Wabanaki Tribes Petitions and Correspondence
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Letter from Agent Mark Trafton to Governor and Executive Council regarding deceptive land sale by Lovejoy and Roberts
- Letter from Agent Mark Trafton to Governor and Executive Council regarding the deceptive land sale by Lovejoy and Amos Roberts See also Items 29-29134-F036-I001 and 29-29134-F037-I001
- Type: FILE
[Copy] Bond Given by the Commissioners to the Penobscot Tribe
- Copy of a bond given by the Commissioners to the Penobscot Tribe resulting from the sale of 4 townships to the State for $50,000, with interest to be disbursed to the tribe as needed
- Type: FILE
Legal-sized copy of the release of claims between the Penobscot tribe and Massachusetts
- Legal-sized copy of the release of claims between Maine and the Penobscot Tribe; certified by Maine Secretary of State Ashur Ware. Signed by John Atien, John Neptune, Francis Lolor, Etien Mitchell, Piel Mitchell, Sock Joseph, Piel Marie, Luasin Neptune, Awasoos Mitchell, John Orson, Joseph Marie Neptune, Joseph Lion, Glocian Awasoos, Nicholas Tomah, and Sabatis Tomah. Witnessed by William Williamson, William Emerson, Joseph Treat, Stephen L. Lewis, John Blake, and Eben Webster.
- Type: FILE
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
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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: FILE
Memorial of certain members of the Penobscot Tribe against the power assumed by John Neptune
- Memorial of certain members of the Penobscot Tribe against the power assumed by John Neptune who took the great book of records and used it as evidence of authority to act for the tribe.
- Type: FILE