The successful defence of the most exposed place on the frontier was welcome news throughout New England, and Commodore Charles Knowles, who was then at Boston, sent Stevens a silver-hilted sword in recognition of his conduct. The settlers of Number Four, who soon returned to their backwoods home, were so well pleased with this compliment to one of their fellows that they gave to the settlement the baptismal name of the Commodore, and the town that has succeeded the hamlet of Number Four is Charlestown to this day.[244] [224] _Extract from the Governor’s Message_, in Smith, _History of New York_, ii. 124 (1830). [225] _Clinton to the Lords of Trade, 10 November, 1747._ [226] _Ibid., 30 November, 1745._ [227] _Remarks on the Representation of the Assembly of New York, May, 1747_, in N. Y. _Col. Docs._, vi. 365. On the disputes of the governor and Assembly see also Smith, _History of New York_, ii. (1830), and Stone, _Life and Times of Sir William Johnson_, i. N. Y. _Colonial Documents_, vi., contains many papers on the subject, chiefly on the governor’s side. [228] _Examinations at a Court of Inquiry at Albany, 11 December, 1745_, in N. Y. _Col. Docs._, vi. 374. [229] The best account of this affair is in the journal of a French officer in Schuyler, _Colonial New York_, ii. 115. The dates, being in new style, differ by eleven days from those of the English accounts. The Dutch hamlet of Saratoga, surprised by Marin, was near the mouth of the Fish Kill, on the west side of the Hudson. There was also a small fort on the east side, a little below the mouth of the Batten Kill. [230] Schuyler, _Colonial New York_, ii. 121. [231] _Report of a Council with the Indians at Albany, 28 June, 1754._ [232] _Answer of the Six [Five] Nations to His Excellency the Governor at Albany, 23 August, 1746._ [233] _Johnson to Clinton, 7 May, 1747._ [234] Keene, originally called Upper Ashuelot. On the same stream, a few miles below, was a similar settlement, called Lower Ashuelot,--the germ of the present Swanzey. This, too, suffered greatly from Indian attacks. [235] _Extrait sur les différents Mouvements Militaires qui se sont faits à Montréal à l’occasion de la Guerre, 1745, 1746._ There is a translation in _N. Y. Col. Docs._ [236] _Journal of the Assembly of New Hampshire_, quoted in Saunderson, _History of Charlestown, N. H._, 20. [237] Extracts from the Town Record, in Saunderson, _History of Charlestown, N. H. (Number Four)_, 17, 18. [238] Saunderson, _History of Charlestown, N. H._ 29. Doolittle, _Narrative of Mischief done by the Indian Enemy_,--a contemporary chronicle. [239] _Extrait en forme de Journal de ce qui s’est passé d’intéressant dans la Colonie à l’occasion des Mouvements de Guerre, etc., 1746, 1747._