Note 1274 — Chapter VIII

In Kidder's Expeditions of Captain John Lovewell, it is stated that the petition for guns, blankets, etc., of thirteen Pequakets, who were willing to enlist, was granted by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts Bay. The date of the petition is not given. For the treaty of July 10, 1776, see Amer. Arch., 5th, i. 835; and the reply of the Micmacs to Washington, Ibid. iii. 800.—Ed.