Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections

"Search the Collections Currently Coll. 61, the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection is available to search, both at the volume level as well as the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"People Explore essays pertaining to individuals, communities, and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune Essay by Donald Soctomah Description of Pagan and Chipman’s Meetings with Francis Joseph…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Alger Deed X A second settlement was established across the river at Blue Point in 1636. A year before Cammock's patent had been granted, the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"New York: Penguin Books, 2004. York Deeds. Vol. II, 114. Centervale Farm - Business and Retail Center X Shops at Bessey Square X"

Maine State Archives

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… of a 50 foot square Savage family plot under a deed of trust recorded in Book 406, Page 127 of Hancock County Registry of Deeds.) Captain John…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"The early deeds can be found in the Lincoln County or Hancock County court houses. The original town records for the Plantation of Mount Desert --…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"… the Natives for amounts of rum, and birch bark deeds were given the buyers. Mt. Desert Island was a wilderness when these early settlers arrived…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford

"Thus far we boast of deeds, not words, and while other localities may have more loudly proclaimed their devotion to our country's cause, none have in…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… land and had made certain improvements were given deeds, and the rest of the land in western parts of Hancock County went to public auction, where…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"Deeds of indenture were to provide for the instruction of the children; the males were to be instructed to read, write and perform basic arithmetic…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"On May 7, 1879, Benjamin Lord deeded the family homestead to Phebe. She had become a woman of property in an era when it was unusual for a married…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"The 1894 class motto was “Deeds, Not Words.” That year, the first high school students graduated from Strong High School."

Blake Library Special Collections, UMFK

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"John Church deeded two and a half acres of land to the citizens of Farmington, to create a Village Center."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… Plantation, as Islesboro was then called, took deeds from General Knox, others did not, especially those living above the Narrows."

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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