URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008000856
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2008000856#concept
Codes
- n-us-me
Variants
- Cammocks Patent (Me.)
Broader Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Work cat.: NUCMC data from Maine Hist. Soc. for Scarborough, Me., papers, 1666-1794(Cammock Patent)
- found: Attwood, S.B. Length and breadth of Maine, 1946:p. 110 (under Black Point, Scarboro: near outlet of Spurwink River (PRT). Blacke Point (MH5). Blake Point (MH9). Cammocks Patent (MH1))
- found: Libbey, D.S. Scarborough becomes a town, 1955:p. 8 (the first legal proprietor within the town was Captain Thomas Cammock, a nephew of the Earl of Warwick; the grant given to him in 1631 by his uncle, then president of the New England Council, was fifteen hundred acres at Black Point; the property extended from the Nonsuch to the Spurwink rivers, extending one mile up the Spurwink. Cammock ... built here sometime before 1638; Cammock was joined by his ... business partner, Henry Jocelyn, who along his Cammock's wife, had equal shares in the property; Cammock died in 1643 and Jocelyn assumed full control of Cammock's property)
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Change Notes
- 2008-02-28: new
- 2008-02-29: revised
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