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Searching for justice on the Maine frontier: legal concepts, treaties, and the 1749 Wiscasset Incident.
American Indian Quarterly, The, June, 2001 by Ghere, David L.; Morrison, Alvin H.
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Two women came to the house of Samuel Denny, justice of the peace, in early December 1749 (1) to report an unprovoked murder near Wiscasset, Maine. Their families had been attacked in the middle of the night; one woman's husband had been killed and the other woman's husband had been wounded along with a third man.
Justice Denny contacted the local sheriff, issued arrest warrants, and requested government aid for the fourteen members of these families, left destitute as a result of the crimes. Within two days the sheriff had arrested five of six suspects and had discovered the body of ...
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