Keywords: William Bowdoin
- Historical Items (174)
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Site Pages
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview This improvisational system for claiming land as legal property sprouted a thicket of conflicts."
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Essay by Michael A. Blaakman, PhD, Fall 2022 Michael A. Blaakman, PhD, is an assistant professor of history…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview All these newcomers would quickly learn that it was a common experience in Maine to be harangued for payment…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"Project Partners The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities…"
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"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Acknowledgement In the twenty-first century, historians and tribal scholars have turned to these…"
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"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Kinship and Leadership Copy, deed from James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine…"
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"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Essay by Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Fall 2022 Lisa Brooks (Missisquoi Abenaki) Henry S."
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"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Sovereignty and Subsistence Copy, account regarding deed from Abenaki Sagamores to Richard Wharton…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Manuscript Map of Moose River, Moosehead Lake…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"Project Home Small Point, Phippsburg, 1731Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"Borderland Essays Explore essays, listed in the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in…"
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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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"Search the Collections Currently Coll. 61, the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection is available to search, both at the volume level as well as the…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Past meets Present I am particularly struck by how similar the Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Self Determination What strikes me as similar between the past and contemporary times is not only that we—as…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Darren J. Ranco, PhD (Penobscot), Fall 2022 The collections in the Beyond Borders project are important and…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective What is not questioned, it seems, in either the 18th century, or the late 20th and early 21st centuries, is…"
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"Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies The Original Eight Proprietors Thomas Hutchinson Thomas Hutchinson was a wealthy merchant who had interest in…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"People Explore essays pertaining to individuals, communities, and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast…"
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, ca."
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Nova Scotia was re-created as an independent British colony following the British…"
