more memorable as it proved to be the last visit they were ever to receive from their patron, the active and patriotic Waldo. Having first rendezvoused at Falmouth, they embarked the 8th May, and, according to the Governor's journal, on the "9th, at 3, A. M. arrived at the mouth of George's River. At 10, set out for the Fort in the Barge, Yawl, and six Whaleboats, for the Fort St. George's. At 3 P. M., arrived, Visiting the Garrison'd houses as we pass'd." His welcome reception and the hearty greeting of Henderson, Burton, North, and Kilpatrick, with whom he had already made acquaintance and accorded much good fellowship, may be more easily imagined than described. A portion of the troops, 100 men, were left down the river under command of the redoubtable Capt. Cargill, while others came up in a large sloop and were joined the next day by the companies from Broad Bay, Pemaquid, and Kennebec. One of the first measures adopted by the Governor was to call in as many Indians as could be found, and strongly impress upon their minds the nature and importance of the design he was resolved to execute. Five of these, found at the garrison, were sent out to gather in those of the tribes supposed to be lurking in the woods, with assurances that they could be safe nowhere but under the guns of the Fort. Cargill was ordered to land on the Eastern side of the river, proceed to the lower Carrying place, and, leaving an Officer's Guard there, go on to the Middle and Upper Carrying places, stationing similar guards with orders to let all Indians coming to the Fort pass unmolested, but to stop all going from it and bring them in, by fair means if possible; if not, by force of arms. In executing these orders Cargill, in the morning of May 11th, fell upon some fresh tracks, traced them by himself alone to a camp of ten Indians, "came back, took with him Lt. Preble and 10 men, ordering four on the Right Flank, Four on the Left, and proceeded directly himself with the other, with orders not to Fire. When he came near the Camp, he discovered himself, call'd to the Indians to come in, as he expressed it, Good Quarters. The Indians started up, cryed out no Quarters, no Quarters, and fired upon him. He then Fired, and ordered his men to Fire away. The Indians Ran, two fell, one rose again, and got off into the Swamp, the other rose no more, and proved to be an Old Squaw."

After this exhibition of Cargill's aptitude for killing Indian women, and an examination of such other Indians as could be collected, and a talk with them, in which Gov. Pownal mingled threats and promises in his own energetic manner,

the four companies started, May 12th, on their march through the wilderness, guided by "one Robinson, a hunter," probably one of the six sons of Dr. Moses Robinson. The Governor himself proceeded with the 20-gun ship King George, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, and the transports loaded with materials, including "40 hogsheads of Lime which I laded at George's." Their further proceedings and the laying out of Fort Pownal on an eligible point in the present town of Stockton, we pass over, except what relates to Brigadier Waldo, whose death occurred on the East side of the Penobscot in the present town of Brewer, and is thus noted in the Boston News Letter of May 31st, 1759. "On Wednesday, the 23d instant, the Hon. Brig. Gen. Waldo, who went with His Excellency in his late expedition to Penobscot, drop'd down with an Apoplexy, on the march just above the first Falls; and notwithstanding all the assistance that could be given, expired in a few moments. His Excellency had the corpse brought down with him to the Fort Point, where it was interred in a Vault built for the purpose, on Friday, with all the Honours due to so faithful a servant of the public, and so good a Commonwealth's man as the Brigadier had ever shown himself to be." It is not known that his remains were ever removed or any monument erected. Thus this enterprising and successful merchant, the military hero of Louisburg, the founder of the settlements on this river, by whose influence and exertion they had thus far been fostered, protected, and sustained, ended his busy career, leaving his large estate, much of which was vested in this patent and other lands in Maine, to his sons Samuel and Francis of Fal

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*Not west side, as stated in the Annals of Warren on authority of the historian of Maine and other writers. What is said there, also, of the Brigadier's exclaiming, "here are my bounds!" rests on a widely current tradition among the settlers here, and is said to have been confirmed by an eye-witness, R. Stimson, an early settler of Belfast; see Locke's Hist. of Camden; but is not mentioned, that I am aware of, in any cotemporary writer nor especially in the above quoted Journal of Gov. Thos. Pownal, furnished for the 5th Vol. of the Me. Hist. Soc., by Hon. Jos. Williamson of Belfast, to whose researches the public is greatly indebted. This gentleman remarks in a note, that "the Waldo patent did not extend across the river" Penobscot; but the Proprietors always contended that it did, until by compromise it was otherwise determined by the Legislature. A misapprehension also was adopted in my former work from high authorities, respecting the leaden plate buried in the ground, which was to commemorate, not the death of Waldo, but the formal possession of the country taken by the English. See Pownal's Certificate furnished 6th Vol. Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., by Hon. Jos. Williamson.

+ Extract from the News Letter communicated by Rev. J. L Sibley, librarian of H. U. to the N. E. Hist. and Gen. Register of April, 1859, p. 167.

mouth, and his two daughters, Hannah, wife of Thomas Fluker, or Flucker as sometimes written, of Boston, and Lucy, wife of Isaac Winslow of Roxbury."

