Keywords: Merchant
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Site Pages
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources
"American Merchant Ships General Publishing Co. Ltd, Printer 1987 Rockland Courier Gazette Newspaper clippings, documents, deeds, manuscripts and…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources
"American Merchant Ships General Publishing Co. Ltd, Printer 1987 Rockland Courier Gazette Newspaper clippings, documents, deeds, manuscripts and…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Sources
"American Merchant Ships General Publishing Co. Ltd, Printer 1987 Rockland Courier Gazette Newspaper clippings, documents, deeds, manuscripts and…"
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"… settlers, farmers, and land holders, through merchants and businessmen, to the soldiers and heroes who lived and died here, and of the sacrifices…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Gorham L. Boynton, Bangor, ca. 1867
"… of Gorham L. Boynton, a Bangor lumber merchant, whom he described as "among a class of risky and reckless men." Martin, who wrote and illustrated…"
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"… fur trade with the Wabanakis, until four Boston Merchants bought it in 1661 for £400. During the wars of 1675-1678 and 1688-1699, the Wabanakis—who…"
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"Sumner and Co.; Staples & Son, general merchant; F.Y. Trefry, postmaster and merchant in South Lubec; F.M."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 1 of 3
"… Public Library Matthew Cobb was the principal merchant in Biddeford during these years and had a large store until he removed from the area in…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Andrew Smith Store
"… (his marriage license in 1923 lists him as a merchant). The Andrew Smith home was owned by Tina Joyce from 1946 to 1964."
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street
"Hampden merchants maintained wharves, warehouses, and retail stores on Summer Street, all necessary related to the buying and selling of goods…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870
"… and specialty shops were in great number and merchants did a brisk business. After an initial drop in census numbers to 3600 in 1860, due to the…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950
"… was certainly sad for Thomaston builders and merchants alike. Symbolic of the last days of this boom in shipping was the “Reine Marie Stewart,”…"
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"… is named for Llewellyn Lithgow, an Augusta merchant and book lover, who left a $20,000 bequest to the City for the purpose of building a public…"
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"… granddaughter of businessman Asa Clapp, the daughter of real estate developer Charles Q. Clapp, and the wife of tobacco merchant John B. Carroll."
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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2
"… wearing leather gloves, very much looking the part of the daughter of Portland merchant Ezekial Day and the wife of attorney Kiah Bailey Sewall."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell
"… Corporation Guest House (1946) in Brewer and the Merchants National Bank (1974) in Bangor. Eaton Tarbell was one of the first architects in…"
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"… In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw the Maine borderland as a place to…"
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"… Jonathan Belcher, who was an influential Boston merchant and Governor of Massachusetts (1730-1741.) Noyes graduated from Harvard College and also…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4
"… to Mary Alsop, daughter of wealthy New York merchant John Alsop. He became a member of the New York assembly and then was elected to the United…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project
"Rumford itself is the commercial hub of the area, offering supermarkets, restaurants, and a wide variety of merchants."
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"… a system called the triangular trade in which the merchants would trade and ship goods between Boston to Hallowell."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846
"It punished American merchants in the process by prohibiting trading. However, Paine surreptitiously continued trading at great risk and was so…"
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3
"… the largest ship owner in Maine and a successful merchant. His business interests included real estate, banking, and cotton manufacturing."