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In the loft place, We do declare to you, That inafmuch as 

 fome of you have flwwn kindnefs to our Captives, and Ex- 

 prefs'd a love to and dejire of being under the Englifh Gov- 

 ernment, We do therefore notwithftanding all this, give you 

 timely Notice, and do demand a Surrender immediately, by 

 the laying down your Arms, tipon which we promife very 

 good Quarter; if not, you mufl expeel the utmofl Severity. 

 To the Chief Commander of the Town Benjamin Church Colonel. 



of Menis, & the Inhabitants thereof John Goreham Lieut. Col. 



(£• we expeel your anfwer foftivcly Winthrop Hilton Major. 



within an hour. 



Then moving to the Crick expecting to have had Water 

 enough for the Boats, as the Pilot had inform'd them, but 

 found not Water enough for a Canoo; lb were oblig'd to 

 land, 324 intending to have been up at the Town before the 

 hour was out, that the Summons expreffed: (For their 

 return was, That if our Forces would not hurt their 

 Eftates, that then they would Surrender, if otherwife in- 

 tended, they mould fight for them, &ci) But meeting 

 with feveral Cricks near 20 or 30 foot deep, which were 

 very Muddy and Dirty, fo that the Army could not get 

 over them; was oblig'd to return to [115] their Boats 

 again, and wait till within Night before the Tide ferved 

 for them to go up to the Town; and then intended to 



324 That is, their boats foon ground- the intervention of fome creeks of deep 

 ing, they were obliged to get out of water, which forced them back to the 

 them into the mud, and wade toward boats, and compelled them to wait in 

 the fhore ; which they were unable to them for the tide to rife, — under the 

 accomplifli fucceiffully on account of circumftances, a profaic refult! 

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