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

"But in 1808, the Massachusetts General Court passed the Betterment Act, finding that the speculators would have to compensate residents for the value…"

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

"… a grant of Mount Desert Island from the General Court in 1762, was unable to get his grant confirmed until he had already been run out of the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… as a representative to the Massachusetts General Court for twenty-five years & was a Trustee of Bowdoin College, where his son Josiah attended."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… Properties of Empire (2019) where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s, against local settlers, because of Dummer’s…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"… years, and represented Boston in the General court 1714-6, 1719, and 1720. Oliver married Anne Belcher, sister of Massachusetts Governor Jonathan…"

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

"… defined—region that lay in-between the two, generally referred to as the “Sagadahock Country.” While the charter gave Massachusetts full…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 4 of 7

"Neither company called general meetings to handle routine business, rather handling it through small standing committees."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… men and women jointly provided for their society: generally men hunted game which women in turn cleaned and preserved, and men cleared the fields…"

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

"… to the King’s attorney and solicitor general in England, asking them to intervene. The lawyers ultimately found in favor of the proprietors…"

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

"… the resolution and quality of the images are generally very low according to 2019 standards. According to MHS paging statistics, Coll."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Incorporation

"Anxious that they should have title to their lots, once again, the people petitioned the general court, sending a committee composed of Amos Dole…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"… submit their votes to the Massachusetts General Court. Perhaps in reaction to the "Shaysite" movement, fewer than 1,000 of Maine's nearly 75,000…"

Maine State Archives

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Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"With continuing public pressures, the General Court agreed to a hold a vote on the question in May, a month after the 1816 gubernatorial elections."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"In 1793 the Massachusetts General Court chose to incorporate the town as Buckfield. The court named the town after Abijah Buck."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… separationist petitioners flooded the General Court. Additionally, all nine of Maine's senators elected that spring were separationists."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… and became a member of the Massachusetts General Court. In 1784 Rufus was elected to represent Massachusetts at the Continental Congress."

Historic Hallowell - Dummer House

"As a judge on the Court of Common Pleas in Kennebec County, in 1794 he presided over a paternity case involving one of Martha Ballard's patients."

Historic Hallowell - Industry and Immigrants-A Changing Community

"In 1797 the Massachusetts General Court voted to allow what is now Augusta to separate from Hallowell, and gave it approximately half of its 95…"

Bowdoin College Library

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - JP Cilley Ledger From Post

"… 1865 § Participated in the Battle of Appomattox Court house April 9, 1865 § Discharged August 11, 1865 in Augusta as a Brevet Brigadier General."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"… incorporated towns to the Massachusetts General Court. Despite having some political voice, a growing faction of the District's populace felt…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Schools

"… act then proceeded to be passed by the General Court of Massachusetts. The building was ready to occupy in May, 1795, and the school opened with…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… place a separation bill in front of the General Court in Massachusetts. In haste, only a small delegation showed up at a convention at the…"