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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

"“Mascareene’s Treaty of 1725,” University of New Brunswick Law Journal 43 (1994), 3-18, an essay of much broader scope than its title indicates."

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

"From the 1790s to the 1840s, this ongoing dispute between the British empire and an increasingly expansionist republic implicated notions of national…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections

"The Zooniverse page will be kept live and volunteers can continue to work on the remainder of the pages, and as they are approved the documents will…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… of Massachusetts.[26] That fall, the infamous Brunswick Convention of 1816 stirred controversy over the voter tally, as the separationist…"

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

"While the idea of a separate colony quickly lost favor and was rejected by March of 1730, the Privy Council determined that political control of the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"The charter contains a clear vision of the different British political jurisdictions between Cape Cod and the Gulf of St. Lawrence."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"Yet by February 1818, the issue was brought up again—and this time the separationists had devised a clever plan."

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

"When it became clear that the commission process would not produce a result in the early 1820s, both sides reluctantly prepared for arbitration by a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"The original four shareholders and their descendants gradually sold off portions of their shares into ever smaller pieces, while the original patent…"

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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

""‘A Kind of Warr’: The Contest for Land on the Northeastern Frontier, 1750-1820,” The William and Mary Quarterly 46:1 (January 1989), pp. 3- 26 2."

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

"Fearing that an adverse decision in court would jeopardize their company’s entire claim, the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors preferred to issue…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"The collection includes bound or once bound volumes of records, cash books, letterbooks and grants; loose papers, correspondence, accounts, claims…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"… financial ventures in the eighteenth century, but the evidence of whether the female shareholders sought a greater role in company affairs or not…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"Both companies formed to legitimize and take advantage of titles to vast tracts of Wabanaki Homelands, but the different origins of their claims both…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"… scholarship, Professor Brooks is the author of "The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast" (University of Minnesota Press…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"The written language of the English as compared with wampum protocols and verbal agreements of the Wabanaki led to confusion and to deliberate…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"They spent much of their time in Surry, welcomed by delegates of Maine officials and housed in Nowick’s old cow barn converted for the special guests."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"… individuals, communities, and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast Boundary (Barclay) collections."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The protection of these relationships to land and kin are evident in the ways that Wabanaki…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"… multiple Wabanaki leaders sign deeds, or to see the same leaders sign deeds for the same land, with different settlers."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"The History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine, 1878, confirms that famous hunter, Thomas Wilson, led a party consisting of Stephen Titcomb…"