[97] 



Commadore, where Col. Hathrone was, who gave him an 

 account of his Commiffion & Orders, and read them to 

 him. Then his Honour told Maj. Church, that there was 

 a particular Order on board Capt. Southach 365 for him: 

 which is as followeth. [97] 



Sir, Bofton, September, glh. 1696. 



T Tfs Majejlies Ship Orford having lately furprized a 

 French Shallop with twenty three of the Soldiers 

 belonging to the Fort upon John's River in Nova-Scotia, 

 together with Villeau their Captain, Providence feems to 

 encourage the forming of an Expedition to attack that Fort, 

 and to difrefl and remove the Enemy from that Pofl, which 

 is the chief Scource from whence the mofl of our difaflcrs do 

 ijfue, and alfo to favour with an opportunity for gaining out 

 of their hands tJie Ordnance, Artillery and other Warlike 

 Stores and Provifions lately fupplied to them from France, 

 for erecling a new Fort near the Rivers mouth, %v hereby they 

 will be greatly flrengthcned, and the reducing of them ren- 

 dred more difficult. I have therefore ordered a Detachment 

 of two new Companies confifling of about an Hundred Men 



265 Cyprian Southack was comman- rails, or otherwife, that people may not 



der of the Province galley; was with be in danger." Valley acre was the hill 



Church in his laft Eaftern Expedition, juft eaft of Beacon hill, occupying the 



1704; and went to Canada in 1714 on fpace, nearly, of what is now Pember- 



the Stoddard and Williams Expedition ; ton Square. Capt. Southack's hill 



lived on Tremont Street, which then probably adjoined his houfe, which 



embraced only that portion now in- feems to have ftood not far from the 



eluded between School and Howard prefent lite of the Albion. [Drake's 



Streets; 19 Oct., 1733, was warned to Hijl. Bofl. i: 529, 539, 593; N. E. 



6ecure "his hill near Valley acre, by Hijl. and Gen. Reg. v: 39.] 



