. The New England magazine . un Mount KatahdinFKOM A IHUTO BY MISS ROSE HOLLINGSWOKTH. native and for many years a resident ofBoston, who removed to Thomaston,Maine, where his wife had inherited alarge landed interest under the Waldopatent, on his retirement from the posi-tion of Secretary of War in 1794, andbuilt a fine mansion which he called■ Montpelier, where he dispensedprincely hospitality until he died, Oc-tober 25, 1S06, at the age of eighty-six. The era of prosperity upon whichMaine entered at the close of the Revo-lution was interrupted by the embaigo of1807 and the war with Great Br
. The New England magazine . un Mount KatahdinFKOM A IHUTO BY MISS ROSE HOLLINGSWOKTH. native and for many years a resident ofBoston, who removed to Thomaston,Maine, where his wife had inherited alarge landed interest under the Waldopatent, on his retirement from the posi-tion of Secretary of War in 1794, andbuilt a fine mansion which he called■ Montpelier, where he dispensedprincely hospitality until he died, Oc-tober 25, 1S06, at the age of eighty-six. The era of prosperity upon whichMaine entered at the close of the Revo-lution was interrupted by the embaigo of1807 and the war with Great Britain in1812-15. In 1814, a British force cap-tured the American forts at Eastport andCastine, and held the latter place tillApril 26, 1815. A British force alsovisited Belfast, Hampden, Bangor andMachias, and threatened On the Beach. THE STATE OF MAINE. 561 Boothbay, and other towns on the coast,The Maine mihtia were called out andseveral skirmishes took place. At Cas-tine a British custom-house was estab-lished, where duties were collected forover a year under the authority of GreatBritain. The first representative in Congresselected from Maine in 1789, on the or-ganization of the federal governmentunder the Constitution, was GeorgeThacher of Biddeford, who had been adelegate to the Continental Henry Dearborn of Monmouth,and Peleg Wadsworth of Falmouth, sub-sequently of Hiram, were added to therepresentation in the national House in1794, when the District of Maine wasgiven three representatives. Among the other representatives inCongress from Maine, before the separa-tion from Massachusetts, who occupiedprominent positions in the new state,were John Chandler of Monmouth, from1805 to 1808, and John Holmes ofAlfred, from 1S17 to 1820, when bothwere elected the first senators from then
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