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came: As foon as Night came that they might go undif- 

 covered got into their Boats and went by Muffel-neck, and 

 fo amongft Penobfcot Iflands, 207 looking very fharp as they 

 went for fires on the more, and for Canoo's, but found 

 neither; getting up to Mathebejlucks hills, 208 day coming 

 on, landed, and hid their Boats; looking out for the Ene- 

 my, as the day before, but to little purpofe. Night coming 

 on, to their Oars again, working very hard, turn'd the 

 Night into Day; made feveral of their new Souldiers 

 grumble : but telling them they hoped to come up quickly 

 with the Enemy put new life into them; and by day-light 

 they got into the Mouth of the River, where landing, 

 found many Rendezvous and fire Places where the Indians 

 had been; but at the fame fpace of time, as before men- 

 tioned. And no Canoo's palfed up the River that day. 

 Their Pilot Jofeph York™ inform'd the Major that 50 or 

 60 Miles up that River at the great Falls, the Enemy had 

 a great Randezvous, 210 and planted a great quantity of 



207 A large clufter of iflands lie off in Williamfon {.Hijl. Me. i : 645] 

 the mouth of Penobfcot bay. Among calls this pilot John York, but gives no 

 them are Long, Seven Hundred Acre, authority for differing from Church. A 

 Billy Job's, Marfliall's, Laffell's, Mark, family of Yorks was among the earli- 

 Saddle, Lime, Enfign, two Moufe, eft fettlers of thefe regions, who were 

 Spruce, and Fox iflands, with fome probably defcendants of Richard, who 

 unnamed. lived in Dover, N.H., 1648. John York 



208 Thefe are Camden heights — as was one of the truftees of No. Yar- 

 the crow flies, about 10 miles N. W. mouth, 1685 ; and James, Thomas, and 

 from Owl's Head, in the town of Cam- Samuel purchafed land of the Indians, 

 den. They are five or fix in number, in July, 1670, on the eaft fide of the An- 

 the higheft being fome 1500 feet above drofcoggin. [Willis's Hijl. Portland, 

 the fea level. They can be feen 20 302 ; Sullivan's Hiji. Me. 146.] 

 leagues at fea. [See Williamfon's Hijl. 210 Suppofed to be the prefent Old- 

 Me. i: 95.] town, 12 miles above Bangor. 



