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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), La Tour , Charles -1656 (search)
La Tour, Charles -1656
Proprietary governor.
When Acadia, or Nova Scotia, was returned to the the whole country.
He was a Roman Catholic; La Tour was a Protestant.
Through the powerful influ Richelieu, the King revoked the commission of La Tour, and ordered his arrest.
The latter denied t n River, in the spring of 1643, and blockaded La Tour in his fortified trading-house.
A ship was d of Massachusetts in defence of their rights.
La Tour was permitted by Governor Winthrop to fit out on of neutrality, and a copy of the order for La Tour's arrest.
A treaty of peace was concluded in was compelled to retire, greatly mortified.
La Tour, meanwhile, continued to receive stores and m Boston vessel, and this source of supply for La Tour was cut off. In the spring of 1647D'Aulnay, h to save the lives of her little garrison, Madame La Tour yielded, when the perfidious D'Aulnay viol ive justice brought about changes in favor of La Tour.
Four years after his property was wasted, D
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Penobscot.
The Company of New France, which had purchased Sir W. Alexander's rights to territory in Nova Scotia through Stephen, Lord of La Tour, in 1630, conveyed the territory on the banks of the river St. John to this nobleman in 1635.
Rossellon, commander of a French fort in Acadia, sent a French manof-war to Penobscot and took possession of the Plymouth trading-house there, with all its goods.
A vessel was sent from Plymouth to recover the property.
The French fortified the place, and were so strongly intrenched that the expedition was abandoned.
The Plymouth people never afterwards recovered their interest at Penobscot.
The first permanent English occupation of the region of the Penobscot—to which the French laid claim—was acquired in 1759, when Governor Pownall, of Massachusetts, with the consent of the legislature, caused a fort to be built on the western bank of the Penobscot (afterwards Fort Knox), near the village of Prospect, which was named Fort Pownall.
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