Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2015

An Enterprising Brig

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A poem from the   History of Boothbay, Southport... : Also see The Enterprise And The Boxer .
Friday, July 31, 2015

Charles Hare And British Man-O-War Bream With

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Source  - Not The Wasp And Bream Text taken from   A History of American Privateers : The Wasp Captain E. Ewing (or Ervin) also wa...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

British Officers On The Penobscot

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British Military Uniforms [YouTube] The Maine Historical Magazine, Volume 3
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Virtually Under Siege

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BLM GLO Records Map That the Hyder Ally 's prize was recaptured off Cape Elizabeth is not really much of a surprise. Throughout 1...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Rattler and Bream Off Pemaquid Point

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Source A story from the   History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. 1623-1905 : Early in the spring of 1813 t...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

British Lieutenant Charles Hare

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From Testimonials and memorials of the services of Lieut. Charles Hare, of the ... : This is to Certify that Lieutenant Charles Ha...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Capt. Peter Merrill's Company

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From the Old Times In North Yarmouth  book : It is valuable to the historian in showing who were the able bodied men liable for military...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Seat Of War Map

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From John Hopkins University ( Sheridan Libraries ): Source The Library of Congress calls this "A correct map of the seat of w...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Fort George, Castine, Maine

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 Fort George (at Fort Wiki ) and at North American Forts .
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Soldier Sewall Prince

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Source Sewell Prince was found on the Pay Roll of Capt. A. W. Atherton's Company, Lieut. Col. Nichols' Regiment. From Sept. 1...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Embarked In Smuggling

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The war of 1812 was not wholly popular with the inhabitants of the coast towns of Maine. The embargo Act of April 4 , and the declarat...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

The Hyder-Ally Privateers

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From  Maine Stories : "The Hyder Ally was built in Portland by shipwright Samuel Fickett at a dock near the foot of Park Street....
Friday, September 6, 2013

The Enterprise And The Boxer

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On September 5, 1813 .... Source ...it was believed in Halifax that thereafter his Majesty's ships were to have as easy a time ...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Battle Of Hampden

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The Battle of Hampden took place in present-day Maine on September 3, 1814 .   Gen. John Blake  (a Cleveland descendant as am I) particip...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

A Maine Soldier: Ammi R. Lane

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Source Source United States Census, 1850 Name: Ammi Lane Oxford, Oxford, Maine, United States Birthplace: Maine Hou...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Captain Lemuel Harvey....

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....Of North Yarmouth, Maine: Source : Remains Of Fort Castine, Castine, Maine During the War of 1812-14 his [Captain Lemuel Harvey...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Enos Soule, A Dartmoor Prisoner

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Source Capt. [Enos] Soule served in the war of 1812, in which he was taken prisoner , and suffered the horrors of Dartmoor Prison for...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Engagement Near Boothbay, Maine

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"An event took place in 1814 which is the only known instance resulting in loss of life within the town limits during the war."  A...
Monday, January 7, 2013

General Blake And The Battle of Hampden

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Source:   Genealogy of the Cleveland Family Gen. John Blake was present at the battle of Hampden , Sep. 3, 1814, where the very Bri...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Chesley Blake And Maine's Bloody Ninth

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From   Historical collections, Volume 22 , a vignette about Captain Chesley Blake: When the war of 1812 broke out he entered a Maine r...