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… father, and later took control of his father's real estate. Josiah lost a hand in an explosion while supervising the blasting of a passage through…
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Married women could not purchase property, and husbands acquired custodial powers over property that their wives owned prior to marriage.
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
Somersworth: New Hampshire Pub. Co, 1975. Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier.
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… also articulated a separate understanding of property: a belief that ownership was made not through royal seals, Indian deeds, or any deeds at all…
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Allan Greer, Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
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… collections lie conflicting ideas about land and property. As Lisa Brooks and Darren Ranco detail for Wabanaki peoples, the original inhabitants of…
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Frontier residents retaliated by vandalizing the property of company agents, threatening them, and on several occasions, physically assaulting them…
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Elite Boston women not only stood to own property themselves, but also helped their families preserve dynastic wealth and status across generations.
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… improvisational system for claiming land as legal property sprouted a thicket of conflicts. In addition to the many instances where multiple…
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He is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol.
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81-83, Maine Historical Society. 5. Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New…
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This reminds me of events detailed in Saxine’s Properties of Empire (2019) where the General Court in Boston sided with the Penobscots in the 1730s…
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Saxine, Ian. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
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… in living and settling on the company's Maine property. Watts focused his attention on Arrowsic Island and the improvement and fortification of the…
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
… a considerable sum involving the purchase of a property. William Bowdoin William Bowdoin became second only to Silvester Gardiner in proprietary…
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Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? The Pejepscot Proprietors granted a limited number of free plots of land in Brunswick and Topsham…
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Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Plan of the Kennebec River describing the Plymouth patent, ca.
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Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Wabanaki deed to Richard Wharton, 1684Maine Historical Society The Pejepscot Proprietors…
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Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Coll. 61, vol. 7, pg. 401 Example of a proprietor meeting at the Royall Exchange Tavern on King…
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Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? Coll. 61, vol. 10, p. 179b-1 A copy of a letter issued by Samuel Goodwin to Mr.
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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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Beyond Borders: an historical overview In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw…
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Beyond Borders: an historical overview Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New…
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners
Project Partners The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) X In April 2020, Maine Historical Society received a $341,935 Humanities…
