Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Kittery” in chapter 26, page 446 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.:
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The swords which we whet and brightened for our enemies are not yet grown rusty, wrote the town of Gorham. We offer our lives as a sacrifice in the glorious cause of Liberty; was the response of Kittery .
We will not sit down easy, voted Shirley, until
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