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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford Copy of Major Phillips sale of lands to Richard Russell, Biddeford, 1673McArthur Public…"

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

"At the end of the Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, negotiators had sketched an imaginary line through this perpetually contested and…"

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Historic Hallowell - A Bay State Exodus

"… Taylor observed that in the years following the Revolutionary War, "population growth and careless exploitation had wrought worsening scarcities of…"

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Monson Historical Society

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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"Eighteenth Century Revolutionary-era styled gownMaine Historical Society As of the year 2020, the earliest garments in the MHS collection…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… Riordan is American historian specializing in the Revolutionary era (ca. 1760-1830), UMaine faculty member since 1997."

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

"Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776-1803. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2016. Brooks, Lisa."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… American colonists in Machias during the American Revolutionary War but died during period around 1780."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Sources

"… of Henry Knox, Major-General in the American Revolutionary Army. Boston : Samuel G. Drake, c1873. Lonergan, Thomas J."

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L.L. Bean Corporate Archives

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Early Maine Photography - War

"… Collection, the images of two aged Revolutionary War veterans are contrasted with those of several young men who served in the Civil War. Simon…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"His father died in 1777 while serving in the Revolutionary War, leaving his mother as the sole support of the family."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… 1988Dixfield Historical Society Following the Revolutionary War, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts needed to raise money to pay off its huge war…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"… influence of French designer Dior's 1947 revolutionary "New Look" with its extravagant long, very full skirts."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"During the Revolutionary War, scores of leading proprietors remained loyal to the British crown; although new leadership soon muscled into control of…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… to the Newburyport, Mass privateer Sea Flower; Revolutionary War documents; French spoliation claims for the brig Hope; records of churches founded…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… Crosby is known to have participated in the Revolutionary War. After marrying Benjamin Wheeler’s daughter Sarah he enlarged the mills."

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Porter Memorial Library

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William Fogg Public Library

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New Hampshire Historical Society

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Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Tate House Museum

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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"One headline trumpeted the “Revolutionary Telephone System” installed in the building, which boasted a brand-new system of 110 phones dedicated to…"

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Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… of early photography are daguerreotypes of Revolutionary War soldiers Conrad Heyer of Waldoboro and the Reverend John Sawyer of Bangor."