Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-10-16
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Upon the chimney piece,
lie looked again. and found IL was
Hts sisters husbands niece"
Last Thursday the young lady who.
under the pseudonymous name of
Penelope Penfeather," edits depart
ment of the editorial page of the Boston
Evening Herald, devoted a portion of
her space to some observations evoked
by a view of a handful of sand which
was taken from the mound at Ossipee,
Y. a., and which is now carefully pre-
served in an ancient sugar bowl; and in
the course of her observations she
ascribed to Ossipee the glory of being
the scene of the memorable battle,
known as Lovewelrs Fight, which at
Fryeburg, Me-, Capt. John Lovewell
fought with the Indians in May, lI25,
and she stated that the mound at Ossipee
is the grave of the Indians slain in that
battle. "Penelope's" ideas concerning
Lovewelfs Fight are so jumbled and con
fused as to call to mind the description
which an ancient veteran who had
fought at Bunker Hilr' gave of his
experiences in connection with that bat
tie: ave marched over Chatterton Hill
and through the woods back of TicOn-
deroga until we came out on the York
River, where the British gunboats lay in
front of Charlestown, and, following
Old Put through the swamp, We drove
the redcoats from Bunker Hill into the
Pedee." Lovewelrs Fight was the most
important battle ever fought on the soil
of Maine, and it is strange that so ac-
complished a writer as penelope Pen
feather should know so little about
that desperate and sanguinary encounter
as to think that it took place at Ossipee,
y. H., and that the mound which is at
Ossipee is the grave in which the In
dams buried their warriors who were
slain in that battle.
P.S. see by this evenings Herald
that Penelope" her attention having
been called to the fact that Lovewell's
Fight took place at Fryeburg, makes An
attempt to correct her error of last
Thursday, but she does not fully sue
coed in doing so. While she now states
that Capt. Lovewell fought his last bat
tie in Fryeburg, she says that battle
with the Indians was fought at Ossipee
"prior 10 the one at Fryeburg," and she
thinks, evidently, that the mound at
Ossipee is the grave of the Indians slain
in the battle which she speaks of as
fought at that place. As matter of
fact, however, no battle with Indians
was ever fought at 0ssipee, and there is
no evidence that the Ossipee mound is
the grave of Indians slain in a battle
fought anywhere; indeed, many think
that the mound is the work of nature
rather than of man, and, if that is the
case, the mound is neither an Indian
grave nor an Indian mound of any other
kind. Penelope" should make herself
more familiar with the colonial history
of Massachusetts (of which Maine was,
at the time of Lovewel's Fight, part,)
and should, when convenient to do so,
make "a sentimental journey" to the
scene of the battle, where she will find q
monument which the achusetts So
ciety of Colonial Wars erected in honor
of Capt. Lovewell and his fellow heroes,
and which, with ceremonies appropriate
to the occasion, was dedicated on June
II, 1904.
CALVIN w. LEWIS.
BosToN, Oct. 4, 1906.