Jonathan Eddy Jonathan Eddy ( c . 1726 – 1804 ) served for the British in the French and Indian War and for the American Patriots in the American Revolution . After the French and Indian War he settled in Nova Scotia as a New England Planter , becoming a member of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia . During the American Revolutionary War , he was strongly supportive of the rebellion against the Crown . He encouraged the residents of Nova Scotia to join in open revolt against King George III and England . He led a failed attempt to capture Fort Cumberland in 1776 and was forced to retreat to Massachusetts , the place of his birth . The following year he led the defense of Machias , Maine during the Battle of Machias ( 1777 ) . After the war he established the community now known as Eddington , Maine in 1784 , where he died . French and Indian War . Jonathan Eddy was born in Norton , Massachusetts in 1726 or 1727 . In 1755 he enlisted in the Massachusetts militia and participated in Robert Monckton ' s successful capture of Fort Beauséjour on the Isthmus of Chignecto in the French and Indian War . He received a militia captain ' s commission in 1758 , when he apparently saw no action , and again in 1759 , when his company was garrisoned at Fort Cumberland ( the name Fort Beauséjour was given after its capture ) . After the war , Eddy returned home to Norton , only to return to Cumberland as a New England Planter in 1763 . From 1770 to 1775 he served in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly . American Revolution . When the American Revolutionary War began in Massachusetts in 1775 he openly supported the rebellion . Following Governor Francis Legge ' s crackdown on seditious persons and seeing an opportunity , Jonathan Eddy fled to his riding in Cumberland . He made frequent excursions to see Samuel Adams and the General Court of Massachusetts as well as to General George Washington . Here he was met with varying degrees of support for his proposed rebellion . Adams pledged full support , troops , weapons , ammunition and more , whilst George Washington was less enthusiastic and failed to promise direct support for the venture . He was eventually able to convince the Massachusetts legislature to provide logistical support in the form of small arms ( musket s ) and other military supplies . In the summer of 1776 , Mariot Arbuthnot , the new governor of Nova Scotia , ordered Colonel Joseph Goreham ' s Royal Fencible Americans to secure Fort Cumberland and keep watch for any signs of an American invasion of the province . Eddy , knowing he was being monitored by authorities loyal to the Crown , fled to Massachusetts where he was made a full colonel in the Continental Army and was given authority to raise a regiment of his own with the sole purpose of the invasion of Nova Scotia through Cumberland and Truro and then east into Halifax . Siege of Fort Cumberland . Shortly after General William Howe ' s army departed Nova Scotia to attack New York in 1776 , Eddy made his move . His force of 180 American militiamen , Natives , and Nova Scotians marched on Fort Cumberland . They attempted to storm the fort on November 13 , 1776 but were repulsed . Two more attempts were made on the 22nd and 23 November , but on the 28th the " HMS Vulture " arrived at the head of the Bay of Fundy with British Royal Marines aboard and relieved the fort in a joint operation with the RFA garrison . Eddy and his militia force were scattered , eventually regrouping near the Saint John River . Eddy and many of his supporters who had lived near the fort had their properties destroyed in retaliation . Eddy spent the remainder of the war managing the defense of Machias in the District of Maine ( then a part of Massachusetts ) , and was awarded a tract of land in the Ohio Country in 1801 for his role in the war . He moved to Stoughtonham after the war , where he served in the Massachusetts legislature . In 1784 he established a settlement on the eastern bank of the Penobscot River that grew to become Eddington , Maine , where he died in 1804 .