The father was born in 1634. Loyal from the attack on his Kennebec, a short time before. from Biddeford in England to he purchased the island in Kennebec river which bears his name, and died there in 1661. His son John, above mentioned, was a large purchaser of land on the Kennebec, and was carrying on an extensive business there when his property and life were suddenly taken away. He was the ancestor of Isaac Parker, the late honored and distinguished Chief Justice of Massachusetts, who commenced the practice of law in Maine, and was a resident in Portland, when in 1806 he was placed upon the bench of the Supreme Court. The descent from John, who was killed, was through his son Daniel, who moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts, and died in 1694, aged twentyseven, leaving a son Isaac, who was the grandfather of the Chief Justice.]

They had sought refuge in Fort settlement at Parker's Island in John, the father of John, came Biddeford in Maine. In 1650,

Thomas Cloice and Seth Brackett, son of Anthony, were killed, but it is not known whether they were among the slain of Clarke's company or not. It appears by the Danvers records, that Alsop, Edward Crocker, and Geo. Bogwell were killed at Casco, in 1690. Jos. Ramsdell, a soldier from Lynn, was also killed. Capt. Robert Lawrence was mortally wounded, and Anthony Brackett, Jr., James Ross, and Peter Morrell were among the prisoners. [John Gyles in the narrative of his captivity, speaks of meeting on the St. John river a captive, named James Alexander, a Jerseyman, who was taken from Falmouth. There were also taken prisoners James Ross, Joshua Swanton (a boy), Samuel York, Samuel Souter, Sarah Davis (a girl), Thomas Baker (a boy), and George Gray. Ross, Alexander, and Swanton, were returned to Boston in October, 1695.] It is to be regretted that a more perfect record of the sufferers in this catastrophe has not been preserved; we have been indebted to ancient depositions taken to perpetuate evidence, for the few names we have been able to present. In

this disaster the town records were destroyed,' together with all other combustible or destructible property in town, and the once flourishing settlement exhibited an entire and melancholy ruin. It was visited by Sir Wm. Phipps and Major Church in August, 1692, on an expedition east, when they buried the bones of the slain, as they were bleaching upon the soil, and removed the cannon of the fort, which had been too large for Indian transportation.

After the capture of Fort Loyal the garrisons at Purpooduck, Spurwink, and in Scarborough, were so disheartened that they abandoned their posts and retreated upon Saco. In a few days after, the people in the latter place drew off to Wells, and left the country east of that settlement wholly depopulated and unprotected.

Major Church was sent to this bay again in September to harass the enemy. The expedition on its return anchored for a night off Purpooduck Point: and the accommodations

1 It has been intimated that the town records were carried to Canada; but it is not probable that the enemy would take pains to preserve and transport so great a distance, documents which to them had no sort of value. Judge Freeman mentioned the report to me, but he had no authority for it but tradition. Had there been a reasonable ground for the idea, the subsequent settlers would have obtained them, at a time when their loss was severely felt and produced great confusion in titles.

2 William Vaughan, Charles Frost, and Richard Martyn wrote to Boston from Portsmouth, May 19, 1690, that they had just heard of the attack on Casco-that two men from Spurwink garrison on hearing the firing at Casco, went to see about it; when they came near, "they saw but two houses standing, the fort on fire and the enemy very numerous thereabout." On the 22d of May they wrote again that the vessels they had sent, discovered that the enemy three or four hundred strong had possession of Casco, and as they approached the fort, they were fired upon, and while they staid the remainder of the fort and houses were burnt; that three or four hundred people, mostly women and children, had arrived at Portsmouth from the eastward, and that the vessels reported that Black Point, Richmond's Island, and Spurwink were burning as they passed. The General Court, in October following, ordered a payment for wages to be made to the wives and relations of the soldiers who were slain or taken at Casco.-General Court Files.

on board the vessels being limited, three companies of friendly Indians encamped in a deserted house on shore. At the dawn of day the Indians attacked the camp and an obstinate engagement ensued, during which the troops from the vessels were landed; the enemy were driven off with the loss of thirteen canoes. Several were killed and wounded on both sides; one Indian prisoner was taken, "a lusty man who had Joseph Ramsdell's scalp by his side."

