Keywords: Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Item 5335
Brunswick and Topsham, ca. 1730
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1730 Location: Brunswick; Topsham Media: Ink on paper
Item 135882
Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1761 Media: Ink on paper
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When Europeans arrived in North America and disrupted traditional Native American patterns of life, they also offered other opportunities: trade goods for furs. The fur trade had mixed results for the Wabanaki.
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Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec
The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.
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"… of this collection pre‐ and post‐dates the period of the company’s operation (1749‐1816). The collection includes bound or once bound volumes of…"
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"… Canada was created by human actions over a long period of time and was not formed by a natural or organic process."