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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"… Essays Explore essays, listed in the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in Canada, and…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… involved in legal proceedings to reclaim the rights to her poem, as it was indeed her own work."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… determined that political control of the area was rightfully in the hands of the governor of Nova Scotia, not Massachusetts, and approved the…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… from their husbands both via their dower rights and additional bequests. Familial bonds and inheritance held particular importance among the sorts…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… could lead them to bestow multiple parties with rights to a single place. The eighteenth-century proprietors, however, insisted that such deeds…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"Individuals and communities had rights to particular places, but those rights were typically impermanent and nonexclusive."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… Noyes grumbled that “there is not one of them but what think their Right superior to the Proprietors and have a long time bid Defiance.”"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… settler-colonialist, agreed that their king had a right, as a Christian monarch, to claim and grant away land already within Native jurisdiction…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"… custom of rooting Anglo title in Native land rights, arguing instead that royal or provincial grants, not Indian deeds, were the only legitimate…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… topics such as Indigenous land and water rights; and the preservation and use of public lands."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… opinionated participants in issues of land rights. In 1659, “Jane alias Uphannum,” a woman from a powerful Wabanaki family, appeared before English…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"… the Pejepscot Proprietors, who in 1714 purchased rights originally acquired by Richard Wharton through an agreement with Wabanaki leaders."

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"To the right was the printing establishment of Thurston, Foster and Company. Everything in this scene was destroyed twenty years later in the Great…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"… has produced real originals, individuals whose impact has reached far beyond the banks of the Saco River. Click on a name at right to read more!"

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"… hand, and a glazier holding a window (pictured at right). The furnishings of homes and buildings were crafted by cabinetmakers such as John…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Biddeford's Movers & Shakers

"… American Revolution to recent history -- giving just a taste of the city's richly varied citizenship. Click on a name at right to find out more!"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"… Library Women were entrepreneurial in their own right, and started social, educational, and charitable organizations to improve themselves and…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 2 of 2

"… mills, many became entrepreneurs in their own right and opened small businesses up and down Main Street."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 2 of 2

"Forest resources were utilized right away, and "pine boards and staves (for barrells) and clapboards" were among the first things made for trading…"

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Skowhegan Community History - About the Project

"… a farmer from Skowhegan who had fought in the Civil War. They had just scratched the surface. For the past ten years, students from SAMS, using…"

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… a table displaying a liquor bottle (pictured at right). Daguerreotype of Horatio Woodman in fur, ca."

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Early Maine Photography - Art

"This uncropped photograph (at right) reveals a portrait placed before the camera on a cane seated chair."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"In 1820 Maine became a state in its own right, no longer a district of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… in both English and French, would continue right through to the 1940's. Dude Cowboy advertising at City Theater, Biddeford, 1926McArthur…"