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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 71 | 13 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. | 22 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Agamenticus,
The name given in 1636 to the region lying between the mountain and the sea, now comprising York county, Me. It was within the grant given to Gorges and Mason.
There a city was formed, and incorporated in 1641, in imitation of English municipalities, with a mayor and aldermen.
The city was called Gorgeana.
The occupants of the land in Agamenticus were tenants at will of the proprietor.
There English apple-seeds were planted and thrived, and one of the trees that sprang up lived and bore fruit annually so late as 1875, when it was cut down.
See Maine.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Baxter , James Phinney , 1831 - (search)
Baxter, James Phinney, 1831-
Author; born in Gorham, Me., March 23, 1831; has been mayor of Portland, Me., several times; and is the author of British invasion from the North; Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his province of Maine, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ligonia, province of (search)
Ligonia, province of
At about the time of the beginning of the civil war in England, in which Sir Ferdinando Gorges took sides with the King, Alexander Rigby, a republican member of Parliament, purchased the old patent of Ligonia (Maine), and sent out George Cleves to take possession.
Cleves had been an agent in that region for Gorges and Sir William Alexander.
This claim was resisted by Gorges's agents, and Cleves attempted to gain the assistance of the New England Confederacy by proposing to make Ligonia a member of that alliance.
The dispute went on some time, until finally the parliamentary commissioners for plantations confirmed Rigby's title, Gorges's agents, and Cleves attempted to gain the assistance of the New England Confederacy by proposing to make Ligonia a member of that alliance.
The dispute went on some time, until finally the parliamentary commissioners for plantations confirmed Rigby's title, and the coast of Maine, from the Kennebec to the Saco, was erected into the province of Ligonia, Maine being then restricted to the tract from the Saco to the Piscataqua.
See Maine.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colony of New Hampshire, (search)