Keywords: Pejepscot Purchase
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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…"
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"… collections: the Plymouth Company Records, the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, and the Thomas Barclay Collection (also known as the Northeast…"
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"… large manuscript collections of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region of Maine…"
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"… the wake of the fall of Acadia—in particular the Pejepscot Proprietors—were immediately alarmed by what they correctly saw as a threat to their…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… Township of Brunswick papers—referred to as the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll. 61) and the Thomas Barclay collection—informally called the Northeast…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… organized as “The Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase from the late Colony of New-Plymouth,” The proprietors developed and fervently defended…"
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"… the proprietors’ tracts more appealing to future purchasers. After all, apportioning the land into bustling townships and selling it at a…"
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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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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Further to the east, new boundary issues erupted. At the end of the Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview This improvisational system for claiming land as legal property sprouted a thicket of conflicts."
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview All these newcomers would quickly learn that it was a common experience in Maine to be harangued for payment…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"Project Partners The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities…"
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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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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Moose River, Moose Head Lake and Kennebeck…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 While national and imperial leaders were pleased…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"Borderland Essays Explore essays, listed in the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Past meets Present I am particularly struck by how similar the Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Self Determination What strikes me as similar between the past and contemporary times is not only that we—as…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective What is not questioned, it seems, in either the 18th century, or the late 20th and early 21st centuries, is…"
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, ca."
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Essay by Alexandra L. Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania Department of History…"
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical…"
