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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agamenticus, (search)
Agamenticus, The name given in 1636 to the region lying between the mountain and the sea, now comprising York county, Me. It was within the grant given to Gorges and Mason. There a city was formed, and incorporated in 1641, in imitation of English municipalities, with a mayor and aldermen. The city was called Gorgeana. The occupants of the land in Agamenticus were tenants at will of the proprietor. There English apple-seeds were planted and thrived, and one of the trees that sprang up and the sea, now comprising York county, Me. It was within the grant given to Gorges and Mason. There a city was formed, and incorporated in 1641, in imitation of English municipalities, with a mayor and aldermen. The city was called Gorgeana. The occupants of the land in Agamenticus were tenants at will of the proprietor. There English apple-seeds were planted and thrived, and one of the trees that sprang up lived and bore fruit annually so late as 1875, when it was cut down. See Maine.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine, (search)
en, who owned the province of Maine in France. In 1636 Gorges sent over his nephew, William Gorges, as governor of his domain, and he established his government at Saco, where, indeed, there had been an The old jail at York. organized government since 1623, when Robert Gorges was governor under the Plymouth Company. In 1639 Sir Ferdinando was appointed governor-general of New England, and his son Thomas was sent as lieutenant to administer the laws in 1640. He established himself at Agamenticus (now York), when, in 1642, the city called Gorgeana was incorporated. There the first representative government in Maine was established (1640). On the death of Sir Ferdinando (1647) the province of Maine descended to his heirs. and was placed under four jurisdictions. Massachusetts, fearing this sort of dismemberment of the colony might cause the fragments to fall into the hands of the French, made claim to the territory under its charter. Many of the people of Maine preferred to be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
river, 4 miles square towards the sea ......Aug. 22, 1639 Thomas Gorges appointed deputy-governor of the province of Maine......March 10, 1640 First general court under the charter opened at Saco......June 25, 1640 Gorges founds in Agamenticus a city of 21 square miles, which he calls Gorgeana......March 1, 1642 Alexander Rigby purchases the abandoned Plough patent, or Lybonia, and commissions George Cleaves deputy president, who opens a court at Saco styled The General Assembly n Casco Bay, and confirms it by assumption of jurisdiction......Oct. 23, 1652 Isle of Shoals, and all territory north of Piscataqua belonging to Massachusetts, erected into county of Yorkshire......1652 Kittery, incorporated in 1647, and Agamenticus made into the town of York......1652 General court of elections at Boston admits for the first time two representatives from Maine: John Wincoln, of Kittery, and Edward Rishworth, of York......May, 1653 Wells, Saco, and Cape Porpoise dec
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
nd a cleft stick placed upon her tongue for speaking ill of the elders......1646 Plymouth and Boston visited by Captain Cromwell, who from a common sailor had come to command three ships, and amassed wealth as a buccaneer, or fighter of the Spaniard ; he spends money freely in both places......1646 John Eliot preaches his first sermon to the Indians near Newtown Corners, afterwards called Nonantum, or place of rejoicing ......Oct. 28, 1646 Thomas Morton, of Merry Mount, dies at Agamenticus, Me......1646 Law passed requiring every township which contained fifty householders to have a school-house and employ a teacher; and each town containing 1,000 freeholders a grammar school......1647 Epidemic visits New England, which took them like a cold and a light fever with it ; it extended throughout the country among Indians, English, French, and Dutch; among those who died of it were Mr. Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, and Mrs. Winthrop, wife of the governor, and over fifty others
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), York, (search)
York, A town and port of entry in York county, Me.; on the York River and Cape Neddick harbors; 9 miles northeast of Portsmouth. It was settled about 1624 under the name of Agamenticus, on a portion of the territory granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason by the Plymouth council in 1622. On April 10, 1641, it was given a city charter and government by Sir Ferdinando under the name of Georgeana, and it was thus the first English city on the continent of America. In 1652 it was organized as a town under the name of York, from the city of that name in England. From 1716 to 1735 it was the shire town of Yorkshire county, which included the whole province of Maine; from 1735 to 1760 shire town with Falmouth (now Portland) of the whole province; and from 1760 to 1800 shire town of York county. In 1802 Alfred was made a shire town with York, and continued so till 1832, when all the courts were removed to Alfred. York is now principally known as a summer resort. Popula
