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 Posted - June 26 2020 : 3:14:48 PM
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Fort William Henry stood in the large rectangular area defined on site today by low stone walls and a tall stone tower, or bastion. The stone bastion was built in 1908 as a replica of that feature of the fort.
Before Fort William Henry was built in 1692, the Pemaquid settlement and a previous fort, Fort Charles, had been captured by the French and their Indian allies, driving the English to abandon much of the nearby coastal area. By 1691, the English regained authority over the region and built Fort William Henry.
With the construction of Fort William Henry in 1692, England sought to fortify the frontiers of its Massachusetts colony. Pemaquid lay on the northeastern edge of English influence and, as such, occupied a very strategic location.
The fort built here was extraordinary for its time. Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips spent two-thirds of the colony's budget (£20,000) to construct it. Workers used 2,000 cartloads of stone to build walls 10 to 22 feet high and a stone bastion, which rose to a height of 29 feet. The fort housed nearly 20 cannon and a garrison of 60 soldiers.
For all its seeming strength, Fort William Henry did not last. Native people, upset at their treatment by the English, united with the French to attack the fort in 1696. This fort, which had seemed so strong, proved to be weak. Mortar used to build the stone walls was of poor quality and the fort's interior buildings could not stand bomb attack. The garrisons' water supply lay outside the fort walls. His garrison outnumbered, Captain Pasco Chubb finally surrendered. With the fall of Fort William Henry, the English abandoned Pemaquid once again.
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - June 27 2020 : 08:33:04 AM
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I went there for an event in 2011. Seems like a long time ago now. It was one great event! I even got to row a batteau up Pemaquid Harbor.
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Monadnock Hiker
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Posted - June 27 2020 : 3:17:19 PM
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| Some really great pics there Fitz, - and I do actually remember you posting at the time you had been to Pemaquid. ... I lived on Southport Island, (next to Boothbay Harbor) - south of Pemaquid a few miles. ... There are times it's like "living in a post card" but it can be (and is) a tough place to make a living year 'round. Most of the "coastal economy" north of Portland is based pretty much on tourism ... and jobs disappear after September. ... Glad you liked it - most "flatlanders" do .... |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - June 28 2020 : 08:06:01 AM
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| It was just like the postcards show! I have been to Bangor and Calais and they are just cities like a lot of others, but those on the coast are really nice. At least in summer. I understand that winters can be tough. I used to go to Crown Point every August and it was great. Then I watched the destruction of the bridge about 10 or so years ago on video. That place really looked different in winter. I can't imagine what it would be like to actually live in that environment all the time. Here we may get snow a couple of times in a winter, but in a few days it will be gone. It lasts a little longer in the mountains, but not much longer. |
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Posted - June 28 2020 : 2:54:42 PM
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Most folks look at things (winter up north ect.) like you do - but I hate heat & hot weather in general. - For me the winters were great - loved to go snowshoeing. - I can do without sleet & ice, but snow is no problem. I left because of the economy - no REAL jobs in winter. Kissing tourists a**es is not exactly my line of work. - I worked on an island off Boothbay Harbor (about 2 miles) called "Squirrel Island" ... it's one of the best kept secrets on the planet & and that's the way "they" want it. - A "summer colony" of just over 100 "cottages" - if you consider a 14 room place a cottage. It's where a few of the 1%ers spend their summers. ... You'll never see a place on Squirrell Island listed for sale - any sales are by "sealed bid - invitation only" - no outsiders wanted". - Anytime you have a few minutes - Google "Squirrel Island Maine" ... you need the Maine part, there are a few squirrel islands listed around the country. ... The top one-percenters live a MUCH different life that "we" do .... LOL.
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I also tried lobstering for a few years, (about four) - nothing like fishing off the Maine coast in mid-winter - it adds a new meaning to the word cold. ... Also had a friend that rented a cabin from a lumber company ($600.00 a year) WAAAY out in the woods and "up-country" - drive in on a logging road, about 2 miles & then snowshoe to the cabin. - Not a bad place actually ... ever use an outhouse at 16 below, not wind chill, the real temp. ... LOL. - Right outside the cabin door one winter morning - we found "moose prints" in the snow ... BIG damn footprints, he musta passed by during the night. |
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Posted - June 29 2020 : 08:54:01 AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Pemaquid_%281696%29
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During much of the seventeenth century, Pemaquid (present-day Bristol, Maine) was the most northern coastal settlement of New England, and Pentagouet (present-day Castine, Maine) was the most southern Acadian settlement, a colony of New France. - During King William's War, the area became a battleground as the French and English fought to determine the boundaries of their empires. - In 1689 Baron de St Castin and the Wabanaki Confederacy (Abenaki) captured and burned down Fort Charles, the wooden stockade fort at Pemaquid. - They killed 200 British at the fort and surrounding area.
By 1692, the English regained control of the region, and Sir William Phipps ordered construction of Fort William Henry to replace Fort Charles (the original fort built in 1677 by order of Governor Andros). - The English built Fort William Henry as a fortress to protect the northern boundary of New England. The fort was the largest in New England. - The Massachusetts government used one third of its budget to build the fort. - The fort was built with stone and mortar. - There were eighteen cannon mounted in the gun ports of six-foot thick walls that rose ten to twenty feet above the ground. - The fort was rebuilt under the direction of Captain John March with the assistance of Benjamin Church.
The commander of the fort was Captain Pasco Chubb. - He violated an assembly that was held under a flag of truce, by killing a number of the Abenaki chiefs who were present (including Chief Aspinquid). - D'Iberville knew that he would require both a land-based cannon assault and war ships to conquer the fort. Led by Saint-Castin, the Abenaki Nation joined forces with D'Iberville at Pentagouet.
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On August 14, D'Iberville led a force of 500 in the siege of Fort William Henry.[10] Five hundred warriors descended onto Fort William Henry in their canoes. The warriors surrounded the fort, thereby pinning the English inside. This strategy allowed D'Iberville to enter the harbor and unload his cannons. D'Iberville arrived with three French ships. - They immediately began to lay siege to the fort. Captain Chubb refused to surrender. The assault went on until the afternoon of the next day. - In the terms of his surrender, Chubb arranged for his men to be escorted to Boston and exchanged for French and Indian prisoners held there.
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D'Iberville and the natives continued on to the English colony of Newfoundland and raided many villages in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign. Major Church retaliated for the siege by going to Acadia and engaging in the Raid on Chignecto. .... Chubb was tracked down by the natives two years later in his home in Andover, Ma. and was massacred along with his family.
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - June 29 2020 : 12:56:02 PM
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| FWIW, turns out my wife is a direct descendant of Benjamin Church. She was doing some genealogical research on her Mayflower ancestors, and she says, "Have you ever heard of someone named Benjamin Church?". Well, yes. I believe he was the grandson of Richard Warren. |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - June 30 2020 : 07:50:30 AM
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| It's fairly easy to find the more famous people you are related to. The research has been done many times. My wife is part of a Facebook group whose sole purpose (as far as I can tell) is to discover their distant relations. Like from medieval Hungary, Anglo Saxon England, etc. Once you find a link to a certain level of ancestry the rest is already done. Charlemagne is one. There is even a name for his descendants, but I forgot what it is. I leave all that to her. I am only interested in my direct line back to the 17th century, and some of that is just not available. From my point of view, genealogy is like an hourglass. It all funnels in to a certain person, then spreads out very quickly. Eventually almost everyone is kin to everyone else in some way. |
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