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they began to lament the lofs of one Robert Cawley™ who 

 they chiefly depended on for all the Service to be done 

 now Eaftward : he having been taken away from them the 

 Night before they fat Sail from Bojlon (and was on board 

 Mr. Thorps 222 Sloop) and put on board the Man of War, 

 unknown to Maj Church\ notwithftanding he had been at 

 the charge and trouble of procuring him. Then the Major 

 was oblig'd to one Bord^ procured by Mr. William 

 Alden^ who being acquainted in thofe parts, to leave his 

 VelTel and go with him in the Boats, which he readily 

 complyed with, and fo went to Nasket point; 225 where 

 being inform'd was a likely place to meet with the Ene- 

 my; coming there found feveral Houfing and fmall Fields 

 of Corn, the fires having been out feveral days, and no 



221 Robert Ccrwley (Caitle, Ca/elie), 

 of Pemaquid, took the oath of fidelity 

 to Maffachufetts, at the Court, 7 Oft., 

 1674; and was undoubtedly the perfon 

 here referred to. He may have been 

 a fon of Thomas, who was freeman, 

 Cambridge, 1640; was " alowed to 

 keepe victualing in his houfe for 

 ftrang r s " 14 May, 1645, and appears 

 to have been at Marblehead, 1671. 

 \Mafs. Col. Rec. ii : 98 ; v : iS ; N. E. 

 Hift. and Gen. Reg. iii : 187 ; Savage's 

 Gen. Did. i : 350.] 



222 There was a Robert Thorpe at 

 York, 1660; and one of that name was 

 admonilhed by the Court " not to ad- 

 venture too many into any boate." 

 [Savage's Gen. Did. iv : 293 ; Mafs. 

 Col. Rec. i : 249.] 



223 Henry Boade (Bord, Bode, Boad) 

 fettled at Saco before 1636; was free- 

 man at Wells, Me., 5 July, 1653; was 

 Juftice there 1653; died 1657. This 

 man of whom Church fpeaks, may have 

 been his fon. \N. E. Hift. and Gen. 

 Reg. iii : 193 ; Folfom's Hiji. Saco, 

 119.] 



224 Capt. John Alden (see note 133, 

 ante) had a fon William, born 10 Sept., 

 1669, who would now be 27 years old, 

 and may have followed his father's fea- 

 faring trade, and been a member of this 

 expedition, as "matter of the Brigan- 

 teen Endeavour" [Savage's Gen. Did. 

 i: 23.] 



225 Najkeag point is the S. E. ex- 

 tremity of the prefent town of Sedge- 

 wick, Me. 



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