Keywords: land grants
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Moose River, Moose Head Lake and Kennebeck…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 While national and imperial leaders were pleased…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."
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"… in those communities wanted the proprietors to grant away more land to attract more settlers, with greater numbers enabling schools, prosperity…"
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"In Massachusetts, all efforts to have land grants east of the Penobscot River confirmed by the Crown, as the charter required, were stymied."
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"Conflicting land grants, competing companies (including the Pejepscot Company), and squatters created a dynamic landscape with much at stake as the…"
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"… had a right, as a Christian monarch, to claim and grant away land already within Native jurisdiction under the doctrine of vacuum domicilium, a…"
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"At least 319 individuals complied, paying the company over £6000 for lands they had occupied before the company had dispatched its first agent."
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"… Kennebec into Nova Scotia, where land could be granted and organized by Royal decree, Dunbar’s settlement efforts threatened most of the land…"
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"… to a 1629 grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King Charles I under a royal charter) to a vague, poorly defined area on both…"
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"… rights, arguing instead that royal or provincial grants, not Indian deeds, were the only legitimate source of ownership."
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"… Proprietors claim was founded on an ancient grant of Land from the King to the Plymouth Colony to trap fur."
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"The region was also impacted by the 1621 grant given by the Scottish Crown to William Alexander, First Earl of Stirling."
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"… over both regions, the charter stipulated that no grants of land made in the area east of the Kennebec River would be legally recognized unless…"
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"… leaders, and sometimes by vague agreements and grants or patents from even more distant courts or monarchies, and the noble English-speaking…"
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"Many others came under the auspices of no land company at all. During the Revolutionary War, scores of leading proprietors remained loyal to the…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… Historic Collections and Reference Resources grant to support its Beyond Borders project, aimed at digitizing and providing enhanced access for…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… speculation business by reviving an old Pilgrim grant on the Kennebec River in Maine. This group of wealthy, well connected merchants organized as…"
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"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…"
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"Positioning itself as the sole source of legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great…"
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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."
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"James signed above Rachel on the land deed, exemplifying the intertwining of husbands’ and wives’ economic fortunes through marriage.(4) Overall…"