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 13: closing years (search)
nothing during the long hours but sit and think over the fire. This loss of sleep and other unfavourable symptoms were by no means due to a sedentary life. His love of nature was deep and constant, and more like that of Emerson and Thoreau, than that of Longfellow and Lowell. He liked to be actually immersed in outdoor life, not merely to enjoy it as an episode. He loved to recall his first stay among the hills, when his parents took him where he could see the great wooded slope of Agamenticus. As he looked up and gazed with awe at the solemn sight, a cloud drooped, and hung suspended, as it were, from one point, and filled his soul with astonishment. He had never forgotten it. He said nothing at the time, but this cloud hanging from the breast of the hill, filled his boyish mind with a mighty wonder, which had never faded away. Fields's Whittier, p. 90. It was to ill health, I think, that his renunciation of all far-off travel was due. He once told me, however, that pe
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
63.Actg. Vol. Lieut. Apr. 29, 1865.Actg. Vol. Lt.-Comdr. Rock wood, Henry,Mass.Mass.Mass.Oct. 6, 1863.Actg. Asst. Surgeon.Itasca.West Gulf.Aug. 16, 1865.Appointment revoked.Actg. Asst. Surgeon. Rodocanachi Leon. D., See enlistment, as Leonidnas Rody, Nov. 2, 1861. Credit, Boston.Greece.Mass.Mass.Aug. 22, 1863.Actg. Master's Mate.Neptune; Tioga.West India; East Gulf.May 22, 1867.Hon. discharged.Mate. Roebuck, Charles P.,England.Mass.Mass.Oct. 5, 1863.Actg. 1st Asst. Engr.Huron; Agamenticus.North Atlantic.Nov. 27, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. 1st Asst. Engr. Rogers, Charles A.,Mass.Mass.Mass.July 19, 1864.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr.IsonomiaEast Gulf.July 7, 1865.Resigned.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr. Rogers, Edward,England.Mass.Mass.Nov. 15, 1861.Actg. Master's Mate.Adela; Mercedita; Saratoga.East Gulf; North Atlantic; South Atlantic.May 3, 1865.Discharged.Actg. Ensign. May 30, 1863.Actg. Ensign. Rogers, Henry A.,Mass.Mass.Mass.Mar. 14, 1864.Actg. Master's Mate.Wamsntta; N. Hampshire.S
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix B. (search)
iron, double-ender:12974 Wateree12974Wrecked, 1868. Ironclads Sea-going broadside vessels (casemate): Dunderberg105,090（Rochambeau); sold, 1867. New Ironsides183,486Burned, League Island. Sea-going turret vessels: Dictator23,033 Puritan43,265 Roanake63,435 Kalamazoo Class. 4 double-turret monitors:43,200 Kalamazoo (Colossus)43,200 Passaconaway (Mass.)43,200 Quinsigamond (Oregon）43,200 Shackamaxon (Nebraska）43,200 Monadnock Class. 4 double-turret monitors:4 XV-in.1,564 Agamenticus (Terror)4 XV-in.1,564 Miantonomoh4 XV-in.1,564 Monadnock4 XV in.1,564 Tonawanda (Amphitrite）4 XV-in.1,564 Onondaga Class. 1 double-turret monitor:41,250 Onondaga41,250Sold. Winnebago Class. 4 double-turret monitors:4970 Chickasaw4970Sold, 1874. Kickapoo (Kewaydin)4970Sold, 1874. Milwaukee4970Sunk (torpedo), March 28, 1865. Winnebago (Tornado)4970Sold. Canonicus Class. 9 single turret vessels:21,034 Canonicus21,034 Catawba21,034Sold, 1868. Mahopac21,034 Manayunk21,034
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
ir primal freshness show The buried forms of long ago. As if a portion of that Thought By which the Eternal will is wrought, Whose impulse fills anew with breath The frozen solitude of Death, To mortal mind were sometimes lent, To mortal musings sometimes sent, To whisper—even when it seems But Memory's fantasy of dreams— Through the mind's waste of woe and sin, Of an immortal origin! 1841. Funeral tree of the Sokokis. Polan, chief of the Sokokis Indians of the country between Agamenticus and Casco Bay, was killed at Windham on Sebago Lake in the spring of 1756. After the whites had retired, the surviving Indians swayed or bent down a young tree until its roots were upturned, placed the body of their chief beneath it, and then released the tree, which, in springing back to its old position, covered the grave. The Sokokis were early converts to the Catholic faith. Most of them, prior to the year 1756, had removed to the French settlements on the St. Francois. around Se
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The tent on the Beach (search)
him to return to England, where he enjoyed the esteem and favor of Oliver Cromwell during the Protectorate. Rivermouth Rocks are fair to see, By dawn or sunset shone across, When the ebb of the sea has left them free, To dry their fringes of gold-green moss: For there the river comes winding down, From salt sea-meadows and uplands brown, And waves on the outer rocks afoam Shout to its waters, ‘Welcome home!’ And fair are the sunny isles in view East of the grisly Head of the Boar, And Agamenticus lifts its blue Disk of a cloud the woodlands o'er; And southerly, when the tide is down, 'Twixt white sea-waves and sand-hills brown, The beach-birds dance and the gray gulls wheel Over a floor of burnished steel. Once, in the old Colonial days, Two hundred years ago and more, A boat sailed down through the winding ways Of Hampton River to that low shore, Full of a goodly company Sailing out on the summer sea, Veering to catch the land-breeze light, With the Boar to left and the Rocks to
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