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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"Kennebec Proprietors Biographies The Kennebec Proprietors came into being in 1749, when an association of Boston Merchants jumped into the land…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… Samuel Goodwin, an early clerk for the Kennebec Proprietors, not only organized meetings, but also took the lead in company negotiations with often…"

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

"Both the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors sold off their remaining claims and wound up their business within a few years of the Betterment Act…"

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

"… proprietors meant that by 1750, both the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors consisted of numerous men and women holding fractions of a share."

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

"… Back..."Maine Historical Society The Kennebec Proprietors and Pejepscot Proprietors were two of the largest land companies formed in colonial…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Wabanaki deed to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Brunswick Town Meeting Minutes, 1719Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Plan of the Kennebec River describing the Plymouth patent, ca."

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

"… known as the Kennebeck Purchase Company, Kennebec Proprietors, or The Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase from the late Colony of New Plymouth…"

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Historic Hallowell - Portrait of the Proprietor

"Portrait of the Proprietor Gov. Joseph R. Bodwell, Hallowell, ca. 1887Hubbard Free Library Joseph Bodwell opened granite quarries in…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"Liberty Men and Great Proprietors. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990. "A Bay State Exodus" Page 62 Wormser, Baron."

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Historic Hallowell - A Bay State Exodus

"… Free Library In Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, Alan Taylor observed that in the years following the Revolutionary War, "population growth and…"

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Historic Hallowell - Thomas Bond House

"Blake. H.Q. Blake was the proprietor of the Hallowell House (which can be seen on the right in the picture). S.A."

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

"Notably, the Kennebec Proprietors pled with him to be reimbursed for the Crown appropriating large amounts of timber for the Royal Navy, which he…"

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Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… of the conditions of sale imposed by the Kennebec Proprietors. Once the timber was cut and the house and barn built, was there anything of value…"

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Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"The Proprietors were a group of wealthy Boston merchants whose members included James Bowdoin, John Hancock, Dr."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… Society Acquired by MHS in 1863, the Pejepscot Proprietors papers are an amalgam of official business records of the Pejepscot Proprietors coupled…"

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

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

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

"… historian Emerson Baker observed, “the Kennebec Proprietors desperately sought” to secure their own claims against “the opposing claims of the…"

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

"The Kennebec Proprietors maps document the continuance of Wabanaki people at Norridgewock, despite a persistent myth that Norridgewock was…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Kinship and Leadership Copy, deed from James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine…"

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

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Sovereignty and Subsistence Copy, account regarding deed from Abenaki Sagamores to Richard Wharton…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records Acknowledgement In the twenty-first century, historians and tribal scholars have turned to these…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"… and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast Boundary (Barclay) collections."