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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"… the basis for all marsh lot purchases, work and disputes involving these companies. (Corporation meeting notes and minutes were kept by George…"

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

"… These letters were given to many settlers on disputed land when the Plymouth Company began establishing their claim."

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

"From the 1790s to the 1840s, this ongoing dispute between the British empire and an increasingly expansionist republic implicated notions of national…"

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

"… The following century, amidst escalating disputes between colonists and the Wabanaki in 1736, a Penobscot couple visited an English household to…"

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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

"Croix Commission (1796-1798) to help settle the dispute over the Northeast boundary of the United States."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… between the settlers and Henry Knox to settle the disputes. Among Knox’s correspondence is an advertisement that illustrates the ongoing…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… a shooting and boats being sunk over territorial disputes! A reason for the local decline in observing territories, I speculate, is that many…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… one and this left seven thousand square acres of disputed land in Aroostook County. In June 1828, the U.S."

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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… rivers, was inhospitable to settlement due to disputes and battles between Great Britain and France."

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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"1880Maine Historical Society Border Dispute Originally, Surry extended to the Union River and north to Ellsworth Falls."

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… The settlement of a long-standing boundary dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1842 also contributed to Bangor's growing…"

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Lubec was already in existence 1818 • Boundary dispute settled, Eastport evacuated by the British • Boundary between Canada and U.S.; Campobello…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… British from 1814 until 1818 when the boundary dispute with the U.S. was finally settled, establishing the border between Canada and the U.S…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"There was quite a dispute over which town would host the first academy in Hancock County. The people of Castine were disappointed, since they had…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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