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oggin River referred to in the deed to Wharton, dated July 7, 1684; matter settled......1814 Fort Sullivan, in Eastport, under command of Maj. Perley Putnam, surrenders to a British force from Halifax......July 11, 1814 Fort at Castine destroyed by its garrison on the approach of a British fleet from Halifax......Sept. 1, 1814 Frankfort delaying surrender, the British threaten vengeance against the place and sail for Castine......Sept. 1-7, 1814 British force under Sherwood and Griffiths land at Buck's Harbor, about 3 miles below Machias, and march against the fort, which the garrison desert and blow up......Sept. 12, 1814 British Maj.-Gen. Gerard Gosselin appointed to govern the province between Brunswick and Penobscot......1814 British sloop from Halifax, with a cargo invoiced at $40,000, on her passage to Castine is captured and carried into Camden......November, 1814 General court appoints a day of thanksgiving on news of peace and of the treaty of Ghent, Dec.