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"… of all the essential treaties and many diplomatic documents related to the northeast boundary, such as the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Quebec…"
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"… records include extensive information about early land dealings; early contact, interactions, and diplomatic relationships with Wabanaki people…"
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"… in the mid 1730s, and Samuel Goodwin, an early clerk for the Kennebec Proprietors, not only organized meetings, but also took the lead in company…"
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"… White New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine, they mobilized kinship ties that structured colonial business and investing practices."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"… and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University Press, 2019."
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"… border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of jurisdictional confusion and uncertainty."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"He served as an early Moderator for the Kennebec Proprietors as well as Clerk of Common Pleas for the Port of Plymouth, Justice of Peace for…"
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"is a historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World. At the time this essay was written (2022), Prof."
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"From the 1780s into the early nineteenth century, it sold millions of acres to ordinary settlers—as well as to a new set of speculators from New York…"
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"… PhD, is an historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World, and an associate professor at Texas State University, with…"
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"… and Indigenous controls guaranteed in early agreements and laws that hold sway over local and state authority."
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"… in either the 18th century, or the late 20th and early 21st centuries, is the overall structures of these debates."
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"… political ties were crucial during the early days of the company. His brother, Edward was a member of the General Court’s Committee of Eastern…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Brunswick Town Meeting Minutes, 1719Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Residents on company lands also complained, with considerable justification, about suffering as a…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Plan of the Kennebec River describing the Plymouth patent, ca."
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Wabanaki deed to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Essay by Ian Saxine, Fall 2022 Ian Saxine, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of History at…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Coll. 61, vol. 7, pg. 401 Example of a proprietor meeting at the Royall Exchange Tavern on King…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview This improvisational system for claiming land as legal property sprouted a thicket of conflicts."
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"Project Partners The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"Borderland Essays Explore essays, listed in the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in…"
