The Pine-tree coast . nch colonial establishments of this early time, Pentagoetwas at once a fort, a trading-post, and a mission. In 1G46 the Jesuit, FatherDruillettes, founrl several Capuchin friars domesticated there under their superior. Father Ignace, and we have a possiblememorial of them in a fragment ofcopper-jiilate that was picked up on theshore not many years ago, and is thoughtto have once decorated their chapel. Bethat as it may, the conversion of theIndians to the Catholic faith was thesoAving of the seed that was to bear abloody harvest for Protestant New Eng-land when times grcA
The Pine-tree coast . nch colonial establishments of this early time, Pentagoetwas at once a fort, a trading-post, and a mission. In 1G46 the Jesuit, FatherDruillettes, founrl several Capuchin friars domesticated there under their superior. Father Ignace, and we have a possiblememorial of them in a fragment ofcopper-jiilate that was picked up on theshore not many years ago, and is thoughtto have once decorated their chapel. Bethat as it may, the conversion of theIndians to the Catholic faith was thesoAving of the seed that was to bear abloody harvest for Protestant New Eng-land when times grcAv ripe for it. Andto this day the remnant of the once powerful Penobscots hold fast to thefaith they then embraced. In 1654 Sedgwick, a colonial officer of Massachusetts, conquered all theposts in Acadia from the French, Pentagoet included. Sedgwicks report is thefirst account Ave have of what the place was like. He describes it as beinga small yet well-planned Avork, and very strong, mounting eight pieces IINE-TKEE smLLIN<i 276 ^^11^ PINK-TREE COAST. Acadia having thus passed to the control of the English, its several postswere granted to different proprietors, first by Cromwell, and afterwards byCharles II., Pentagoet falling to the share of that Sir Thomas Temple who socleverly turned away the Merry Monarchs wrath from New England by tellinghim tliat the device stamped on the pine-tree shilling was put there in com-memoration of Boscobel. But under the treaty of Breda, Acadia was tossedinto the scales as a makeweight, so becoming French again. It was not until IGTO that the French flag was again unfurled over Penta-goet. There is an elaborate description of the fort at this time, showing thatit had been much enlarged and strengthened. In 1674 the place was again takenby buccaneers from San Domingo, who carried off Chambly, the commander,to Boston, where he was held to ransom. It is at this time that the man Avhose name is so intimately associated witliCastine
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