Keywords: Land companies.
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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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… colonists cutting down timber on unsold company lands. Effective agents needed a familiarity with the law, as the proprietors frequently resorted…
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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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… Maine, both before and after the formation of land companies. Most women landowners were widows who inherited such property from their late…
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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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Themed Slideshows
… of the business activities of merchant owned land speculation companies, form a rich bedrock of source material for potential historic exploration…
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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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… Wharton in 1684 with six Wabanaki sagamores to land around Merrymeeting Bay, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers.
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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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Land—lots of it—was a means to that end. In 1714, for instance, eight Boston men established the Pejepscot Company, which claimed a large tract…
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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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… grant by the Council of New England (granting land from King Charles I under a royal charter) to a vague, poorly defined area on both sides of the…
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… custom of rooting Anglo title in Native land rights, arguing instead that royal or provincial grants, not Indian deeds, were the only legitimate…
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He is the author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023).
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… was an essential complement to the surveys and land sales documented in company records. Women’s economic activities, in short, undergirded both…
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… exist because of competing colonial claims to land. As historian Alan Taylor observed: In 1800 the Pejepscot Patent's settlers complained that…
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
… association of Boston Merchants jumped into the land speculation business by reviving an old Pilgrim grant on the Kennebec River in Maine.
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… the south side of Faneuil Hall, the Pejepscot lands left to him by his father, as well as other dubious land titles on Roanoke Island in North…
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Positioning itself as the sole source of legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great…
