Keywords: Land deeds
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"It includes land deeds, depositions, maps, correspondence, broadsides, proprietor’s meetings records, accounts, land agents, and other documents…"
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"… claims over Wabanaki lands, sometimes through deeds (or purported deeds) signed with Wabanaki leaders, and sometimes by vague agreements and grants…"
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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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"… that colonizers often benefit from such as deeds and treaties, the foundations for federal law and authority."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… proprietors locating copies of old patents and deeds within governmental archives, as well as the company patent appeal to the King in Council."
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"Many others came under the auspices of no land company at all. During the Revolutionary War, scores of leading proprietors remained loyal to the…"
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"… and Topsham residents who squatted on unsold land, stalled on payments, or helped themselves to timber on company land, while arguing that, by…"
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"Robert Kinney's Land on the Plains, and hinder any Person from Lumbering or Tresspassing" These letters were given to many settlers on disputed land…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Blaakman, Michael Albert. Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776-1803. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2016."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… important contemporary topics such as Indigenous land and water rights; and the preservation and use of public lands."
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"He is the author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)."
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"… grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King Charles I under a royal charter) to a vague, poorly defined area on both sides of the…"
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"… of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."
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"Jane, along with her mother and brother, had sold land to English colonists eight years prior, and Jane insisted that the English honor their prior…"
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"… was an essential complement to the surveys and land sales documented in company records. Women’s economic activities, in short, undergirded both…"
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"His grandfather purchased lands near Saco in 1673 and his father married into land ownership in Maine. Both were councilors in the state."
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"… and parceled out portions of their “undivided” land, acreage was assigned according to shares. Proprietors who held onto their company shares long…"
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"… Proprietors claimed and sold large tracts of land, including Norridgewock, the site of a brutal attack in 1724 on the traditionally inhabited…"
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"… the south side of Faneuil Hall, the Pejepscot lands left to him by his father, as well as other dubious land titles on Roanoke Island in North…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4
"… Society archives Cumberland County Registry of Deeds. Book 100, page 571. Domingue, Robert. The Village of Cockell: An Illustrated History of Pine…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4
"… lot (or lots) for grazing their animals, later deeding these lots to their heirs. A 1784 survey of the marsh by Moses Banks noted owners of marsh…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… often hidden within histories of land barons and proprietors. Additionally, the project intended to transcribe about one half of the initial page…"
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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…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"Borderland Essays Explore essays, listed in the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in…"
