Early Settlers
Vocabulary
Places
Odds and ends
Odd and Ends
100
A French Missionary was killed in the 1724 Norridgewock Massacre

Father Sebastien Rale

100

Gradually take for one's own

Encroach

100

What happened at York

Canadian Indians and some local Abanaki burned the village and garrison

100

Why didn't the Wabanaki Confederation agree with the Phips treaty in 1693

They would give up their Sovereignty (independence) 

100

Who was Baron De St. Castin

a French trader who lived in a Wabanaki village at present-day Castine

200

The English Royalist, formed the Council for New England in 1621

Sir Ferdinando Gorges

200

A body of government that makes laws

Legislature

200

Who led the massacre against the Abenaki at Norridgeock

Jeremiah Moulton

200

Why were beaver pelts more valuable in what is now called Maine

thicker fur

200
What was an important thing families packed when coming to the new world

Seeds- Herb Seeds for medicinal reasons

300

Sir Ferdinando Gorges Nephew, Helped set up the Maine's First Government 

Thomas Gorges

300

Having to do with the home

Domestic

300

Why didn't Natives understand land deeds?  (selling the land) 

To Natives, the land was sacred and could not be bought and sold

300

Why were houses built on rivers and bays?

No roads they used boats and ships to go anyplace

300

What might happen to a gossiping woman in York 

Get the Dunking stool Public humiliation 

400

What did Nanuddemance do?

Reserved the rights to his and his families rights to use the land he sold in a deal with an English settler

400

Price put on an enemy's head

Bounty

400

Area of Land sold by Monquin the son of a Kennebec Sakom for a barrel of bread, a barrel of beans, two cloth coats, two gallons of wine, and one bottle of rum  Where was this land?

Augusta -Skowhegan

400

When the land was sold by Wabanaki what was the document called 

Indian Deeds

400

Who was effected by Spencer Phips Proclamation

Penobscot Natives

500

A Kennebec Abenaki chief, that protested the English treatment of his people in a letter to Massachusetts

Diogenes Madoasquarbet

500

A written agreement establishing peace between nations

Treaty

500
What happened on the Saco?

English Sailors killed the infant son of a Sakom 

500

Governor of the Massachusets Bay Colony in 1695

Sir William Phips

500

Independence (vocab word)

Sovereignty