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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

"A printed map from the treaty year gives some sense of the sharp differences of opinion about where the border should run as it shows proposed…"

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

"… Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Moose River, Moose Head Lake and Kennebeck Road…"

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

"… Treaties of Paris (1763 and 1783), the Jay Treaty (1794), the Treaty of Ghent (1814), and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)."

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

"The fundamental treaty that made fixing the international border such a long and difficult process, however, was the Treaty of Paris that ended 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 3 of 5

"… the border, and subsequent US-British treaties gradually tried to make sense of its language starting with the Jay Treaty (1794)."

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

"… to become a state and agreed to continue the Treaty obligations set in the 1794 treaty between the Tribe and Massachusetts."

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

"… colonizers often benefit from such as deeds and treaties, the foundations for federal law and authority."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"Word of the treaty reached Hampden in February of that year. Back to Incorporation Continue to Expansion"

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

"… or legacies. Belcher Noyes Copy of Dummer's Treaty, 1726Maine Historical Society Interestingly, the conflicts detailed in much of the earlier…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… after the Armistice, and about a year since the Treaty of Versailles, post-World War I America reveled in the exposition of military prowess."

Lincoln, Maine - Aroostook War

"… in this war and the entire thing was solved by a treaty rather than warfare. The dispute lasted from 1838 to 1839."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… French and Indian Wars ended with the Paris Peace Treaty which ensured the safety of settlers from attack."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"At the end of the Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, negotiators had sketched an imaginary line through this perpetually contested and…"

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

"… based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of the borderland region…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"… was a bloodless war because we settled it with a treaty before we actually started fighting. The militia Jacob joined was known as the “A-Company…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"At this point, another treaty was made, including a promise to open a trading house at the fort supplied with goods suitable for Indian trade."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… when he was appointed commissioner to negotiate a treaty with Spain, a post he held for three years."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"There was a peace treaty with the Indians the next year, but the settlers were aware that an outbreak of hostilities could occur at any moment."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"The boundary dispute began with the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution in 1783; the treaty stated that the eastern boundary of the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… named him as a special minister to negotiate a treaty with Spain. Three years later William returned home to private life."

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… 1783 • War of Independence ends with signing of Treaty of Paris 1789 • Louis Delesdernier appointed first collector for customs District of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… prevailed and the war came to an end with the Treaty of Ghent. Rising Tide View of the City of Bangor, 1837Bangor Historical Society "The…"