Maine Memory Network

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

"… claims and wound up their business within a few years of the Betterment Act, bringing the great era of land speculation in Maine to a close."

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

"Maine Historical Society Although the title may sound humble, clerks managed the books and, as they were privy to sensitive information, wielded…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"The church was named the Central Congregational Church, and Pastor Ray Palmer began service for citizens of Bath."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"… known between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Map of Campobello Island, ca."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… provide free, full-text online access to three of Maine Historical Society’s oldest and most significant archival holdings: the Plymouth Company…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Allen, Charles Edwin. History of Dresden, Maine: Formerly a Part of the Old Town of Pownalborough from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… as a way to provide free, open access to three of Maine Historical Society's most significant archival collections, the Beyond Borders project…"

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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 1 of 5

"… history methods Today’s boundaries of the state of Maine are easy to picture in the far northeastern corner of the United States, but that…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"… the globe have contributed to our project! As of the Fall of 2022, our crowd-source partners have fully transcribed over 8,000 pages, with another…"

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

"Noyes is responsible for the creation of the majority of proprietor records within the Pejepscot collection."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"When the bounds of the patent were surveyed, it was discovered that Foxwell and Watts had instead settled within what was then called Black Point."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"In 1785, the townspeople took a survey and decided to purchase the land from Massachusetts for two shillings an acre."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… Bay sprang up under the jurisdiction of Nova Scotia in the late 1760s and 1770s, but they were small, and control of land was contested both by…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… half of T16-R3 (what would become Stockholm) was surveyed for settlers in 1879 and again in 1883 when it was sold to the Burleigh heirs by the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"McKeen was given the records of the Pejepscot Proprietors by the son of the last clerk of the company, Josiah Little, a Bowdoin College classmate."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"The Treaty of Ghent 1815 was drafted to determine the boundary lines between the United States and Great Britain Canada."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… as well as Clerk of Common Pleas for the Port of Plymouth, Justice of Peace for Plymouth, and Deputy Collector for Port of Boston."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"… James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society It was not uncommon to see multiple Wabanaki leaders sign deeds, or to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… 1684Maine Historical Society The protection of these relationships to land and kin are evident in the ways that Wabanaki leaders sought to reserve…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… proprietor groups operating in the District of Maine before and after the American Revolution."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of East New Portland

"… in the state, and was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places by Maine DOT's Historic Bridge Survey in 2001."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"The line was surveyed in the fall of 1872, and construction began in the spring of 1873. The road opened in December of 1874, and was leased by the E…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… Philander Coburn, who assisted their father in surveying most all of the woods of northern Maine, Skowhegan became the hub for the logging…"