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

"… (taking timber) in the county of York, 1741Maine Historical Society Then came other projectors, championing their own dreams for the region based…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"… of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Boundary between United States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical Society"

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

"1800Maine Historical Society Initially, however, the primary legacy of these efforts prior to the US-Canada northeast border commissions of the late…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"Maine Historical Society The European history of the borderland region between what is today the American state of Maine and the Canadian province…"

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

"… River Boundary survey, 1843-1844Maine Historical Society How the long-fixed line of 1842 was created can be examined in extraordinary detail with…"

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

"… States and New Brunswick, undatedMaine Historical Society Unsurprisingly, jurisdictional questions continued to plague would-be land speculators…"

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

"Carroll’s A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 provides the best top-down view of border-formation in…"

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

"Croix or Bone Island, ca. 1799Maine Historical Society The border work of the 1790s, skillfully assessed by David Demeritt, included the dramatic…"

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

"Gov Carleton in 1786.Maine Historical Society By 1783, then, the question of where exactly Massachusetts stopped and Nova Scotia (soon New…"

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

"As scholars like Rachel Bryant, Andrea Bear Nicholas, and Micah A. Pawling have argued about the Indigenous past in the cross-border region, and as…"

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

"… the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant (HCRR)…"

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

"… Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society It was not uncommon to see multiple Wabanaki leaders sign deeds, or to see the same…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"The Treaty of Paris was written in 1783 ending the War with Great Britain which recognized the United States."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… and Governor Belcher, July 1732Maine Historical Society Today, the State of Maine is much like the local settlers from long ago—fighting both…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… Copy of Dummer's Treaty, 1726Maine Historical Society Interestingly, the conflicts detailed in much of the earlier scholarship (such as in…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"This tribe was friendlier with the English, so historians speculated that he learned English from them."