Maine Memory Network

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

"The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies Sketch of Isle St. Croix, ca 1790 A sketch of Isle St."

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

"Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune Essay by Donald Soctomah Description of Pagan and Chipman’s Meetings with Francis Joseph…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Library share certificate, Farmington Library Association, 1865

"… share certificate ($10 each share) entitling the proprietor to an interest in the Farmington Library Association (a forerunner of the present…"

Historic Hallowell - A Bay State Exodus

"… Free Library In Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, Alan Taylor observed that in the years following the Revolutionary War, "population growth and…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"The Proprietors were a group of wealthy Boston merchants whose members included James Bowdoin, John Hancock, Dr."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"The original proprietors were residents of the village that would later become Cumberland, as well as of the Walnut Hill area."

Historic Hallowell - Thomas Bond House

"Blake. H.Q. Blake was the proprietor of the Hallowell House (which can be seen on the right in the picture). S.A."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Welcome to Strong

"… it became known as Readstown, for the settlement proprietor, William Read. Incorporated as a town in 1801, it was named Strong, for Gov."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"Liberty Men and Great Proprietors. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990. "A Bay State Exodus" Page 62 Wormser, Baron."

Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?

"… of the conditions of sale imposed by the Kennebec Proprietors. Once the timber was cut and the house and barn built, was there anything of value…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"… squatters living on the lands of wealthy proprietors. Additionally, as the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia completed its rewriting of the…"

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

"One hundred and three original proprietors (owners) purchased “home lots” of 10 acres near the coast."

Westport Island History Committee

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… held at Sutton, Massachusetts in April, 1791, the proprietors voted: that four Rights shall be obliged to clear and seed 20 acres, set up a house…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… dichotomy still existed, with squatter-proprietor tensions and the Coasting Law likely still fueling the sentiments of the two voter bodies.[25]…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - Overview: Road to Statehood

"… inland debate ensued over tension between land proprietors and squatters who saw independence as a method to obtain their own land."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"The proprietors of the railroad had spent a significant $4.5 million on its construction, anticipating that the passengers would bring with them…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… of either by purchase of by arrangement with the proprietor. This tract of land should then be placed in the charge of a forester and his…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"… & Lucke “ & Carriage Works Ward Spooner Mill Proprietor E.S. Hopkins Cong. Clergyman A.P. Allen Physicians & Surgeons J.P."

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

"… Captain Thomas Cammock was the first legal proprietor of land within the town. In 1631 the Council for New England granted Cammock the Patent of…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… purchased 100 acres at Newbury Neck and other proprietor's rights in Ward 6. Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond and Patten's Pond Stream were named after…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"Her brother Abraham became the proprietor of a successful shipyard in Ellsworth. Phebe had a hard life. She married three times."

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… was strongest in places where squatters and proprietors argued over land rights, and even in coastal towns like Portland, newly arrived squatters…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"Bangs, a North Lubec merchant; W.B. Cottle, the proprietor of Merchants Hotel; M.M. Foster, postmaster and storekeeper; Chas."