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alfo pitched their tents nigh unto the men of Britain.

7. And it came to pafs, in the fixth monthj on the twentieth day of the month; that a^ bout twelve hundred of the people of the PrO'. vinces, attacked about feven hundred of the

men of Britain at Stono Ferry.

8. And the men of Britain were veryflrong^ for thty had cad up banks to fecure them- felves againil their enemies; and the battle continued for the fpace of one and twenty minutes, and there were llain and wounded of the people of the Provinces, feven fcore and ten perfons.

9. And Roberts * a mighty man of valor, was llain; he was from the country of Albion, and helped the people againil the fervants of the king; he had been a warrior in the land of his nativity, in the days of his youth.

10. Then many of the people were difcom-


 * Col. Roberts.