Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"… are only a handful of descendents of the early settlers still living in the area. The majority of the present population did not grow up in Hampden…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery

"… that it couldn't, but then where is it? The first settlers arrived in the 1760s and in the early town records it shows that the townspeople voted…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… spent the next few decades struggling to recruit settler-colonialists willing to move to what they viewed as a dangerous frontier."

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

"Settlers, including the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, sometimes relied on the Wabanaki people who remained to interpret early documents and the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… that if the garrison were surrendered, the settlers could leave safely. By the time Jocelyn returned to the garrison, all but his own family had…"

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… Benjamin took him to sell properties to the new settlers. Whenever Ben was sick or injured, instead of shutting down the shop, they kept it up and…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"As settlers moved to the area, it became known as Middletown and Readstown. William Read was one of the first settlers, coming from Nobleboro in 1784."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Early Settlers Many of the early settlers came from Cheshire, New Hampshire, Newbury, Massachusetts, and Berwick, Maine, and they scoped out the area…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… (as well as those subsequently built by the first settlers) were 18’ X 26’ rectangular one-and-one-half story structures with square-pitched…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"The History of Stockholm The First Settlers Aerial view of Stockholm. ca. 1930Stockholm Historical Society Settlement of wooded lots that were…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… these famous Mainers came to Hampden, the first settlers were laying the groundwork and helping create what would one day become a very desirable…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"During these early years about 40 settlers were living in the area; the patentees were obligated to recruit 50 settlers within 7 years to fulfill…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… Hill Historical Society The first European settlers, among them the Osgoods, Parkers, Peters, Holts, Candages, Hinckleys and Hortons, brought with…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"When European settlers arrived in the early 1600s they, too, quickly learned the value of the marsh."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"The first settlers of Byron were Samuel Knapp, Jonas Green, James Bawn, John Thomas, J. Stockbridge, Richard Morrell, and Abraham Reed."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"1676 Largely an unexplored territory by European settlers, 17th century Maine mostly consisted of towns in present-day York County which had sworn…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… of them, especially when we understand that the settlers referred to as the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors shaped not only what becomes the…"

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

"… recognized as making it possible for European settlers—and European settlers only—to have full title to land, even though they had to keep fighting…"

Historic Hallowell - Important Buildings and Institutions

"… see the handsome, spacious houses of the early settlers of old Hallowell, with their ever hospitable doors still open to the guest."

Historic Hallowell - Meeting at Koussinok

"Settlers were greeted warmly by the “gentle Abenaki” and were able to exchange their corn for 700 pounds of furs."

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3

"… because he was not allotted the usual 100 acres settlers lot for improvements, receiving instead 30 acres."

Guilford, Maine - WELCOME

"Learn about our people, from the early settlers, farmers, and land holders, through merchants and businessmen, to the soldiers and heroes who lived…"

Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Welcome to Strong

"… Native American living in the area when the white settlers arrived, referred to it as “middle town” on the Mussul Unsquit, his name for the Sandy…"