Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"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…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2

"… Eastern Maine General Hospital, BangorEastern Maine Medical Center As time went on, Eastern Maine Medical Center continued to improve and grow."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… an old Pilgrim grant on the Kennebec River in Maine. This group of wealthy, well connected merchants organized as “The Proprietors of the Kennebeck…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Co. B, Maine State Guard member, Bangor, 1864

"B of the Maine State Guard participated in the consecration of the Soldiers' Monument at Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor on June 17, 1864."

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 2 of 6

"Maine Historical Society But in Maine, as in much of Britain’s North American empire, there was no clear or single source of title."

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 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 - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"Maine Historical Society Although the title may sound humble, clerks managed the books and, as they were privy to sensitive information, wielded…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… Robin [Ramegin] to James Thomas and Samuel York.Maine Historical Society In 1670, according to one deed in the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection…"

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."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"… administration, Bath received $10,000 from the government, $4,000 of which went toward building the Old City Hall."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"… of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial claims to…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… out for up to a year, or "sent unto, employed and governed" in a work house. In many municipalities, the local town farm was established, giving…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"The Canadian timber holdings were sold to the government; No's. 1 and 3 Paper Machines were shut down as they were not contributing to profits."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"Local government had been organized to conduct the affairs of the colony even before New Sweden became a plantation."

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 2 of 5

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