[250] Williamson, _Hist. of Maine_, ii. 119; Penhallow. Rale's account of the affair, found among his papers at Norridgewock, is curiously exaggerated. He says that he himself was with the Indians, and "to pleasure the English" showed himself to them several times,--a point which the English writers do not mention, though it is one which they would be most likely to seize upon. He says that fifty houses were burned, and that there were five forts, two of which were of stone, and that in one of these six hundred armed men, besides women and children, had sought refuge, though there was not such a number of men in the whole region of the Kennebec. [251] Vaudreuil, _Memoire adresse au Roy, 5 Juin, 1723_. [252] _Vaudreuil au Ministre, 6 Septembre, 1716._ [253] _Extrait d'une Liasse de Papiers concernant le Canada_, 1720. (Archives du Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres.) [254] _Reponse de Vaudreuil et Begon au Memoire du Roy, 8 Juin, 1721._ [255] _Begon a Rale, 14 Juin, 1721._ [256] Some of the papers found in Rale's "strong box" are still preserved in the Archives of Massachusetts, including a letter to him from Vaudreuil, dated at Quebec, 25 September, 1721, in which the French governor expresses great satisfaction at the missionary's success in uniting the Indians against the English, and promises military aid, if necessary. [257] Wheeler, _History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell_, 54. [258] Hutchinson, ii. 261. On these dissensions compare Palfrey, _Hist. of New England_, iv. 406-428. [259] _Sewall Papers_, iii. 317, 318. [260] Palfrey, iv. 432, 433. [261] Penhallow. Hutchinson, ii. 279. [262] Penhallow. Temple and Sheldon, _History of Northfield_, 195. [263] _Westbrook to Dummer, 23 March, 1723_, in _Collections Mass. Hist. Soc., Second Series_, viii. 264. [264] Hutchinson, ii. 283 (ed. 1795). Hutchinson had the story from Moulton. Compare the tradition in the family of Jaques, as told by his great-grandson, in _Historical Magazine_, viii. 177.