Keywords: Maine government
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Site Pages
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"… of 1838-39, encouraged the new Whig and Tory governments of the US and Britain to finally settle the northeastern border in 1842."
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"… not confirm Massachusetts’ rights to settle and govern the region. Instead, the lawyers emphasized the Royal confirmation provisio from the charter."
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"… and Webster was later criticized for using government funds to secretly pay for pro-treaty newspaper propaganda to sway public opinion in Maine."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… Historical Society The Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and half year initiative (2020-2022) supported in…"
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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. Map of Campobello Island, ca."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Allen, Charles Edwin. History of Dresden, Maine: Formerly a Part of the Old Town of Pownalborough from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, Bangor, 1865
"… 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, a Civil War regiment…"
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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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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5
"Dixfield Today (in 2013) the seat of the town’s government and town affairs resides at the Dixfield Town Office on Main Street."
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Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2
"… was not the end of Mattie Pinette’s distinguished government career. She was hired as Chief of Employee Development in the newly created Atomic…"
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Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail
"… Avery did become a lawyer with a career in government service. (Inexplicably, both the Yearbook and the Commencement Program reproduce his middle…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943
"He was also employed by the Canadian government and several colleges and universities to do this same type of work or to act as a guide."
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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase
"Fannie also received a telegram from the government and was recognized as the beneficiary of his life insurance issued by the United States for…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3
"Mexico currently has a town manager form of government with five selectmen, town clerk, treasurer, tax collector, budget committee, a police force…"
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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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"1719Maine Historical Society Coll. 61 at Maine Historical Society Acquired by MHS in 1863, the Pejepscot Proprietors papers are an amalgam of…"
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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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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… records tell about payments that were made by the government to compensate for the inconvenience and loss of property."
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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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John Martin: Expert Observer - Capt. L. J. Morse, Co. A, Maine State Guard, Bangor, 1864
"Morse was commander of Co. A, Light Infantry, of the Maine State Guard, which participated in the consecration of the Soldiers' Monument at Mount…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier
"… 1867, John's widow Laura applied to the federal government for an increase in her widow's pension."
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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2
"Eastern Maine Medical Center." Maine Memory Network. Maine Historical Society, n.d. Web. 28 May 2015. The Outside of St."
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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…"