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History Of The Public Land Policy Of Maine, 1620-1820, Margaret Fowles Wilde

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There have been many accounts of individual settlements in Maine and a few histories of the State, but no one has ever attempted a history of its land policy or analyzed the effect that such a policy or lack of policy might have had on the development of the State of Maine.

Maine was one of the earliest sections of the Atlantic Coast to be explored but one of the slowest in development. The latter may have been due to a number of factors but undoubtedly the lack of a definite, well developed land policy had much to do with …