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Berwick, Me. (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
aders attack Wells, Cape Porpoise, Saco, Scarborough, Casco, Spurwink, and Purpooduck; the last two entirely destroyed. Thus opened the third Indian war, known as Queen Anne's War......Aug. 10, 1703 Enemy destroy Black Point, attack York and Berwick; legislatures of Massachusetts and New Hampshire offer £ 20 for every Indian prisoner under ten years of age, and £ 40 for every one older, or for his scalp......September-October, 1703 Colonel Church leads an expedition against the enemy in s the next day, and Nicholson names the place Annapolis Royal......Oct. 2, 17 10 By treaty of Utrecht, all Nova Scotia, Annapolis Royal, and all other things in these parts belonging to France are ceded to Great Britain......March 30, 1713 Berwick incorporated out of the northern settlements of Kittery......June 9, 1713 Fort George erected on the west side of the Androscoggin, opposite the lower falls......1715 Parker's Island and Arrowsick made a town or municipal corporation by th
anded by Martin Pring, enter Penobscot Bay and the mouth of a river, probably the Saco......June 7, 1603 Henry IV. of France grants to Pierre de Gast Sieur de Monts all the territory between lat. 40° and 46° N., and appoints him governor of the M. d'aulney de Charnisy, from the Acadian country, takes possession of the trading-house at Biguyduce (Penobscot) for France......1635 Gorges, empowered by the Plymouth council, April 22, 1635, sends over his son William as governor of the ternal government in the province of Maine......June 23, 1665 By the treaty of Breda the English surrender Nova Scotia to France, which also claims the province east of the Penobscot......July 31, 1667 Four commissioners from Massachusetts hold a Oct. 2, 17 10 By treaty of Utrecht, all Nova Scotia, Annapolis Royal, and all other things in these parts belonging to France are ceded to Great Britain......March 30, 1713 Berwick incorporated out of the northern settlements of Kittery......Ju
Frankfort (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
f hostilities......Sept. 3, 1751 New Castle incorporated, the first of the towns in the territory of Sagadahoc......June 19, 1753 Fort Halifax, on the Kennebec River below the Teconnet Falls; Fort Western, at Augusta; and Fort Shirley, or Frankfort, in Dresden, all built during the year ......1754 In consequence of French and Indian depredations, war is declared on all the Indian tribes east of Piscataqua, and bounties offered for prisoners and scalps......June 11, 1755 Acadians or Fort Sullivan, in Eastport, under command of Maj. Perley Putnam, surrenders to a British force from Halifax......July 11, 1814 Fort at Castine destroyed by its garrison on the approach of a British fleet from Halifax......Sept. 1, 1814 Frankfort delaying surrender, the British threaten vengeance against the place and sail for Castine......Sept. 1-7, 1814 British force under Sherwood and Griffiths land at Buck's Harbor, about 3 miles below Machias, and march against the fort, which t
United States (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
Maine. The extreme eastern point of the United States is West Quoddy Head, which is also the eas Great Britain, Cornelius Van Ness for the United States, to determine the northeastern and northerction of fortifications, etc.......1817 United States war-ship Alabama, eightyfour guns, 2,633 tade between the British government and the United States to prevent immediate hostilities between taniel Webster, Secretary of State, for the United States, fixing the boundary of Maine on the north for territory given up, to be paid by the United States......Aug. 9, 1842 Edward Kavanagh, actin the place of Governor Fairfield, elected United States Senator......March 3, 1843 Act restricto succeed Hannibal Hamlin, who was elected United States Senator......Feb. 26, 1857 Nathan Cliffl Hamlin inaugurated Vice-President of the United States......March, 4, 1861 Extra three days sey destroyed by a mob......Aug. 12, 1861 United States Secretary of State Seward permits passage [3 more...]
