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	James Bowdoin - LoveToKnow 1911
		JAMES BOWDOIN (1726-1790), American political leader, was born of French Huguenot descent, in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 7th of August 1726.
		Bowdoin was a member of the state convention which in February 1788 ratified for Massachusetts the Federal Constitution, his son being also a member.
		His son, James Bowdoin (1752-1811), was born in Boston on the 22nd of September 1752, graduated at Harvard in 1771, and served, at various times, as a representative, senator and councillor of the state.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /James_Bowdoin (221 words)

	James Bowdoin Summary
		James Bowdoin was descended from a Huguenot refugee who had arrived in the British colonies in the 1680s.
		Bowdoin's last public service was in January 1788 as a delegate to the state convention which ratified the new constitution for the United States.
		Bowdoin was elected to the colonial assembly in 1753 and served there until named to the Council in 1756.
	www.bookrags.com /James_Bowdoin (1150 words)

	James Bowdoin
		James Bowdoin was graduated at Harvard in1745, and on 8 September 1747, the death of his father, an eminent merchant, left him with a large fortune.
		From 1753 till 1756 Bowdoin was a member of the Massachusetts general court, and in 1756 became councilor.
		On the foundation of Bowdoin College, he gave it 6,000 acres of land and £1,100, and at his death left the institution an extensive library, and collections of minerals, philosophical apparatus, and paintings, all of which he had purchased during his stay in Paris.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesbowdoin (1211 words)

	History of Town of Bowdoin
		We know that in 1779 James Bowdoin had legal claim to the area of West Bowdoinham Plantation and was granting deeds on land he claimed to be two miles in width and fronting on the Cathance River and Merrymeeting Bay and extending to the Androscoggin River.
		There is also a record of James Bowdoin finding squatters in North Bowdoin as he had a horse path cut through his claimed territory in 1750, and family genealogies claim their forefathers to have been in Bowdoin by that time.
		Bowdoin's population rose again, from 638 in 1950 and 668 in 1960 to 884 in 1970.
	www.bowdoinme.com /History.htm (927 words)

	James Bowdoin III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Bowdoin III (September 22, 1752 – October 11, 1811) was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts.
		James then studied law at Oxford and traveled widely in Europe until 1775.
		When Bowdoin College was founded in Maine, he gave the new school 6,000 acres (24 km²) and $5,500.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Bowdoin_III (250 words)

	Interactive State House
		Typical of the Commonwealth's early governors, James Bowdoin was a merchant and important revolutionary figure.
		Bowdoin had secured the most votes in the popular election, but failed to gain a majority from among the field of four candidates.
		Bowdoin's vigorous response to the rebellion contributed to his defeat.
	www.mass.gov /statehouse/massgovs/jbowdoin.htm (219 words)

	News
		On Sarah and James Bowdoin Day, held during Parents Weekend, speeches are delivered by an outstanding student and a highly recognized practitioner in one of the liberal arts disciplines.
		The recognition of James Bowdoin Scholars was begun in 1941 to honor those undergraduates who distinguish themselves by excellence in scholarship and to commemorate the Honorable James Bowdoin III (1752-1811), first patron of the College.
		James Bowdoin III, who asked that the College be named after his father, was an agriculturist, an art and book collector, and a diplomat who served as Thomas Jefferson's minister plenipotentiary to Spain from 1804 to 1808.
	orient.bowdoin.edu /orient/archives/2002-10-18/news04.htm (627 words)

	Bowdoin Family Collection
		Bowdoin College, named for his father, was greatly enriched by his gifts and bequests, which included funds, lands in Maine, and his book, scientific and art collections.
		Also included is the diary of Sarah Bowdoin, which documents her and her husband's stay in Paris from 1806 to 1808, and a number of realia, including two waistcoats of James Bowdoin III and scientific instruments used by James Bowdoin II.
		The collection is supplemented by genealogical materials concerning the Bowdoin family collected by Bowdoin College and William Bowden, as well as the manuscript for the unpublished biography of James Bowdoin II by Francis Walett and images of family members.
	library.bowdoin.edu /arch/mss/jbig.shtml (535 words)

	Sarah & James Bowdoin Day Address: President Barry Mills, Campus News (Bowdoin)
		James II -- who along with John Adams, John Hancock, and others founded the American Academy of Arts and Sciences -- was also a man with a profound interest in learning.
		In fact, one of the deeds transferring the lands of the College from the Bowdoin family to the president and trustees of the College, dated January 7, 1795, was signed by both James and Sarah Bowdoin.
		The scholars sitting among us are the Bowdoin students who in the prior academic year achieved a grade point average in their course of study that places them in the top 20% of the class.
	www.bowdoin.edu /news/archives/1bowdoincampus/001522.shtml (1327 words)

