Keywords: Long boat
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Site Pages
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"… Noyes grumbled that “there is not one of them but what think their Right superior to the Proprietors and have a long time bid Defiance.”"
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"Proprietors who held onto their company shares long enough—however small—received significant landholdings."
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"The maps instead reveal a long, and more complex, history of resistance, displacement and return. Settlers, including the Pejepscot and Kennebec…"
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"… and Canada was created by human actions over a long period of time and was not formed by a natural or organic process."
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"… of Maine is much like the local settlers from long ago—fighting both Federal authority over their lands (although the state, like the local…"
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"… and others—so our responsibilities to these places remain ever-present, even though for non-Natives it may seem like long ago, or irrelevant."
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"… resource to users unable to physically visit MHS but will also ensure its long‐term preservation by limiting onsite use to the digital surrogates."
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"… Francis Joseph Neptune became famous for his long shot during the Battle of the Rim in Machias, turning the tide of the war in this area."
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"Nonetheless, the long-lasting international border of 1842 is not as all powerful as it sometimes seems."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools
"… necessary, and were remembered by the scholars as long as they lived. Ryder's School, Islesboro, ca."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements
"… then “Longue Island Plantation” and then “Long Island.” In 1789, this island and the adjacent islands including Seven Hundred Acre, Job’s and Lime…"
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Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March
"So many boats had to be built quickly, that the boat builders had to use fresh, or green, wood to build them."
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Historic Hallowell - Ship Parts
"Sails were made by long, thin strips of cloth that were woven together by hand (until the invention of the sewing machine.) Anchors were commonly…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY
"Two long thin fingers of land create a large, naturally protected pool. Saco River from old White's Wharf, Biddeford, 2010."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Cities of Smoke and Soot
"X The cities of Biddeford and Saco have long been a center for lumbering, textiles and shipbuilding."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson
"Well we sit around our boat so long when we started to get out of the boat, most of us fell down. Couldn’t walk, their legs, been cooped up there so…"
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"… loaded in the Saco River with ice cut during the long winter and sent out. During the 1870s the ice trade was very active."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford
"Adams after the Civil War had been raging for 4 long years. He urged the citizens of Biddeford to be proud of the sacrifices being made within the…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford
"… town, and Tory residents didn‘t remain in town long. The citizens of Biddeford proclaimed their support of the Revolution on 30 July 1774, and sent…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford
"This fed into a long-propagated idea that that these native tribes had all died. One violent battle took place during King Philips's War when the…"
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"They've also interviewed several long-time Surry residents. X X The first five exhibits for this project, completed during the 2011-2012…"
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"The back of the boat carries all of our luggage. It takes a long time to get to Lincoln because the steamboat goes really slow."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding
"People depended upon boats for the early transport of goods, livestock and people. In the “History of Thomaston, Rockland and South Thomaston”, Cyrus…"