Maine Memory Network

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

"A printed map from the treaty year gives some sense of the sharp differences of opinion about where the border should run as it shows proposed…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"Attempts to reopen negotiations came to an undeniable halt in 1833, and, thus, fifty years after the War of American Independence had ended, the…"

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

"… Treaties of Paris (1763 and 1783), the Jay Treaty (1794), the Treaty of Ghent (1814), and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)."

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

"The Treaty of Paris (1783) caused the most prolix problems in establishing the border, and subsequent US-British treaties gradually tried to make…"

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

"… Seneca, both Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, tribes) negotiated with Indian Superintendent William Johnson at Johnson Hall in New York and even further…"

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

"… Revolutionary War, in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, negotiators had sketched an imaginary line through this perpetually contested and poorly understood…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… until 1821, when he was appointed commissioner to negotiate a treaty with Spain, a post he held for three years."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… Monroe named him as a special minister to negotiate a treaty with Spain. Three years later William returned home to private life."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… that the British would burn their village, negotiated a $30,000 bond, a considerable sum for those days."