Social History
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Invoice from Lothrop Lewis to William King
- Request for reimbursement of expenses incurred while negotiating a treaty with the Penobscot Nation.
1820
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.
1820
Letter from John G. Deane, Esq. to the Governor and Executive Council regarding treaty with the Penobscot Tribe for the purchase of the Mattawamkeag townships
- Correspondence (10 pages) from John G. Deane, Esq. to the Governor of Maine and Executive Council regarding treating with the Penobscot Nation for the purchase of the Mattawamkeag townships. The priest to whom Deane refers throughout the letter is likely Father Virgil H. Barber, a Jesuit priest stationed in Old Town until his recall in 1830.
1830
Protest of the Passamaquoddy Tribe
- Protest of the Passamaquoddy Tribe declaring the treaty signed by Sabbatis Neptune regarding the alliance with the Penobscots and Maliseets and pledging allegiance to the British in New Brunswick to be false, and that Neptune signed the treaty without understanding it. See also supplemental letter from Passamaquoddy Tribe to Governor John Fairfield 29-29134-F043-I002.
1839