Keywords: Maine (Ship)
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Site Pages
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"… quickly learn that it was a common experience in Maine to be harangued for payment by the agent of an absentee proprietor, or to be sued for…"
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"… baseline of documents that define what becomes Maine starting in 1625, nearly two hundred years before Maine became a state."
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"… Borders portal makes accessible three of the Maine Historical Society’s most significant archival collections: the Plymouth Company Records, the…"
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"As the Wabanaki Tribal Nations in what is now Maine fought for sovereignty and self-determination in 2021-22, equal to the Tribes in Oklahoma and…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill
"… student musicians providing music from a nearby ship. That was the beginning of the Blue Hill Troupe."
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"… that the lines of clothing, hardware, shoes, and ship chandlery were the best east of Bangor. Lubec stores seemed primitive by comparison."
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"… the colonial framework remains across not only Maine, but all of Wabanaki territory. Beginning in the 1950s, Wabanaki people, often led by those…"
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"… addition, ongoing eighteenth-century wars on the Maine frontier discouraged investors from what appeared to be a risky venture."
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"… arguing that, by assuming the risk of moving to Maine, and making the company claim valuable, they deserved a greater share of it."
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"… claims and wound up their business within a few years of the Betterment Act, bringing the great era of land speculation in Maine to a close."
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"Most New Englanders did not change their view of Maine until the decisive defeat of the Wabanakis’ French allies in the Seven Years War (1756–1763)…"
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"… ownership to hundreds of thousands of acres in Maine, most of the presiding members of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors lived in and around…"
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"Maine Historical Society Although the title may sound humble, clerks managed the books and, as they were privy to sensitive information, wielded…"
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"Amid expanding imperial warfare, Maine offered a strategic location, diplomatic access to a vast network of Indigenous powers, and timber aplenty to…"
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"… Robin [Ramegin] to James Thomas and Samuel York.Maine Historical Society In 1670, according to one deed in the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection…"
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"… a Bear's Paw’: Anglo-Indian Land Deeds in Early Maine,” Ethnohistory 36:3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 235-256) 3. Richardson, H. W., William M."
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"… of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial claims to…"
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"… proprietor groups operating in the District of Maine before and after the American Revolution. Conflicting land grants, competing companies…"
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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3
"Clearing ship traffic required a six percent grade reaching 48 feet above high tide at the point of greatest elevation."
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"Judd, eds., Historical Atlas of Maine (Orono: University of Maine Press, 2015), plate 21 Hoy, Benjamin."
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"… observers also recognized a distinct “Province of Maine” that stretched from Piscataqua to the Kennebec, Nova Scotia, and a separate—although…"
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"… methods Today’s boundaries of the state of Maine are easy to picture in the far northeastern corner of the United States, but that seemingly…"
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"However, its mostly riverine border for Maine did not account for the highlands designated in the 1783 treaty."
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"… James Sullivan (1744-1808) of Massachusetts and Maine, loyalist Robert Pagan (1750-1820) of Glasgow, Maine, and New Brunswick, and numerous…"
