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Plan of the Kennebec River describing the Plymouth patent, ca. 1719

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

"… had only conditionally authorized English traders to operate in the area, destroyed the trading posts and drove away the small number of English…"

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St. John River Boundary survey, 1843-1844

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"The fur trader and map maker David Thompson (1770-1857), famous today for his trans-continental journeys and voyage down the Columbia River to the…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… in the 17th century by fishermen and fur traders were supplanted by more stable farming settlements."