Maine Memory Network

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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… an argument: a case to be made before provincial officials, imperial authorities, Indigenous powers, and the colonial public, and to be cobbled…"

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

"… was assisted (and followed) by a son in similar official capacities. Other key figures with prominent surviving papers in the collection include…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"US and British officials presented the king of the Netherlands with voluminous documentation, which informed his carefully-reasoned and pragmatic…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… when loyalist refugees, including commission officials like Pagan, established the town of St. Andrews on an important Passamaquoddy site in 1783…"

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

"… to the shared Anglocentric bias of US and British officials, both French-speakers in the Madawaska region and Wabanaki individuals, Tribes, and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"… would-be land speculators and even governmental officials looking to bring White settlers into the region to bolster British control."

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

"… patents and grants written by provincial or royal officials who most often were wholly ignorant of the region’s geography."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… powerful Wabanaki family, appeared before English officials to recount a land sale. Jane, along with her mother and brother, had sold land to…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… border by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (officially, the Washington Treaty) of August 9, 1842."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"Once in office, his uncle appointed him to the official expedition to inspect the fortifications to the east."

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

"… what the proprietors and some Massachusetts officials would claim later, the decision did not confirm Massachusetts’ rights to settle and govern…"

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

"… author of the majority of company pamphlets and official communications. Gershom Flagg (1705-1771) Gershom Flagg was half share owner in the…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… Historical Society/MaineToday Media The “Official State Celebration,” held at Portland between June 26 and July 5, 1920, delighted in fanfare for…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 1 of 2

"Even though this was not the first official meeting, this was the first actual meeting. The first official meeting of the Lincoln Historical Society…"

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"… filled in the streets and highways.” Town officials ordered “a general alarm blown on the fire whistle to call out all available men in town to…"

Westport Island History Committee

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"On December 8, 1819, John Holmes officially petitioned Congress for Maine's admission. Map of the State of Maine, 1820Osher Map Library and…"

Skowhegan History House

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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"… to the town while it was considering becoming an “official” town, delivering the documents to Boston to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… of the Sandy River intervale was to make sure the official survey was completed. In 1780 Joseph North formalized the survey of the area."

Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… lumbering and arrests of New Brunswick government officials by the U.S. led to more troops arriving in the area and establishing a blockhouse in…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… party “free passage.” This was to be the first official (recorded) total eclipse in American history."