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From: "Billie R. Lewis" <>
Subject: Re: [LEWIS-L] Who Owned Maine?
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:24:54 -0400


I hate to be nasty, but you are just plain stupid or too lazy to look
in any books for documentation. Why do you even bother to find your
relatives? If the genes they handed down to you are what you are
displaying in brain power, I wouldn't waste the time if I were you.
This is the last message I shall read from you so don't bother your
crummy fingers to type any more. You'll get erased without being read.
BRL
-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan L. Court <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, July 05, 1999 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [LEWIS-L] Who Owned Maine?

>It never happened! If it did, you should write about it and be
famous.
>
>"Billie R. Lewis" wrote:
>>
>> Bryan, I think you need to read a little more carefully. I said
they
>> were "British residents" which means they were still residents of
the
>> British Isles but had trading posts along the coast of Maine. I
never
>> said they were "Maine residents."
>>
>> I think you need to write to the Maine libraries or study your New
>> England history a bit more. Even though Maine was not chartered
until
>> 1639 by King Charles I, as the "Countie of Mayne" ( the original
>> constitution was written in 1819), entrepreneurs (fisherman and
>> traders) had set up trading posts along the coast of today's
Maine
>> before the Pilgrims came on the "Mayflower." I presume you do know
>> that date.
>>
>> " WHEN THE PILGRIMS ARRIVED THEY REPORTED A THRIVING FISHING AND
>> TRADING POST AT PENNAQUID." (ref: Vol 13, AMERICAN PEOPLES
>> ENCYCLOPEDIA. Also see Bradford's PLIMOUTH PLANTATION). I presume
you
>> know "Pennaquid" is in New England. "The New England coast had
been
>> familliar territory to English fishermen and fur traders long
before
>> the 'Mayflower.'" (ref: Time-Life NEW ENGLAND; p. 56)
>>
>> Records in England, which I have seen personally, document that
there
>> were trading posts along the coast of Maine. How do you think
Squanto
>> learned English and was back in the New World not once but twice
>> before he was there to greet the Pilgrims? He had been kidnapped
from
>> today's Plymouth, Mass
>>
>> It is believe that the Cabots, John and his three sons, were on the
>> Maine Coast in the 1400's and Weymouth was definitely there in
1609
>> as were others if you are interested enough to read history.
>>
>> I don't intend to waste my time to teaching you, but for the
benefit
>> of others who will read your snide message, I would like to say
that
>> you shouldn't show your ignorance while trying to be a "know it
all."
>> You either had a poor history teacher or forgot what you knew. On
the
>> other hand, even if you have forgotten what you learned in school
one
>> would think you would know how to look up something before
spouting
>> off, possibly while trying to appear cute. Again "British
>> Residents" means just that! Not Maine residents." Even one
hundred
>> years prior to 1620 seems to be a "long" time to me.
>>
>> Please don't respond to this because I don't want my mail
cluttered.
>> The one thing I have always liked about genealogy was the aura
which
>> seemed to be around the nice people searching family history, but
>> somehow that light is dimming rapidly.
>>
>> Billie Redding Lewis
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bryan L. Court <>
>> To: <>
>> Date: Monday, July 05, 1999 12:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: [LEWIS-L] Who Owned Maine?
>>
>> >I had thought I heard everything. There were NO British residents
in
>> >Maine before 1620 when the Pilgrims came. Where in the world is
your
>> >source for this. Who were the British residents long BEFORE
1620???
>> >=========================================
>> >
>> >"Billie R. Lewis" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Maine was a fishing village occupied by British residents long
>> before
>> >> the Mayflower Pilgrims came. Various encyclopedia volumes give
much
>> >> history on the colony of Maine and its wars and occupants. My
>> Redding
>> >> family who married into the Lewis family lived in Maine on the
>> Redding
>> >> Islands but the Lewis family, including the Redding daughter and
>> some
>> >> of her brothers were killed in the 1600's during the Indian
Wars.
>> BRL
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Kathleen T. Choi <>
>> >> To: <>
>> >> Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 7:51 PM
>> >> Subject: [LEWIS-L] Who Owned Maine?
>> >>
>> >> >I suspect Maine was acquired through right of conquest, that it
>> >> >previously belonged to the British, who acquired it through
Indian
>> >> >treaties and the French and Indian War. However, I'm just
>> guessing.
>> >> >When you go to the Bureau of Land Management site, the original
>> >> >individual deeds include a line with the date on which the
>> government
>> >> >acquired the land. That would give you a clue, I would think.
>> >> >
>> >> >I suspect we got it thanks to the Revolution. I think this
>> because
>> >> so
>> >> >many of my relatives moved up there after the war. The land
was
>> >> free,
>> >> >of course, to veterans, which would make it attractive,
especially
>> to
>> >> >younger sons. However, the government gave away or sold
extremely
>> >> cheap
>> >> >land it wanted settled on other occasions. Those of my family
who
>> >> lived
>> >> >in Maine prior to the Revolution lived in the coastal towns.
The
>> >> >veterans all moved inland.
>> >> >
>> >> >Kathleen
>> >> >
>> >> >
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