Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen

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Notes Chapter 1. “Delightfully Situated on a Healthy Hill” 1. Rowe, Maritime History of Maine, 24; Baker, “Formerly Machegonne,” 5 (see entire essay). Duncan, Coastal Maine, chs. 1–4, gives an extensive history of the early European exploration of the New World with emphasis on the French and English expeditions to the coast of Maine. For early reference to English expansion to Ireland and the Americas (1480–1650) see Andrews, Canny, and Hair, The Westward Enterprise; and Canny, Kingdom and Colony. 2. Duncan, Coastal Maine, 113. 3. Foulke, “Odysseus’s Oar,” 200. 4. Elwell, Portland and Vicinity, 9. The early history of Falmouth and Maine can be found in the following: Banks, ed., A History of Maine; Clark, Maine, Maine During the Colonial Period, and Eastern Frontier; Goold, Portland in the Past; Hatch, Maine; Neal, Portland Illustrated; Outwin, “Thriving and Elegant, Flourishing and Populous,” and “Thriving and Elegant Town;” Sullivan, History of the District of Maine; Williamson, The History of the State of Maine; Willis, History of Portland; and the Writers’ Project of the WPA, Portland City Guide. 5. Nash, Urban Crucible, 3. 6. Fernández-Armesto, quoted in Daniel Finamore, ed., Maritime History as World History, 2; and Janzen, “A World-Embracing Sea,” 102–114. 7. Neal, Portland Illustrated, 5; see also Eckstorm, Indian Place Names. See Baker, “Formerly Machegonne,” 1–19. 8. Jennings, Invasion of America. The first chapter of this book surveys the similarities between the British treatment of both Native Americans and of the Gaelic Irish in the early seventeenth century. 9. Elwell, Portland and Vicinity, 10. See also Churchill, “Too Great the Challenge .” 10. Roland, Bolster, and Keyssar, Way of the Ship, 10. 11. Wallace, “The Scotch-Irish of Provincial Maine,” 41–42, deals with early European relationships with Native Americans in Maine. See also Conforti, Creating Portland, xiii. 220 12. Willis, History of Portland, 325. For more information on this group, see Wallace , “The Scotch-Irish of Provincial Maine,” 41–59. 13. Elwell, Portland and Vicinity, 11. An invaluable source of information on the eighteenth-century history of Falmouth is the extensive diary collection of Parson (the Reverend Thomas) Smith covering the period from 1725 to 1788, during which time he ministered to the congregation of the First Parish Church. These are available at the Portland Room of the Portland Public Library and at the Maine Historical Society Library. Elwell and other local historians have used Smith extensively, as in this paraphrasing. 14. For a brief but informative synopsis of the growth of early commerce in Falmouth before the Revolution, see Outwin, “Thriving and Elegant Town,” 27–33. For a national look at these and subsequent years, see Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors. 15. Willis, History of Portland, 452. 16. Rowe, Maritime History of Maine, 54. 17. Willis, History of Portland, 453. 18. Barry, “A Concise History,” 30–31. 19. Willis, History of Portland, 460. 20. Hatch, Maine, 29. 21. Paine, Down East, 41. 22. Ibid., 43–46. 23. Duncan, Coastal Maine, 212–13. See all of chapter 15, “The Battle of Machias and the Burning of Falmouth,” including notes, 219–21. For an early and solid discussion of several “myths” concerning this episode, see Churchill, “Historiography of the Margaretta Affair.” 24. Hatch, Maine, 28; Clark, Maine, 63–66; and Yerxa, “Burning of Falmouth, 1775,” 141–42. A more current assessment of this episode may be found in Leamon, “Falmouth, the American Revolution,” 44–71. 25. Yerxa, “The Burning of Falmouth, 1775,” 149; see also Sherman, Life of Captain Jeremiah O’Brien. 26. Duncan, Coastal Maine, 218. 27. Yerxa, “The Burning of Falmouth, 1775,” 145. 28. Barry, “A Concise History,” 34. 29. Willis, History of Portland, 581. 30. Ibid., 579–80. See also Writers’ Project of the WPA, Portland City Guide, 36–37. 31. Outwin, “Thriving and Elegant Town,” 33. 32. Sources on post-Colonial Maine history may be found in Banks, Maine during the Federal and Jeffersonian Period. The story of Portland’s first century is recorded in Hull, ed., Centennial Celebration 1786–1886. Burial records, a much overlooked historical resource, are available in Jordan, Burial Records of the Eastern Cemetery, Notes to Pages 9–14 221 1717–1962, and Burial Records of the Western Cemetery, 1811–1980. See also Jordan, History of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. 33. Rowe, Maritime History of Maine, 67. 34. Willis, History of Portland, 562. 35. Albion, “Introduction,” v and vi. Albion was a 1914 graduate...