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May the 17th 1745

Friday about the rising of the sun we came to sail in annapolis Bason In Company with the Schooner Seaflower James Sutherland Commander. Bound up to the Fort of Anapolis Royall with the wind about SE and opposite Near Goat Island, which is about a League below the Fort, the wind began to near a head (and?) we was Necessiatated to stand in Near of Land on the Larbord side of the River to a place called? the Scotch fort, where Very Unexpectedly and to our Great Surprise, there Lay in ambush an army of French & Indians that were sent from Candady to attack the fort of anapolis having had Inteligence from the (Nuteral?) (unclear) at anapolis unclear. I was sent an Express to Bo..? and bring In Continental Expectation of my arrival at anapolis, they had provided them with unclear halled up and tied in the bushes? all things Necessary for their Inte,,p..? which was compleated to So much Satisfaction,