Kennebunkport was attacked by enemy vessels
near the very end of the Revolutionary War. The story of the Arundel
Militia adroitly overcoming the British in the 1782 Battle of Cape
Porpoise has often been told with pride. But Kennebunkport was deeply
embroiled in the war from the very beginning.
Another Cape Porpoise
incident that occurred just a few weeks after the first military
engagement of the war has received far less attention from local
historians.
The Arundel-owned coasting sloop
Polly sailed from Ephraim Perkins' wharf at what is today Dock Square on
May 13, 1775. Her cargo was delivered to Plymouth, Mass. where she was
loaded up again for the return trip. She set sail for Arundel on May 15,
but a cutter of His Majesty's Naval Forces would alter her course that
day.
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