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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"Effective agents needed a familiarity with the law, as the proprietors frequently resorted to filing suits of ejectment or trespass against residents."

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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

"The included collections were selected because of their historical significance to what is currently Maine, New England, and the United States; the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"Bringing entertainment to the community and bringing business to Bath and surrounding areas were two of the most important."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"The fifth volume is an account of one of his particular passions: dancing, and especially of the Dancing Fraternity of Bangor."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… women, who possessed limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources."

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

"The final treaty process was led by US Secretary of State Daniel Webster and his British counterpart Lord Ashburton, himself a former land speculator…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"And, it’s a time when the state and local governments were wrestling with what to do about the poor people in their midst and whose responsibility it…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"At the same time, marriage law differently shaped men’s and women’s abilities to own and control land."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"… women, who possessed limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… testimony, and future commissions on the political fate of the islands in the bay would similarly focus on the correct interpretations of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… gardening and farming, transportation, education, politics, dance and music, religion, the Civil War era, Irish in Bangor, family life, medicine…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"X Out of all of these historical objects, people, and buildings, only the church remains. It is now painted chocolate brown, and is used as a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"He was well versed in business, politics, writing, and science. He was the author of the majority of company pamphlets and official communications."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"Bath was home to many theaters that came and went as the city and its residents changed. These included the Music Hall, Uptown Theater, Columbia…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"Even today, there are clues to the past: The A.G. Page on the door step, the A. Hallet's Drug Store clock, and the words Thompson's Corner right on…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Use policies and agreements

"Use policies and agreements Please click on this link to read the policies for use of the materials on this site: MMN Policies and Agreements X…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Hampden, Upper and Lower corners, 1835

"… an account of his activities as a dance student and dance master for his wife and children, so they would know more about his life and activities."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Primary and intermediate school, Bangor, 1865

"Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, and his wife, Clara Cary Martin, had six children. Their daughter, Annie, he noted, graduated from the…"

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

"They chronicle efforts to draw, dispute, and dispel borders in pursuit of a wide array of dreams for the Dawnland and for early Maine."

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

"… with Wabanaki people; Massachusetts colonial governance; and, international relations, land speculation and Revolution‐era land bounties."

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

"Such schemes garnered fierce opposition from Bostonian proprietors and the colonial government they largely controlled."

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

"… legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great proprietors."

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

"For Wabanaki Nations, the Federal government is surely a better bet than the State, but it is no less beholden by its own sense of superiority and…"