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    Samuel Waldo (August 7, 1696 – May 23, 1759) was an American merchant, land speculator, army officer and politician in the Province of Massachusetts Bay...
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  • is now the U.S. state of Maine. It is named variously for businessman Samuel Waldo, who eventually gained control of the patent, and for the Muscongus River...
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    portion of Hancock County and named after Brigadier-General Samuel Waldo, proprietor of the Waldo Patent. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county...
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    Samuel Lovett Waldo (April 6, 1783 – February 16, 1861) was an American portrait painter. Waldo was born on April 6, 1783, in Windham, Connecticut, the...
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    member. General Samuel Waldo of Boston acquired a controlling interest in the patent in 1729 and it henceforward become known as the Waldo Patent. Following...
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  • the daughter of colonial official Thomas Flucker and Hannah Waldo, daughter of Samuel Waldo. She married Henry Knox, who became a leading officer in the...
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  • Samuel Waldo (1696–1759), Massachusetts land speculator, soldier and political figure Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783–1861), American painter William Waldo...
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist,...
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    Hellcats. The area was once part of the Waldo Patent, a large tract of land owned by Brigadier-General Samuel Waldo of Boston. It was first settled in 1811...
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    095 sq mi (10,606 km2) Waldo County 027 Belfast 1827 From parts of Hancock County, Kennebec County and Lincoln County Samuel Waldo, Maine landowner and...
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    Hezekiah Usher, first bookseller and book publisher in the British Colonies Samuel Waldo, 1696-1759 John Wilson Puritan theologian John Winthrop, first Puritan...
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    and other waterfowl. Although the region was part of the Waldo Patent, General Samuel Waldo complied with requests from Abenaki Indians not to settle...
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    Montville, Maine (category Towns in Waldo County, Maine)
    now contains Montville was purchased by the brigadier general Samuel Waldo, for whom Waldo County in now named. The first evidence of European activity...
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    Andrew's Church. Lincoln family Waldo Lincoln, History of the Lincoln Family: An Account of the Descendants of Samuel Lincoln of Hingham, Massachusetts...
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    activities came under his jurisdiction. Shirley also made common cause with Samuel Waldo, a wealthy merchant and major landowner in the province eastern district...
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    Scots and Irish immigrants recruited from Ireland by Brigadier-General Samuel Waldo, who offered 100 acres (0.40 km2) for each household. Attacks during...
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    Colonel Samuel Waldo of Boston Lieut. Colonel Arthur Noble Captain Benjamin Goldthwait Signature Lieut. Colonel Noble, Major William Hunt, Captains Samuel Moody...
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    lands by political allies. His opponents, led by William Shirley and Samuel Waldo, eventually convinced the Board of Trade to replace Belcher (with Shirley...
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    Boston, General Samuel Waldo advocated, unsuccessfully, that the capital of Massachusetts be moved to Searsport, which was part of the Waldo Patent he had...
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  • colonizers in the 1630s, and became part of the larger Waldo Patent, named after Samuel Waldo, who acquired the land grants in 1720. In 1786, when Massachusetts...
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    Leverett. About 1720, it was purchased by General Samuel Waldo of Boston and thereafter called the Waldo Patent. The first white settlers by the names of...
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  • Stanley industrialist, warden of borough in 1850 Republican 1872 1872 Samuel Waldo Hart (1824-1863) medical college Harvard and Yale Republican A New Britain...
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    Belfast, Maine (category Cities in Waldo County, Maine)
    General Samuel Waldo of Boston bought the Muscongus Patent, which had evolved into outright ownership of the land, and was thereafter known as the Waldo Patent...
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    settlers from Londonderry in 1736 under the auspices of Brigadier-General Samuel Waldo, its proprietor. Development was hindered, however, by the ongoing French...
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    War Commander Samuel Waldo Belligerents New England  French colonists  Wabanaki Confederacy Commanders and leaders Commander Samuel Waldo (Falmouth) Captain...
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    Samuel Eto'o Fils (French pronunciation: [samɥɛl eto fis]; born 10 March 1981) is a Cameroonian football administrator and former player who is the current...
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    commander of the 8th Company of the Second Massachusetts Regiment under Samuel Waldo. Family oral tradition indicated that he returned from Louisbourg and...
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  • Lieutenant Daniel Hoar, and was educated at Harvard College. Hoar served with Samuel Waldo during the capture of Louisbourg. He was named a judge in the Court of...
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    including "suspension of disbelief". He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism. Throughout his adult life, Coleridge...
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  • by prominent New England intellectuals, including George Putnam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederic Henry Hedge. Other members of the club included Sophia...
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