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Site Pages
These sites were created for each contributing partner or as part of collaborative community projects through Maine Memory. Learn about collaborative projects on MMN.
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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations
"And, a revealing document from 1913 was “discovered.” Joint Resolution Recognizing the Tragic Expulsion of the Residents of Malaga Island, 124th…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… Canadian maritimes, and the United States federal government. The included collections were selected because of their historical significance to…"
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"… offer insight into struggles over who governed where, who owned what, and how they owned it."
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"… gained imperial backing in 1691, when a royal charter allowed the government at Boston to absorb what the English called the Province of Maine."
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"… of 1838-39, encouraged the new Whig and Tory governments of the US and Britain to finally settle the northeastern border in 1842."
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"… and Webster was later criticized for using government funds to secretly pay for pro-treaty newspaper propaganda to sway public opinion in Maine."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… such as “Indian captivity” depositions; documents pertaining to the Newburyport, Mass privateer Sea Flower; Revolutionary War documents; French…"
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"… Kennebec Proprietors, and so generated extensive documentation within its papers. Meanwhile, Martha gave birth to and mothered nine children…"
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"The Kennebec Proprietors maps document the continuance of Wabanaki people at Norridgewock, despite a persistent myth that Norridgewock was…"
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"But the task of writing about historical documents and making them relevant to non-historians is often daunting."
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"One thing made clear in the documents and historic scholarship that reference these documents, is that the settlers are considered the heart of the…"
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"… and tribal scholars have turned to these documents for different kinds of evidence, including evidence of Wabanaki agency, kinship, leadership and…"
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"The documents produced by the border commission, particular early on, consistently highlight Passamaquoddy and wider Wabanaki Nations’ deep knowledge…"
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"Many of the documents were created and assembled to validate the holdings of the Pejepscot Proprietors, who in 1714 purchased rights originally…"
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"Many documents in these collections feature locations where multiple communities intersect, such as a deed that came late in Warrabitta’s life, at…"
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"… aboriginal right to hunt, fish and plant in their homelands. These documents collectively demonstrate that Wabanaki people intended to remain."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"… volunteers can continue to work on the remainder of the pages, and as they are approved the documents will be added to the transcription database."
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"… Society’s Thomas Barclay Collection that contains documents, land surveys, and maps dating from 1764 to 1893."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"The project documents European settlement of northern New England, specifically coastal and interior Maine, land distribution, and conflicts before…"
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"Some of these documents were dubious or outright fraudulent. Other agreements had been signed by Wabanakis who sought to establish ongoing…"
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"Indeed, as documents in the Barclay collection reveal, they were ultimately the basis on which the modern US-Canada border was determined."
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"This is outstandingly documented in the map of the interior canoe route between the St. John (Wolostoq) and Penobscot rivers that Chief Francis…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma
"… 148-183 and Webb, Lee, “Maine’s Constitution: A Document Made by Men at a Specific Time.” [33] For a thorough analysis of the Missouri Compromise…"
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"In 2022, I see the Federal government, much like the distant proprietors of 17th and 18th centuries, as primarily fighting to preserve its control…"
