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Indian depredations, 183, 187, 188, 190.
Indians, Penobscot, Williamson's testimony concerning, 358; their reduction and submission, 359.
James I., Grant of lands by, 47.
James II., Duke of York, Grants to, 147; character of, 149.
Jennings, Abraham, Monhegan purchased by, 73.
Jocelyn, Capt. John, Extract from the journal of, 163; compelled to sur- render, 195.
Kankamaugus, a friendly Pennacook sagamore, 213. Y Kennebec River, Serious trouble on the, 95; trading post on the, 134.
Kennebec Indians sue for peace, 277.
Kimball, Col. William K., Exploits of, 475.
King Philip's war, its woes, 258.
King, Gov. William, Sketch of, 425.
Kittery, The town of, its extent, 110; the court sits at, 288.
Kittery Point, Settlement at, 105.
Knowles, Col., praiseworthy act in Philadelphia, 471.
Laconia, Description of, 90.
La Tour, Charles de la, 111; conflict on the Penobscot, 114; his treachery, 120; suspicions of, 132 ; his character and death, 134.
La Tour, Madame, Character of, 116; heroism of, 118; fate of, 119. La Tour, Stephen, confirmed in his possessions by Cromwell, 134.
Laws respecting preaching, 128; humane, of Massachusetts, 139.
Lee, Robert E., his humiliation and surrender, 495.
Leif, Adventures of, 14.
Letter of the Governor of Canada, 296; of Hon. G. A. Hedlund, 443. Levett, Capt., His character and explorations, 88.
Lewiston, its mercantile and literary importance, 411.
Lexington, British soldiers sent to, 366 ; encounter at, 368. Longfellow, H. W., The ride of Paul Revere, by, 367. Loron, an Indian sachem, Remonstrance of, 333; speech of, 342.
Losses by Indian wars to Maine, 286; to the Indians, 287. Louisburg, its strength, 347; its capture, 348.
Lovewell, Capt., Exploits of, 317, 319.
Loyal, Fort, how situated, 210; Capt. Davis's report of the attack upon, 228.
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INDEX.
Luxury of the settlers, Example of the, 339.
Lygonia, A new patent for territory, called, 93; united to Massachusetts, 141. Lygonian Plantation, 105.
Machias, Importance of, 385; attack upon, 386; incorporated, 398. Madawaska, Doings at, 431.
Madockawando, Speech of, 185; notice of, by Drake (note), 201; his commu- nication to the council at Boston, 220; his death, 251.
Maiden heroism, 180.
Maine, Beauty of the coast of, 41; reasons for the name, 107; confusion in the affairs of, 158; returns to the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, 160; purchase of the province of, 208; poverty of the people of, 253; losses of the inhabitants, 335; renewed prosperity of, 340; patriotism in the Revolution, 373; her lakes and mountains, 458-467 ; her sacrifices in the civil war, 468-498; exports of, 501; crops of, 502; various indus- tries of, 503; manufacturing resources of, 504.
Maine, Fourteenth Regiment, their labors and hardships, 477.
Maine General Hospital, 527.
Maine Regiments, Character of the men of the, 484.
Manatahqua, Wanton murder of, 99.
Maquoit, Fort erected at, 137.
March, Major, at Damariscotta, 250; his loss at Casco, 264.
Martha's Vineyard, Last battle at, 79.
Massacre at Norridgewock, 313.
Massachusetts laws, Value of, 137.
Massé, M., a French missionary, 72.
Maverick, Samuel, Self-sufficiency of, 151.
McClellan, Gen. Geo. B., his tribute to the Seventh Regiment, 472.
McGilvery, Capt. Freeman, Testimony of Gen. Augur to the gallantry of, 483. McKeen, Rev. Joseph, D.D., 404.
Memorial presented to Cromwell, 142.
Meteorological record for fifty years in Maine, 501.
Misunderstanding between Capt. Gilbert and Sebenoa, an Indian chief, 59-61; fatal effects of, at Brunswick, 199.
Missionaries, Catholic, Faults and excellencies of, 242 ; intolerance towards, 256. Mohawks, Consequences of the enlistment of, 202.
Monhegan, Discovery of, by Weymouth, 33; quaint description of, 73.
Mortality of the Fifteenth Regiment, 477.
