Keywords: Maine -- Boundaries -- Maps
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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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and half year initiative (2020-2022) supported in part by the National…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"26) each document the emergence of Maine as a unique and independent entity, distinct from British colonial rule, Massachusetts, the Canadian…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"… of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical Society"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Edelson, S. Max. The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St."
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"Such conflicts form a key context for the documents that visitors and researchers will encounter in the Beyond Borders portal. Deeds, maps…"
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"Treaty of Washington boundary map, 1842Maine Historical Society Many overlapping authorities had strong claims in this borderland, starting, of…"
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"Although his testimony served to delineate the boundaries of settler claims to land, Pial Pôl’s presence, in 1793, also speaks to the Wabanaki people…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood
"Header image, detail of A Map of the State of Maine (1820) by Moses Greenleaf. Contributed by Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic…"
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"… Barclay Collection (also known as the Northeast Boundary Collection). Combined, these collections document a series of dreams—dreams of power…"
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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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"“Negotiating the International Boundary” in Stephen J. Hornsby and Richard W. Judd, eds., Historical Atlas of Maine (Orono: University of Maine…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866 Map of lots on Maquoit & Merriconeeg, ca. 1719Maine Historical Society Coll."
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"This ill-defined boundary, based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"He is listed on the John North map as surveyor. His fervent efforts kickstarted the company's incorporation and early activity around 1750."
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"Contested Northeast boundary map, 1843Maine Historical Society The Maine land companies which had been organized in the wake of the fall of…"
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"… by identifying the Saint Croix River as the boundary. The fundamental issue was that, in the years since Champlain’s voyage, the precise location…"
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"A few years later in 1820 Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a state and agreed to continue the Treaty obligations set in the 1794 treaty…"
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"… votes and witnesses; printed material; indexes; maps and plans and fragments. The Kennebec Proprietors records include extensive information about…"
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"… Indian deeds often described vague boundaries. So, too, did the other potential sources of legal title: the patents and grants written by…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"… for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant…"
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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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"… and the councils that took place there, were not boundaries as much as confluences. Nearby Merrymeeting Bay was an English placename which…"
