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"… Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical Society Unsurprisingly…"
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"… in Colonial Economies The work of Hallowell, Maine resident Martha Ballard (1735-1812) exemplifies female settlers’ varied and extensive…"
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"… Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The American Indian Quartertly 42, no.4 (2018): 454-487 muse.jhu.edu/article/708887 (retrieved…"
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"… New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine, they mobilized kinship ties that structured colonial business and investing practices."
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"His grandfather purchased lands near Saco in 1673 and his father married into land ownership in Maine. Both were councilors in the state."
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"… settlement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maine. Yet, when we look more closely at the period, it is clear that both Wabanaki peoples and…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"Search the Collections Currently Coll. 61, the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection is available to search, both at the volume level as well as the…"
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"Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies Later Proprietors, Heirs and Assignees Colonel Moses Little Moses Little was born on May 8, 1724, the son of…"
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"They influenced the location of towns in Maine, their layout, and often, in various ways, the quality of life within those communities."
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"A Conference between Wabanaki Leaders and Governor Belcher, July 1732Maine Historical Society Today, the State of Maine is much like the local…"
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"… belligerence, soured many potential migrants on Maine. But settlers were important to the proprietors’ designs."
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"Maine Historical Society But in Maine, as in much of Britain’s North American empire, there was no clear or single source of title."
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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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"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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"… 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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"… 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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"… of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial claims to…"
