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John Davison letter from Demarara, Guyana, February 29, 1848
Maine Historical Society, Text

John Davison wrote to his wife, Eliza Ann Davison, and commented that since the abolition of slavery, business diminished in all the English West Indies.

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Davison, Eliza Ann
Davison, Eliza Ann (Gannett), b.1811 -- Correspondence
Davison, John
Davison, John -- Correspondence
Letters
Manuscripts
Seafaring life -- Description and travel
Ship captains -- Maine
Slavery

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Petition and report regarding stopping emigration from Quebec due to cholera epidemic
Maine State Archives, Text

Two petitions for reimbursement for expenses in stopping the influx of immigrants from Quebec during the cholera epidemic.

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Epidemics
Cholera
External Forces: economic, demographic, technology, disease, wars
Quebec
Settlements

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Power Lines
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Hydroelectric power plants
Rivers
Water Power

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Letter from Josh Dunley to Marshall S. Hagar
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Letter from Josh Dunley, captain of the ship Grotto, in Sagua Bay, to Marshall S. Hagar in Richmond, Maine. Regards loading of the ship's cargo of sugar, and issues of hiring hands for the ship.

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Merchant marine
Shipping
Shipping/Shipbuilding
Ships Cargo

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Letter from Benjamin Mathes, Jr. to Samuel S. Lewis, Apr. 12, 1836
Maine Historical Society, Text

Letter from Benjamin Mathes, Jr. to Samuel S. Lewis of Boston, April 12, 1836 about two cargos of lumber.

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Boston and Eastern Mill and Land Company
Letters
Lewis, Samuel S.
Lewis, Samuel S. -- Correspondence
Lumber trade -- Maine
Manuscripts
Mathes, Benjamin
Mathes, Benjamin -- Correspondence
Shipping -- Maine
West River Mill & Lumber Company

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Log of the Brig Tamworth
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Page from the log of the Brig Tamworth, written by James Hamor, master of the vessel, en route from Boston to Gibraltar. Details latitude and longitude, weather conditions.

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International trade
Merchant marine
Shipping
Shipping/Shipbuilding

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Passamaquoddy Indian Agent Report
Maine State Archives, Text

Report on the Pleasant Point reservation discussing the school, farming and the outbreak of smallpox.

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Indians of North America
Education
External Forces: economic, demographic, technology, disease, wars
Indians -- cultural relationships, traditions, adaptations
Indians -- Education
Smallpox
Native Americans

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Affidavit of Lemuel Moody regarding his capture and imprisonment aboard the ship the Betsey
Maine Historical Society, Text

A description of the cargo, capture and imprisonment of the crew of the Betsy.

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Basse-Terre -- Guadeloupe
Betsey (schooner: ca. 1791)
Cargo ships -- U.S. -- Maine -- Portland
Cobb, Mathew
Commerce
Confiscations -- Guadeloupe -- Basse-Terre
Manuscripts
Moody, Lemuel -- Capture & imprisonment
Moody, Lemuel,
Paramaribo -- Surinam
Pirates
Privateer the African
Shipping -- Maine -- Portland
Shipping -- Surinam
Ships -- Maine -- Portland
Widgery,William

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My Debt to Maine by Theodore Roosevelt
Maine Historical Society, Text

Theodore Roosevelt describes his visits to Island Falls, Maine in Aroostook County when he was a boy and the Sewall family with whom he stayed. The essay goes on to describe his home, the Elkhorn, where he invited the Sewalls and the Dows of Island Falls to visit and hunt with him.

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Dow family (Island Falls, Me.)
Dow, Wilmot
Elkhorn (house)
Hunting -- Maine -- Island Falls
Katahdin (Mt.)
Lumbering industry -- Maine
Manuscripts
Presidents -- United States -- Personal narratives
Roosevelt, Theodore
Sewall family (Island Falls, Me.)
Sewall, Bill
Sewall, Dave
Showshoeing
Winter -- Maine -- Island Falls
Winter camping

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Penobscot Tribal Answer regarding the sale of Indian lands
Maine State Archives, Text

Letter listing their beliefs and concerns regarding their dwindling lands.

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Indians of North America
Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians
Indians -- Land tenure
Indians -- land rights
Native Americans
Land Disputes

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