Scope and Content: Under successive authorizations, the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands (1783-1801) and the Land Office were the primary agencies with responsibility for the management and sale of public lands in Maine on behalf of the Commonwealth.  This responsibility invested in these agencies a direct interest in the protracted negotiations surrounding the establishment of the northeastern boundary setting Maine apart from the British provinces.  Consisting of correspondence (original and copied), reports, depositions, and extracts from various source documents, these administrative files were assembled as Massachusetts sought to protect her proprietary rights to public lands in Maine.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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