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The Bingham Purchase refers to several tracts of land in the U.S. state of Maine, [1] formerly owned by William Bingham.. These lands were granted to early colonizers in the 1630s, and became part of the larger Waldo Patent, named after Samuel Waldo, who acquired the land grants in 1720.
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In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River. These acts were the first sovereign decisions of post-war North–South capitalist ...
Mason's Lands, 1629; Gorges Patent, (de facto 1629; official 1639) Comnock's Patent, 1629; Second Kennebec Patent (also known as the Kennebec Purchase or Plymouth Patent), 1629; Lygonia Patent, 1630; Muscongus Patent (also known as the Waldo Patent, and, eventually, the Bingham Purchase), 1630; Pemaquid Patent, 1631; Black Point Grant, 1631
General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha ...
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The Desert of Maine in 2010. As the glaciers in Maine started to melt, approximately 15,000 years ago, the land began to rebound. [10] By about 13,500 years ago, the glaciers' retreat reached the Freeport area, where the land that would comprise the future Desert of Maine began to emerge from below the sea. [11] [12] [13]
There were 110 households, out of which 26.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.8% were married couples living together, 3.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.1% were non-families. 20.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older ...