Keywords: Landing
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Site Pages
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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)."
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"… 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."
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"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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"Blaakman, Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)."
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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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"… exist because of competing colonial claims to land. As historian Alan Taylor observed: In 1800 the Pejepscot Patent's settlers complained that…"
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"… the Federal government into protecting Wabanaki land interests in what is now Maine, and led to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980."
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"… was 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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"His grandfather purchased lands near Saco in 1673 and his father married into land ownership in Maine. Both were councilors in the state."
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"… and parceled out portions of their “undivided” land, acreage was assigned according to shares. Proprietors who held onto their company shares long…"
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"… of Uncertainties”: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth-Century Maine.” The American Indian…"
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"… This improvisational system for claiming land as legal property sprouted a thicket of conflicts."
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"… who sought to reside, plant or trade on Wabanaki lands. These acts incorporated settlers into existing Indigenous economic and social systems."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"It includes land deeds, depositions, maps, correspondence, broadsides, proprietor’s meetings records, accounts, land agents, and other documents…"
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"The key conflicts seem to be between the large land-owning proprietors and the settler-occupants of these tracts of land, often without a mention of…"
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"… Proprietors claimed and sold large tracts of land, including Norridgewock, the site of a brutal attack in 1724 on the traditionally inhabited…"
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"… the south side of Faneuil Hall, the Pejepscot lands left to him by his father, as well as other dubious land titles on Roanoke Island in North…"
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"… regions, the charter stipulated that no grants of land made in the area east of the Kennebec River would be legally recognized unless separately…"
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"… was used to refer to the region—covered all the land northeast of Passamaquoddy Bay, from the Atlantic coast to the Gulf of St."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… often hidden within histories of land barons and proprietors. Additionally, the project intended to transcribe about one half of the initial page…"
