Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"… Chesley moved to Lincoln in 1822 or 1823 on the Indian Trail that linked Old Town to Lincoln and many other cities in Maine as well."

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… and succotash and pemmican (no hide) were popular Indian dishes. After construction of crude log shacks, the people soon built good frame houses."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… they could more easily protect themselves from Indians. A majority finally won out and they hoisted sail, turning eastward, settling in in…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… paddle up the Penobscot River, walk the ancient Indian footpaths while fording the streams, or trek beside ox-drawn wagons over river ice."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… parade and observances in Bangor, ten Penobscot Indians in five birchbark canoes engaged in a race on the Kenduskeag Stream."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"After the end of the war, though, the men returned home to their jobs in the mills and back to regular production."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXHIBITS

"EXHIBITS NEW! THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERAS AS EXPERIENCED IN BIDDEFORD AND SACO A fresh look into a tumultuous era for the people of…"

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

"An example of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial…"

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

"… was just becoming structured enough so that Indian deeds and title were only recognized as making it possible for European settlers—and European…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… TO READ MORE ABOUT BIDDEFORD DURING THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65) Because of the high cost of soldier's bounties to be paid by the city, the war had an…"

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

"… for this land, some New Englanders said that “Indian deeds” were a valid form of title on their own, rather than a necessary addition to the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Arvida Hayford, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… that Hayford was a staunch Democrat and was the Indian agent for the Penobscot Indians in the 1840s for several years."

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

"Co, 1975. Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 2 of 3

"The war years in the city were difficult; high taxes, city debt, mill layoffs & the ensuing joblessness and poverty took their toll."

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

"… in the 1970s, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians in 1980, and Mi’kmaq Nation in 1991; the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980; and recent…"

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

"… that ownership was made not through royal seals, Indian deeds, or any deeds at all, but instead through possession—applying one’s labor to improve…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… of unexpected yet related documents, such as “Indian captivity” depositions; documents pertaining to the Newburyport, Mass privateer Sea Flower…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"… the theater, rallying patriotic fervor with World War I artwork, or inventing new technology to keep a local industry booming, Biddeford has…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… Society From the 1680's to the 1760's, war after war broke over the natives and settlers like the waves crashing along the rocky shoreline."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"Occasionally they warred with other tribes along their frontiers, but these would end after a time. Their numbers were difficult to determine: they…"

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

"Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019)."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 6, pages 97-113

"Godfrey Hannibal Hamlin Indian Regatta Stephen Stanislaus Sebattis Saul Sebattis Solomon J. M. Sockalexis John Fransoway Mitchel Peol Susup Sappiel…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"… of the able-bodied men of the town served in the war, either close to home or elsewhere in the Colonies. Fort Hill, Biddeford, ca."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"Civil War Monument, 2010. Photograph by Jamiee Beatson, Biddeford High School. X Biddeford, however, has other plans for itself."