Edition - Mattiwasset's Revenge - New York Weekly edition
(source: NIU Libraries)
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Northern Illinois University
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New York Weekly
v. 29 no. 41 (page 8)
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Mattiwasset's Revenge
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Author:
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Silingsby, Maurice
(pseudonym used by Cumier, Thomas J.)
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August 17, 1874
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In 1773, an old chief from the Norridgewock, with an imposing retinue of a half-a-dozen painted, breach-clothed savages, came down to the town of Portsmouth to have a "big talk," and negotiate with the white traders for their usual supply of blankets, rum, tobacco, gunpowder and lead. |
