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As divided by the Continental Congress in 1778, the District of Maine was the northernmost of three districts in Massachusetts. At the time, the district was composed of York, Cumberland and Lincoln Counties, the area having been York County, Massachusetts until the creation of Cumberland and Lincoln in 1760. (By statehood, the state had added Hancock, Kennebec, Oxford, Penobscot, Somerset and Washington CountiesWashington County is a county located in the U. State of Maine. As of 2000, the population is 33,941. Its county seat is Machias 6. Sometimes referred to as "Sunrise Country" because of its location as the easternmost territory of the United States, where.)
After 1677, when the Province of MaineThe Province of Maine refers to several English colonies of that name that existed in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America, at times roughly encompassing portions of the present-day U. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, as wel was sold to Massachusetts Bay ColonyThe Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called by the name Massachusetts Bay Company for the institution that founded it) was the direct predecessor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and then the state of Massachusetts. The colony was established under for the sum of £1250 (and later incorporated into the territory of the Province of Massachusetts BayThe Province of Massachusetts Bay was a crown colony organized October 7, 1691 in North America by the monarch of England. The charter was enacted May 14, 1692 and included Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, the Provi) and prior to the district's organization in 1778, the area was known as the Province of Maine of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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