Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
This deposition by Pere Pole, part of the Abenaki communities of what is now Maine, provided information about the names along the Androscoggin River used by Wabanaki peoples.
Josiah Little requested this deposition be taken as part of a legal case against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Transcription
About This Item
- Title: Pere Pole deposition, Hallowell, 1793
- Creator: Pere Pole
- Creation Date: 1793-07-19
- Subject Date: 1793-07-19
- Location: Hallowell, Kennebec County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 61, fl. 16, v7 504a
- Collection: Pejepscot Proprietors papers
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Abenaki Tribe--Depositions
- Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.)--History
- Depositions
- Indians of North America--Maine--Abenaki
- Land grants--Maine
- Manuscripts
- Pejepscot Proprietors
- Pejepscot Purchase Co.
- Rivers--Maine
People
Other Keywords
- Affidavits
- Ammoscongon
- Dispositions
- geographic place names
- Indian names
- Merrymeeting
- Native American geographic names
- Native Americans
- Nature, geography & animals
- Personal writing
- Quabacook
- Rockamecook
- Wabanaki
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