Before revision: The legendary Chief Gray Lock rose to prominence during this period, marshaling and organizing Native resistance based in Otter Creek and, further to the northwest, on the Missisquoi near today's Swanton, both in what is now Vermont.Colin Calloway, p. 120; Canadian Bio On Line for Gray Lock Tablet of the Chief Grey Lock monument, Battery Park (Burlington, Vermont) French colonists and traders are recorded as the first Europeans to explore the Kennebec River area, in what is now Maine, with Samuel Champlain arriving in 1604 and claiming the area for France.
After revision: Chief Gray Lock rose to prominence during this period, marshaling and organizing Native resistance based in Otter Creek and, further to the northwest, on the Missisquoi near today's Swanton, both in what is now Vermont.Colin Calloway, p. 120; Canadian Bio On Line for Gray Lock Tablet of the Chief Grey Lock monument, Battery Park (Burlington, Vermont) French colonists and traders are recorded as the first Europeans to explore the Kennebec River area, in what is now Maine, with Samuel Champlain arriving in 1604 and claiming the area for France.