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.

gr Wm Phipps Arrived this day with y® Governo^' of Port Royall two Priests, & About Sixty Souldiers with their great gunns & Stores of Warr & other Plunder The Inhabitants have sworne Alegiance to King William & Queen Mary. The Fort demolished & their Crosses & Images Broken downe: --

June 24'ii: S"* Above is Copy of what wee were writeing at that time. The Reason of not sending till now was Extream Loa'chness not to write of o^ Complem* of men being forwarded to Albany & 'tis so farr from it at last that wee feare y^ great danger Dearefild y^ fronteer town of Connecticot is in, will detaine Cap" Colton with his sixty & odd men, in those Partes there being as much Likely hood of y® french falling on that place as on Albany, butt we hope if it Please God to Bless our prsent Expedicon by Sea against Canada we shall find them worke att home. Between two & three thousand men will be needfull in y® designe which with many hundred wee are flfaine to Keep out in defence of y® Easterne Partes Doth to of great troubles hinder our sending to Hudsons river by Land and that Could not furnish Cap" Mason with any who writte to us from nantaskett Intimateing he Could make no stay here.