Sartigan

Sartigan stood near the meeting of the Famine and Chaudière rivers, south of the St. Lawrence. Its name derives from an Abenaki name for the Chaudière, the river that links this valley to routes through the Appalachian interior. Abenaki families lived beside the Famine, near a small number of French Canadian buildings. In 1775 Benedict Arnold led an American expedition through the forests from Maine toward Quebec. His men endured hunger and difficult river crossings before reaching Sartigan, where provisions obtained from the village helped the exhausted force continue down the Chaudière. The river valley thus became part of the route of an invasion during the American Revolution.