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Subject: Re: Convers?...in Maine
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 13:19:45 -0700


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Subject: Re: Convers?...in Maine

Bob,

Thanks so much for the information about Capt. Converse....need to look into
this, something I don't have. Sounds interesting! I have a two volume set
of Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Mass. 1629 - 1818. Will have to
look it up...but then your info comes from Dist. of Maine?? One must have
migrated....as EDWARD CONYERS/CONVERS was supposedly the first one to
immigrate from England.

Something to do....thanks

Mary Ann

Mary Ann,

You know, there is a curious entry in Sullivan's History
of the District of Maine (1795) as follows:

p. 226- In reference to the depredations of the
"Savages"along the Saco, it is written;

"In 1693, Captain CONVERS, who had
the company of four or five hundred
men, under the pay of Massachusetts,
and raised for the defence of the eastern
country, erected a stone fort on Saco River,
not far from where the garrison of Phillips'
had been; the remains of it are to be seen
opposite to the Lower Fall on the river at this
day. (1795) That fort was well placed, and
strongly built. The Indians never attempted
to take it, and the settlers derived great
security from its existence."

p. 228 - Sullivan, here, takes us back several years
and speaks of the Indians of the Ossipee tribes, and
those of the Picwocket nation.

"There was a garrison called Scammon's Fort, in
the year 1690, the remains of which do not now appear...
In that year, the famous colonel CHURCH, and the
CAPTAIN CONVERS, exchanged a few shot with the
Indians, near that garrison, and killed several of them."

Actually, in handwritten records, perhaps the letter "v"
might transpose as "Y"along the way - then you would
have CONYERS...or visa-versa.

Take care...

Bob Jackson
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