Keywords: Survey of Maine
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Site Pages
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"… settlement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maine. Yet, when we look more closely at the period, it is clear that both Wabanaki peoples and…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Olof Nylander, 1864-1943
"Nylander surveyed and cataloged much of Maine and his work is still affecting our lives today. Thank you to the Nylander Museum for showing our class…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"Surveyed under the township and range system in 1825, the land that would become Presque Isle and Maysville were Letter F, Range 2 and Letter G…"
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"A full understanding of the course of Maine history before its 1820 statehood requires grappling with the vast legacy of the great land companies…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4
"A 1784 survey of the marsh by Moses Banks noted owners of marsh lots at that time. Click to view Salt Marsh Tools Salt hay continued to be…"
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"A Conference between Wabanaki Leaders and Governor Belcher, July 1732Maine Historical Society Today, the State of Maine is much like the local…"
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"dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2020). Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England…"
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"Maine Historical Society But in Maine, as in much of Britain’s North American empire, there was no clear or single source of title."
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"Some settlers came to Maine at the encouragement of proprietary or colonization schemes that subsequently went defunct, leaving them with no legal…"
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"Positioning itself as the sole source of legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great…"
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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"For many years after the survey, Newbury Neck was viewed as an annex, rather than a part of the original township."
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"… jurisdiction over Plymouth and the Province of Maine, control of Sagadahock and Nova Scotia—which at the time were under de jure French and de…"
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"The descendants of these Tribal Nations are found within our Nations and communities today. Particularly recognized are the descendants of…"
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"… collections document a series of dreams—dreams of power, profit, and advancement, of imperial glory and patriotic achievement, of flourishing…"
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"These promoters saw the region as an underutilized resource for British success and security. Amid expanding imperial warfare, Maine offered a…"
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"dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2020). Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England…"
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"… arguing that, by assuming the risk of moving to Maine, and making the company claim valuable, they deserved a greater share of it."
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"(3) Wabanaki leaders also required an annual acknowledgment of corn, at the end of King Philip’s War (1675-1678), from settlers who wished to return…"
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"An example of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial…"
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"… lands around the Kennebec to the Province of Maine and Massachusetts, while leaving the question of jurisdiction over the Sagadahock frustratingly…"
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"… and the settler-occupants of these tracts of land, often without a mention of Indigenous inhabitants or legacies."
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"Most New Englanders did not change their view of Maine until the decisive defeat of the Wabanakis’ French allies in the Seven Years War (1756–1763)…"
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"What became the Kennebec claim lay "dormant" until a minor shareholder named Samuel Goodwin found a copy of the Plymouth Colony Patent in 1744."
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"Endnotes 1. "‘A Kind of Warr’: The Contest for Land on the Northeastern Frontier, 1750-1820,” The William and Mary Quarterly 46:1 (January 1989), pp."
