Keywords: Land settlement.
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"Land—lots of it—was a means to that end. In 1714, for instance, eight Boston men established the Pejepscot Company, which claimed a large tract…"
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"… the site of one of the first French overwintering settlements in the Americas under an expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de…"
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"He died in 1717 in Maine. He accomplished the settlement of twenty families on the island. Stephen Minot Stephen Minot started from perhaps the…"
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"… the Pejepscot Proprietors sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the Kennebec Proprietors claimed and sold…"
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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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"… Mi’kmaq Nation in 1991; the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980; and recent legislative victories during 2021-2022 supporting Passamaquoddy…"
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"Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years Text by Kate Webber Images from the Swan's Island Historical Society Carrying Place X…"
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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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"Positioning itself as the sole source of legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great…"
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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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"… questions continued to plague would-be land speculators and even governmental officials looking to bring White settlers into the region to bolster…"
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"Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley By Cindy Stevens, avid historian, member of Farmington Historical Society, second grade…"
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"Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement Photograph of a portrait of Colonel James Swan, 1795 X The beginnings of European…"
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"… Wharton in 1684 with six Wabanaki sagamores to land around Merrymeeting Bay, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers."
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"… to see the same leaders sign deeds for the same land, with different settlers. For example, “Robin Hood” or Ramegin, appeared on more than fifteen…"
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"… Society The protection of these relationships to land and kin are evident in the ways that Wabanaki leaders sought to reserve subsistence rights."
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"… to delineate the boundaries of settler claims to land, Pial Pôl’s presence, in 1793, also speaks to the Wabanaki people who remained."
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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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"… governance; and, international relations, land speculation and Revolution‐era land bounties."
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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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"… exist because of competing colonial claims to land. As historian Alan Taylor observed: In 1800 the Pejepscot Patent's settlers complained that…"
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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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"… of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The American Indian…"
