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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… Barclay Collection that contains documents, land surveys, and maps dating from 1764 to 1893. The collection was mostly gathered by British…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"Exploring survey, St. Croix River to Great Waggansis, 1817Maine Historical Society Growing border tension and violence from 1827 to 1841, especially…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Maine’s international border was the most…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"A 1784 survey of the marsh by Moses Banks noted owners of marsh lots at that time. Click to view Salt Marsh Tools Salt hay continued to be…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"“An Inter-tidal Survey of the Scarborough Marsh.” (Copy of article provided by B. Robinson.) Sebold, Kimberly."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… Martha Ballard was an essential complement to the surveys and land sales documented in company records."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"When the companies surveyed and parceled out portions of their “undivided” land, acreage was assigned according to shares."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"Twin surveys undertaken by Nova Scotia and Massachusetts in the early 1760s had produced contradictory results, and maps of the area—when they even…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… of Pennsylvania Department of History Survey of Bone, or St. Croix Island, 1797 Used by the British Secretary Ward Chapman of the St."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"Many others came under the auspices of no land company at all. During the Revolutionary War, scores of leading proprietors remained loyal to the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… and Topsham residents who squatted on unsold land, stalled on payments, or helped themselves to timber on company land, while arguing that, by…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 7 of 7

"… and Pejepscot Proprietors? Residents on company lands also complained, with considerable justification, about suffering as a result of rivalries…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"Robert Kinney's Land on the Plains, and hinder any Person from Lumbering or Tresspassing" These letters were given to many settlers on disputed land…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"Positioning itself as the sole source of legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Blaakman, Michael Albert. Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776-1803. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2016."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… questions continued to plague would-be land speculators and even governmental officials looking to bring White settlers into the region to bolster…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"James signed above Rachel on the land deed, exemplifying the intertwining of husbands’ and wives’ economic fortunes through marriage.(4) Overall…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"By absorbing everything east of the Kennebec into Nova Scotia, where land could be granted and organized by Royal decree, Dunbar’s settlement efforts…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… Wharton in 1684 with six Wabanaki sagamores to land around Merrymeeting Bay, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… important contemporary topics such as Indigenous land and water rights; and the preservation and use of public lands."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"… to see the same leaders sign deeds for the same land, with different settlers. For example, “Robin Hood” or Ramegin, appeared on more than fifteen…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… Society The protection of these relationships to land and kin are evident in the ways that Wabanaki leaders sought to reserve subsistence rights."