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Camden, Me. (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
h 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 the garrison desert and blow up......Sept. 12, 1814 British Maj.-Gen. Gerard Gosselin appointed to govern the province between Brunswick and Penobscot......1814 British sloop from Halifax, with a cargo invoiced at $40,000, on her passage to Castine is captured and carried into Camden......November, 1814 General court appoints a day of thanksgiving on news of peace and of the treaty of Ghent, Dec. 24, 1814......Feb. 22, 1815 British troops evacuate Castine......April 25, 1815 Between 10,000 and 15,000 inhabitants emigrate to Ohio......1815-16 County of Penobscot incorported (the ninth and last prior to the separation)......Sept. 15 1815 Meetings held in all towns and plantations of the district of Maine, and a vote taken on the question of separation from M
Harrington (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
tion, 1890, 661,086; 1900, 694,466. Capital, Augusta, since 1832. First Englishman known to haver below the Teconnet Falls; Fort Western, at Augusta; and Fort Shirley, or Frankfort, in Dresden, 1765 Town of Hallowell, embracing Cushnoc (Augusta) and Winslow, including Waterville, incorporain College in Brunswick......June 24, 1794 Augusta (the ancient Cushnoc) incorporated under the name of Harrington, Feb. 20, 1790; changed to Augusta......June 9, 1796 At Providence, the commi 10, 1831 Capital removed from Portland to Augusta; legislature meets......Jan. 4, 1832 Bango....Jan. 20, 1849 State insane hospital at Augusta burned. Twenty-seven inmates and one assista James G. Blaine moves from Philadelphia to Augusta, and becomes editor of the Kennebec Journal..f a woman's suffrage association assembles at Augusta......February, 1873 Act passed providing ft......1873 Woman's suffrage convention at Augusta resolves: That we pledge ourselves never to c
Moab (Michigan, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ich Prince Charles assigned the name of New England......April, 1614 War, famine, and pestilence depopulate the Indian territories in Maine during the years......1615-18 Plymouth Company receives a new patent to lands between 40° and 48°, and in length by the same breadth throughout the mainland from sea to sea ......Nov. 3, 1620 Gorges and Capt. John Mason procure of the Plymouth council a patent of all the country between the Merrimac and Sagadahoc, from the Atlantic to the rivers Canada and Iroquois, which they called The province of Laconia ......Aug. 10, 1622 Permanent settlement made at Monhegan......1622 Permanent settlement at Saco......1623 Gorges procures a patent from Plymouth council to 24,000 acres on each side of the Agamenticus (York) River, and plants a colony......1624 New Plymouth colony erects a tradinghouse at Penobscot; the first English establishment of the kind in these waters......1626 Abraham Shurte commissioned by Giles Elbridge and Rob
Woolwich (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ine to Georgia......September, 1755 Skirmishes with the Indians at Brunswick, New Gloucester, Windham, where the Indian chief Poland is killed, and at Georgetown and Fort Halifax......1756 Possession is taken of the Penobscot country, and Fort Pownal built and garrisoned with 100 men under Jedediah Preble......July 28, 1759 Nauseag, a precinct of Georgetown, the birthplace of Sir William Phipps, first royal governor of the Massachusetts provinces, erected into a town by the name of Woolwich......Oct. 20, 1759 Pownalborough, embracing the present towns of Dresden, Wiscasset, Alna, and Swan Island, is incorporated......Feb. 13, 1760 Peace made with the remnant of the Indian tribes in the vicinity of Fort Pownal......April 29, 1760 General court establishes the counties of Cumberland (that part of Maine between the Saco and Androscoggin) and Lincoln (that part east of the Androscoggin)......June 19, 1760 Mount Desert Island granted to Governor Barnard......1762 T
Stage Island (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
tercourse 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 George Popham and Raleigh Gilbert, which land at Stage Island......Aug. 11, 1607 Finding Stage Island too small, they establish a colony and Popham's Fort on the west bank of the Sagadahoc River......1607 Discouraged by the death of George Popham, and the burning of their storehouse, they return to England in the spring of......1608 Two French Jesuits, Biard and Masse, with several families, settle on Mount Desert Island......1609 Twenty-five French colonists land on Mount Desert Island and found a settlement called St. Saviour......Marc
