Keywords: Kennebec Proprietors
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"… and the Kennebec River watershed where the Kennebec Proprietors claimed and sold large tracts of land, including Norridgewock, the site of a brutal…"
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"Organized in 1749, the Kennebec Proprietors, also known as the Plymouth Company, claimed a tract of some three million acres on both sides of the…"
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"… on Native titles, their main rival, the Kennebec Proprietors claim was founded on an ancient grant of Land from the King to the Plymouth Colony to…"
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"The lawyers ultimately found in favor of the proprietors, effectively ending Dunbar’s career as a land agent."
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"… Ephraim, was surveyor and agent for the Kennebec Proprietors, and so generated extensive documentation within its papers."
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"… and Rachel Berry Deed to Proprietors (1716), Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick: Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, collection 61, vol. 1, p."
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"But settlers were important to the proprietors’ designs. Their presence helped to substantiate company land claims, and the roads, mills, and…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"60), the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll. 61), and the Barclay (Coll. 26) Collections. These collections, collectively spanning 1625 to 1893, carry what…"
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"… elites who founded the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors. Elite Boston women not only stood to own property themselves, but also helped their…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Further Reading Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies: A Study of Their Development, Organization, Activities and…"
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"… harangued for payment by the agent of an absentee proprietor, or to be sued for ejectment—from land one had already bought—by another proprietor…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"60), the Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick papers—referred to as the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll."
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"… glance, the papers of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors position men as the primary economic actors in White New Englanders’ settlement of…"
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"… collections of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region of Maine that have been…"
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"… I am particularly struck by how similar the Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to the last sixty to seventy years of State and Federal…"
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"… church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary commissions—all offer insight into struggles over who governed…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"61, the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection is available to search, both at the volume level as well as the individual page level."
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"… the Plymouth Company Records, the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, and the Thomas Barclay Collection (also known as the Northeast Boundary…"
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"… see the Federal government, much like the distant proprietors of 17th and 18th centuries, as primarily fighting to preserve its control over its…"
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"Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820."
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"… Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill…"
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"… of Maine” that stretched from Piscataqua to the Kennebec, Nova Scotia, and a separate—although poorly defined—region that lay in-between the two…"
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"… settlement was established at the mouth of the Kennebec River. Known as the Popham or Sagadahock Colony, it barely lasted a year, from 1607-1608."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"Project Partners The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities…"