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1760. In 1760, the Indians, disheartened by the erection of the fort before mentioned, and by the taking of Quebec, began to make proposals for peace; and, though the treaty was not signed by the Sagamores at Boston till April 13th, so little was there to fear from them that the people, from the towns above and below, mostly left the garrison and went on to their farms; still leaving their most valuable furniture here, and occasionally returning on any alarm of danger. One Sunday during divine service by some transient clergyman or missionary, an Indian came into the fort with intelligence that his countrymen were coming to attack the settlement; an alarm gun was fired and people came flocking in on all sides with their cattle and property, leaving little for the Indians to plunder. This ill-used people had yet many private wrongs to be avenged; and several of their most active enemies, as Killpatrick here, who from his success in their destruction had been nick-named Tom-kill-the-devil by Gov. Pownal, together with Boggs of the Upper town, and Burton of the Lower, were supposed to be marked for vengeance. A single Indian had been observed lurking about Killpatrick's blockhouse, and, one day, was discovered in the top of a lofty pine about fifteen rods distant, as if endeavoring to overlook and spy out the condition of things within. Means were imme

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* The following is all we have been able to collect of the family history: WALDO, Jonathan, of German descent, resided and traded in Boston, fair dealer and a liberal benefactor to the poor, died May 26, 1731, in his 63d year, leaving large donations to pious uses." Of his children, 1, Brig. Gen. Samuel, born in England, 1696, married Lucy who died Aug. 7, 1741, aged 37 years, was a merchant on King now State street, Boston, Proprietor, Councillor, &c., died May 23, 1759. His children, 1, Col. Samuel (2d) grad. H. Ú. 1743; married Olive Grizzle, 2d, Sarah Erving, Feb. 26, 1762; resided in Middle street, Portland, was Judge of Probate, and died Ap 16, 1770, aged 47;-" buried, the 20th, with great parade under the Episcopal Church," says Rev. T. Smith. 2, Francis. collector of His Majesty's Customs at Falmouth, several times member of Gen. Assembly of Mass. Bay, died at Tunbridge, Eng, J. 9. 1784. 3, Ralph, died aged about 20 years. 4, Hannah, married Hon. Thos. Flucker of Boston. 5, Lucy, married Isaac Winslow of Roxbury. Col. Samuel's children, 1, Sarah, born Nov. 30, 1762, married Judge Wm. Wetmore of Boston. 2, Samuel (3d,) born Mar. 4, 1764, married, Feb. 1789, Mrs. Sarah F. Chase, daughter of Isaac Winslow. 3, John E., born Aug. 28, 1765, died Ap. 17, 1787. 4, Lucy, born Aug. 13, 1766, married Alexander Wolcott of Middletown, Ct. 5, Francis (2d,) all born in Portland. 6, Ralph (2d,) born in Boston, Sept. 1770. Samuel Waldo (3d,)'s children. 1, Samuel (4th). 2, Hon. Francis Wainwright, a lawyer and judge in one of the Western States, who spent some of his last years in Thomaston, where he died about 1837. 3, William T. a mercantile gentleman of property, still residing, it is believed, in Boston. 4, Sarah E.

diately taken to dislodge him; and the cohorn, already mounted and loaded, was aimed so exactly or guided so providentially, that on its discharge the Indian fell to the ground, dead; and that was the last act which passed between the Indians and this their unflinching antagonist. On another occasion a party of about thirty Indians, who had kindled a large fire upon a great rock in the present field of Mrs. Mary Hyler, were observed dancing, whooping, and carousing around, in a manner which seemed likely to end in mischief; but they were frightened away by the discharge of a 4 or 6pound ball from the fort, crashing through the branches of the scattered trees near them. A cleft in the rock, supposed to have been made by the heat of the fire, still remains as a memorial of the incident.

CHAPTER VI.

NEW SETTLERS, AND INCIDENTS PRECEDING THE REVOLU

TION.

1761. Or the year succeeding the war, 1761, little has been transmitted except traditions of a remarkable and early drought, continuing from June till the 20th of August.

1762. Col. Samuel Waldo of Falmouth, after the death of his father, occasionally visited the place to look after the estate, sell or rent lands to applicants, and fulfil any subsisting contracts; but in 1765 he sold the two shares which fell to him by right of primogeniture to his brother-in-law Thos. Flucker, Esq., who thus became the principal owner of the lands hereabouts, except the Middle Neck, three-fourths of which had been previously sold by Francis Waldo in England. This Middle Neck, so called, was a narrow tract of land, or isthmus, lying partly in the present South Thomaston and partly in St. George; extending from the Wessaweskeag stream and the ocean on the east to St. George's River on the west, and from near the mouth of Mill River on the north as far down as Cutler's cove, or a little beyond, on the south. This tract, being more exposed to Indian incursions from the two or three trails which crossed it, and its owners residing in England with no agents here to give titles, was not early entered upon. Its first settlers were without title-deeds till after the death of Gen. Knox, when the one-fourth not previously sold was bid off at auction by Messrs. Snow, Coombs, Bridges, and Keating, in behalf of the occupants. The other three-fourths ultimately passed into the hands of Mr. Vaughan of Hallowell, from whom deeds were obtained on satisfactory terms after the separation of Maine from Massachusetts.

The first tax ever assessed upon the people here, was that of this year on the new county of Lincoln formed in 1760; of which £4, 5s. 8d. were apportioned to the Upper St. George's plantation, which included the present Warren and Thomaston as far as Mill River. Capt. Killpatrick and Hugh McLean were chosen assessors, the first officers of the kind in the place, and who are said to have despatched the business in a summary manner by assigning a pistareen or 20 cts. to each of the ablest settlers and exempting most of the others. Killpatrick, as the reader may have seen, was the leading citizen of what is now Thomaston, still living at his block-house at the head of the Narrows, and having in possession 700