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sachem of pomo note,) a year or two afterwards, to the Indl.-ins on the 

 Kennebec, it mny be assumed, was ot French origin: "i know," said 

 the saviige, in a laughing mood, "1 hioiu how icc can even burn Boston, 

 ami drive all the country hcjhrc us; wc must go to the fisJting inlands and 

 take all the white men\s vesse/s.^^ In the lapse of a few years, the fisher- 

 men at Cape Porpoise were either slaughtered or driven offj and the 

 settlement there laid desolate; a fishing smack was intercepted near 

 Portland, tlu-ee of her crew kilhul, and the remainder carried into cap- 

 tivity; eight fishing vessels were captured at the Fox islands; the coast 

 for more than a hundred miles was abandoned, and the wretched men 

 who depended upon the sea for support, without shelter, and too scat- 

 tered for concert and resistance, were compelled to suspend their em- 

 ployments. 



In 1725, several eminent sachems arrived at Boston to negotiate a 

 trcat}'^ with the government of Massachusetts. The fisheries were re- 

 sumed with the return of peace. 



From this time to the controversies that preceded the Revolution, there 

 are but tew incidents, in so rapid a narrative, to detain us. The Rev. 

 Thomas Smith, of Portland, records in his journal, under date of Sep- 

 tember, 172(5, that a "storm brought into our harbor about ibrty large 

 fishing vessels," a fact that indicates a rapid recovery from the desola- 

 tions of war. He mentions, also, that in the same year several persons, 

 with their famihes, emigrared to that place from Cape Ann. In 1741, 

 he writes that "the fish struck in, which was a great relief to people 

 almost perishing." The number of fishermen who now had homes in 

 Maine was six liundrcd. 



The war of 1756 was disastrous to persons engaged in maritime en- 

 terprises, and several vessels were captured by the French while on 

 the fishing grounds of the eastern coast. An armed ship was finally 

 employed to protect these grounds, and the general trade ot the English 

 colonists. In 17G0, Mount Desert, containing sixty thousand acn^s, and 

 the largest island in Maine, was granted to Sir Francis Bernard, the 

 governor ot" Massachusetts. The gift, made by the general court, was 

 confiufmed by the King, and was valuable, at the time, onl}'" for pur- 

 poses of a fishery. IMuch harmony prevailed between Sir Francis and 

 the people he was sent to govern, for two or three years; but at his re- 

 call, in 1700, when the dis})utes which he provoked had embarrassed 

 trade, ship-building and the fisheries, there were few who lamented his 

 departure. * 



In conclusion, two distinguished natives of Maine, who are intimately 

 connected with our subject, may receive a passing notice. 



Sir William l*hipps was born at I>ristol, the "ancient Pemaquid," 

 and was one of tw(,'nty-six children borne by his mother, ot whom 

 twenty-one were sons. He lived in Maine until he was twenty-two 

 years (jfage, when he went to Boston, where In- learned to read and 

 write. 



•Sir Francin Bf^rnard succfcdod PowTinll aa j;f)V<Tnor of MaHRachuHefts in 17fi0. H« was 

 preat4'(l a tuinnift in 1701); ami rlic ^t.-iuTal roiiri (lr<-\r ii|) a i»ctiti(»ii to rlir Kiui; ti>r his n-cail 

 till) Huiiio yi-ar. I Ik liird in llii^land in 1771). lit; wan a tVii-nd ol' litcrariiri', .ind a lii'iirliK;- 

 t4»r ol' Harvard llnivornity. Ills laulti wore parsinu'iiy, au cicitatdo and arbitral y dii>i>siiiuu, 

 ttio waut ol" address uud wisdoin. 



