| Show MARIE ANTOIN ETTES REFUGE edgecomb Edee comb me was to have been the home of the exiled 1 there is a building in edgecomb an old square white house concerning which an interesting story is told says the lewiston journal this tradition is that at the time of the french revolution capt samuel clough the owner of the house who sailed a ship between maine and france was engaged to bring to this country no less valuable treasure than the unfortunate queen marle antoinette and that quantities of rich stuffs furniture and silver were put aboard his ship for the use of the exile whose destination was to have been this same house which then stood in westport it having been removed to the main land on a raft sixty year sago it is yet occupied by capt boughs descendants ants one circumstance which lends confirmation fir mation to this story is that a similar legend attaches to a house in dorchester mass the famous swan mansion then owned by col swan who spent much of his time in paris butcho settled permanently in this country after the french revolution his house being adorned in princely fashion now capt clough and col swan had money dealings together in paris capt clough h in 1794 having had a contract to purchase fifty thousand dollars worth of lumber for the colonel what more likely than that col swan who was a warm friend of lafayette should have engaged the maine captain to aid him in a plan of such great I 1 importance as the attempted rescue of the french queen with which be is credited |
