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

"These displays of Wabanaki diplomacy and political action have strong echoes with Wabanaki diplomats from the eighteenth century documented in the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"He is sued and at the end of seven years law suit it is of no consequence to him whether he gains or loses his cause, he is ruind in either case."(1)…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 3: 1867-

"… as much as the question does whether we shall be governed by foreign ideas and Policies or whether we are and will be capable of governing…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"… communities, and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast Boundary (Barclay) collections."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"After graduating cum laude from law school in 1965, he returned to Bangor to begin his career in law."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 30-47

"Among the topics and people included are: George Melvin Weston D. P. McQuestion D. F. Leavitt Hiram Mills George, Isaiah Stetson Proposal for dam…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"… boundary between the United States in Canada, and the "borderland" region known between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian…"

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

"… across the country steward important collections" and strengthen "efforts to extend the reach of such materials and make their intellectual content…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Greer, Allan. Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University…"

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

"… of land in Brunswick and Topsham between 1715 and 1722, and continued a policy of selling initial plots of 100 acres for £5, to entice colonists to…"

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

"… buying from one company often faced threats and lawsuits from rivals, and some even paid multiple sets of proprietors for their land to avoid…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"… most of the presiding members of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors lived in and around Boston."

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

"… Pejepscot Proprietors quickly founded Brunswick and Topsham, and spent the next few decades struggling to recruit settler-colonialists willing to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"The original four shareholders and their descendants gradually sold off portions of their shares into ever smaller pieces, while the original patent…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Lamps and stove, John Martin store, Bangor, 1864

"… dancing, and many other topics, Martin wrote and illustrated a journal and several scrapbooks recounting his life, family, and various experiences…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ezekiel Hopkins house and grounds, Hampden, 1840

"… a journal in 1864 to provide details of his life and activities for his wife, children, and descendants."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince's factory and store, Bangor, 1864

"The journal provides detailed descriptions of the buildings and business. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865

"… Light in Stockton Springs, and a picnic that he and his wife and children had. Members of the Third Parish Church in Bangor, joined by the First…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John and Clara Martin wedding hack, Bangor, 1850

"… dollars and was owned by Mess Shaw & Billings and was perfectly black of the nicest polish and silver mounted in every particular even the hook on…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865

"… He further explained the workings of the group and its effects and wrote of the Mutual Store, "This store has been a curse to me ever since the…"

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

"Just as the large manuscript collections of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region…"

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

"… Robert Pagan (1750-1820) of Glasgow, Maine, and New Brunswick, and numerous surveyors who undertook arduous work in interior lands that remained…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… in the late 1760s and 1770s, but they were small, and control of land was contested both by Passamaquoddy people and the itinerant New England…"