{"id":1217,"date":"2016-11-03T10:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:54:21","slug":"muscongus-bay-the-fishing-place-conkling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/2016\/11\/03\/muscongus-bay-the-fishing-place-conkling\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscongus Bay: &#8220;The Fishing Place&#8221; (Conkling)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this excerpt from his book\u00a0<em>Islands in Time<\/em>, Phillip Conkling examines the history and significance of Muscongus Bay. \u00a0Muscongus (the abenaki word for &#8220;fishing place&#8221;) likely originated from the native&#8217;s smelt fishing, and the name holds true today as the whole bay is covered with lobster pots. \u00a0Conkling delves deeper into the history of settlement around Muscongous Bay, specifically relating to the settlers conflict with the Native Americans. \u00a0George Waymouth stayed on Allen Island for 2 months in the spring of 1605. \u00a0He and other European settlers, including John Smith, were responsible for the kidnapping and enslavery of Native Americans. \u00a0As a result of the Native Americans code of law that made a whole tribe responsible for the acts of one of its members, the\u00a0Native&#8217;s had no trust for the settlers. \u00a0After almost 70 years of growing hostility, the first Indian War broke out in 1675. \u00a0The conflict\u00a0continued into the 1700s, with the fourth Indian War lasting from 1722-25. \u00a0Although the last of the Indian Wars did not end until 1760, Maine&#8217;s Indian tribes were nearly exterminated\u00a0by 1725. \u00a0This allowed for increased settlement of islands across mid-coast Maine. \u00a0This caused island settlement was slow to develop during the Indian Wars because colonists feared to venture far from the Pemaquid Fort on the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this excerpt from his book\u00a0Islands in Time, Phillip Conkling examines the history and significance of Muscongus Bay. \u00a0Muscongus (the abenaki word for &#8220;fishing place&#8221;) likely originated from the native&#8217;s smelt fishing, and the name holds true today as the whole bay is covered with lobster pots. \u00a0Conkling delves deeper into the history of settlement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120880],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}