Keywords: Land speculation
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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…"
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"Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune Essay by Donald Soctomah Description of Pagan and Chipman’s Meetings with Francis Joseph…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4
"… for the local decline in observing territories, I speculate, is that many fishermen are going offshore."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5
"Land speculators swarmed all over Maine surveying its natural resources. They plotted access to the Boston markets through Maine’s rivers and ports."
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Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation
"… Company matters, tontine buildings, canals, land speculations, navigation, agricultural societies, India trade, turnpikes, physics, brick machines…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"… was friendlier with the English, so historians speculated that he learned English from them. He was friendly with settlers, but his wife was not."
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"After a number of failed speculations, Swan was imprisoned in Paris, France for twenty-two years for a debt he did not acknowledge."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal
"… money itself as well as the 1830s craze of land speculation all affected Bangor and John Martin -- and all appear within the pages of his journal."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn
"There's speculation that the Brick Inn at one time may have been a Boarding House. Today, the Brick Inn houses many of the local college students…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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