History of the Town of Frankfort (Classic Reprint) - edizione con copertina flessibile

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Point - her decks were strewed with oil and set on fire, soon the magazine was reached and blown to frag ments. She contained in part the stores of the fleet, and it is said the shore was strewed with biscuits like flakes of snow. Some of her remains may still be seen imbedded in the mud. The sloops of war Mon mouth, Sally and Black Prince, each carrying 20 guns were destroyed at Hampden. The number of vessels in all destroyed between. Castine and Bangor was'33. The troops and marines were marched through the wilderness to Fort Halifax on the Kennebec opposite Waterville The first which went through used a compass and spotted trees as a guide to those who should follow, when they came to Long Pond in Unity they spotted a road on both sides of it, in consequence of which, the second party in following the trail went around the pond two or three times. The men suffer ed much on the march. Though there was abund ance of provision in the fleet, they were not provident enough to take a sufficient supply with them, and before they got through were obliged to resort to Indian cucumbers and the bark of trees for food. They were five days in performing the journey.

The History of Frankfort, from which these sketches are taken, was written for an association of young people called The Mutual Improvement Society, by Erasmus Archibald Jones, about the year 1844. Mr. Jones was assisted by many of the early settlers whose memories were still fresh with the early scenes herein narrated, particularly Archibald Jones, Esq, and Tisdale Dean, gentlemen who took prominent parts in many of these incidents. Archibald Jones.

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