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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… custodial powers over property that their wives owned prior to marriage. Thus, after Rachel Atkins married James Berry in 1687, she could no longer…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's First Dwelling

"Then, with their wives and the one little child, they crept under it and passed the night. In the morning they arose and began the settlement of…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"My mother at first stayed at home- most house wives stayed at home- and I’m a little ambiguous about that. It pays to have a mother in the house."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"His remains and his three wives lie in the yard of his home. Starbirds Mill X Chase Hewett Mill X Carrabassett Creamery X East New…"

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… impacted the economy and lives of those elderly, wives, and children left behind. Leverett and Addie Morgan's son did not want to join the war…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… hovels, and thither conducted in triumph their wives and children." (A History of Farmington Maine 1776-1885, Francis Gould Butler) In southern…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"… buried in the Village Cemetery in Strong with his wives. Benjamin P. McKeen, son of William and Dorothy McKeen of Strong, was born about 1838 and…"

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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