Maine Memory Network

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"They follow surveying lines that were established when land was first divided up by the early proprietors of North Yarmouth."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"Women’s economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."

Maine State Museum

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"When the companies surveyed and parceled out portions of their “undivided” land, acreage was assigned according to shares."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"Morris, Charles. “A Report of a Survey of the River St. Johns and of the Coast from thence to Passamaquoddy,” enclosed in Michael Francklin to the…"

Maine Conservation Corps

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"Croix Island, 1797 Used by the British Secretary Ward Chapman of the St. Croix Commission (1796-1798) to help settle the dispute over the Northeast…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… to areas at the eastern end of the border (a survey of Passamaquoddy Bay by John Mitchell) and in the west (treaties with the Chenussio and Seneca…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… into 1880s 1824 • Solomon Cushing conducts survey of town of Lubec • Freemasons opened lodge 1830 • Lubec began sending vessels to Magdelen Islands…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"It is the earliest map of North Lubec, known as Soward's Neck at that time. Cushing was a surveyor sent to the area from Massachusetts to lay out…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"Land speculators swarmed all over Maine surveying its natural resources. They plotted access to the Boston markets through Maine’s rivers and ports."

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

"Exploring survey, St. Croix River to Great Waggansis, 1817Maine Historical Society Growing border tension and violence from 1827 to 1841, especially…"

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

"The costs to raise and support the surveying teams in their field efforts were extreme and more than four boxes of the Barclay Collection includes…"

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

"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"A survey of the steam power to drive the steam engines of each paper machine, dry the paper, cook the pulp, and heat the buildings found a need for a…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"Chisholm was making a detailed survey of the markets for quality papers, and it became apparent that two additional paper machines would be needed to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"1, p. 81-83, Maine Historical Society. 4. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985)…"

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

"He died in 1717 in Maine. He accomplished the settlement of twenty families on the island. Stephen Minot Stephen Minot started from perhaps the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"Most women landowners were widows who inherited such property from their late husbands. Gendered divisions of economic activity, moreover, meant that…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"“Remembering that caution I dropped my surveying instrument before I hit the water,” said Chandler. Connecting beams of new bridge, Lubec, 1962…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"A survey of the Colony in 1873 found that a population of 600 had cleared 1500 acres of land and built 130 homes and nearly 130 barns."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… settlement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maine. Yet, when we look more closely at the period, it is clear that both Wabanaki peoples and…"