his settlement at the village, he was regarded with confidence by his neighbors, and looked up to as a friend and counsellor.  Certain incidents are related, which prove that he was self-denying, generous, and public-spirited, laboring in humility and with zeal in the midst of great privations, sharing the exposures of his people to Indian violence, and experiencing all the sufferings of an unprotected outpost.  In 1676, while preaching at Casco,—­now Portland,—­the entire settlement was broken up by an Indian assault.  Thirty-two of the inhabitants were killed or carried into captivity.  Mr. Burroughs escaped to an island in the bay, from which he was rescued by timely aid from the mainland.  He wrote an account of the catastrophe, communicated by Brian Pendleton to the Governor and Council at Boston.  In 1683 he was again at Casco; and, again driven off by the Indians in 1690, transferred his labors to Wells.  A grant of one hundred and fifty acres of land was made to him, included in the site of the present city of Portland.  As population began to thicken near the spot, the town applied to him to relinquish a part of it, other lands to be given him in exchange.  In their account of the transaction, they state, that, in answer to their application, Mr. Burroughs said they were welcome to it; that he freely gave it back, “not desiring any land anywhere else, nor any thing else in consideration thereof.”

In a vote passed at a meeting of Salem Village parish, Feb. 10, 1681, it was agreed that Mr. Burroughs should receive L93. 6_s._ 8_d._ per annum for three years, and L60 per annum afterwards.  I suppose that he had no money or property of any kind.  The parsonage was out of repair; and the larger sum for the first three years, amounting to L100, in three instalments, was to be given him as an outfit in housekeeping.  Immediately upon coming to the village to reside, he encountered the hostility of those persons who, as the special friends of Mr. Bayley, allowed their prejudices to be concentrated upon his innocent successor.  The unhappy animosities arising from this source entirely demoralized the Society, and, besides making it otherwise very uncomfortable to a minister, led to a neglect and derangement of all financial affairs.  In September, 1681, Mr. Burroughs’s wife died, and he had to run in debt for her funeral expenses.  Rates were not collected, and his salary was in arrears.  In making the contract with the parish, he had taken care to add, at the end of the articles, these words, “All is to be understood so long as I have gospel encouragement.”  It is not improbable that there was a lack of sympathy between him and the ministers in this part of the country.  He concluded that no benefit would accrue from calling a council to put things into order; and, as he was in despair of remedying the evils that had become fastened upon the village, he concluded to give up the idea of getting a settlement of his accounts, abandoned his claims altogether, and removed from the village.