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18. The Drowned Lands, or the Twelve Mile Marsh, the Grand Marais of the French, extends from Wood Creek half way to Ticonderoga. It was a vast mud flat, overgrown with rushes, flags, lily pads, eel grass and wild rice, with a narrow channel winding through it. Redeemed and cultivated, it has proved highly productive.
19. Lake Champlain, called by the Indians Canaideri Guarunte, was discovered by Champlain in 1608. It became the principal line of communication between Canada and the English provinces. It is 136 miles in length, extending from Wood Creek to the Sorel river, by which it discharges into the St. Lawrence river. It is long, narrow and deep. At its wid- est it does not exceed a distance of twelve miles from shore to shore ; at some points, for miles and miles, it is not over half a mile wide. In the winter ice freezes to great thickness on the lake and passage upon it extends usually from before Christmas to Easter. In a military point of view, the lake has been a theatre of great events.
20. August 27, 1724, the Indians attacked the house of John Hanson, at Dover, N. H. Hanson, who was a Quaker and a grandson of the immigrant, Thomas Hanson, had gone to the week-day meeting of his sect, and his sons were at work in the field. Mrs. Hanson, whose maiden name was Margaret Maul, and family were in the house. The Indians killed two chil- dren and captured the mother, a servant, and an infant, a boy of six years, one daughter of fourteen and another of sixteen. Mr. Hanson went to Canada in 1725 and redeemed his family, except the eldest daughter, Sarah, b. November 13, 1708, who had abjured Quakerism and been baptized in the Romish faith.
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21. The original fort at Chambly was constructed in 1665 and received the name of St. Louis; but, as Captain James de Chambly, of the Carignan regiment, directed the work and purchased the adjacent real estate while he was in command, a new work built on the ruins of the old one was named Fort Chambly, and gave its name to the town and county. The fortress was a double palisade, fifteen feet high, with a ban- quette, raised eighteen inches above the ground. It figured prominently in all the wars subsequent to its erection. It was situated on the east side of the river, at the foot of the rapids on the Richelieu, about sixteen miles from Montreal. Captain Chambly was afterward commandant at Acadia, and later gov- ernor of Granada. Longueuil, the shire town of the county of Chambly, is situated on the east bank of the St. Lawrence river, opposite Montreal, and about three miles distant.
22. Philipe de Rigaud, born 1640, near Castelnaudary, France, died at Quebec, December 10, 1725. He was a son of the Marquis de Vaudreuil, who fell at Luzara in 1702, from whom he inherited the title. He was a soldier of conspicuous merit ; in 1689 he was governor of Montreal; served under Frontenac in the war against the Iroquois; was active in the defence of Quebec in 1690 against Governor Phipps; in 1693 defeated the Iroquois under La Chaudiere Noir; for awhile he was in the naval service of France; in 1703 he was appointed governor of Canada, in which position he died, having effected many reforms, notably in the departments of finance and edu- cation. He was father to the last French governor of Canada. The following sentence was inscribed upon his coffin :
Cy gist le haut et puissant Seigneur Philippe Rigaud, le Marquis Vaudreuil, Grand Croix de l'ordre militaire de St. Louis, Governeur et Lieutenant Général de toute le Nouvelle France, décédé le dixiéme Octobre, 1725.
23. Capital of the county of Chambly, situated on the east bank of the St. Lawrence. It was named for Charles Le Moyne de Longueil, first baron, who was born at Montreal,
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December 10, 1656; was active in military service, and wounded at Quebec in 1690. He was made governor of Trois Rivieres and Montreal, and so continued to the death of Vaudreuil, with whom he was in full accord and support. He administered the province till September, 1726. He died June 7, 1729.
24. Jean Baptist Dagueil, Daguille or L'Equille, was a native of Bordeaux, where he was born in 1685. He married Priscilla Storer, born 1694, at Wells, Me., a daughter of Jere- miah and Ruth ( Marsters) Storer. He was a sergeant in the La Forest company. Priscilla Storer was a captive in an Indian raid.
25. Capt. Samuel Jordan, son of Dominicus and Hannah (Tristram) Jordan, was born at Spurwink, Maine, in 1684. In his eighteenth year, 1702, he was made a captive, with his mother and all her family in an Indian foray and carried to Trois Rivieres, Canada, where he remained in captivity till 1709. Then he made his escape and returned on foot to Fal- mouth. In 1717 he settled at Winter Harbor, now Kenne- bunk, and for years conducted the only store in the village. His knowledge of the Indian language, habits and customs qualified him for an interpreter, in which he rendered valuable service, was largely employed and wrote the text of treaties. He married at York, in 1718, Olive Plaisted, born May 1, 1698, died 1763, a daughter of James and Mary (Rishworth) Plaisted. He died December 20, 1742.
