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efpy'd Tracks, the Colonel prefently ordered his Men to 

 fcatter, and make a fearch ; foon found De BoiJJcs 338 Wife, 

 who had formerly been Col. Church's Prifoner, and car- 

 ried to Bo/Ion; but returned, who feemed to be very glad 

 to fee him: She had with her two Sons that were near 

 Men grown; the Colonel ordering them a part, Examined 

 the Woman firft, who gave him this account following, 

 That the had lived there-abouts ever fince the Fleet went 

 by, and that {he had never feen but two Indici7is fince, who 

 came in a Canoo from Norrigiwock) who ask'd her, what 

 made her to be there alone? She told them, She had not 

 feen a French Man nor an Indian except thofe two fince 

 the EngliJJi Ships went by. Then the Indians told her 

 there was not one Indian left except thofe two, who be- 

 long to the Gut of Cancer, on this fide of Canada: for the 

 Fryers coming down with the Indians to Monfieur Gor- 

 dans, and finding the French-men flain, and their Hair 

 fpoiled, being Scalp'd, put them into a great Confterna- 

 tion; and the Fryers told them it was impoffible for them 

 to live there-abouts, for the Engli/Ii with their Whale- 

 [120] boats would ferve them all fo; upon which they 

 all went up to Norrigizuock: Alfo told her that when the 

 Englifk came along thro' Penobfcot, they had fwept it of 

 the Inhabitants, as if it had been fwept with a Broom, 

 neither French nor Indians efcaping them. Further told 

 her, That when their Fathers the Fryers, and the Indians 



338 j) u Bois f probably taken prifoner when Church was here before, in a 

 previous expedition. 



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