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Aziscoohos Lake/Magalloway River/NW Maine
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Waves new Paleo-Indians arrive from SE
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Useful, Decorated fired clay pots appear/ an era of craftsmen
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It is rumored that Lief Erikson landed in North America somewhere around the time of 1000 AD
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Estimated Indigenous population in Maine
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Columbus lands in the new world
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Europeans arrive and encounter Indigenous Peoples / Contact, Challenges, Conflicts
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John Cabot discovers the new world for England
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Giavanni Verrazano sails for the new world
He is the the first person to sail to the new world that we have paintings of
He also has the most accurate account of his journey -
Esteban Gomez sails for the new world representing Spain
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Sailed south to the Caribbean's and was killed and eaten by natives
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Longest continual inhabitation of a European settlement in the Americas
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Sails down coast of Maine
Erects first cross in the new world in St. George Maine
Might have seen the White mountains
Invited 5 natives for dinner and then kidnapped them and took them to England
Maybe showed them to the king
Gave a native by the name of "Squanto" to Sir Ferdinando Gorges -
Champlain makes 14 trips to and from the new world
Named: Mount Desert, Lake Champlain, Acadia
Founded Quebec city
Father of new France
Buried Under the great cathedral of Quebec -
mostly fur trade
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Fighting over fur skins especially beaver
Fighting among the natives and also Europeans -
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Poor leadership leads to the colony moving back to England
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Jamestown sent a ship to Maine to get food to survive
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some sort of plague kills 90%-95% of natives from Penobscot to Chesapeake bay
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August 1622 sir ferdinando and john mason get grants from the king of England
john mason comes from Hampshire England
1622 Sir Ferdinando names his land holding "Mayne"
splits land claim with John Mason and names it New Hampshire -
Bought 725 pounds of beaver fur for roughly $14 worth of beads
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exported 20 hogs heads of beaver pelts
1 hogs head can hold 5600 beaver skins if packed tightly -
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John Hoskins sails up river anchors off of trading post
he says I'm here to trade and pilgrims say get lost
gets his anchor cut and so gets mad and fires on the town and kills someone
pilgrims kill him -
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Sir Ferdinando appointed the first legally constituted court of Maine
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Gorgeana established on the York river
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He never saw the new world
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The Puritans sent a lovely letter saying "we will make you free men of Massachusetts and protect you if you submit to us"
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The Puritans sent a lovely letter saying "we will make you free men of Massachusetts and protect you if you submit to us"
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puritans hang Quakers in Boston commons for advocating equality
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Charles II is elected to the throne because Puritans were doing a bad job
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leads a rebellion that kills almost all the whites in new england like the great dying
attacks Falmouth drives the settlers out to the isles 1676 pushed out to cushings isle -
puritans buy the old charter from the grandson of Sir Ferdinando for 1200 pounds technically owning Maine
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battle fought in deering oaks the french and english have a battle in october
bracket farm
major benjamen church guerilla expert writes it out
english loses first black slave
battle barely won battle by English
some trees were witness to the battle -
Castine says "as Christians we offer you safe passage"
and once the gates were open he sent the natives in to kill the inhabitants -
Castine burns Falmouth and almost drives the English out of Maine
those not killed were taken captive for ransom (Roughly 100 woman and children -
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Wealthiest person in the new world
First American baron
Mainer -
Maine Indigenous Peoples collectively called the Wabanaki
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French fort built in Canada
Known as the Gibraltar of the new world -
Sir William Pepperrell gets knighted for his attack on Fort Louisbourg
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oldest blockhouse in the USA
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Oldest still standing fort in the USA
In Augusta -
Built in Stroudwater
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Battle fought on the plains of Abraham outside of Quebec
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men gathered in burnhams tavern to discus
raised liberty pole to say fuck you
plan to capture the british in church
O'Briens family chase british vessle taunting them
british "Margaretta" open fire on "Machias Liberty"
attacks war vessle with pitchforks
Victory for the patriots -
Instead of taking 2 weeks it took 4 months
Hurricane hits army while they're on the river -
Captain Moet
surrender all your arms and i shall spare your town
9 am on the 18th of october raise red flag and then commence bombardment
for 8 hours bombards town
aim at steeple of first parish church Alice Greeley
tossing red hot cannonballs into ditches with frying pan
fights off troops with broom
Saved her tavern burns 414 of 500 buildings
british takes all vessles in harbor
gorham loots town -
appointed superintendent of the easter indians
sends letter to indians adressing them as brothers we must fight together as brothers
letter exists today -
col allen called meeting of native allies in machias
allen and natives have the british trapped
chief hits lucky shot says it was the great spirit and they shall only worship Jesus and George Washington -
Hannah and Rebecca Weston collected gunpowder from neighbors and assisted in making lead bullets and then carried them to Machias
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Worst navel disaster in us history other than pearl harbor
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arms himself with muskets pistols and knives
tried as a traitor
get ahold of a gimlet
slowly drill holes in wood celing
manages to escape british army
489 congress is wadsworth longfellow house 1st brick house in portland
only remaining colonial house -
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District of Maine has 96,540
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snowed ever month
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Independence from Massachusetts
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Maine population 298,335
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serves in 9 different battles
keeps notes on battles
moves to Prospect Maine after war
writes memoirs -
Paul Revere neglects to arm all 350 cannons in the attack on Bagaduce and yet Henry Longfellow makes him into a hero
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While excavating a midden they found a coin that dates back to the time of the rule of Olaf Kyree.
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Permanent Viking settlement discovered
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Joseph Plumb Martin has his memoirs rewritten
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