Maine Memory Network

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

"… loyalist of New York and Nova Scotia, and British agent Ward Chipman (1754-1824), loyalist of Massachusetts and New Brunswick."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"Effective agents needed a familiarity with the law, as the proprietors frequently resorted to filing suits of ejectment or trespass against residents."

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

"As agent for the Kennebec company, Samuel Goodwin alone delivered notice to several hundred families between 1749 and 1751, in nineteen communities…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… in Maine to be harangued for payment by the agent of an absentee proprietor, or to be sued for ejectment—from land one had already bought—by…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… effectively ending Dunbar’s career as a land agent. However, despite what the proprietors and some Massachusetts officials would claim later, the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"Ballard’s husband, Ephraim, was surveyor and agent for the Kennebec Proprietors, and so generated extensive documentation within its papers."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"Imperial agents, meanwhile, proposed entirely new colonies, advocating the creation of the Province of Sagadahoc in the 1730s and the colony of New…"

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

"… proprietor’s meetings records, accounts, land agents, and other documents generated by the business of the company."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"He acted as the company agent in London. Vassal worked for the proprietors locating copies of old patents and deeds within governmental archives, as…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"In September 29, 1796 James Sullivan, an agent for the United States, wanted to hear stories from the elders of the Tribal community about the…"

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

"Lewis L. Litchfield Lewis Litchfield, station agent for the Boston & Maine Railroad in the early 1900s, was born in 1871."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"He claimed all rights to fishing and "fowling" and apportioned land to tenants from whom he collected fees and rents."

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

"… other at Piscataqua where Cammock had been an agent of Gorges and Mason until he assumed proprietorship of his 1500-acre Black Point Patent in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"Travel fares were sometimes reimbursed by Indian agents who controlled the tribes’ annual budget of state-allocated funds comprised of money set…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… in East Surry, Nathaniel Coffin was chosen as an agent to petition that Township #6 be incorporated as a town to be called Peru."

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… process is known as “fulling” and the cleaning agent is Fuller’s Soap. The soap making recipe uses fat or oils and an essential ingredient scarce…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2

"… Rumford Center, Waldo Pettengill, to act as his agent to procure 1400 acres of land. It would take 8 years to complete all the transactions, and…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… John Merrick and others were hired as land agents by the Proprietors to protect and develop the one and one-half million acres of land claimed by…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"… selectman, a trustee, the town treasurer, a town agent, a land owner, a collector of taxes, and a constable in Lincoln’s early years."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… Pettengill of Rumford Center, as his business agent to procure the riparian rights along the Androscoggin River above and below the Rumford Falls."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"According to a newspaper report, the state’s agent to Malaga, George Pease, visited the island in February of 1912 and all of the islanders hid."

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… (Allan’s Island) 1790 • John Cooper, acting as agent for North Lubec (Seward’s Neck) settlers, petitioned Massachusetts General Court declaring…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"Each district had an agent, and that agent was responsible for obtaining and paying a teacher, in addition to providing wood, water, and crude…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"John Cooper, acting as agent for the settlers, petitioned the Massachusetts General Court declaring allegiance to that state and requesting that…"