Keywords: to 1800.
- Historical Items (730)
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- Site Pages (218)
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Site Pages
These sites were created for each contributing partner or as part of collaborative community projects through Maine Memory. Learn about collaborative projects on MMN.
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"Joseph Stapels, "you are hereby Impowered to continue & Improve on Two hundred Acres of Land in Brunswick Adjoyning to Mr."
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"But settlers were important to the proprietors’ designs. Their presence helped to substantiate company land claims, and the roads, mills, and…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"This project is also committed to adhering to the NEH's Code of Ethics Related to Native Americans. The Zooniverse X The Zooniverse is the…"
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"Originally awarded to Plymouth Colony, which used the land to engage in fur trade with the Wabanakis, until four Boston Merchants bought it in 1661…"
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"… and even governmental officials looking to bring White settlers into the region to bolster British control."
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"… founded on an ancient grant of Land from the King to the Plymouth Colony to trap fur. Maine Historical Society But in Maine, as in much of…"
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"… female heirs voted and affixed their signatures to decisions requiring all shareholders’ approval, they do not appear to have attended most…"
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"… understood this region to be, what they wanted it to become, and how they worked to make their dreams into reality."
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"Attempts to reopen negotiations came to an undeniable halt in 1833, and, thus, fifty years after the War of American Independence had ended, the…"
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"… location of modern-day Eastport, Maine) to go to the US, while loyalist homesteads on Deer, Campobello and Grand Manan led them to be recognized as…"
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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…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… Endowment for the Humanities, was crafted to digitize and provide free, full-text online access to three of Maine Historical Society’s oldest and…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… Maine’s path to statehood; and their relationship to one another in respect to content. An example of a small receipt or "scrap" of paper…"
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"… who had the right to develop the Eastward led to a formal petition in 1731 by Massachusetts to the King’s attorney and solicitor general in…"
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"… later in 1820 Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a state and agreed to continue the Treaty obligations set in the 1794 treaty between the…"
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"… of 3Maine Historical Society It was not uncommon to see multiple Wabanaki leaders sign deeds, or to see the same leaders sign deeds for the same…"
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"Meanwhile, Martha gave birth to and mothered nine children, managed the daily provisioning of her household and supervised its labors, and performed…"
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"… challenge to create the border arose from how to translate the confident but imaginary projections made by distant imperial authorities to accord…"
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"… expand use of this vital resource to users unable to physically visit MHS but will also ensure its long‐term preservation by limiting onsite use to…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"… essays, listed in the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in Canada, and the "borderland"…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"People Explore essays pertaining to individuals, communities, and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast…"
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"… the primary legacy of these efforts prior to the US-Canada northeast border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one…"
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"… formed to legitimize and take advantage of titles to vast tracts of Wabanaki Homelands, but the different origins of their claims both led to…"
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"When the husband began to reveal too much information, his wife chastised him and ended the exchange.(2)"
