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Wesumbe deed, Nov. 28, 1668
Maine Historical Society, Text

By which Wesumbe, an Indian Sagamore known as Capt. Sandy, sells twenty square miles of land lying between the Great and Little Ossipee Rivers upon which stood the trading post of Francis Small, to Francis Small, of Kittery, an Indian trader, for the sum of two large Indian blankets, two gallons of rum, two pounds of powder, four pounds of musket balls and twenty strings of Indian beads.

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Chadborn, Humphrey
Deeds -- Maine -- York County -- 17th century
Hogan, Paufam
Indians of North America -- Maine -- Land tenure
Indians of North America -- Maine -- Trade
Indians of North America -- New England
Indians of North America -- New England -- History -- 17th century
Landowners -- Maine
Manuscripts
Names, Indian
Native Americans
Ossipee River (N.H. and Me.) -- History
Saco River (NH. and Me.) -- History
Sandy, Capt.
Small, Francis
Yobarly, Samson

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Petition from Inhabitants of West Side of Penobscot River
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Petition from inhabitants of the west side of the Penobscot, to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the subject of gaining lawful title to the land they inhabit

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Land settlement
Land titles
Settlements
State-local relations

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Report on the French and Indians, August 14, 1708
Maine Historical Society, Text

Col. Philip Livingstone presented this report at a meeting of the commanders for the management of Indian Affairs in Albany, NY on August 14, 1708.

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Indians of North America -- New England -- History -- 18th century
Jesuits -- History -- 18th century
Livingston, Peter
Manuscripts
Native Americans
Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713
Schuylor

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Penobscot Indian Treaty
Maine State Archives, Text

Penobscot Indian Treaty.

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Indians of North America Land tenure
Indians of North America Treaties
Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians
Indians -- land rights
Native Americans
Land Disputes

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Resolve granting two townships of land to the Passamaquoddy Indians
Maine State Archives, Text

Resolve granting two townships of land to the Passamaquoddy Indians. 7 pages

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Indians of North America Land tenure
Indians of North America Treaties
Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians
Indians -- land rights
Native Americans
Land Disputes

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The Boy Who Lived with the Bears
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Story, "The Boy Who Lived with the Bears," as told by Sebbattis Joseph Mitchell to Manly Hardy.

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Legends
Native Americans
Passamaquoddy Indians
Passamaquoddy Tribe
Tales

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Letter from Capt. John Davison to his wife, Eliza Ann Davison, March 13, 1845
Maine Historical Society, Text

Letter from Captain John Davison to his wife, Eliza Ann (Gannett) Davison concerning the schooner Yucatan, describing places visited, the southern slave system and the loss of a man at sea, March 13, 1845.

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Davison, Eliza Ann -- Correspondence
Davison, John
Davison, John -- Correspondence
Letters
Manuscripts
Merchant ships
Seafaring
Ships
Slavery -- United States
Yucatan (Schooner)

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View Family "Epidemics: a Story of Loss"
UMaine Wabanaki Studies, Text

With European's arrival, Maine native people's social and economic structure and identity was fundamentally destroyed. Disease, combined with the fur trade with its introduction of guns and alcohol and the increasing number of Europeans clearing and farming the land, brought devastating changes to the Wabanaki.

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Native Americans
Indians of North America -- History
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
Wabanaki Tribe

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William Allen's essay on Norridgewock
Maine Historical Society, Text

This essay describes the natural beauty of the area around Norridgewock, Maine. Also, William Allen describes the Abenaki Tribe and Father Sebastien Rasle's ministry with them. Allen gives the Indian Name to the area which seems to be, "Nanransouack".

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Abenaki Indians
Allen, William, 1780-1873 -- Prose literature
Indians of North America -- Maine -- History
Jesuits -- Missions -- United States -- Maine
Manuscripts
Names, Indian
Native Americans
Norridgewock (Me.) -- Description and views
Rasle, Father Sebastien
Rasle, Father Sebastien, 1657-1724
Sandy River (Me.)
William, Allen

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Brook trout from the Old Camp spring
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

These trout were caught during a hunting and fishing expedition by John W.G. Dunn and friends in 1895 at Ragged and Moosehead Lakes in northern Maine. The bamboo fly rod and silk fly line display the manner in which the fish were caught. The larger fish shown is 1 1/2 lbs.

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Brook trout -- Maine -- Photographs
Dunn, John W.
Fishing -- Maine
Fly fishing -- Maine
Moosehead Lake (Me.)
Ragged Lake (Me.)

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