Keywords: Land speculation
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"… counterpart Lord Ashburton, himself a former land speculator in Maine, who had married Anne Bingham in 1798, whose father had once been the largest…"
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"… of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."
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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 British survey highlands map, ca."
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"… claims and wound up their business within a few years of the Betterment Act, bringing the great era of land speculation in Maine to a close."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"… of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Taylor, Alan."
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"… questions continued to plague would-be land speculators and even governmental officials looking to bring White settlers into the region to bolster…"
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"… to ordinary settlers—as well as to a new set of speculators from New York and Philadelphia, who saw land as a financial commodity more than…"
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"… of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Taylor, Alan."
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"… a claim tracing back to a deed signed by speculator Richard Wharton in 1684 with six Wabanaki sagamores to land around Merrymeeting Bay, the…"
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"… of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019)."
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"… of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019), 53."
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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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"… governance; and, international relations, land speculation and Revolution‐era land bounties. The collection, acquired by MHS from former Governor…"
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"… of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."
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"… to Wabanaki land, against other settlers and speculators. Many of the documents were created and assembled to validate the holdings of the…"
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"… out by English and American greed, land speculation, and notions of European and American supremacy over the Indigenous stewards of what is now…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… 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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"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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"… 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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"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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"James signed above Rachel on the land deed, exemplifying the intertwining of husbands’ and wives’ economic fortunes through marriage.(4) Overall…"
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"By absorbing everything east of the Kennebec into Nova Scotia, where land could be granted and organized by Royal decree, Dunbar’s settlement efforts…"
