Maine Memory Network

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"The key conflicts seem to be between the large land-owning proprietors and the settler-occupants of these tracts of land, often without a mention of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… spent the next few decades struggling to recruit settler-colonialists willing to move to what they viewed as a dangerous frontier."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… of them, especially when we understand that the settlers referred to as the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors shaped not only what becomes the…"

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

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

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"… sign deeds for the same land, with different settlers. For example, “Robin Hood” or Ramegin, appeared on more than fifteen agreements, often with…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… governmental officials looking to bring White settlers into the region to bolster British control."

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

"… to grant away more land to attract more settlers, with greater numbers enabling schools, prosperity, and, on a still-contested frontier, safety in…"

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

"… by recruiting Scots-Irish, Huguenot, and German settlers when New Englanders did not find their terms inviting."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… authorities, but also sharp differences among settlers and leaders in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia as well as those in the new sovereign polities…"

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

"… actually make good on his grant by transporting settlers was an immediate and complete failure. These seventeenth-century efforts to bring the…"

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

"… Press, 1990) Angela Tozer, “Democracy in a Settler State? Settler Colonialism and the Development of Canada, 1820-67” in Julien Maudit and Jennifer…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Index

"… Industry - Agriculture Culture - Main Page Early Settlers - Main Page Elizabeth Akers Allen, née Chase - People Education - Main Page Farmington's…"

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"Hard currency was scarce. There was, however, one commodity available to the settlers, that required only hard work, fire that trees that had ten…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"… are only a handful of descendents of the early settlers still living in the area. The majority of the present population did not grow up in Hampden…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Looking for the Lost Cemetery

"… died in Blue Hill, including a few of the early settlers such as Ebenezer Hinckley in 1776, Jonah Dodge and James Candage in 1788, and Ezekiel…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… over the horizon, with the coming of the white settlers and more importantly the wars those settlers would bring across the sea with them from the…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry on Bombahook

"… like India, and, for that reason, early English settlers named it after the city of Bombay India, and the hook in the Kennebec River just below the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… of available water was very attractive to early settlers on Massachusetts’ frontier. Long before the settlement of Hampden, the native people named…"

Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's Agricultural Pursuits

"… Titcomb, Jr., the son of Farmington’s first settler Stephen Titcomb patented a bee hive. U.S. patent # 6,285)."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding

"… Province sloop kept in the area for transport of settlers and supplies, but there is no written record of trading vessels being constructed in…"

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

"During these early years about 40 settlers were living in the area; the patentees were obligated to recruit 50 settlers within 7 years to fulfill…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"1676 Largely an unexplored territory by European settlers, 17th century Maine mostly consisted of towns in present-day York County which had sworn…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… (as well as those subsequently built by the first settlers) were 18’ X 26’ rectangular one-and-one-half story structures with square-pitched…"