 

 ' can come at the fame. 



' j/y. You are at your return from Penobfcot and thofe 



• Eaftern Parts, to make all difpatch hence for Kenebeck 

 ' River, and the Places Adjacent, and there profecute all 

 ' advantages againft the Enemy as aforefaid. 



i 8/y. If any Souldier, Officer or other fhall be difobe- 

 ■ dient to you as their Commander in Chief, or other their 

 k Superiour Officer, or make or caufe any Mutiny, commit 



• other offence or diforders, you mail call a Council of 



• War amongft your Officers, and having tryed him or 



• them fo offending, infli<5t fuch punifhment as the merit 

 ' of the offence requires, Death only excepted, which if 



• any fhall deferve, you are to fecure the perfon, and lig- 



• nify the Crime unto me by the firft opportunity. 



Given under my hand this nth day of Auguft, 1692. 



WILLIAM PHIPS. 



Then the Major and his Forces embark'd and made the 

 belt of their way to Penobfcot\ and coming to an Ifland in 

 thofe Parts 180 in the evening, landed his Forces at one end 



180 Seven Hundred Acre IJland. [Williamfon's Hi/}. Me. i : 71, 636.] 

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