Social History

Showing 391 - 400 of 1788 Records

Communication from Penobscot Governor Atean to Agent Samuel Hussey regarding tribe's unwillingness to sell land
Communication from Penobscot Governor Atean to Agent Samuel Hussey regarding tribe's unwillingness to sell land. Signed by tribal members including Captain Francis and Newal Lion
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence


Statement of surveyor Zebulon Bradley, appointed to investigate actions of Agent Jonas Farnsworth
Statement of surveyor Zebulon Bradley, appointed to investigate actions of Agent Jonas Farnsworth, and action of timber cutters.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence


Receipt for $100 for clothing paid to Jonah Farnsworth, Agent, on behalf of Joseph Francis, Governor of the Passamaquoddy Tribe
Receipt for $100 for clothing paid by the State to Jonah Farnsworth, Agent, in 1832, on behalf of Joseph Francis, Governor of the Passamaquoddy Tribe.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence


Solomon B. Pool affadavit regarding prices of potatoes
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence


Rev. William Lem to Neil Violette, regarding the work on the conventry and schoolhouse
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence


Horace A. Nelson, member of the Penobscot Nation, to Gov. Gardiner seeking work opportunities
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence


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


Envelope with description of enclosed papers [copy of the 1852 Treaty with the Passamaquoddy Tribe]
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence


Statement of Money Received by Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Tribe from Their Agent
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence


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