[236] This treaty is given in full by Penhallow. It is also printed from the original draft by Mr. Frederic Kidder, in his _Abenaki Indians: their Treaties of 1713 and 1717_. The two impressions are substantially the same, but with verbal variations. The version of Kidder is the more complete, in giving not only the Indian totemic marks, but also the autographs in facsimile of all the English officials. Rale gives a dramatic account of the treaty, which he may have got from the Indians, and which omits their submission and their promises.
[237] It was standing in 1852, and a sketch of it is given by Winsor, _Narrative and Critical History_, v. 185. I have some doubts as to the date of erection.
[238] Williamson, _History of Maine_, ii. 88, 97. Compare Penhallow.
[239] _Remarks out of the Fryar Sebastian Rale's Letter from Norridgewock, 7 February, 1720_, in the _Common Place Book_ of Rev. Henry Flynt.
[240] Sewall's _Memorial relating to the Kennebec Indians_ is an argument against war with them.
[241] A full report of this conference was printed at the time in Boston. It is reprinted in _N. H. Historical Collections_, ii. 242, and _N. H. Provincial Papers_, iii. 693. Penhallow was present at the meeting, but his account of it is short. The accounts of Williamson and Hutchinson are drawn from the above-mentioned report.
[242] _Shute to Rale, 21 February, 1718._
[243] This petition is still in the Massachusetts Archives, and is printed by Dr. Francis in _Sparks's American Biography_, New Series, xvii. 259.
[244] This letter was given by Mr. Adams, of Medfield, a connection of the Baxter family, to the Massachusetts Historical Society, in whose possession it now is, in a worn condition. It was either captured with the rest of Rale's papers and returned to the writer, or else is a duplicate kept by Baxter.
[245] This curious paper is in the _Common Place Book_ of Rev. Henry Flynt, of which the original is in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
[246] See Francis, _Life of Rale_, where the entire passage is given.
[247] Rale wrote to the governor of Canada that it was "sur Les Représentations qu'Il Avoit fait aux Sauvages de Sa Mission" that they had killed "un grand nombre de Bestiaux apartenant aux Anglois," and threatened them with attack if they did not retire. (_Réponse fait par MM. Vaudreuil et Bégon au Mémoire du Roy du 8 Juin, 1721._) Rale told the governor of Massachusetts, on another occasion, that his character as a priest permitted him to give the Indians nothing but counsels of peace. Yet as early as 1703 he wrote to Vaudreuil that the Abenakis were ready, at a word from him, to lift the hatchet against the English. _Beauharnois et Vaudreuil au Ministre, 15 Novembre, 1703._