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HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Hancock Gazette - 1827 Greek piracies. – We learn that the


Newburyport, December11. On Friday


a wild Deer, escaped probably from his fastness in New Hampshire, was discovered at sea, about two miles from the shore, and secured by two men who were out in a skiff , fi shing. The animal was shot at on the other side of the river, and made to sea from the Salisbury point. There is reason to think he had been hard-pressed, as it is observed by hunters, that it is in extreme trepidation only, that the animal takes to the water. It was a lucky haul for the fi sherman, ten dollars being obtained for him.


The Fisheries. – In allusion to a para-


graph which has been going the rounds of the Provincial Journals, stating that the convention of 1815, between the United States and Great Britain, respecting the North American fi sheries, has been renewed for an indefi nite period, the editor of the St. John Courier says, “that the treaty of 1815 does not contain a word on the subject of the fi sheries – that the fi shing convention was signed in 1818, and one of its stipulations is that it shall continue in force forever.” Halifax pa.


folk, sailed from Cape Messurado on the 26th


The ship NORFOLK, Harding of Nor- September, and on the 22nd


of October


touched at Port Prays, where she found Mr. Hodges, the U. S. Consul, and all his family, sick, Mr. Elsey, a clerk having died the day previous. On the 24th


, arrived at the Isle of


May, having had light winds and calms the whole passage from the Cape and on the 30th received intelligence, of the death of Mr. Hodges. The whole island of St. Jago was so unhealthy that whole families were moving to Fogo. Dr. Todson has come home in the Norfolk from Liberia. - Norfolk Herald


Capt. Gardiner, of the schooner WIL- LIAM, arrested by his supercargo, for pira- cy, in August last has been tried at Savannah, and found not guilty.


losses recently sustained by the Insurance offi ces in Boston in consequence of the recent Greek piracies, amount to nearly $100,000. Ought not our squadron in the Mediterranean to be increased?


MARINE LIST Port of Belfast Arrived


December 24 – sloop BRUTUS, Clark,


Boston. On Friday night last near the Bluff in Penobscot Bay, was run foul of by the schooner GOV. BROOKS, of Frankfort, bound out, which stove in the gunwale, and injured the sloop’s sails very considerably, succeeded in getting into Gilkey’s harbor in Islesboro that night. Cleared. – New schooner FRANKLIN, M’Clintock, Martinique. Sailed. – Brig RISING STATES, Burk-


mar, West Indies, via Boston; also, brig PHEBE Coffi n, West Indies, via Castine. * * * * *


Distressing Shipwreck. – A letter from Brigus, NF dated November 21, says. “The JAMES arrived at Cubits yester-


day, from Portugal. The master says, that a few days ago, and Long. of (I believe) 30, he fell in with a brig, waterlogged, having a living woman lashed in the main top, for living seamen in the rigging, and, a dead man spread in the shrouds, on whom the unfortu- nate and unhappy survivors were subsisting! The master says that he made every exertion to save them, but without avail and that a very heavy gale (which lasted 48 hours) caused him to leave them to the mercy of the ocean – into the bowels of which, he has no doubt, they were consigned soon after its commencement. – The master read “INDI- --” on some part of her – he came close to her several times, and requested the poor fellows to throw themselves overboard, that he might be enabled to pick them up – but he could hear them say that they were too weak; and when they saw the impossibility of his saving them there lamentations were dreadful.


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The following is several articles taken from the New Hampshire Gazette for 1759. It references a voyage from Massachusetts to Penobscot Bay and up the Penobscot River. It tells of the hazards with the natives, but more importantly it tells of where they went, building of a fort and their plans for the future of the area, which was to make it British and chase out anyone else.


8 June BOSTON, June 4 Last Monday His Excellency our Gov-


ernor returned from the Penobscot Country, in the province ship KING GEORGE, having happily succeeded in the Object of His Expedition by taking possession, for the Crown, in behalf of this province, of the King’s ancient Rights, and establishing the same, by setting down a fort on Penobscot River. His Excellency, after having recon- noitered the Country to the Head of the fi rst Falls, fi xed upon a high point of Land that runs across the River three quarters of a mile, about seven miles above the old French Fort at Pentagoet. And we hear the materials being already prepared and framed at Falmouth, the Fort will be completed in three weeks or a month. His Excellency lodged on Monday


night at the Castle; and the next day at noon came up to this town in the Castle barge, the guns at the Castle and the Batteries being discharged, when he put off and as he landed. His Excellency upon his arrival was received and congratulated by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, the Members of His Majesty’s Council, and a great number of the civil and military Offi cers, and other gentlemen who waited upon His Excellency to the Court House, being escorted by the Company of Cadets, under Arms.


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Gentleman of the Council and House of Representatives


Since the Dissolution of the late Assem-


bly I have been to the Penobscot Country, a large and fi ne tract of land in the dominion of the British Crown belonging to this prov- ince, but for many years a den for savages, and a lurking place for some renegadoe French: By the Blessing of God I have succeeded in taking possession thereof, and have I hope established that possession by


From New Hampshire Gazette -1759


fi xing a fort on the Penobscot River in such a situation as to be very respectable for its own defense, being nowhere commanded, but more so for the command it holds of both branches of the River and of the Carrying Place therefrom; of Edgemoggin Reach, the Outlett, and of Pentagoet the rendezvous, of the Eastern Indians when they come against our Frontiers. This River was the last and the only door that the enemy had left to the Atlantic, and I hope this is now fairly shut upon them. What is necessary to inform your judgment in making provision for carrying the measure to its utmost eff ect, I will order to be laid before you, with the plans and surveys.


Before my departure I issued out


beating orders for the raising the second levy of 1500 men, for which the late House had made provision: I entrusted the care of forming and sending them off to his Honor the Lieutenant Governor; the very proper dispositions and dispatch which he has made, deserve my thanks. I will lay before you what has been done as to the success and disposal of the levies, by the report which the Lieutenant Governor makes to me. Council Chamber


June 1, 1759, T. POWNALL On Wednesday the 23rd


of May the Hon-


orable Brigadier General Waldo, who went with His Excellency in his late expedition to Penobscot, drop-down with an apoplexy on the march just above the fi rst Falls; and not- withstanding all the assistance that could be given, expired in a few moments. His Excel- lency had the Corps brought down with him to the Fort Point, where it was interred in a vault built for the purpose on Friday, with all the honors due to so faithful a servant of the public, and so good a common wealth’s man as the Brigadier had ever shown himself to be. Upon landing the Corps, it was received by a guard, and when procession began the ship KING GEORGE fi red half minute guns till it arrived at the place of interment: the procession was led by an offi cer’s guard, next to which the minister, then the Corps carried by the bargemen of the KING GEORGE and the pall was supported by the principal offi cers: The Governor followed as chief mourner, then offi cers of the troops and the master artifi cers, employed in building the Fort, two and two; and the whole closed with a Captain’s guard: Upon coming to


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