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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 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 Essay by Alexandra L. Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania Department of History…"
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"Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St. Croix from a map sent to Lt. Sydney by Lt. Gov Carleton in 1786.Maine Historical Society By 1783, then, 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 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."
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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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by cartographer Chief Francis Joseph Neptune (Passamaquoddy), 1798Maine Historical Society…"
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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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"… today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Map of Campobello Island, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… and independent entity, distinct from British colonial rule, Massachusetts, the Canadian maritimes, and the United States federal government."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… 1731Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and half year initiative (2020-2022)…"
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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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"… 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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"… 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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866 Map of lots on Maquoit & Merriconeeg, ca. 1719Maine Historical Society Coll."
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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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"… French Acadie, and where to draw the line between colonial Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. Some of the earliest documents from 1764 pertain to areas…"
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"… Historical Society Similarly, some of the maps within these collections contain vital placenames and locations, including documentation of…"
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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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"… 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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"Deeds, maps, correspondence, diaries, depositions, account books, church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary…"
