Province of Maine

(noun)

The Province of Maine refers to several English colonies of that name that existed in the seventeenth century along the northeast coast of North America, at times roughly encompassing portions of the present-day U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, as well as the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick.

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Examples of Province of Maine in the following topics:

  • Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine

    • The designation of colonial New England included colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
    • Two small proprietary colonies were set up - one in New Hampshire and one in Maine.
    • New Hampshire was not truly a separate province from Massachusetts until after 1691.
    • A code of laws was drawn up, beginning with penal laws, which were actually borrowed from the Bible.
    • Analyze and discuss the founding of the New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Maine Colonies in New England.

  • An Emerging Colonial System

    • The Dominion of New England was created in 1685 by a decree from King James II that consolidated Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Province of New York, East Jersey, and West Jersey into a single larger colony.
    • The Province of Maine was settled in 1622.
    • Maine was officially merged into Massachusetts Bay Colony with the issuance of the Massachusetts Bay charter of 1691.
    • The Province of Carolina was founded in 1663.
    • This territorial map includes The British Province of Quebec and the British thirteen colonies on the Atlantic coast.

  • The Dominion of New England

    • The Dominion of New England in North America was an administrative union of English colonies, including the territories of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, the Province of Maine, and the Narragansett Country (present-day Washington County, Rhode Island).
    • It was composed of the present-day states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey.
    • Other provinces did not resist the imposition of the new law even though, at least in Rhode Island, the rates were higher than they had been under the previous colonial administration.
    • The Lords of Trade decided to solve the issue by combining the two provinces.
    • The resulting Province of Massachusetts Bay, whose charter was issued in 1691 and began operating in 1692 under governor Sir William Phips, combined the territories of both colonies, along with the islands south of Cape Cod (Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands) that had previously been part of New York.

  • The Conquest of New York

    • The Dutch colony of New Netherland was captured by the British and chartered by the Duke of York, who later became James II of England.
    • In March, 1665, the Duke of York was granted a Royal colony which included New Netherland and present-day Maine.
    • The New Netherland claim included western parts of present-day Massachusetts, putting the new province in conflict with the Massachusetts charter.
    • In 1665, the Province of New Jersey was created from a portion of New York, but the border was not finalized until 1765.
    • New York became a royal province in February of 1685 when its proprietor, the Duke of York, was crowned King James II of England.

  • The Dutch Empire

    • In 1602, the government of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands chartered the Dutch East India Company with the mission of exploring for a passage to the Indies and claiming any uncharted areas for the United Provinces.
    • This charter led to several significant expeditions, and eventually to the creation of the province of New Netherland.
    • In 1626, the Director of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Minuit, purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape and started the construction of Fort Amsterdam, which grew to become the main port and capital, New Amsterdam .
    • Not all of the inhabitants of the province were ethnically Dutch; many came from a variety of other European countries.
    • The province was renamed New York (from James's English title).

  • The Founding of Carolina

    • The Province of Carolina, originally chartered in 1629, was an English and later British colony of North America.
    • The Province of Carolina was controlled from 1663 to 1729 by these lords and their heirs.
    • In 1691, dissent over the governance of the province led to the appointment of a deputy governor to administer the northern half of Carolina.
    • The Earl of Clarendon was one of eight Lords Proprietor given title to the Province of Carolina.
    • This is one of the earliest geographical charts of the province of Carolina

  • The Carolinas

    • The Province of Carolina was originally chartered in 1629.
    • The southern part of Carolina had been producing rice and indigo (a plant that yields a dark blue dye used by English royalty) since the 1700s, and South Carolina continued to depend on these main crops.
    • The Charleston settlement was the principal seat of government for the entire province.
    • During this period, the two halves of the province began increasingly to be known as North Carolina and South Carolina.
    • From 1708 to 1710, due to disquiet over attempts to establish the Anglican Church in the province, the people were unable to agree on a slate of elected officials.

  • Settling the Southern Colonies

    • At the time, they consisted of South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia; their historical names were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, the Province of Carolina, and the Province of Georgia.
    • The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore, who wished to create a haven for Roman Catholics in the New World at the time of the European wars of religion.
    • The next major development in the history of the Southern Colonies was the Province of Carolina, originally chartered in 1629.
    • The Province of Georgia (also called the Georgia Colony) was the last of the 13 original colonies established by Great Britain.
    • In the original grant, a narrow strip of the province extended to the Mississippi River.

  • Georgia

    • The Province of Georgia was chartered as a proprietary colony in 1733 and was the last of the 13 original British colonies.
    • The Province of Georgia, also called Georgia Colony, was one of the southern colonies in British America and the last of the 13 original colonies established by Great Britain.
    • The area within the charter had previously been part of the original grant of the Province of Carolina, which was closely linked to Georgia.
    • Oglethorpe imagined a province populated by "sturdy farmers" that could guard the border and because of this, the colony's charter prohibited slavery.
    • A new and accurate map of the Provinces of North and South Carolina

  • Empires in Conflict

    • By raiding settlements in the south of present-day Maine, New France and the Wabanaki Confederacy were able to thwart New England expansion into Acadia, whose border New France defined as the Kennebec River in southern Maine.
    • Toward this end, they executed raids against targets in Massachusetts (including present-day Maine), starting with the Northeast Coast Campaign.
    • Thomas Nairne, the Province of Carolina's Indian agent, planned an expedition of British soldiers and their Indian allies to destroy the French settlement at Mobile and the Spanish settlement at Pensacola.
    • The privateering was finally curbed in 1710 when Britain provided military support to its American colonists, resulting in the British Conquest of Acadia (which became peninsular Nova Scotia), the main base used by the privateers.
    • Following Queen Anne's War, relations between Carolina and the nearby native populations deteriorated, resulting in the Yamasee War of 1715 and Father Rale's War a few years later, which very nearly destroyed the province.