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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
Memorial of the Penobscot Tribe requesting appointment of Albert Lovejoy
- Memorial of Governor John Neptune and the Penobscot Nation expressing dissatisfaction with Samuel Hussey as Agent and requesting the appointment of Albert Lovejoy of Gardner upon Hussey's resignation. Signed by Neptune and Captains Peal Molly, Pole Susep, Sockeas, Peal Tomer, Sabattis Pealsock, Nicolar, Mitchell, Sockbason, Jo Mary, Deacon Fransway Peneas, and Joseph Sockbeson.
1831
Petition of the Penobscot Tribe to the Governor in Relation to the Sale of Their Lands to the State (1/2)
- Two petitions from the Penobscot Tribe against the illegal sale of their land without the tribe's understanding or consent, and deceptive practices of Thomas Bartlett and Mr. Lovejoy. See also 29-29134-F035-I001 and 29-29134-F037-I001 for related correspondence.
1833
Correspondence from Mark Trafton to Secretary of State inquiring about status of lease of Pea Islands
- Letter from Mark Trafton to Maine Secretary of State inquiring about status of lease of Pea Islands
1832
Certification by Agent Henry Richardson of Newell Lewy and Peol Tomah as delegates from the Old and New Parties of the Penobscot Tribe
- Certification by Agent Henry Richardson of Newell Lewy and Peol Tomah as delegates from the Old and New Parties of the Penobscot Tribe
1840