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Keywords: Wadsworth, Peleg
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Item 7478
Title: John Campbell to Henry Clinton about capture of Peleg Wadsworth
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1781-03-15
Location: Castine
Media: Ink on paper
Item 22473
Title: Peleg Wadsworth letter to son, 1796
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1796-09-25
Location: Portland; Cambridge
Media: Ink on paper
Item 10801
![Peleg Wadsworth to wife, Feb. 19, [1781]](http://www.mainememory.net/media/images/135/75/10801.JPG)
Title: Peleg Wadsworth to wife, Feb. 19, [1781]
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1781-02-19
Location: Castine; Castine
Media: Ink on paper
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Lock of George Washington's Hair
Correspondence between Elizabeth Wadsworth, her father Peleg Wadsworth and Martha Washington's secretary about the gift of a lock of George Washington's hair to Eliza.
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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
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A Naval Disaster: The Penobscot Expedition
A fleet of privateers and hastily recruited soldiers failed to stop the British from occupying Majabigwaduce on Penobscot Bay in 1779. The disastrous Penobscot Expedition left the area, later known as Castine, to the British and a loyalist colony called New Ireland.