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Description
A chapel bell associated with Jesuit missionary Father Sebastien Rasles, killed in 1724 during a British, Massachusetts militia and Mowhawk raid on an Abenaki village at Norridgewock. The mascare at Norridgewock was a pivotal point during Dummer's War (1722-1725) also known as Father Rale's War, Lovewell's War, or the Fourth Anglo-Abenaki War.
Reportedly, the bell was hidden after the battle, and found under a decayed hemlock in 1808. It was given to Maine Historical Society by Joseph Weare around 1822, the year of MHS' founding.
Sebastien Rasles (1657-1724) also spelled Sebastian Rale or Rales, was a Jesuit priest living and working with Indigenous communities during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
About This Item
- Title: Chapel bell, Norridgewock, ca. 1700
- Creation Date: circa 1700
- Subject Date: circa 1700
- Location: Norridgewock, Somerset County, ME
- Media: Copper alloy, photoprint
- Local Code: A83-4
- Object Type: Physical Object
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Abenaki Indians--Maine--Norridgewock
- Bells--Maine--Norridgewock
- Churches--Maine--Norridgewock
- Eastern Indians, Wars with, 1722-1726
- Jesuit Missions--Maine--Norridgewock
- Jesuits--Missions--Maine--Norridgewock
- Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Rasle, Sebastien, 1657-1724
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