Maine Memory Network

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… and 'Margaretta,' Machias, 1775 The Coasting Law of 1789 required that merchant ships port and register at each non-adjacent state as a way to…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Grant-Wilson political rally, Augusta Depot, 1872

"John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor illustrated the event as part of his "Scrap Book no 3" that he wrote and illustrated starting in 1876."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"… because of otherwise inconvenient shipping laws, and a growing inland debate ensued over tension between land proprietors and squatters who saw…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"Depicting an independent and politically distinct Maine, it places Maine's borders along the Magaguadavic River to the east (and a non-existent range…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"… of Kittery swore their allegiance to the government of Massachusetts Bay, and by 1658, Kittery, York, Saco, Wells and Cape Porpoise (Kennebunkport)…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"Patten Free Library The separationists and anti-separationists heard and acknowledged the other side's arguments."

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… squatter-proprietor tensions and the Coasting Law likely still fueling the sentiments of the two voter bodies.[25] Despite the vote's failure…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2

"The movement began in the 1780s and lasted just shy of forty years. Separationist Call to Meeting, Falmouth Published in The Falmouth Gazette, Sept…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"… their movement, which some thought unpatriotic and embarrassing, in light of the shockwaves caused by Shays' Rebellion and other rural uprisings…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… Crisis: Competing Priorities and Northern Slavery Politics in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 33, no. 4 (Winter 2013), pp."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… be based on the hindrance of the former Coasting Law, and many who had previously held out began to support an independent Maine.[28] After the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"In the 1970s, to make clear they did not want a 'nation within a nation,' leaders across all political spectrums ran on platforms decrying, much like…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… past in the cross-border region, and as Wabanaki political and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"Two founders of the Pejepscot Proprietors, Adam Winthrop and Thomas Hutchinson, sat on the Governor’s Council."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"John Ruck John Ruck was the brother in law of Thomas Hutchinson and the father in law of Benning Wentworth."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… not confirm Massachusetts’ rights to settle and govern the region. Instead, the lawyers emphasized the Royal confirmation provisio from the charter."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"… of the Old City Hall was to house the city government, including a mayor's office, a treasurer's office, assessor's office and the police…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"… Hall is still used for meetings and official city government business. Many of the earlier uses of City Hall for specific organizations have been…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"His scholarship focuses on politics, political economy, empires, and borderlands in early North America."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… or Daniel or Robin [ramegin]…shall come and lawfully demand and receive one Peck of Corn on every five and twentieth day of December for a due…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"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…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"After Daniel Wilkinson's death sentence, the law stating No Capital Punishment in Maine was made. Daniel's partner was sentenced to life in prison…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"These primary resources provide essential context for important contemporary topics such as Indigenous land and water rights; and the preservation…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw the Maine borderland as a place to cultivate their own dreams of…"