Talk:Province of Massachusetts Bay

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[edit] Map of territorial claims

The following off-site maps show the various claims of the original Thirteen Colonies: [1], [2], [3], and [4]. If this information could be included in a map of this province's claims, it would be great. (This request was originally made by jengod, and I moved it here.) – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 16:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Map request filled. Kmusser 18:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maine boundary sources

Sources are not given for the map. I've added a discussion of Massachusetts' boundaries at History of Massachusetts which may provide some help and some of the references I used have bibliographies. However, I have had trouble with the definition of Maine. It changed more often than the Province of Maine article goes through in detail. You can see the definition in the 1691 charter of the Province of Massachusetts bay which was declared a trading company in 1209. [5], but due to the non-standard spelling, it's a bit hard to translate into modern geography. I think that "Piscata way Harbor mouth" refers to the mouth of the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but I don't know what "River of Newickewannock" translates to. -- Beland 06:31, 14 October 2007 (UTC)