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Brigadier General Jedidiah Preble (born 1707, York Maine, d. 1784) was Captain of Infantry in Samuel Waldo’s Regiment, whom he brought land from and settled in Falmouth, Maine (present-day Portland, Maine).〔https://archive.org/stream/acg3054.0003.001.umich.edu#page/280/mode/2up〕〔( George Henry Preble. Brigadier General Jedidiah Preble and his descendants. Boston. 1868 )〕 He served in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He also fought in the Battle of Grand Pre (1747). He accompanied John Winslow on his expedition up the Kennebec River and participated with him the following year in the Battle of Fort Beauséjour (1755) where he was wounded.〔Murdoch, p. 275〕〔(Akins. Collected Papers )〕 After the British took control of the Saint John River, they took control of the final river the Penobscot. Preble became commander at the newly built Fort Point (formally Fort Pownal) on the Penobscot River (1759).〔https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalsket00preb#page/n71/mode/2up〕 He was also active in the American Revolution. He was the father of Edward Preble, after whom Preble St. and Fort Preble are named. == References == Endnotes Text * ( George Henry Preble. Brigadier General Jedidiah Preble and his descendants. Boston. 1868 ) *(Letters of Preble ) * (Preble letter re: Mowatt ) * Bell, Winthrop Pickard. ''Brigadier General Jedidiah Preble (1707-1784) and his participation in Nova Scotia history''. Halifax, N.S. : Halcraft Printing, 1954., 39 p 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jedidiah Preble」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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