Sir Ferdinando Gorges' underfunded proprietorship — a thin string of fishing towns.
Absorbed by Massachusetts (1652-58, purchase confirmed 1677) and folded into the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691 as the District of Maine.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Province of Maine — the shape you scrub through changes in 1622 · 1652 · 1679.
The contested northeastern frontier of fishing towns and Native war that defined the Province of Maine (broad regional context).
Gorges's proprietorship and Maine's absorption by Massachusetts in the broader colonial picture (broad context).
Newbery Honor novel set in 1743 on the Maine coast, following an indentured servant girl in one of the province's thin string of fishing and farming settlements.