68:"In 1763, several gentlemen ... desirous of promoting the diffusion of useful knowledge, and extending the means of information, made some attempts to establish a library. In 1765 ... the first associates were Enoch Freeman, Benjamin Titcomb, Stephen Longfellow, Richard Codman, Edward Watts, Thomas Scales, Paul Prince, John Waite, Benjamin Waite, Enoch Ilsley, Jonathan Webb, Francis Waldo, Thomas Smith, Moses Pearson, James Gooding, Josiah Noyes, John Cox, Jeremiah Pote, Alexander Ross, Ebenezer Mayo, John Wiswall, Richard King, Jedediah Preble, Ephraim Jones, Stephen Waite, and John Waite, Jr. ... At the opening of the library in 1766, it contained but 93 volumes ... not one was printed in this country. ... We believe this to have been the first establishment of the kind in Maine. Not much addition was made to the books previous to the revolution."
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complete collection of the whole body of
English poetry, from Chaucer to Cowper. ... No English library can be considered, we will not say complete, but even respectable, which does not contain the writings of the authors we have just named ...." Cf. "Portland Atheneum." Eastern Argus (Portland, Maine), 02-29-1828
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Falmouth Library Society was "re-established upon such principles and rules as to render it a very useful institution. New members have lately been added."
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proportion of works of this character, as are usually found in libraries formed as this has been, by small additions made from year to year, and thus made up of the popular reading of the time."
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Portland Library; with the names of the proprietors, and catalogue of the books. Portland, Maine: printed by A. & J. Shirley, 1815
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Portland Library: with the names of the proprietors, and catalogue of the books. Portland: Hill, Edwards & Co. printers, 1826.
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Emergence of Urban Society in Rural Massachusetts, 1760-1820. The Journal of American History, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Jun., 1974)
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