This mettlesome Company, then ran up to the Fence, with an, Huzzah! thinking thereby to discourage the Enemy, if they should be lurking there: but the Enemy were so well prepared for them, that they answered them with an horrible Vengeance, which killed the Lieutenant, with Thirteen more upon the Spot, and the rest escaped with much ado unto one of the Garrisons. The Enemy then coming into Town, beset all the Garrisons at once, Except the Fort; which were manfully Defended, so long as their Ammunition lasted; but That being spent, without a prospect of a Recruit, they quitted all the Four Garrisons, and by the Advantage of the Night, got into the Fort. Upon this, the Enemy Setting the Town on Fire, bent their whole Force against the Fort, which had hard by it, a deep Gully, that contributed not a little unto the Ruin ⟨p. 67⟩of it: For, the Besiegers getting into that Gully, lay below the Danger of our Guns. Here the Enemy began their Mine, which was carried so near the Walls, that the English, who by Fighting Five Days and Four Nights, had the greatest part of their men killed and wounded, (Captain Lawrence mortally, among the rest,) began a parley with them. Articles were Agreed, That they should have liberty to March unto the Next English Town, and have a Guard for their Safety in their March; and the French Commander, lifting up his Hand, Swore by the Everlasting God, for the performance of these Articles. But the Agreement was kept, as those that are made with Huguenots use to be: The English being first Admonished, by the French, that they were all Rebels, for proclaiming the Prince of Orange their King, were Captived, and many of them cruelly Murdered by the Indians: Only some of them (and particularly, Major Davis,) were Carried unto Canada, where the Gentry, very civilly Treated them. The Garrisons at Papoodack, Spurwink, Black Point, and Blue Point, were so disanimated at these Disasters, that, without Orders they drew off immediately, to Saco, Twenty miles, within Casco, and from Saco in a few Days also they drew off to Wells, Twenty miles within the said Saco; and about Half Wells drew off as far as Lieut. Storer's.
This mettlesome Company, then ran up to the Fence, with an, Huzzab! thinking thereby to discourage the Enemy, if they should be lurking there: but the Enemy were so well prepared for them, that they answered them with an horrible Vengeance, which kill'd the Lieutenant, with Thirteen more upon the Spot, and the rest escaped with much ado unto one of the Garrisons. The Enemy then coming into Town, beset all the Garrisons at once, Except the Fort; which were manfully Defended, so long as their Ammunition lasted; but That being spent, without a prospect of a Recruit, they quitted all the Four Garrisons, and by the Advantage of the Night, got into the Fort. Upon this, the Enemy Setting the Town on Fire, bent their whole Force against the Fort, which had hard by it, a deep Gully, that contributed not a little unto the Ruin ⟨p. 67⟩of it: For, the Besiegers getting into that Gully, lay below the Danger of our Guns. Here the Enemy began their Mine, which was carried so near the Walls, that the English, who by Fighting Five Dayes and Four Nights, had the greatest part of their men killed and wounded, (Captain Lawrence mortally, among the rest,) began a parley with them. Articles were Agreed, That they should have liberty to March unto the Next English Town, and have a Guard for their Safety in their March; and the French Commander, lifting up his Hand, Swore by the Everlasting God, for the performance of these Articles. But the Agreement was kept, as those that are made with Hugonots use to be: The English being first Admonished, by the French, that they were all Rebels, for proclaming the Prince of Orange their King, were Captived, and many of them cruelly Murdered by the Indians: Only some of them (and particularly, Major Davis,) were Carried unto Canada, where the Gentry, very civilly Treated them. The Garrisons at Papoodack, Spurwink, Black Point, and Blue Point, were so disanimated at these Disasters, that, without Orders they drew off immediately, to Saco, Twenty miles, within Casco, and from Saco in a few Dayes also they drew off to Wells, Twenty miles within the said Saco; and about Half Wells drew off as far as Lieut. Storers.
