Keywords: Georges River (Me.)
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"Namely, the Androscoggin River where the Pejepscot Proprietors sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the…"
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"Croix River. In the Passamaquoddy language the river was known as the Skutik River. Several testimonies were given about the location of the true St."
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Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield
"They had four children together named Ira, George, Charles, and Mary. His son, Charles, was the person who built the Civil War monument at the…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones
"Print. Ser. 3. King, George R. “Lincoln Light Power CO.” Lincoln Historical Society (1993): 252-54. Print. Whig and Courier. 1887th ser."
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"… the locative placename of the lower Androscoggin River, as Pejepscook (Pejepscot), and the upper river homeland, Ammoscongon (Amikôkan)."
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"… Proprietors? Plan of the Kennebec River describing the Plymouth patent, ca. 1719Maine Historical Society The Kennebec Proprietors traced…"
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"… efforts to have land grants east of the Penobscot River confirmed by the Crown, as the charter required, were stymied."
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"Croix River (as well as its source), and deciding how to follow the long St. John (Wolostoq) River and its tributaries, which was made especially…"
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"… and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Moose River, Moose Head Lake and Kennebeck Road, 1820Maine Historical Society Historian Francis M."
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"… reflection of the cross-shaped conjunction of the rivers around it or as a reflection on the party’s hopes of using the site as a base for…"
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"The fundamental issue was that, in the years since Champlain’s voyage, the precise location of the river had been lost."
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"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders portal makes accessible three of the Maine Historical…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville
"… contributed by Mexico Historical Society When George Ridlon arrived in 1894 and realized the economic possibilities of the Oxford Paper Company…"
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"… from the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River, through the Great Lakes, and the eastern border’s terminus at Lake of the Woods (the…"
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"… of land made in the area east of the Kennebec River would be legally recognized unless separately and specifically approved by the British crown."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES
"New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. (A) Folsom, George. History of Saco and Biddeford, with notices of other early settlements and of the propietary…"
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"… veteran, and his attempts at protecting the Sandy River; and Polin, in his attempts at protecting the Presumpscot River, both through diplomacy and…"
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"… named Paul Chadwick in 1809 along the Kennebec River sapped popular support for continued resistance, convincing most residents to finally settle…"
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"… Merrymeeting Bay, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers. The eight original Pejepscot Proprietors quickly founded Brunswick and Topsham, and spent…"
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"“A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The…"
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"… three million acres on both sides of the Kennebec River. In their squabbles with rival companies, they rejected what was by then a longstanding…"
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"… to Wabanaki leaders on the Androscoggin River: “Derumkin, or Daniel or Robin [ramegin]…shall come and lawfully demand and receive one Peck of Corn…"
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"… four miles on either side of the Androscoggin River. Likewise, in 1719, the Muscongus Proprietors, also known as the Lincolnshire Company, began…"
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"… a passage through the rapids in the Adroscoggin river. Company (Check that HENRY) He remained active in overseeing his property until he was past…"
