460 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

Liber K.

he further informs me that he knows the Indians by face but
especially the Wife of Mons^r Casteene whom he saw amongst
the rest in their Cabins and says that these are Penobscott
Indians a fort scituate upon the Confines of the French to the
Eastward of New England and the very Indians that cut of so
many hundred Familys of the English so lately to the East-
ward of Boston and tho he Could not Come to the sight of
the Frenchman yet the sight of his Indian Wife amongst the
Indians may evidence this to be Mons^r Casteene the grand
enemy to the English 1 do assure your Excellency 1 have used
my utmost diligence in this discovery and tho some in great
Authority may and do slight it tho the whole Province we may
suppose with the Neighbouring Provinces now lye in great
Ieopardie yet I have not I hope been wanting in any thing that
may Conduce to the publick Interest I should assuredly
given my Personall Attendance had I not been debilitated by
a long and tedious fit of Sickness but I hope when I next see
your Excellency to make some further Discoverys to tedious
here to recite I am
Your Exc^llcys most humble Servant
To his Exc^llcy Lionel Copley Ch Iames
Esq^r Cap^t Gen^ll & Gov^r in chief
in and over the Province
of Maryland
for their Majestys especiall Service

p. 136

Memd the following Deposition omitted to be entred
in its due Place above next after the first foregoing Letter of
Charles Iames as being Inclosed therein and read at the same
time is therefore here entred as follows viz^t

The Examination of Rob^t Drury upon his oath as follows
That Monsieur Casteene formerly Gov^r of Cannada (as he
is informed) when S^r Edmond Andros put up the Kings
Standard in the river of S^t Croes in the French Dominions as
supposed that this Mons^r Casteene took no care to oppose
him and notice being given thereof to the French King he
sends in with strict orders for his being brought over for
France, but this Mons^r Casteene having notice of it flyes
among the Indians to a Fort called Penobscott near unto a
River called S^t Georges in the King of Englands Territorys
where he contracted Matrimony with an Indian Woman
Sister a Mawdockeawando the great Sagamore in those
Northern Parts and when the troubles was in New Engl^d this
Deponent was informed by severall Persons who had their
Houses Burnt and their Estates lost that this Mons^r Casteene
joyned with those northern Indians in burning of severall