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Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): entry penobscot
Fort Knox (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry penobscot
Nova Scotia (Canada) (search for this): entry penobscot
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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Prospect, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry penobscot
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry penobscot
Halifax (Canada) (search for this): entry penobscot
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 plac ion of the region, built the fort, cut off the communications of the Eastern Indians (the only ones then hostile to the English), and so ended the contest for the Penobscot region by arms.
In 1799 a British force of several hundred men from Nova Scotia entered eastern Maine and established themselves in a fortified place on the Penobscot River. Massachusetts sent a force to dislodge the intruders.
The expedition consisted of nineteen armed vessels (three of them Continental), under Captain
Penobscot (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry penobscot
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, conv 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.
abandoned.
The Plymouth people never afterwards recovered their interest at Penobscot.
The first permanent English occupation of the region of the Penobscot—to sent 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 Po (the only ones then hostile to the English), and so ended the contest for the Penobscot region by arms.
In 1799 a British force of several hundred men from Nova S tered eastern Maine and established themselves in a fortified place on the Penobscot River. Massachusetts sent a force to dislodge the intruders.
The expedition con
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry penobscot
Accomack (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry penobscot
Charles La Tour (search for this): entry penobscot
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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