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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… the digitization of approximately 20,000 pages of manuscript material and maps across all three collections."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by cartographer Chief Francis Joseph Neptune (Passamaquoddy), 1798Maine Historical Society…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"Bound in volumes alongside these original manuscript records are small histories and genealogies gathered and written by John McKeen, historian and…"
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"The manuscript also provides valuable information about place names and language, which Wabanaki language keepers and scholars are using today…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"Edelson, S. Max. The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… 1731Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and half year initiative (2020-2022)…"
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"Just as the large manuscript collections of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"He is listed on the John North map as surveyor. His fervent efforts kickstarted the company's incorporation and early activity around 1750."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
"… Zooniverse to create full-text transcriptions of manuscript material dating between 1625-1893. Since partnering with Zooniverse in 2020, nearly…"
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"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders portal makes accessible three of the Maine Historical…"
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"Deeds, maps, correspondence, diaries, depositions, account books, church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary…"
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"… votes and witnesses; printed material; indexes; maps and plans and fragments. The Kennebec Proprietors records include extensive information about…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"… ongoing, we are digitizing nearly 45,000 pages of manuscript material by the end of the calendar year "2022." For more information on the project…"
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"… that contains documents, land surveys, and maps dating from 1764 to 1893. The collection was mostly gathered by British commissioner Thomas Barclay…"
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"… 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Maine’s international border was the most bitterly contested…"
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"Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St. Croix from a map sent to Lt. Sydney by Lt. Gov Carleton in 1786.Maine Historical Society By 1783, then, the…"
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"Contested Northeast boundary map, 1843Maine Historical Society The Maine land companies which had been organized in the wake of the fall of…"
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"This ill-defined boundary, based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Maine Historical Society The European history of…"
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"“Red Lines on Maps: The Impact of Cartographical Errors on the Border between the United States and British North America, 1782-1842,” Imago Mundi…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"Borderland Essays Explore essays, listed in the menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies Copy, deed from James and Rachell Berry to Proprietors, page 1 of 3Maine Historical Society For their part, as…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies The work of Hallowell, Maine resident Martha Ballard (1735-1812) exemplifies female settlers’ varied and extensive…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies Essay by Sara T. Damiano, Fall 2022 Sara T. Damiano, PhD, is an historian of women and gender in early America and the…"
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"Women in Colonial Economies About the Author Sara T. Damiano, Ph.D. is a historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World."
