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Site Pages
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"Treaty of Washington boundary map, 1842Maine Historical Society Many overlapping authorities had strong claims in this borderland, starting, of…"
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"St. John and Penobscot Rivers map, 1798Maine Historical Society Settling other issues, especially those in Article 5 that related to the interior…"
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"Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St. Croix from a map sent to Lt. Sydney by Lt. Gov Carleton in 1786.Maine Historical Society By 1783, then, the…"
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"Contested Northeast boundary map, 1843Maine Historical Society The Maine land companies which had been organized in the wake of the fall of…"
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"This ill-defined boundary, based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"… known between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Boundary between United States and New…"
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"“Red Lines on Maps: The Impact of Cartographical Errors on the Border between the United States and British North America, 1782-1842,” Imago Mundi…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"… for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant…"
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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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"A few years later in 1820 Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a state and agreed to continue the Treaty obligations set in the 1794 treaty…"
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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."
