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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"This reminds me of events detailed in Saxine’s Properties of Empire (2019) where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… in living and settling on the company's Maine property. Watts focused his attention on Arrowsic Island and the improvement and fortification of the…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Reed Hardings neighborhood, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… neighborhood, detailing inhabitants of all the properties, as it was between 1833 and 1835 and included it as page 63 of his journal."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"John River, and state interests mobilized, especially in the US Senate, to reject the proposal, although it had other more pro-American dimensions."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… of Dummer's Treaty, 1726Maine Historical Society Interestingly, the conflicts detailed in much of the earlier scholarship (such as in Taylor’s…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… on the frontier to represent the proprietors’ interests. The Pejepscot Proprietors relied on Benjamin Larrabee and Enoch Freeman to collect…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… in 1837 and purchased the Little Blue property across the street from Few Acres, and built a cottage there, where he continued his writing."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… arose from the opaque issues at stake as well as interest-driven motives to acquire rich timber lands (on both sides) and to preserve an overland…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"To the south, at Union Wharf, King sold property to William Ledyard and Asa Palmer for $300 in 1806."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is Established - 1823

"The State purchased the property from Governor King for $3000. The lot was described as follows: A certain piece or tract of land in Thomaston with a…"

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Lovell Historical Society

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Leeds Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… Point, as it is called, was constructed upon the property of the former Dane Cottage, and still remains standing to this day."

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Windham Historical Society

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"Bussey completed the house and in 1844 sold the property to Captain Edward Robinson, a successful captain and shipbuilder elected to Congress in…"

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William Fogg Public Library

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John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project

"… (1869-1945) became the sole owner of the Bangor property, which the sisters had turned into rental property."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"In the fall of 1999, some bold members of the area community, concerned that the property might be developed into house lots, formed a nonprofit…"

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Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… Charles and Benjamin Vaughan, came to advance property interests inherited from Benjamin Hallowell, the Kennebec Proprietor for whom the town was…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"Look for shifts in the Sandy River or changes in property lines over time. Farmington Town Map, 1794 Farmington Downtown Map, circa 1860 Farmington…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"For nearly forty years Jocelyn was a prominent leader in the area. By 1671 Jocelyn found his business interests less profitable than in the early…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… any shape, by being plundered either of time or property; idleness of hired men is either a theft of time or money, and I would have Mr."

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Skowhegan History House

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

"… would govern the activities and maintain the properties. The Canadian timber holdings were sold to the government; No's."