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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Second Generation & Permanent Structures at Asticou

"… -- later bought out all of his siblings’ and their heirs’ interests in Lot 67 after his father, John II, died in 1868. Third Generation..."

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

"Sale and division to heirs of the original proprietors meant that by 1750, both the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors consisted of numerous men and…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"… and his wife, Maria Theresa Cadillac DeGregoire, heirs to the 1691 French Grant of Mount Desert Island from King Louis XIV."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 4 of 5

"… Nanudemance retained “liberty unto me and my heirs to fish, fowl, and hunt also to set otter traps without molestation.” In a 1684 deed that is…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"… their animals, later deeding these lots to their heirs. A 1784 survey of the marsh by Moses Banks noted owners of marsh lots at that time."

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

"… Proprietors Biographies Later Proprietors, Heirs and Assignees Colonel Moses Little Moses Little was born on May 8, 1724, the son of Moses and…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900

"… again in 1883 when it was sold to the Burleigh heirs by the Samuel Hersey Estate for $395.80. In 1881 a few families moved north from New Sweden…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… Colonel John Black of Ellsworth, Attorney for the heirs of the William Bingham estate (see Hancock County Registry of Deeds, Book 85, Page 163-164…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… of Evalyn Walsh McLean (whose husband was the heir to the Washington Post), Edsel Ford, or various members of the Rockefeller family."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… wou’d Please to grant your Petitioners and their Heirs, a Township to be bounded as follows, beginning about three Miles above Casteens River, at a…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"In 1651, Jane and her brother, as heirs of Wackwarreska, sold about 1,000 acres of land in what is now the Dunstan area of Scarborough to brothers…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… had moved ashore and purchased the tract from the heirs of Wackwarreska, Sagamore of Owascoag. Tradition says the purchase price was a bushel of…"

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Westport Island History Committee

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… and respectable and for his children and heirs to learn about -- and learn from -- his times and experiences."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"… death in 1882, the building was owned by his heirs until 1887. In 1887, Moses’ Estate formed the Sagadahoc Real Estate Association."

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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"The General’s heirs continued to “run the road” until the European and North American Railroad bought it out in 1869."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… in 1944, purchased the farm from various Dolloff heirs. Sometime in the late 1940’s, the farm became known as “Skyline Farm,” perhaps originating…"