FERRY ROCK
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Site of Mansion House
First Home of Capt. Thomas Cammock, about 1633
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Lieut. Henry Jocelyn, Proprietor, 1643-1666
Province Counselor -- Judge
Member of Mass. General Court
His Majesty's Commissioner - King's Justice
route Kings Highway Casco Vis Spurwink
to Blue Point and Portsmouth
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Marker #97 - Photo by Phil von Stadt - 6 Sep 2014
King Cemetery sign installed by the Eagle Scouts on 17 August 2019.
Site of
FIRST ENGLISH CHURCH
[And Church Yard]
on Cammock Patent
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Erected prior to 1658
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Destroyed in 1690
by Frontenac Forces
During French Occupation
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Marker #35
GARRISON COVE
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Site of the
Jocelyn [or Scottow] Fort
Headquarters for Defense
First Indian War
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Chief Mogg Heigon
Killed Here in an Attack
May 1677
Birthplace of
RUFUS KING
FRAMER OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES
Patriot-Statesman-Orator
Born March 24, 1755 - Died April 29, 1827
Marked May 17, 1990
Elizabeth Wadsworth Chapter
National Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
Portland, Maine
2 Plaque Mill Stone Recognizing the birthplace of
WILLIAM KING
and
RUFUS KING
Birthplace of
WILLIAM KING
First Governor of
The State of Maine
Born February 9, 1768 - Died June 17, 1852
This Stone Came From
The Old Grist Mill of
Col. Thomas Westbrook at Stroudwater
WESTERN COVE
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Near this spot stood the
BLOCKHOUSE FORT
Where in 1703
Captain John Larabee,
Charles Pine Two Libbys and Four Other Men
Withstood a Siege by
Five Hundred French and Indians
MASSACRE POND
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1713
Richard Hunniwell
[the Indian Fighter]
And Eighteen Others
Were Killed by Indians
In a Surprise Attack
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All were buried together under
a mound called the Great Grave
Location of Western Bastion of
SCOTTOWS STOCKADE FORT
Built 1681 -- Destroyed 1690
By the French and Indians
The stone is from the grist mill of
Col. Thomas Westbrook at Stroudwater 1727
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In Commemoration Thereof
This Tablet is erected by the
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maine
August 21, 1931
