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the Kennebec, and, ranging along the coasts, intimidates the Indians; leaving sixty soldiers at Fort Loyal, he returns with the rest to Massachusetts......1689 Newichawannock (now Salmon Falls), attacked by French and Indians under Sieur Artel, and fifty-four settlers captured and the settlement burned......March 18, 1690 Five hundred French and Indians under Castin attack Fort Loyal at Falmouth; the people abandon the village and retire to the garrison, May 16, which capitulates on the 20th, when the French, after burning the town, retire to Quebec with 100 prisoners......May, 1690 Sir William Phipps leaves Boston with five vessels for Nova Scotia. He captures Port Royal, and takes possession of the whole country and coast to Penobscot......May, 1690 Three hundred men under Major Church are again sent from Massachusetts, Sept. 2, to reduce Indians in the province. He attacks them at Pejepscot Fort on the Androscoggin, freeing some English captives; has an engagement wi
January 7th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
Democrat and National) majority. The sub-committee of the council make their report......Dec. 26, 1879 Legislature convenes, and seventy-eight Fusion members and two Republicans qualify. The Senate elects James D. Lamson (Fusion) president......Jan. 7, 1880 Commanders of all military organizations in the State are required to report to Major-General Chamberlain......Jan. 12, 1880 Republicans organize a legislature......Jan. 12, 1880 Governor Garcelon's office being vacant after Jan. 7, President of the Senate Lamson asks if Major-General Chamberlain will recognize him as governor. Chamberlain refers the question to the Supreme Court......Jan. 12, 1880 Supreme Court recognizes the Republican legislature. The Fusionists become demoralized, and Daniel Davis assumes the office of governor......Jan. 16, 1880 Gen. Harris M. Plaisted, Greenback, elected governor......Sept. 13, 1880 Act passed making women eligible to the office of supervisor of schools and superintend
February 18th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
land, to negotiate the purchase of the province of Maine, who concluded a bargain, took an assignment, and gave Georges £ 1,250; original indenture bears date......May 6, 1676 Indian hostilities continue throughout 1677; affair at Mare Point, Feb. 18; Pemaquid, Feb. 26. Indians attack Wells several times; again attack Black Point, May 16-18, and ambush a party of ninety men near that point, killing sixty......June 29, 1677 Sir Edmund Andros, fearing French aggression in the Duke's Sagada, and command given to Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, with headquarters at Thomaston......1780 Bath incorporated, the first town established by the new government......Feb. 17, 1781 General Wadsworth captured at Thomaston and imprisoned at Castine, Feb. 18; escapes......June 18, 1781 Land office is opened at the seat of government, and State lands in the district of Maine are sold to soldiers and emigrants at $1 per acre on the navigable waters; elsewhere given, provided settlers clear sixteen
February 26th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ock; forty persons slain or captured......Sept. 25, 1676 One hundred and twenty Indians capture the fort and part of its garrison at Black Point......Aug. 14, 1676 Massachusetts employs John Usher, a Boston trader then in England, to negotiate the purchase of the province of Maine, who concluded a bargain, took an assignment, and gave Georges £ 1,250; original indenture bears date......May 6, 1676 Indian hostilities continue throughout 1677; affair at Mare Point, Feb. 18; Pemaquid, Feb. 26. Indians attack Wells several times; again attack Black Point, May 16-18, and ambush a party of ninety men near that point, killing sixty......June 29, 1677 Sir Edmund Andros, fearing French aggression in the Duke's Sagadahoc province, sends a force from New York to Pemaquid to establish a fort and custom-house......June, 1677 Peace made with the Indians upon the Androscoggin and Kennebec, at Casco, by a commission from the government of Massachusetts......April 12, 1678 Thomas Da
May (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ns home leaving 100 men as garrison at Wells......September, 1690 Five months truce signed at Sagadahoc by commissioners from Massachusetts and the Indians, who agree to surrender all prisoners and to make a lasting peace at Wells the following May......Nov. 29, 1690 Indians failing to meet President Danforth as agreed at Wells on May 1, he returns to York and sends a reinforcement to Wells. Shortly after their arrival they are attacked by 200 Indians, whom they repulse......June 9, 1691the patent law was enacted......Jan. 20, 1849 State insane hospital at Augusta burned. Twenty-seven inmates and one assistant perish in the flames......Dec. 4, 1850 Maine law, an act to prohibit drinking-houses and tippling-shops, passed in May, approved by the governor June 2, and enforced first at Bangor......July 4, 1851 Act abolishing the State board of education, the governor to appoint a school commissioner for each county......1852 Search and seizure act for the confiscation
