In 1704 the assembly of New Hampshire ordered that every householder should provide himself with snow-shoes, for the use of winter scouting parties. (_N. H. Prov. Papers_, iii. 290.) In 1724 Fort Dummer was built near the modern Brattleboro, in territory then claimed by Massachusetts. (_Hist. Mag._, x. 109, 141, 178; _N. H. Hist. Soc. Coll._, i. 143; _N. H. Adj.-Gen. Rept._, 1866, ii. p. 122.) In 1746, after the alarm over the D’Anville fleet had subsided, Atkinson’s New Hampshire regiment was sent north to meet any invasion from Canada. (_N. H. Adj.-Gen. Rept._, 1866, ii. 83.) The next year (1747), Walter Bryent advanced with his regiment as far as Lake Winnepesaukee. (_N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg._, July, 1878, p. 297; N. H. Prov. Papers, v. 431, 471; Belknap, ii. 228.) In 1747 the fort at “no. 4,” or Charlestown, the outpost towards Canada, was attacked. (Saunderson’s _Charlestown_; Stone’s _Sir William Johnson_, i. 260.) In 1752-54 there is record of the hostilities on the New Hampshire borders in the _N. H. Prov. Papers_, vi. 301, 310-319. The St. Francis Indians confronted the settlements of the upper Connecticut, and in 1752 Shirley sent Capt. Phineas Stevens to treat with them in the presence of the governor of Canada. (_N. Y. Col. Docs._, x. 252.) For the massacre at Hinsdale in 1755, and attacks in the Connecticut valley, see _N. H. Prov. Papers_, vi. 412, and _Adj.-Gen. Report_, 1866, vol. ii. 153. [Illustration: FORT HALIFAX, 1755. (_Restoration._)] In 1694-95, the frontier line of Massachusetts was established by law as including the towns of Amesbury, Haverhill, Dunstable, Chelmsford, Groton, Lancaster, Marlborough, and Deerfield. Five years later this list was increased by Brookfield, Mendon, and Woodstock, with a kind of inner line, running through Salisbury, Andover, Billerica, Hatfield, Hadley, Westfield, and Northampton. For the border troubles of Massachusetts, beside Penhallow and Niles, Neal and Douglass, and the _Magnalia_, we turn to Hutchinson with confidence in the facilities which he enjoyed; but John Adams says (_Works_, x. 361), “When Mr. Hutchinson’s _History of Massachusetts Bay_ first appeared, one of the most common criticisms upon it was the slight, cold, and unfeeling manner in which he passed over the Indian wars.”