History of the Upper St.John River Valley, including the Madawaska Settlements

Madawaska County and Aroostook County

This is a new section of the site that will be developing over time. Below are some of the pages that I've managed to pull together so far. I'll be adding histories and also original documents from the history of the region.

For historical maps of the region, see http://www.upperstjohn.com/index.htm#maps

Native Peoples / First Nations: The Maliseet or Wulustukieg
- Documents on the history of the Maliseet:
  - Report by Moses Perley on the Maliseet population of the St.John River valley, August 1841

History of the Madawaska territory
- Documents on the history of the Madawaska Territory:
  - Newspaper report on the incorporation of the town of Madawaska as a township of Maine

The Border dispute: How Madawaska, or the Upper St.John Valley communities, became divided by an international border; why US surveys and censuses until 1842 included communities now in New Brunswick, and why the 1833 New Brunswick census of Madawaska included communities now in Maine
- Documents on the border dispute:
  - The 1831 Arbitration Decision of the King of the Netherlands
  - The Secret Deliberations of the US Senate on the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty, August 1842

Brief Histories of the Region's Towns and early settlers

Information on Victoria County:

Military Settlement Survey Instructions from July 1817 for a survey of lots along the St.John between Bristol and Grand Falls from Norm DeMerchant; and 1822 list of settlers on the military lots, from Carleton County GenWeb site.

Information on the rest of Aroostook County:

Origin of the names of Aroostook County townships and early settlers

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