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Excerpt from Stephen Manchester, the Slayer of the Indian Chief Polin, at New Marblehead, Now Windham, Maine, in 1756, and a Soldier of the Revolution: With His Ancestry
The settlers kept on in the work of the settlement, but for their protection they were obliged to build a fort, which was on home lot No. 33. It is described as fifty feet square, two stories high, with walls one one foot thick of hewn hemlock timber, the upper story jutting out over the lower, with a tier of portholes. There were two watch-boxes placed at diagonal corners, two stories high, twelve feet square, with walls one foot thick, each watch-box having a swivel gun, furnished by the proprietors, and so placed as to defend two sides of the fort. The fort sur rounded with a stockade about twenty-five or thirty feet from it, made by setting posts ten or twelve inches in diameter, twelve feet long, perpendicularly in the ground so near together that the Indians could not pass between them. This fort was built during the spring of 1744, and was paid for by the state ap propriating one hundred pounds for the purpose. An iron nine-pounder was placed before the fort for firing alarms, and the proprietors provided fifty pounds of powder. This preparation was made because of thedeclaration of war between England and France that year. During that war the settlers were obliged to live in the fort for protection against the Indians, who destroyed their crops and reduced them almost to beggany.
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