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True copy of the 1754 Norridgewolk Ratification of the Treaty of 1725
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We the subscribers being the Chief Men of the Norridgewalk Tribe having heard the submission and agreement of the Eastern Indians viz't the Penobscott Norridgewolk, St. Johns, Cape Sables, and other Tribes Inhabiting within his Majestys Territories of New England and Nova Scotia who were engaged in the War in the Years 1723 and 1724, which was made and concluded at Boston the fifteenth day of December 1725 between the Honourable William Dummer Esq'r then Lieutenant Governour & Commander in chief of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, and John Wentworth Esq'r Lieutenant Governour & Commander in Chief of the Province of New Hampshire, and Paul Mascarene Esq'r appointed by Laurence Armstrong Esq'r Lieutenant Governor & Commander in Chief of the Province of Nova Scotia or Accadia of the one part, and the aforesaid Eastern Indians of the other part. Also the Submission and Agreement of the Eastern Indians viz't the Penobscott, Norridgewalks, Arssegunticook, & Weeweenock made and concluded at Falmouth in Casco Bay on the sixteenth day of October 1749 between Thomas Hutchinson, John Choate, Israel Williams & James Otis Esquires, Commissioners appointed by the Hon'ble Spencer Phips Esq'r Lieutenant Governour and Commander in Chief of the Province of the Massacheusetts Bay aforesaid, and Theodore Atkinson and John Donning Esq'rs Commissioners appointed by his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq'r Governour and Commander in Chief of his Majestys [Majesty's] Province of New Hampshire of the one part; and the aforesaid Eastern Indians of the other part distinctly and deliberately Read over &
Interpreted to us Do by these presents in a publick & solemn manner as well for our selves as for all the rest of our Tribe by whom we are Delegated & fully Impowered for that purpose Ratify and Confirm all and singular the Articles contained in the aforementioned submissions & agreements and


Date: 1754

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 5 (O/S number 524)

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