Moulton, Capt., sent to Norridgewock; his humanity, 306.
Mountains of Maine, 498, 499.
Mount Desert, its size and beauty, 71, 456.
Mowatt, Capt., Orders received by, 378; his conduct, 379.
Mugg, an Indian chieftain, 195; he negotiates a treaty, 196; boastful remark: of, 198; death of, 204.
Naeset, name given to Cape Cod, 14. Nahanada, his interview with Skitwarroes, 50; his fears, 51. Narragansett Bay entered by Verrazano, 26. Narrow and intolerant religious views, 138.
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INDEX.
Neal, Walter, Revengeful conduct of, 98.
Neutrality proposed by the Canadians, 273.
Newfoundland, Discovery of the banks of, 44.
New Meadows River, Battle at, 177.
New Orleans, The Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth sent to, 489.
Newport, R. I., Ruins of a Northmen tower at, 19.
New Somersetshire, Settlements in province of, 104.
New Sweden, where and how situated, 439; houses in, 439.
Norridgewock, Mission station at, 171; attack upon, by Col. Hilton, 270; a new expedition against, and its failure, 304; description of the hamlet of, 309; fatal attack upon, 312, 313.
Norridgewocks, End of the tribe of, 314.
North-eastern boundary, Dispute respecting, 424; settlement of the question, 434.
Northmen, their home and character, 13; their barbarity, 15.
North Yarmouth, its establishment and boundaries, 210
Norumbega, Limits of, 28; note, 31.
Nova Scotia ceded to England, 134, 278.
Nichols, Col. Richard, his character, 150.
Oath of allegiance to England required of the settlers on the Kennebec, 135. Official report upon Swedish immigration, 442.
" Ohio Fever," The consequences of the, 424.
Old Orchard, Points of interest at, 453, 454.
Oldtown, Westbrook's official account of the expedition against, 327.
Original patent granted to New Plymouth, 136.
Outrageous conduct at St. George, 66.
Outrages perpetrated by Indians, 249, 250.
Patents granted to settlers in Maine, 290.
Parris, Albion K., second governor of Maine, 427.
Peace articles signed by the English and Dutch courts, 133; articles signed between Indians and the English at Casco, 207; treaty of, between Eng- land and America, 397.
Pegwacket, Encounter near, 321.
Pejepscot settlement, 105; limits of the purchase, 212; sale and boundaries of, 289.
Pemaquid, Importance of, 91, 92, 105.
Penacooks, Petition of the, 212.
Penobscot Bay, Pring's account of, 31; Rosier's description of, 36; conference at, 251.
Perils of the Ninth Maine Regiment, 473.
Pestilence along the coast of Maine, 84.
Philip, King, his haughty answer to the governor of Massachusetts, 186.
Phips, Sir William, Character and adventures of, 222; governor of Massa- chusetts, 240; tribute to the memory of, 252.
Phipsburg, its first settlement, 54.
Picturesque attractions of Maine, 446.
Pinchon, Major, sent to the Mohawks, 202.
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INDEX.
Piracy, Acts of, 95.
Piscataqua Plantation, 105. Plymouth Company, its character and object, 46.
Plymouth Council, Provinces of the, 100. Plymouth Rock, Landing of the Pilgrims at, 85. Pond Town Plantation, why so called, 363.
Popham, Sir Francis, engages in fisheries, 69. Popham, George, Character of, 48; he ascends the river Sagadahock, 54; cho- sen governor of Sagadahock, 55; his death, 65.
Popham, Lord John, his rank and influence, 48. Population of Maine and of New England, 164. Portland, Barbaric display at, 256; beauty of the city of, 446. Port Royal found impregnable, and the siege abandoned, 275. Poutrincourt, his brutality, 70. Privateers, French, sweep the coast of Maine, 267. Proclamation of the General Court of Massachusetts, 146, 159. Proclamation issued at Boston, 299. Province of Maine, its condition, 105.
Province of Nova Scotia conquered by the English, 133. Putnam, Major Perley, in command at Eastport, 420 ..
Quakers, Persecution of the, 138. Quebec, Fruitless attack upon, 222; Arnold repulsed in his attack upon, 383.
Randolph, Edward, Bitter aspersions of, 209. Rangeley Lake, 464.
