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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Essay by Liam Riordan Riordan is American historian…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 While national and imperial leaders were pleased…"

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

"Project Home Small Point, Phippsburg, 1731Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"Borderland Essays Explore essays, listed in the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in…"

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

"Project Background Conceived as a way to provide free, open access to three of Maine Historical Society's most significant archival collections, the…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections

"Search the Collections Currently Coll. 61, the Pejepscot Proprietors Collection is available to search, both at the volume level as well as the…"

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

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

"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective What is not questioned, it seems, in either the 18th century, or the late 20th and early 21st centuries, is…"

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

"Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies The Original Eight Proprietors Thomas Hutchinson Thomas Hutchinson was a wealthy merchant who had interest in…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5

"… Records "The Early History of Dixfield Maine", DHS and Dixfield Bicentennial Committee, 1976 George J. Varney, "A Gazetteer of Maine", 1881"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"… activities had been relocated to the George's River from Mill Creek/River. Knox’s Wharf (successively known as Vose’s, Knox’s, Boynton’s, Foster’s…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"… shipbuilding firm of Chapman and Flint on the Georges River. By holding contracts to produce replacement sails, the firm enjoyed a steady supply of…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison is built - 1823 to 1824

"This sum included the wharf on the George's River and loading gondola for granite. Fifty builders and two lighters (unpowered barges used to transfer…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s

"… Early Shipbuilders - 1780s Map of the Georges River, Thomaston, Maine 2009Thomaston Historical Society By the time Thomaston was…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"George River in what was later to become known as the Prison Quarry. The lime industry soon became a staple of the economy, which continues to this…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"George River along with his wife, Lucy, and their five children. At the time they took up residence in Montpelier, Knox was 45 years and his wife 39."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"George P. Davenport was born at 55 Front Street, his father's home, and died on December 29, 1926 at his home on 1135 Washington Street due to a…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding

"Great timbers were transported back to England for use as masts in the King’s ships. Captain George Waymouth arrived in 1605 and left a cross where…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"… Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine, 1878, by George Augustus Wheeler, M.D. and Henry Warren Wheeler • The Falls: Where Farmington, Maine Began in 1776…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"He was born in Freeman. He was the son of George and Mary Ann Parks. He was in the Civil War and serving in the 1st Maine Cavalry by October 31, 1861."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… State of Maine with Numerous Illustrations, by George Jones Varney , 1836-1901, B. B. Russell, 57 Cornhill, Boston, MA., 1881; History of Rumford…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"… corporation meeting minutes and notes recorded by George Boothby. (1870s). Scarborough Historical Society archives Cumberland County Registry of…"

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Guilford, Maine - RESOURCES

"George Haley, Dr. Howard SPRAGUE’S JOURNAL, GUILFORD, MAINE, CENTENNIAL EDITION, 1916 1916 – Vol. 4 No."

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Ellsworth Public Library

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