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' cent, and ufe your utmoft indeavours to kill, deftroy and 

 ' take Captive the French & Indian Enemy wherefoever 

 'you mall find any of them; and at your return to Peme- 

 ' qitid (which you are to do as foon as you can conveni- 

 ' ently; after your beft indeavour done againft the Enemy, 

 ' and having deftroyed their Corn and other Provifions) 

 ' you are to ftay with all your Souldiers and Officers, and 

 ' fet them to work on the Fort, and make what difpatch 

 ' you can in that bufinefs, ftaying there until my further 

 < order. WILLIAM PHIPS. 



Then his Excellency taking leave went for Bofton\ lM 

 and foon after Maj. CJmrcJi and his Forces had a fmart 

 fight with the Enemy in Kenebcck-Rxvcv, Purfued them lb 

 hard that they left their Canoo's & ran up into the woods, 

 ftill purfued them up to their Fort at Taconock™ h which 



184 The witch trials were in progrefs lieved had fome influence in opening 



in Bofton during his abfence, and it is the Governor's eyes, and ftaying the 



not unlikely that it was while he was delufion with its plague of blood, is not 



gone on this bufinefs that the incident obvious. [Hutchinfon's Hiji. Mafs, ii : 



occurred, which Hutchinfon mentions, 61 ; Drake's Witchcraft Delujton, d-c. 



on the authority of a MS. letter; that iii : 159; Douglafs's Summary, i : 450.] 

 Mrs. Phips, being applied to for inter- 185 Teconnct falls are on the Kennebec, 



pofition in the cafe of a lady accufed oppofite the village of Waterville. On 



of witchcraft, took the refponfibility of the point of land above the confluence 



figning a difcharge for her, upon which of the Scbajticook with the Kennebec, 



document the jailor took the refponfi- and below thefe falls, flood the old 



bility of fetting the accufed free, — to Teconnct fort of the Indians, here re- 



his own harm, it was faid. Whether ferred to, and, in 1754, Fort Halifax of 



this had any thing to do with that the Englifh. The fite of the fort itfelf is 



accufation of the Governor's lady her- in Winflow, and the block-houfe was 



felf as a witch, which Calef afferts and lately ftanding. [Williamfon's Hift. 



Douglafs hints, and which it was be- Me. i: 50; Minot's Hijl. Mafs. i: 186.] 

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