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"… of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century legal documents over the lived experiences which had actually shaped life in the borderlands."
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"… treaty with Massachusetts in 1794, an essential legal precedent for the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1980. St."
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"… This improvisational system for claiming land as legal property sprouted a thicket of conflicts. In addition to the many instances where multiple…"
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"The companies avoided suing each other directly, fearful of a legal decision that might invalidate their entire title."
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"Coverture stipulated that married women’s legal identities were subsumed under those of their husbands."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… such as “Indian captivity” depositions; documents pertaining to the Newburyport, Mass privateer Sea Flower; Revolutionary War documents; French…"
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"… under the doctrine of vacuum domicilium, a legal doctrine used to argue that an absence of English-style houses and agriculture in an area meant an…"
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"Legal title would secure their ability to subsist off the land and to produce for markets, and it would assure that they could pass that prosperity…"
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"… Kennebec Proprietors, and so generated extensive documentation within its papers. Meanwhile, Martha gave birth to and mothered nine children…"
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"The Kennebec Proprietors maps document the continuance of Wabanaki people at Norridgewock, despite a persistent myth that Norridgewock was…"
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"But the task of writing about historical documents and making them relevant to non-historians is often daunting."
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"… of land made in the area east of the Kennebec River would be legally recognized unless separately and specifically approved by the British crown."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"26) each document the emergence of Maine as a unique and independent entity, distinct from British colonial rule, Massachusetts, the Canadian…"
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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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"… and tribal scholars have turned to these documents for different kinds of evidence, including evidence of Wabanaki agency, kinship, leadership and…"
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"Many of the documents were created and assembled to validate the holdings of the Pejepscot Proprietors, who in 1714 purchased rights originally…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… a ruthless debt collector and given the amount of legal records contained in the Kennebec Proprietors collection as well as his personal papers…"
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"… town, yet another measure that they lacked the legal authority to do. The Pejepscot Proprietors spent the next half century struggling with…"
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"Many documents in these collections feature locations where multiple communities intersect, such as a deed that came late in Warrabitta’s life, at…"
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"… aboriginal right to hunt, fish and plant in their homelands. These documents collectively demonstrate that Wabanaki people intended to remain."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"… volunteers can continue to work on the remainder of the pages, and as they are approved the documents will be added to the transcription database."
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"… Society’s Thomas Barclay Collection that contains documents, land surveys, and maps dating from 1764 to 1893."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"The project documents European settlement of northern New England, specifically coastal and interior Maine, land distribution, and conflicts before…"
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"… in company towns would be more favorable to their legal arguments. A full understanding of the course of Maine history before its 1820 statehood…"
