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

"In addition, women spoke and traded with English colonists and could become informed, opinionated participants in issues of land rights."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"Colonists drew on family wealth in order to invest, and familial bonds undergirded business partnerships."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… in company negotiations with often recalcitrant colonists on the frontier, who had their own ideas about how land should be allotted."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… Jean Baptiste Neptune worked helping the American colonists in Machias during the American Revolutionary War but died during period around 1780."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle Congregational Church

"Sources: Vance, Melissa. "Presque Isle Congregational Church Claims Origins from Colonists." The Star Herald [presque isle] 1 Apr. 2009: 8-8."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"… drove away the small number of English settler colonists there. The original four shareholders and their descendants gradually sold off portions of…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"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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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 6 of 7

"… initial plots of 100 acres for £5, to entice colonists to move in. Different goals of residents and the proprietors soon led to clashes."

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

"Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019)…"

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

"In addition to the many instances where multiple colonists claimed Native title to the same tract, seventeenth-century Indian deeds often described…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"Vines and the colonists settled at the protected area at the mouth of the Saco River, and called it Winter Harbor."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

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

"Ian Saxine, Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019)."

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

"… leaders hesitantly welcomed many of these colonists and sought to incorporate them into existing relationships with land and resources."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

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

"… a disastrous winter that left nearly half the colonists dead. A few years later, an English settlement was established at the mouth of the Kennebec…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Penobscot chief Joseph Orono joined with the colonists to fight the British in 1779, and one of the islets on the Northern side of Swan’s Island now…"

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

"… a portion of which documented the many settler-colonists often hidden within histories of land barons and proprietors."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73

"Colonists also noted that the first song birds (robins, sparrows, chickadees) appeared in the spring, attracted by the cleared land."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… of upscale entertainment activity for summer colonists. It was not uncommon for limousines to arrive at the theater's open doors, carrying the…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Colonists Richard Foxwell and Henry Watts settled at Blue Point, assuming they were within the bounds of the Lewis and Bonython patent."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"As part of this conflict, all 65 colonists of North Yarmouth were driven off the land on which they had settled."

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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

"Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (New York: New York University Press, 2019) Taylor, Alan."