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copy of thefe Inflruclions you are to leave with him, and to 

 give me an accotmt from time to time of your proceedings. 

 Boflon, Auguft 12th. 1696. Wm. STOUGHTON. 



In the time Maj. Church lay at Boflon, the News came 

 of Pemequid Fort being taken, 194 it came by a Shallop 195 

 that brought fome Prifoners to Boflon, who gave account 

 alio that there was a French Ship at Moxint-Defart, 196 who 



Philip's war; 5 June, 1690, was made 

 captain in the Canada Expedition, and 

 was afterwards Lieut. Col. ; later was 

 much employed as a conveyancer ; died 

 9 Dec, 1716, and lies buried at the N.E. 

 corner of the Unitarian meeting-houfe 

 in Barnftable. He married, 24 Feb., 

 167^, Mercy, daughter of John Otis; 

 had John, Temperance, Mary, Stephen, 

 Shubael, John, Thankful, Job, Mercy; 

 left a real eftate of £2000, and perfonal 

 of £322. [Otis's Hift. Bamjlable, i: 

 217-222.] 



l! ' 4 The French conceived that Fort 

 William Henry, at Pemaquid, had im- 

 portance in controlling the weftern 

 portion of Acadia, and determined to 

 reduce it. Iberville was fent from Que- 

 bec with two fhips of war, with arrange- 

 ments to co-operate with Villebon and 

 50 Mickmacks, and Caftine with 200 of 

 his lavages ; on the way, met and cap- 

 tured one of an Englifh fleet, and then 

 inverted and attacked Pemaquid. The 

 fort was at the time in command of Capt. 

 Pafcoe Chubb (of Andover), who had 

 Ihown his incompetence by treachery 

 toward fome Indian envoys in the pre- 

 vious February ; and was bafely furren- 

 dered without any determined effort at 



defence, — though Charlevoix fuggefts, 

 through the cowardice of the garrifon 

 compelling the captain againft his 

 will,— 15 July, 1696. The fort was 

 moftly demolilbed, after a hiftory of 

 four years fully juftifying Church's fcru- 

 ples in the beginning. Chubb was 

 calhiered, and was not forgotten by the 

 Indians, who fucceeded in murdering 

 him and his wife Hannah (Faulkner) 

 at Andover, 5 March, 1698. [William- 

 fon's Hift. Me. i: 642-4; Hutchinfon's 

 Hift. Mafs. ii: 88; Charlevoix's Hift. 

 Nouv. France, iii : 260-2 : Abbott's Hift. 

 Andover, 43.] 



195 Hutchinfon fays it was " a French 

 fhallop belonging to St. John's, with 23 

 foldiers under Villeau, their captain." 

 [Hift. Mafs. ii : 91.] 



196 Mount Defert Ifland lies juft eaft 

 of the debouchure of Union river, — 

 fay 25 miles eaft of the centre of Penob- 

 fcot Bay, and is the largeft ifland in the 

 State, being 15 miles long by about 7 

 in mean width, and containing fome 

 60,000 acres. A third part of this fhoots 

 up into 13 high and rugged peaks, vili- 

 ble 20 leagues at fea, and giving to it 

 its French name, Monts Deferts (the 

 defolate mountains — not, as Mr. Drake 



