Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-10-26
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AN APPEAL FOR MOUNT PE.
QUAUkET."

AN APPEAL FOR MOUNT Pc.
QuAUKEr."
In Nss Hampshire there Are. sAy. l.
q Chamberlain in the BosoH TrdH'cripi.
tso mountains called KsarArse. Oae
u them. in Msuimaek C5an,y, has borne
he name for $50 year,. and ab'u,
TO y,ar sgo ~. name wa' borosed
.nd applied 10 a mountain IN Carroll
Coun,y. near Cla-sy. ! propose to
.ho~ that the more appropriate name OF
'hs Carroll Coln,y mountain is Fe7ukdu.
l,i. by which name !, has. IN fact.
been kaosn 20 some eSien, fJr 30 years.
From oar saflic., history the Mem.
asck River valley has brea grand
Ne- England highway. and in most
conspicuous peak has been a noted land
marx. The northern boundary OF the
C1lory of Massachusetts, BAY "" a. line
runnias parallel With and three mile.
north ol the Msuimaek River. and the
co'ony was no, ,lov In scndIns surveyor.
IN search OF toe most northern Poin' OF
,he r.vsr. ~ early ~ 1855 TIE rve'
-. known 20 hunter. a. fr north a.
Cjaoofd :, least. .nl !, sabs'qlen'ly
became the route of hostile Indians.
par.ains ranger. Ani escaping prisoners.
All these travellers found themselves
confronted day by day by the lone peak
u ~ha, va, practically the .ole moua'
ain IN al the region whs, dii they
call ,hi. mountain They called u
K.ar..rgc, a. their descendant. have
-,er since done And ever oush, 10 DO II
ga. one Il The very h'., Of oar moln.
iain. 20 be visited and 20 be- located and
n.m,d on the maps. Ga the Gardner
nap .boa, iGiOl /, /. called Cara'srsa.
Dlnns The next 40 eeniuflc. the name
.ppear., a.. 80 mo.i OF our Indian names.
m many fofm.-~ Caasee. kyasafsA.
etc. The eA'ly scout. we're poor .psller'.
and the lndi,n. lid no; spell a, All. and
PeqlAakei. liss k-I.Arse, has appeared
under several or,hosr,phic vuailon'-
a. Pissscks,. p,qaAsksi. PeqlAase'.
e,e. Frederic Kidder. the historian Of
The Expedition. Of Captain John Love
sell. preferred Pcganuk'i. aud IN the
above work gave god chronological 'rA.
.on. flf 90 doing lis orihosfaphy OF
the wori ha, been follosed by &. W.
Is~i. Of B5s'oa. ba, both Mr. Kiidrf
.ni Mr. Lewis apply the name To the
region u which the mouniAin i' part.
not 20 the mountain only.
Fvqaen, slla'ioa' ia the ea'ly history
II Massschu.eti. and New Hampshire
.ho~ ,ha, the name ksar,arse belonged
pscai.rly 20 Meuimaek County and
TIA, i, va. no, applied TO the mountain
only-in 1888. fof example. being used
BY Richard Hszsn (or H,zzsnl 70 de-
.isnaie the entire region. TIE name
P,qusuks, belonged a. peculiarly TO the
region IN which the Carroll Coan,y noun
tain /, situate. which VI" the aneIeni In
dian .aehsmiom Of PeQaauks,.
soon after Love~slIs Fight With ih.
Psqasuks, lndiansl In 1875. bad opened
New Hamp.hire 20 settlement. the Nsf'
nm.ck River valley va. rapidly hlled uPi
and when. fifty year, later, people from
the Kearsarse region moved on aud oe'
capisd the PeqaAuksi eoan,ry (Coawsy,
&c. ) they named their new landmark, IN
honor Of their old one. K-arsArse; 80
thi. seem. 20 have been the original name
Of the Carroll Coaa,y mountain. though
that peak was not the original keararge
by a century aud half. Ga the great
map Of Ne~ Hampshire published IN
1916, Secretary Of State Carig.in De.
.isnA,ed the M-uimaek Couu,y noun.
tain As "Ksar.arge. and the Carroll
County mountain az "Piswsekei, for
msrly Kiar.arse lie undoubtedly had
IN mind the confusion which would re-
sal, from having both mountains bear
the same name and endeavored 10 guard
against il by giving TO the landmark OF
the Pequauk,, country as appropriate
name a, that borne by the other noun
tain.
Captain Samuel willI'd reports that
from MonAdnock. In l72j. he saw "Pis.
w.ekeu lying oae point from
Cu.sgee Moan,.ia " the Merrimaek
CoAnty Ksar.arge). referring to the lat
ter As a well.known object by which to
dad Peqnauket. no, 80 we'll knosn. A.
the Carroll County Ksarsfse, when viewed
from MonAdnock. lies one poin, from
the Meuimack County mountain. 4, has
been claimed that the latter mountain !.
the one spoken Of by Willard as Pig
wseke,t." With 30 imperfect spparsia.
a. Willard probably hsd !, would. how
ever. be s,raining q poin, 10 claim that
the fact that the Carroll County kearsarse
lie. in the direction Indicated by Willard
proves eonelu.ively that ,ha, mountain IL
the one TO which he referred; and. a.
Chocorua /. nearly ia line between Mon-
.dnock and the Carroll County Kear.
sarge, Prof. C. +. Fay Of Tufts College
thinks tha, Chocorua Is the mountain
which Willard meant. Without assum'
ina TO decide whether Il Was Kearsarse,
or ChUcorua, or some other mountain (or.
possibly. moant.in.) that Willard h.d in
sight when be "saw Pigwaeke,t,' | am
Of the opinion that he used the term
Pigwseken TO designate the region
Of which be knew th., the mountain or
mountains seen by him formed part.
In 1861, at the opening OF the Rebel
lion. the gunboat kearsarss WAS bail'
a, Portsmouth. and in 1864. while CON-
manded by Captain winslow. she sunk
the Alabama. After the war hotel
vas bull, on the Merrimsek County
Kesnargs aud named in honor OF Capt,
winslow. who. with some Of his ofii'ers,
vas present at the dedication. After
the death OF the commander. Mr,
win.low selected boulder from thai
mountain TO place =, his grave. but wa'
deferred for a time from It's use BY .