Keywords: Boundaries
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"… right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in Canada, and the "borderland" region known between what is…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"… and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast Boundary (Barclay) collections. Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by…"
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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
"… collection—informally called the Northeast Boundary collection (Coll. 26) each document the emergence of Maine as a unique and independent entity…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 While national and imperial leaders were pleased…"
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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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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."
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"… an historical overview Further to the east, new boundary issues erupted. At the end of the Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of Paris…"
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"… Treaty of Ghent 1815 was drafted to determine the boundary lines between the United States and Great Britain Canada."
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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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"… and the councils that took place there, were not boundaries as much as confluences. Nearby Merrymeeting Bay was an English placename which…"
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"… Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical Society Unsurprisingly…"
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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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"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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"… Barclay Collection (also known as the Northeast Boundary Collection). Combined, these collections document a series of dreams—dreams of power…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Significant Events
"… the nation it has played a significant part in the country's history and its impact has gone beyond the city's boundaries into the world arena."
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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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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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"Project Partners The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"Harsh climate, boundary disputes, and isolation from markets deepened the frontier experience of settlers in northern Maine ."
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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…"
