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�Aid of Bethel in 1781 he was their guide. I have talked again with Miss Abbott whose grandfather knew Sabatis but did not say he was with Arnold, and I have made some study of the three local histories which state that he was. These are of late date and two of the authors I have proved unreliable. The third, who is living, is quite sure he had heard the tradition but doesn't remember from whom. My conclusion is that our Sabatis cannot have been the brother of Natanis[?], and I am reasonably sure that he was a Pequawket[?] instead of a Penobscot. I find no evidence of any Revolutionary service other than that of 1781. From this service the tradition may have been handed down that he was a guide during the Revolutionary war; from this it would be an easy step to the tradition that he was a guide for Arnold. With the evidence as I now have it I am forced to believe that something like this happened, --and that the statement that he was with Arnold is an error. But I do believe that there were two Indians named Sabatis with Arnold, and as far as I have read the commentators this possibility has never been considered, but always the discussion has been whether Natanis[?], Aeneas, Eneas, Enneos, Sabatis and Sabattis were two Indians or three, and either way there are unexplained difficulties but with four Indians these difficulties disappear, and all the apparent inconsistencies of the diaries and letters except two, that Senter[?] records as happening at Norridgewock on Oct. 7 an event which seems to have happened at the Great Carrying place on Oct. 13, and that Arnold heads two of his letters of Oct. 13 "Dead River" whereas his exact position as shown by the diaries was the second portage of the Carrying Place just mentioned. But Senter's[?] diary was evidently not a day by day record, therefore "subject to error", and Arnold appears to have stretched the truth in sending reports to Washington so why not also in writing to Quebec?

	For all this I have notes, with references, which I am now getting