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Item 7479
Title: Jedediah Preble letter on Mowat kidnapping, 1775
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1775-05-14
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
Item 1329
Title: Pay voucher for the expenses of the ship the Albany
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1779-12-10
Media: Ink on paper
Item 6775
Title: Copy of letter from Capt. Henry Mowat to General Samuel Graves
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1775-10-19
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
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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.