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Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" Site of Scarborough Marsh Audubon CenterItem Contributed byScarborough Historical Society & Museum…

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… Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" aerial view of marsh X Text by Bruce Thurlow Images from Scarborough Historical Society, Bruce…

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Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" Sources Dunstan River X Acts and Resolves of the Legislature of Maine.

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Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" Moses Banks MapItem Contributed byScarborough Historical Society & Museum The Scarborough Marsh has…

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 4 of 6

Many others came under the auspices of no land company at all. During the Revolutionary War, scores of leading proprietors remained loyal to the…

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

… 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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… 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…

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

Blaakman, Michael Albert. Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776-1803. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2016.

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

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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… Wharton in 1684 with six Wabanaki sagamores to land around Merrymeeting Bay, the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers.

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… Bostonian Rachel Atkins purchased two tracts of land in Maine, one from the Wabanaki and one from an English colonist.

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… important contemporary topics such as Indigenous land and water rights; and the preservation and use of public lands.

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 3 of 5

… to see the same leaders sign deeds for the same land, with different settlers. For example, “Robin Hood” or Ramegin, appeared on more than fifteen…

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… Society The protection of these relationships to land and kin are evident in the ways that Wabanaki leaders sought to reserve subsistence rights.

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… European settlers only—to have full title to land, even though they had to keep fighting over which European’s claims were to win the day.

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… to delineate the boundaries of settler claims to land, Pial Pôl’s presence, in 1793, also speaks to the Wabanaki people who remained.

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He is the author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023).

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

… governance; and, international relations, land speculation and Revolution‐era land bounties.

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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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… of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol.