. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. t, without seeing an Indian at either place. At Casco, Avhere he next put in. Church found ordersawaiting him, directing him to march up to Norridge-wock before returning home. Finding his men stronglyopposed to makingthe march, now thattheir minds were bentupon a speedy com-ing home. Churchreadily found an ex-cuse for disobeyingthe order. Thus end-ed Churchs fifth andlast expedition. Awide extent of terri-tory had been trav-ersed, a few insig-nificant villages de-stroyed, and a num-ber of prisoners,equal t
. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. t, without seeing an Indian at either place. At Casco, Avhere he next put in. Church found ordersawaiting him, directing him to march up to Norridge-wock before returning home. Finding his men stronglyopposed to makingthe march, now thattheir minds were bentupon a speedy com-ing home. Churchreadily found an ex-cuse for disobeyingthe order. Thus end-ed Churchs fifth andlast expedition. Awide extent of terri-tory had been trav-ersed, a few insig-nificant villages de-stroyed, and a num-ber of prisoners,equal to those takenat Deerfield, brought away. The expedition was lookedupon in the main as a failure, and if the adaptation ofmeans to ends be looked to, it was one. So far fromsuffering loss, the Indians had been merely frightenedaway from their old haunts, like birds of prey before thefowler. AVhen he had passed on they came back was more true or more certain thau that thegeographical position of Port Royal was a constantmenace to the New England fisheries. And as its re-. RUINS OF CHURCHS HOUSE, 204 THE BORDER WARS OF NEW ENGLAND [1704 duction had been the professed object of the expedition,the failure to attack it easily provoked suspicion thatall was not as it should be. And when Dudleys agencyin the matter became known, as it eventually did, hismotives were severely impugned. In fact, Dudley hadnot taken the public into his confidence. His allegedreasons, as stated by Church, failed to satisfy an in-creasing number of political and personal enemies, andindeed were puerile in the extreme. XXI NEGOTIATIONS FOR NEUTRALITY July, 1704—April, 1706 The scene of Indian depredations now shifts for themoment from the harassed frontier to one of the oldersettlements. On the last day of July, 1704, some fourhundred French and Indians fell upon Lancaster,Mass. It was rather more than half the Lancaster force which had set out from Quebec, **^^®*- under the command of Beauc
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