West Quoddy Head (Maine, 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 eastern extremity of the State of Maine. Maine is the largest of the Eastern States, and, including islands, it has a south shore-line of 2,400 miles on the Atlantic. It is limited in latitude by 43° 4′ and 47° 31′ N., and in longitude by 66° and 71° W. Its extreme breadth is 210 miles, narrowing in the north to about half that distance. New Brunswick and the St. Croix River form the 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, 1890, 661,086; 1900, 694,466. Capital, Augusta, since 1832. First Englishman known to have conducted an expedition to the shores of Maine, then Norumbega, was John Walker, in the service of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who reached the Penobscot River......1580 Speedwell and Discoverer, from Bristol, England, comm
Sagadahoc (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
nd council of Massachusetts to restore his province in Maine......Jan. 11, 1664 A part of the grant of the King of England to the Duke of York includes the territory between the St. Croix and Pemaquid and northward, variously called the Sagadahoc Territory, New Castle, and the County of Cornwall ......March 12, 1664 King's commissioners establish a form of provisional government in the province of Maine......June 23, 1665 By the treaty of Breda the English surrender Nova Scotia to Franrishman, obtains royal sanction to settle and govern the province of Sagadahoc......1729 Owing to the arbitrary acts of Dunbar he is removed from his office, April 4, 1733, by royal instruction, and Massachusetts resumes jurisdiction of Sagadahoc territory......Aug. 25, 1733 Brunswick 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 farthermost head of Salm
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
1814 British Maj.-Gen. Gerard Gosselin appointed to govern the province between Brunswick and Penobscot......1814 British sloop from Halifax, with a cargo invoiced at $40,000, on her passage to Castine is captured and carried into Camden......November, 1814 General court appoints a day of thanksgiving on news of peace and of the treaty of Ghent, Dec. 24, 1814......Feb. 22, 1815 British troops evacuate Castine......April 25, 1815 Between 10,000 and 15,000 inhabitants emigrate to Ohio......1815-16 County of Penobscot incorported (the ninth and last prior to the separation)......Sept. 15 1815 Meetings held in all towns and plantations of the district of Maine, and a vote taken on the question of separation from Massachusetts result in 10,393 yeas and 6,501 nays......May 20, 1816 First separation law takes effect, directing voters to meet in their towns on the first Monday of September to vote on the question, and send delegates to Brunswick the last Monday of Sep
Pejepscot (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ch was incorporated and named The province and county of Maine ......April 3, 1639 Thomas Purchase, first settler at Pejepscot, on the Androscoggin, assigns to Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts, all the tract of Pejepscot, on both sides of the Pejepscot, on both sides of the 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 Agamen.June 18, 1684 Charter being vacated, various purchases were made from the Indians; the most important, known as the Pejepscot purchase, was made by Richard Wharton, and covered lands lying between Cape Small-point and Maquoit, thence northward oes 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 abo
Bath, Me. (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
mericans to burn their vessels and disperse......Aug. 13, 1779 Six hundred troops raised to protect the Eastern Department, between Piscataqua and St. Croix, 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 Stas......June 4, 1892 James G. Blaine dies at Washington, D. C:, aged sixty-three years......Jan. 27, 1893 Neal Dow, the father of prohibition, dies at Portland......Oct. 2, 1897 Steamer Portland lost in a gale, 118 lives lost......Nov. 29, 1898 Nelson Dingley dies at Washington, D. C......Jan. 13, 1899 Twenty persons drowned by an accident at Bar Harbor......Aug. 6, 1899 Arthur Sewall, Democratic candidate for Vice-President in 1896, dies at Bath......Sept. 5, 1900 Maryland
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