Legacy
The final major battle of the war—the Battle of Pequawket, or "Lovewell's Fight"—was so important in western Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, that colonists celebrated the victory in song and story. Its importance was not eclipsed until the American Revolution. More than one hundred years later Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poem, "The Battle of Lovells Pond"), Nathaniel Hawthorne (story, "Roger Malvin's Burial") and Henry David Thoreau (passage in the book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers) all wrote about Lovewell's Fight. The town of Lovell, Maine, is named after John Lovewell.
Paugus Bay, the town of Paugus Mill (now part of Albany, New Hampshire) and Mount Paugus in New Hampshire were named after Chief Paugus.
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