May 1st (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
province. He attacks them at Pejepscot Fort on the Androscoggin, freeing some English captives; has an engagement with them at Purpooduck Sept. 21, and returns home leaving 100 men as garrison at Wells......September, 1690 Five months truce signed at Sagadahoc by commissioners from Massachusetts and the Indians, who agree to surrender all prisoners and to make a lasting peace at Wells the following May......Nov. 29, 1690 Indians failing to meet President Danforth as agreed at Wells on May 1, he returns to York and sends a reinforcement to Wells. Shortly after their arrival they are attacked by 200 Indians, whom they repulse......June 9, 1691 Charter of William and Mary, or the Provincial charter, passes the seals and receives royal sanction, and the province of Maine is united with the royal province of Massachusetts Bay......Oct. 7, 1691 Two hundred Indians, led by Canadian French, assault York on the Agamenticus River. The inhabitants find shelter in the garrisoned ho
May 16th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
assignment, and gave Georges £ 1,250; original indenture bears date......May 6, 1676 Indian hostilities continue throughout 1677; affair at Mare Point, Feb. 18; Pemaquid, Feb. 26. Indians attack Wells several times; again attack Black Point, May 16-18, and ambush a party of ninety men near that point, killing sixty......June 29, 1677 Sir Edmund Andros, fearing French aggression in the Duke's Sagadahoc province, sends a force from New York to Pemaquid to establish a fort and custom-house.nd Indians under Sieur Artel, and fifty-four settlers captured and the settlement burned......March 18, 1690 Five hundred French and Indians under Castin attack Fort Loyal at Falmouth; the people abandon the village and retire to the garrison, May 16, which capitulates on the 20th, when the French, after burning the town, retire to Quebec with 100 prisoners......May, 1690 Sir William Phipps leaves Boston with five vessels for Nova Scotia. He captures Port Royal, and takes possession of
May 18th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
twenty Indians capture the fort and part of its garrison at Black Point......Aug. 14, 1676 Massachusetts employs John Usher, a Boston trader then in England, to negotiate the purchase of the province of Maine, who concluded a bargain, took an assignment, and gave Georges £ 1,250; original indenture bears date......May 6, 1676 Indian hostilities continue throughout 1677; affair at Mare Point, Feb. 18; Pemaquid, Feb. 26. Indians attack Wells several times; again attack Black Point, May 16-18, and ambush a party of ninety men near that point, killing sixty......June 29, 1677 Sir Edmund Andros, fearing French aggression in the Duke's Sagadahoc province, sends a force from New York to Pemaquid to establish a fort and custom-house......June, 1677 Peace made with the Indians upon the Androscoggin and Kennebec, at Casco, by a commission from the government of Massachusetts......April 12, 1678 Thomas Danforth chosen president of Maine by the governor and board of colony assistan
May 19th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
s his patent, and discovers Passamaquoddy Bay and the Schoodic or St. Croix River......May, 1604 Later in the season De Monts erects a fort on St. Croix Island, and spends the winter there......1604 De Monts enters Penobscot Bay, erects a cross at Kennebec, and takes possession in the name of the King. He also visits Casco Bay, Saco River, and Cape Cod......May, 1605 George Weymouth, sent out by the Earl of Southampton, anchors at Monhegan Island, May 17, 1605; St. George's Island, May 19, and Penobscot Bay, June 12. After pleasant intercourse with natives, he seizes and carries away five of them......1605 Colonies of Virginia and Plymouth incorporated with a grant of land between 34° and 45°, including all islands within 100 miles of the coast, the permission given the Plymouth colony to begin a plantation anywhere above lat. 38°......April 10, 1606 Lord John Popham, chief-justice of England, and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, fit out two ships and 100 emigrants, under Geor
June 2nd (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
Nathan Clifford appointed Attorney-General......Dec. 23, 1846 Law enacted establishing a State board of education......1846 Death at Hallowell, of Nathan Read, inventor, the first man to apply for a patent before the patent law was enacted......Jan. 20, 1849 State insane hospital at Augusta burned. Twenty-seven inmates and one assistant perish in the flames......Dec. 4, 1850 Maine law, an act to prohibit drinking-houses and tippling-shops, passed in May, approved by the governor June 2, and enforced first at Bangor......July 4, 1851 Act abolishing the State board of education, the governor to appoint a school commissioner for each county......1852 Search and seizure act for the confiscation of liquors, passed......1853 James G. Blaine moves from Philadelphia to Augusta, and becomes editor of the Kennebec Journal......1853 Maine purchases for $362,500 the share of Massachusetts in wild lands in the State......1853 Act passed by legislature appointing a superi
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