What to see in America . Photo by Harold Baynes Auff UStReynard What to See in America. © Kalkoff Co. N. Y. Block House at Fort Kent negro theywent to neighbor-ing homes, killed orcaptured thirty-fourpersons, and set thebuildings on Brackett fam-ily continued incaptivity until No-vember, at whichtime their captorscame in their wanderings to the north side of Casco Brackett found an old birch canoe on the beach. Sherepaired it, and the family and the negro man secretly gotinto it and paddled across the bay to Black Point. A ves-sel bound for the Piscataqu
What to see in America . Photo by Harold Baynes Auff UStReynard What to See in America. © Kalkoff Co. N. Y. Block House at Fort Kent negro theywent to neighbor-ing homes, killed orcaptured thirty-fourpersons, and set thebuildings on Brackett fam-ily continued incaptivity until No-vember, at whichtime their captorscame in their wanderings to the north side of Casco Brackett found an old birch canoe on the beach. Sherepaired it, and the family and the negro man secretly gotinto it and paddled across the bay to Black Point. A ves-sel bound for the Piscataqua chanced to be there, and onthat they made good their escape. Of all the combats in Maine between the whites and In-dians the best known was Lovewells Fight. In the springof 1725 Captain Lovewell and forty-six volunteers startedfrom Dunstable, Massachusetts, to hunt Indians about theheadwaters of the Saco. They did this partly because the In-dians were a menace to the settlements, and partly to securethe liberal bounty which had been promised for every Indianscalp. On the night of
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