Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-08-08

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servs oar present purpose In has time the
drinking Of Intoxicating liquors was
common practice. INDUCED in BY all The
doctor. lisssevsr became a total abstainer.
AMI possibly tha. is one reason Why he was
spoken of As eccentrie-or odd. On one
occasion he had the frame of 4 barn all
ready for raising, but his neighbors refused
to assist him unless be would furnish rum
This he declined doing. but offered as fine
supper as could DE provided. They
| still refusing, he said the Lord
would provide the help he wanted
Soon a fleet Of vessels came down
river outward bound II was before the
day Of ton boats, and the vessels, becoming
windbouud at place still known as Love-
/ JOYS Nsrrows. anchored near his house
/ He went aboard. told the crew his story and
they occupied their time, until wind and
tide favored. in raising his barn and eating
| the supper which he provided.
/ The families of Hatch and Maxwell,
members of which still live on the island
have history of some interest, but my re-
cord il incomplete. | will, therefore, SIM
/ ply -ay tina, the ancestors of Paul Hatch,
| nov 81 wears of age, came TO Massachusetts
on the Mary and John somewhere about
| 1910. and that one of the later date was IN
| the famous Boston Tea Party.
/ II is a mooted question whether Benedict
Arnold landed in Dresden (Pownalboro1 IN
| I1115 on his xay TO Quebec. William Willis
/ - xceient NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that he did.
| So do many Dresden traditions, which have
| little room for doubt. 1t is, however, matter
| Of record that on September 20, lii5, the
I transports which brought the detachment
/ from New buryport, under orders from Zen
eral Washington, came to ailchor opposite 10
| Pow naiboro. and above the head of Swan
| Island. That fact alone does not seem TO
| be enough to keep the loyalist, Jacob Bailey.
who hal incurred the special ill-will OF the
/ friends of Congress from his home, hidden
| for a whole week. Ii is also fact that
/ bateaux were built for the use OF the ex-
petition at point some six miles
| further up the river. With the
expedition came the Rev. Samuel
| Spring, its chaplain and father of the Rev.
| Gardiner Spring of New York. Also Henry
/ Dearborn, afterwards General Dearborn
/ and brilliant, but nnprneipled Aaron Burr,
as a volunteer. Reaching Quebec the expedi-
! ton failed a good part of the men having per-
! ished or de serted amid the forests and SHOWS
of northern Maine and Canada. 1t i. also
matter of history that Burrwas sent by Ar
mold with dispatches to General Monfgom-
erv--tra,litlon saws disguised as Il priest.
| Ii is also well known that before either
I ProtestantS or Eng,ishmcn settled In tins
region the French Jesuit missionaries con-
/ yertcd manv of the aburigincs 10 the ththo-
/ lie faith, and that French traders and adj
ycnturers often lived on terms of intimacy
/ and friendship with the Indians, some
times. as in the case of Baron de Cas-
| tine on the Penobscot, marrying an Indian
girl and rearing family of children, half
| Indian, half French. Swan lsland-or as
the residents claim, little Swan Island
was the headquarters of the kennebec
tribe. and as far as Indians may be said to
I have home, it was the home of their
chief. kenebis
| The story which follows, connecting the
name of the third Vice President of the
United States with that of an Indian halt
breed pirl, even if wholly fiction, has been
made to fit most admirably to facts of which
there is no question. 1t was written some
twenty-five years ago by a venerated clergy
man of Maine for local publication, and
the leading incidents he claimed that he
obtainel from General Dearborn, who lived
in Gardiner after the Revolution. The
story comes to me in part from one OF our
iluguenOt descendants.
James Bugnon, a descendant of the JAG
ques Bugnon who, after living in the liugu-
not settlement on the kennebec ten years,
went to Germany in 1902, and on ms way
was sent TO London by the Plymouth pro
prietors with important dispatches to their
attorney in that city, told an old gentleman
who died few wears since in Dresden that
he knew of Arnolds expedition; that
his father and Michel mot Michael
Snphen, who was an expert swords
man. visited the camp near Augusta
then Fort Western and that Stilphcn amused
them in fencing bouts with some of the ot'i-
GERS and that they were treated TO Il fineslin-
ncr. Bugnon also said that a young man
named Burr was with the expedition and that
he.smarried" Il breed girl from Swan ISL
and, took her to Quebec with him and that
sile never returned. The story is long, and
those who are familiar with Parton's Life
of Barr can fancy that its "details better not
be printed, but il may be mentioned briefly
that at a feast given the command at Fort
Western Burr alluded to the girl as The
Queen of the kennebees. When he
went to Montreal, and thence to Albany and
Long Island, she was given in charge of an
English officer, and at a convent
in Quebec she became the mother of Burr 5
child-a daughter: and the mother after
wards followed Burr to Long Island. Ira
dtlon saws that after his downfall she
drowned herself in He'll Gate. The daugh-
ter at seven wears of age went to Scotland,
was finely educated, respectfully married,
and. with her husband, afterward removed
to New York. became widow; and
the story is that in his declining
years, at the age of 70. poor, par
alvzed, despised, politically dead after his
duel with Hamilton this daughter by Jaea-
taqua the Franco-lndlan maiden of Swan
Island tcnderiy cared for Burr. This Is
the Gnlv part of my romance which is UNI
supported by records, and give the inter
esting story for what it may be worth.
Among autographs copied in the Memo
rial History of Boston is that of Philip
Dumaresq, who settled in Boston, and in
.l7l6 was married at the French tTlugue-
not) church to Susan. daughter of Captain
Henri Ferry. DR.. Baird mentions the
family in his interesting History of the
Iiugucnot Emigration to America. pub
lished by Dold, Mead { Co. Philips son,
Philip. born in 1887, married DIR. Syl-
vester Gardiner's daughter Rebecca. They
had James. born in i172, who at an early
age, or in 1882 or 3, was midshipman in
the royal navy. After serving few years
he left the navy and studied Law with his
uncle, John Gardiner of Boston who after
wards removed to Dresden, and represented
the town in the General Court from 1852
until drowned on the passage to Boston in
1898. James Dumaresq married Sarah Far
well of Nassalboro, and in 1871 settled on
Swan Island in a house which is still occu-
pied as a dwelling and which | fancy from
its style of architecture, WAS built by DIR.
Gardiner. His name often appears in Dres-
den town records. the last of which is sad
and reals flames Dumarcsq, drowned DC
tober 50. 1926" Old people in Dresden re-
member the high wind of that autumn DAY.
Captain Dnmaresq hal been to Gardiner in
his sail boat, and when setting out on his
return. heSeplied to a caution that if he got
overheard he would find his way home. And
his body was afterwards found at the head
of tire island near his home, his boat hay-
ing capsized and sunk at a place known as
Green's lodges Just below Gardiner. and al
most within sight of the Gardiner mansion.
mentioned by Hawthorne, and formerly the
property of Dumaresqs grandfather. He
was a man Of fine manners, fond of poetry
and of hunting. His brother Philip, of the
royal navy. was drowned at Southampton
about 1907.
James Dumaresq's son Philip, born Ores
den record says. January u, 1904, "a writer
in the New England Historical Geneaiogi-
cal Register. October. 1853. says April 49,.
was educated at Gardiner and went to sea
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