Maine Memory Network

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… in winter on roads built and maintained by each landowner who built permanent gates across their part of the road to keep farm animals from…"

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

"Most women landowners were widows who inherited such property from their late husbands. Gendered divisions of economic activity, moreover, meant that…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"… various offers were often made to entice future landowners. A blockhouse or fort was built to ensure success of the settlement and to provide for…"

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

"… in 1798, whose father had once been the largest landowner in eastern Maine. Ashburton’s assessment of the 1842 treaty included that the final…"

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

"… version of a defining problem in the history of early Maine: conflicts sown by vague boundaries drawn on paper in faraway rooms."

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

"… political economy, empires, and borderlands in early North America. He is the author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary…"

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

"… records include extensive information about early land dealings; early contact, interactions, and diplomatic relationships with Wabanaki people…"

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."

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

"… by Nova Scotia and Massachusetts in the early 1760s had produced contradictory results, and maps of the area—when they even managed to accurately…"

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

"… in the mid 1730s, and Samuel Goodwin, an early clerk for the Kennebec Proprietors, not only organized meetings, but also took the lead in company…"

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

"… the Wabanaki people who remained to interpret early documents and the placenames they contained. One striking example is the testimony of Pial Pôl."

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

"… and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University Press, 2019."

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

"… border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of jurisdictional confusion and uncertainty."

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

"… and maps in the Barclay Collection from the early 1820s. David Thompson's Diary of Astronomical Observations, 1817Maine Historical Society…"

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

"He served as an early Moderator for the Kennebec Proprietors as well as Clerk of Common Pleas for the Port of Plymouth, Justice of Peace for…"

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

"is a historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World. At the time this essay was written (2022), Prof."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"From the 1780s into the early nineteenth century, it sold millions of acres to ordinary settlers—as well as to a new set of speculators from New York…"

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

"… PhD, is an historian of women and gender in early America and the Atlantic World, and an associate professor at Texas State University, with…"

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

"Beyond Borders: an historical overview In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… and Indigenous controls guaranteed in early agreements and laws that hold sway over local and state authority."

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

"… in either the 18th century, or the late 20th and early 21st centuries, is the overall structures of these debates."

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

"However, early in the project, MHS formed an invaluable partnership with The Zooniverse, a crowd-based platform which provided an exciting…"

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

"… political ties were crucial during the early days of the company. His brother, Edward was a member of the General Court’s Committee of Eastern…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… be a very different place if not for the wealthy landowners (originally called rusticators) and their seasonal visits."