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Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for Mount Desert Island (Maine, United States) or search for Mount Desert Island (Maine, United States) in all documents.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Argall , Sir Samuel , 1572 -1626 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Biard , Peter , 1565 -1622 (search)
Biard, Peter, 1565-1622
Missionary; born in Grenoble, France, in 1565; came to America as a missionary priest of the Jesuits in 1611(; ascended the Kennebec River, and made friends with the natives in 1612; went up the Penobscot River and started a mission among the natives there in the following year; and soon afterwards founded a colony on \Mount Desert Island, which was destroyed by Samuel, Argall (q. v.). In this attack by the English Biard was taken prisoner, and the act was one of the earliest causes of the hostilities between the colonists in America from France and England. Father Biard was author of Relations de la nouvelle France, which was the first work in the historical series known as the Jesuit relations.
He died in France in 1622.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De Monts , Sieur (Pierre De Gast) (search)
Mount Desert Island.
In 1613 Samuel Argall, a sort of freebooter from Virginia, visited the coast of Maine, ostensibly for fishing; but his vessel carried several pieces of artillery.
Hearing that
Mount Desert Island from Blue Hill Bay. French Jesuits were on Pemetig or Mount Desert Island, he went there and attacked a FMount Desert Island from Blue Hill Bay. French Jesuits were on Pemetig or Mount Desert Island, he went there and attacked a French vessel that lay at anchor, which, after firing one gun, was compelled to surrender.
Du Thet, who discharged the gun, was mortally wounded.
The other Jesuits there remonstrated with Argall when he landed and began to search the tents.
He broke open the desk of the Jesuit leader, took out and destroyed his commission, and thMount Desert Island, he went there and attacked a French vessel that lay at anchor, which, after firing one gun, was compelled to surrender.
Du Thet, who discharged the gun, was mortally wounded.
The other Jesuits there remonstrated with Argall when he landed and began to search the tents.
He broke open the desk of the Jesuit leader, took out and destroyed his commission, and then, pretending that they were within English jurisdiction, without authority, he turned more than a dozen of the little colony loose upon the ocean in an open boat, to seek Port Royal, in Acadia.
Two fishing vessels picked them up and carried them to France.
The remainder were carried to Virginia, and there lodged in prison and b