	James III Bowdoin Biography
		James Bowdoin III (September 22, 1752-October 11, 1811) was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts.
		James devoted several years to scholarly pursuits, until he was appointed the United States minister to Spain in 1804.
		When Bowdoin College was founded in Maine, he gave the new school 6,000 acres (24 km²) and $5,500.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bowdoin_James_III.html (201 words)

	A Pictoral History of Bowdoin, Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1797 James Rogers and Ebenezer Temple paid the town of Bowdoinham $2000 for the privilege of building a road from Bowdoinham's Cathance landing to the Bowdoin line.
		The West Bowdoin Baptist Church was organized in 1818 as the 2nd Free Baptist Church of Lisbon by Elder Humphry Purinton, Josiah Farwell and 12 members.
		A surviving descendant, Viola Coombs, made a bequest to Bowdoin College with the stipulation that Bowdoin College own and always be responsible for the upkeep of the church and its adjoining cemetery.
	knox.link75.org /bcs/grade4/BowdoinHist/picthist.htm (1614 words)

	James Bowdoin - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bowdoin was (1775-77) a leading figure in the council that governed Massachusetts during the Revolution, presided over the state constitutional convention in 1779, and served (1785-87) as governor of the state.
		Bowdoin holds off Colby ; Colby almost ties it in the third period when a shot hits the crossbar, but the Polar Bears prevail, 5-3.
		Bowdoin sends 413 into world ; One thing the new graduates will probably miss most: their college's gourmet dining-hall food.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Bowdoin.html (443 words)

	James Bowdoin
		James Bowdoin was graduated at Harvard in1745, and on 8 September 1747, the death of his father, an eminent merchant, left him with a large fortune.
		From 1753 till 1756 Bowdoin was a member of the Massachusetts general court, and in 1756 became councilor.
		On the foundation of Bowdoin College, he gave it 6,000 acres of land and £1,100, and at his death left the institution an extensive library, and collections of minerals, philosophical apparatus, and paintings, all of which he had purchased during his stay in Paris.
	famousamericans.net /jamesbowdoin (1210 words)

	The Mineralogical Record - Label Archive
		It was named Bowdoin College in honor of recently deceased Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin II (1726-1790).
		Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin's first building, was completed in 1802, Maine Hall was built in 1808, and Winthrop Hall (which served as the library) in 1822.
		Bowdoin College received the mineral collection, scientific apparatus and technical library of James Bowdoin III (1752-1811) by bequest in 1811.
	www.minrec.org /labels.asp?colid=229 (286 words)

	Sarah and James Bowdoin Day
		James Bowdoin Day was initiated in 1941 to recognize undergraduates for excellence in scholarship and to commemorate the Honorable James Bowdoin III (1752-1811), first patron of the College.
		In their honor laurel garlands are draped around the Gilbert Stuart portraits of James Bowdoin III and Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
		At the Sarah and James Bowdoin Day exercises the College gathers to recognize its highest-ranking scholars and to hear speeches by an outstanding undergraduate and a highly recognized practioner in one of the liberal arts disciplines.
	library.bowdoin.edu /arch/archives/jbdg (334 words)

	244 Scholars Honored at Sarah and James Bowdoin Day Ceremony, Campus News (Bowdoin)
		On Sarah and James Bowdoin Day speeches are delivered by a highly recognized practitioner in one of the liberal arts disciplines and an outstanding Bowdoin student.
		The recognition of James Bowdoin Scholars was begun in 1941 to honor those undergraduates who distinguish themselves by excellence in scholarship and to commemorate the Honorable James Bowdoin III (1752-1811), first patron of the College.
		James Bowdoin III, who asked that the College be named after his father, was an agriculturist, an art and book collector, and a diplomat who served as Thomas Jefferson's minister plenipotentiary to Spain from 1804 to 1808.
	www.bowdoin.edu /news/archives/1bowdoincampus/003490.shtml (967 words)

	2006 Sarah and James Bowdoin Day Address: President Barry Mills, Campus News (Bowdoin)
		James II — who along with John Adams, John Hancock, and others founded the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — was also a man with a profound interest in learning.
		The scholars sitting among us are the Bowdoin students who in the prior academic year achieved a grade point average in their course of study that places them in the top 20 percent of the class.
		Bowdoin is an educational learning community committed to academic freedom: Freedom for our faculty to teach and to study and freedom for our students to learn.
	www.bowdoin.edu /news/archives/1bowdoincampus/003488.shtml (1538 words)

