Keywords: Massachusetts Bay Colony Court
Item 31337
Hunnewell House, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Bruce Thurlow through Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Scarborough Media: Slide, transparency
Item 112090
Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 7, 1694-1853
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1694–1853 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper
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The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
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Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
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"… until he had already been run out of the colony by the Stamp Act unrest, and only then as a pointed rebuke to Massachusetts’ increasingly unruly…"
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"While the Bay Colony was given political jurisdiction over both regions, the charter stipulated that no grants of land made in the area east of the…"
