Stephen Manchester, the Slayer of the Indian Chief Polin, at New Marblehead, Now Windham, Maine, in 1756, and a Soldier of the Revolution (Classic ... Ancestry: With His Ancestry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Goold, Nathan

9781332200511: Stephen Manchester, the Slayer of the Indian Chief Polin, at New Marblehead, Now Windham, Maine, in 1756, and a Soldier of the Revolution (Classic ... Ancestry: With His Ancestry (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1332200516 ISBN 13: 9781332200511

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Stephen Manchester, the Slayer of the Indian Chief Polin, at New Marblehead, Now Windham, Maine, in 1756, and a Soldier of the Revolution: With His Ancestry

The settlers kept on in the work of the settlement, but for their protection they were obliged to build a fort, which was on home lot No. 33. It is described as fifty feet square, two stories high, with walls one one foot thick of hewn hemlock timber, the upper story jutting out over the lower, with a tier of portholes. There were two watch-boxes placed at diagonal corners, two stories high, twelve feet square, with walls one foot thick, each watch-box having a swivel gun, furnished by the proprietors, and so placed as to defend two sides of the fort. The fort sur rounded with a stockade about twenty-five or thirty feet from it, made by setting posts ten or twelve inches in diameter, twelve feet long, perpendicularly in the ground so near together that the Indians could not pass between them. This fort was built during the spring of 1744, and was paid for by the state ap propriating one hundred pounds for the purpose. An iron nine-pounder was placed before the fort for firing alarms, and the proprietors provided fifty pounds of powder. This preparation was made because of thedeclaration of war between England and France that year. During that war the settlers were obliged to live in the fort for protection against the Indians, who destroyed their crops and reduced them almost to beggany.

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Excerpt from Stephen Manchester, the Slayer of the Indian Chief Polin, at New Marblehead, Now Windham, Maine, in 1756, and a Soldier of the Revolution: With His Ancestry The romance connected with his coming to the town brightens the dry facts of history. He was born and spent his early life in Tiverton, Rhode Island, and when a young man became much interested in a neighbor's daughter, named Grace Farrow. Her parents objected to his attentions to their daughter but were unable to prevent them. At last they decided to emigrate to the District of Maine and settle in the new country where their daughter would soon forget her lover, her parents thinking that the attachment for young Manchester was but a childish fancy. John Farrow, his wife Persis, daughter Grace, and other children came to New Marblehead to make themselves a home, and he is said to have been the third settler, in 1738, on home lot No. 29. Stephen Manchester was then about twenty-one years of age and probably as resolute as he was in his later life. Tradition does not give what passed after Grace Farrow left Tiverton with her parents, but in two long weeks Stephen Manchester walked into her father's door. It was probably the same old story, of her parents consenting to their marriage, which probably occurred that year. For their home he selected home lot No. 32, next to John Farrow, Jr's., lots (his brother-in-law), cleared the land and built a loghouse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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 i

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