Odds and Ends

“Femes soles” means women alone: unmarried, widowed, or divorced. They had a lot more rights than a feme covert. “Feme covert” means married woman. Back

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*From research at library.hbs.edu. (Harvard Business School) Read about the rights or lack thereof of women in Women, Enterprise & Society. It is about Women

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*From research such as The Great Courses, The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World by Prof. Robert Garland comes this: In

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Speaking with a cousin today, he related how when he was in high school, he and a friend were riding around in Moro Plt. in

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The Mayflower Quarterly Magazine started a three-part series, with the spring 2022 edition about the ships that followed the Mayflower. There are no surviving passenger

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Why is it called New Portland in Somerset County? It was given to people from Falmouth (now Portland) after it was destroyed by the British

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When you’re looking for ancestors from certain towns or don’t know where they came from, don’t forget the Maine Registers. You may find them listed

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Hopefully, you saw the 60 Minutes episode on CBS last month about the man who bought a house in Virginia that was on the plantation

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The Bangor Daily News has articles on the use of the death penalty in Maine that is very interesting and they do contain genealogical info.

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There is an interesting article in the Maine Archives and Museums Quarterly from the May 2022 issue: “Cemeteries as Museums by Ron Romano.”

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