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to pay any more respect to them than to every other common member of the community." The inhabitants delivered to Colonel Goold two pieces of cannon formerly concealed by the French.

Shortly afterwards, four of the principal settlers repented of taking the oath of allegiance and fled to Machias, "the nest of pirates and rebels." Major Studholme seized their cattle and effects, which General Massey ordered to be sold and the proceeds given to the detachment.

The Indians were, for the time being, won over by Colonel Goold, who assured them they should have a priest to minister to their spiritual needs, and that M. Joseph Bourg, then at the Bay of Chaleurs, should be sent to them as soon as possible. Eight of the Indian chiefs took the oath of allegiance in the name of the rest of the tribe, and it was arranged that six others should be sent down to ratify the chain of friendship.

The friendly attitude assumed by Hazen, White and Simonds, towards Colonel Goold and Major Studholme was remembered against them by the people of Machias, and was the cause of their subsequent misfortunes.

On the 29th of May, 1777, word was brought to John Allan that Colonel Goold had returned to Halifax. He accordingly set out from Machias the very next day with a party of forty-three men in four whale boats and four canoes. At Passamaquoddy they were joined by about a dozen more canoes manned by Indians. The party reached Musquash Cove on the evening of June 1st, where they planned a surprise for the settlers at Portland Point. In accordance with this plan sixteen men under Captain West proceeded by night to Manawagonish Cove, whence they marched through the woods to the St. John river above the falls, crossing in their birch canoes to what is now Indiantown. From thence they speedily made their way undiscovered to