Keywords: Brunswick, Maine
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Site Pages
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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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"… sides) and to preserve an overland route from New Brunswick to Quebec (for the British). The costs to raise and support the surveying teams in…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… highway from Falmouth through North Yarmouth to Brunswick was ordered. At this point North Yarmouth was becoming a more permanent settlement; in…"
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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3
"… between Lubec, Maine and Campobello Island, New Brunswick. Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello, Lubec, ca."
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"… bay to Eastport to board steamships bound for New Brunswick or Portland and Boston. Photo donated by Edith Comstock.Lubec Memorial Library In the…"
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"… in Colonial Economies The work of Hallowell, Maine resident Martha Ballard (1735-1812) exemplifies female settlers’ varied and extensive…"
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"… New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine, they mobilized kinship ties that structured colonial business and investing practices."
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"… settlement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maine. Yet, when we look more closely at the period, it is clear that both Wabanaki peoples and…"
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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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… an old Pilgrim grant on the Kennebec River in Maine. This group of wealthy, well connected merchants organized as “The Proprietors of the Kennebeck…"
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"They influenced the location of towns in Maine, their layout, and often, in various ways, the quality of life within those communities."
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"A Conference between Wabanaki Leaders and Governor Belcher, July 1732Maine Historical Society Today, the State of Maine is much like the local…"
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"… belligerence, soured many potential migrants on Maine. But settlers were important to the proprietors’ designs."
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"Maine Historical Society But in Maine, as in much of Britain’s North American empire, there was no clear or single source of title."
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"… quickly learn that it was a common experience in Maine to be harangued for payment by the agent of an absentee proprietor, or to be sued for…"
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"… baseline of documents that define what becomes Maine starting in 1625, nearly two hundred years before Maine became a state."
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"… Borders portal makes accessible three of the Maine Historical Society’s most significant archival collections: the Plymouth Company Records, the…"
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"As the Wabanaki Tribal Nations in what is now Maine fought for sovereignty and self-determination in 2021-22, equal to the Tribes in Oklahoma and…"
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"… the colonial framework remains across not only Maine, but all of Wabanaki territory. Beginning in the 1950s, Wabanaki people, often led by those…"
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"… addition, ongoing eighteenth-century wars on the Maine frontier discouraged investors from what appeared to be a risky venture."
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"… claims and wound up their business within a few years of the Betterment Act, bringing the great era of land speculation in Maine to a close."
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"… ownership to hundreds of thousands of acres in Maine, most of the presiding members of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors lived in and around…"
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"Amid expanding imperial warfare, Maine offered a strategic location, diplomatic access to a vast network of Indigenous powers, and timber aplenty to…"
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"… Robin [Ramegin] to James Thomas and Samuel York.Maine Historical Society In 1670, according to one deed in the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection…"
