This article is about the 17th-century English colony on territory that eventually became the U.S. state of Maine. For the traditional French province, see Maine (province). For other uses, see Maine (disambiguation).
Province of Maine
1622–1691
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The 1622 grant of the Province of Maine is shown outlined in blue. The 1629 division into the Province of New Hampshire (south of the Piscataqua) and the Province of Maine (north of the Piscataqua) is shown by shading. The boundaries of the Massachusetts Bay Company grant are shown in green.
Status
Disestablished
Religion
Anglicanism, Congregationalism
Government
Self-governing colony
Governor
• 1636-1638
William Gorges (first)
• 1689-1692
Thomas Danforth (last)
Historical era
British colonization of the Americas Puritan migration to New England
• Established
1622
• Council for New England patent
1622
• Gorges Patent
1639
• Duke of York grants
1664
• Dominion of New England
1686-1689
• Dissolved, incorporated into Massachusetts Bay
1691
Succeeded by
Massachusetts Bay Colony
District of Maine
The Province of Maine refers to any of the various English colonies established in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America, within portions of the present-day U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick. It existed through a series of land patents made by the kings of England during this era, and included New Somersetshire, Lygonia, and Falmouth (now Portland, Maine). The province was incorporated into the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1650s, beginning with the formation of York County, Massachusetts, which extended from the Piscataqua River to just east of the mouth of the Presumpscot River in Casco Bay. Eventually, its territory grew to encompass nearly all of present-day Maine.
The ProvinceofMaine refers to any of the various English colonies established in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America, within...
The coastal areas of eastern Maine first became the ProvinceofMaine in a 1622 land patent. The part of western Maine north of the Kennebec River was...
adjoining English colonial ProvinceofMaine, which was in turn likely named by early explorers after the provinceofMaine in France. Massachusetts Bay...
rivers, as well as an irregular parcel of land between the headwaters of the two rivers, became the provinceofMaine in a 1622 land grant. In 1629, the land...
Maine is unclear. One theory is that it was named after the French provinceofMaine. Another is that it derives from a practical nautical term, "the main"...
the ProvinceofMaine, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick; the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the direct successor. Maine has...
New England Colonies Provinceof New Hampshire (1680–1686, 1692–1783) Provinceof Massachusetts Bay (1692–1776) ProvinceofMaine (various dates) Canada...
and settlement of North America as well as his efforts in founding the ProvinceofMaine in 1622 earned him the title of the "Father of English Colonization...
The former provinceofMaine was partitioned into two, Upper Maine, centred on Le Mans, became the new department of Sarthe, and Lower Maine, centred on...
establishment of the Plymouth Colony, the Provinceof New Hampshire, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony, and the ProvinceofMaine. Sir Ferdinand...
of the provinceofMaine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Mans. Le Mans is a part of the...
The Provinceof New Hampshire was a colony of England and later a British province in New England. The name was first given in 1629 to the territory between...
established a settlement on Saint Croix Island, Maine in June 1604 under the authority of the King of France. Nearly half the settlers perished due to...
immediately adjoining departments (the whole of the historical province Anjou is contained inside Pays de la Loire). Maine: is now divided between the Mayenne...
colonial governor of the ProvinceofMaine. Gorges was born in January 1605, the son of Sir Edward and Dorothy Speke Gorges, and nephew of Sir Edward's younger...
into the ProvinceofMaine. In 1691, a new charter of Massachusetts was granted by William III and Mary II and included the ProvinceofMaine, the "territory...
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