Keywords: William A Goodwin
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"… appeared along with “Great Agumagus” or Moxus, a Kennebec River leader, and Sheepscot John, a Wabanaki leader on the coast."
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"… Society The Pejepscot Proprietors granted a limited number of free plots of land in Brunswick and Topsham between 1715 and 1722, and continued a…"
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"Blaakman, PhD, Fall 2022 Michael A. Blaakman, PhD, is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University."
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"He died on December 26, 1830 as a result of complications from a broken thigh. Belcher Noyes Belcher Noyes was the son of original Proprietor Oliver…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies: A Study of Their Development, Organization, Activities and Controversies, 1620-1770."
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"In 1659, “Jane alias Uphannum,” a woman from a powerful Wabanaki family, appeared before English officials to recount a land sale."
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"Amid expanding imperial warfare, Maine offered a strategic location, diplomatic access to a vast network of Indigenous powers, and timber aplenty to…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"Project Background Conceived as a way to provide free, open access to three of Maine Historical Society's most significant archival collections, the…"
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"It was a new version of a defining problem in the history of early Maine: conflicts sown by vague boundaries drawn on paper in faraway rooms."
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"… and Canada was created by human actions over a long period of time and was not formed by a natural or organic process."
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"… that the commission process would not produce a result in the early 1820s, both sides reluctantly prepared for arbitration by a neutral third…"
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"In 1729, as part of a scheme to settle a number of Irish families near the Kennebec River, the British briefly flirted with the idea of transforming…"
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"… 7, 1834 Chief Francis Joseph Neptune died at the age of 74, some say from a broken heart because his wife Mary passed just a few days before him."
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"Further Reading Pawling, Micah A. “A “Labyrinth of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in…"
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"… New Hampshire, British observers also recognized a distinct “Province of Maine” that stretched from Piscataqua to the Kennebec, Nova Scotia, and a…"
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"A handful of land schemes in Passamaquoddy Bay sprang up under the jurisdiction of Nova Scotia in the late 1760s and 1770s, but they were small, and…"
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"Morris, Charles. “A Report of a Survey of the River St. Johns and of the Coast from thence to Passamaquoddy,” enclosed in Michael Francklin to the…"
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"A series of Anglo-Wabanaki wars, instigated by settler incursions and the proprietors’ own belligerence, soured many potential migrants on Maine."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"… In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant (HCRR) from the National Endowment…"
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"… on every five and twentieth day of December for a due Acknowledgment forever.” These recorded “acknowledgments” are important symbolic recognitions…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and half year initiative (2020-2022) supported in part by the National Endowment for the…"
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"For example, in a 1659 Kennebec River deed, Nanudemance retained “liberty unto me and my heirs to fish, fowl, and hunt also to set otter traps…"
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"As a result, women necessarily assumed key roles in economic networks. Through marriage, women built connections, solidifying alliances and…"
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"… its labors, and performed vital work as a midwife, attending 816 births within 27 years. She recorded these activities in her diary, which contains…"
