Maine Memory Network

Plot adjacent to Peables' fence, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Media: Ink on paper

Plan of the Bracket Lots, Androscoggin County, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Durham Media: Ink on paper

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.

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.

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"… the basis for all marsh lot purchases, work and disputes involving these companies. (Corporation meeting notes and minutes were kept by George…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… These letters were given to many settlers on disputed land when the Plymouth Company began establishing their claim."