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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 influRichelieu, the King revoked the commission of La Tour, and ordered his arrest. The latter denied tn River, in the spring of 1643, and blockaded La Tour in his fortified trading-house. A ship was dof Massachusetts in defence of their rights. La Tour was permitted by Governor Winthrop to fit outon 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 violive justice brought about changes in favor of La Tour. Four years after his property was wasted, D[9 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Netherland. (search)
their own account. At another meeting (September, 1653) the commissioners, believing they were called by God to make present war on Ninegret, ordered 250 men to be raised for that purpose. The Massachusetts court again interfered, and prevented war. Cromwell, however, sent three ships and a few troops to attack New Netherland, but before they reached America the war with Holland was over, and the expedition, under John Leverett and Robert Sedgwick, proceeded to capture Acadia (q. v.) from La Tour, who laid claim to it because of a grant made to his father by Sir William Alexander. Late in August, 1664, a land and naval armament, commanded by Col. Richard Nicolls, anchored in New Utrecht Bay, just inside of the present Coney Island There Nicolls was joined by Governor Winthrop, of Connecticut, several magistrates of that colony, and two leading men from Boston. Governor Stuyvesant was at Fort Orange (Albany) when news of this armament reached him. He hastened back to New Amsterda
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Penobscot. (search)
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. A