Identifier: newenglandmagazi1891bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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tful interpretation,the province of Maine was for forty vearsan integral part of the MassachusettsBay Colony, as the County of Yorkshire,or was provided with a separate govern-ment, with more or less conflicts of au-thority, until in 1692 Massachusetts andMaine were united under the charter ofWilliam and Mary, which governmentcontinued till the Revolution was inaugu-rated in 1775. In 1665, the next year after the Dukeof York had been granted the provincesof Sagadahoc and New York, royal com-missioners, representing the duke, ap-peared in \\estern Sagadahoc and organ-ized the province under the name of theCounty of Cornwall, with Sheepscot Plan-tation (New Casde) as the shire town,and Pemaquid the capital of both Westand East Sagadahoc. This government continued till KingPhilips war in 1675, when all the setdersfled, returning at the conclusion of thewar in 1677, at which time Sir EdmundAndros, the dukes governor of Sagada-hoc and New York, again took possession 552 THE STATE OF MAINE.
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Bar Harbor, Mount De of the Sagdahoc province, erected a fortat Pemaquid and re-established the Corn-wall government, which continued tillMassachusetts assumed her authority overthe province, and all of Maine wasunited with the Massachusetts Bay Colonyin 1691-2. In 1692, Sir \\illiam Phips rebuilt thePemaquid fort of stone, giving it thename of Fort William and Henry, andmanned it with sixty men. This fort wasdestroyed by the French four years later.For nearly thirty years the Sagadahocprovince was practically abandoned bythe English in consequence of Frenchand Indian ravages. In 1729, whenabout one hundred and fifty families hadreturned to Pemaquid and Sheepscot,King George gave David Dunbar a com-mission to rale the province, under thepatronage of the governor of NovaScotia, notwithstanding the protest ofMassachusetts. With extraordinary en-ergy, Dunbar introduced a large numberof excellent settlers from the north ofIreland, repaired Fort \Mlliam and Henry,whose name he changed to F

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