Keywords: Land claims
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"… Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region of Maine that have been expertly assessed for the Colonial and…"
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"Erroneous geographic claims that confounded establishing the border date from as early as the royal charter for Nova Scotia of 1621, long…"
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"… legal precedent for the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1980. St. John and Penobscot Rivers map, 1798Maine Historical Society…"
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"Advertisement regarding prosecution of rival land claims, 1751Maine Historical Society Settlers became caught in the mess of overlapping land claims."
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"Fearing that an adverse decision in court would jeopardize their company’s entire claim, the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors preferred to issue…"
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"By absorbing everything east of the Kennebec into Nova Scotia, where land could be granted and organized by Royal decree, Dunbar’s settlement efforts…"
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"… risk of moving to Maine, and making the company claim valuable, they deserved a greater share of it."
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"… the Plymouth Company began establishing their claim. Maine Historical Society Although the title may sound humble, clerks managed the books and…"
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"This manner of claim did not rely on century-old parchment proof, and it could not be adjudicated by courts stacked with the proprietors’ cronies."
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"… king had a right, as a Christian monarch, to claim and grant away land already within Native jurisdiction under the doctrine of vacuum domicilium…"
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"… collections exist because of competing colonial claims to land. As historian Alan Taylor observed: In 1800 the Pejepscot Patent's settlers…"
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"What became the Kennebec claim lay "dormant" until a minor shareholder named Samuel Goodwin found a copy of the Plymouth Colony Patent in 1744."
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"… their main rival, the Kennebec Proprietors claim was founded on an ancient grant of Land from the King to the Plymouth Colony to trap fur."
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"In addition to the many instances where multiple colonists claimed Native title to the same tract, seventeenth-century Indian deeds often described…"
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"… landscape with much at stake as the company laid claim to a roughly 1,500 square mile region on either side of the Kennebec River."
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"… they had to keep fighting over which European’s claims were to win the day. In the modern era, we face similar discriminatory frameworks."
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"… served to delineate the boundaries of settler claims to land, Pial Pôl’s presence, in 1793, also speaks to the Wabanaki people who remained."
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"… in what is now Maine, and led to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980. A Conference between Wabanaki Leaders and Governor Belcher…"
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"… Québec and Acadia—the Massachusetts Bay colony claimed jurisdiction over the region. The New Englanders’ ambitions to dominate the Dawnland…"
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"… by the areas English-speaking settlers made claim to, and are specific claims on pieces of Wabanaki territory defined by our relationship to the…"
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"X While claiming ownership to hundreds of thousands of acres in Maine, most of the presiding members of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… Revolutionary War documents; French spoliation claims for the brig Hope; records of churches founded in towns settled by the Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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"… Homelands, but the different origins of their claims both led to conflicts between the companies, and contributed to the chaotic process of…"
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"… the often-distant proprietors, who make their claims over Wabanaki lands, sometimes through deeds (or purported deeds) signed with Wabanaki…"
