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The Bingham Purchase refers to several tracts of land in the U.S. state of Maine, [1] formerly owned by William Bingham. These lands were granted to early colonizers in the 1630s, and became part of the larger Waldo Patent, named after Samuel Waldo, who acquired the land grants in 1720. In 1786, when Massachusetts (which then included Maine ...
Webster–Ashburton Treaty. The Webster–Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, was a treaty that resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (the region that became Canada). Signed under John Tyler 's presidency, it resolved the so-called Aroostook War. The provisions of the treaty included:
t. e. The Missouri Compromise[a] (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it. It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and declared a policy of ...
A Graunt part to George Way and Thomas Purchase of certaine Lands in New England, called the River Bishopscotte (Pejepscot), and all that Bounds and Limitts of the Maine Land, adjoining to the said River to extend two myles: from the said River Northwards four myles, and the Pejepscot proprietors reserved seven hundred acres of land for the ...
This is a list of land patents provided by the British crown for land in what is now the state of Maine : Gorges-Mason Grant, 1622. First Kennebec Patent, 1627. Mason's Lands, 1629. Gorges Patent, ( de facto 1629; official 1639) Comnock's Patent, 1629. Second Kennebec Patent (also known as the Kennebec Purchase or Plymouth Patent), 1629.
Purchase had an agreement with the natives for the land, as long as they were still able to hunt and fish at the falls. Four years later, in 1632, the Plymouth Company granted a patent to the land known as Pejepscot, including the falls, to Purchase and his brother-in-law, George Way.