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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - SEE NOTES "What the book said to the Boy". Library bookmark.

"SEE NOTES "What the book said to the Boy". Library bookmark. Contributed by Farmington Public Library Description Commercially printed…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Boy at Bangor parade, July 4, 1865

"… splendid feature in the procession was the boys schools being each school in seperate companies with a regular set of captains Lieut sargents &c…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Boy at Bangor post Civil War parade, 1865

"This boy is one of the age 11-14 group who "were uniformed in Zouave, red, picken red caps, white waists, red cambrick pants white cotton stockings…"

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.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 2 of 3

"The Presque Isle boys were named the Indians, but Dorothy cheered for the boys from Robinson. She liked the boys from there."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections

"The Zooniverse page will be kept live and volunteers can continue to work on the remainder of the pages, and as they are approved the documents will…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"There were four boys and two girls. They picked potatoes in the end of September and early October. They picked strawberries in early June."

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

"… new colony to be named Nova Scotia—the first time the name was used to refer to the region—covered all the land northeast of Passamaquoddy Bay…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"While the idea of a separate colony quickly lost favor and was rejected by March of 1730, the Privy Council determined that political control of the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"The charter contains a clear vision of the different British political jurisdictions between Cape Cod and the Gulf of St. Lawrence."

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

"… the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in Canada, and the "borderland" region known…"

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

"Lawrence River. (See, for example, the map of the “imaginary” highlands produced by the British in 1840, below)"

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

"Croix to the highlands and beyond proved elusive. The geographic range of maps produced in this period, to the east in 1817 and to the west in 1820…"

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

"Even Governor Francis Bernard, who received a grant of Mount Desert Island from the General Court in 1762, was unable to get his grant confirmed…"

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

"… were cleaved in two by the lasting demarcation of the international border by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (officially, the Washington Treaty) of…"

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

"When it became clear that the commission process would not produce a result in the early 1820s, both sides reluctantly prepared for arbitration by a…"

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

"… and future commissions on the political fate of the islands in the bay would similarly focus on the correct interpretations of seventeenth- and…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"A young boy's indenturePrince Memorial Library Apprentices and Servants The Overseers were empowered to bind out, or place into apprenticeship, the…"

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

"The rich records about the creation of the border preserved here provide readers with the historical resources to reconsider how and why the border…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"The original four shareholders and their descendants gradually sold off portions of their shares into ever smaller pieces, while the original patent…"

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

"The project documents European settlement of northern New England, specifically coastal and interior Maine, land distribution, and conflicts before…"

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

"The Pejepscot Proprietors relied on Benjamin Larrabee and Enoch Freeman to collect payments, sell additional lots, and to deal with squatters or…"

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

""‘A Kind of Warr’: The Contest for Land on the Northeastern Frontier, 1750-1820,” The William and Mary Quarterly 46:1 (January 1989), pp. 3- 26 2."

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

"Fearing that an adverse decision in court would jeopardize their company’s entire claim, the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors preferred to issue…"