The Hunt for ANDERSON’S Garrison

aka the  JACOB ANDERSON Dig Site, Flying Point, Freeport (formerly) North Yarmouth, Maine, USA

Introduction

The Maine Ulster Scots Project’s Archaeological Unit has taken on the challenge of finding and studying the site of the May 10, 1756 event that has come to be known as the “Means Massacre”.  In conjunction with that work, we are also studying the larger Ulster-Scots settlement at Flying Point in the mid-1700s to better understand the social, religious, and commercial activities that the Ulster-Scots established to support their nescient community.

The monthly reports follow our work in 2024 studying the “lost” home-site of the Jacob Anderson family who were perhaps the earliest Ulster family to settle at Flying Point and who were key players in the commercial development of the area. In particular, we are now studying whether a recently discovered stone foundation was in fact the reported “garrison” or “block-house” built by Jacob Anderson for defensive purposes during the Indian wars of the 1740s and 50s.

You may follow our work through the monthly reports by clicking on the page links below.

We hope you find this work as fascinating and as important as we who are fortunate enough to be doing the work on-sight and in the historic archives.

John Mann, Chairman Emeritus, Maine Ulster Scots Project gave a lecture to a standing room only audience for the first public report on MUSP's archaeological work entitled: "Uncovering the lost Ulster-Scots settlement at Flying Point."  John discussed who the Ulster-Scots were, why they came to Maine, and reviewed the various archeological work and finds that give us insights into this fascinating history.