Maine petitions and legal documents, 1680-1750 and undated.

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Maine petitions and legal documents, 1680-1750 and undated.

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Collection of petitions from the following: 1) Falmouth, Me.: petition signed by James Milk, William Cotton, Jedediah Preble, and Stephen Longfellow who formed a committee to look into altering a road in Falmouth (1750); 2) Casco Bay Region: Answer from the [Massachusetts] General Court (1680), to a petition by Joseph Phippen, Francis Neal, Sr., George Ingersole, et al., for a township to be laid out. Also includes two recommendations for George Thatcher: one for John Frothingham to be an inspector of distilleries in Portland, Me.; another recommending that the district of Maine not be annexed by New Hampshire because it would receive much of the collected revenue from distilleries.

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Maine Historical Society Library

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Ingersole, George

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Milk, James

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Thacher, George, 1754-1824

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Lawyer, judge, and member of Continental Congress, of Biddeford, Me. From the description of Papers, 1813-1853. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70979003 Continental congressman and representative from Massachusetts; surname also found spelled as Thatcher. From the description of Letter, 1789 Sept. 1. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70949847 George Thacher, of Maine, was a lawyer, judge and member of the...

Longfellow, Stephen, town clerk, of Falmouth, Me.

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Neal, Francis

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Massachusetts. General Court

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...

Cotton, William, active 1750-1757

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Phippen, Joseph

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Preble, Jedidiah, 1707-1784

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Military officer, lawyer, judge, and legislator, of Portland, Me. From the description of Journal of Jedidiah Preble and George Henry Preble, 1780 and undated. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 279173248 Revolutionary general. First name sometimes appears as Jedediah. From the description of LS : Boston, to Christopher Kilby, Whitehall, 1748 Jan. 5. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122541826 ...

Frothingham, John, 1750-1826

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John Frothingham was born in Portland, Maine, and came to Canada in 1809 to open a hardware store for Samuel May, who had a similar store in Boston where Frothingham worked. In 1831, he was one of the founders and a main shareholder of the City Bank of Montreal, which broke the monopoly of the Bank of Montreal in the city. He became president of the bank, a position he held from 1834 until his retirement in 1849. Frothingham's other business interests and activities included the Montreal Board o...