Keywords: Atkins Bay
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"In the 1670s, for instance, Bostonian Rachel Atkins purchased two tracts of land in Maine, one from the Wabanaki and one from an English colonist."
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"Just as multiple rivers converge in Casco Bay and Merrymeeting Bay, so multiple communities converge in Wabanaki kinship networks."
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"… Failed Colonies Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, ca. 1800Maine Historical Society Initially, however, the primary legacy of these efforts…"
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"For example, in 1604, Passamaquoddy Bay was the site of one of the first French overwintering settlements in the Americas under an expedition led by…"
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"… to purchase land and fisheries on Merrymeeting Bay but also reaffirmed the rights they retained: Nothing in this deed [should] be construed to…"
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"A handful of land schemes in Passamaquoddy Bay sprang up under the jurisdiction of Nova Scotia in the late 1760s and 1770s, but they were small, and…"
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"… end of the border (a survey of Passamaquoddy Bay by John Mitchell) and in the west (treaties with the Chenussio and Seneca, both Haudenosaunee, or…"
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"… streams, and harbors flowing into Passamaquoddy Bay as, possibly, the Saint Croix. This lack of consensus highlighted a fundamental truth about the…"
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"… Wabanaki sagamores to land around Merrymeeting Bay, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers. The eight original Pejepscot Proprietors quickly founded…"
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"… Wabanaki places, such as Quabecook (Merrymeeting Bay), and the names of falls on the Androscoggin, including Amitgonpontekok (Twenty Miles Falls)…"
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"… loggers, and others converged on Passamaquoddy Bay but disagreed over where Maine ended and New Brunswick began."
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"… called the Waldo Patent) to the west of Penobscot Bay. For these proprietors and others like them who spearheaded smaller schemes, landownership…"
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"… support from Québec and Acadia—the Massachusetts Bay colony claimed jurisdiction over the region. The New Englanders’ ambitions to dominate the…"
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"… of the rivers that flowed into Passamaquoddy Bay was actually the St. Croix intended in 1783. It also agreed upon the interior source (or…"
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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? Residents on company lands also complained, with considerable justification, about suffering as a…"
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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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"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? 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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Further Reading Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies: A Study of Their Development, Organization, Activities and…"
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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 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 About the Author Sara T. Damiano, Ph.D. is a historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World."
