The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-09-12
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Ducktrap is said to have derived its
name from the inlet below the location
of the present Ducktrap bridge, which
is so contracted as to form strait, near
which sportsmen used to lie in ambush
while the game was scared up by Others.
The ducks in their fight would seek
egress by the strait, and thus become
game for the huntsmen.
Saturday Cove derived it's name from
the landing there on that day of a
party who mistook the place for another.
One authority says that James Miller,
the first settler of Belfast, mistook the
Cove for Belfast in fog, while moving
his family from New Hampshire in 1859.
Another account says it was Rev. John
Murray, distinguished Presbyterian
divine, in the Revolutionary period;
and still another that a ship with
emigrants from England bound for
Portsmouth got off her course and into
Penobscot Bay, landing on Saturday at
the Cove.
Northport was the scene and her in
habitants were participants in number
of exciting events during the war of
1912. Locke's History of Camden gives
a lengthy account of the landing of a
force from an English fleet at North
port in 1914 On the morning of Sept.
21st, Asa Richards and Peter Dat, or
OFT, of Camden while fishing in the
Mussel Ridges were captured by a
British cutter and forced to pilot the
the fleet into the Bay. When the
officers tried to bride the men to pilot
the vessels and guide marauding parties
along the shore they refused, and the
officers, recognizing their loyalty to
their country allowed them to return
home. Richards landed at Camden and
took measures to have the militia COM
panies of the neighboring towns collect
ed at Northport, where the enemy pro-
posed to make their first landing. The
force which collected there included 100
men from Camden, under Maj. Jona-
than Wilson and Lieut.. Brooks; Bel
mont and Searsmont companies under
Capt. Timothy Dunton of Searsmont;
the Lincolnville company, under Capt.
Josiah Stetson and Ducktrap Company
James Mahoney. The landing was
made by the enemy before the arrival
of the troops. The story of the land
ing is thus Interestingly told by Locke:
On the morning of the 23d of Sep
TENDER, Zachariah Lawrence of North
port, deserted two of the barges ap-
preaching Saturday Cove, and suspect
ing their intentions to be hostile, he
shouldered his musket and went down
by the shore just back of where David
Alden ESq's. house now stands, and
noted their man9uvrings. Finding
they were armed and dressed in uni
form, he waited until they came with
in hearing distance, when he began
to give off military orders as though he
was commanding regiment. He then
fired from behind the bushes, and dodg-
ing to another position he again repeat
ed it, and thus by hiding among the
stumps and rocks, he made them be-
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in the affair. To increase their force
the two barges withdrew to get rein
forcement. Lawrence then waded into
the water, and there he exchanged shots
with them, until they were beyond his
up the bank. and apprized Alban Elwell,
West Drink water, Solomon Frohock
and David Alden of what he had been
doing, and urging them to get their
guns and be ready to give the enemy
reception in case they Should repeat the
experiment of attempting to land.
Shortly after, another barge was added
to the number, and the crews, consist
ing of about 80 marines, headed by
Lieut.. Robbins, effected a landing, when
Lawrence and Elwell, who tried to an
noy them by firing few shots, were
compelled to retreat before the fire of
the swivel and the discharge of guns. One
of the swivels one pound shot lodged in
the dwelling of Capt. Amos Pendleton,
and another in the house of Jones Shaw.
Esq. Without further resistance, they
marched to Mr.. Shaw's, armed with
swords, pistols and guns, when the
females in the house fled with fright
to the bushes, few rods distant. Ap-
preaching Mr.. Shaw, they accused him
of being concerned with Lawrence,
and denying the charge, they gave him
shaking and cutting, knocking his hat
off. Mr.. S. having store in the base
ment of his house, they demanded en-
trance to it by presenting gun at him.
Promising to open the door as soon as
he could unfasten it, as it was bolted
on the inside, he went into the house to
comply with the orders, when the ma
rines made forcible entry through the
windows. Plundering the store of sew
eral articles of clothing, such as trow-
sers, shirts, stockings, hats, &C., which
he had not time to secure, they emptied
a barrel of dye stuff, and then took Mr.
Shaw prisoner, and marched him with
them around the neighborhood. In the
meantime, those in one of the barges
kept amusing themselves by firing shot
from the swivel at the houses.
They then went to the house of Capt.
Amos Pendleton, and as they entered
one door Capt. P. fled out of the other,
and while fleeing, they fired at him, the
ball passing through the leg of his
trowsers. The breakfast table being in
readiness for the family, the marauders
sat down and finished a meal, and then
ransacked the house, taking therefrom
a valuable watch*, a pocket book con-
tanning papers of value, hat, boots, a
quantity of provisions and bedding.
They then went to Capt. Aaron Crow
ell's* house, and used insulting language
to Mrs Crnwo11 who rosantnd If in a