Excerpt from A Chronology of Municipal History and Election Statistics, Waterville, Maine, 1771-1908 The apparent peace that followed the retirement of the Indians to their northern homes did not have the effect to promote the advance of civilization, and neither white nor Indian was inclined to trust the other beyond easy reach of gun or tomahawk. Skirmishes and wars continued. Queen Anne's War in the early part of the century brought ruin and death to many families, and a long period of hostilities followed. Father ...
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Excerpt from A Chronology of Municipal History and Election Statistics, Waterville, Maine, 1771-1908 The apparent peace that followed the retirement of the Indians to their northern homes did not have the effect to promote the advance of civilization, and neither white nor Indian was inclined to trust the other beyond easy reach of gun or tomahawk. Skirmishes and wars continued. Queen Anne's War in the early part of the century brought ruin and death to many families, and a long period of hostilities followed. Father Sebastian Rale, a Catholic priest, a native of France and finely educated, who had assumed dominion over the Indian mission at Norridgewock in 1693, and had devoted himself to the work, was killed by an expedition led by Captain Harmon from Fort Richmond in 1724. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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