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Site Pages
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"… across the country steward important collections" and strengthen "efforts to extend the reach of such materials and make their intellectual content…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Greer, Allan. Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University…"
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"Their presence helped to substantiate company land claims, and the roads, mills, and meetinghouses they built helped make the rest of the…"
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"… and locations, including documentation of little-known homelands like Ameskonti. The Kennebec Proprietors maps document the continuance of Wabanaki…"
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"… brandished these musty parchments before rival companies, metropolitan officials, and ordinary settlers alike as a strategy for asserting title."
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"In their squabbles with rival companies, they rejected what was by then a longstanding custom of rooting Anglo title in Native land rights, arguing…"
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"… significant archival collections: the Plymouth Company Records, the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, and the Thomas Barclay Collection (also known as…"
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"Just as the large manuscript collections of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region…"
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"… the Pejepscot Proprietors and the Clarke and Lake Company.” (2) Wabanaki people often had a much more nuanced understanding of the places mentioned…"
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"The rich records about the creation of the border preserved here provide readers with the historical resources to reconsider how and why the border…"
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"… and the Province of Maine, control of Sagadahock and Nova Scotia—which at the time were under de jure French and de facto Wabanaki political…"
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"… Robert Pagan (1750-1820) of Glasgow, Maine, and New Brunswick, and numerous surveyors who undertook arduous work in interior lands that remained…"
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"… especially arising from the Rebellions in Lower and Upper Canada in 1837-38 and conflict over access to timber in the Aroostook “War” of 1838-39…"
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"… in the late 1760s and 1770s, but they were small, and control of land was contested both by Passamaquoddy people and the itinerant New England…"
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"… Adjudications: Ancient and Modern History and Documents, Together With Mediatorial Reports, Advisory Opinions, and the Decisions of Domestic…"
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"… teams in their field efforts were extreme and more than four boxes of the Barclay Collection includes financial records and receipts from 1796 to…"
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"… between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick was, prior to about 1800, one largely of failure and…"
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"Amongst the region’s original inhabitants, the Wabanaki, men and women jointly provided for their society: generally men hunted game which women in…"
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"Further Reading Pawling, Micah A. “A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in…"
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"… the French and British come to the village and talk about war, trade and alliances. When Francis was a young man, his father Chief Jean Baptiste…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4
"Nevertheless, in due course, this new fashion influenced most wardrobes to some degree, and is most recognizable in the mid 1950s teenage girl's…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"The Zooniverse page will be kept live and volunteers can continue to work on the remainder of the pages, and as they are approved the documents will…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Square shouldered cape and suit ensemble, ca. 1943 - Page 1 of 3
"Born in Iowa, Lucile lived in Tokyo, London, and New York before settling in New Jersey. An author, she traveled and lectured extensively on East…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4
"The skirt is lined with an open weave cotton, and the bottom of the skirt is lined with a Moiré, or rippled effect, black horsehair."
