Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… 3-18, an essay of much broader scope than its title indicates. Pawling, ed., Micah A. Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"Instead, they sued settlers who claimed land under rival syndicates. Some settlers came to Maine at the encouragement of proprietary or colonization…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"Positioning itself as the sole source of legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"Maine Historical Society Although the title may sound humble, clerks managed the books and, as they were privy to sensitive information, wielded…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"Holding title from a Wabanaki deed, Pejepscot Proprietors like Adam Winthrop argued that, as “the custom of the country,” deeds from the Wabanakis…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"… by then a longstanding custom of rooting Anglo title in Native land rights, arguing instead that royal or provincial grants, not Indian deeds, were…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… they appeared in the record primarily when land titles required their signatures.(5) While a small number of White New England women owned…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"… settlers—and European settlers only—to have full title to land, even though they had to keep fighting over which European’s claims were to win the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… Proprietors claim was heavily based on Native titles, their main rival, the Kennebec Proprietors claim was founded on an ancient grant of Land from…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"… Society The Kennebec Proprietors traced their title back to a 1629 grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King Charles I under a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… formed to legitimize and take advantage of titles to vast tracts of Wabanaki Homelands, but the different origins of their claims both led to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… Claims when the petition for the confirmation of title was originally received, and when it came before the house, Thomas was on the council, along…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… him by his father, as well as other dubious land titles on Roanoke Island in North Carolina and the Bedford Plantation in Connecticut."

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

"… Historical Society & Museum The question of title to the territory encompassing these settlements was confused, because the Council for New…"

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

"Most of these early families received their land titles from either Governor Bernard or Bartholemy and Marie Therese de Gregoire."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"… School, which was designated a National Title 1 Distinguished School in 2011, sponsors many annual community events such as Christmas caroling…"

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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… After the Revolutionary War, deeds and titles were still not clear, so the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had to straighten things out."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… the lot sometime around 1820, the deeds and clear title for Lot 67 to Roberts and Savage were obtained later on in 1846 from Colonel John Black of…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"Newell, Esq., wrote a short book titled, A Brief Historical Sketch of the Life and Sufferings of Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid."

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Trees would be burned allowing land to be cleared for the planting of crops and the building of a homestead."

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… the honorific “Venerable” to Mother McAuley’s title. That is a stage on the path to canonization for sainthood, eagerly awaited by her Sisters and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… which made it impossible for him to receive title to his land; instead the province of New Brunswick gave him a patent to the land so he could live…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Full well you’ve earned the title, “The Gamest of the Game”. And carved your name forever in the Racing Hall of Fame."