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    The Piscataqua River border dispute was a dispute between the US states of Maine and New Hampshire over ownership of Seavey’s Island in the Piscataqua River...
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    The Piscataqua River (Abenaki: Pskehtekwis) is a 12-mile-long (19 km) tidal river forming the boundary of the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Maine from...
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  • was used in 2001 by a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court in the Piscataqua River border dispute, in which New Hampshire argued that the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard...
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    Pigeon River: Minnesota, Ontario Pine River: Minnesota, Ontario Piscataqua River: Maine, New Hampshire Pocomoke River: Maryland, Virginia Poteau River: Arkansas...
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    was first given in 1629 to the territory between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers on the eastern coast of North America, and was named after the county...
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    Kittery, Maine, bordering Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The naval yard lies along the southern boundary of Maine on the Piscataqua River. Founded in 1800...
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  • Kittery, Maine (due to the Piscataqua River border dispute), and Vermont regarding where the border lies in the Connecticut River and to a smaller extent...
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  • New Hampshire v. Maine (category Internal territorial disputes of the United States)
    special master appointed by the Court. Florida v. Georgia (1855) Piscataqua River border dispute, New Hampshire v. Maine, No. 130 Original, 532 U.S. 742 (2001)...
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    Seavey's Island, site of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, is located in the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine, United States, opposite Portsmouth, New Hampshire...
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    the mountains were first sighted from shipboard off the coast near the Piscataqua estuary. The highest peaks would often be snow-capped, appearing white...
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    effectively encompassed all settlements from the Merrimack River, north to the Piscataqua River, and extending inland about a dozen miles. In 1680, the Province...
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    the Piscataqua River estuary began about 1623. By 1632 the community was protected by Fort William and Mary on today's New Hampshire side of the river; in...
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    along the southern coast at Kittery Point, Maine at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. It was used throughout the 19th century to protect approaches to the...
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  • southern Maine, and along the Piscataqua River, with a formal government under his distant relation, Thomas Gorges. A dispute about the bounds of a 1630...
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    Falls River and the Piscataqua define the southern portion of the border with Maine. The Piscataqua River boundary was the subject of a border dispute between...
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    of the Massachusetts Bay border near the Merrimack River, up to the Kennebec River. This was soon split at the Piscataqua River, with the southern portion...
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    ambitious plan to raid most of the New Hampshire settlements on the Piscataqua River. However, much of the Indigenous support needed never materialized...
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    Maine was split at the Piscataqua River into the Province of New Hampshire to the south and New Somersetshire to the north. A disputed 1630 patent split off...
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  • the river" or "clear, shallow river" Pemigewasset River: (Abnaki) "extensive rapids" Pennacook (village): tribal name; "at the foothills" Piscataqua River...
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    Gulf of Maine (category Canada–United States border)
    John, Magaguadavic, St. Croix, Penobscot, Kennebec, Saco, Piscataqua, Merrimack and Charles rivers; the Saint John and Penobscot have the greatest discharge...
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    Piscataway [Piscataqua] River" from the province of Massachusetts Bay in order to establish "so much of it as lies between the Sawkno [Saco] River and the...
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  • the Piscataqua and St. Croix Rivers (all of present-day Maine). During the 1670s the English had established settlements between the Kennebec River and...
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    attaché." On January 26, 1914, Ensign Koehler was given command of the USS Piscataqua, a fleet tug based at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands. Under...
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  • not to be confused with the Pine Mountain northeast of Mount Madison. Piscataqua: Early name of Portsmouth.[citation needed] Pliny Major and Pliny Minor:...
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  • 1690s failed to resolve territorial disputes. New France defined the western border of Acadia as the Kennebec River in what is now southern Maine, while...
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    particular to themselves." In 1677, the colony ordered the resettlement of the Piscataqua Indians. The colony's instructions to Edmund Andros in 1686 included instructions...
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