Ties of Common Blood: A History of Maine's Northeast Boundary Dispute with Great Britain, 1783-1842 - Paperbackby Geraldine Tidd Scott (Author) This is the definitive history of the boundary dispute as experienced by the citizens and officials at the local, state, and provincial levels, both British and American. It is based on journals, documents, speeches, letter books, and collections of correspondence of participants on both sides of the controversy to chronicle the dispute from its origins to the establishment of an agreed upon boundary with the Treaty of