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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 5 of 5

"… of 1763, the Quebec Act (1774), Treaties of Paris (1763 and 1783), the Jay Treaty (1794), the Treaty of Ghent (1814), and the Webster-Ashburton…"

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

"It made multiple ambiguous geographic assertions, especially about the placement of the boundary separating the yet-to-be-created province of New…"

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 Treaty of Paris (1783) caused the most prolix problems in establishing the border, and subsequent US-British treaties gradually tried to make…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"Those settlers quickly discovered the ease of providing food, shelter, and clothing for their families."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"A native of Paris Hill, Hamlin moved to Hampden as a young man to practice law. A Jacksonian Democrat, he began his political career in the Maine…"

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…"

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

"Maine Historical Society The European history of the borderland region between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province…"

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 - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"The Treaty of Paris was written in 1783 ending the War with Great Britain which recognized the United States."

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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…"