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clles, as they had with them, might be fufficient to have 

 taken it. His Excellency (looking upon Col ChurcJi) re- 

 plyed, He could not admit of that, by reafon he had by the 

 advice of Her Majefty's Council writ to Her Majefty about 

 the taking of Port Royal Fort, and how it mould be dif- 

 pofed of when taken, &c. However Col. Clmrch pro- 

 ceeding to get every thing ready for the Forces down at 

 A T antasket, which was the place of Parade. He happen- 

 ing one day to be at Capt. Belchers?* 1 where his Excel- 

 lency happened to come; who was pleafed to order Col. 

 Church to put on his Sword, and walk with him up the 

 Common; which he readily complyed with: where being 

 come, he law two Mortar pieces with Shells, and an In- 

 gineer trying with them, to throw a Shell from them to 

 any [104] fpot of ground where he faid it mould fall: 

 Which when Col. Church had feen done, gave him great 

 incouragement & hopes that it would promote their going 

 to Port Royal, which he had folicited for; and returning 

 from thence after they had feen them try'd by the faid 

 Ingineer, and performing what was propofed. Coming 

 near to Capt. William Clarks 288 -houfe over againft the 



that ftern foremoft, and with great pre- 1717- He married Sarah, dau. of Jona- 



cautions. [Champlain's Voyages, 21; than Gilbert, of Hartford ; had Andrew, 



Shea's Charlevoix, i : 253.] Deborah, Deborah, Mary, Ann, Mar- 



- 87 Andrew Belcher (Part I. notes 52 tha, Elizabeth, and Jonathan, the 



and 138) was fon of Andrew, of Sud- Governor. He was a "very rich and 



bury and Cambridge ; lived firft at leading man in the town." [Savage's 



Hartford, then at Charleftown, and then Gen. Did. i : 156. Drake's Hijl. Bqft. 



at Bofton ; freeman, 1677 ; of Com. of i : 539.] 



Safety in the Andros Infurreetion ; 288 William Clarke was "of North 



Counlellor, 1702, to his death, 31 Oct., Bolton" in 1699, and one of the peti- 

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