Keywords: Colonial period
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"Women in Colonial Economies Essay by Sara T. Damiano, Fall 2022 Sara T. Damiano, PhD, is an historian of women and gender in early America and the…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies The work of Hallowell, Maine resident Martha Ballard (1735-1812) exemplifies female settlers’ varied and extensive…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies Copy, deed from James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society For their part, as…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies About the Author Sara T. Damiano, Ph.D. is a historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford
"III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford Copy of Major Phillips sale of lands to Richard Russell, Biddeford, 1673McArthur Public…"
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"… of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, ca. 1800Maine Historical Society Initially, however, the…"
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"… of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Nova Scotia was re-created as an independent British colony following the British “conquest”…"
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"… of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Map of Campobello Island, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Unsurprisingly…"
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"… of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Essay by Alexandra L. Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania Department of History…"
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"… of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Sketch of Isle St. Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St. Croix from a map sent to Lt."
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"… of the Kennebeck Purchase from the late Colony of New Plymouth, organized in 1749, and was one of several proprietor groups operating in the…"
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"… of Maine that have been expertly assessed for the Colonial and Revolutionary eras by historians Ian Saxine, Lisa Brooks, and Alan Taylor, so too…"
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"… of the northeastern border with a less dense colonial presence to the west, from the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River, through the…"
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"Imperial agents, meanwhile, proposed entirely new colonies, advocating the creation of the Province of Sagadahoc in the 1730s and the colony of New…"
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"Originally awarded to Plymouth Colony, which used the land to engage in fur trade with the Wabanakis, until four Boston Merchants bought it in 1661…"
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"… State University where he specializes in Colonial and Native American history in New England."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"The inclusion of "late Colony of New-Plymouth" and their common name "Plymouth Company" was intentionally tied to the Plymouth Colony to justify…"
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"… grant of Land from the King to the Plymouth Colony to trap fur. Maine Historical Society But in Maine, as in much of Britain’s North American…"
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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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"… its name implies, came into being as part of the colonial process that remade northeastern North America as Euro-American space."
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"… from Québec and Acadia—the Massachusetts Bay colony claimed jurisdiction over the region. The New Englanders’ ambitions to dominate the Dawnland…"
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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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"… the American Revolutionary War but died during period around 1780. The succession of chief was now Francis Joseph Neptune’s duty."
