Matthew Edward Anson

@MatthewEdwardA2

I enjoy metal detecting in Maine and local history. I am a lazy genealogist.

Cumberland County Maine
Joined March 2017

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  1. in 1804, Ohio initiated Black Codes, restricting the rights of free African Americans. These codes forced fees to register as a freed citizen, implemented fines for those who helped fugitives, and more. These codes were repealed in 1849.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    LePage pardoned former Republican lawmaker against clemency board's recommendation

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  3. 20 hours ago

    Happy birthday to artist Marsden Hartley, born on this day in 1877! Celebrate with “Mount Katahdin, Autumn, No. 2.”

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  4. Jan 4

    This is my third great uncle, Adrian "Cap" Anson, the famous baseball player. He was also one of the principal forces behind segregating baseball in the 1880s. I didn't know until I took a DNA test. The racism I have found in my family tree is disturbing.

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  5. Jan 2

    He is NOT keeping a campaign promise. This is NOT a matter of principle. He’s shutting down the government so he can BREAK a campaign promise - “Mexico will pay for the wall”. He’s gone back on that promise and now wants taxpayers to pay for an ineffective structure.

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  6. Jan 3

    I dug this Manoil blimp car up in Old Orchard, Maine. I found at the old Kite track trotting park. I found a lot of silver too, but nothing exciting, 1940s stuff mostly. This was a little unusual.

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  7. Jan 3
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  8. Jan 2

    Maine Repub Gov Paul LePage -- who said drug traffickers (a) are mostly black and hispanic and (b) should have their heads cut off -- leaves office tonight, but not before pardoning a pro-LePage GOP State Rep... for his felony drug trafficking conviction.

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  9. Jan 2

    Low tide, Fore River by the Coast Guard station in South Portland, Maine. There is a lot of old crap buried in the mud.

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  10. Jan 1

    Dug out of a barn, Feb 1st,1823 Copy of the American Advocate& General Advertiser published in Hallowell. It contains a printed copy of The Treaty of Ghent. John Holmes, the Senator from Alfred, was a principal author of the treaty.

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  11. Dec 31
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  12. Dec 31

    Photograph I took of the road block in Starks, Maine the weekend of Hempstock 2001.

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  13. 31 Dec 2018

    This is Civil War 2nd Army Corps heel Plate I found in Westbrook, Maine. I expect someone kept his army boots and lost the plate sometime after the war.

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  14. 31 Dec 2018

    An English 1797 Twopence "Cartwheel." I found it out in Stroudwater by the jetport. It weighs two ounces. If there were 240 pennys in a Pound, then 1 Pound (£) worth of these would weigh 15 pounds (lbs!)

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  15. 31 Dec 2018

    Here is a relic of 1920s Portland, Maine I found along the Stroudwater. Harold Andrews was the first Maine causality of WW I. I think The American Legion post is still there on the corner of Deering St and Avon.

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  16. 30 Dec 2018

    I found these along the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset, Maine. One is an Abraham Riker of NY "Hard Times" token from the 1830s. The back says "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute." Used during a currency shortage.

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  17. 30 Dec 2018

    I found the glass bottle and stoneware shard in the Little River in Lebanon, Maine. The bottle has a pontil and was half full of Balm of Gilead buds and covered with water plants when I found it.

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  18. 29 Dec 2018

    A George II 1749 English farthing I found in Westbrook, Maine. Lots of colonial stuff in Westbrook.

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  19. 29 Dec 2018

    I dug this out of the ground in the Stroudwater area of Portland; a 1774 Eight Reale Spanish Cob. Unfortunately, it is counterfeit; the green bleeding from underneath is not silver!

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  20. 29 Dec 2018

    A part of my local history library. I get the majority of my detecting ideas from books, either my own or sources found at Maine Historical's Brown Research Library.

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