Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"The Grant store was a national chain specializing in merchandise under a dollar. The Grant building is brick with a front of granite and limestone in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Grant Memorial United Methodist Church

"Grant Memorial United Methodist Church Text by Emma and Hana, students at Presque Isle Middle School Images from X X The current site of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Grant-Wilson political rally, Augusta Depot, 1872

"Grant-Wilson political rally, Augusta Depot, 1872 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description Bands and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 4 of 5

"Even Governor Francis Bernard, who received a grant of Mount Desert Island from the General Court in 1762, was unable to get his grant confirmed…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors granted a limited number of free plots of land in Brunswick and Topsham between 1715 and 1722, and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… accounts, claims and other papers; petitions for grants; deeds, bills and receipts; printed grants; votes and witnesses; printed material; indexes…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"… Proprietors traced their title back to a 1629 grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King Charles I under a royal charter) to a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"The region was also impacted by the 1621 grant given by the Scottish Crown to William Alexander, First Earl of Stirling."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… had a right, as a Christian monarch, to claim and grant away land already within Native jurisdiction under the doctrine of vacuum domicilium, a…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"… potential sources of legal title: the patents and grants written by provincial or royal officials who most often were wholly ignorant of the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"… Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant (HCRR) from the National Endowment for the Humanities."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Student Exhibits

"… Lincoln Block Merchants' Row Old Town Hall and Grant Building The Patten Free Library The Railroad Station Sagadahoc Block and Sagadahock House The…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… Proprietors claim was founded on an ancient grant of Land from the King to the Plymouth Colony to trap fur."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… Kennebec into Nova Scotia, where land could be granted and organized by Royal decree, Dunbar’s settlement efforts threatened most of the land…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… over both regions, the charter stipulated that no grants of land made in the area east of the Kennebec River would be legally recognized unless…"

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

"… should either ask the Kennebec Proprietors for a grant to land these families already lived on or face a lawsuit."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… Historic Collections and Reference Resources grant to support its Beyond Borders project, aimed at digitizing and providing enhanced access for…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"… leaders, and sometimes by vague agreements and grants or patents from even more distant courts or monarchies, and the noble English-speaking…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"… speculation business by reviving an old Pilgrim grant on the Kennebec River in Maine. This group of wealthy, well connected merchants organized as…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Partners

"This project is supported by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Centre and Water Streets, the current site of the Grant Building. The Universalist Church, located on the west side of Front Street where the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 129-142

"Included are references to: Grant-Wilson rally at Augusta Portland Iron Men Tanners "Good Bye Liza Jane" U.S."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 108-128

"Grant consume much of this section. Martin's Republican and temperance views are clear as are the ways in which those views lead him to rail against…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Essay by Ian Saxine, Fall 2022 Ian Saxine, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of History at…"