The Province of Maine refers to any of the various English colonies established in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America, within...
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period. The province of Maine was named after them, in the 6th century CE as in Cinomanico (in pago Celmanico in 765, *Cemaine, then Le Maine from the 12th...
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adjoining English colonial Province of Maine, which was in turn likely named by early explorers after the province of Maine in France. Massachusetts Bay...
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The coastal areas of eastern Maine first became the Province of Maine in a 1622 land patent. The part of western Maine north of the Kennebec River was...
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rivers, as well as an irregular parcel of land between the headwaters of the two rivers, became the province of Maine in a 1622 land grant. In 1629, the land...
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Maine is unclear. One theory is that it was named after the French province of Maine. Another is that it derives from a practical nautical term, "the main"...
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the Province of Maine, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick; the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the direct successor. Maine has...
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New England Colonies Province of New Hampshire (1680–1686, 1692–1783) Province of Massachusetts Bay (1692–1776) Province of Maine (various dates) Canada...
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of Maine has a tangled colonial history. After the failed Popham Colony of 1607–08, portions of Maine's territory were styled the Province of Maine and...
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Ferdinando Gorges (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales)
and settlement of North America as well as his efforts in founding the Province of Maine in 1622 earned him the title of the "Father of English Colonization...
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