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St. François Indians whom Washington wished him to use in communicating with Quebec; that there were Indians coming overland whom Arnold was expecting on Sept. 29, t join him on the Kennebec, but who had not yet arrived; that there were St. François Indians who had visited Cambridge in August, 1775, four of whom had remained under Washington's direction; and finally that there were six Penobscot Indians serving at Cape Ann from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15, had come to Cape Ann by a six days' journey, their service probably known to Washington, and this service expiring just in time to make it possible that there Indians could be sent, with or without the Cambridge Indians, to join Arnold by an overland route. Moreover two of these Indians at Cape Ann are enrolled as "Sabatis" and "Eneos", and though we have no proof that theywere sent to join Arnold, at least here is an "Eneos", a Penobscot, who cannot be the Natanis[?] know to have been at Dead River on Sept. 7 and 8. And these Indians from cape Ann and from Cambridge entirely aside, I believe all the evidence of the letters and journals goes to show that the letter carriers of Oct. 13 were not the two brothers, Natanis[?] and Sabatis. As for our Fryeburg Sabatis I have not yet found the Swan manuscript, but I have found another written about fifty years ago by a cousin of mine, from the oral dictation of a very old man whose grandfather lived close by Sabatis, on the bank of the Saco. This manuscript states that Sabatis was well known to the earliest settlers who came in the 1760's; that he was believed by them to be the last male Pequawket[?] remaining when the tribe went to Canada; that he lived at Fryeburg with Moll-locket[?], and afterwards with an earlier "wife" died about 18809 and are buried near the site of their cabin, on the Saco's bank. The manuscript makes no mention of Revolutionary service. But there is evidence from another source that where the Fryeburg settlers marched to the