Thomas Jacques Thomas Type: Person Identifier: 206018 Title: Thomas Jacques Thomas Unique ID: Thomas Jacques Thomas Standard Name: Jacques Thomas Manuscript Name: T.S.T. Thoma Sack Toma Thoma Sacthoma Thoma Sock Thoma Thoma Sock Toma Thoma Sock Tomah Thoma Socktoma Thomas Thomas Sock Thomas Toma Soc Toma Toma Sock Toma Tomah Soc Tomah Tomah Sock Tomah Tomar S(ock) Thomas Tomer Soc Tomer Tomer Sock Tomer tomer Sock Tomer Ethnicity: Penobscot Family: Son of Jacques Thomas Place Vital: Nashwak (Fredericton, NB area)Old Town, ME Date: 1814-06-05 1835 1838-01-23 1838-06-01 1838-06-06 1838-12-17 1839-05-21 1839-05-22 1840-01-14 1840-02 1840-02-03 1840-02-05 1840-02-13 1840-05-25 1840-06-18 1840-06-19 1841 1841-06-21 1842 1842-02-14 1842-06-06 1842-11-04 1843-01-17 1843-02-01 1843-02-04 1843-06-30 1843-12-23 1844-01-27 1846-05-20 1846-11-25 Alias: Olamon Island Events that this Person attendedItem 132849 Signed a petition to governor and council for funds for a priest.Item 100549 Petitioned to defend agent Hayford.Item 101450 Petitioned to support lease of fishing priviledge to Jo Mary Michel and Winslow Staples.Item 133135 Received payments / supplies throughout the year.Item 133228 Agent paid for potatoes for him.Item 133240 Agent bought seed potatoes, wheat and corn for him.Item 133250 Penobscots petitioned for compensation for hosting Saint John and Passamaquoddy delegates.Item 133252 Petitioned to have spending of tribal funds changed to focus instead on education, poor relief and cultivation.Item 133322 Agent paid bounty for harvest.Item 133345 Agent paid for having his land plowed.Item 133408 Agent paid to have land plowed for him.Item 133466 Received agricultural bounty from agent for produce raised in 1841.Item 133611 Paid by agent for potatoes.Item 133661 Agent bought potatoes from him.Item 103171 Signed a petition to have the state place education money in the hands of the priest.Item 133722 Petitioned complaining of injustice by the Fairfield administration; request payment for Rev. Thomas Sullivan, Pastor of the Catholic Church in Bangor.Item 103247 Petitioned for up to $1000 (from the Indian fund) for a conference with the Saint Johns and Pasamaquoddy Indians. Indefinitely postponed.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 133749 Petitioned that Penobscot land titles be vested in the Indians, not the state, as inducement to agriculture. Indefinitely postponed.Item 133750 Petitioned to elect governor by ballot.Item 133751 Petitioned to elect tribal officers by ballot.Item 133762 Petitioned the legislature that Pierre Thomas was the Penobscot representative, not John Neptune.Item 101106 Requested that no more funds be spent on schooling away from Old Town Island.Item 133825 Penobscot petition to Gov. Kent expressing anger at the former Fairfield adnimistration for witholding their priest's salary.Show 18 moreParentsItem 206003 Jacques ThomasItem 218295 Jacques ThomasMentions of this PersonItem 26688 Part owner of Craig Is., Edinburgh.Item 26689 Part owner of n. Nicholar Island, Edinburgh.Item 26716 Hardy paid him in advance for making "two paird of fine snowshoes @ 10/6 each th be first rate with large light bows.Item 26710 Baptized, 7 months old.Item 26703 Signed a petition to governor and council for funds for a priest.Item 26714 Petitioned to support lease of fishing priviledge to Jo Mary Michel and Winslow Staples.Item 26715 Petitioned to defend agent Hayford.Item 54185 Agent's vouchers for 1846.Item 26709 Received payments / supplies throughout the year.Item 26690 Agent paid for potatoes for him.Item 54183 Agent bought seed potatoes, wheat and corn for him.Item 26691 Penobscots petitioned for compensation for hosting Saint John and Passamaquoddy delegates.Item 54186 Petitioned to have spending of tribal funds changed to focus instead on education, poor relief and cultivation.Item 26702 Agent paid bounty for harvest.Item 26704 Agent paid for having his land plowed.Item 26707 Agent paid to have land plowed for him.Item 26708 Agent's 1844 vouchers for supplies. Multiple entries follow.Item 26705 Received agricultural bounty from agent for produce raised in 1841.Item 26692 Paid by agent for potatoes.Item 26693 Witnessed agents purchases.Item 26701 Agent's 1841 vouchers for supplies. Multiple entries follow.Item 54184 Agent bought potatoes from him.Item 26711 Signed a petition to have the state place education money in the hands of the priest.Item 26699 Petitioned complaining of injustice by the Fairfield administration; request payment for Rev. Thomas Sullivan, Pastor of the Catholic Church in Bangor.Item 26712 Petitioned for up to $1000 (from the Indian fund) for a conference with the Saint Johns and Pasamaquoddy Indians. Indefinitely postponed.Item 26694 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 26695 Petitioned to elect governor by ballot.Item 26696 Petitioned to elect tribal officers by ballot.Item 26697 Petitioned that Penobscot land titles be vested in the Indians, not the state, as inducement to agriculture. Indefinitely postponed.Item 26706 Petitioned the legislature that Pierre Thomas was the Penobscot representative, not John Neptune.Item 26713 Requested that no more funds be spent on schooling away from Old Town Island.Item 26698 Land plowed and harrowed for him on Craig Island.Item 26700 Agent bought seed wheat for him.Item 26717 Penobscot petition to Gov. Kent expressing anger at the former Fairfield adnimistration for witholding their priest's salary.Show 28 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300075 Bradley 1835 Bradley, Zebulon 1835 Survey ...Item 300157 EIPP Eckstorm Indian Pawn Papers Manuscript ...Item 300233 Hamilton et al. 1998 Hamilton, Willis D ...Item 300365 MSAECR Maine State Archives Executive Council ...Item 300368 MSAIAB Maine State Archives Indian Affairs ...Item 300370 MSALGY Maine State Legislature Graveyard ...Item 300371 MSALI Maine State Archives Legislative Index ...Item 300391 MSLDR 1841 1841 Petition of the Penobscot ... Relationships Enlarge Citation “Thomas Jacques Thomas,” Historical Documents of Indians of the Far Northeast, accessed April 26, 2025, https://hrifne.avantlogic.net/digitalarchive/items/show/58782.Item206018 Save this item as a PDF file
