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  • People is exactly "Mali Agat (Marie Agathe or Molly Ockett), ca. 1740-1816"

BHS Hall Memorial Lecture: "Molly Ockett and Other Wabenaki Women Healers"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Memorial Lecture, "Molly Ockett and Other Wabenaki Women Healers," delivered by Bunny McBride on August 12, 2005.

BHS Program: "Molly Ockett"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Molly Ockett," presented by Helen Leadbeater on May 4, 1978.

Bethel's early days : Molly Ockett

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The Last of the Pequakets: Mollockett

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The Last of the Pequakets: Mollockett Written for the Maine Historical Society by N. T. True, M.D.,and published in theOxford Democrat, Jan. 2, 1863 The Pequakets were a powerful tribe on the Saco River. The Lovewell Fight at Fryeburg, in 1725,…

Well-known Indians of the Bethel Area

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Well-Known Indians of the Bethel Area by Catherine Newell Note on Indian Names: The names which have come down to us identifying certain Indians are usually corruptions of the French Christian names received at baptism in Canada. There are, for…

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 2, No. 2

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Features: 115 Years Ago: Masons Observe Golden Wedding Aniversary -- 1 The Last of the Pequakets: Mollocket by Nathaniel T. True-- 2 Book Review:Waterford, Maine, 1875-1976. [Reviewed by Randall H. Bennett.] -- 4 Society news In Memoriam…

Molly Ockett gravestone

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Baptized by the French as "Marie Agathe"—a name that became "Mali Agit" when pronounced with difficulty by the Abenaki—Molly Ockett (the English version) is a legendary figure in Bethel's past. Though she died at Andover, Maine, in 1816, it was not…

Molly Ockett gravestone

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In 1867, the women of the Congregational Church at Andover, Maine, raised money to erect a gravestone over Molly Ockett's last resting place in that town's Woodlawn Cemetery. Inscribed to the memory of the "last of the Pequakets," the marble tablet…

Molly Ockett with cap

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Molly Ockett was described by her contemporaries as an impressive woman, a woman possessed of "a large frame and features" and an erect carriage, even in old age. When allusion was made to this latter trait, Molly Ockett would remark, "We read,…