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Canadian military officer (c. 1649–1691)
Edward Tyng (ca. 1649 - ca. 1691) was a leading military officer in
Maine and was appointed Governor of
Acadia during
King William's War . He was the commander of
Fort Loyal , 1681–82 and 1686–87.
[1]
In the
Raid on Salmon Falls , the attackers' original intent was to target the home of Edward Tyng, father of
Edward Tyng , at
Fort Loyal but they changed plans and attacked Salmon Falls instead.
[2]
Tyng was also commander at
Fort William Henry , and later became Governor of
Acadia in 1690, only to be taken prisoner, together with John Alden III, by
Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure in the
Naval battle off St. John (1691) . Alden's father,
John Alden, Jr. , was sent to Boston to arrange an exchange of prisoners, but negotiations stalled and Tyng was sent to Quebec, where he met briefly with another prisoner,
Hannah Swarton ,
[3] and was later transferred to France. He died in prison there, at
La Rochelle , some time after 1691.
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References
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C. Bruce Fergusson, “TYNG, EDWARD (fl. 1680-91),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 9, 2022
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"Jewett Texts" .
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Carroll, Lorrayne. "'My Outward Man': The Curious Case of Hannah Swarton." Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, edited by Michael L. LaBlanc, vol. 82, Gale, 2002. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 6 July 2022. Originally published in Early American Literature, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter 1996, pp. 45-73.
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