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Updated: May 1, 2025
Some of the Indian chiefs went to Pemaquid to confer with Mr. Shurte, in whom they reposed much confidence. Their complaint was truly touching. "Our brothers," said they, "are treacherously caught, carried into foreign parts, and sold as slaves. Last fall you frightened us from our corn-fields on the Kennebec.
Abraham Shurte was chief magistrate of the flourishing plantation of Pemaquid. He was a man of integrity, of humanity, and of great good sense. By indefatigable exertions, he succeeded in obtaining an interview with the sachems, and entered into a treaty of peace with them.
You have withholden powder and shot from us, so that we can not kill any game; and thus, during the winter, many have died of starvation." Mr. Shurte did what he could to conciliate them, and proposed a council. It was soon convened.
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