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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"In addition, women spoke and traded with English colonists and could become informed, opinionated participants in issues of land rights."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"Colonists drew on family wealth in order to invest, and familial bonds undergirded business partnerships."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."

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

"… in company negotiations with often recalcitrant colonists on the frontier, who had their own ideas about how land should be allotted."

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

"… Jean Baptiste Neptune worked helping the American colonists in Machias during the American Revolutionary War but died during period around 1780."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle Congregational Church

"Sources: Vance, Melissa. "Presque Isle Congregational Church Claims Origins from Colonists." The Star Herald [presque isle] 1 Apr. 2009: 8-8."

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

"… drove away the small number of English settler colonists there. The original four shareholders and their descendants gradually sold off portions of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. New York: New York University Press, 2019."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… initial plots of 100 acres for £5, to entice colonists to move in. Different goals of residents and the proprietors soon led to clashes."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019)…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"In addition to the many instances where multiple colonists claimed Native title to the same tract, seventeenth-century Indian deeds often described…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"Vines and the colonists settled at the protected area at the mouth of the Saco River, and called it Winter Harbor."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"… is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."

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

"Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019)."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… leaders hesitantly welcomed many of these colonists and sought to incorporate them into existing relationships with land and resources."

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

"Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. New York: New York University Press, 2019."

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

"… a disastrous winter that left nearly half the colonists dead. A few years later, an English settlement was established at the mouth of the Kennebec…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Penobscot chief Joseph Orono joined with the colonists to fight the British in 1779, and one of the islets on the Northern side of Swan’s Island now…"

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

"… a portion of which documented the many settler-colonists often hidden within histories of land barons and proprietors."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"Colonists also noted that the first song birds (robins, sparrows, chickadees) appeared in the spring, attracted by the cleared land."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… of upscale entertainment activity for summer colonists. It was not uncommon for limousines to arrive at the theater's open doors, carrying the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Colonists Richard Foxwell and Henry Watts settled at Blue Point, assuming they were within the bounds of the Lewis and Bonython patent."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"As part of this conflict, all 65 colonists of North Yarmouth were driven off the land on which they had settled."

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

"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."