Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"Welcome What do you get when you combine Bath history, curiosity, and technology with 60 seventh graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"Davenport Memorial and City Hall Text by Rebecca Black, Christie Duffy, Courtney McKinney, and Brook Mitchell 7th grade students at Bath Middle…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… a 1659 Kennebec River deed, Nanudemance retained “liberty unto me and my heirs to fish, fowl, and hunt also to set otter traps without…"

South Portland Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

""Seaport on the Kennebec" Page 12 Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990."

Old Berwick Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… and 1814, before the American flag was common, a Liberty Pole was the emblem of patriotism, so it was befitting that a Liberty Pole should be…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… of flourishing communities and personal liberties—two and a half centuries’ worth of dreams, all projected onto the region we now know as Maine…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… ran on platforms decrying, much like the “liberty men” of old, any possible settlement related to the illegal taking of Wabanaki lands by the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"Brickfield and Liberty Redmond, published by the Tarratine Club, 1997. Library Scrapbooks 1956- Vital Records of Islesboro Maine 1789-1892, Compiled…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"… a sailor clasping hands in front of a figure of Liberty. Members of the G.A.R. wore these uniforms so they could easily be recognized."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… of the earlier scholarship (such as in Taylor’s Liberty Men) is between the often-distant proprietors, who make their claims over Wabanaki lands…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… independence. According to Alan Taylor, in Liberty Men and Great Proprietors (p.68), their initiatives on behalf of their newly adopted country…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"Who was Shep Hurd? Shep Hurd was born in Liberty, Maine. He had two brothers, a sister, and was the third of four children."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… sympathies, Richard was harassed by the Sons of Liberty and his house and financial records destroyed."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"At home some worked on Liberty ships at the shipyard in South Portland. Frances Libbey, a Scarborough teacher, wrote to local servicemen and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… workers, who helped with the construction of Liberty Ships. After a period of busy growth, industry, and prosperity, the change shook the island."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… Scotsman, author, merchant, politician, Son of Liberty, Revolutionary War figure, and all-around interesting character, Swan followed the current…"

Colby College Special Collections

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"(Liberty Men and the Great Proprietors, Alan Taylor) As early as 1776, Stephen Titcomb, Robert Gower, and others came to the area with settlement in…"