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Item 6777
Title: Capt. Mowat's warning to Falmouth, 1775
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1775-10-16
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
Item 11251
Title: Portrait of Nathaniel Barrell, 1816
Contributed by: Museums of Old York
Date: 1816
Location: York
Media: Oil on wood
Item 36414
Title: Sally (Sayward) Barrell, York, 1868
Contributed by: Museums of Old York
Date: 1868
Location: York
Media: Oil on canvas
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Exhibit
A Naval Disaster: The Penobscot Expedition
A fleet of privateers and hastily recruited soldiers failed to stop the British from occupying Majabigwaduce on Penobscot Bay in 1779. The disastrous Penobscot Expedition left the area, later known as Castine, to the British and a loyalist colony called New Ireland.