[1] The name by which the Province of Maine was designated by the early voyagers, and the Indian word probably from which the present name of the State of Maine was derived.
[2] The Indian appellation of the river Saco, which is doubtless an abbreviation of the Indian name here introduced.
[3] The name of a once populous Indian village, which occupied the present bountiful site of the village of Fryeburg, Me., near Lovewell’s Pond, where the sanguinary conflict here alluded to occurred in 1725.
[4] A historical fact, once related to the author by an old soldier who was one of the party here described.
[5] See Christie’s History of Lower Canada.