Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"… an historical overview Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New England families…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… halt in 1833, and, thus, fifty years after the War of American Independence had ended, the border between the US and British North America still…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… French Acadie, and where to draw the line between colonial Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. Some of the earliest documents from 1764 pertain to areas…"

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."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… around the representation of London firms in the colonies. Because of his success, Jefferies role in the Pejepscot proprietors was most likely as a…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"… to the Marquis, or as an early example of the colonial revival movement. Dress worn at English court, ca."

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

"… on a still-contested frontier, safety in times of war. Residents also levelled frequent complaints about the quality of their existing plots of…"

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

"… the Wabanakis’ French allies in the Seven Years War (1756–1763) ended the possibility of credible Indigenous military resistance to colonization."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"After a costly war to secede from the British empire, the state of Massachusetts hoped to fund the public coffers by selling vast swaths of Maine…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… of corn, at the end of King Philip’s War (1675-1678), from settlers who wished to return to Wabanaki coastal territories."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… Mass privateer Sea Flower; Revolutionary War documents; French spoliation claims for the brig Hope; records of churches founded in towns settled by…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"… the difficulties that had plagued the Popham Colony (Brunswick) in 1606-7. He was convinced that the climate was no less harsh than that of other…"

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

"At the end of the Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, negotiators had sketched an imaginary line through this perpetually contested and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"Our Beloved Kin a New History of King Philip's War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Alexandra L."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… awarded the Kennebec Patent to the Plymouth Colony of Massachusetts. This patent included 3 million acres of land and a 15-mile strip along the…"

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

"After the end of the war, though, the men returned home to their jobs in the mills and back to regular production."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXHIBITS

"EXHIBITS NEW! THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERAS AS EXPERIENCED IN BIDDEFORD AND SACO A fresh look into a tumultuous era for the people of…"

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

"… TO READ MORE ABOUT BIDDEFORD DURING THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65) Because of the high cost of soldier's bounties to be paid by the city, the war had an…"

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

"The war years in the city were difficult; high taxes, city debt, mill layoffs & the ensuing joblessness and poverty took their toll."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"… the theater, rallying patriotic fervor with World War I artwork, or inventing new technology to keep a local industry booming, Biddeford has…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"Occasionally they warred with other tribes along their frontiers, but these would end after a time. Their numbers were difficult to determine: they…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… time--specifically before and during the Civil War and during World War II. It is for this reason that you will see simple citations for the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"Civil War Monument, 2010. Photograph by Jamiee Beatson, Biddeford High School. X Biddeford, however, has other plans for itself."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 1 of 2

"… to innovate and improve themselves, but the post-war economies and business environment were setting them on a path of which there was not return."