Boston May 30th 16SX) HoNO^^^ S^ -- Acording to ye agreem* made by y® Comissioners of y^ Colonies at their late meeting in yo^ City wee raised the number of souldiers on o^ part to be Provided & Sent butt when they were on their march towards Springfield wee were forced to Countermand them & Speed them away to ye Eastward to defend their Majf^'es Subjects of the Provinces of Hampshire & maine against ye incursions of y^ ennemy who upon ye Sixteenth instant did attack those Posted att Casco Bay, Kill'd and Captivated all ye persons there men women & children. They first surprised Six and twenty men who unwarily Issued out of ye garrison to looke after a p:son that was missing of these they killed twenty wch were near a third Parte of ye whole number of men. The Ennemy then openly appeared, before ye fort & assaulted it by

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y6 space of five days & being About two hundred french & three hundred Indians they made their approaches in A Trench & Putt so hard to fire y^ fort by flaming Birch Rinds shott at it that on. ye fifth day they forced them to surrender before we could have intelhgence to reheve them The enemy are so fflushed att this Success that they Since have fallen on Welles & Kittery on Piscataqua. Upon w^h y^ Inhabitants of C fronteer towns are so alarmed that we shall be obliged to dispatch four or five hundred horse & foott w*=h are mostly them already engaged in defending those partes & pursuing y® ennemy to their head quarters If possible. Nevertheless we have ordered about sixty men for Albany.