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This map is good, but in part, miss-leading. My understanding is that the District of Maine didn't really exist until after the 1776 war was over... the Maine article reads:

"The province within its current boundaries became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1652. Maine was much fought over by the French and English during the 17th and early 18th centuries. After the defeat of the French in the 1740s, the territory from the Penobscot River east fell under the nominal authority of the Province of Nova Scotia, and together with present day New Brunswick formed the Nova Scotia county of Sunbury, with its court of general sessions at Campobello. "

The 1621 Nova Scotia charter extended just about to Virginia, but practically, the Province of Nova Scotia from 1710t o the end of the revolutionary war covered all of the Acadia lands to Machias/Penobscot, until the loss of Maine, then the subdivision into Ilse St Jean, Cape Breton, and New Brunswick after the 1789 peace. WayeMason 02:18, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

The Province of Maine definitely existed before 1776, first as part of New York, and then as part of Mass. Bay, see Province of Maine for more details. The territory from the Penobscot east that both the Maine and Nova Scotia articles refer to is the portion that I have shaded as disputed on the map as both Mass Bay and Nova Scotia claimed that portion. Kmusser (talk) 18:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)