Keywords: early maps
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps
"All the other maps were built on the base map. Farmington Base Map Farmington Agricultural Sites Farmington Cemeteries Farmington Cultural Interest…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by cartographer Chief Francis Joseph Neptune (Passamaquoddy), 1798Maine Historical Society…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Edelson, S. Max. The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… 20,000 pages of manuscript material and maps across all three collections. However, this blossomed into nearly twice that amount as subtle details…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… 1731Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and half year initiative (2020-2022)…"
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"… Historical Society Similarly, some of the maps within these collections contain vital placenames and locations, including documentation of…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"He is listed on the John North map as surveyor. His fervent efforts kickstarted the company's incorporation and early activity around 1750."
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"Deeds, maps, correspondence, diaries, depositions, account books, church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary…"
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"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders portal makes accessible three of the Maine Historical…"
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"Seventy‐two loose maps accompany the records. Although about 50 select items were digitized in the early 2000s, the resolution and quality of the…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866 Map of lots on Maquoit & Merriconeeg, ca. 1719Maine Historical Society Coll."
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"David Thompson's Diary of Astronomical Observations, 1817Maine Historical Society John Mitchell Deposition, Map & Field Book, 1764Maine…"
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"… 1760s had produced contradictory results, and maps of the area—when they even managed to accurately portray the geography—labeled any and all of…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement
"… Library Northeast Harbor Section of 1807 Map by James and John PetersNortheast Harbor Library Climena Roberts Savage…"
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"Treaty of Washington boundary map, 1842Maine Historical Society Many overlapping authorities had strong claims in this borderland, starting, of…"
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"… 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Maine’s international border was the most bitterly contested…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers
"Early Settlers Click the icon for a map of the locations of early settler's homesteads X By Nancy Porter, Researcher & Page Creator With…"
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"Contested Northeast boundary map, 1843Maine Historical Society The Maine land companies which had been organized in the wake of the fall of…"
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"This ill-defined boundary, based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of…"
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"“Red Lines on Maps: The Impact of Cartographical Errors on the Border between the United States and British North America, 1782-1842,” Imago Mundi…"
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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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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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"… economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."
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"… White New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine, they mobilized kinship ties that structured colonial business and investing practices."