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Attempts to uncover the history of the name of Maine began with James Sullivan's 1795 "History of the District of Maine." He made the unsubstantiated claim that the Province of Maine was a compliment to the queen of Charles I , Henrietta Maria , who once "owned" the Province of Maine in France.
Charles A. Scontras (November 25, 1929 – March 7, 2021) ... Time-Line of Selected Highlights of Maine Labor History: 1636-2015 (2016) References
Grifo (748–749) – given the twelve counties of Maine by his brother, Pepin the Short, as appeasement, but rebelled the next year. Charles the Younger (790–811) – given the ducatus Cenomannicus to govern by his father, Charlemagne. Lothair I (817–831) – given the ducatus as part of a division of the realm by his father, Louis the Pious.
Charles IV of Maine (1414–1472) was a French prince of blood and an advisor to Charles VII of France, his brother-in-law, during the Hundred Years' War. He was the third son of Louis II, Duke of Anjou and King of Naples, and Yolande of Aragon. [2] In 1434, he married Covella Ruffo (d. 1442), Countess of Montalto and Corigliano. [3]
Charles had intended to include the former Gorges territory in this grant, but the Gorges' heirs instead chose to sell their remaining claims to Massachusetts. In 1674-75, the region between the Kennebec River and Penobscot Bay was administered as Devonshire County, District of Maine, Massachusetts Bay Colony , overlapping the New York claim.
History of Thomaston, Maine (1886) [5] A Brief History of Maine (1888) Gazetteer of Massachusetts (1890) [6] The Story of Patriot's Day, Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775 (1895) The Story of Jonah (1897) His 1881 work, Gazetteer of the State of Maine, was published by B. B. Russell in Cornhill, Boston. [3]
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Charles Edward Banks (1854 – October 22, 1931) [1] was an American medical doctor best known as a historian and genealogist of colonial New England. [2]Among the works he is best remembered for are his history of Martha's Vineyard in three volumes (Boston, 1911–1925), his book on the English origins of immigrants to New England, and his history of York, Maine, the second volume of which he ...