Keywords: Land ownership and boundaries
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"… granted a limited number of free plots of land in Brunswick and Topsham between 1715 and 1722, and continued a policy of selling initial plots of…"
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"… and Pejepscot Proprietors? Residents on company lands also complained, with considerable justification, about suffering as a result of rivalries…"
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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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"… 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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"… men’s and women’s abilities to own and control land. Like other British colonies, Massachusetts, including the district of Maine, derived its legal…"
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"Their presence helped to substantiate company land claims, and the roads, mills, and meetinghouses they built helped make the rest of the…"
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"Women’s economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."
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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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"… Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019), 53."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"It also includes municipal records for towns settled by the company, most notably Brunswick, Maine, with warrants and reports."
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"In Boston, he was elected to the office of scavenger, clerk of the market, and hogreeve (hog constable) several times."
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"… and Warumbo, allowed Richard Wharton to purchase land and fisheries on Merrymeeting Bay but also reaffirmed the rights they retained: Nothing in…"
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"Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776-1803. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2016. Brooks, Lisa."
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"… regions, the charter stipulated that no grants of land made in the area east of the Kennebec River would be legally recognized unless separately…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… association of Boston Merchants jumped into the land speculation business by reviving an old Pilgrim grant on the Kennebec River in Maine."
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"The collection, acquired by MHS from former Governor Joseph H. Williams in October of 1862, measures 4.5 linear feet and 16 bound volumes."
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"A few years later in 1820 Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a state and agreed to continue the Treaty obligations set in the 1794 treaty…"
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"In an era of Wabanaki power, they sought out Native leaders who might endorse that interpretation of their Indian deeds, and they brandished these…"
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"… related to the illegal taking of Wabanaki lands by the states of Massachusetts and Maine after the 1790 Federal Non-Intercourse Act, making…"
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"Many of the documents were created and assembled to validate the holdings of the Pejepscot Proprietors, who in 1714 purchased rights originally…"
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"The key conflicts seem to be between the large land-owning proprietors and the settler-occupants of these tracts of land, often without a mention of…"
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"… here—wiped out by English and American greed, land speculation, and notions of European and American supremacy over the Indigenous stewards of what…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"… across the country steward important collections" and strengthen "efforts to extend the reach of such materials and make their intellectual content…"
