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True copy of the 1754 Penobscot Ratification of the Treaty of 1725
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(6.

We the Subscribers being the Chief Men of the
Penobscot Tribe having heard the Submission and Agreement
of the Eastern Indians vizt. the Penobscotts, St Johns
Cape Sables; and other Tribes, inhabiting within his
majesty's Territories of New England and Nova Scotia
who were engag'd in the War in the Years 1723. and
1724 which was made and concluded at Boston
the fifteenth day of December 1725, between the
Honble William Dummer Esqr. then Lieutenant Governor
and Commander in Chief of the Province of the
Massachusetts bay, and John Wentworth Esqr. Lieutenant
Governour & Commander in Chief of the Province of
New Hampshire, and Paul Mascarene Esqr. appointed
by Lawrence Armstrong Esqr. Lieutenant Governour &
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
vizt the Penobscotts, Norridgwalks, Arssequnticooks [Anasagunticooks]
and [Weeweenocks?] made and concluded at Falmouth
on Casco Bay on the sixteenth day of October 1749
between Thomas Hutchinson, John Choate, Israel
Williams & James Otis Esqrs Commissioners appointed
by the Honble Spencer Phips Esqr. Lieutenant Governour
and Commander in Chief of the Province of the
Massachusetts bay aforesaid, and Theodore Atkinson
and John Downing Esqrs Commissioners appointed by
his Excellency Benning Wentworth Governour and
Commander in Chief of his majestys Province of New
Hampshire of the one part, and the aforesaid Eastern
Indians of the other part distinctly & deliberately
read over and 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 and fully impowered for that purpose
Ratify and Confirm all and singular the articles
contained int he aforementioned Submissions & Agreements
and agree that the same, and each of them shall be &
remain


Date: 1754

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 6 (O/S number 525)

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