Captain Lake bought Arrowsic, Maine, in 1660, and was killed aged 61 in a fight with native Americans at Kennebec on 14 August 1676.
On August 20, 1676, in the aftermath of King Philip's War, a massive Native American assault attacked and burned every settlement east of the Kennebec River, including the nearby settlement of Pemaquid.
The sole remaining shipyard is the Bath Iron Works, one of the few yards still building warships for the United States Navy.
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Arnold's plan called for the expedition to sail from Newburyport, Massachusetts along the coast and then up the Kennebec River to Fort Western (now Augusta, Maine).
In negotiations there and at Casco Bay, the Abenakis orally objected to British assertions that the French had ceded their territory (present-day eastern Maine and New Brunswick) to Britain, and agreed to a confirmation of boundaries at the Kennebec River and the establishment of government-run trading posts in their territory.