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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."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"One group of these new residents bought property on the ridge above South Street and established "Circle Farm." They grew much of their own food and…"

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"Crimes of violence and serious property offenses were the responsibility of the Lincoln County Sheriff and his Deputies in Pownalborough until 1799…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… body, collecting payments for destruction of property, and teaching the wrongs of slavery. The principal would also educate his students in the…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"of Kittery and business associates purchased property in 1716-7 around the falls, and Scots-Irish immigrants arrived in greater numbers throughout…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"… it became a source of income for owners of marsh property. Abundant salt hay, which required no cultivation, was used to feed cattle."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 2 of 4

"Thurlow. The market employed a number of people in its cutting room and supplied the Clambake Restaurant. In 1987 still on the Clambake property, the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… Landing area of Scarborough in 1746 after selling property in Watertown, Massachusetts where he’d had a successful timber exporting business."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… Margaret and came into possession of Cammock’s property. For nearly forty years Jocelyn was a prominent leader in the area."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 12 of 17

"… called into service for the protection of public property within the State. By the end of 1861, Biddeford and Saco citizens were a part of almost…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"… a barn that had been recently built on her property. The offer was gratefully accepted. In 1965 there was an opening ceremony at the Library’s…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Maine State Prison

"He had left his Thomaston lime business and farm property in the hands of Captain Ballard Green and Peter H."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"King sold the quarry with ten acres of property to the state for $3,000 as a site for the Maine State Prison."

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"The properties probably weren’t as much money back then, compared to today’s property prices. Five hundred dollars would have probably been a lot…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"… today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Map of Campobello Island, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"… by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by cartographer Chief Francis Joseph Neptune (Passamaquoddy), 1798Maine Historical Society"

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

"… Home Small Point, Phippsburg, 1731Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"1719Maine Historical Society Coll. 61 at Maine Historical Society Acquired by MHS in 1863, the Pejepscot Proprietors papers are an amalgam of…"

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

"… 1795Maine Historical Society In 2020, Maine Historical Society (MHS) was awarded a nearly $350K National Endowment for the Humanities, Historic…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… ambitious projects was a railroad built on the property. It consisted of a double wooden track running from behind the school down to and across…"

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

"… Diary of Astronomical Observations, 1817Maine Historical Society John Mitchell Deposition, Map & Field Book, 1764Maine Historical Society A…"

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

"… the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant (HCRR)…"

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

"1760Maine Historical Society Similarly, some of the maps within these collections contain vital placenames and locations, including documentation of…"