Keywords: Stock Shares
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"Proprietors who held onto their company shares long enough—however small—received significant landholdings."
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"… descendants gradually sold off portions of their shares into ever smaller pieces, while the original patent was lost."
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"Hutchinson sold his share to Colonel Thomas Westbrook in the late 1720’s. John Wentworth John Wentworth was Born in Portsmouth New Hampshire, was…"
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"… company claim valuable, they deserved a greater share of it. Writing about Topsham residents to Enoch Freeman in 1762, Belcher Noyes grumbled that…"
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"By that time, Goodwin had bought a full company share and moved with his family into the Lincoln County Courthouse (built at the proprietors’…"
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"… the obligations that accompanied the privilege of sharing space. The written language of the English as compared with wampum protocols and verbal…"
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"This relied on information shared by Passamaquoddy knowledge keepers. This is outstandingly documented in the map of the interior canoe route between…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"Gershom Flagg (1705-1771) Gershom Flagg was half share owner in the Plymouth Company and a master builder."
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"… not seen as full members of the polity due to the shared Anglocentric bias of US and British officials, both French-speakers in the Madawaska…"
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Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation
"… physics, brick machines etc., bridges, bank stock, Society To Direct Foreigners, aquaducts etc., etc., etc. Jonathan Morgan, Portland, ca."
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"… Nations Conference of the Human Environment at Stockholm adopted a ten year moratorium on commercial whaling to allow the whale stocks to recover."
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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5
"The building was stocked and opened in the spring of 1892. John Scales died in 1923. His son Charles Scales passed away in 1934."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad
"The idea was a hit and pledges of aid and stock subscriptions began coming in. Gould thought about the railroad idea."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry
"… of the ship and it’s cargo, sort of like buying stock in a business today. They also felt the losses."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4
"The investors formed a joint stock association, with shares selling for $50 dollars each. That first year, workers produced about 15,000 pounds of…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould
"The idea was a hit and pledges of aid and stock subscriptions began coming in. Gould thought about the railroad idea."
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby
"It is interesting that no stock or tons of vessels are listed. He also had one purebred cow and one pig, but there is no record of him ever owning…"
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"… connection to Boston the town had the best stocked stores in the county. It was said that the lines of clothing, hardware, shoes, and ship…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair
"… Greater Shows has managed the Fair's entire stock of rides, as it does for other Maine fairs. The photo on the left is of a hot air balloon that…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"Much of the lumber stock along the east coast was already gone. Builders looked to the vast and nearly untouched lumber resources of Maine…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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