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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"… belligerence, soured many potential migrants on Maine. But settlers were important to the proprietors’ designs."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… on Passamaquoddy Bay but disagreed over where Maine ended and New Brunswick began. From the 1790s to the 1840s, this ongoing dispute between the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… 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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… baseline of documents that define what becomes Maine starting in 1625, nearly two hundred years before Maine became a state."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… Borders portal makes accessible three of the Maine Historical Society’s most significant archival collections: the Plymouth Company Records, the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… the colonial framework remains across not only Maine, but all of Wabanaki territory. Beginning in the 1950s, Wabanaki people, often led by those…"

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

"… addition, ongoing eighteenth-century wars on the Maine frontier discouraged investors from what appeared to be a risky venture."

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

"… arguing that, by assuming the risk of moving to Maine, and making the company claim valuable, they deserved a greater share of it."

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

"… 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."

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

"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)…"

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

"… ownership to hundreds of thousands of acres in Maine, most of the presiding members of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors lived in and around…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"Amid expanding imperial warfare, Maine offered a strategic location, diplomatic access to a vast network of Indigenous powers, and timber aplenty to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… 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."

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

"… proprietor groups operating in the District of Maine before and after the American Revolution. Conflicting land grants, competing companies…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Under a Maine law of 1887 children under the age of 12 could not work in manufacturing establishments. Canneries were the exception."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… waste water treatment in accordance with federal laws or allow funding for its completion. The Rumford mill fit perfectly into Boise's growing…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"… Herring Brothers over to his daughter and son-in-law, Andrea and Tom Gilbert. Andrea and Tom Gilbert bought out Stephen in 1995 or 1996."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"His son had attended Yale in the Arts and Harvard Law School and had been brought up in a pulp and paper family."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… observers also recognized a distinct “Province of Maine” that stretched from Piscataqua to the Kennebec, Nova Scotia, and a separate—although…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… 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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"However, its mostly riverine border for Maine did not account for the highlands designated in the 1783 treaty."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… James Sullivan (1744-1808) of Massachusetts and Maine, loyalist Robert Pagan (1750-1820) of Glasgow, Maine, and New Brunswick, and numerous…"

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

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