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August 12th, 1861 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
the claims of Maine on the government of the United States, for the completion of the railroad from Portland to Halifax......1861 Hannibal Hamlin inaugurated Vice-President of the United States......March, 4, 1861 Extra three days session of the legislature, and provision made for ten regiments of volunteers for the Federal army, and a coast-guard if necessary......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 State Seward permits passage of British troops across the State from Portland to Canada......1862 Officers and crew of the Confederate privateer Archer enter the harbor of Portland, capture the revenue cutter Caleb Cushing, and put to sea; being pursued, they take to their boats and blow up their prize, and are themselves captured......June 29, 1863 Foreign Emigrant Association of Maine incorporated, to which the State agrees to give $25 for every able
October (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
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 Bingham, of Philadelphia......March, 1786 Falmouth divided and the peninsula with several opposite islands incorporated and named Portland......July 4, 1786 Convention of thirty-one delegates meets at Portland and petitions the general court that the counti
September (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ry 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 the east, visits Penost 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, ifSeptember, who, if a majority of at least 5 to 4 favor separation, should form a constitution......June 20, 1816 Convention of 185 delegates convenes at Brunswick; vote shows 11,961 yeas to 10,347 nays; the attemptn held at Lewiston, 782 delegates; Joseph W. Smith nominated for governor......June 5, 1878 September election: Selden Connor, Republican, 56,544; Joseph L. Smith, Greenback, 41,371; Alonzo Garcel20, 1890 Legislature enacts an Australian ballot law......March 24, 1891 First Monday in September (Labor Day) made a legal holiday by legislature at session ending......April 3, 1891 Ex-Vic
July (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
d......1818 Agricultural Society of District of Maine incorporated......Feb. 16, 1818 Law of the United States, making every State a district in which vessels must enter and clear, proving a stumbling-block in the matter of the separation of Maine, is changed, and the eastern coast divided into two great districts......March 2, 1819 About seventy towns petition the legislature for separation, and bill passed granting it......June 19, 1819 Under separation act, after an election in July, and the proclamation of the governor, Aug. 24, a convention of 269 delegates at Portland elects William King president, and appoints a committee of thirty-three to report a constitution......Oct. 11, 1819 Congress admits Maine into the Union; capital, Portland......March 3, 1820 Within seventeen months Governor King, commissioner under the Spanish treaty, resigns his office to Mr. Williamson, president of the Senate, who six months after, being elected to Congress, surrenders it to Mr.
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
December 20th, 1686 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
t, thence northward on the west side of the Androscoggin, 4 miles in width to the Upper falls, and 5 miles on the other 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, graduate of Harvard in 1665, made by James II. president of Maine......May, 1686 Sir Edmund Andros arrives at Boston to supersede Dudley as president of the colonies......Dec. 20, 1686 Andros commissioned captain-general and vice-admiral over the whole of New England, New York, and the Jerseys......March, 1688 Andros seizes upon Penobscot, and sacks house and fort of Baron de St. Castin, aiding to precipitate an Indian war......April, 1688 First outbreak of King William's War at the new settlement of North Yarmouth on Royals River. Indians surprise and break up the settlement, Aug. 13. They attack and burn New Dartmouth (New Castle), and destroy the fort and
February 22nd, 1815 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
arbor, 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 Massachusetts result in 10,393 yeas and 6,501 nays......May 20, 1816 First separation law takes effect, directing voters to meet in their
October 17th (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
ish schooner, the Margranetto, loading at Machias, is seized by a party of volunteers under Benjamin Foster and Jeremiah O'Brien; after capturing this prize O'Brien sails into the Bay of Fundy, and on his return captures a schooner and tender which were in search of the Margranetto......June, 1775 Col. Benedict Arnold, with a force of about 1,100 men, passes up the Kennebec to attack Quebec......September, 1775 Captain Mowatt arrives in Falmouth (now Portland) with four armed vessels, Oct. 17, with orders from Admiral Graves to destroy the town, which 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
February, 1873 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-maine
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 at Augusta......February, 1873 Act passed providing for a State board of immigration, consisting of the governor, secretary of state, and land agent......1873 Woman's suffrage convention at Augusta resolves: That we pledge ourselves never to cease the agitation we have begun until all unjust discriminations against women are swept away ......Jan. 28, 1874 Compulsory education act passed by the legislature......1875 Death penalty in Maine abolished by law......1876 Senator Lot M. Morrill, Secretary of Un
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