Keywords: Historical Map
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"Deeds, maps, correspondence, diaries, depositions, account books, church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866 Map of lots on Maquoit & Merriconeeg, ca. 1719Maine Historical Society Coll."
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"… Historical Society Similarly, some of the maps within these collections contain vital placenames and locations, including documentation of…"
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"… votes and witnesses; printed material; indexes; maps and plans and fragments. The Kennebec Proprietors records include extensive information about…"
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"… Society John Mitchell Deposition, Map & Field Book, 1764Maine Historical Society A critical challenge to create the border arose from how to…"
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"Treaty of Washington boundary map, 1842Maine Historical Society Many overlapping authorities had strong claims in this borderland, starting, of…"
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"St. John and Penobscot Rivers map, 1798Maine Historical Society Settling other issues, especially those in Article 5 that related to the interior…"
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"1840Maine Historical Society Unsurprisingly, jurisdictional questions continued to plague would-be land speculators and even governmental officials…"
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"Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St. Croix from a map sent to Lt. Sydney by Lt. Gov Carleton in 1786.Maine Historical Society By 1783, then, the…"
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"… and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Manuscript Map of Moose River, Moosehead Lake, and Kennebeck Road, 1820Maine Historical Society Historian…"
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"Contested Northeast boundary map, 1843Maine Historical Society The Maine land companies which had been organized in the wake of the fall of…"
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"This ill-defined boundary, based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of…"
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"“Red Lines on Maps: The Impact of Cartographical Errors on the Border between the United States and British North America, 1782-1842,” Imago Mundi…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"… the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant (HCRR)…"
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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: an historical overview In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview All these newcomers would quickly learn that it was a common experience in Maine to be harangued for payment…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789
"… coincide with Maine's separation.[10] New Map of English America, 1677 Since Massachusetts was adjacent to New Hampshire, Connecticut, New…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century
"Map of Falmouth (present-day Portland) from 1630-1690Maine Historical Society The English Civil War (1642-1651) had ramifications on all American…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood
"Overview: Road to Statehood Map of the Inhabited Part of Maine, Moses Greenleaf, 1829Maine Historical Society Many know that the Missouri…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma
"Map of the State of Maine, 1820Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Within the United States, a greater sectional debate…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement
"… effort soon died out.[16] District of Maine map, 1795 Drawn in 1795, this map promoted the separation of Maine from Massachusetts."
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"… and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources. Further Reading Pawling, Micah A."
