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A must for anyone interested in the Early Republic or Maine history, though this book is rather hard to find. I looked for this in many a used bookstore, intending to buy it- after all, Im a graduate student studying Maine in the Early Republic, so this one is sort of a necessity. Couldnt find it anywhere, which is kind of weird, since Alan Taylor is eminent and award winning and all that, and there are always copies of his other books around. Eventually I gave up and got it at the library. This details the fascinating time in Maines history when Maine was like the Wild West, except it was the Wild East. Rich men (great proprietors) owned huge swaths of land in Maine, and poor farmers (liberty men) moved up to Maine after the American Revolution to settle these lands. The settlers were hoping that the Revolution would invalidate these huge landholdings. They believed that no one had the right to own a million acres of land, and real ownership came when a family settled on the land, cut down the trees, planted crops, and built a house. The Revolution did not invalidate the claims, however, and the great proprietors demanded payment from these squatter farmers. So, in a similar fashion to people in Massachusetts during Shays Rebellion (as well as other conflicts in other parts of America), the Maine settlers revolted. They formed posses, broke people out of jail, kicked surveyors out at gunpoint, dressed like Indians to threaten messengers, and burned the barns of those they suspected of working with the proprietors. Conflicts like this happened over a really wide area, all the way from the Androscoggin to the Penobscot, basically all of what is now Central Maine. There were all kinds of religious and political issues mixed up in the conflict too, and Taylor writes about the decline of Congregational Churches and the rise of the Baptists and Methodists, and the decline of Federalist power and the rise of the Jeffersonians. I spent a lot of time thinking about my ancestors. I wonder if they were dressing up like Indians or getting shot at by people dressed like Indians? I dont think they had much money, so Im going with dressing up.
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