26. Pierre Joseph de la Chasse was a French missionary among the Abenaqui, with whom he had been resident since 1700. He was the superior of his order in Canada from 1718. In 1721 he had been in Maine, among the Indians. In 1727 he was superseded by Du Parc. He returned to France in 1736.
27. Sebastian Rasle was born in Franche Comte, January 4, 1657 ; was admitted to the Society of Jesus in 1674, and was a teacher in the college at Nismes for ten years. He came to
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America in 1689, and was engaged among the St. Francis and the Illinois Indians till 1693. In 1695 he settled permanently on the Kennebec and acquired a firm and lasting hold on the natives. His resources and his activity, excited by national and religious zeal, made him conspicuous, and the English frontiersmen soon regarded him as the principal instigator of the Indian raids. However just that may have been, he was unquestionably privy to them and gave the departing warriors his blessing with absolution. In manners he was most agree- able and condescending. He taught many of the Indians to read and write; he healed their simple ailments, and in every way he could he advanced their interests, as he understood them, with untiring perseverance. There was no doubt of his sincerity. He was slain August 12, 1724, at the foot of the cross he had erected by the English in the attack upon Nor- ridgewock. See Whittier's Mogg Megone, Part III. In 1833 a stone monument was erected on the site of his chapel to commemorate him, bearing on its face an inscription in Latin.
28. Samuel Thaxter was born at Hingham, August 6, 1665, and died in that town, November 13, 1740, son of John and Elizabeth (Jacobs) Thaxter. He was long engaged in public life; was representative from Hingham to the General Courts of 1697, 1708-'12, 1714-'18; councillor, 1719-'37; a special justice of the Court of Common Pleas, 1712, 1729, and of the Superior Court in 1735; colonel of the regiment; member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company, and its com- mander in 1728. His daughter and eldest child was mother to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln of the Revolutionary army.
29. Pierre Francois de Rigaud (Rigault), third son of Philippe and Louise Elizabeth (de Joybert) de Rigault (Gov- ernor Vaudreuil), was born at Quebec, November 22, 1698, and died in France in 1764. He married, May 2, 1733, Louise Therese de Fleury d'Eschambault, born at Quebec, May 6, 1713, and died in France in 1793. He became a chevalier in
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the military order of St. Louis, a major in the royal forces and Marquis de Cavagnal, by which title he is historically known. Successively he served the crown as governor of Trois Rivieres, of the province of Louisiana, 1743-'52; and of the city of Quebec, 1752-'60. On the extinction of the French power in America he betook himself with his family to France. He was immured in the Bastile from December, 1761, to the close of March, 1763. On release he did not recover his former en- ergy or capacity, but soon died.
30. During the night following August 29, 1723, a band of Indians attacked the dwellings of Aaron and Samuel Rollins, on the Lamprey river, now Durham, N. H., killed Mr. Aaron Rollins, scalped his daughter and made captives of his wife, son and remaining daughter. In a few years the wife was re- deemed, but her children remained in Canada and settled there.
31. Mary Rishworth, born January 8, 1660, at York, daugh- ter of Edward and Susanna (Wheelwright) Rishworth, m. (1)
White, (2) John Sayward, born , died Decem- ber, 1689, (3) Hull, and (4) James Plaisted, son of Lieut. Roger Plaisted of Kittery. She was made captive in the Indian raid of January 25, 1692, with two of her children, Mary Sayward, born April 5, 1681, and Esther Sayward, born March 7, 1685 ; carried to Montreal, where she perverted from the faith of her childhood and was baptized with her daugh- ters by the Romanists, December 8, 1693. She was redeemed in October, 1695, and returned to her husband. The daugh- ters remained in Canada.
The elder child took the name of Mary Genevieve Sayer, at her Romish baptism; on the 25th of June, 1699, in her eigh- teenth year, she took the vow of poverty, chastity, obedience and teaching of little girls, as a novice in the order of the Nuns of the Congregation at Montreal. At this ceremony she was given a new name, Marie des Anges. When the mission was removed to Sault au Recollet, having completed her no-
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vitiate, she was placed at the head of the school, where she died. She was buried March 28, 1717.
The younger daughter, under the name of Marie Joseph Sayer, was educated by the nuns of her sister's order, was nat- uralized in May, 1710, in her twenty-fifth year, and married, at Montreal, January 5, 1712, to Pierre de L'Estage, a mer- chant of the city and treasurer for the king. He was born 1680 and died December 21, 1743. The widow purchased a dwelling adjacent to the community of nuns, who had be- friended her since she could remember. The date of her death is not known, but her body was buried under the chapel of St. Anne in the old Church of Notre Dame, at Montreal. She bequeathed to the convent much of her personal property, some of which still can be identified. She was the mother of three children, of whom only the youngest, Pierre, born 1737, lived to manhood.