Rasle, Sebastian, a French missionary at Norridgewock, 171; his journeys through the western wilderness, 172; British hatred of, 297; attempts to capture, 305; success of, in civilizing and Christianizing the Indians, 310; violent death of, monument erected to the memory of, 325. Razilla, Gen., military commandant of Acadia, 102.
Readfield, Wesleyan Seminary at, 401.
Record of Maine regiments, 492.
Regiment, the Eleventh, Testimony of Gen. Neagle, to the heroism of the, 475; adventures of the Thirteenth, 476; labors and deaths in the Twenty- Fourth, 487; sufferings of the Thirty-First in the wilderness, 492. Regiments, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth, 486. Religion, Endeavors to establish the institutions of, 90.
Reprisals by the savages, 300.
Retribution, Indian, 66.
Revere, Paul, frustrated Gen. Gage's plans, 367. Rhode Island the winter abode of the Northmen, 16. Richards, Major, sent to enlist Mohawks against the eastern tribes, 202. Richardson, Lieut., marches into ambush, 204. Richmond Fort, Indian speeches at, 352. Right of search maintained, 419.
Rines, Capt. Stover, his success and reverses, 432. Routes of travel, 447, 455. Royal, Port, Colony at, 32.
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INDEX.
Royall, William, purchase of, 210.
Rut, John, Second English expedition commanded by, 28. Ryswick, Treaty of, concluded, 251.
Saco, The first General Court held at, 107.
Sagadahock Colony, Inauguration of, 55.
Sagadahock River, Beauty of the, 54.
Samoset, an Indian chief of renown, 87.
Savages, Insolence of the, 129.
Saxton, Gen., selects officers from Maine regiments for colored soldiers. Scandinavia, What constituted, 13.
Scandinavian immigration, 436; commissioners upon, 437.
Scarborough, Colony at, 105; revival of the settlement at, 211.
Scenes of picturesque beauty on the coast of Maine, 37.
Schools of Maine, 517-526.
Scott, Gen., success of his pacific measures, 433.
Screven, Rev. William, his trials and character, 211.
Seat of government removed to Augusta, 429.
Sebago Lake and its scenery, 458.
Separation of Maine from Massachusetts decided, 425. Settlers on the coast of Maine, Character of, 89; fears entertained by the, 352. Settlements abandoned, 191.
Sewall's description of Pemaquod, 92.
Seymour, Rev. Richard, held the first religious service in Maine, 52.
Sharpshooters, A company of, sent from Maine; their record, 478.
Shepley, Col. George F., of the Twelfth Maine, 475; his position at New Orleans, 476. Sherbrook, Gen., Order of, to Capt. Barrie, 422.
Shirley Fort at Augusta, 354.
Shurte, Mr. Abraham, endeavors to redress Indian wrongs, 181; Indians appeal to, 184.
Skitwarroes, the captive Indian, returned, 49.
Skowhegan, State quarries at, 503.
Smith, Capt. John, his character and objects, 81.
Southack, Capt. Cyprian, Timely arrival of, 263.
Spanish fleet, The, capture an emigrant ship, 49.
Speech of an Indian chief to Queen Anne, 281; of Lord Chatham, 369.
Spurling, Lieut .- Col., Raid of, 491.
Squando, a friendly Indian, Cruel treatment of his child, 175.
Squando, Pretended revelation of, 186.
Squantum, Career of, 40.
Squidrayset, an Indian warrior, 98.
Stamp Act, Feeling in Falmouth respecting, 374.
Standish, Capt. Miles, 103.
State of Maine, Latitude and longitude of, 498.
State Seal, Description of, 426.
Stoddard, John, Commissioner to the Indians, 331.
St. George, Inauguration of, 64; anarchy and distress at, 65. St. George, Conference at, 344
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St. George River, Fortress at, 294; attacked, 306.
St. John, The successful attack upon, 249.
Sharkey, William, historian of the Popham Expedition, 55.
Strategy, Indian, 179.
Subercase, a French commander, surrenders Port Royal, 278.
Sufferings of the Eighth Maine, 472; of the Sixteenth Maine, 484.
Sullivan, Mr., Testimony of, 128.
Summer resorts in Maine of great beauty, 449-467.
