Maine Memory Network

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret

"… alcohol was consumed at all meals, though generally in moderation. In 1630, the Puritan first ship Arabella carried 10,000 gallons of wine and…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1919 to 1934: The Nation Follows Maine Into Prohibition

"… the voters. The Portland Press Herald noted the general feeling: "There never was a time when Maine's annual liquor bill has not amounted to…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"Stevens, Francis Murphy, and the unsinkable General Neal Dow. In this era, women became leaders of the fight against liquor."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"… of the women who lead in its great endeavor..." - General Neal Dow (1804-1897), Reminiscences of Neal Dow, 1898 X Frances E."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… received a grant of Mount Desert Island from the General Court in 1762, was unable to get his grant confirmed until he had already been run out of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… accounts, claims and other papers; petitions for grants; deeds, bills and receipts; printed grants; votes and witnesses; printed material; indexes…"

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

"… over both regions, the charter stipulated that no grants of land made in the area east of the Kennebec River would be legally recognized unless…"

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

"… Kennebec into Nova Scotia, where land could be granted and organized by Royal decree, Dunbar’s settlement efforts threatened most of the land…"

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

"… should either ask the Kennebec Proprietors for a grant to land these families already lived on or face a lawsuit."

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

"His brother, Edward was a member of the General Court’s Committee of Eastern Claims when the petition for the confirmation of title was originally…"

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

"Neither company called general meetings to handle routine business, rather handling it through small standing committees."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"Sockalexis the General Sherman, John Fransoway and Mitchel Peopl Susup the General Sheridan, Sappiel Sockalexis and Louis Sockabasin the…"

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

"… men and women jointly provided for their society: generally men hunted game which women in turn cleaned and preserved, and men cleared the fields…"

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

"… in Saxine’s Properties of Empire (2019) where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s, against local settlers, because…"

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

"… served as a representative to the Massachusetts General Court for twenty-five years & was a Trustee of Bowdoin College, where his son Josiah…"

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

"… must win by "a large majority" to be granted separation.[24] Letter from Robert Boyd calling for a meeting in Gray to discuss Separation…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"On January 25, 1803, John Ross, an agent to General David Cobb, wrote a letter to General Cobb who was then President of the Massachusetts State…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… your Excellency and Honours wou’d Please to grant your Petitioners and their Heirs, a Township to be bounded as follows, beginning about three…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"Grant visited Bangor in October, 1871 as part of a delegation that officially opened the European and North American Railroad, which was intended to…"

L'Heritage Vivant Living Heritage

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… tract of land in midcoast Maine that had been granted to Brigadier General Samuel Waldo, Lucy Knox’s maternal grandfather, before the American…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… and two-town collaboration long after this grant cycle. Greely Students Photodocumenting Photo by Pam Ames X Engaging young people in this…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… result of the Muscongus Patent, a 30-square-mile grant of lands, including the Georges River, which was given by the Council of Plymouth in England…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… board had ceased to meet, and applications for grant funds to complete water main replacement and downtown revitalization had been rejected."