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1840 Return Of Arms At Fort Fairfield, Maine – Hall Rifles & More… This is a stampless cover from Houlton, Me, to the Hon. Rufus MacIntire, Land Agent, Bangor, Me. dated July 29, 1840. This “Schedule of Arms & ammunition belonging to the State of Maine at Fort Fairfield,” lists all the arms at that fort during the Aroostook War (1839-1843) against Canada, along with accoutrements, and all equipment at that fort.
On another page it states, Weekly report of the employments of the Men in the Service of the State under direction of the Land Agent, At Fort Fairfield from the 20th to the 25th July, 1840″ A list of those present and their positions suggest that the fort, or simply put, the Blockhouse, was still in construction. Among the names listed are 2 men “Absent at Fish River with Capt. Towle.” Schedule and weekly report are signed by D.F. Leavitt, Commissary.
The Aroostook War was a military-civilian conflict between the U.S. and the England over the boundary of the Colony of Brunswick, and the State of Maine. This was has also been referred to as the “Bloodless War.” Fort Fairfield was constructed on the banks of the Aroostook River to prevent lumber from moving into New Brunswick. The Blockhouse here was constructed of some of the timber being taken into New Brunswick. See online about the history of this complicated little war, which is far too much to make sense of here.
A very rare document, for a rare and short lived fort, and a wonderful record of the arms and other materiel at that blockhouse.
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