The History of Portland, from its First Settlement1833 |
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... Petitions of the proprietors and settlers of Falmouth to the General Court in 1717 and 1718 for incorporation . II ... Petition for a division of the town of Falmouth in 1785 . CHAPTER 1 . Revival of the town at Purpooduck and CONTENTS .
... Petitions of the proprietors and settlers of Falmouth to the General Court in 1717 and 1718 for incorporation . II ... Petition for a division of the town of Falmouth in 1785 . CHAPTER 1 . Revival of the town at Purpooduck and CONTENTS .
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... petition be granted . " A part of these men were James Doughty , John Gustin , Mark Rounds , Matthew and Wm . Scales , Eben . Hall , Thomas Thomes , John Wass , James Mills , Joseph Bean and John Barbour , father and son - the father ...
... petition be granted . " A part of these men were James Doughty , John Gustin , Mark Rounds , Matthew and Wm . Scales , Eben . Hall , Thomas Thomes , John Wass , James Mills , Joseph Bean and John Barbour , father and son - the father ...
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... petition of Cape Porpus and Black Point , “ to prosecute the regular settlement of the eastern frontiers , " who were " directed to lay out the town platts in a regular and defensible man- ner at the charge of the proprietors , and of ...
... petition of Cape Porpus and Black Point , “ to prosecute the regular settlement of the eastern frontiers , " who were " directed to lay out the town platts in a regular and defensible man- ner at the charge of the proprietors , and of ...
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... petition of the proprietors and settlers of the town of Falmouth , in Casco Bay , in the years 1717 and 1718 , who have made application to us , the said committee , according to the direction of the general court . We have , upon the ...
... petition of the proprietors and settlers of the town of Falmouth , in Casco Bay , in the years 1717 and 1718 , who have made application to us , the said committee , according to the direction of the general court . We have , upon the ...
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... petition " . " 1 Belk . N. H. and Parker's cent . ser . 2 Mass . Rec . Robert Temple in a letter contained in the reply of the Pe- jepscot Pro . to the remarks of the Pro . of Brunswick , published in 1753 , says , he contracted for a ...
... petition " . " 1 Belk . N. H. and Parker's cent . ser . 2 Mass . Rec . Robert Temple in a letter contained in the reply of the Pe- jepscot Pro . to the remarks of the Pro . of Brunswick , published in 1753 , says , he contracted for a ...
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acres aged appointed Back Cove Benjamin born Boston Bradbury building built Cape-Elizabeth Capt Casco Casco Bay chosen church clay cove Cobb Codman colonies commenced committee Congress Congress-street convention court Cumberland Daniel Daniel Ilsley daughter died duty Ebenezer England Enoch Freeman erected established Falmouth Fore-street Gorham governor granted Harvard College held Indians inhabitants James Jeremiah John Bagley John Waite Joseph Joseph Noyes Joshua Judge July King-street Kittery land lived majority March married Mary Massachusetts McLellan meeting meeting-house Middle-street minister Moody Moses Pearson Mussey Nathaniel Neck occasion parish persons petition Phineas Jones Portland preached Preble proprietors province Purpooduck revolution Samuel Cobb Samuel Freeman Samuel Moody selectmen Sept settled settlement ship Smith society Stephen Longfellow Stroudwater Theophilus Bradbury Thomas tion Titcomb town Tyng vessels vote Waldo whole Winslow Wyer
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Seite 128 - Majesty's dominions in America for making a more certain and adequate provision for defraying the charge of the administration of justice and the support of civil government in such provinces where it shall be found necessary...
Seite 128 - The government also established a board of commissioners for the receipt and management of the customs in America, and fixed the salaries of certain officers which Massachusetts had refused to do. The passage of these acts occasioned at first no violent outbreakings like those which followed the stamp act, but rather...
Seite 191 - Portland, to which place he was elected die years. He was also a member of the convention which adopted the constitution of the United States.
Seite 345 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Seite 201 - It has been truly said, that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Seite 174 - ... fishery. Voted, unanimously, that Stephen Hall, our representative to the General Court, be directed and he hereby is directed to use his utmost endeavors at the approaching session of said court, that an application be made from the whole court to the Honorable Congress, requesting that they would direct their commissioners for negotiating a peace to make the right of the United States to the fishery an indispensable article of treaty...
Seite 136 - For on what principle does it stand ? This famous revenue stands, at this hour, on all the debate, as a description of revenue not as yet known in all the comprehensive (but too comprehensive !) vocabulary of finance — a preambulary tax.
Seite 130 - THAT the sole right of imposing taxes on the inhabitants of this his majesty's colony and dominion of Virginia is now, and ever hath been, legally and constitutionally vested in the house of burgesses...
Seite 136 - The perusal of these documents excited violent indignation ; it was unanimously resolved, " that the tendency of the said letters was to overthrow the constitution of this government, and to introduce arbitrary power into the province...
Seite 286 - Deane was presented by the company with two hundred and thirty-six seven knotted skeins of excellent cotton and linen yarn, the work of the day, excepting about a dozen skeins which some of the company brought in ready spun. Some had spun six, and many not less than five skeins apiece. To conclude and crown the day, a numerous band of the best singers attended in the evening, and performed an agreeable variety of excellent pieces in psalmody."1 Some of the ante-revolutionary customs "more honored...