Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"Knox was able to acquire most of the patent, through purchase and through asserting Lucy’s rights of inheritance."

Historic Hallowell - Dr. Benjamin Page

"… medicine, performed minor surgery and sold patent medicine. His proficiency in the field of obstetrics earned him the title of "beloved physician"…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"… of the Kennebec River describing the Plymouth patent, ca. 1719Maine Historical Society The Kennebec Proprietors traced their title back to a 1629…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"He built and patented a boring machine, which was used in the wood turning industry. The last thing he patented was a spring-tooth rake."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… Office as we know it today, holding the first patent in the newly revised patent system. Knox House, Thomaston, 1870Thomaston Historical…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's Agricultural Pursuits

"U.S. patent # 6,285). In 1840, a local store advertised: “Wanted: 500 bushels of wheat, 1000 bushels oats & 100 bushels white pea beans in exchange…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"R.S. Morse applied for a patent for a “Cabbage Slicer” and received one on May 24, 1870 for his “favorite” Washtub Agitator."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"When the bounds of the patent were surveyed, it was discovered that Foxwell and Watts had instead settled within what was then called Black Point."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"All Humbug, Dr. Clearwater patent medicine advertisement, Hallowell, ca. 1935Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner Clearwater…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… a million-acre claim (later called the Waldo Patent) to the west of Penobscot Bay. For these proprietors and others like them who spearheaded…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"… Alan Taylor observed: In 1800 the Pejepscot Patent's settlers complained that "each claimant comes producing pompus Parchmints of royal patents or…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"… mill and The Heart Cure Co., a large mail order patent-medicine concern. The largest single employer, established after the Civil War, was the…"

Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health

"Midwifery, ground-breaking research, and even patent medicine empires have been part of Hallowell's medical history."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… “one car Royal Gem, one car Taylor’s Fancy Patent, just received direct form the mills and to be sold very low for cash or exchange of produce."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"Map of the Waldo Patent, 1786The General Henry Knox Museum The first Europeans to stay in the area came as a result of the Muscongus Patent, a…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"… - 1719 to 1740 After inheriting the Muscongus Patent from his grandfather, John Leverett arranged for a settlement of families in the vicinity of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 1 of 2

"Alvin designed the patents and his brother built the inventions. The Log Hauler’s patent was designed in 1901."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… worked for the proprietors locating copies of old patents and deeds within governmental archives, as well as the company patent appeal to the King…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"… the other potential sources of legal title: the patents and grants written by provincial or royal officials who most often were wholly ignorant of…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

"… Skyscraper;" inventor of the elevator (sold his patents to Otis); designer of fishing reels (also see business leader below) Supply Belcher…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Patented respectively in 1846 and 1851, chain stitch and lock stitch sewing machines were initially confined to commercial use, making items such as…"

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

"… and sometimes by vague agreements and grants or patents from even more distant courts or monarchies, and the noble English-speaking farmer-settlers…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… by the Proprietors as successors to the Plymouth Patent of 1629. The Vaughans were long-time supporters of American independence."