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Statement by George W. Nutt and G.W. Chadbourne of Perry Regarding Purchase of Oats
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Tribes Petitions and Correspondence





List of Habitable and Uninhabited Islands and List of Penobscot Indians
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Tribes Petitions and Correspondence


Letter Between Virgil Barber and John G. Deane, Esq. regarding the Penobscot Nation's reconsideration of land sale
Correspondence between Virgil Barber and John Deane in which Barber notifies Deane that he has "prevailed on the Indians to reconsider their resolution respecting the sale of their lower Townships. Accordingly I have the satisfaction to say, that they have requested me to inform you they are ready to hear any proposals you are disclosed to make...and that if the terms can be agreed on, they are willing to sell." Barber was a Jesuit priest assigned to Old Town until his recall in 1830.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Tribes Petitions and Correspondence



Declaration of Peol Tomer as Plenipotentiary and Minister Extraordinary representative of the Penobscot Tribe
Declaration of Peol Tomer as Plenipotentiary and Minister Extraordinary representative of the Penobscot Tribe
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Tribes Petitions and Correspondence


Clothing and Pension Receipts
Two receipts for clothing and ten yards of calico, and one receipt from Governor Francis Joseph for pension payment
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Tribes Petitions and Correspondence


Petition in support of appointing John Sprague as Passamaquoddy Agent
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Tribes Petitions and Correspondence