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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

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

"Sale and division to heirs of the original proprietors meant that by 1750, both the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors consisted of numerous men and…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"Jane, along with her mother and brother, had sold land to English colonists eight years prior, and Jane insisted that the English honor their prior…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… evidence of this, including a September 24, 1805 sale of 15,000 acres to John Gleason. In asserting his claim to the Waldo Patent, Knox had ongoing…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"One condition of the sale was that Wackwarreska's daughter, Uphannum (known as Indian Jane or Jane Hannup), and her mother Nagasqua, be allowed to…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"One of the conditions of the sale was that Jane and her mother be allowed to live on the land for the remainder of their lives."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin self portrait, 1889

"… working at Katahdin Iron Works, in a "wild land township" near Brownville, starting in 1888. The illustration is on page 57 of the book and…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Historical Society

"nurse, school nurse, editor, sales administrator, event planner and regulatory affairs specialist. Other interests are just as varied: conservation…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"… Ann Fales Sanger Ruth Mayo Hauling wood Clearing land for orchard, wheat Hampden House Bar Bowling alleys Jes Crosman Sands Circus & Caravan…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's plow, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… built his own plow and had his own garden on the land his family rented in Hampden. Martin, who became an accountant, shopkeeper, and dance…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… Martin wrote of the building of the church, "Land being high and the society being in majority poor it was difficult to purchase a desirable lot…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… and of money itself as well as the 1830s craze of land speculation all affected Bangor and John Martin -- and all appear within the pages of his…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… allowed a dealer to hold lobsters for future sale or a newly molted lobster time to harden its shell."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… depot on Knox Street for shipment to various sales outlets. Railroad Depot, Thomaston, Maine c 1871Thomaston Historical Society Other…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Seaside Hall

"… a community center, hosting events such as church sales and dances. Movie reels were played on the hall's projector."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"… funds comprised of money set aside from the sale or use of Indian lands. N.M. Francis and his wife in a canoe, ca."

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Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… of land in three years, one of the conditions of sale imposed by the Kennebec Proprietors. Once the timber was cut and the house and barn built…"

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

"… Colonial Biddeford Copy of Major Phillips sale of lands to Richard Russell, Biddeford, 1673McArthur Public Library The village of Winter…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 2 of 2

"… Broadway became available and profits from the sale of The Pictorial History of Lincoln had given the LHS enough money to make a down payment."

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Lincoln, Maine - Gateway Motors

"Bradstreet made it Bradstreet Ford Sales. In May 1973, Sherwood Craig became the new owner and he named it Sherwood Ford Sales."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… Newspaper, 8/23/1884 Life behind Wabanaki sale tents was at least as lively as it was in front of and within them especially for those Wabanakis…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"… grounds were lined with carts and stands for the sale of liquor, cakes and other refreshments. It took two more years for the structure to be…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"They held auctions, catered, had food sales, sold lunches at the mills, had booths at the county fair, and sold chances on quilts and other donated…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… II, and grandson, William H Chisholm until the sale of the Oxford Paper Company to the Ethyl Corporation in 1966."