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The Battle of Port La Tour happened on July 18, 1677, at Port La Tour, Acadia as part of the Northeast Coast Campaign (1677) during the First Abenaki War (the Maine/ Acadia theatre of King Phillips War) in which Mi’kmaq attacked New England fishermen, however, the New Englanders eventually overwhelmed them and many Mi’kmaq were enslaved.〔( Baxter, 6, p. 120 )〕〔(Baxter vol. 23, p. 1 )〕 ==Historical Context== Prior to King Philip's War, there is no record of New England and the Mi’kmaq being in conflict.〔(Plank, 31)〕 During First Abanaki War, Major Richard Waldron captured natives for the slave trade. The most significant seizure of natives happened in Dover on September 7, 1676. Later Waldron gave a mandate to the merchant Henry Lawton (Laughton), of Picataqua, Maine, to seize all the Indians "of the East" who had been raiding the New England villages along the border with Acadia.〔http://archive.org/stream/historicalmemora00scal#page/212/mode/2up p. 212〕 Lawton was assisted by William Waldron and John (Laverdure) Mellanson (A Huguenot whose brothers were Pierre and Charles Mellanson of Port Royal). November 9, 1676 (old style), they hired a vessel, the "Endeavor" commanded by Captain John Horton. They stopped at Machias and nine natives taken captive. They sailed to Cape Sable (Nova Scotia) and 17 Mi’kmaq members of Mi’kmaq families were taken captive, including the local chief and his wife. They were taken as slaves and sold to the Portuguese in the Azores.〔(Plank31)〕 A New England vessel in the Azores notified the authorities in Boston of this possible illegal activity and Endeavor was seized and taken to Boston. The John (Laverdure) Mellanson was let out of jail when his mother Prescilla Mellanson got him out on bail and then was never seen again. Henry Lawton and William Waldron were kept in jail but were eventually acquitted.〔 Footnote: This story is related in Priscilla Mellanson’s petition to the Governor of Massachusetts and his Council. Through the petition, she requested not to have to forfeit her son’s bail money. On 29 May 1677 she was refused and had to live on charity. Her son Laverdure changed his name to Mellanson and lived at Port Royal to avoid detection. ( #15 - HE JUMPED BAIL Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, April 11, 1989. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battle off Port La Tour (1677)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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