Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

This Fort, he contrived so much in the very Heart of the Country now possessed by the Enemy, as very much to hinder the several Nations of the Tawnies from Clanning together, for the common Disturbance; and his Design was, that a sufficient Garrison being here posted, they might from thence, upon Advice, issue forth to surprise that ferocient Enemy. At the same time he would fain have gone in Person up the Bay of Funda, with a convenient Force, to have spoiled a Nest of Rebellious Frenchmen, who being Rendezvoused at St. John's, had a yearly Supply of Ammunition from France, with which they still supplied the Indians, unto the extreme Detriment of the English, but his Friends for a long time, would not permit him to expose himself unto the Inconveniences of that Expedition.

This Fort, he contrived so much in the very Heart of the Country now possessed by the Enemy, as very much to hinder the several Nations of the Tawnies from Clanning together, for the common Disturbance; and his Design was, that a sufficient Garrison being here posted, they might from thence, upon Advice, issue forth to surprize that ferocient Enemy. At the same time he would fain have gone in Person up the Bay of Funda, with a convenient Force, to have spoiled a Neast of Rebellious Frenchmen, who being Rendezvouzed at St. John's, had a yearly Supply of Aminunition from France, with which they still supplied the Indians, unto the extream Detriment of the English, but his Friends for a long time, would not permit him to expose himself unto the Inconveniencies of that Expedition.

However, he took such Methods, that the Indian Kings of the East, within a little while, had their Stomachs brought down, to sue and beg for a Peace; And making their Appearance at the New-Fort, in Pemaquid, Aug. 11. 1693. They did there Sign an Instrument, wherein, lamenting the Miseries which their Adherence to the French Counsels, had brought them into, they did for themselves and with the Consent of all the Indians from the River of Merrimack, to the most Easterly Bounds of all the Province, acknowledge their Hearty Subjection and Obedience unto the Crown of England, and solemnly Covenant, Promise, and Agree, to and with Sir William Phips, Captain General and Governor in Chief over the Province, and his Successors in that Place, That they