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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… including the locative placename of the lower Androscoggin River, as Pejepscook (Pejepscot), and the upper river homeland, Ammoscongon (Amikôkan)."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"The Androscoggin River and its tributaries are now relatively free of pollution and are suitable for swimming, boating, and fishing in the Rumford…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… and social development to its location on the Androscoggin River, and its tributaries of the Ellis River on the west, the Swift River on the east…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… Webb River, and enters at its confluence with the Androscoggin River in Dixfield. Agriculture played a part in the development of this section of…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… the New Hampshire border on the south side of the Androscoggin River and was bordered by Township Number Two (now known as Milton Plantation)…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… by or in relation to company activity along the Androscoggin River. Bound in volumes alongside these original manuscript records are small…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"Namely, the Androscoggin River where the Pejepscot Proprietors sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the…"

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

"Colonel Josiah Little Josiah Little was the son of Colonel Moses and Abigail Little and born on February 16, 1747."

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

"… sagamores to land around Merrymeeting Bay, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers. The eight original Pejepscot Proprietors quickly founded Brunswick…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… “acknowledgement” to Wabanaki leaders on the Androscoggin River: “Derumkin, or Daniel or Robin [ramegin]…shall come and lawfully demand and receive…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"Androscoggin River area map, 1771Maine Historical Society At the heart of all three collections lie conflicting ideas about land and property."

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

"… tract stretching four miles on either side of the Androscoggin River. Likewise, in 1719, the Muscongus Proprietors, also known as the Lincolnshire…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… and small tributaries, including Garland Pond (Little Ellis) and Silver Lake (Ellis Pond or Roxbury Pond)."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"with little profit. This would be running directly into the pre-WW II era. Bag Mill bachelor housing, Rumford, 1946Greater Rumford Area…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by cartographer Chief Francis Joseph Neptune (Passamaquoddy), 1798Maine Historical Society…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"… by Robin Hood, in 1675, on the Wescustogo (Royal) River, and appeared on a deed regarding land on Merriconeag Neck with Robin Hood and her brother…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Croix River. In the Passamaquoddy language the river was known as the Skutik River. Several testimonies were given about the location of the true St."

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

"… Proprietors? Plan of the Kennebec River describing the Plymouth patent, ca. 1719Maine Historical Society The Kennebec Proprietors traced…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… efforts to have land grants east of the Penobscot River confirmed by the Crown, as the charter required, were stymied."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"Croix River (as well as its source), and deciding how to follow the long St. John (Wolostoq) River and its tributaries, which was made especially…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… Reality, 1763-1842 Manuscript Map of Moose River, Moosehead Lake, and Kennebeck Road, 1820Maine Historical Society Historian Francis M."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… reflection of the cross-shaped conjunction of the rivers around it or as a reflection on the party’s hopes of using the site as a base for…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"The fundamental issue was that, in the years since Champlain’s voyage, the precise location of the river had been lost."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"For example, in a 1659 Kennebec River deed, Nanudemance retained “liberty unto me and my heirs to fish, fowl, and hunt also to set otter traps…"