Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . •*? ttfaw—M. Relics. 81 or some of his family at the time he was driven fromhis house by Governor Andros in 1688, or else left thereby the family when they departed for Canada, in coins were mostly French money, though there wasa large number of Spanish Cob dollars, or pieces ofeight. There were some Belgic and Portuguese coinsand some twenty-five or thirty Massachusetts pine-treeshillings and sixpences, all dated 1652. There were avery few English shillings. In 1863, on the beach justbelow Fort Pen
Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . •*? ttfaw—M. Relics. 81 or some of his family at the time he was driven fromhis house by Governor Andros in 1688, or else left thereby the family when they departed for Canada, in coins were mostly French money, though there wasa large number of Spanish Cob dollars, or pieces ofeight. There were some Belgic and Portuguese coinsand some twenty-five or thirty Massachusetts pine-treeshillings and sixpences, all dated 1652. There were avery few English shillings. In 1863, on the beach justbelow Fort Pentagoet, a gold demi-Louis was was dated 1642, and was in good preservation and butlittle worn. In the year 1863 a piece of sheet copper ten incheslong by eight wide was found in the ground near FortMadison. The letters upon the plate are evidently ab-breviations of the following inscription : 1648, 8 Junii, Frater Leo Parisiensis, in CapucinorumMissione, posui hoc fundamentum in honorem nostraeDominae Sanctae Spei. Of which this is the translation : 1648, June 8, I, Friar Leo, of Par
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