Keywords: Pejepscot Proprietors
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… an amalgam of official business records of the Pejepscot Proprietors coupled with supplementary records generated by or in relation to company…"
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"John Watts John Watts was the only Pejepscot Proprietor that actually seemed interested in living and settling on the company's Maine property."
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"Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies Later Proprietors, Heirs and Assignees Colonel Moses Little Moses Little was born on May 8, 1724, the son of…"
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"The Pejepscot Proprietors relied on Benjamin Larrabee and Enoch Freeman to collect payments, sell additional lots, and to deal with squatters or…"
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"… Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors formed in 1714 after purchasing a claim tracing back to a deed signed by…"
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"… Minutes, 1719Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors granted a limited number of free plots of land in Brunswick and Topsham between…"
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"Both the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors sold off their remaining claims and wound up their business within a few years of the Betterment Act…"
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"… Historical Society The Kennebec Proprietors and Pejepscot Proprietors were two of the largest land companies formed in colonial Massachusetts to…"
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"… meant that by 1750, both the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors consisted of numerous men and women holding fractions of a share."
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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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"… own claims against “the opposing claims of the Pejepscot Proprietors and the Clarke and Lake Company.” (2) Wabanaki people often had a much more…"
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"Settlers, including the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, sometimes relied on the Wabanaki people who remained to interpret early documents and the…"
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"… known as the Kennebeck Purchase Company, Kennebec Proprietors, or The Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase from the late Colony of New Plymouth…"
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"… In a 1684 deed that is foundational to the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, six Wabanaki leaders, including Darumkin and Warumbo, allowed Richard…"
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"… Society In 1670, according to one deed in the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection, Thomas and Samuel York, “Planters,” agreed to give annual…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"Kennebec Proprietors Biographies The Kennebec Proprietors came into being in 1749, when an association of Boston Merchants jumped into the land…"
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"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Kinship and Leadership Copy, deed from James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"… communities, and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast Boundary (Barclay) collections."
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"… (1716), Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick: Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, collection 61, vol. 1, p. 81-83, Maine Historical Society."
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"Namely, the Androscoggin River where the Pejepscot Proprietors sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Gerrity, Robert Michael. The Pejepscot Proprietors: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Absentee Land Ownership on the Maine Frontier, 1714-1768, 1973."
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"Coll. 61, vol. 1A, p. 37 The Pejepscot Proprietors claim was heavily based on Native titles, their main rival, the Kennebec Proprietors claim was…"
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"… Boston-area elites who founded the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors. Elite Boston women not only stood to own property themselves, but also…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"60), the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll. 61), and the Barclay (Coll. 26) Collections. These collections, collectively spanning 1625 to 1893, carry what…"
