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' Enemies, were made fenfible of their bloody Cruelties, 

 ' perpetrated on my dear & loving friends and Country- 

 ' men; and that the fame meafure (in part) meeted to 

 ' them, as they had been guilty of in a barbarous manner 

 ' at Deer/ie/d, & I hope juflly. I hope God Almighty will 

 ' accept hereof, altho' it may not be eligible to our French 

 4 implacable Enemies, and fuch others as are not our 

 ' friends. The fore-going Journal and this fhort annex- 

 ' ment, I thought it my duty to exhibit, for the fatisfaftion 

 ' of my Friends & Country-men, whom I very faithfully & 

 ' willingly ferved in the late Expedition; and I hope will 

 ' find acceptance with your Excellency, the Honourable 

 ' Council & Reprefentatives now Aifembled, as being done 

 ' from the zeal I had in the faid Service of Her Majefty, 

 ' and her good Subjects here. 



/ Remain your mojl humble & obedient Servant, 



Benjamin Church. 



This Nights Service being over immediately Col. Church 

 leaves a fufficient guard with Gourdan, and the other 

 Prifoners, mov'd in fome Whale-boats with the reft; and 

 as they were going Ipy'd a fmall thing upon the Water, 

 at a great diftance, which proved to be a birch Canoo, 

 with two Indians in her; the Colonel prefently ordered 

 the lighteft boat he had to make the belt of her way and 

 cut them off from the Shore: but the Indians perceiving 

 their defign run their Canoo a-fhore & fled. Col. Church 

 fearing they would run directly to Sharkee made all the 

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