	Bowdoin College - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bowdoin College, coeducational liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine.
		The college was named in honor of James Bowdoin, governor of Massachusetts...
		Thomas Brackett Reed was born in Portland, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College.
	encarta.msn.com /Bowdoin_College.html (140 words)

	Maine Local Government - Town of Bowdoin - Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bowdoin is a town in Sagadahoc County, incorporated on March 21, 1788 from the early plantation of West Bowdoinham.
		Bowdoin has tripled in population since 1970, and increased nearly 24% between 1990 and 2000.
		It was named for James Bowdoin II, an early governor of Massachusetts.
	www.maine.gov /local/sagadahoc/bowdoin (99 words)

	JAMES BOWDOIN (1726—1790) - Online Information article about JAMES BOWDOIN (1726—1790)
		Bowdoin was a member of the state convention which in See also:
		JAMES BOWDOIN (1752-1811), was born in Boston on the 22nd of See also:
		September 1752, graduated at Harvard in 1771, and served, at various times, as a representative, senator and councillor of the state.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BOS_BRI/BOWDOIN_JAMES_17261790_.html (649 words)

	bowdoin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At one time Bowdoin was called Pottertown, after the Reverend James Potter, who received much of present day Bowdoin in a grant from James Bowdoin in February of 1779.
		It is the aim of the members of the Bowdoin historical Society to be good ancestors and to leave as much information for future generations as possible.
		Bowdoin's past is recorded in its old, abandoned cellar holes, its deserted orchards blossoming among the maples and oaks on Haig Mountain, and in the broken milldams and sluiceways that still barricade Bowdoin's backwoods brooks and streams.
	www.link75.org /bhm/bhmhis/surrtown/bowdoin.html (729 words)

	Bowdoin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		was commissioned in 1805 by James Bowdoin III, son of Governor James Bowdoin II of Massachusetts, for whom Bowdoin college was named.
		In addition to being the college's first benefactor and patron of the arts, the younger Bowdoin was an avid Jeffersonian.
		In a letter to his friend in Washington, General Henry Dearborn (secretary of war), Bowdoin stated: "I shall be much obliged to you to procure me the portraits of Mr.
	www.maineartmuseums.org /bowdoinp2.html (142 words)

	Bowdoin, James. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Bowdoin was (1775–77) a leading figure in the council that governed Massachusetts during the Revolution, presided over the state constitutional convention in 1779, and served (1785–87) as governor of the state.
		A conservative, as governor he played an active role in suppressing Shays’s Rebellion and also forwarded the movement toward a centralized national government.
		Bowdoin College, in Maine, was named for him.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bo/Bowdoin.html (145 words)

	Maine Local Government - Town of Bowdoin - Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bowdoin is a town in Sagadahoc County, incorporated on March 21, 1788 from the early plantation of West Bowdoinham.
		Bowdoin has tripled in population since 1970, and increased nearly 24% between 1990 and 2000.
		It was named for James Bowdoin II, an early governor of Massachusetts.
	www.state.me.us /local/sagadahoc/bowdoin (99 words)

	Dorchester Atheneum: Landmarks Description Mt. Bowdoin
		Mount Bowdoin is situated near the center of Dorchester and is bounded by Washington, Bowdoin and Eldon Streets and Geneva Avenue.
		The Bowdoin House was located at the crest of a secondary hill projecting from the lower southern slopes of Mt. Bowdoin.
		Although the Bowdoin house is said to have survived until the Civil War, Boston and Dorchester atlases suggest that it was still standing as late as 1910 under the ownership of the Richard Robinson, James J. Costello and Walter F. Keen families.
	www.dorchesteratheneum.org /page.php?id=632 (3762 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bowdoin was ordered to comply with these requirements within sixty days or the court would proceed to determine and award child support against Bowdoin.
		Bowdoin responded by unsigned letter, stating that he had not received "notice of these proceedings"; Poncho did not respond.
		She asserts that Bowdoin's attorney's statement in open court that Bowdoin paid his share is incorrect.
	www.supremecourt.nm.org /opinions/VIEW/06ca-013.html (4025 words)

	News- The Bowdoin Orient
		EVAN S. The annual Lighting Walk is an event involving Bowdoin students, security workers and electricians that travel around campus on a designated evening to discover areas of campus in need of new lighting or lighting repairs.
		Bowdoin webcams are a novel idea, despite the fact that they are reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984.
		Over parent's weekend, Bowdoin Students and their parents had the privilege of seeing the play For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.
	studorgs.bowdoin.edu /orient/archives/2002-10-18/main.htm (543 words)

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