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order to the destroying of ye barbarous enemy; and hereof not

to fail as you will answer it at your peril.

from ye main gard

4. 9 ber 1675."*

JOSH: SCOTTOW Captn

"Capne Wincoll-you may remember the letter from our hands to ye Major yt we intended to fight the Indians and yt we agreed to send you wt relief might be needed to make your (force) good agat the Indians, these are therefore to warn and in His Maj'ties name to require you to stop all the countie and Towne souldiers from running and to command them all in the (Majesties name) to yield you all due obedience as they will answer at their peril, and that you shall forthwith if it (need be) repaire to And: Browne's House in order to give war and (fight) ye Indians, and in order to their incouragement (herewith is) sent ym 50 cakes, 6 * * *, 3 bottles of rum, and six pounds of tobacco, not else but rest yr assured friend JOSH: SCOTTOW Capn."+

"To Wm Sheldon Commander of the Guard. You are hereby required in his Majesties name forthwith to send downe to the maine guard all the Boston souldiers which are under your command, and hereof not to fail at your perill-from the maine guard this 4th 9 ber. 1675. JOSH SCOTTOW, Capne."†

There can be nothing of importance to object to Scottow's management of the Boston soldiers, sent to Black Point for the defence of the inhabitants, if this Journal discloses the whole truth with regard to his conduct. But nothing in this "narration" will account for the course taken with Scottow by a large number of the most respectable inhabitants of Scarborough, and of other towns interested. He was presented before the Gen

* Massachusetts Historical Society's MSS.

t Ibid-These MSS. are much worn, and parts of them are illegible.

eral Court of 1676 and tried upon the charge of "improving" the soldiers for his private aggrandizement, and allowing the inhabitants to suffer for want of the assistance which he had been directed to afford them. He was, however, acquitted by the Court, and the complainant was ordered to pay the costs of the trial. This decision and the absence of part of the evidence on which it was based, forbid our presenting many undoubted facts in our possession tending to implicate Scottow. The feeling of our townsmen had been strongly against him from the time of Nichol's death at Dunstan, and remained for a long time unchanged notwithstanding the decision of the Court. In 1679, when Scottow petitioned the General Court for remuneration, by a tax upon our townsmen, for money expended while in charge of the Boston soldiers at Black Point, the following counterpetition was also presented.

"Wee whose names wee have underwritten, doe declare that wee were never in ye least privie to ye sending for ye souldiers which came from Boston to Black Point, neither during ye time of their stay did we in any sort receive advantage by them; but yt they were maintained upon ye acct. of Mr. Scottow: for all the while his fishermen were thereby capacitated to keep at sea for the whole season; and much worke was done by them which was greatilie turned to his profit; as removing of a great barn, (planting) before his house, and cutting of Palisado stuff for a pretended fortification where there is no occasion nor need. And many more such courtesies as these Mr. Scottow (got) by the soldiers. And that other men should pay for his work, done under pretence of defending ye country, wee hope in behalf of the rest of ye sufferers in these sad times, you will please to take it into your serious consideration, and heape noe more upon us than wee are

able to bear-but where the benefit has been received, there order ye charge to be levied.

RICHARD FOXWELL-GILES BARGE
RAL: ALLANSON JOSEPH OLIVER
WILLIAM SHELDON-JOHN COCKE
JOHN TINNEY."*

Although the inhabitants derived little benefit from the soldiers under Scottow in 1675, they were much indebted to his enterprise for their safety on other occasions. During the subsequent years of his residence here, he appears to have regained the confidence and esteem of the townsmen. Later in the history of the town Scottow appears in a position towards his fellow towsmen altogether creditable to him. Before the events of Philip's War, as early as 1670, we find him at Black Point extensively concerned in the fisheries, and employing a large number of men and boats. The County Court ordered, in 1671, "that Mr. Scottow have power and be lycensed to sell wines and liqquors in small quantitys to his fishermen and others." If Jocelyn's account of these fishermen is true "wines and liqquors" were a motive power in Scottow's enterprise second in importance only to money. Scottow was an eminently religious man in his habits, yet he did not keep wholly clear of the talons of Massachusetts law, as the following record will show: "Mr. Scottoway† presented (with others) for riding on the Sabbath from Wells to Yorke." This occurred in 1661, and probably was on the occasion of Scottow's return from his first visit to Scarborough. Subsequently to 1675 the Captain took command of another garrison here, but, fortunately perhaps, under circumstances little calculated to test the question of his military courage.

* Massachusetts State Files.

We frequently find the name spelt thus; and at this day Scottow's Hill in this town is oftenest styled "Scottoways Hill.”

CHAPTER VIII.

CIVIL AFFAIRS. SECOND INDIAN WAR.

The earliest Town records, commencing with the year 1669, contain hardly anything worth transferring to these pages. Occasionally there may be found an entry of some interest, but most of the matters recorded have lost whatever of value they may have once possessed. Upon the early Province records we find a few interesting items relating to Scarborough. To us, who enjoy the conveniences of comfortable post-roads and carriages, to say nothing of railroads and steamboats, our ancestors present a curious spectacle in traveling from settlement to settlement. The matter of travel affords one of the most striking contrasts between their condition and our own. Soon after the settlers had fairly established themselves in one place. they appear to have directed their attention at once to the matter of roads and ferries. In 1658 the Court passed the following order establishing ferries over our rivers: "Itt is ordered that the Towns of Scarborough and Falmouth shall forthwith appoynt convenient Ferrys for transportation of travelers from place to place over the Rivers; That the sd Towns shall chuse meet psons to keep the sd Ferrys, having elected them to psent them to ye town Commissiors for allowance, who have hereby power if they see cause to confirme them, and likewise to order their pay.' ."* Under this act a ferry was established on the Spurwink, and Ambrose Boaden chosen first ferryman. His charges were two pence cash or three pence on account for each person ferried over. This arrangement lasted many years, probably until nearly 1673, when the town was brought to account "for not providing of a ferry boate according to Law"-"In reference to ye ferry Its ordered yt the Town

*York Records

shall take course with the ferryman to pvide a good boate or Conows sufficient to transport horses and to have 9d for horse and man, and 6d for ferring ym over, and Sacoe River to have ye same allowance."

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In 1680 the Town was presented for not keeping a ferry at Black Point River; and again in 1682 the record is: "Wee psent the town of Bla: Poynt for not keeping a ferry at bla: Poynt River-The Court upon examination of the case acquit the Town of this presentment, and finds John Start as by testimony appearing hath undertaken ye ferry wrby hee stands lyable to answer any Neglect in ye Premises." To this was appended an order for Capt. Scottow to put in a better ferry` man, otherwise the presentment would be continued to the next Court. Our townsmen were not less irregular in respect to the roads. When they had failed to lay out roads they were called to answer to the Court for their neglect of duty; and when they had gone so far as to build them they were frequently presented for not taking proper care of them. The highway in common use at that time in this vicinity was the sea-shore, which appears to have subjected travelers to some inconveni ences besides that of the irregularity of the ferries; for in 1672 the Court took measures to open a new way between the settlements. On the records for that year we find this entry"For the more convenient passage of strangers and others from Wells to Cascoe, the expedition wrof is daly hindered by observance of ye Tyde in traveling ye lower way wch by this means may bee pvented, It is yrfore ordered by this Court yt ye Towns of Wells, Sacoe, Scarborough, and Falmouth, shall forthwith marke out the most convenient way from Wells to Hene Sayward's Mills, from thence to Sacoe Falls, and from Sacoe ffalls to Scarborough above Dunstan, and from Scarbo

*York Records.

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