Social History
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Memorandum of Streams With the Number of Ponds on Penobscot Where There Is Mills or Dams Beginning at the Head of the Tide
- List of streams with mills or dams. Author unidentified. Included are Pushaw, Passadumkeag, Madamiscontis, Madumkeunk, Cumblelasses, Mattawamkeag, Manseunk, Great Salmon, Passataqeuck, Millinocket, Nowlesemick, and Solesemick streams. [spelling is phonetic]
1823
Letter from Virgil Barber to John G. Deane regarding the Penobscot Nations's answer to Deane's proposed land sale
- Correspondence between Virgil H. Barber and John G. Deane, Esq. Barber was a Jesuit priest assigned to Old Town until his recall in 1830. Here he transmits the Penobscot Tribe's answer to Deane's proposed sale of two townships near Mattawamkeag. "And what do white people suppose we must think when we see they wish to take from us one piece of land after another, till we have no place to stand on, unless it is to drive us, our wives, and our little children away? But if so great and so free a country as this would exterminate us, we have no chance anywhere else; we or our children must sooner or later be driven into the salt water and perish."
1829
Letter from Reuben and Allen Haines to Samuel Hussey conveying Penobscot Tribe's terms for sale of land and timber
- Correspondence from Reuben and Allen Haines to Agent Samuel Hussey describing cultivation of tribal land. They convey the Penobscot Tribe's terms of sale of the land in the two lower townships together at $1.25 per acre, and the refusal to sell timber alone at any price, or the Mattawamkeag township.
1860