Show SCENE OF FAMOUS DEFENCE Site of Desperate Engagement of French and Indian War Marked Boston Tho traveler at Wells Me stops with Interest before a block of granite bearing two bronze tablets that commemorate one of the most 1 I t i x + l ttrw a Block Marking Site of Storer Garrison Gar-rison unequal and desperato engagements in tho French and Indian war The monument marks tho site of the Storer garrison On ono tablet is a representation in low relief of the defence of the garrison by a handful of men who fought against vastly superior numbers and on the other this inscription To commemorate tho defence of Lieut Joseph Storers Garrison on this ground by Capt James Converse 20 Massachusetts soldiers neighboring yeomanry of Wells and various heroic women June 910 and 11 1q92 whereby where-by 400 French and Indians wero successfully suc-cessfully resisted and Wells remained the easternmost town in the province not destroyed by the enemy The memorable action thus commemorated com-memorated Is described at length in the Ecclesiastical History of New England Eng-land by tho reverend and learned Cotton Cot-ton Mathor who states that two sloops and a shallop recently come into the river participated in tho engagement which ho styles the bravest act of tho war The reverend authors account ol tho heroic threedays defence is ax cellcnt reading today |