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From: "Stewart Rowe" <>
Subject: Re: [MAMIDDLE] Massachusetts lost N.H. and Maine - How and when
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:22:57 -0500
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But it certainly made for some horrendously complicated land title
conflicts!
Stew Rowe

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Subject: [MAMIDDLE] Massachusetts lost N.H. and Maine - How and when


> Source: New England - Time Life pub l967
>
> When Maine and New Hampshire were lost by Massachusetts, the character of
> the Bay Colony's government played no part in the separations.
Originally,
> New Hampshire was a proprietary grant to Captain John Mason from the
Crown.
> But he was an absentee landlord who ignored the colonists, and in 1641
several
> years after his death, the settlers requested that Massachusetts take
> jurisdiction
> over the area. In l679 the King gave New Hampshire a charter of its
> own,making
> it a separate royal province. Maine was purchased by Massachusetts in
l677.
> The territory had also been a grant to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, but neither
he
> nor
> his heirs had done much to develop the region and his grandson finally
sold a
> part of the rights to Massachusetts. The area remained a part of
> Massachusetts
> until 1820 when Maine was admitted to the Union as a state.
>
> Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
>
>
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