32. The Ingersoll place was a large, roomy dwelling, built by John Ingersoll, one of the "Seven Pillars" of the Westfield church, on land granted in 1666 at Woronoco, the first name of that plantation. The house was enlarged in 1700, and so arranged that it could be defended against Indian maraudings. At the date of this visit, it was occupied by Esquire Thomas Ingersoll; who was the king's magistrate, selectman of West- field and the representative to the General Court. He was born November 27, 1692, and died October 10, 1748. He had local renown for killing Greylock, the Indian famous for cun- ning and cruelty, whom he shot while attempting to surprise and scalp Mrs. Ingersoll. She was Sarah Dewey, born at Wakefield, March 17, 1696, and died there April 30, 1778.
33. Samuel Shute was a native of London, where he was born in 1653. His education was at the University of Leyden. He entered the military service, in the army of the Prince of Orange, and was afterward with Marlborough, under whom he attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was governor of
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the province of Massachusetts Bay, 1706-'23, and of New Hampshire at the same period.
34. Johnson Harmon. was of York and had seen service under Walton and under Westbrook at Arrowsic and other forts in the Kennebec region. At the Norridgewock raid he was a captain, and for the results of that enterprise was pro- moted lieutenant-colonel. He settled at Harpswell. He rep- resented York in the General Court of 1727. He died in
35. Jeremiah Moulton was born in 1688 and died July 20, 1765. He resided at York. He was an efficient captain in the wars against the Indians, colonel in 1725. He was a colonel at Louisburg in 1745. Subsequently he was sheriff of York county, judge of the Court of Common Pleas and of the Pro- bate Court.
36. Thomas Westbrook was a native of New Hampshire, a son of Councillor Thomas Westbrook of Portsmouth. He mar- ried, in 1700, Mary Sherburne, a daughter of John Sherburne, master mariner of Great Island and Little Harbor. Their only child became the wife of Richard Waldron of Portsmouth, secretary of the province. Westbrook became interested in the settlement of the eastern country from his business as a shipper of masts for the royal navy. In 1722, as one of the twenty Pejebscot associates, he was made captain of their garrison, and was promoted to the command of Fort St. George. In 1723 his rank was recognized by the provincial government ; he was promoted colonel and made commander-in-chief of the forces in Maine. He died February 11, 1743.
37. John Stoddard, born at Northampton, February 17, 1682, died at Boston, June 19, 1748, son of Solomon and Esther (Warham) Stoddard; was graduated at Harvard col- lege with the class of 1701, and resided in the family mansion at Northampton, which he inherited. He represented North- ampton in the General Court twenty-seven times, and died while in attendance at a session. He was a commissioner of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1718; judge of the Hamp-
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shire Court of Common Pleas, 1719-'48, during the last ten years of which he was chief justice; councillor, 1724, '27, '28; judge of probate, 1729-'48, and colonel of the Hamp- shire regiment of militia from an early age. He was the de- voted friend and supporter of Lieutenant-Governor Dummer and the measures of the English crown. Through an entire generation he was the most conspicuous and leading citizen of Northampton and the Connecticut valley.
38. William Dummer was born at Boston, in 1677, a son of Jeremiah and Ann (Atwater) Dummer, a goldsmith. He mar- ried, April 20, 1714, Catherine Dudley, a daughter of Gov. Jo- seph Dudley. He died at Boston, October 10, 1761, and was buried in the Granary yard. He represented the province as a commissioner at Plymouth and in 1716 was commissioned lieutenant-governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay, un- der Col. Samuel Shute, the royal governor. On Shute's retir- ing to England, in 1723, Dummer, who had been in the execu- tive council during 1722, became acting governor, and re- mained so until 1728, when the appointment of Governor Burnet superseded all incumbents. He was continued as com- mander-in-chief of the forces. In 1730, he retired from the public employ, engaging himself as a Boston merchant, with a farm at Newbury Byfield. By his will he endowed an acad- emy for the education of boys at Byfield, which was the earliest in New England. It is still flourishing and bears his name, Dummer Academy. .
39. William Burnet was born March, 1688, at The Hague. His father was bishop of Sarum, and his godfather the Prince of Orange, whose name he bore. In 1720 he was comptroller of customs, and became governor of New York and New Jer- sey. In 1725 he was transferred to Massachusetts, where he was at his death, September 7, 1729.
40. Jean Frederick Phélypeaux, born 1701, died 1781, was a son of Jerome Phélypeaux, the French secretary of state, 1699-1715; succeeded his father as secretary of state in 1715,
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the administration of which position fell into his hands in 1725, and so continued till 1749, when he was removed and went into retirement. On the accession of Louis XV, he was recalled to court and made president of the council of state. An island in Lake Superior and a lake in Louisiana bear the name of his title, Maurepas.
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