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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… was disrupted in the third quarter of the seventeenth century by a series of conflicts with Native Americans."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"The abortive seventeenth-century British forays into the region, for example, were codified in the new 1691 Massachusetts Charter, which re-defined…"

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"… a jug filled with fifty-two sixteenth and seventeenth century gold and silver coins and a gold wedding-signet ring while plowing the island’s…"

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

"… the late eighteenth century as it had been in the seventeenth: these borderlands remained primarily Wabanaki country at the very fringes of…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"Seventeenth-century English, confronted by the reality of powerful Indigenous Nations on this supposedly vacant land, paid annuities associated with…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"… colonists claimed Native title to the same tract, seventeenth-century Indian deeds often described vague boundaries."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… actors in White New Englanders’ settlement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maine. Yet, when we look more closely at the period, it is clear…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… “Indian deeds” signed with Native peoples in the seventeenth century became an important element of the argument."

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

"During the early and mid-seventeenth century, English settlers with very different notions of property arrived in the Dawnland, forming coastal…"

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

"These seventeenth-century efforts to bring the region into the European world each collapsed so quickly and immediately that the Wabanaki inhabitants…"