Papers Relating to Pemaquid and Parts Adjacent in the Present State of Maine, Known as Cornwall County, When Under the Colony of New York (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1856 Excerpt: ... Butt to prevent all Inconveniency's or occasions of difference, no Indyans to goe to the fishing Islands, nor Christians admitted or suffer'd to inhabit or converse on the Maine, except att Pemaquid under protection of the Fort, this winter, or till further Order, to which place supplys are and shall be sent for all partys. Traders from Yorke and that bring sufficient clearings from the Custome house according to act of Parliament, to be admitted to sett up for the present trading houses, under command, butt att convenient distance from the Fort, to the Landward, so as a street be left of good breadth, directly from the Fort to the narrowest part of the neck or point of land the Fort stands upon, going to the great neck towards New Harbour; and if endwise should any wayes blind, or hinder the fort of the sight or command of the water, then said houses to be sett broadways to the said designed street, to which all Doores to open, and not suffer'd on any other side or End. All trade to be in the said Street, in or afore the houses, between sun and sun, for which the drum to beate, or bell ring every morning & evening, and neither Indyan nor Christian suffer'd to drinke any strong drinke, nor lye ashore in the night, upon the neck or Point of land the Fort stands upon, & any presuming to the contrary or coming there drunk to bee apprehended and punished according to his desert, and allso all Traders not giving over, and immediately shutting their doors att said time and warning. No Indyans nor Christians to be Admitted att any time within the Fort except some few upon occasion of bufinelTe below, but none to goe up into the Redout, nor no manner of trade whattever, upon any accompt or pretence whattsoever att no time in or neare the Fort, butt in the above str...