New York Weekly edition
(source: NIU Libraries) | Online Full Text: |
Northern Illinois University
|
|---|---|
| Series: | New York Weekly v. 29 no. 41 (page 8) |
| Item: | Mattiwasset's Revenge |
| Author: |
Silingsby, Maurice
(pseudonym used by Cumier, Thomas J.)
|
| Date: |
August 17, 1874 |
| First Sentence: | 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. |
Please log in to manage your collection or post a review.