Nicholas Jean [1831] : Penobscot Type: Person Identifier: 206221 Title: Nicholas Jean [1831] : Penobscot Unique ID: Nicholas Jean Standard Name: Jean Manuscript Name: N. Orson Necholar Orson Necolar Orson Necolas Anson Necoler Orson Nicholar Orson Nicholar Ossean Nicholas Orson Nichols John Nicola Arson Nicola Orson Nicolah Orson Nicolar Orson Nikolo Orson Ethnicity: Penobscot Place Vital: Old Town, ME Description: @ Date: 1831-05-29 1834-12-31 1835-08-07 1836-05-28 1836-06-14 1837-01 1838-01-23 1839-05-28 1839-06-15 1840-02 1840-02-05 1840-12-30 1841-06-03 1842 1842-01 1842-02-14 1842-10-14 1843-01 1843-01-17 1843-02-01 1843-02-04 1843-03-18 1843-10 1843-10-05 1843-11-11 1843-12-27 1844-01-22 1844-02-20 1844-05 1844-05-27 1844-07-09 1844-11-01 1844-11-11 1844-12-30 1845-06-18 1845-06-26 1845-07-14 1845-12-24 1846-01-05 1846-05-25 1858-03-27 Alias: Old Town Island Events that this Person attendedItem 132219 census of Penobscot Indians, 45 years old.Item 132849 Signed a petition to governor and council for funds for a priest.Item 100937 Petitioned for new agent. Hayford provides shoddy goods, lived too far away, let their fishing privelege out to rent.Item 101450 Petitioned to support lease of fishing priviledge to Jo Mary Michel and Winslow Staples.Item 132852 Counter to petition of 01/00/1843; dividend goods were not shoddy.Item 133000 On agent's list of agricultural products for 1845.Item 133002 Agent paid to have old land plowed.Item 133022 Agent bought tools for him.Item 133125 Agent paid to have his "old land" plowed.Item 133131 Agent paid to have his land plowed.Item 133139 Agent bought potatoes from him.Item 133247 "Governors captains and chief men of the Penobscot Indians" petitioned agent for money to visit the Saint John's Indians.Item 133251 Protested against Penobscot governors for life; elected new governore by ballot.Item 133322 Agent paid bounty for harvest.Item 133342 Agent paid for having his land plowed.Item 133407 Agent recorded crop production for the year in detail.Item 133409 Agent recorded estimate of crop production for the year in detail.Item 133428 Agent bought potatoes from him.Item 133430 Agent paid a bill for plowing for him.Item 133431 Agent purchased medicine.Item 133487 On agent's 1836 list for provisions. Two in family.Item 133604 Agent bought potatoes for him.Item 133654 Agent's 1841 vouchers for supplies.Item 133725 Signed a proclamation deposing John Attean.Item 104126 Petitioned to have common lands divided to encourage agriculture.Item 133748 Petitioned re: election law failed. Tribe realizes it can't live by hunting, must adopt agriculture; state agent bribed Governor and Lieut. Governor (drunkards, $500 each) to support sale of 4 townships.Item 133751 Petitioned to elect tribal officers by ballot.Item 133753 Petitioned for a change in the distribution ot tribal funds.Item 133756 Petitioned to replace Governor and Lieutenant Governor, to elect new ones and to end influence of British tribes. Indefinitely postponed.Item 133762 Petitioned the legislature that Pierre Thomas was the Penobscot representative, not John Neptune.Item 133779 Signed a petition as among those agrieved by sale of the four Indian townships.Item 134562 Signed a letter putting two lots into the hands of Bishop Fenwick.Show 26 moreMentions of this PersonItem 27824 census of Penobscot Indians, 45 years old.Item 27801 Signed a petition to governor and council for funds for a priest.Item 27804 Counter to petition of 01/00/1843; dividend goods were not shoddy.Item 27827 Petitioned for new agent. Hayford provides shoddy goods, lived too far away, let their fishing privelege out to rent.Item 27828 Petitioned for new agent. Hayford provides shoddy goods, lived too far away, let their fishing privelege out to rent.Item 27829 Petitioned to support lease of fishing priviledge to Jo Mary Michel and Winslow Staples.Item 27823 Agent's vouchers for 1846.Item 27810 Agent paid medical expense.Item 27814 Agent paid to have old land plowed.Item 27818 Agent bought potatoes from him.Item 27819 Agent paid medical expense. Multiple entries follow.Item 27820 Agent bought tools for him.Item 27821 Agent gave him cash.Item 27822 On agent's list of agricultural products for 1845.Item 27806 Agent paid to have his "old land" plowed.Item 27812 Agent paid himself for plowiny this person's land.Item 27813 Agent bought potatoes from him.Item 27815 Agent paid to have his land plowed.Item 27789 "Governors captains and chief men of the Penobscot Indians" petitioned agent for money to visit the Saint John's Indians.Item 27826 Protested against Penobscot governors for life; elected new governore by ballot.Item 27798 Agent paid bounty for harvest.Item 27799 Agent paid for having his land plowed.Item 27805 Agent purchased medicine.Item 27807 Agent bought potatoes from him.Item 27808 Agent paid to have land plowed for him.Item 27809 Agent recorded crop production for the year in detail.Item 27811 Agent's 1844 vouchers for supplies; sick child.Item 27816 Agent paid a bill for plowing for him.Item 27817 Agent recorded estimate of crop production for the year in detail.Item 27802 Received agricultural bounty from agent for produce raised in 1841.Item 27790 On agent's 1836 list for provisions. Two in family.Item 27792 Agent bought potatoes for him.Item 27793 Agent paid to have land plowed.Item 27797 Agent's 1841 vouchers for supplies.Item 27787 Signed a proclamation deposing John Attean.Item 27825 Petitioned to have common lands divided to encourage agriculture.Item 27794 Petitioned re: election law failed. Tribe realizes it can't live by hunting, must adopt agriculture; state agent bribed Governor and Lieut. Governor (drunkards, $500 each) to support sale of 4 townships.Item 27795 Petitioned to elect tribal officers by ballot.Item 27796 Petitioned for a change in the distribution ot tribal funds.Item 27800 Petitioned to replace Governor and Lieutenant Governor, to elect new ones and to end influence of British tribes. Indefinitely postponed.Item 27803 Petitioned the legislature that Pierre Thomas was the Penobscot representative, not John Neptune.Item 27788 Signed a petition as among those agrieved by sale of the four Indian townships.Item 27791 Signed a letter putting two lots into the hands of Bishop Fenwick.Show 37 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300287 Knowlton, J. C. “Census of the Penobscot ...Item 300365 Maine State Archives Executive Council Report ...Item 300368 Maine State Archives Indian Affairs Box. ...Item 300370 Maine State Legislature Graveyard, Maine ...Item 300457 Penobscots to Bishop Fenwick, Manuscript ... Relationships Enlarge Citation “Nicholas Jean [1831] : Penobscot,” HRI-FNE, accessed June 4, 2026, https://www.hrifne.avantlogic.net/digitalarchive/items/show/67619.Item206221 Save this item as a PDF file
