Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810 [Speech delivered to the Penobscot Tribe]

GLC02437.03049

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GLC#
GLC02437.03049-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
4 September 1784
Author/Creator
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
Title
[Speech delivered to the Penobscot Tribe]
Place Written
Maine
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Written at the Penobscot River, present-day Maine. Lincoln, a commissioner chosen to negotiate land boundaries with the Penobscot Tribe, praises the Penobscots' involvement in the Revolutionary War. Continues, "It is said that in your own Opinion the Lands you occupy far exceed the Quantity necessary for your own Use; and that you have suffered pretended purchases for trifling Considerations, to engross Part of them... the Sovereign Power of this Commonwealth... will not suffer Individuals to purchase those Lands which you are permitted to occupy." Offers the option for the Penobscots to concentrate their land holdings on one side of the river, or on both sides higher up the river. This document is clerically written and signed for both Lincoln and Henry Knox.

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