Plan of part of the Eastern Shore, 1753
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Maine Historical Society
The Plymouth Company recorded increasing English settlements in Wabanaki territory, and mapped land grants including both sides of the Kennebec River, and English settlements in Brunswick, Falmouth and North Yarmouth and Norridgewock.
The cartouche shows two Indigenous men saying, "God hath Planted us here, God deeded this land to us." Using Native imagery made sense because settlers were vying with each other over claims to Maine lands, and some of those claims rested on earlier deeds with Wabanaki people.
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