Maimon, SOLOMON

1754-1800. Jewish philosopher of wandering life; b. in Ru ia; esteemed by Kant and Moses Mendel ohn. Transcendentalphilosophie, 1790. boundaries and jurisdiction, Gorges having received from the king a feudal tenure of his territory, but finding great difficulty in maintaining it against encroaching settlers and the increasing claims of the Ma . colony. The disputes were ended by the new charter of William and Mary, which merged the provinces of Plymouth, Ma ., Maine, Sagadahock, and Acadia under one title and jurisdiction, “the province of Ma . Bay." Five years afterward the part of the province e. of the St. Croix was ceded back to the crown, and that river has since been the e. boundary of the province and of the U. S. The history of M. was mingled with the history of Ma . until 1820, when M. was recognized as a separate State in the Union. For a long time previous it had been practically an independent State. Pop., 1890, 661,086, or 22 per sq. m.