Keywords: Border Historical Society
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Site Pages
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"… River, 1798Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders portal makes accessible three of the Maine Historical Society’s most significant archival…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview This improvisational system for claiming land as legal property sprouted a thicket of conflicts."
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… 1731Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and half year initiative (2020-2022)…"
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"… Waggansis, 1817Maine Historical Society Growing border tension and violence from 1827 to 1841, especially arising from the Rebellions in Lower and…"
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"… the sharp differences of opinion about where the border should run as it shows proposed borders by the British, US, and a neutral arbiter in 1831…"
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"The Beyond Borders collections, specifically the Proprietors records represent the baseline of documents that define what becomes Maine starting in…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… most significant archival collections, the Beyond Borders project digitally draws together information and tools traditionally used by academic…"
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"The rich records about the creation of the border preserved here provide readers with the historical resources to reconsider how and why the border…"
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"… Society A critical challenge to create the border arose from how to translate the confident but imaginary projections made by distant imperial…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Self Determination What strikes me as similar between the past and contemporary times is not only that we—as…"
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"1799Maine Historical Society The border work of the 1790s, skillfully assessed by David Demeritt, included the dramatic rediscovery of the remains…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Past meets Present I am particularly struck by how similar the Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to…"
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West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… murdered French Jesuit missionary Father Rasle of Norridgewock; and reports of the Massachusetts and New York Border Commission, 1773 and 1787."
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"… from both sides of the river wanted to extend the border line in their favor. Chief Francis Joseph Neptune was stuck in the middle of this battle…"
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"… of these efforts prior to the US-Canada northeast border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of jurisdictional…"
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"Indeed, as documents in the Barclay collection reveal, they were ultimately the basis on which the modern US-Canada border was determined."
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"The documents produced by the border commission, particular early on, consistently highlight Passamaquoddy and wider Wabanaki Nations’ deep knowledge…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5
"… put in place, the Village’s southern and western borders were assured that they would join other settlements along their banks in developing the…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"… located about fifty miles from the New Hampshire border on the south side of the Androscoggin River and was bordered by Township Number Two (now…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4
"The border between the two towns shows how difficult it was for landowners to choose between towns! Years later, in 2007, Cumberland experienced its…"
