Maine Memory Network

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

"… land as legal property sprouted a thicket of conflicts. In addition to the many instances where multiple colonists claimed Native title to the same…"

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

"… another proprietor clinging to a stack of conflicting deeds. Above all, settlers feared that they might be forced into tenancy or wage labor."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"The retreat from this second conflict was so complete that settlers did not return until around 1715."

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

"Such conflicts form a key context for the documents that visitors and researchers will encounter in the Beyond Borders portal."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… border was a matter of enormous uncertainty, conflict, and negotiation among Wabanaki, French, Acadian, British, and US individuals and groups over…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"After 150 years of these conflicts, barely 1,000 Wabanaki men, women, and children remained in Maine."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 9 of 17

"There only being one Catholic Church caused conflict between French Canadian Catholics and Irish Catholic."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"During one of the early conflicts, a major Indian raid resulted in complete destruction of the sawmill, a large sloop, several log cabins and the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"The key conflicts seem to be between the large land-owning proprietors and the settler-occupants of these tracts of land, often without a mention of…"

Milbridge Historical Society

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

"… and interior Maine, land distribution, and conflicts before and during Maine’s transition from a District of Massachusetts to statehood (1820), as…"

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"… water, and sank beneath them.”1 Confusion bore conflicting accounts in the rush to rescue. The Lubec Herald says that “”Miss Stella Burhoe plunged…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… the different origins of their claims both led to conflicts between the companies, and contributed to the chaotic process of colonization in Maine…"

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

"… At the heart of all three collections lie conflicting ideas about land and property. As Lisa Brooks and Darren Ranco detail, for Wabanaki peoples…"

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

"… in Lower and Upper Canada in 1837-38 and conflict over access to timber in the Aroostook “War” of 1838-39, encouraged the new Whig and Tory…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"Conflicting land grants, competing companies (including the Pejepscot Company), and squatters created a dynamic landscape with much at stake as the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… form of a few paragraphs” The Aroostook War was a conflict between Canada and Maine (U.S.), over exactly where the Northeastern border was between…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 2 of 2

"… was not held that year as there was a scheduling conflict with the other participating States. The starters that year were Matt Kaubris, Tim Ziko…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… the west side of Mount Desert Island, to settle conflicting claims to land ownership.Mount Desert Island Historical Society After the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"… seasonal residents brought a different, sometimes conflicting, culture to the town. Their extravagant lifestyle, supported by house servants…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… major wars and at least half a score of lesser conflicts since declaring its independence from Great Britain."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"… Historical Society & Museum By 1880 conflict arose between Scarborough marsh diking company owners and clam diggers, boaters and fishermen who…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"Although an era of peace, conflicts in Korea and Vietnam involved Scarborough men and women. The 1960s and 1970s were a traumatic time, as increased…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… included “Rock Me to Sleep." A controversy and conflict occurred with Alexander M.W. Ball of New Jersey, when he claimed authorship of the poem…"