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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:24:56 -0500
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Subject: Place names in Maine

Hello, everyone,

A patron is looking for information on place names in Maine, namely: Captor
(or Old Captor) and Ailed.  Captor existed around 1705, and we're not sure
when Ailed existed (maybe around 1705, also?).  I've included the patron's
message to me, below.  He was able to answer the second question on his
own.

I have searched several sites online regarding Maine history (Maine Through
the Ages, Maine Memory Network, Maine Historical Society, et al.), the
Atlas of Early American History, and a map of Massachusetts (of which Maine
was a part) from 1755.  That has exhausted my resources.

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks for any information any of you can provide,
Sue Ann


   ----- Original Message -----

   [-snip-]  . . .  I'm trying to confirm certain names that came up in a
   genealogy book I recently read. I will list each challenge in order,
   along with context clues from the book itself. I hope you can shed light
   on one or more or these questions.

   1. References to "Captor" (or "Old Captor"), ME, circa 1705 as
   apparently found in 2 books: Everett S. Stackpole, Old Captor and Her
   Families (Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1981), and John
   Samuel Goodwin [of Chicago], The Goodwins of Captor. Can find no such
   place in gazetteers--possible spelling problem?
   2. Reference to "Cohnsey" (New Jersey?), the place where a certain
   privateer schooner named the Governor Livingston was built ca.
   1780--posible spelling problem?
   3. Reference to "Ailed", ME; possible spelling problem?

   As you may have guessed, I have good reason to suspect spelling
   irregularities, as my book is filled with them--some quite scary. Even
   the order of letters is sometimes wrongly rendered, so a simple
   substitution of a K for a C, for example, may not be sufficient to
   decode the word. Numbers 1 & 2 above--and perhaps even #3--involve the
   possibility of place names that have become more or less extinct, which
   is why I have a hunch that a gazetteer of historical names may be of
   great benefit, or at least a nice old version of the
   Columbia-Lippincott, etc.

   Thanks very much for what you can do with this.

   Jerry Stevens


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