Item 7325
Chapter 3, page 85-86.
John Minot wrote to Stephen Minot in 1732 about Indians blaming a man named Jacquish for the death of French missionary Sebastian Rale.
Minot said that a man in Brunswick was giving the Indians rum and telling them Jacquish was responsible for Rale's death.
Indian-English tensions were high at this point, especially after the killing of Rale, a man much loved by the Indians.
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Item 7530
Chapter 3, page 85-86.
This engraving is a dramatization of Sebastian Rale's death by another, later Jesuit priest.
Item 6243
Chapter 3, page 87-89.
Massachusetts Governor Thomas Pownall wrote to acting Governor of Nova Scotia Robert Monckton in 1758 regarding a battle at Fort St. George.
The letter describes a military operation during the French and Indian War.
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Item 7546
Chapter 3, page 87-89.
William Pepperell of Kittery led a successful attack on the French at Louisbourg in 1745, Cape Breton Island (now part of Canada).
One third of the soldiers in his unit were from Maine.
Political boundaries separating Maine from the Canadian maritimes were not yet drawn, and the British were trying to push the French out of any disputed territories.
Item 7347
Chapter 3, page 87-89.
During the battle of Fort William Henry at Pemaquid, October 11, 1757, several Maine soliders were captured.
Thomas Pownall wrote about the battle to Sir William Pepperrell Bart.
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Item 7529
Chapter 3, page 82-89.
Maine settlements in the mid-eighteenth century are shown on this map of territory on the Kennebec.
The map is a copy from Joseph Heath's map of the region in 1719, Phineas Jones' survey of 1731 and John North's survey in 1752.
Item 7493
Chapter 3, page 84.
An 18th century map was drawn by John Baptista Homann, a German mapmaker under Charles.