Swedes, Welcome to the, 439; prosperity of, 444; numbers in Maine, 444. Swett, Capt. Benjamin, his character and conduct, 204; his death, 205.
Terms of peace exacted of the Indians, 286.
Thebet, André, Journal of, 29.
Thirtieth Maine, Toils, sufferings, and losses of, 490.
Thirty-Second Maine, Awful carnage of, 492. Thomas, William W., Sketch of, 436; his labors in Sweden, 38; tribute to, 445. Thomaston, Fort built near, 294; celebrity of, 386.
Thompson, Col. Samuel, Reckless act of, 375.
Thorfinn visits Vineland, 16; his fruitless search for Thorhall, 18.
Thorhall, Explorations of, 18.
Thorstein, his expedition to Vineland, 16.
Thorwald, a Northman, visits Narragansett Bay, 14; death of, 15.
Togus, Home for disabled soldiers at, 498.
Topsham laid out, 289.
Tour, de la, Charles, 111; his efforts to recover his dominions, 113.
Tour, de la, Claude, attacks an English trading-post, 97.
Toxus, Speech of, 342,
Trading-houses established, 91, 332; rules for conducting, 338.
Treachery of Boston merchants, 272.
Twenty-Sixth Regiment; its nine months of toil, 488.
Utrecht, Peace of, 285.
Vetch, Col. Samuel, Governor of Nova Scotia, 273.
Villany of Verrazano, 25; his end, 27.
Vineland, its climate and productions, 14; enthusiasm of Gudrida concerning, 10; its supposed location, 19.
Vines, Capt. Richard, Settlement of Saco begun by, 89; he assails Mr. Tucker, 110.
Virginia, Council of, its powers, 47.
Visit of Pemaquod chiefs to Capt. Weymouth, 40.
Voyages of discovery by the Northmen, 14, 15, 17. Voyages of discovery by Columbus, 21.
Voyages of discovery by John and Sebastian Cabot, 22.
Voyages of discovery by Gasper Cortereal, 24.
Voyages of discovery by Giovanni Verrazano, 25.
Voyages of discovery by Estevan Gomez, 27.
Voyages of discovery by John Rut, 28.
Voyages of discovery by Bartholomew Gosnold, 30.
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Voyages of discovery by De Monts, 32.
Voyages of discovery by George Weymouth, 33.
Wadsworth, General, Heroism of, 391, 394.
Wainwright, John, Conversation of, with Indian chiefs, 331.
Waldo patent, The, 94.
Waldron, Major, Suspicions of, 200; death of, 219.
Wampum, a currency medium, 91.
Wannerton, his revenge upon D'Aulney, 115.
War and its ravages, 83; between England and Holland, 162; second Indian, 175; between France and England, its consequences, 220; duration and sufferings caused by the Indian, 251; third Indian, 260; its desolations, 261, 262; cause of a new Indian, 345; fifth Indian, commenced, 348; of the Revolution, 369; of 1812, consequences of, to Maine, 418.
Washington protected by Maine Twenty-Seventh, 489.
Water-power of Maine, 505-515.
Wells, General Court convened at, 121; attack on the garrison at, 233; exciting event at, 283, 284.
Wells Beach, 451.
Westbrook, Col. Thomas, Expedition of, 302.
Weymouth, Capt., Suspicions of, 38; treachery of, 39; effects of the crimes of, 56.
Wheelwright, Rev. John, his character and persecutions, 142; letter of, 143.
Whitefield, Rev. George, visits Maine, 343.
Whittier, Poem of, on Norridgewock, 310, 457.
William Henry, built at Pemaquid, 240; efforts to destroy, 241, 245; final loss of, 246.
William and Mary, Charter of, 252.
Williamson, Capt. Jonathan, Capture of, 349.
Williamson, Hon. William D., Sketch of, 425.
Winslow, Capt. Josiah, Attack upon, 307.
Winter Harbor, Capt. Vines spends a winter at, 85; attack and defence of, 276.
Winthrop, Gen. John, Unsuccessful efforts of, 223.
Wiswall, Rev. Mr., Unpatriotic character of, 375.
Wivarna, Letter of the sachem, 334.
York, Awful carnage at, 235. Yorkshire, County of, 127.
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