Keywords: land patent
Item 10097
Contributed by: The General Henry Knox Museum Date: 1786 Location: Maine Media: Ink on paper
Item 12561
Lots on Tinkham's Pond, Kennebec Patent, ca. 1800
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1800
Location: Chelsea; Whitefield
Media: Ink on paper
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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.
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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.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings
"… was lured to Thomaston by the land in the Waldo Patent, a 576,000 acre tract of land in midcoast Maine that had been granted to Brigadier General…"
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"1719Maine Historical Society The Kennebec Proprietors traced their title back to a 1629 grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King…"