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2. Now 'when Burgoyne w^lS told that there were large (lores of corn and fine ilour at Ben- nington, coUeded for the foldiers of the Co- lumbian hod, he purpofed m his heart to de- prive the people of the Provinces thereof*

3. i\nd he prepared an army of valiant men, that they might go forth and take pofleiTiou of the (lores; for verily he needed thofe things, even the corn and the fine flour, for he was in a (Irange land, and had not abun^ dance of bread.

4. Howbeit he took counfel of a man whofc fur-name was Skine;* he was a fervant of the king, and an officer in the hoft of Britain : and he had poiTeflions in that country.

5. And the man, even Skine^ fpake after this manner, faying : lo! now thou purpof. eth in thy heart, to fend an army to feize the flores of the people of the Provinces, that arc collefted together at Bennington.

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 * Colonel Skine.