. The New England magazine . setts and Maine, en-tering upon his duties in 1692. He diedin February, 1695, at the comparativelyearly age of forty-five, having made a re-putation as a soldier and statesman, whichplaced his name among the first of the dis-tinguished men who laid the foundationsof prosperity and good government inMaine. Sir William Pepperell com-manded the land force which reducedthe French fortress of Louisburg, on the island of Cape Breton, in 1744, and com-pelled the surrender to the Fnglish ofthis important key to French dominionin North America. He died at his seatin Kittery
. The New England magazine . setts and Maine, en-tering upon his duties in 1692. He diedin February, 1695, at the comparativelyearly age of forty-five, having made a re-putation as a soldier and statesman, whichplaced his name among the first of the dis-tinguished men who laid the foundationsof prosperity and good government inMaine. Sir William Pepperell com-manded the land force which reducedthe French fortress of Louisburg, on the island of Cape Breton, in 1744, and com-pelled the surrender to the Fnglish ofthis important key to French dominionin North America. He died at his seatin Kittery, July 6, 1759, ^^ the age ofsixty-five, greatly mourned in the people of Maine were in fullsympathy, and heartily co-operated withtheir brethren of Massachusetts properall through the controversy between thecolonies and Great Britain which led tothe American Revolution. \\hen thenews of the repeal of the Stamp Actreached Falmouth in May, 1766, gunswere fired, bells rung, flags displayed, and THE STATE OF Falls of the Androscoggin at Lewiston. houses illuminated. In 1774, after thepassage by the British Parliament ofmeasures which deprived the colonists ofimportant civil rights, and closed theport of Boston, the inhabitants of Fal-mouth, Biddeford, and other Maine townsheld meetings and adopted resolutions tosupport their brethren at Boston in de-fence of their rights and liberties. InSeptember, 1774, a convention of dele-gates from nine towns in CumberlandCounty met at Falmouth, where fivehundred armed men from eastern townswere also gathered, compelled the countysheriff appointed by General Gage, thelast royal governor, to give a pledge thathe would obey the province law and not that of Parliament, and recommendedthat the representatives elected from theseveral towns of Massachusetts and Mainemeet and form a Provincial Congress totake the place of the Cieneral Court dis-solved by General (lage. The ProvincialCongress met at Salem in October, 1774,and elec
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