Pejepscot Proprietors

The Pejepscot Proprietors was a company of land investors who colonized the current towns of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine, between the years of 1715 and 1814.[1]

Roads in Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine c. 1764

The area known as Pejepscot, Maine, was first inhabited by the Wabanaki Native Americans. During the European colonization of the Americas, the first settler was Thomas Purchase, settling on the banks of the Androscoggin River in Brunswick, at the site of Fort Andross and Pejepscot Falls.[2] After the Native American wars came to a close, the proprietors acquired the land holdings from Purchase's successor, Richard Wharton, in the Maine district of the Province of Massachusetts Bay,[3] and furthered the colonization of Maine.[2]

References
  1. Jamie Rice, Ian Saxine, Michael Blakey, Sara Damiano, Alexandra Montgomery, Darren Ranco (7 August 2021). MHS Historian’s Forum: Investing in Empire: The Pejepscot Proprietors and their World. Maine Historical Society (Video). Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  2. Wheeler, George Augustus; Wheeler, Henry Warren (1878). History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine: Including the Ancient Territory Known as Pejepscot (1st ed.). Boston: A. Mudge & Sons, Printers. pp. 7–8. LCCN 01008940. Archived from the original on 18 August 2006 – via Google Books. p. Inside Front Cover – Pejepscot Historical Society second ed. (1974): (This book) has long been considered the authoritative text on the three towns through 1878.
  3. "Pejepscot Proprietors". WorldCat. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
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