The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-10-10
IN the morning pro.

ceeded up the river. and al ten O'CLOCK
arrived at Scoheein falls, where il q
carrying-p place of 80 PAGES, which
lies across a small island IN tnr liver.
Here waited tor ny division 10 come
p, and eHcamped Gil the vest side oil
The river, opposite the island. with
+ Capt Goodrich Il rainSd IN The
] night. ! turned out and put on M
+ clothes and lay down again and -lept
well ill morning On Tuesday Tho
] Major proceeded up the river ~ %or-
/ ridRewook, ard On his way called at
! a house where he saw a child four
teen months old. the first white caIla
+ porn n Nofridgewock
In lie meantime the division Nas
+ one day behind its commander aud
/ spent Monday night p Canaan. Has
hell ri '.ara cG.lfa'. says they
! hauled up the boats al Mccormick
i landing place in Canaan. Melvin u
j Dearborn's company comments OF tae
night as cold and rainy. They reach
i ed the Falls il the morning, CARED
/ their boats over the carrying place.
+ which Melvin calls f6f8y rods, and
/ Haskell one hundred, and most Of tae
. division camped on Tuesday five mics
=
Capt. Dearborns company had how
ever different experience. Tn!
camped with the others Monday nieht
at Canaan, where the Captain says
il rained very fast most part OF the
night, and the next days trip and
carry proved so strenuous that they
camped Tuesday night Oct I'd at the
Falls on the main Vest Of the Is
and Capt. Dearborn says OF this
days program: Proceeded up thu
river over very bad falls and shoals
such as seemed almost impossible 10
cross. but after much fatigue aid
abundance OF difficulty We arrived al
Schouhegan Falls, where there is d
carrying place OF sixty rods. Her
we hauled up our bateauX and caulked
them as well as We could they being
knocked about among the rocks and
not being we'll built al first We
carried across and loaded our bateauX
and put across the river and enc amp-
i ed. This days march was not aoo.e
/ three miles. From mere | sent back
+ TWO sick men
I he fourth and rear division OF tie
army was commanded by Lieut.. Gol.
Enos. and was made up of the con-
panies of Captains Williams McCobb
and Scott. With them went co..
pany of "artifcers or carpenters
/ from Gardinerstown, led by Capt Col
/ burn. Ephraim Squier OF SCOTS com
i pany, who was the only journalist OF
! this division. tells us that they reach
/ ed Skowhegan Falls early in the day
/ II October 9Th, carried by, and camp
/ ed, probably on the shore opposite
the Island carry. The morning OF
/ the 9TH they set out early. and went
up the river six miles.
i The surgeon of the army, DR.. Sent
er, travelling by himself apart from
any OF the divisions, gives a rather
i puZzling account OF his experiences
j il passing through Skowhegan. IL
carried his medical stores and ba--
gage in his own bateau. his boat
crew consisting of three Englishmen,
an old Swiss and a young Scoteh-
mau. In his camp about setea
miles above Fort Halifax be waited
over Sunday, according t. ord w. tor
the rear division. Monday a mes-
i 5enser came for him TO come up 1Fer
to see a sick soldier who was at
Peter Haywood Il Canaan. He
SIdlltu dl oliGt+ UAl bll iEt9uIlt VI iii
rapids could not get through that
night Early Tuesday morning ne
reached his patient al Old Canaan.
and mentions that he found there
numbers of the army. Il viii he
remembered that the second and third
divisions had camped there
If We can understand the doctor
account, after leaving Old Canaan he
i Went up the Wesserrunsett stream "a
far as Thea falls at what is nov Mai
bons Mills, carried across the elbow
10 the branch OF the stream cOndne
from southwark, followed this as ian
as il extended south, and then carried
down alouL about where the present
road goes into the river at the Eddy.
He chose this. ne says as the less
tedious roGte. Soon after he CAM
TO what he calls Sadukhegon Falls.
and passed these With a great deal OF
difficulty, ard not. he adds without
coming nigiA losins one of my hands.
The doctor tented the night of the
9Th half a mile up the river. where
as We have seen others hdd calnped.
BESIDES the officers before mention
ed, there were several young men III
the Expedition who afterwards be
came distinguished. The surgeon,
whose peculiar excursion has just
: been spoken OF, Or. Isaac Senter, had
q career OF eminence as physician
and writer at Newport, K. l. The
Chaplain, Rev. Samuel Spring was for
many years minister at NeWburypart,
and was one of the founders OF An
dover Theological Seminary and oil
the American Board.
Several volunteer officers were at
/ tached 10 the Expedition, the most
notable of whom Was Aaron Burr,
then lad OF nineteen, afterWard the
brilliant and disloyal ice-president
of the United States.
Three Penobscot Indians are known
to have been with the army, one of
whom, Sewanocket, acted as guide
during the early part OF the journey.
and there were a number OF others
at different times Tradition tells
about young Indian girl, Jacataqua
the huntress and her dog, and has
woven romantic story around her
and Aaron Burr,
Several local traditions have been
handed down in connection with The
passage of the Expedition. one OF
them is that in the evening on Great
Island. which lay opposite the Old
Canaan clearings, the officers and