Social History
Showing 1 - 10 of 1710 Records
Letter Regarding the Death of U.S. Representative Jonathan Cilley
- An undated letter discussing the death of United States Representative Jonathan Cilley from Thomaston. The author is unknown, but they may have been J.A. Chandler, the clerk of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Before his election to Congress, Cilley served as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. He was the son-in-law of Hezekiah Prince, a merchant from Thomaston. Jonathan Cilley, an abolitionist, was challenged to a duel by James Watson Webb, a newspaper editor from New York, after Cilley accused him of corruption. William Graves, a legislator from Kentucky, served as Webb's stand-in and killed Cilley on February 24, 1838.
Account with F.W. Ridley for goods delivered to George Griffin
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Pauper Accounts
Account with William N. Beal for shoes purchased for Joth. Young of Bear Island
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Pauper Accounts
Resolve on the Address and Application of Several Tribes of Indians
- Resolve on the address of the Passamaquoddy Tribe and laying out of two tracts of land for their use on the Schoodic River
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki History
Cover: Communications from the Agents of the Penobscot Tribe of Indians, 1823
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki History
Letter from Samuel Hussey, Agent for Indian Affairs, to Governor and Executive Council
- Letter from Samuel Hussey, Agent for Indian Affairs, to Governor and Executive Council of Maine, enclosing a population census of the Penobscot tribe for the purposes of creating a school, and also a census of quality of land available for agriculture as a means of supply due to the decline of hunting and fishing. Hussey also mentions insufficient travel payment to Lieutenant Governor John Neptune and Hussey's defrayment of the expense without timely compensation from the Maine Legislature.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki History
Invoice from Lothrop Lewis to William King
- Request for reimbursement of expenses incurred while negotiating a treaty with the Penobscot Nation.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki History