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expedition imaginable; but it being ebb and the water 

 low, was obliged to land & make the belt of their way 

 thro' the woods, hoping to intercept the Indians, and get 

 to Sharkers houfe before them; which was two Miles 

 from where our Forces landed. The Colonel being An- 

 cient & Unwildly, defired Serjeant Edee 315 to run with 

 him, and coming to feveral Trees fallen, which he could 

 not creep under or readily get over, would lay his breaft 

 againft the Tree, the faid Edee turning him over, generally 

 had Cat luck, falling on his feet, by which means kept in 

 the Front: and coming near to Sharkers houfe, difcovered 

 fome French & Indians making aWair 316 in the River, 

 and prefently difcovered the two Indians afore-mentioned, 

 who call'd to them at work in the River; told them there 

 was an Army of Engli/Ji and Indians juft by; who imme- 

 diately left their work and ran, endeavouring to get to 

 Sharkers houfe; who hearing the noife, took his Lady & 

 Child, and ran into the woods. Our Men running briskly 

 tired & kill'd one of the Indians, and took the reft Prifon- 

 ers. Then going to Sharkers houfe found a Woman and 

 Child, to whom they gave good quarter: and finding that 

 Madam Sharkee had left her Silk Clothes & fine linen 

 behind her, our Forces was defirous to have purfued and 



315 This was probably a member of pofteritv. [See N. E. Hijt. and Gen. 



one of the families in the Old Colony de- Reg- i i i : 336; viii : 201-206; Congre- 



fcended from Samuel Eddy (Ede, Edy, gational Quarterly, iv : 223-23S.] 

 Eady, Eadey, Edie, Edee), who fettled alli Weir, — a fence of ftakes and 



in Plymouth from Cranbrooke, Kent, brufh fet in a river for the purpofe of 



1630, and left a numerous and noble catching fi;h. 



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