Keywords: eighteenth
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3
"Eighteenth Century During this period male dress also underwent change. A combination of the eighteenth century English taste for clothes suited to…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3
"Eighteenth Century Bright pink petticoat, ca. 1780Maine Historical Society A quilted petticoat of bright pink calamanco (polished wool) with…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3
"Eighteenth Century Revolutionary-era styled gownMaine Historical Society As of the year 2020, the earliest garments in the MHS collection…"
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"… economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources. Catherine Potter's Letter to the Pejepscot…"
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"… Borders: an historical overview In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw the…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Themed Image Galleries
"… the examples in the overview make clear from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Maine's populace kept up with changing styles, and…"
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"In addition, ongoing eighteenth-century wars on the Maine frontier discouraged investors from what appeared to be a risky venture."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"The Pejepscot Proprietors: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Absentee Land Ownership on the Maine Frontier, 1714-1768, 1973. Greer, Allan."
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"… northeast border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of jurisdictional confusion and uncertainty."
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"… the region which was as accurate in the late eighteenth century as it had been in the seventeenth: these borderlands remained primarily Wabanaki…"
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Camden-Rockport Historical Society
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Historic Clothing Collection - Site Overview
"… covers the collection’s holdings from the late eighteenth century through about 1980. It is tailored for a non-specialist audience."
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"… participated in other financial ventures in the eighteenth century, but the evidence of whether the female shareholders sought a greater role in…"
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"… economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources. Further Reading Pawling, Micah A."
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"From the late eighteenth century through Maine statehood in 1820, these competing notions of property fueled widespread settler resistance, often…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Shipping
"… and kept running in his employ in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In his papers, there is evidence of three major ships that he…"
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Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2
"Both Heyer and Sawyer were born in the mid-eighteenth century, fought in the Revolution as young men, and lived for more than a century – long enough…"
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"… colony, the companies played an outsized role in eighteenth-century Maine history. They influenced the location of towns in Maine, their layout…"
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"… strong echoes with Wabanaki diplomats from the eighteenth century documented in the Proprietor records—Loron Sagouarroab and his shuttle diplomacy…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"The first white settlers arrived in the late eighteenth century, drawn by the abundance of fish and game, timber, waterpower, and farm land."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4
"The Eighteenth Century Resettlement occurred in the fall of 1702 when eight men, likely accompanied by their families, sailed from Lynn to Black…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History
"… 1781 – 1876 In the latter part of the eighteenth century, families began moving inland to the back lots of Ancient North Yarmouth where lumber and…"