Falmouth became the scene of no more engagements during the war; a single anecdote relating to the place, told by Mather with high relish, may close the subject. As the Indians were passing through "deserted Casco," in 1694, the squaws desired the young men to shoot some horses that were straying about Capt. Brackett's orchard, as they were suffering from hunger; but the young men, wishing to have some sport first, caught one of the horses, and making a halter from the mane and tail, a son of the famous Higon mounted the steed for a ride, and to secure him from falling he had his legs tied under the horse's belly. But no sooner was the horse at liberty, than he set out at full speed "through briar and brake," without regard to the feelings or the wailings of his rider. Nothing more was seen of poor Higon but a leg which was buried with great lamentation in Capt. Brackett's cellar.

The war continued until 1698, when a treaty of peace concluded at Ryswick, in 1697, between the English and French, having been announced, and Madockawondo being dead, all obstructions to an accommodation were removed. Articles of agreement were entered into in October, and a treaty was finally executed at Mare's Point in Casco bay, January 7th, 1699. At which time the whole territory of Falmouth, which before the war was covered with an active and enterprising population, was a perfect blank, a thoroughfare for the savage and a resort for beasts of prey.

1 Church. [Of our forces nine were killed and twenty wounded; the loss fell principally upon Capt. Southworth's company of friendly Indians from Plymouth Colony, of whom fifteen were killed and wounded.]

CHAPTER XI.

A BRIEF NOTICE OF SOME OF THE INHABITANTS OF FALMOUTH DURING THE SECOND Settlement-NAMES OF THE SETTLERS.

In the foregoing pages we have introduced occasional notices of some of the prominent men of the town. We propose now to conclude this part of our history by adding some additional particulars relative to the lives and characters of several of the inhabitants, and furnishing as full a catalogue as we have been able to collect of all who resided here between 1680 and 1690.

James Andrews, son of Samuel Andrews, who came from London, was born in 1635, probably in Saco; but soon after his father's death, which took place about 1638, he removed to Falmouth with his mother on her marriage with Arthur Macworth. He is supposed to have married for his first wife, Sarah, a daughter of Michael Mitton; the christian name of his second was Margaret, we cannot supply the surname. He lived on a farm east of Presumpscot river, which passed by mesne conveyances to the Jones family, and is now, 1831, owned by Capt. Samuel Moody. During the Indian war he removed to Boston, where he died in 1704, leaving a widow, one son Elisha, and three daughters, Rebecca, wife of Jonathan Adams, Dorcas, wife of Ebenezer Davenport and Jane, wife of Robert

*[Davenport was son of Thomas Davenport of Dorchester, Massachusetts, admitted freeman, 1642, died 1685. Ebenezer Davenport was born 1661, his wife

Davis; he is believed also to have had a son James and another, Josiah or Joshua. The last two not being mentioned in his will, probably died before him.

Anthony Brackett, who was killed in 1689, has been so frequently noticed, that but few remarks will now be necessary. He filled a large space in the affairs of the town, and his death at the commencement of the troubles must have been seriously felt by his townsmen. Of his children by his first wife, Anthony was taken prisoner at the capture of the fort, and escaped in September following; he rendered the country very acceptable services during the war and finally settled in Boston: his son Anthony was a rope-maker; his posterity sold their right in lands here and did not return. Seth, the second son, was killed in the attack on the town in 1690. His daughter Mary was unmarried in 1717. [She afterward married Nathaniel Whittier of Salisbury.] Kezia married Joseph Maylem, and Elinor, Richard Pullin, both of Boston. By the second marriage, Brackett had Jane, Zipporah, Zachariah, Ann, and Susannah. The latter married Samuel Proctor. He returned to Falmouth before 1720, when another daughter was born here. He had nine children born between 1709 and 1727, from whom a numerous posterity has spread over the state.

Thomas Brackett, brother of Anthony, married Mary Mitton, and had by her, Joshua, born 1674, Sarah, married to John Hill of Portsmouth, and Mary, married to Christopher Mitchell of Kittery, 1708. He was killed by the Indians in 1676, and his family carried into captivity, where his widow died the same year.

George Bramhall came from Dover, N. H., where he lived in 1670; he was actively employed during the time he lived in town; he carried on the tanning business in addition to his

1663, He died 1736, she 1723; they had nine children, of whom three daughters, Tabitha married John Cox, Jr., Hepzibah, Thomas Cox, and Thankful, Cox.]