Province of Maine

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The Province of Maine refers to any of the various English colonies with this name established in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America.

Establishment

August 1622: The first patent establishing the Province of Maine was granted on August 10, 1622 to Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason by the Plymouth Council for New England, which itself had been granted a royal patent by James I to the coast of North America between the 40th to the 48th parallel "from sea to sea".

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1630: The Province of New Hampshire was a colony of England and later a British province in North America. The name was first given in 1629 to the territory between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers on the eastern coast of North America, and was named after the county of Hampshire in southern England by Captain John Mason, its first named proprietor.

January 1659: By 1658 Massachusetts had completed the assimilation of all of Gorges' original territory into its jurisdiction.

January 1692: Sagadahoc Colony absorbed into the Province of Maine. In 1691, a new charter of Massachusetts was granted by William III and Mary II and included the Province of Maine, the "territory of Sagadahoc", and also Nova Scotia.