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Kings Landing Historical Settlement
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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
Early Settlement Copy of Surry and Ellsworth map, ca. 1880Item Contributed byMaine Historical Society Border Dispute Originally, Surry…
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement
Early Settlement Gravestones of John Savage and Sarah Dolliver SavageItem Contributed byNortheast Harbor Library The first generation of…
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Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement
Early Settlement Wheeler and Crosby Text by Karyn Field Crosby's Grist Mill Store, called Old Brick Store, Hampden, built in 1807Item…
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II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor Saco River narrows, Biddeford, ca.
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
Dresden, Me.: Jennie G. Everson, Eleanor L. Everson, 1977. Blaakman, Michael Albert. Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American…
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
The project documents European settlement of northern New England, specifically coastal and interior Maine, land distribution, and conflicts before…
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… women owned property, many others facilitated the settlement of early Maine. As colonists moved to the region both as squatters and titled…
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dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2020). Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England…
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Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan
Early Settlement in Skowhegan Weston gravestone X Oldest cemetary in town X Samuel Weston home X By Jordan Everett The year was 1771…
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… much like the “liberty men” of old, any possible settlement related to the illegal taking of Wabanaki lands by the states of Massachusetts and…
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dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2020). Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England…
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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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… primary economic actors in White New Englanders’ settlement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maine.
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… White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine. About the Author Sara T. Damiano, Ph.D.
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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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He died in 1717 in Maine. He accomplished the settlement of twenty families on the island. Stephen Minot Stephen Minot started from perhaps the…
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… the Pejepscot Proprietors sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the Kennebec Proprietors claimed and sold…
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… and Topsham residents who squatted on unsold land, stalled on payments, or helped themselves to timber on company land, while arguing that, by…
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… Mi’kmaq Nation in 1991; the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980; and recent legislative victories during 2021-2022 supporting Passamaquoddy…
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… and Pejepscot Proprietors? Residents on company lands also complained, with considerable justification, about suffering as a result of rivalries…
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Robert Kinney's Land on the Plains, and hinder any Person from Lumbering or Tresspassing" These letters were given to many settlers on disputed land…
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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…
