Keywords: George A. Goodwin
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2
"… view of Round Pond by a photographer named Goodwin shows the fishing fleet in the harbor with the village beyond."
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"10, p. 179b-1 A copy of a letter issued by Samuel Goodwin to Mr. Joseph Stapels, "you are hereby Impowered to continue & Improve on Two hundred Acres…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"Samuel Goodwin: 1716-1802 Samuel Goodwin performed a leading role in frontier development from the start."
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"… "dormant" until a minor shareholder named Samuel Goodwin found a copy of the Plymouth Colony Patent in 1744."
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"As agent for the Kennebec company, Samuel Goodwin alone delivered notice to several hundred families between 1749 and 1751, in nineteen communities…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield
"Lewiston: Dingley Press, 1929. 410-12. Print. Goodwin, Beckie. "Jacob Stinchfield." Personal interview. 5 Apr. 2010. Goodwin, Kathryn B."
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"In the 1970s, to make clear they did not want a 'nation within a nation,' leaders across all political spectrums ran on platforms decrying, much like…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Past meets Present I am particularly struck by how similar the Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective What is not questioned, it seems, in either the 18th century, or the late 20th and early 21st centuries, is…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Darren J. Ranco, PhD (Penobscot), Fall 2022 The collections in the Beyond Borders project are important and…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… is derived); material concerning the voyage of George Weymouth; documents about murdered French Jesuit missionary Father Rasle of Norridgewock; and…"
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"… settler-colonialist, agreed that their king had a right, as a Christian monarch, to claim and grant away land already within Native jurisdiction…"
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"… perhaps the most humble beginnings from work as a tailor, then as a Captain in the militia. He was responsible for the upkeep of the…"
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"… worth approximately £216 during the 1750s, at a time when an artisan in Massachusetts could feed a family on £50 per year."
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"… of those ambitions, settlers also articulated a separate understanding of property: a belief that ownership was made not through royal seals…"
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"They formed a bevy of companies to oversee the extension of British trade and settlement into new regions. Land—lots of it—was a means to that end."
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"… appeared along with “Great Agumagus” or Moxus, a Kennebec River leader, and Sheepscot John, a Wabanaki leader on the coast."
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"… Society The Pejepscot Proprietors granted a limited number of free plots of land in Brunswick and Topsham between 1715 and 1722, and continued a…"
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"3- 26 2. “‘A Scratch with a Bear's Paw’: Anglo-Indian Land Deeds in Early Maine,” Ethnohistory 36:3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 235-256) 3. Richardson, H."
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"Blaakman, PhD, Fall 2022 Michael A. Blaakman, PhD, is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University."
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"He died on December 26, 1830 as a result of complications from a broken thigh. Belcher Noyes Belcher Noyes was the son of original Proprietor Oliver…"
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"The French quickly abandoned the island, however, after a disastrous winter that left nearly half the colonists dead."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies: A Study of Their Development, Organization, Activities and Controversies, 1620-1770."
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"In 1659, “Jane alias Uphannum,” a woman from a powerful Wabanaki family, appeared before English officials to recount a land sale."