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"… the Androscoggin River where the Pejepscot Proprietors sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the Kennebec…"
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"Proprietors seeded yet more conflicts when their surveyors pushed the boundaries of their tracts as far as they plausibly could. Coll. 61, vol."
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"… Copy, deed from Peter and Martha Soullard to Proprietors, page 3 of 3, with copy of deed from Samuel and Hannah Holman to Proprietors, page 1 of…"
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"The lawyers ultimately found in favor of the proprietors, effectively ending Dunbar’s career as a land agent."
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"… Ephraim, was surveyor and agent for the Kennebec Proprietors, and so generated extensive documentation within its papers."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"60), the Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick papers—referred to as the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll."
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"… I am particularly struck by how similar the Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to the last sixty to seventy years of State and Federal…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"60), the Pejepscot Proprietors (Coll. 61), and the Barclay (Coll. 26) Collections. These collections, collectively spanning 1625 to 1893, carry what…"
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"… church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary commissions—all offer insight into struggles over who governed…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"61, the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection is available to search, both at the volume level as well as the individual page level."
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"… glance, the papers of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors position men as the primary economic actors in White New Englanders’ settlement of…"
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"… the Plymouth Company Records, the Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, and the Thomas Barclay Collection (also known as the Northeast Boundary…"
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"… collections of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region of Maine that have been…"
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"… see the Federal government, much like the distant proprietors of 17th and 18th centuries, as primarily fighting to preserve its control over its…"
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"Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820."
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"… Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"Project Partners The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Manuscript Map of Moose River, Moosehead Lake…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"Borderland Essays Explore essays, listed in the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in…"
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, ca."
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Essay by Alexandra L. Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania Department of History…"
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"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Map of Campobello Island, ca."
