[1] In 1678, a treaty was made at Casco, whereby the English settlers were permitted to return to their farms on the condition of paying rent to the Penobscot.
This was one of the catalysts for King William's War, though the larger Anglo-French conflict came about as a result for of a contest between the two nations for influence in North America.
In 1693 the English gained Madockawando's consent to a treaty of peace, yet he was unable to persuade the chiefs who were under the influence of French Jesuit emissaries, and was compelled to recommence hostilities.
Meanwhile, Chief Madockawando had moved to Meductic, a Maliseet-Abenaki Indian mission village on the St. John River where he died in a smallpox epidemic in 1698.
), held in slavery by MADDOCKAWANDO for attempting to escape, were tortured by fire, compelled to eat their noses and ears and then burned to death at the stake.