Maine Memory Network

Plymouth Company titles traced, land accounts, money accounts, 1753-1812

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1753–1812 Location: Augusta Media: Ink on Paper

Early map of Lewiston, Auburn and Minot, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Location: Auburn; Lewiston; Minot Media: Ink on paper

63 Hanover Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Dirigo Title Land Company Use: Dwelling - Two family

863 Washington Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Dirigo Title Land Co. Use: Dwelling

Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

The Shape of Maine

The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.

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

"… 3-18, an essay of much broader scope than its title indicates. Pawling, ed., Micah A. Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

"Instead, they sued settlers who claimed land under rival syndicates. Some settlers came to Maine at the encouragement of proprietary or colonization…"

Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.

Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide