The _Relation_ of Monseignat (_N. Y. Col. Doc._, vol. ix.) and La Potherie are the chief French accounts on the surprise at Salmon Falls, in March, 1690, and according to Parkman, “Charlevoix adds various embellishments not to be found in the original sources.” On the English side, it is still Mather’s _Magnalia_ upon which we must depend, and, as a secondary authority, upon Belknap’s _New Hampshire_ and Williamson’s _Maine_. Parkman points out the help which sundry papers in the _Massachusetts Archives_ afford; and Dr. Quint, in his notes to Pike’s Journal (_Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, xiv. 125), has indicated other similar sources.
The attack on Fort Loyal (Portland), in May, 1690, is studied likewise from Monseignat, La Potherie, Mather, with some fresh light out of the “Declaration” of Sylvanus Davis, in 3 _Mass. Hist. Coll._, i. 101, and Bradstreet’s letter to Governor Leisler, in _Doc. Hist. N. Y._, ii. 259. Le Clercq gives the French view; cf. Shea’s _Charlevoix_, iv. 133, and _Le Clercq_, ii. 295; Willis’s _Portland_, p. 284, and _N. Y. Col. Doc._, ix. 472.
Meanwhile Phips had sailed from Boston in April to attack Port Royal. He anchored before its defences on the 10th of May. The place was quickly surrendered to Phips, on the 11th of May, by De Meneval, its governor, who did not escape the imputation of treachery at the time. Parkman (_Frontenac_, pp. 237,) and Shea (_Charlevoix_, iv. 155) give the authorities. Parkman says Charlevoix’s own narrative is erroneous; but on the French side we still have Monseignat and Potherie, though both are brief; the _Relation de la prise du Port Royal par les Anglois de Baston_, May 27, 1690; the official _Lettre au Ministre_ of Meneval, and the _Rapport de Champigny_, of October, 1690. Cf. _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 720; ix. 474, 475.
On the English side we have Governor Bradstreet’s instructions to Phips and an invoice of the plunder, in the _Mass. Archives; a Journal of the Expedition from Boston to Port Royal_, among George Chalmers’ papers in the Sparks Manuscripts at Harvard College, perhaps the document referred to by Hutchinson, in speaking of Phips, as “his Journal;” the unhistoric overflow of Cotton Mather’s _Life of Phips_, and sundry extracts embodied in Bowen’s _Life of Phips_. Murdoch, in his _Nova Scotia_, ch. xxii., gives a summarized account.