Keywords: Maritime law
Item 152231
Judge David Sewall's charge to the Grand Jury, Portland, 1789
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1789
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 8 images.
Item 103657
John Chandler to Henry Dearborn about coasting law and its potential repeal, Monmouth, 1816
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816 Location: Monmouth; Boston Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Exhibit
Maine's first governor, William King, was arguably the most influential figure in Maine's achieving statehood in 1820. Although he served just one year as the Governor of Maine, he was instrumental in establishing the new state's constitution and setting up its governmental infrastructure.
Site Page
Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789
"The Coasting Law of 1789 'Unity' and 'Margaretta,' Machias, 1775 The Coasting Law of 1789 required that merchant ships port and register at…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4
"In 1872 a law was passed banning the taking of egg-bearing females, a conservation measure already practiced by many Maine lobstermen, and in 1874…"
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
Lesson Plan
Becoming Maine: The District of Maine's Coastal Economy
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to the maritime economy of Maine prior to statehood and to the Coasting Law that impacted the separation debate. Students will examine primary documents, take part in an activity that will put the Coasting Law in the context of late 18th century – early 19th century New England, and learn about how the Embargo Act of 1807 affected Maine in the decades leading to statehood.
