Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… companies formed in colonial Massachusetts to colonize present-day Maine. Boasting membership that included some of the wealthiest, best-connected…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"1780Abbe Museum European colonization of Wabanaki Country began in the early 1600s. At that time, a band of a few dozen Wabanaki families seasonally…"

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

"… of credible Indigenous military resistance to colonization. The Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors, like most settler-colonialist, agreed that…"

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

"… to Maine at the encouragement of proprietary or colonization schemes that subsequently went defunct, leaving them with no legal claim to the land…"

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

"… historic narrative, including exploration, colonization, and settlement; relations with Indigenous peoples and Nations; and the economic…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… they are the holders of original agreements that colonizers often benefit from such as deeds and treaties, the foundations for federal law and…"

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

"… to protect their territory from increasing colonization, as also highlighted by the Passamaquoddy treaty with Massachusetts in 1794, an essential…"