He acquired land in what is now North York, Maine. Because he was the first settler to own the land, it was named after him. It was located on the peninsula of the harbor. When the territory was separated from New York it was named after the the name of the Point there on York Bay. This means the state is named after the family.
York county ME has this statement about the name, showing it did exist. All of his children were born here and two of his daughters lost their first husbands in an Indian raid that took place in the in the mid s. The name Maine was first suggested in about but nothing came of it. The state says it is named after Maine county, France but at this time France and England were in an almost continual state of war and virtually nothing was named after French places.
Also, I have found no proof that the french county was ever spelled any way but Maine and the original map of the provence shows Mayne as the name. And with the fact that John Mayne came from England and was the first settler in Maynes Point would give it an even higher probability.
Many Maine towns have names that are originally from towns and cities in other countries, but that were actually named after towns and cities in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut. A few had more exotic origins, such as Canton Mass. Sadly, we don't know — or at least we don't know for sure — the reasons why several Maine towns and cities were named after the foreign places they were.
At least one of these towns has just kind of a weird story. Norway, which we've previously mentioned as perhaps being named in honor of its location with respect to Sweden, has another possible origin: When the people of the town petitioned for incorporation, they asked for it to be called "Norage," a native word for falls; but when the petition came back the name of the town was Norway.
It's thought that this is because the court thought "Norage" was a misspelling of the name people actually wanted. So they assigned Norway, although it's really not clear why.
Carolyn Chute's novel "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" made the fictional town of Egypt famous — or so Chute thought: She intentionally chose the name because she thought it evoked Maine's strange place names, but wasn't an actual place. It turns out that Egypt is a real place in Maine, although not a very big one. It's a village more like a neighborhood of about 30 people in the town of Franklin in Hancock County.
Town historian Helen Canton says she's not sure why it's called Egypt, but that she thinks it has something to do with the real Egypt. After you've read this and checked out the map, let us know: Did we miss something?
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Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations. All Streams. Maine Public By Nora Flaherty. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email. Christina Napoli, all rights reserved, used with permission. Place of settlers' origin This is the most obvious answer, and it applies to many of the towns in Maine that are named after places in England. What about all the other towns? Here's a look at what was hip and now in the world of place names when Maine towns were being settled and incorporated: story continues below graphic Towns named for revolutions, wars or political events Maine was being settled in the 18th and 19th century, a particularly vigorous time for revolutions in many of the European colonies.
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