body of the French, came firing all att once upon the Sinnakes, soe that the Sinnakes retreated, having got some dead and wounded in that firing the Gov 1 forbidd following of them having gott seven Frenchmen killed and many wounded and five dead Indians and several wounded of the ;

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r Sinnakes were killed sixteene and some wounded ; forthwith the Gov gave orders that the army

should fortify themselves at the same place where the Battle was and so stood there all that night. Next morning the whole army marched towards the Sinnakes Castle called Kokoseraghe, leaving their

dead Frenchmen unhurried but the Indians hurried their dead, and carried all the wounded French and Indians with them to the aforesaid Castle, where one of the wounded men died at said Castle they found itt all burned, then the Gov gave orders that the Christian Indians should cutt downe

and destroy the Indians corne, whieh they refused they could find.

Afterwards the

surround the same

till

the whole

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soe Frenchmen were sent and destroyed all that

Gov sent four hundred men to another small castle nearc by, to army should come, thinking the Sinnakes might bee there, butt

found the same burned also, butt found a great deale of provisions which they destroyed, takeing only some beanes along with them, for they had provisions enough, every man carried some and the Boates were loaden at Jerondekott with corne and other necessaries, soe the army went to every place where the Castles were burnt and lay att every Castle one night destroying