Keywords: Indian deeds
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"Without acknowledged Indian deeds of their own, the Kennebec Company came to the opposite conclusion."
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"An example of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial…"
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"For Maine proprietors, “Indian deeds” signed with Native peoples in the seventeenth century became an important element of the argument."
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"… was made not through royal seals, Indian deeds, or any deeds at all, but instead through possession—applying one’s labor to improve the land."
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"40, item 31. 3. James Berry and Rachel Berry Deed to Proprietors (1716), Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick: Pejepscot Proprietors Papers…"
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"… to the same tract, seventeenth-century Indian deeds often described vague boundaries. So, too, did the other potential sources of legal title: the…"
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"“‘A Scratch with a Bear's Paw’: Anglo-Indian Land Deeds in Early Maine,” Ethnohistory 36:3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 235-256) 3. Richardson, H."
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"… just becoming structured enough so that Indian deeds and title were only recognized as making it possible for European settlers—and European…"
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"… claims over Wabanaki lands, sometimes through deeds (or purported deeds) signed with Wabanaki leaders, and sometimes by vague agreements and grants…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"It includes land deeds, depositions, maps, correspondence, broadsides, proprietor’s meetings records, accounts, land agents, and other documents…"
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"… that colonizers often benefit from such as deeds and treaties, the foundations for federal law and authority."
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"Deeds, maps, correspondence, diaries, depositions, account books, church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Co, 1975. Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier."
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"He is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."
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"… or Iroquois, tribes) negotiated with Indian Superintendent William Johnson at Johnson Hall in New York and even further west at Fort Niagara. The…"
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"… 1794, an essential legal precedent for the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1980. St."
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"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford
"Thus far we boast of deeds, not words, and while other localities may have more loudly proclaimed their devotion to our country's cause, none have in…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4
"… lot (or lots) for grazing their animals, later deeding these lots to their heirs. A 1784 survey of the marsh by Moses Banks noted owners of marsh…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4
"Alger Deed X A second settlement was established across the river at Blue Point in 1636. A year before Cammock's patent had been granted, the…"
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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"Incorporation After the Revolutionary War, deeds and titles were still not clear, so the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had to straighten things out."
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… Plantation, as Islesboro was then called, took deeds from General Knox, others did not, especially those living above the Narrows."
