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Maine State Archives

Document Type

Text

Identifier

29134-F003

Description

Correspondence from Virgil Barber to the Honorable John G. Deane, Esq. Barber was a Jesuit priest assigned to Old Town. He encloses a letter containing the Penobscot Nation's answer as interpreted by Penobscot Lieutenant Governor John Neptune regarding Deane's proposal of the sale of tribal lands. The tribe expresses concern about their diminishing land.

"The white people have repeatedly asked us to dispose of our lands, and we have sold to them one portion after another till we have but very little left. The prospect is that in two or three generations there will not be enough for our children. To us it looks strange that white people, knowing this, should ask us to sell nearly half we have left, when at the same time they have in this State so many thousand acres of wild land."

"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."

Exact Creation Date

11-5-1829

Language

English

Location

Penobscot County; Old Town; Orono

Keywords

Native American; Correspondence; Land

Letter from Virgil Barber to the Honorable John G. Deane, Esq. regarding Penobscot Nation's answer to Deane's proposal and their fears of extermination, November 5, 1829


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