Kittery Point, Maine
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Kittery Point is a census-designated place in the town of Kittery, York County, Maine, United States. First settled in 1623, Kittery Point traces its history to the first seafarers who colonized the s
Fort McClary
Freshwater marsh
Hotel Parkfield c. 1912
First Congregational Church, built in 1730, as it appeared c. 1912
William Pepperrell
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Major-General Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet was an American merchant, politician and military officer. He is widely remembered for organizing, financing, and leading the 1745 expedition that cap
Kittery Point, Maine
…arrived from Devonshire as a lowly fisherman's apprentice at the Isles of Shoals in New Hampshire. He went on to build a mercantile empire, which his son Sir William Pepperrell inherited and expanded. Sir William became the first baronet in New England for commanding a militia which defeated the French in 1745 at the Siege of…
Portrait by John Smibert, 1746
c. 1905 postcard of the William Pepperrell House, Kittery, Maine
Pepperall at the Siege of Louisberg
Letter from George Washington praising funeral oration for Pepperrell, 1789