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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

"John (Wolostoq) River and its tributaries, which was made especially vexing by reference to a supposedly definitive “highlands” that separated…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Moose River, Moose Head Lake and Kennebeck Road, 1820Maine Historical Society Historian Francis M."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"… 1973, “A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region.” Bath Historical Society, 1997, “The Sesquicentennial of Bath, Maine…"

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

"… holdings: the Plymouth Company, also known as the Kennebec Proprietors (Coll. 60), the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll. 61), and the Barclay (Coll."

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

"The fundamental issue was that, in the years since Champlain’s voyage, the precise location of the river had been lost."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… physically shaped this stretch of the Kennebec River and the system of river-parallel ridges on which the city is situated include crustal plate…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders portal makes accessible three of the Maine Historical…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… Society At first glance, the papers of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors position men as the primary economic actors in White New Englanders’…"

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

"… as historian Emerson Baker observed, “the Kennebec Proprietors desperately sought” to secure their own claims against “the opposing claims of 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 3 of 5

"… from the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River, through the Great Lakes, and the eastern border’s terminus at Lake of the Woods (the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… and Breadth of Maine, by Stanley Bearce Attwood, printed by the Kennebec Journal Print Shop, Augusta, Maine, no date listed; pages 27 and 218."

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

"… veteran, and his attempts at protecting the Sandy River; and Polin, in his attempts at protecting the Presumpscot River, both through diplomacy and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"“A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… to Wabanaki leaders on the Androscoggin River: “Derumkin, or Daniel or Robin [ramegin]…shall come and lawfully demand and receive one Peck of Corn…"

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

"… to company activity along the Androscoggin River. Bound in volumes alongside these original manuscript records are small histories and genealogies…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… the sorts of Boston-area elites who founded the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors. Elite Boston women not only stood to own property themselves…"

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

"The Plymouth Company records—also known as the Kennebec Proprietors (Coll. 60), the Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick papers—referred to as…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… a passage through the rapids in the Adroscoggin river. Company (Check that HENRY) He remained active in overseeing his property until he was past…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… Perspective Self Determination What strikes me as similar between the past and contemporary times is not only that we—as Wabanaki people—have…"

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

"Dresden, Me.: Jennie G. Everson, Eleanor L. Everson, 1977. Blaakman, Michael Albert. Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… Sagadahoc Bridge now acts as the way to cross the Kennebec River by car, foot, or bicycle. In over 200 years at this intersection, time has never…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"John Patten was the President of The Portland and Kennebec Railroad. John Patten had the idea and was also was the main builder for this project of…"

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