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Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Richard Carr 1718
Maine State Archives, Text

1718 court case against Richard Carr for supplying "rum and other liquors" to the Indians in Falmouth.

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Indians of North America
Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians
External Forces: economic, demographic, technology, disease, wars
Frontier and pioneer life -- North America
Indians -- Alcohol use
Indians -- history 18th century, European impact
Judicial proceedings
Native Americans
Land Disputes

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Vessel Valuation
Maine State Archives, Text

Valuation of vessels homeported in Islesboro, 1859.

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Geography: transportation, waterways, maritime, shipbuilding, fishing
Shipbuilding
Maritime/Waterfront
Shipping/Shipbuilding

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The Penobscot Expedition and the Revolution
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:45

The Penobscot disaster is usually regarded as the worst American Naval disaster with the exception of Pearl Harbor. An accidental archeological discovery in the Penobscot River sheds new light on the desperate last moments of the worst defeat of the American Revolution.

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Penobscot Expedition, 1779
History - Revolutionary War
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

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Weight and Particular Freight of the Ship Bazaar
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Estimated list of the Weight and Particular Freight of the ship Bazaar, owned and captained by a member of the Stuart family of Richmond, Maine. List was generated in Liverpool, and details cargo and those for whom it was being shipped.

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Bills of Lading
Shipping
Shipping/Shipbuilding
Ships Cargo

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Plan for the house of worship, Pownalborough, Maine, 1760, map 80
Maine Historical Society, Map

Manuscript map #80 entitled, "This is a plan of...about 10 acres for the house of publick worship...Lot 69 and also the...house to hold the county courts...Pownalborough, December 12, 1763." Pownalborough is now known as Dresden, Maine. The map shows a drawing of the Pownalborough Courthouse, a compass rose, the Kennebec River and landowners' numbered lots commissioned by the Plymouth Company.

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Dresden (Me.) -- Maps, Manuscript -- Early works to 1800
Kennebec River (Me.) -- Maps, Manuscript -- Early works to 1800
Land grants -- Maine.
Maine -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Maps, Manuscript -- Early works to 1800
Plymouth Company (1749-1814) -- Records and correspondence -- Maps, Manuscript -- Early works to 1800
Pownalborough Courthouse (Dresden, Me.)
History - Colonial Period

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Spring
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 00:58:03

Because spring comes so late to northern New England, things have to happen quickly and profusely. Spring is the time of year that wildlife and plants come to life again and get right to the business of creating new life.

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Spring -- New England
Seasons -- New England
Natural history -- New England
Ecology/Energy

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History of Penobscot Indians
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Account of the "History of Penobscot Indians" by Florence Nicola Shay

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Native Americans -- History
Penobscot Indian Nation
Penobscot Tribe

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Instrument of Protest
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Instrument of Protest, sworn to in Liverpool, detailing a storm in the harbor that did great damage to the Bark J. J. Hathorn, owned by the Stuart family of Richmond, Maine.

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International trade
Merchant marine
Shipping
Shipping/Shipbuilding
Storms

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Two petitions regarding the construction of a dam across the Kennebec River
Maine State Archives, Text

Two petitions giving reasons for and against the proposed dam across the Kennebec River.

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Dams
Dams
Environment: Fur trade, survival, industrial development, forest, conservation
Kennebec River
Ecology/Energy
Fishing/Fisherman
Industry
Lumbering
Rivers
Shipping/Shipbuilding

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Sale at Auction on account of T.G. Thornton
Maine Historical Society, Text

Auction records of items sold which were aboard the Brig the Boxer and the sale of the Brig itself.

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Auctions
Boxer (Sailing ship)
Fletcher, Timothy
Manuscripts
McLellan, Stephen
Thornton, T. G.

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