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The site of what is now the village of Gibson, opposite Fredericton, was dotted with the encampments of the Indians, and as the warriors arrived and departed, arrayed in their war paint and feathers, the scene was animated and picturesque. The Maliseets of the St.
At its commencement the Maliseets played rather a sharp trick upon the English which Paul Mascarene and Shirley, the governor of Massachusetts, remembered against them when peace was proclaimed five years later.
Villebon with Father Simon's assistance contrived to collect 150 Indians Maliseets and Micmacs to join the expedition under his brother, which was further reinforced by a small vessel owned and commanded by the Sieur de Chauffours, an inhabitant of the St. John river. The start of the expedition was not a very auspicious one, for on leaving the harbor of St. At Penobscot Baron St.
John so as to have communication with Quebec and the rest of Canada during the seven months of the year that the St. Lawrence is not navigable. The country of the Etchemins, or Maliseets, included eastern Maine, and the western part of New Brunswick.
John river Indians that the Micmacs and Maliseets were originally one people and that the Maliseets after a while "went off by themselves and picked up their own language." However, in such matters, tradition is not always a safe guide. John. The Indians who are now scattered over this area very readily understand one another's speech, but the language of the Micmacs is unintelligible to them.
Michael Francklin in his interview with the Maliseets at Fort Howe in September, 1778, assured them that Mons'r. Bourg would have visited them sooner but for the apprehension entertained of his being carried off by the rebels. The chapel at Aukpaque was not entirely disused during the absence of the missionary.
John at this time; it was situated on the right bank of the river, eight miles below the Town of Woodstock. Here the Maliseets had a palisaded fort and large cabin, similar to that described by Lescarbot at the village Ouigoudy on Navy Island, where de Monts was welcomed by Chkoudun in 1604. The only other fortification constructed by the Indians on the St.
Cadillac, writing in 1693, says: "The Maliseets are well shaped and tolerably warlike; they attend to the cultivation of the soil and grow the most beautiful Indian corn; their fort is at Medocktek." Many other choice spots along the St.
The old chief's son Pierre Thoma, jr, wedded an Indian maiden named Marie Joseph, and his daughter Marie Belanger married Pierre Kesit. The younger Pierre Thoma was most probably his father's successor as chief of the Maliseets. At any rate when Frederick Dibblee made a return of the native Indians settled at Meductic in 1788 he includes in his list Governor Thoma, his wife and four children.
It is undeniable that the waters would flow forth more freely, and the falls would be levelled, or at least diminished, and all this flat country protected from inundation. Forts of the Micmacs and Maliseets. Thirty leagues up the river there is a fort of the Micmacs, at a place called Naxouak, and at thirty leagues further up there is one of the Maliseets. This latter nation is fairly warlike.
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