Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - North Church

"1860Farmington Historical Society Early settlers, representing five denominations, met their religious needs in their homes with traveling ministers."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of East New Portland

"… built by Ebenezer Richardson, one of the original settlers. According to town records the Parsons Bridge was the first bridge built with town money."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"… or Wheelersborough or Olive and finally Hampden Settlers called the township Souadabscook Plantation or Wheeler’s Mills."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1940 to Present Day

"… and individuals, a few who trace lineage to early settlers in the late 18th century, some to Scotch Irish immigrants arriving in the 19th century…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"These early settlers in Downeast Maine were proficient navigators; they had to be, especially since this section of the Maine coast is very rocky…"

Norway Memorial Library

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Crew

"… family goes back to some of the first English settlers to come to Swan's Island, the Sadlers. She would visit Swan's Island during school vacations…"

Mount Desert Island Historical Society

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Dixfield Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Lunt turned his share over to his sons. First Settlers Merrill Knight House Merrill Knight's house built in 1810 is still a home in 2013, Peru…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"… streets and buildings were named after the early settlers including Howard Hall, Goodwin cottages, Day Hill, Richards Avenue, Wills Block, Packard…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… by recruiting Scots-Irish, Huguenot, and German settlers when New Englanders did not find their terms inviting."

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

"… account books, church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary commissions—all offer insight into struggles over…"

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

"… brandished these musty parchments before rival companies, metropolitan officials, and ordinary settlers alike as a strategy for asserting title."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… the early and mid-seventeenth century, English settlers with very different notions of property arrived in the Dawnland, forming coastal outposts…"

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

"… authorities, but also sharp differences among settlers and leaders in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia as well as those in the new sovereign polities…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… actually make good on his grant by transporting settlers was an immediate and complete failure. These seventeenth-century efforts to bring the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"He came from Andover and so did many of the next settlers in 1765; Nicholas Holt, Samuel Foster, Jonathan Darling , Ezekiel Osgood, and more."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"To early settlers she was familiarly known as Indian Jane, Jane the Indian or Jane Hannup. In 1651, Jane and her brother, as heirs of Wackwarreska…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… to the challenging journeys that European settlers took through ancient North Yarmouth's dense forests."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"The first white settlers arrived in the late eighteenth century, drawn by the abundance of fish and game, timber, waterpower, and farm land."

Westport Island History Committee

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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 5 of 5

"… Press, 1990) Angela Tozer, “Democracy in a Settler State? Settler Colonialism and the Development of Canada, 1820-67” in Julien Maudit and Jennifer…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Thus it is that the first early settler died for his country. Most settlers were of English and Scottish ancestry and many were Revolutionary War…"