Keywords: Early works to 1800.
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Site Pages
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"In the early years of the Kennebec Proprietors’ operations in the 1740s and 1750s, Samuel Goodwin operated as an agent for the company in their first…"
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"… the Wabanaki people who remained to interpret early documents and the placenames they contained. One striking example is the testimony of Pial Pôl."
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"… by Nova Scotia and Massachusetts in the early 1760s had produced contradictory results, and maps of the area—when they even managed to accurately…"
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"From the 1780s into the early nineteenth century, it sold millions of acres to ordinary settlers—as well as to a new set of speculators from New York…"
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"… border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of jurisdictional confusion and uncertainty."
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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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"… process would not produce a result in the early 1820s, both sides reluctantly prepared for arbitration by a neutral third party."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"… and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University Press, 2019."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"However, early in the project, MHS formed an invaluable partnership with The Zooniverse, a crowd-based platform which provided an exciting…"
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"In the 1970s, to make clear they did not want a 'nation within a nation,' leaders across all political spectrums ran on platforms decrying, much like…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"… will be kept live and volunteers can continue to work on the remainder of the pages, and as they are approved the documents will be added to the…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"This project is also committed to adhering to the NEH's Code of Ethics Related to Native Americans. The Zooniverse X The Zooniverse is the…"
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"… who participated in the border work of the 1790s worked diplomatically to protect their territory from increasing colonization, as also highlighted…"
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"… young man, his father Chief Jean Baptiste Neptune worked helping the American colonists in Machias during the American Revolutionary War but died…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 22-71
"… his family's history, his childhood and early work experiences, his introduction to and passion for dancing, and dances held at Katahdin Iron…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138
"Sanger in an apothecary and tavern, learning to dance, learning accounting, farming, and politics. Some of the people and events mentioned are: Allen…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - First electric railroad car in Bangor, 1889
"… of it. Martin was working at Katahdin Iron Works near Brownville when the trolley began operating early in the year, and wrote, "when I was in…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Brewer, ca. 1838
"Raynes went to California in early 1850 during the Gold Rush fever. He lived in the Yreka, California, area the rest of his life."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin, Bangor, 1865
"… of a 150 pictures before she could read a word as early as from 3 to 4 years old she made books her friend & has never yet departed from them.' In…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832
"Martin, who worked as an accountant and store keeper, wrote the journal and three scrapbooks so his wife and children would know more about his life…"
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"… town would assume the power to revoke grants to anyone who “neglect[ed]” to build on the land” for the space of halfe a year.” Later that year…"
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"… unto me and my heirs to fish, fowl, and hunt also to set otter traps without molestation.” In a 1684 deed that is foundational to the Pejepscot…"
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"… to recruit settler-colonialists willing to move to what they viewed as a dangerous frontier."
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"Even as Wabanaki people strove to incorporate settlers into their Indigenous cultural and economic systems, the settlers sought their signatures and…"
