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"Fearing that an adverse decision in court would jeopardize their company’s entire claim, the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors preferred to issue…"
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"… as a representative to the Massachusetts General Court for twenty-five years & was a Trustee of Bowdoin College, where his son Josiah attended."
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"… a grant of Mount Desert Island from the General Court in 1762, was unable to get his grant confirmed until he had already been run out of the…"
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"… proof, and it could not be adjudicated by courts stacked with the proprietors’ cronies. From the late eighteenth century through Maine statehood in…"
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"… Properties of Empire (2019) where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s, against local settlers, because of Dummer’s…"
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"… dictates, especially considering the Supreme Court decisions recognizing tribal jurisdiction in Oklahoma over criminal acts in Tribal territory in…"
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"… and grants or patents from even more distant courts or monarchies, and the noble English-speaking farmer-settlers on the front lines of 'making a…"
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"… years, and represented Boston in the General court 1714-6, 1719, and 1720. Oliver married Anne Belcher, sister of Massachusetts Governor Jonathan…"
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"… ended the possibility of credible Indigenous military resistance to colonization. The Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors, like most…"
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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
"… of Ellsworth and Surry was sent to the General Court asking for annexation to Ellsworth of a part of Surry and Trenton."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"Goodwin was military trained and was on at least one expedition to Norridgewock. He is listed on the John North map as surveyor."
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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"The Massachusetts General Court, anxious to see the "eastern lands" settled, readily made grants of land to individuals or larger groups."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3
"… and velvet fashions, suitable only for languid court life. Modern male dress has its origins in the tailored wool of this period."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3
"… to the extravagant excess of required royal court dress, and seen in her 1783 portrait by Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun (Metropolitan Museum of Art)."
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3
"Dress worn at English court, ca. 1775Maine Historical Society Another gown, also the subject of front bodice alteration, is made of a mid-century…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Brunswick Town Meeting Minutes, 1719Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Plan of the Kennebec River describing the Plymouth patent, ca."
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Essay by Ian Saxine, Fall 2022 Ian Saxine, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of History at…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Coll. 61, vol. 7, pg. 401 Example of a proprietor meeting at the Royall Exchange Tavern on King…"
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"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Coll. 61, vol. 10, p. 179b-1 A copy of a letter issued by Samuel Goodwin to Mr."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Further Reading Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies: A Study of Their Development, Organization, Activities and…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies Copy, deed from James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society For their part, as…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies The work of Hallowell, Maine resident Martha Ballard (1735-1812) exemplifies female settlers’ varied and extensive…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies Essay by Sara T. Damiano, Fall 2022 Sara T. Damiano, PhD, is an historian of women and gender in early America and the…"
