Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… competing companies (including the Pejepscot Company), and squatters created a dynamic landscape with much at stake as the company laid claim to a…"

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company Hallowell Steam and Boom Company, Hallowell, ca. 1895Courtesy of Sumner A."

Historic Hallowell - The Boston Flint Company

"They crushed the flint up so that it would be little, tiny rocks. After the sandpaper was glued, they would sprinkle the flint and granite onto the…"

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."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"… of at least one major shareholder and the company clerk, made most of the decisions about managing the new, unincorporated towns on proprietary…"

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

"By that time, Goodwin had bought a full company share and moved with his family into the Lincoln County Courthouse (built at the proprietors’…"

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

"McKeen gifted them to MHS after his death. The inclusive dates for the collection are circa 1627 to circa 1866, which also pre and postdate the…"

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

"Ordinary homesteaders buying from one company often faced threats and lawsuits from rivals, and some even paid multiple sets of proprietors for their…"

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

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

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… of growth in Brunswick, Topsham, and other company towns. Residents in those communities wanted the proprietors to grant away more land to attract…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"60), the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll. 61), and the Barclay (Coll. 26) Collections. These collections, collectively spanning 1625 to 1893, carry what…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"Swanton & Jameson Co. was founded by John Bosworth Swanton and John Campbell Jameson, both of whom worked for Zina Hyde."

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

"… Goodwin found a copy of the Plymouth Colony Patent in 1744. The major shareholders began attempting to make the company claim a reality in 1749."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… were a great source for tourists to get little souvenirs or other supplies. In 1901, the top floor, which was used as an Armory for the National…"

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

"Without acknowledged Indian deeds of their own, the Kennebec Company came to the opposite conclusion."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"The Plymouth Company records—also known as the Kennebec Proprietors (Coll. 60), the Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick papers—referred to as…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"He was the author of the majority of company pamphlets and official communications. Gershom Flagg (1705-1771) Gershom Flagg was half share owner in…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"Women’s economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"A little later, the church stopped its services, and was made into a center for performing arts. In many ways, this intersection represented the…"

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

"John Ruck John Ruck was the brother in law of Thomas Hutchinson and the father in law of Benning Wentworth."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… map, 1843Maine Historical Society The Maine land companies which had been organized in the wake of the fall of Acadia—in particular the Pejepscot…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"… between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Boundary between United States and New…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"… communities, and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast Boundary (Barclay) collections."

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

"… both before and after the formation of land companies. Most women landowners were widows who inherited such property from their late husbands."