{"id":332,"date":"2026-01-31T19:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/?p=332"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:15:04","slug":"colonial-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/2026\/01\/31\/colonial-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I have been following the Bell cases in regard to intertidal property in the State of Maine, I have found several, very interesting sources for Colonial law.<\/p>\n

This first one describes intertidal ownership and the exceptions of navigation, fowling and fishing. https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/documents\/2016\/08\/qm\/colonialordinancesof1651.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Secondly, this is the Agreement of the Settlers of New Hampshire.\u00a0https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/titles\/lutz-colonial-origins-of-the-american-constitution-a-documentary-history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I have been following the Bell cases in regard to intertidal property in the State of Maine, I have found several, very interesting sources for Colonial law. This first one describes intertidal ownership and the exceptions of navigation, fowling … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[24,27,4,26,28,7],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","tag-cape-neddick","tag-exeter","tag-maine","tag-u-s-constitution","tag-wheelwright","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkmainehistory.org\/yorkhistorygroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}