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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
epredations throughout the Sagadahoc territory during......1746 By May 1, 1747, the whole frontier from Wells to Topsham is infested with Indians, who make an attack on Pemaquid, May 26, and unsuccessful attacks on forts Frederick and St. George......September, 1747 Indian hostilities in Maine brought to an end by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, signed......Oct. 7, 1748 A treaty based on Drummer's treaty of 1725 made with Indians at Falmouth by commission from Massachusetts......Oct. 16, 1749 Indians attack Fort Richmond, on the Kennebec, but, hearing that the garrison had been reinforced, they retire, but attack Dresden, Swain Island, Wiscasset, Sheepscot, and Georgetown, and withdraw with twenty or thirty captives......Sept. 11-25, 1750 Commissioners meet the Indians at St. George's Fort, Aug. 3, and proclaim a cessation of hostilities......Sept. 3, 1751 New Castle incorporated, the first of the towns in the territory of Sagadahoc......June 19, 1753 Fort Halifax
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
irley......1749 Massachusetts extricates herself from the insolvency of more than fifty years by appropriating to her debt £ 183,650, received from England for her outlay in the expedition against Louisburg; this came over in solid coin......September, 1749 Sir William Pepperell, Thomas Hutchinson, James Otis, and two others, as commissioners, meet delegates from the Eastern Indian tribes at Falmouth (now Portland. Me.), and renew the treaty made a quarter of a century before......Oct. 16, 1749 Small-pox again visits Boston......1752 [Of 2,100 persons inoculated with it, only thirty-one died: of the 5,550 taken without inoculation, 514 died.] Governor Shirley, now past the age of sixty, returns to Massachusetts, bringing with him a young French Catholic girl as his wife......1753 Expedition against the French in Nova Scotia sails from Boston under command of Gen. John Winslow......May 20, 1755 Acadians, or French neutrals, at Grand Pre on the northwestern coast o