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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"People Explore essays pertaining to individuals, communities, and key players across the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune Essay by Donald Soctomah Description of Pagan and Chipman’s Meetings with Francis Joseph…"

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

"… for the local decline in observing territories, I speculate, is that many fishermen are going offshore."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"Land speculators swarmed all over Maine surveying its natural resources. They plotted access to the Boston markets through Maine’s rivers and ports."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"… Company matters, tontine buildings, canals, land speculations, navigation, agricultural societies, India trade, turnpikes, physics, brick machines…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… was friendlier with the English, so historians speculated that he learned English from them. He was friendly with settlers, but his wife was not."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"After a number of failed speculations, Swan was imprisoned in Paris, France for twenty-two years for a debt he did not acknowledge."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… 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 journal."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"There's speculation that the Brick Inn at one time may have been a Boarding House. Today, the Brick Inn houses many of the local college students…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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