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Davis R. Stockwell, to Governor and Executive Council, recommending Frederic H. Dillingham as Penobscot Agent
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
A.G. Wakefield, to Gov. Morrill, recommending Frederic H. Dillingham be appointed as Penobscot Agent
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
Report on Passamaquoddy School at Peter Dana's Point by Leonard Peabody, Passamaquoddy Agent
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
T.W. Chadbourne, to Governor and Executive Council, recommending Albert Richardson as Penobscot Agent
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
Hollis Bonman, to Gov. Morrill, recommending Frederic H. Dillingham as Penobscot Agent
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
J.W. Stinchfield recommends Samuel W. Hoskins be appointed Penobscot Agent
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
Letter re Death of Rep Jonathan Cilley, 1838
- 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.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Letter Regarding the Death of U.S. Representative Jonathan Cilley
Affadavit of James Sagurs, owner of Atticus
- Affadavit of James Sagurs, owner of Atticus, before Joseph Felt, Justice of the Peace. Joseph Sagurs and his brother Henry asserted that Captain Daniel Philbrook and first mate Edward Kellerun of the schooner Susan did "feloniously invigle, steal, take, and carry away without the limits of the State of Georgia a negro man slave named Atticus, the property of this deponent.." on May 4, 1837.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Extradition Papers
Letter from Governor Gilmer to Governor Dunlap Enclosing Indictment and Requesting Extradition of Philbrook and Kellerun
- Letter from Governor Gilmer to Governor Dunlap enclosing indictment and requesting extradition of Captain Daniel Philbrook and Edward Kellerun of the Schooner Susan.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Extradition Papers