Keywords: Little Androscoggin River
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"… from the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River, through the Great Lakes, and the eastern border’s terminus at Lake of the Woods (the…"
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"… of land made in the area east of the Kennebec River would be legally recognized unless separately and specifically approved by the British crown."
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"… veteran, and his attempts at protecting the Sandy River; and Polin, in his attempts at protecting the Presumpscot River, both through diplomacy and…"
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"… named Paul Chadwick in 1809 along the Kennebec River sapped popular support for continued resistance, convincing most residents to finally settle…"
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"“A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The…"
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"… three million acres on both sides of the Kennebec River. In their squabbles with rival companies, they rejected what was by then a longstanding…"
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"… a number of Irish families near the Kennebec River, the British briefly flirted with the idea of transforming the Sagadahock into its own colony…"
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"… square mile region on either side of the Kennebec River. The content of this collection pre‐ and post‐dates the period of the company’s operation…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… by reviving an old Pilgrim grant on the Kennebec River in Maine. This group of wealthy, well connected merchants organized as “The Proprietors of…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5
"Just a little wheat was raised and a few potatoes. Many stories have been told about that difficult year. It snowed sometime during every month."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2
"It was then when an inexperienced and little known coach by the name of John Shaw came to town. Prior to coaching at Rumford, John had only two years…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"… the boundaries of certain lands lying around the Androscoggin River listed in the Pejepscot Claim. This tribe was friendlier with the English, so…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Brunswick Town Meeting Minutes, 1719Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Essay by Ian Saxine, Fall 2022 Ian Saxine, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of History at…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Coll. 61, vol. 7, pg. 401 Example of a proprietor meeting at the Royall Exchange Tavern on King…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Coll. 61, vol. 10, p. 179b-1 A copy of a letter issued by Samuel Goodwin to Mr."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Further Reading Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies: A Study of Their Development, Organization, Activities and…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies Copy, deed from James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society For their part, as…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies The work of Hallowell, Maine resident Martha Ballard (1735-1812) exemplifies female settlers’ varied and extensive…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies Essay by Sara T. Damiano, Fall 2022 Sara T. Damiano, PhD, is an historian of women and gender in early America and the…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Further to the east, new boundary issues erupted. At the end of the Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview All these newcomers would quickly learn that it was a common experience in Maine to be harangued for payment…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"Project Partners The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities…"
