Finding Katahdin Document Packets, Chapter 4, Section 1
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Jedediah Preble letter on Mowat kidnapping, 1775 / Maine Historical Society
Chapter 4, page 98-99.
Colonist Jedediah Preble provides a detailed description of Samuel Thompson's capture of British Captain Henry Mowatt in 1775, an event that may have prompted retaliation against the colonists by the British.
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