Anselme Neptune Type: Person Identifier: 210493 Title: Anselme Neptune Unique ID: Anselme Neptune Standard Name: Neptune Manuscript Name: Sal Neptune Saul Neptin Saul Neptune Sol Nepton Sol Neptune Sol Neptune, council Solomon Neptune, council, Capt. sol nebtunn Ethnicity: Penobscot Family: Husband of Marguerite Anselme Neptune Place Event: Augusta, MEBrewer, ME Place Vital: Old Town, ME Date: 1827-12-26 1831-05-29 1833-09-11 1835 1835-07-29 1835-08-07 1835-08-10 1836-03-24 1837-06-06 1837-08-03 1837-12-26 1838-01 1838-01-23 1838-02-24 1838-07-29 1839 1839-05-22 1839-05-29 1839-11-02 1842 1842-01 1842-01-15 1842-10-18 1842-11-04 1843 1843-11-08 1844 1844-01-01 1844-02-26 1844-12-30 1846-01-05 1847 1847-05-10 1847-05-20 1858-03-27 1865 1894 Alias: Olamon Island Events that this Person attendedItem 131857 M. Hardy bought furs from him.Item 132287 census of Penobscot Indians, 46 years old.Item 132851 Petitioned Governor for funds to support a priest.Item 106498 Petitioned regarding agent's leasing fisheries without tribal consent. Captain.Item 132993 Wrote with others of the Old Party to complain about the agent.Item 103210 Petitioned for money to repair school house and church.Item 133000 On agent's list of agricultural products for 1845.Item 133247 "Governors captains and chief men of the Penobscot Indians" petitioned agent for money to visit the Saint John's Indians.Item 133248 Agent paid expenses for clothing.Item 125978 Signed a petition announcing peace within the Penobscots; want Capt. Pierre Thomas to be paid for oxen.Item 133251 Protested against Penobscot governors for life; elected new governore by ballot.Item 133266 Petitioned to have 100 acres on Anson [Orson] Island reappropriated for support of a priest.Item 133322 Agent paid bounty for harvest.Item 133409 Agent recorded estimate of crop production for the year in detail.Item 133461 Received agricultural bounty from agent for produce raised in 1841.Item 133481 Paid by agent.Item 100977 Penobscots petition for no money for delegates to travel to tribes in New York and New Brunswick, etc.Item 133500 Penobscots petition for money to send leaders to Caughnawaga (Canawaga); want a priest instead of a school master. (Different from the letter with identical text dated 01/30/1844 in MSAECR 54.)Item 133589 Penobscot Governor and Council request no change in agent.Item 133621 Agent bought potatoes for him.Item 133622 Agent paid to have land plowed.Item 133680 Penobscots requested money from trust fund.Item 133688 Letter to Gov. & Council in support of agent Richardson.Item 101565 Petitioned in opposition to abolish tradditional practice of chosing tribal officers "for life."Item 133700 Signed a petition requesting suits of clothes for Augusta for John Neptune and Capt. Pierre Thomas. The request was translated from Penobscot.Item 133701 Agent's 1837 vouchers for supplies.Item 133725 Signed a proclamation deposing John Attean.Item 101566 Petitioned for up to $1000 (from the Indian fund) for a conference with the Saint Johns and Pasamaquoddy Indians. Indefinitely postponed.Item 133743 Names are hard to read. Ten not attempted; signed petition to keep Henry Richardson as their agent.Item 133770 Signed the commission of Peter Jacques Vincent as tribal representative to the legislature.Item 133771 Signed a petition for the establishment of schools.Item 133778 Signed a petition that their agent be instructed to assist them in agriculture.Show 26 moreSpouseItem 210573 Marguerite Anselme NeptuneChildrenItem 216992 Michel NeptuneItem 210527 Jean Anselme NeptuneItem 210556 Joseph Neptune Anselme NeptuneItem 210638 Pierre Jacques NeptuneMentions of this PersonItem 39686 Owned Lot 28, Olamon Island with wife Margarett.Item 39687 With wife Margaret, owner of S. Nicholas Islandin Edinburgh.Item 39718 Owed J. T. Hardy $7.50.Item 39681 M. Hardy bought furs from him.Item 39710 census of Penobscot Indians, 46 years old.Item 39682 Petitioned Governor for funds to support a priest.Item 39716 Petitioned regarding agent's leasing fisheries without tribal consent. Captain.Item 39707 Wrote with others of the Old Party to complain about the agent.Item 39717 Petitioned for money to repair school house and church.Item 39704 Agent paid medical expense. Multiple entries follow.Item 39706 On agent's list of agricultural products for 1845.Item 39689 "Governors captains and chief men of the Penobscot Indians" petitioned agent for money to visit the Saint John's Indians.Item 39690 Agent paid expenses for clothing.Item 39711 Signed a petition announcing peace within the Penobscots; want Capt. Pierre Thomas to be paid for oxen.Item 39713 Protested against Penobscot governors for life; elected new governore by ballot.Item 39715 Petitioned to have 100 acres on Anson [Orson] Island reappropriated for support of a priest.Item 39699 Agent paid bounty for harvest.Item 39702 Agent bought him medicine.Item 39705 Agent recorded estimate of crop production for the year in detail.Item 39701 Received agricultural bounty from agent for produce raised in 1841.Item 39691 Paid by agent.Item 39719 Penobscots petition for no money for delegates to travel to tribes in New York and New Brunswick, etc.Item 39703 Penobscots petition for money to send leaders to Caughnawaga (Canawaga); want a priest instead of a school master. (Different from the letter with identical text dated 01/30/1844 in MSAECR 54.)Item 39700 Penobscot Governor and Council request no change in agent.Item 39696 Agent bought potatoes for him.Item 39697 Agent paid to have his land sowed.Item 39698 Agent paid to have land plowed.Item 39685 Penobscots requested money from trust fund.Item 39683 Letter to Gov. & Council in support of agent Richardson.Item 39712 Petitioned in opposition to abolish tradditional practice of chosing tribal officers "for life."Item 39692 Agent bought potatoes for him.Item 39693 Agent's 1837 vouchers for supplies.Item 39694 Signed a petition requesting suits of clothes for Augusta for John Neptune and Capt. Pierre Thomas. The request was translated from Penobscot.Item 39684 Signed a proclamation deposing John Attean.Item 39714 Petitioned for up to $1000 (from the Indian fund) for a conference with the Saint Johns and Pasamaquoddy Indians. Indefinitely postponed.Item 39695 Names are hard to read. Ten not attempted; signed petition to keep Henry Richardson as their agent.Item 39708 Signed the commission of Peter Jacques Vincent as tribal representative to the legislature.Item 39709 Signed a petition for the establishment of schools.Item 39688 Signed a petition that their agent be instructed to assist them in agriculture.Item 39720 Last hereditary Penobscot Chief, died about 1894. Pictured.Show 34 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300075 Bradley, Zebulon. Survey of the Islands in ...Item 300157 Eckstorm Indian Pawn Papers Manuscript Records ...Item 300236 Hardy, Manly. Account Books, 1864. Maine ...Item 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 300547 Speck, Frank G. “The Functions of Wampum ... 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