Keywords: the Brunswicker
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- Site Pages (103)
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Site Pages
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"“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."
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"From the 1790s to the 1840s, this ongoing dispute between the British empire and an increasingly expansionist republic implicated notions of national…"
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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…"
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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…"
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"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…"
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"The charter contains a clear vision of the different British political jurisdictions between Cape Cod and the Gulf of St. Lawrence."
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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."
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"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…"
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"The original four shareholders and their descendants gradually sold off portions of their shares into ever smaller pieces, while the original patent…"
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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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""‘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."
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"Fearing that an adverse decision in court would jeopardize their company’s entire claim, the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors preferred to issue…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"The Zooniverse X The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research."
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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."
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"The collection includes bound or once bound volumes of records, cash books, letterbooks and grants; loose papers, correspondence, accounts, claims…"
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"… financial ventures in the eighteenth century, but the evidence of whether the female shareholders sought a greater role in company affairs or not…"
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"Both companies formed to legitimize and take advantage of titles to vast tracts of Wabanaki Homelands, but the different origins of their claims both…"
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"… scholarship, Professor Brooks is the author of "The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast" (University of Minnesota Press…"
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"The written language of the English as compared with wampum protocols and verbal agreements of the Wabanaki led to confusion and to deliberate…"
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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."
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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."
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"… to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The protection of these relationships to land and kin are evident in the ways that Wabanaki…"
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"… multiple Wabanaki leaders sign deeds, or to see the same leaders sign deeds for the same land, with different settlers."
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"The History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine, 1878, confirms that famous hunter, Thomas Wilson, led a party consisting of Stephen Titcomb…"