[92] 



[92] ever Mr. John Alden Mafter of the Briganteen En- 

 deavour Pilotted them up the Bay to Senaclaca) and com- 

 ing to GrinJ?on-po'mt, m being not far from Senaclaca; then 

 came too with all the Velfels; and early next Morning 

 came to Sail, and about Sun-rife got into Town; but it 

 being fo late before we landed, that the Enemy moft of 

 them made their efcape, (and as it happen'd landed where 

 the French & Indians had fome time before killed Lieut. 

 John Pained and feveral of Capt. Smithfons^ Men, that 



2;!u I know not how to explain this, 

 except it refers to Ifle des Mettles (Ifle 

 of Grindftones, or Millftones), which is 

 laid down on Charlevoix's Map of Aca- 

 dia, a few miles N. W. of Beau Bajin, 

 and juft out of fight from it round Cape 

 dcs Maringouins (Mofquito Point). 



231 I find no fatisfactory account of 

 this John Paine. Mr. Drake [ed. of 

 Church (1843), 228; ed. of Hubbard, 

 ii : 212] intimates that this maj' have 

 been the John Pain who had trouble 

 with the government in 1669, in the 

 matter of Thomas Dickinfon's murder 

 at Pennacook in the previous fum- 

 mer, by an Indian befide himfelf with 

 rum, which Pain had furnilhed to him 

 and others. But the records are per- 

 fectly explicit on the point that that 

 man's name was " Thomas Payne, late 

 trader among the Indians at Pennicooke 

 upon Merrimack river." This Lieut. 

 John may have been his fon. [Mafs. 

 Col. Pec. iv: Part II. 428; Bouton's 

 Hift. Concord, N.H. 35.] 



332 I am equally unfortunate with 

 regard to Capt. Smith/on. The name 



is a very uncommon one in early New- 

 England annals. It does not appear in 

 Savage's omnivorous pages ; nor in the 

 crowded indexes of the 20 vols, of the 

 N. E. Hift. and Gen. Pegifter, except 

 as the name of a paffenger to Virginia 

 in 1635 ; nor in thofe of the 43 vols, of 

 the Collections and Proceedings of the 

 Mafs. Hift. Society; nor in that of 

 Drake's Founders of Nevj England; 

 nor in the lift of freemen of Mafs. ; nor 

 in the indexes of the Mafs. Col. Rec- 

 ords; nor in the lift of the freemen of 

 Plymouth Colony, or the indexes of its 

 records ; nor in thofe of the records of 

 the Colonies of Rhode Bland, Con- 

 necticut, and New Haven. Under thefe 

 circumftances I have little doubt that 

 the name is a miftake for another — 

 what, I have no ufeful conjecture. Nor 

 can I fuggeft in what fkirmilh thefe 

 lives had been loft, unlets it were con- 

 nected with Sir William Phips's Expe- 

 dition in 1690, when he feems to have 

 vifited Beau Bajin. [ Haliburton's 

 Hift. Nov. Scot, i : 77 ; Hutchin- 

 fon's Hift. Mafs. i : 352.] 



