Maine Memory Network

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"The original 1680 plantation of North Yarmouth encompassed present-day North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth, Chebeague Island, Pownal, Freeport…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Bourque, Bruce J. Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"George Sawyer collection is on display at the Nylander Museum in Caribou. 5. Bruce Bourque “Twelve thousand Years: American Indians in Maine"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford

"Before 1800 there were 17 sawmills around the falls, cutting an estimated 50,000 feet of boards every day."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… Maine was the crossroads of English and French North America, and all the old hatreds and arguments crossed from the Old World into the New with…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) - Page 2 of 2

"North Dam Mill, 2010. Photograph by Kylie Clukey, Biddeford High School. X For more information..."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… lands to disappear among the tribal bands to the north and east; their culture and customs only to be puzzled out through the archaeological record…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"Biddeford is bordered by Saco to the north, Dayton and Arundel to the west, Kennebunkport to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east."

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

"Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. New York: New York University Press, 2019."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019)."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… Society But in Maine, as in much of Britain’s North American empire, there was no clear or single source of title."

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

"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."

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."

Music in Maine - MAKE

"… RezDogs, are an intertribal drum group based on Indian Island. Since 1998, we have travelled extensively throughout the East Coast performing at…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"An example of Proprietors' use of "Ancient Indian Deeds"Maine Historical Society These Proprietors collections exist because of competing colonial…"

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

"… in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The American Indian Quartertly 42, no.4 (2018): 454-487 muse.jhu.edu/article/708887 (retrieved August 2022)."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"He is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… or Iroquois, tribes) negotiated with Indian Superintendent William Johnson at Johnson Hall in New York and even further west at Fort Niagara. The…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"More modern travelers had the option of driving up Route 2, along the river from Howland or down from Medway."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"In 1793, he was one of several Indians asked to determine the boundaries of certain lands lying around the Androscoggin River listed in the Pejepscot…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"On June 25, 1876, at age 29, he died at the battle of “Little Big Horn” in Montana under the command of William Armstrong Custer."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"Native Americans referred to both the river and the area as Segochet, “a pleasant place,” but Captain George Waymouth, an early English navigator…"

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Library 1700s 1754 – 1763 • Maine Indians forced north into eastern Maine during French and Indian War 1755 • British deport Acadians to Maine and…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"He was credited with having secured the neutrality of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians despite British efforts to enlist their support…"