. The New England magazine . THE STATE OF MAINE. 557. Pitt Fessenden. the command of Lieutenant Moore, wassent from Boston to Machias to pro-cure wood for the British troops. Bothvessels arrived at Machias, June 21775, and brought the first news ofthe bloody conflicts at Lexington andConcord. The intelligence deeply stirredthe people, who gave expression totheir patriotism by erecting a libertypole, which Lieutenant Moore orderedto be remo^-ed under the threat of firing on the town. The people atonce armed, and, seizing the wood sloop,took measures to capture LieutenantMoore and the armed scho
. The New England magazine . THE STATE OF MAINE. 557. Pitt Fessenden. the command of Lieutenant Moore, wassent from Boston to Machias to pro-cure wood for the British troops. Bothvessels arrived at Machias, June 21775, and brought the first news ofthe bloody conflicts at Lexington andConcord. The intelligence deeply stirredthe people, who gave expression totheir patriotism by erecting a libertypole, which Lieutenant Moore orderedto be remo^-ed under the threat of firing on the town. The people atonce armed, and, seizing the wood sloop,took measures to capture LieutenantMoore and the armed schooner, whichthey succeeded in doing on the 12th ofJune, after a sharp fight in which severalmen were killed on each side. When thenews of this first patriot victory on the seareached the Provincial Congress in ses-sion at Watertown, Mass., on the 26th ofJune, that body passed a formal vote of 55S THE STATE OF MAINE. thanks to the heroes of The Lexingtonof the Seas. Ijenjamin Foster and Jere-miah OBrien, who led the Machias pa-triots, were soon after
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