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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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… Indigenous peoples and Nations; and the economic, political, geographic, and social establishment of Maine as a state."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"Header image, detail of A Map of the State of Maine (1820) by Moses Greenleaf. Contributed by Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic…"

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."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"Map of the State of Maine, 1820Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Within the United States, a greater sectional debate…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"… increased and altered over the next century, its political position, as well as its people increasingly homogenized with the parent colony, as…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… 20,000 pages of manuscript material and maps across all three collections. However, this blossomed into nearly twice that amount as subtle details…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… District of Maine map, 1795 Drawn in 1795, this map promoted the separation of Maine from Massachusetts."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"He was well versed in business, politics, writing, and science. He was the author of the majority of company pamphlets and official communications."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"His scholarship focuses on politics, political economy, empires, and borderlands in early North America."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866 Map of lots on Maquoit & Merriconeeg, ca. 1719Maine Historical Society Coll."

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

"… Historical Society Similarly, some of the maps within these collections contain vital placenames and locations, including documentation of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… testimony, and future commissions on the political fate of the islands in the bay would similarly focus on the correct interpretations of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… March of 1730, the Privy Council determined that political control of the area was rightfully in the hands of the governor of Nova Scotia, not…"

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

"Deeds, maps, correspondence, diaries, depositions, account books, church records, lists of settlers, minutes of proprietors’ meetings and boundary…"

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

"… votes and witnesses; printed material; indexes; maps and plans and fragments. The Kennebec Proprietors records include extensive information about…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… past in the cross-border region, and as Wabanaki political and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… that contains documents, land surveys, and maps dating from 1764 to 1893. The collection was mostly gathered by British commissioner Thomas Barclay…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… coincide with Maine's separation.[10] New Map of English America, 1677 Since Massachusetts was adjacent to New Hampshire, Connecticut, New…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"Treaty of Washington boundary map, 1842Maine Historical Society Many overlapping authorities had strong claims in this borderland, starting, of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Maine’s international border was the most bitterly contested…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812

"… prominent figure in 19th century Maine separation politics and would continue to play a major role in early statehood as Mane's first governor."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"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…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"Both were councilors in the state. Hutchinson’s political ties were crucial during the early days of the company."