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" For the promotion of piet} r it was ordered that a person be appointed to read prayers and the Holy Scriptures/' Vessels whose owners did not live at Pemaquid were required to pay yearly four quintals of fish in the case of a decked vessel, and if an open boat, two quintals of merchantable fish. No vessel could enter the Kennebec or any 80 THE STORY OF PEMAQUID. of its waters, which had not cleared from Pemaquid. In August, 1683, Andros was succeeded by Colonel Thomas Dongan as governor of Ne...w York and Sagadahock. John West and John Palmer were appointed royal commissioners of the Duke of York to aid in the administration of affairs in Sagada- hock province. These two men visited Pemaquid hi the summer of ] G86, and at once began a most cruel abuse of power. They forced the settlers to pay lent on their own lands, and exacted extortionate fees for drawing up these illegal leases. In fact, so unjust were these royal commissioners that the people made loud com- plaint to the Massachusetts colony ; but at the time nothing could be done by way of redress, save warn intending settlers or traders away from that portion of the coast.
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