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Brief Chronology The Province of Maine, 1688–1727 1688 Onset of King William’s War (War of the League of Augsburg). 1690 New England forces under the leadership of Mainer Sir William Phips attempts to take Quebec; repulsed. 1691/2 Candlemas Raid destroys York, Maine. 1695 Mathew Cary brings twenty-two captives back to New England , many of whom had converted while in captivity. 1698 Treaty of Ryswick ends King William’s War. 1703 Onset of Queen Anne’s War (War of Spanish Succession); Wells is attacked. xv Compiled from Charles Clark, The Eastern Frontier:The Settlement of Northern New England, 1610–1763 (New York: Knopf, 1970); Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003); and Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1972). 1705 Forces under Winthrop Hilton attack Kennebec village of Norridgewock and its Jesuit mission and destroy its church. 1709 New England forces under Samuel Vetch seize French Acadia. 1711 Samuel Vetch attempts conquest of Canada; repulsed. 1713 Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne’s War, but boundary between Maine and French Acadia remains undefined; the Reverend John Williams returns to Canada with Captain John Stoddard to negotiate the release of New England captives. 1717 Arrowsic Conference; Joseph Baxter offered as minister to Kennebec Valley Wabanakis. 1722–27 Dummer’s War rages throughout Maine. 1724 Norridgewock destroyed by New England militia; Sebastien Rale killed, flock scattered. 1727 St. George’s River Conference marks the end of most of the scattered fighting of Dummer’s War. xvi Brief Chronology ...

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