Glass. Book- ANCIENT DOMINIOiNS OF MAINE, EMBRACING THE EARLIEST FACTS, THE RECENT DISCOVERIES OP THE REMAINS OF ABORIGINAL TOWNS, THE VOYAGES, SETTLEMENTS, BAT- TLE SCENES, AND INCIDENTS OF INDIAN WARFARE, AND OTHER INCIDENTS OF HISTORY, TOGETHER WITH THE RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS OP SOCIETY WITHIN THE ANCIENT SAGADAHOC, SHEEPSCOT AND PEMAQUID PRE- CINCTS AND DEPENDENCIES. « By RUFUS king SEWALL, author of sketches of the city of st. augustine. B ATH : ELISHA CLARK AND COMPANY. BOSTON, MASS.: CROSBY AND NICHOLS. PORTLAND: SANBORN AND CARTER. 185D, Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859, by II. K. S EWALL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Maine. STEREOTYrED AND PRINTED' B'V 3. TUURSTON, PORTLAND, ME. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. ANTE-COLONIAL PKRIOD. Historical remains — Location — Pedcokcgowake — Antiquity of the relics — Remains of Nekrangan — Local features — Human remains — Observations — Exhumations — White Mountain views — Colonial ves- tiges — Suggestive features of the remains — Ruins accounted for — Norumbcgua — Historical view of the name — Locality — Personal ap- pearance of the ante-colonial inhabitants — "Weapons — Capital of the country — Court costume — Weymouth's treachery — Whale fishery at Pemaquid — Damariscotta, seat of ante-colonial empire — Aboriginal names — Arambec — Menikuk — Race inhabiting these cities — Succes- sion of races — Druidical suggestions — The Bashaba — His enemies — Wawennocks — Their end, . 13 CHAPTER IL PERIOD OF DISCOVERY. Gosnold at Kennebec — Bark Shallop — Wreck in Sheopscot Bay — Pring's voyage — Weymouth's voyage — Discovery of Monhegan — Anchorage and observations of the mainland — Pentacost Harbor — First view of the natives in Pentacost Harbor — Discovery of the Saga- dahoc — Native trade — Native deportment — Native canoe — Griffin's story — Natives kidnapped — Description and exploration of Pentacost Harbor — Bashaba's envoys — Primitive aspect of Long Reach — River explorations — Archangel towed to sea — Identification of the harbor anchorage — Summary — Discovery of fishing ground — Archangel's return to Europe — Effect of the discoveries on the public, . 55 lY CONTENTS. CHAPTER III. PERIOD OF SETTLEMENT. Gilbert and Popham's voyage — Extracts from journal of the voyage — Spanish shallop and natives — Boothbay and Kennebec — Landing at Pemaquid — Sabbath services on shore — Hostility of the natives — Desertion of Skitwarroes — The gale — Entrance to Sagadahoc — Se- lection of the site of a town — Possessory rites and ceremonies — Break- ing of ground for intrenchments — Explorations and adventures in the river — Face of the country — Altercation with river Indians — Over- tures of the sovereign of the country — First ship, the Virginia of Saga- dahoc — Death of Popham — Traditionary reminiscences — Conflict with the natives — Abandonment of colony — Monhegan settlements — Reckless voyagers — Harlow — Smith — Rocroft — Hunt — Dermer — Samosset at Boothbay Harbor — Damariscove — Sagadahoc — Sheep- scot — Pemaquid — Levett's voyage to Sheepscot — Acquisition of title to Bristol — State of society — Wreck at Boothbay Harbor — Plymouth estabhshment at Kennebec — Aid worth and Eldridge at Pemaquid — Description of Pemaquid — Lawlessness — Pirate Dixy Bull — Abraham Shurt's adventures at Piscataqua — Imprudence of the settlers — Plantations — Murder at Kennebec — Original price of the town of Woolwich — Robinhood, the sagamore of Sheepscot — Export of cattle — Condition of settlements — First death by drowning — Name of the State — John Parker's settlement — Original purchase of Westport — Birthplace of Phips, the Sheepscot ship-builder — His adventures and success — Population and staples of trade — Travel — Transfer of land- ed titles — John Mason, the Sheepscot proprietor — Civil condition of the settlements — First court organized at Merry Meeting — Price paid for the town of Bristol — Hamlets of Brown, Philips, Lake and Clark — Price paid for the town of Phipsburg — Hamlet of Rev. Robert Gutch at Long Reach — Death of Robert Gutch — Dukedom established — Newcastle a shire town — Convention of the people in the dukedom — Dissenters to ducal government — Purchase of Boothbay — Claims of Massachusetts — New Dartmouth — Yestigcs of ancient occupancy — Ancient chi-oiiicles of stone — Sheepscot settlements, ... 