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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"A combination of the eighteenth century English taste for clothes suited to an active country life, fine quality English dark wool broadcloth, and…"

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…"

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…"

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…"

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."

Tate House Museum

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Downtown from 1759 to 1815 The center of shipbuilding activity and settlement in the latter half of the 18th century was in what is now known as the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources. Catherine Potter's Letter to the Pejepscot…"

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

"… Borders: an historical overview In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw the…"

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

"The abortive seventeenth-century British forays into the region, for example, were codified in the new 1691 Massachusetts Charter, which re-defined…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"From the late eighteenth century through Maine statehood in 1820, these competing notions of property fueled widespread settler resistance, often…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"In addition, ongoing eighteenth-century wars on the Maine frontier discouraged investors from what appeared to be a risky venture."

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."

Camden-Rockport Historical Society

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

"… economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources. Further Reading Pawling, Micah A."

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

"… the region which was as accurate in the late eighteenth century as it had been in the seventeenth: these borderlands remained primarily Wabanaki…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"… participated in other financial ventures in the eighteenth century, but the evidence of whether the female shareholders sought a greater role in…"

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…"

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…"

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

"… colony, the companies played an outsized role in eighteenth-century Maine history. They influenced the location of towns in Maine, their layout…"

Abbe Museum

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… strong echoes with Wabanaki diplomats from the eighteenth century documented in the Proprietor records—Loron Sagouarroab and his shuttle diplomacy…"

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."

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…"