Fort Pentagouet

Its commanding position at the mouth of the Penobscot River estuary, a lucrative source of furs and timber, as well as a major transportation route into the interior, made the peninsula of particular interest to European powers in the 17th century.

Majabagaduce (as the Abenaki name would be corrupted) changed hands numerous times with shifting imperial politics.

There is evidence that La Tour immediately challenged the English action by re-establishing his trading post in the wake of Argall's raid.

[4] Major General Robert Sedgwick led 100 New England volunteers and 200 of Oliver Cromwell's soldiers on an expedition against Acadia in 1654.

During the Franco-Dutch War (1674), Pentagouët and other Acadian ports were captured by the Dutch captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz who arrived from New Amsterdam, renaming Acadia, New Holland.

[12] The baron became a widower and then married another Abenaki woman named Marie Pidiwammiskwa who bore him two additional children.

After 1677, Saint-Castin returned to his trading post within a village of 160 Etchemin Indians - two European buildings within a settlement of thirty-two wigwams.

In response, Saint-Castin led an Abenaki war party to raid the English settlement at Pemaquid (present-day Bristol, Maine) in August 1689.