81 CHAPTER IV. INDIAN AVARS. * Natural causes — Moral causes — Robinhood disturbed — King Philip's war — Outrage on an Indian mother — Assault on the Purchase planta- tion — Slave traders in Massachusetts — Destruction of the Arrowsic CONTENTS. V towns — Devastation of Hammond Town — Sacking of Lake and Clark's village — Plantations abandoned — Incidents of the retreat — Card's escape — Abbott's adventures and escape from Damariscove — Wal- -^ dron's expedition — Fortifications erected — Waldron's figlit at Pemar quid — Return of the inhabitants — Return of Sheepscot planters — New Dartmouth re-occupied — Civil regulations — Peniaquid fostered — Temperance enforced by law — Laws of trade — Dongan's administra- tion — Military despotism — Andros' measures to receiver the country — Indications of fresh violence — Irregularities at the capital — Earliest appearance of existing family names — Dukedom merged in Massachu- setts — Andros restored to power — Recklessness of the Governor — Change of metropolitan interests from Pemaquid to Boston — Remon- strance of eastern citizens — Forts rebuilt — EtTects of the English Rev- olution — New ports of entry demanded — Conference of Colonial Gov- ernors — Treachery of Andros — Complaints of the people — Points of defense — Renewal of hostilities — Destruction of New Dartmouth — Battle at Pemaquid — Death of Judge Gyles and capture of his family — Fall of Jamestown — Trials of captivity — The bear hunt — Gaunt- let dance — The fright — The chastisement — Savcige cruelties, . 151 CHAPTER V. WAR OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION CONTINUED. Major Church — Fall of Annawon — Condition of country — Erec- tion of garrisons — Building of Fort Wm. Henry at Pemaquid — Condi- tion of the natives — Converse — Fi'ench influences — Mission of Sheep- scot John — Iberville's expedition — Investiture of Fort Wm. Henry — Naval demonstration at Pemaquid — Surrender of the fort — ISIarch in command — Battle of Damariscotta — Peace of Ryswick — Piracies — Queen Anne's war — Dudley's administration — Death of Ar-ru-hawik- wabenit — Fall of Nova Scotia — Re-settlement of the country — Build- ing of Augusta — Land Speculations — Rebuilding of Pemacjuid — Im- migration — Ancient remains of Phipsburg — Cambel's cellar — Rest- lessness of the natives — Pirate ship Widah — Blasphemy of Bellamy — Bellamy at Mechisses — Shipwreck and death of Bellamy — George- town incorporated — Conference at Georgetown — Response of Wiwur- na — Letter from Rall6 — Disgust of the Governor — Beginning of the American Revolutionary issues — Desolation of the country — Scotch- Irish immigration — Increase of population — Loron's remonstrance — Norridgewock expedition — Devastation of Merry Meeting — Dzunaris- TI CONTENTS. cotta laid waste — St. George attacked — Tilton's adventures at Dama- riscove — A scene of horror — Exasperation of the public — Battle of Arrowsic — Storming of the garrison — Temple and Penhallow's night attack — AVestbrook's expedition — Battle of St. George's River — Capt. Winslow's death — Savage fire-ships — Arrowsic invested — Battle of Norridgewock — Death of Bomaseen — Death of Father Ralle — Effects of Lovewell':) war — Samuel Trask's adventures — Damariscove attack- ed — Dummer's peace — Effects of the war — Truck-houses — Dagget's castle — Duck hunting — Hockomock — Great eewthquake, . 205 CHAPTER VI. ANTE-RKVOLUTIOXARY PERIOD, Closing scenes of savage alarms — Dunbar emigration — Opposition of proprietors — Influence of the Scotch-Irish element — Dunbar towns — Walpole — Harrington — Townsend — Battle of Enniskillen and siege of Londonderry — Vaughn's enterprise — Wiscasset — Garrison house — Waldo immigration — Waldoboro' founded — Mrs. Porterfield's adven- tures — Shirley's administration — Spanish or triangular war — Fall of Loulsburg — Frontier home — Georgetown — Closing events of the pe- riod — Encounter with a Sheepscot bear — Death of the Albees — McNear's adventures — Cargill's escape — Long Edmund's perfidy — Resolute planter — Dresden plantation — City of Stirling In Bristol — Thomaston hamlet — Condition of the settlers — Sufferings of Waldo's colonists — Widow Blackledge's prayer — Sagacious cat — ]\Irs. Rines's relief — Cargill's inhumanity — Murder of Margaret Moxa — Hugh Paul's adventures — HostlHtles renewed — Casualties — Defenses of Wiscasset — Heroic soldier of St. George — McFarland's misfortunes — Murder at Wiscasset — Captive Fanny — Dresden assaulted — Expe- dition asainst Wiscasset — Battle of Wiscasset — Haunted gully — Mrs. Delano's escape — Death of Boynton — Planters massacred at Pema- quld — Topsham —Death of Rutherford — Preble's massacre — Attack on Harndcn's garrison — Capture at Long Reach — Twenty Cow par- ish — Kellock's achievement — Perils of frontier life — Final defeat of French and Indians — Wolfe's victory — Breaking up of garrison life — Lincoln County organized — State of society — Frontier missionary — Pownalboro' — Naval eminence of Bath — Abandonment of military defenses — Nobleboro* — Incorporation of Topsham — Incorporation of Bristol, 259 CONTENTS. VII CHAPTER VII. AMKRICAX REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. Question of property in white pines of Maine — Adventure of Com- modore Knowles