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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… Historical Society Acquired by MHS in 1863, the Pejepscot Proprietors papers are an amalgam of official business records of the Pejepscot…"
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"Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies Later Proprietors, Heirs and Assignees Colonel Moses Little Moses Little was born on May 8, 1724, the son of…"
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"The eight original Pejepscot Proprietors quickly founded Brunswick and Topsham, and spent the next few decades struggling to recruit…"
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"Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies The Original Eight Proprietors Thomas Hutchinson Thomas Hutchinson was a wealthy merchant who had interest in…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Residents on company lands also complained, with considerable justification, about suffering as a…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Brunswick Town Meeting Minutes, 1719Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Coll. 61, vol. 7, pg. 401 Example of a proprietor meeting at the Royall Exchange Tavern on King…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Coll. 61, vol. 10, p. 179b-1 A copy of a letter issued by Samuel Goodwin to Mr."
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Essay by Ian Saxine, Fall 2022 Ian Saxine, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of History at…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Plan of the Kennebec River describing the Plymouth patent, ca."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by cartographer Chief Francis Joseph Neptune (Passamaquoddy), 1798Maine Historical Society…"
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"Namely, the Androscoggin River where the Pejepscot Proprietors sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the…"
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"… of the lower Androscoggin River, as Pejepscook (Pejepscot), and the upper river homeland, Ammoscongon (Amikôkan)."
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"… (1716), Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick: Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, collection 61, vol. 1, p. 81-83, Maine Historical Society."
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"… In a 1684 deed that is foundational to the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, six Wabanaki leaders, including Darumkin and Warumbo, allowed Richard…"
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"… for instance, eight Boston men established the Pejepscot Company, which claimed a large tract stretching four miles on either side of the…"
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"… Society In 1670, according to one deed in the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection, Thomas and Samuel York, “Planters,” agreed to give annual…"
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"… collections: the Plymouth Company Records, the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, and the Thomas Barclay Collection (also known as the Northeast…"
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"As historian Alan Taylor observed: In 1800 the Pejepscot Patent's settlers complained that "each claimant comes producing pompus Parchmints of royal…"
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"… the wake of the fall of Acadia—in particular the Pejepscot Proprietors—were immediately alarmed by what they correctly saw as a threat to their…"
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"… land grants, competing companies (including the Pejepscot Company), and squatters created a dynamic landscape with much at stake as the company…"
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"Catherine Potter's Letter to the Pejepscot ProprietorsMaine Historical Society At first glance, the papers of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Gerrity, Robert Michael. The Pejepscot Proprietors: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Absentee Land Ownership on the Maine Frontier, 1714-1768, 1973."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"Search the Collections Currently Coll. 61, the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection is available to search, both at the volume level as well as the…"
