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Maine at Louisburg in 1745 To TH E GOVERNOR OF MAINE M F R A D BE T . E H ON . R N L GREA TLY INTERESTED I N THE PA ST PRESENT A ND FU TU RE OF H I S NATIVE STA TE PR E F A C E I n the making of the Nation, Maine has not received the credit to which she is fairly entitled . While the making was in of M of progress she was a part assachusetts , and the services her sons redounded to the glory of the great mother Common L e wealth . But the exington alarm awoke the minute men her & as well as the minute men of Essex and Middlesex ; and with enthusiasm and alacrity they assembled and hurried forth to . take their places in the ranks of the uprising colonists . They of were at Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights , indeed in most the movements of the continental forces that followed on of remoter fields . One of the surprises our Revolutionary history is the recent discovery in the Massachusetts Revolu tionary rolls that what is now the State of Maine had in ’ 1 - 8 Washington s army at Valley Forge, in the winter of 777 , f m en - ten hundred and eight o ficers and , or about one tenth of ’ ' 1 0 on of Washington s entire force . In placing in 9 7, the line ’ W r ashington s intrenchments at Valley Forg e, a granite marke with an inscription in bronze containing a t ribute to these Maine: Treei tate— of to heroes , the Pine the first all the states next Pennsylvania to erect a memorial on that scene of privation and — suffering has evinced in a most worthy way her continued patriotic spirit . ’ But we have been as neglectful of our history of Maine s eriod a s F or part in the Colonial p g in that of the Revolution . M example , the fathers of the men from aine who fought for independence in the Revolution were at Louisburg in I 745 in even larger numbers proportionately—that is when compared vi Ma i ne a t L oui sburg i n 1745 — with the quotas from other parts of New England than on the many battlefields of the Revolution from Bunker Hill to York in - town . Parkman, his Half Century of Conflict , following Pe errell I of doubtless a statement made by pp , the commander “ : of M the expedition , says A full third the assachusetts contingent , or more than a thousand men, are reported to have M come from the hardy population of aine, whose entire fighting 2 8 . force, as shown by the muster rolls , was then but 5 5 M ’ L I aine s part at ouisburg in 745 , therefore, was a most distinguished one . I t is a matter for regret that , in the b of f a sence o ficial rolls , it is not now possible to present a complete list of the men who served in the three Maine of regiments in that memorable campaign . Only a few names ’ those who served in Waldo s regiment have come down t o us ’ ’ b ut the names of men who served in Pepperrell s and Moulton s regiments , brought together in this volume from various sources , furnish abundant evidence that the estimate above one mentioned is a correct . We have been too neglectful of ou r State history . The M n aine Historical Society , with limited fi ancial resources , has done a most valuable service in collecting historical data, and in publishing the same . The Society has received needed financial of encour encouragement from the State . I t is worthy added M ag em ent . But aine will not discharge her j ust obligations to the past until on her part proper attention is paid to the work of collecting the materials of her history in the colonial of period, also in the period her statehood , and to the care and of preservation her archives . on 2 1 See note page . 2 ol . 