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Waterville, Me. (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
762 Town of Bristol, embracing the ancient Pemaquid, incorporated......June 18, 1765 Town of Hallowell, embracing Cushnoc (Augusta) and Winslow, including Waterville, incorporated......April 26, 1771 Pepperellborough, afterwards Saco, incorporated......June 9, 1772 Belfast incorporated; first town on the Penobscot..... was Mr. Rose, who acted as governor one day, until Governor Parris was inducted......1820-21 Waterville College (afterwards Colby University) established at Waterville 1820 Maine Historical Society incorporated......Feb. 5, 1822 Last meeting of commissioners to determine the northern and northeastern boundary of Maine hc. 15, 1887 Act passed forbidding manufacturing trusts and heating railroad cars by common stoves......1889 State convention of Union Labor party meets at Waterville, and nominates Isaac R. Clark, of Bangor, for governor......May 20, 1890 Legislature enacts an Australian ballot law......March 24, 1891 First Monday in S
Pittston (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ich he burns......Oct. 18, 1775 Warren incorporated; first town on St. George River......Nov. 7, 1776 Fryeburg, scene of Lovewell's fight in 1725, incorporated......Jan. 11, 1777 Counties of York, Cumberland, and Lincoln, by vote of Congress, erected into the District of Maine ......1778 British General McLane and 900 troops take possession of the Peninsula of Major Biguyduce (now Castine), begin a fort, and station three sloops-of-war under Captain Mowatt......Jan. 12, 1779 Pittston, the fortieth and last town established by the general court under the royal charter, incorporated......Feb. 4, 1779 Expedition of nineteen armed vessels and twenty-four transports, under Gurdon Saltonstall, a Connecticut sea-captain, and 1,500 men from Massachusetts under General Lovell, arrive at Penobscot, July 25, for the purpose of dislodging the British; they remain inactive, however, until the arrival of five British ships from New York, which force the Americans to burn their ves
Lincoln County (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
amed Portland......July 4, 1786 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 nam
Iroquois (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
harles 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 Robert Aldswort
Bangor (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
d of Gouldsborough River, and Washington, east of Hancock......June 25, 1789 Bangor incorporated......Feb. 25, 1791 Last meeting of the Salem Presbytery, markinapital removed from Portland to Augusta; legislature meets......Jan. 4, 1832 Bangor and Orono Railroad, 10 miles in length, completed......1836 Rufus Mclntire, ng-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 ...April 22, 1861 Office of the Democrat, a secession newspaper published in Bangor, entirely destroyed by a mob......Aug. 12, 1861 United States Secretary of Stion of Union Labor party meets at Waterville, and nominates Isaac R. Clark, of Bangor, for governor......May 20, 1890 Legislature enacts an Australian ballot law.ing......April 3, 1891 Ex-Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, born 1809, dies at Bangor......July 4, 1891 James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, resigns......June 4,
Penobscot (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who reached the Penobscot River......1580 Speedwell and Discoverer, frding seven boats, he explores the coast from Penobscot to Cape Cod, and makes a map of it, to whichNew Plymouth colony erects a tradinghouse at Penobscot; the first English establishment of the kindsel visits the New Plymouth trading-house at Penobscot, and carries off booty valued at £ 500, and ossession of the trading-house at Biguyduce (Penobscot) for France......1635 Gorges, empowered b1653 English, under Major Sedgwick subdue Penobscot and Port Royal, 1654, and the whole Acadian rseys......March, 1688 Andros seizes upon Penobscot, and sacks house and fort of Baron de St. Capossession of the whole country and coast to Penobscot......May, 1690 Three hundred men under Maassachusetts under General Lovell, arrive at Penobscot, July 25, for the purpose of dislodging the sachusetts lands, 1,107,396 acres, between Penobscot and St. Croix rivers, disposed of by lottery[2 more...]
Casco Bay (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
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, cataqua to the Penobscot, except the territory of Sagadahoc below the Damariscotta. Among these were the Kennebec, Lygonia, or plough patent, with settlement on Casco Bay, the Waldo patent, and Pemaquid ......1630-31 A French vessel visits the New Plymouth trading-house at Penobscot, and carries off booty valued at £ 500, and wnt 3 miles north of the source of the river Merrimac, found this point by survey to lie in lat. 43° 43′ 12″, with its eastern point on Upper Clapboard Island, in 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 in<
Penobscot (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ard 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 September, who, if a majority o
Saco River (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
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 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
Cumberland County (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ppointed 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 Kennebec county erected from north part of Lincoln......Feb. 20, 1799 Northern parts of York and Cumberland counties erected into the county of Oxford......March 4, 1805 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born in Portland......Feb. 27, 1807 County of Somerset established from the northerly part of Kennebec......March 1, 1809 Three commissioners appointed by governor and council to act on land titles in Lincoln 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 P
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