Maugerville, New Brunswick

Maugerville ( /ˈmeɪdʒərvɪl/) is a community in Sunbury County in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. In 1759, members of the Perley Colony, land-seekers from present-day Maine, settled in the area. A generation later many of them were displaced farther upriver to Carleton County by newly-arrived United Empire Loyalists.

Maugerville Rebellion

During the American Revolution, in 1776 George Washington sent a letter to the Maliseet of the Saint John River asking for their support in their contest with Britain. Led by Chief Ambroise Saint Aubin, the Maliseet immediately began to plunder the loyalists in the community, burning some of their homes and taking others prisoner back to New England.^[1] (Shortly after, the rebellion continued at the near-by Battle of Fort Cumberland.) In 1779, Maugerville was raided again by Maliseet working with John Allan in Machias, Maine. A vessel was captured and two or three residents homes were plundered. In response a blockhouse was built at the mouth of Oromocto River named Fort Hughes (named after the Lt Governor of NS Sir Richard Hughes). ^[2]

Endnotes

1. ^ James Hannay. The History of New Brunswick. p. 110; Ernest Clarke. The Siege of Fort Cumberland, 1776: An Episode in the American Revolution. McGill-Queen's University Press. 1995. p.41-43, p.82; The best descriptions of the Maugerville rebellion were made by Charles Godfrey Newland Jadis (See Claim of Charles 24 October 1776, NA AO 13. See also Jadis to Treasury, 30 March 1787, PRO T1/ 644)
2. ^ Hannay, p. 121-122

Coordinates: 45°52′14″N 66°26′48″W / 45.87055556°N 66.44666667°W / 45.87055556; -66.44666667