2 . V , p 99 P r qfa c vii I n my attempt in the following pages to call attention to M L 1 the part aine had in the ouisburg expedition in 745 , I am especially indebted to the source-books concerning Cape Breton of L and the capture ouisburg at that time, which are mentioned in the appendix and are found in the John Carter Brown L U M ibrary, Brown niversity ; the assachusetts Historical Society Library (including its valuable collection of Pepperrell the library of the American Antiquarian Society, M s L M Worcester, as ; the Boston City ibrary ; the aine State L ibrary ; and the library of the Maine Historical Society in of - to Portland . Some these source books I have been able add to the State Library from funds placed at my disposal by the L of 1 0 egislature 9 9, and others should be added as Opportunity offers . Pe errell The portrait of Sir William pp , of which the - frontispiece is a half tone reproduction , was painted recently M r . Es by Joseph B . Cahill for Henry Deering, q . , of Portland , M M aine, who presented it to the aine Historical Society . It is Pe errell E taken partly from the pp portrait in the ssex Institute, and partly from engravings of Sir William . I am indebted to Mr . Deering for the excellent photograph used in the prepara tion of the frontispiece . The portrait of Sir William Pepperrell in the State House in Augusta was placed there near the close of 1862 Mr of , and was a gift to the State by . S . Brannan San of M of Francisco, California, a native aine . I t is a copy a S mibert or S m bert portrait by John y , a Scotch painter, who to 1 2 8 accompanied Dean Berkeley America in 7 , and settled in 1 1 of Boston, where he died in 75 . H e painted portraits many of of E the prominent men his time in New ngland . The copy of his portrait of Sir William Pepperrell in the State House in Augusta was made from the portrait in the Portsmouth ’ Ma i ne a t L ou zs éurg i n 1745 Mr Atheneum , Portsmouth , N . H . Brannan , for his valuable the M L e gift, received thanks of the aine egislature in a resolv b 1 18 b 6 6 . approved y the Governor Fe ruary , 3 L 1 of L The illustrations , ouisburg in 745 , and Siege ouis ’ “ in 1 Pa rkman s - of burg 745 , are taken from Half Century L Conflict , published by ittle, Brown and Company, Boston , whose permission for their use in this volume is gratefully acknowledged . I t may be stated that the substance of the following ’ account of Maine s part in the Louisburg expedition of 1745 has been presented at a meeting of the Maine Society of of M Colonial Wars , at a meeting the aine Historical Society and at a meeting of the National Society of Colonial Dames in of M the State aine . H . S . B . M Togus , aine . C O N TE NTS E AT R I N I MAIN LOUISBU G 745 , ASCERTAINABLE LISTS OF O F F ICERS AND MEN FROM NE WH O E E A T R I N 1 MAI W R LOUISBU G 745 , E NCE CORR SPONDE , F F C E T &c . O I IAL R POR S , , T T CE OF F T IMPOR AN SOUR S IN ORMA ION , ' I ND EX TO T OF F F C M N LIS S O I ERS AND E , I LLU S T RATI O NS T. E E A PEPPERRELL LIEU G N R L WILLIAM , OF ET MAP CAPE BR ON , I N 1 LOUISBURG 745 , OF R I N 1 SIEGE LOUISBU G 745 , TH ’ T O A I T EA Y E KING S BAS I N s APP RS TODA , ENTRANCE TO TH E HARBOR ; ISLAND BATTERY ON TH E LEFT EN ON TH T AND GRE ISLAND E RIGH , T OF Z ECE T Y C V E PAR MAGA INE R N L UN O ER D , TH PEPPERRE A T TTE Y E LL MANSION KI R , BRASS MORTAR AND PESTLE BROUGHT F ROM LOUISBURG B Y ’ E MORRIS O BRI N , MONUM ENT AT LOUISBURG ERECTED I N 1895 B Y TH E SOC IETY OF A COLONI L WARS , ’ 2 Ma i ne a t L ou zs éu rg i n 1745 of of again became British territory , as did the rest Acadia which it was a part . The island remained an English pos of U 1 1 session , however, only until the treaty trecht in 7 3 , when what is now Nova Scotia was ceded to Great Britain , of France retaining the island Cape Breton , renamed Isle Royale . In order to make secure the possession of the — island all that now remained of her Atlantic possessions E France forthwith proceeded to fortify nglish Harbor, giving it L Of a new name, ouisburg, in honor the French monarch , L XI ouis V . A glance at the map will show how important in defense Of i L French nterests along the St . awrence was the posses sion of the island of Cape Breton . Separated from the main of land by a narrow strait , it has the appearance an o L . extension Of Nova Scotia into the Gulf f St . awrence I n fact the French name, Acadia, covered both Nova Scotia and of Cape Breton .
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