Monts all the territory between lat. 40° and 46° N., and appoints him governor of the country, which is called Acadia......Nov. 8, 1603 De Monts, accompanied by M. de Poutrincourt, and Samuel Champlain, visits 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 if Harrington, Feb. 20, 1790; changed to Augusta......June 9, 1796 At Providence, the commission appointed to determine and settle, according to the Jay treaty, what river was the St. Croix, made a report that the mouth of the river is in Passamaquoddy Bay, in lat. 45° 5′ 5″ N., and long. 67° 12′ 30″ W. of London, and 3° 54′ 15″ E. of Harvard College, and that the boundary of Maine was up this river and the Cheputnatecook to a marked stake called the Monument ......Oct. 25, 1798
Mount Desert (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
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 acres in four years......1784 First issue of the Falmouth gazette and weekly Advertiser, the earliest newspaper established in Maine......Jan. 1, 1785 Mount Desert, confiscated from Governor Bernard, is reconfirmed in part to his son John and to French claimants......1785 Convention to consider the separation of the district from Massachusetts meets at Falmouth......Oct. 5, 1785 Convention appointed at the October meeting assembles at Falmouth and draws up a statement of particulars......Jan. 4, 1786 Massachusetts lands, 1,107,396 acres, between Penobscot and St. Croix rivers, disposed of by lottery; a large portion purchased by William B
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
he eastern and northern boundary; the Canadian province of Quebec lies to the northwest, and New Hampshire to the west below lat. 45° 20′. Area, 33,040 square miles in sixteen counties. Population, the decision of a commission which had been appointed and reported that the right of soil in New Hampshire and Maine probably belonged not to Massachusetts colony, but to the terre-tenants ......1676 side of the river down to Merry-meeting bay ......July 7, 1684 Treaty made by Maine and New Hampshire with four tribes of Indians......Sept. 8, 1685 Joseph Dudley, a native of Massachusetts, 703 Enemy destroy Black Point, attack York and Berwick; legislatures of Massachusetts and New Hampshire offer £ 20 for every Indian prisoner under ten years of age, and £ 40 for every one older, orunswick incorporated......June 24, 1737 King in council fixes the line between Maine and New Hampshire to pass through the entrance of Piscataqua Harbor and the middle of the river to the farther
buildings burned; loss between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000.....July 4, 1866 Legislature passes a stringent prohibitory liquor law, and appoints a State constable to enforce its provisions......1867 State agricultural college established at Orono......1868 Constabulary law of 1867 repealed......1868 James G. Blaine, speaker House of Representatives......1869 State temperance convention assembles at Portland and nominates Hon. N. C. Hitchborn for governor......June 29, 1869 Swedish colony founded in Aroostook county by fifty-one immigrants brought from Gothenburg by the board of commissioners of immigration, which arrive at New Sweden ......July 23, 1870 A bill to increase the stringency of the prohibitory liquor laws passes both Houses without opposition......1870 Liquor law amended so as to bring cider and wine made from fruits grown in the State within the prohibition......1872 State convention for the formation of a woman's suffrage association assembles
Hancock (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
Convention of thirty-one delegates meets at Portland and petitions the general court that the counties of York, Cumberland, and Lincoln be erected into a separate State, and suggests that the towns vote on the subject......Sept. 6, 1786 [Convention reassembling, Jan. 3, 1787, finds votes cast on separation 994, 645 being yeas; motion to present the petition to the legislature lost, but was presented the year following.] General Court sets off from Lincoln county the new counties of Hancock, from Penobscot Bay to the head of Gouldsborough River, and Washington, east of Hancock......June 25, 1789 Bangor incorporated......Feb. 25, 1791 Last meeting of the Salem Presbytery, marking the decline of the Presbyterian Church founded at Londonderry, N. H., in 1719, is held at Gray......Sept. 14, 1791 Charter granted by the General Court for Bowdoin College in Brunswick......June 24, 1794 Augusta (the ancient Cushnoc) incorporated under the name of Harrington, Feb. 20, 1790;
Somersworth (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
county......Feb. 27, 1811 Boxer, a British brig of eighteen guns and 104 men, Captain Blyth, engages the American brig Enterprise, sixteen guns and 102 men, Captain Burrows, off Port land. In thirty-five minutes the Boxer surrenders and is taken to Portland by her captor (both commanders killed)......Sept. 5, 1813 Extent of Pejepscot purchase is declared according to the resolve of the General Court, March 8, 1787, that Twenty-mile Falls, 20 miles above Brunswick, are the uppermost Great Falls in the Androscoggin River referred to in the deed to Wharton, dated July 7, 1684; matter settled......1814 Fort Sullivan, in Eastport, under command of Maj. Perley Putnam, surrenders to a British force from Halifax......July 11, 1814 Fort at Castine destroyed by its garrison on the approach of a British fleet from Halifax......Sept. 1, 1814 Frankfort delaying surrender, the British threaten vengeance against the place and sail for Castine......Sept. 1-7, 1814 British force und
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