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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Captain Samuel Watts House
"Both owned large properties in New York, where they spent a good deal of time with their families when not at their homes in Thomaston."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Edward O'Brien House
"Edward O’Brien sold this property to his son, Edward Ellis O’Brien, in 1856. Edward, Sr. purchased a second lot across the street at 326 Main Street…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Reed Hardings neighborhood, Hampden, ca. 1833
"… neighborhood, detailing inhabitants of all the properties, as it was between 1833 and 1835 and included it as page 63 of his journal."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Atkins House, Jefferson Street, Bangor, 1851
"… journal describes what Martin did to improve the property after someone built on the next lot, right against his house."
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room
"The property was then purchased by Kim and Dwight Colbeth, who lived there for seven years. They were the first family to have children in the house."
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"Catherine Potter's Letter to the Pejepscot ProprietorsMaine Historical Society At first glance, the papers of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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"… and the New England Society Book Award for Historical Nonfiction in 2019. Professor Brooks is the Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the…"
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"… Moosehead Lake, and Kennebeck Road, 1820Maine Historical Society Historian Francis M. Carroll’s A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the…"
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"But the task of writing about historical documents and making them relevant to non-historians is often daunting."
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"1719Maine Historical Society The Kennebec Proprietors traced their title back to a 1629 grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King…"
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"… Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society It was not uncommon to see multiple Wabanaki leaders sign deeds, or to see the…"
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"… Abenaki Sagamores to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The protection of these relationships to land and kin are evident in the ways…"
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"1840Maine Historical Society Maine’s international border was the most bitterly contested segment, and an excellent visual orientation appears in…"
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"1800Maine Historical Society Initially, however, the primary legacy of these efforts prior to the US-Canada northeast border commissions of the late…"
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"1840Maine Historical Society Unsurprisingly, jurisdictional questions continued to plague would-be land speculators and even governmental officials…"
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"One thing made clear in the documents and historic scholarship that reference these documents, is that the settlers are considered the heart of the…"
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"… Brunswick Town Meeting Minutes, 1719Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors granted a limited number of free plots of land in Brunswick…"
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"… Wabanaki deed to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors formed in 1714 after purchasing a claim tracing back to a…"
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"Maine Historical Society Although the title may sound humble, clerks managed the books and, as they were privy to sensitive information, wielded…"
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"… [Ramegin] to James Thomas and Samuel York.Maine Historical Society In 1670, according to one deed in the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection, Thomas…"
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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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"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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"Maine Historical Society The European history of the borderland region between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province…"
