Anselme Ninepence Type: Person Identifier: 210953 Title: Anselme Ninepence Unique ID: Anselme Ninepence Standard Name: Ninepence Manuscript Name: Sal Ninepence Saul Ninepenc Saul Ninepence Saul Ninepense Saul Vinipence Saul ninepence Sol Ninepence Sol Ninepense Sol Ninepense, Captain Soloman Ninepence Ethnicity: Penobscot Place Vital: Old Town, ME Date: 1831-05-29 1833-09-11 1835 1836-02-20 1836-05-28 1836-06-14 1837-01 1837-03-10 1837-12-04 1838-01-23 1838-06-08 1838-06-09 1838-12-17 1839-06-16 1839-10-17 1839-11-02 1840-01-14 1840-02 1840-02-03 1840-02-05 1840-02-13 1840-06-18 1840-12-30 1841-05-18 1841-06-28 1842 1842-01 1842-06 1843 1843-01 1843-01-17 1843-01-20 1843-02-01 1843-12-27 1844-02-05 1844-12-24 1844-12-30 1845-09-19 1846-01-05 1848-06-06 1858-03-27 Alias: Old Town Island Events that this Person attendedItem 132244 census of Penobscot Indians, 43 years old.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 104616 Petitioned about Catholic faction ejecting the Protestant Mohegan preacher they were attending meetings with.Item 103210 Petitioned for money to repair school house and church.Item 133000 On agent's list of agricultural products for 1845.Item 133154 Signed a letter saying that Joseph Jacques Vincent had in fact been elected tribal representative to the lgislature.Item 133215 Agent bought potatoes for him.Item 133250 Penobscots petitioned for compensation for hosting Saint John and Passamaquoddy delegates.Item 133251 Protested against Penobscot governors for life; elected new governore by ballot.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 133344 Agent bought potatoes for him.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 133489 On agent's 1836 list for provisions. Three in family.Item 133622 Agent paid to have land plowed.Item 102512 Petitioned for annual payment.Item 103171 Signed a petition to have the state place education money in the hands of the priest.Item 133696 Signed a petition for Solomon Suason to like there.Item 133722 Petitioned complaining of injustice by the Fairfield administration; request payment for Rev. Thomas Sullivan, Pastor of the Catholic Church in Bangor.Item 133725 Signed a proclamation deposing John Attean.Item 104126 Petitioned to have common lands divided to encourage agriculture.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 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 101106 Requested that no more funds be spent on schooling away from Old Town Island.Item 134562 Signed a letter putting two lots into the hands of Bishop Fenwick.Show 27 moreKinsmanItem 210959 Mary Noel Anseme NinepenceMentions of this PersonItem 41934 Owned a lot on corner of Main and West St., Indian Island.Item 41965 census of Penobscot Indians, 43 years old.Item 41939 Signed appointment of Joseph Jacques Vincent and Noel Louis as legislative representatives,Item 41974 Petitioned for new agent. Hayford provides shoddy goods, lived too far away, let their fishing privelege out to rent.Item 41975 Petitioned for new agent. Hayford provides shoddy goods, lived too far away, let their fishing privelege out to rent.Item 41976 Petitioned about Catholic faction ejecting the Protestant Mohegan preacher they were attending meetings with.Item 41977 Petitioned to support lease of fishing priviledge to Jo Mary Michel and Winslow Staples.Item 41964 Agent paid his bill.Item 41973 Petitioned for money to repair school house and church.Item 41962 Agent bought seed from him.Item 41963 On agent's list of agricultural products for 1845.Item 41960 Agent gave/paid him $1.Item 41959 Signed a letter saying that Joseph Jacques Vincent had in fact been elected tribal representative to the lgislature.Item 41940 Agent rented Michel Jacquata land for him to plant potatoes on.Item 41941 Agent bought potatoes for him.Item 41942 Penobscots petitioned for compensation for hosting Saint John and Passamaquoddy delegates.Item 41968 Petitioned to have spending of tribal funds changed to focus instead on education, poor relief and cultivation.Item 41969 Protested against Penobscot governors for life; elected new governore by ballot.Item 41954 Agent paid bounty for harvest.Item 41956 Agent bought potatoes for him.Item 41958 Agent recorded crop production for the year in detail.Item 41961 Agent recorded estimate of crop production for the year in detail.Item 41935 Received blue broadcloth as part of his dividend.Item 41936 On agent's 1836 list for provisions. Three in family.Item 41943 Agent paid to have his lan plowed.Item 41944 His bill was paid by agent.Item 41945 Agent paid to have land plowed.Item 41966 Petitioned for annual payment.Item 41952 Agent's 1841 vouchers for supplies; son was ill.Item 41953 Agent's 1841 vouchers for supplies.Item 41970 Signed a petition to have the state place education money in the hands of the priest.Item 41938 Signed a petition for Solomon Suason to like there.Item 41933 Signed a proclamation deposing John Attean.Item 41950 Petitioned complaining of injustice by the Fairfield administration; request payment for Rev. Thomas Sullivan, Pastor of the Catholic Church in Bangor.Item 41967 Petitioned to have common lands divided to encourage agriculture.Item 41971 Petitioned for up to $1000 (from the Indian fund) for a conference with the Saint Johns and Pasamaquoddy Indians. Indefinitely postponed.Item 41946 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 41947 Petitioned to elect governor by ballot.Item 41948 Petitioned to elect tribal officers by ballot.Item 41949 Petitioned that Penobscot land titles be vested in the Indians, not the state, as inducement to agriculture. Indefinitely postponed.Item 41951 Petitioned for a change in the distribution ot tribal funds.Item 41955 Petitioned to replace Governor and Lieutenant Governor, to elect new ones and to end influence of British tribes. Indefinitely postponed.Item 41957 Petitioned the legislature that Pierre Thomas was the Penobscot representative, not John Neptune.Item 41972 Requested that no more funds be spent on schooling away from Old Town Island.Item 41937 Signed a letter putting two lots into the hands of Bishop Fenwick.Show 39 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300075 Bradley 1835 Bradley, Zebulon 1835 Survey ...Item 300287 Knowlton 1987 Knowlton, J. C. 1987 Census ...Item 300361 MSABIA Maine State Archives, Bureau of Indian ...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 300457 Penobscots to Bishop Fenwick Manuscript ... 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