On January 16, 1992, the tugboat Harkness sank, and it was a lobster boat from Matinicus that went out and found the three crewmen.

The pirates eventually realized the Whydah was lost, and proceeded to attack vessels at Matinicus Island and Pemaquid ( now Bristol ).

Criehaven was formerly a plantation including Ragged Island just south of Matinicus Isle in outer Penobscot Bay, plus Matinicus Rock to its southeast, and Seal Island, the location of Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge, to its northeast.

Penobscot Bay was then a continuation of Penobscot River that meandered through a broad lowland extending past present day Matinicus Island.

Remote Matinicus Island is accessible by ferry from Rockland, located away, or by air taxiAccording to a local, "( f ) lying can be expensive ($ 70 or more per round trip ) and landing on the short grass strip is not for the faint of heart.

Matinicus Island, the largest in the eight-island archipelago, is shaped like an oval approximately long by wide, containing about.

:"... one Hall and family, who live at Matinicus, interrupt us in our killing seals, and in our fowling ; they have no right to be there ; the land is our own.

Governor Spencer Phips ordered Hall and his family brought into custody at Boston to answer for ignoring his command to leave Matinicus.

The pirates outfitted for their own uses a small 25-ton sloop that the pirates had captured off Matinicus, one that formerly belonged to Colonel Stephen Minot.

They abandoned all the other vessels ( including the Anne ) they had captured and most of their prisoners at Matinicus on or about May 9, 1717, on Minot's sloop.

Matinicus Isle is a plantation in Knox County, Maine, United States.

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Abenaki Indians called it Matinicus, meaning " far-out island.

In early May 1717, several pirates from their snow ( a type of two masted vessel ), the Anne, raided several vessels that were off the shore of Matinicus at the time.

Several boating magazines listed Matinicus as a " hostile harbor ," and locals openly referred to it as a " pirate island.

" The state gave up enforcing vehicle laws on Matinicus in the 1950s, so license plates ( and brakes ) are optional on the rusted vehicles that ply its unpaved roads.

Matinicus shares with Vinalhaven what may be the richest lobstering grounds in the world.

Matinicus Isle Plantation comprises eight islands located on the fringes of Penobscot Bay in the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean.

Matinicus Rock Light is about five miles ( 8 km ) east of Matinicus Island.

There are ten major fishing grounds around Matinicus Isle that the island's fishermen and Vinalhaven fishermen have used for centuries to capture such groundfish as cod, haddock, pollock, and cusk as well as lobsters.

Weather around Matinicus is unpredictable and often harsh.

" Charts in the mid-19th Century began calling it Ragged Island but, McLane asserts, the Matinicus lobstermen continue calling the island Ragged Arse " out of perversity.

These birds have been nesting along the Atlantic coast of northeastern North America since about 1970 and have since expanded their breeding range southward into the Gulf of Maine with a pair having been confirmed nesting at Matinicus Rock ( http :// www. fws. gov / FWSJournal / regmap. cfm? arskey = 26734 & callingKey = state & callingValue = ME ).

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.