Keywords: Colonial New England
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry
"… Stockholm to become the industrial center of the Colony. Logs could be floated, and steam-driven factories were set up along the river banks."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm
"Work Cited: www.geocities.com/mscguide/sthis.html, Maine Swedish Colony, 5/24/06 www.mainememory.net, 5/25/06"
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"… economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford
"III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford Copy of Major Phillips sale of lands to Richard Russell, Biddeford, 1673McArthur Public…"
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"… divisions of labor shaped Wabanaki and colonial New England economies, and Indigenous and White women were essential contributors to each."
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"… Historical Society For their part, as White New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine, they mobilized kinship ties that structured…"
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"Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812 (New York: Knopf, 1990)."
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"… professionals to better paying areas in New England and elsewhere was another blow to the local & state economies as early as the 1940's, and…"
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"… by Passamaquoddy people and the itinerant New England fisherman who remained the region’s primary European population."
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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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"He is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."
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"… title back to a 1629 grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King Charles I under a royal charter) to a vague, poorly defined area…"
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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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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXHIBITS
"… By Dean Thomas Smalley, University of New England SHIPBUILDING IN BIDDEFORD BIDDEFORD'S MOVERS & SHAKERS THE CIVIL WAR & BIDDEFORD THE THURSDAY…"
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - A word of thanks
"… Museum-University of Maine University of New England And of course, the amazing staff at the Maine Community Heritage Project and the Maine Memory…"
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"… Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."
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"… for American History and Diplomacy and the New England Society Book Award for Historical Nonfiction in 2019."
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"The New Englanders’ ambitions to dominate the Dawnland frontier gained imperial backing in 1691, when a royal charter allowed the government at…"
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"… amount of power within the company and New England politics as a whole. John Ruck John Ruck was the brother in law of Thomas Hutchinson and the…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… significance to what is currently Maine, New England, and the United States; the frequency which the original items were consulted and handled in…"
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"… famous bands of its time, and played all over New England to large audiences. Conrad Coulombe in costume for play "Tonkourou," Biddeford, ca."
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"… of the area, as well as the southern New England tribes' names for the Wabanakis -- Tarrentines/Tarrateens, which was used by some of the earliest…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"Though short-lived, that British colony marked the beginning of more permanent settlement along the western side of the river in what became known as…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century
"Just two years later in 1686, King James II established the Dominion of New England. During this process, Maine's status within Massachusetts Bay…"