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A statue of Cleeve on Portland's waterfront (2013)

George Cleeve (c. 1586–after November 1666) was an English early settler and founder of today's Portland, Maine. He was Deputy President of the Province of Lygonia from 1643 until the final submission of its Maine towns to Massachusetts authority in 1658.

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George Cleeve

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George Cleeve (c. 1586–after November 1666) was an English early settler and founder of today's Portland, Maine. He was Deputy President of the Province...

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Peaks Island

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father-in-law, George Cleeve. It was subsequently named Munjoy's Island, for George Munjoy, and Palmer's Island, for Munjoy's son-in-law John Palmer. George M. Cohan...

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Lygonia

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on. The Plough Patent lay fallow until 1642, when it became known to George Cleeve, an early settler in the Portland area of Maine who had been an agent...

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George Munjoy

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Falmouth, Province of Maine. His father-in-law had purchased the land from George Cleeve, one of the founders of the city which is known today as Portland. Munjoy...

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Bourchier Cleeve

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Bourchier Cleeve (1715–1760) was an English pewterer and writer of pamphlets. A prosperous pewterer in London, he was the son of Alexander Cleeve, pewterer...

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Stephen Bachiler

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(deciding judge) in a Saco Court land dispute between George Cleeve and John Winter. By 1644, Cleeve had become deputy governor of Lygonia, a rival province...

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Cleeve Abbey

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Cleeve Abbey is a medieval monastery located near the village of Washford, in Somerset, England. It is a Grade I listed building and has been scheduled...

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Wessagusset Colony

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Archive. Adams, Jr., Charles Francis, Wessagusset and Weymouth, pp. 29–34 George Cleeve of Casco Bay: 1630–1667, with Collateral Documents, James Phinney Baxter...

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UG convoys

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by aircraft on 21 December 1943. U-969 torpedoed the Liberty Ships George Cleeve and Peter Skene Ogden in convoy GUS 31 on 22 February 1944. U-870 torpedoed...

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William Gorges

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established for his uncle. William Gorges became embroiled in a dispute with George Cleeve, a cantankerous early settler, who departed for England, where he voiced...

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List of colonial governors of Maine

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present-day Portland, Saco, and Scarborough under its control. Rigby sent George Cleeve, a settler who had fallen out with Gorges and then engineered the sale...

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List of shipwrecks in February 1944

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February 2015. "Liberty Ships – G". Mariners. Retrieved 6 January 2012. "George Cleeve". Uboat. Retrieved 24 April 2012. "Japanese Minelayers". Combinedfleet...

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Elizabeth George

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Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is an American writer of mystery novels set in Great Britain. She is best known for a series of novels...

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Richard Dummer

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investors back in England. In 1643, Dummer sold the patents through George Cleeve to Alexander Rigby, one of Cromwell's commanders; thus Dummer was the...

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Raven Black

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Raven Black is a 2006 novel by Ann Cleeves that won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year. Raven Black is the first in the...

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Cleeve Horne

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Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne, OC OOnt RCA, (January 9, 1912 – July 5, 1998) was a Canadian portrait painter and sculptor. Born in Jamaica, British West Indies...

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Henry Drummond Wolff

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of the profits resulting from the venture. Wolff's only daughter, Lucas Cleeve, was a novelist. Her son Algernon Kingscote was a notable tennis player...

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