Keywords: Massachusetts Bay Colony Court
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"… until he had already been run out of the colony by the Stamp Act unrest, and only then as a pointed rebuke to Massachusetts’ increasingly unruly…"
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"While the Bay Colony was given political jurisdiction over both regions, the charter stipulated that no grants of land made in the area east of the…"
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"Like other British colonies, Massachusetts, including the district of Maine, derived its legal system from its mother country."
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"… of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Sketch of Isle St. Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St. Croix from a map sent to Lt."
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"… Scotia was re-created as an independent British colony following the British “conquest” of Acadia in 1710 and removed from direct Massachusetts…"
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"Oliver married Anne Belcher, sister of Massachusetts Governor Jonathan Belcher. Oliver’s son Belcher became the clerk of the Pejepscot Proprietors…"
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"But in 1808, the Massachusetts General Court passed the Betterment Act, finding that the speculators would have to compensate residents for the value…"
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"… as a representative to the Massachusetts General Court for twenty-five years & was a Trustee of Bowdoin College, where his son Josiah attended."
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"… grant of Land from the King to the Plymouth Colony to trap fur. Maine Historical Society But in Maine, as in much of Britain’s North American…"
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"… proof, and it could not be adjudicated by courts stacked with the proprietors’ cronies. From the late eighteenth century through Maine statehood in…"
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"Some of the earliest documents from 1764 pertain to areas at the eastern end of the border (a survey of Passamaquoddy Bay by John Mitchell) and in…"
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"… Properties of Empire (2019) where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s, against local settlers, because of Dummer’s…"
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"… support from Québec and Acadia—the Massachusetts Bay colony claimed jurisdiction over the region. The New Englanders’ ambitions to dominate the…"
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"Boasting membership that included some of the wealthiest, best-connected families in the colony, the companies played an outsized role in…"
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"… of the northeastern border with a less dense colonial presence to the west, from the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River, through the…"
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"… relationships with Wabanaki people; Massachusetts colonial governance; and, international relations, land speculation and Revolution‐era land…"
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"… Lands, 1790-1820 (Boston: Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volumes 36 and 37, 1954)."
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"… of Maine that have been expertly assessed for the Colonial and Revolutionary eras by historians Ian Saxine, Lisa Brooks, and Alan Taylor, so too…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… and independent entity, distinct from British colonial rule, Massachusetts, the Canadian maritimes, and the United States federal government."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - IV. Engulfed by nationalism: Revolutionary Biddeford
"… "to Defend the Sea Coast in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay", raised at Biddeford and Pepperellborough (Saco)."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast
"… Thomas Pownall and he encouraged the General Court to build a fortification at the mouth of the Penobscot."
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4
"The so-called rusticators came to Blue Hill's summer colony on steamships that met their passengers at the railhead in Rockland."
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"A few years later in 1820 Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a state and agreed to continue the Treaty obligations set in the 1794 treaty…"
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"… during the 1750s, at a time when an artisan in Massachusetts could feed a family on £50 per year."
