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1 6. And Philip* and Montgomery were ap- pointed chief captains of the army that was fent to cppofe the king's governor; and they took their way towards the flrong hold, and the hod of the people of the provinces follow- ed after them.

17. And when the hod of the people had entered the borders of the province, Philip delivered an oration unto the inhabitants of the land, even to the Canadians; and the words that he fpake were on this wife, that the people of the provinces were not come to opprefs, but to deliver them from their op- preflbrs.

18. And the natives {l:ewed them no fmall kindnefs, they brought of the firft fruits of the land to refrefli the army of the people of the provinces, and many other fuch things did they do.

19. Now there was another flrong hold


 * General Philip Schuyler.