Keywords: Pejepscot River
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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…"
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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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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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"… by Robin Hood, in 1675, on the Wescustogo (Royal) River, and appeared on a deed regarding land on Merriconeag Neck with Robin Hood and her brother…"
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"Croix River. In the Passamaquoddy language the river was known as the Skutik River. Several testimonies were given about the location of the true St."
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"… efforts to have land grants east of the Penobscot River confirmed by the Crown, as the charter required, were stymied."
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"Croix River (as well as its source), and deciding how to follow the long St. John (Wolostoq) River and its tributaries, which was made especially…"
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"… and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Moose River, Moose Head Lake and Kennebeck Road, 1820Maine Historical Society Historian Francis M."
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"… reflection of the cross-shaped conjunction of the rivers around it or as a reflection on the party’s hopes of using the site as a base for…"
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"The fundamental issue was that, in the years since Champlain’s voyage, the precise location of the river had been lost."
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"… from the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River, through the Great Lakes, and the eastern border’s terminus at Lake of the Woods (the…"
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"… of land made in the area east of the Kennebec River would be legally recognized unless separately and specifically approved by the British crown."
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"… veteran, and his attempts at protecting the Sandy River; and Polin, in his attempts at protecting the Presumpscot River, both through diplomacy and…"
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"… three million acres on both sides of the Kennebec River. In their squabbles with rival companies, they rejected what was by then a longstanding…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… by reviving an old Pilgrim grant on the Kennebec River in Maine. This group of wealthy, well connected merchants organized as “The Proprietors of…"
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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 Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New…"
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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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"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 Self Determination What strikes me as similar between the past and contemporary times is not only that we—as…"
