Meanwhile Phips had sailed from Boston in April to attack Port Royal. He anchored before its defences on the 10th of May. The place was quickly surrendered to Phips, on the 11th of May, by De Meneval, its governor, who did not escape the imputation of treachery at the time. Parkman (_Frontenac_, pp. 237,) and Shea (_Charlevoix_, iv. 155) give the authorities. Parkman says Charlevoix’s own narrative is erroneous; but on the French side we still have Monseignat and Potherie, though both are brief; the _Relation de la prise du Port Royal par les Anglois de Baston_, May 27, 1690; the official _Lettre au Ministre_ of Meneval, and the _Rapport de Champigny_, of October, 1690. Cf. _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 720; ix. 474, 475. [Illustration] On the English side we have Governor Bradstreet’s instructions to Phips and an invoice of the plunder, in the _Mass. Archives; a Journal of the Expedition from Boston to Port Royal_, among George Chalmers’ papers in the Sparks Manuscripts at Harvard College, perhaps the document referred to by Hutchinson, in speaking of Phips, as “his Journal;” the unhistoric overflow of Cotton Mather’s _Life of Phips_, and sundry extracts embodied in Bowen’s _Life of Phips_. Murdoch, in his _Nova Scotia_, ch. xxii., gives a summarized account. [Illustration] During Phips’s ill-starred expedition to Quebec in the autumn of the same year, Colonel Benjamin Church was ineffectually employed in creating diversions in Phips’s favor in this lower region. See Dr. Henry M. Dexter’s edition of Church’s _History of the Expedition to the East_, and additional letters of Church in Drake’s additions to Baylies’ _Old Colony_, pt. v.; and in 4 _Mass. Hist. Coll._, v. 271. Williamson (_Maine_, i. 624) summarizes the authorities. Two years later the rapine began afresh. York in Maine was captured and burned in 1692 by the Abenakis, one of whose chiefs gave to Champigny the narrative which he sent to the Minister, Oct. 5, 1692, which Parkman calls the best French account. The Indians also gave Villebon the exaggerated story which he gives in his _Journal de ce qui s’est passé à l’Acadie_, 1691-1692. On the English side, we have the account in Mather’s _Magnalia_, and the later summaries of Williamson and of the general historians. In June, Portneuf and St. Castin, with their savage followers, left Pentagöet to attack the frontier post of Wells, but they were foiled, and retreated. Villebon is here the principal French authority; and on the English side, to the more general accounts of Mather, Hutchinson, Williamson, and to the eclectic summary of Niles’s _Indian and French Wars_, we must add the local historian Bourne’s _History of Wells_. [Illustration: PEMAQUID.]