Keywords: Land ownership and boundaries
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 While national and imperial leaders were pleased…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Manuscript Map of Moose River, Moosehead Lake…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and half year initiative (2020-2022) supported in part by the National…"
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"Imperial agents, meanwhile, proposed entirely new colonies, advocating the creation of the Province of Sagadahoc in the 1730s and the colony of New…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Greer, Allan. Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"26) each document the emergence of Maine as a unique and independent entity, distinct from British colonial rule, Massachusetts, the Canadian…"
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"Seventeenth-century English, confronted by the reality of powerful Indigenous Nations on this supposedly vacant land, paid annuities associated with…"
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"X While claiming ownership to hundreds of thousands of acres in Maine, most of the presiding members of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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"… informing him that “the River Penobscot has always been deem'd and declared to be the Western boundary of Accadia or Nova Scotia.”"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"… and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast Boundary (Barclay) collections. Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"… right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in Canada, and the "borderland" region known between what is…"
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"… of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary commissions—all offer insight into struggles over who governed where, who owned what…"
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"Nearby Merrymeeting Bay was an English placename which recognized Wabanaki purpose. Just as multiple rivers converge in Casco Bay and Merrymeeting…"
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"… separate understanding of property: a belief that ownership was made not through royal seals, Indian deeds, or any deeds at all, but instead…"
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"Contested Northeast boundary map, 1843Maine Historical Society The Maine land companies which had been organized in the wake of the fall of…"
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"Although his testimony served to delineate the boundaries of settler claims to land, Pial Pôl’s presence, in 1793, also speaks to the Wabanaki people…"
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"This ill-defined boundary, based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of…"
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"… Saco in 1673 and his father married into land ownership in Maine. Both were councilors in the state."
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"Combined, these collections document a series of dreams—dreams of power, profit, and advancement, of imperial glory and patriotic achievement, of…"
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"… their Indigenous cultural and economic systems, the settlers sought their signatures and consent of land ownership on finite political documents."
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"… by identifying the Saint Croix River as the boundary. The fundamental issue was that, in the years since Champlain’s voyage, the precise location…"
