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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St."
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"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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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 Moose River, Moose Head Lake and Kennebeck…"
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"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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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."
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"Conflicting land grants, competing companies (including the Pejepscot Company), and squatters created a dynamic landscape with much at stake as the…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4
"Moses Banks’ 1784 survey map became the basis for all marsh lot purchases, work and disputes involving these companies."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4
"… “An Act to Incorporate the Little River Dyking Company.” Chapter 533, 1871 ------ “An Act to Incorporate the Southgate Dyking Company.” Chapter…"
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"Many others came under the auspices of no land company at all. During the Revolutionary War, scores of leading proprietors remained loyal to the…"
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"… or colonists cutting down timber on unsold company lands. Effective agents needed a familiarity with the law, as the proprietors frequently…"
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"Frontier residents retaliated by vandalizing the property of company agents, threatening them, and on several occasions, physically assaulting them…"
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"… on payments, or helped themselves to timber on company land, while arguing that, by assuming the risk of moving to Maine, and making the company…"
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"Proprietors who held onto their company shares long enough—however small—received significant landholdings."
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"Both companies formed to legitimize and take advantage of titles to vast tracts of Wabanaki Homelands, but the different origins of their claims both…"
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"… map, 1843Maine Historical Society The Maine land companies which had been organized in the wake of the fall of Acadia—in particular the Pejepscot…"
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"… both before and after the formation of land companies. Most women landowners were widows who inherited such property from their late husbands."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"It also includes municipal records for towns settled by the company, most notably Brunswick, Maine, with warrants and reports."
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"Without acknowledged Indian deeds of their own, the Kennebec Company came to the opposite conclusion."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… important contemporary topics such as Indigenous land and water rights; and the preservation and use of public lands."
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"They formed a bevy of companies to oversee the extension of British trade and settlement into new regions. Land—lots of it—was a means to that end."
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"His grandfather purchased lands near Saco in 1673 and his father married into land ownership in Maine. Both were councilors in the state."
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"… to the surveys and land sales documented in company records. Women’s economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New…"
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"… Goodwin found a copy of the Plymouth Colony Patent in 1744. The major shareholders began attempting to make the company claim a reality in 1749."
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"In their squabbles with rival companies, they rejected what was by then a longstanding custom of rooting Anglo title in Native land rights, arguing…"
