Joachim Gros Jean [1834] : Penobscot Type: Person Identifier: 205266 Title: Joachim Gros Jean [1834] : Penobscot Unique ID: Joachim Gros Jean Standard Name: Gros Jean Manuscript Name: Soasyn Klosian Sorsin Glosin Suasin klosian Suassian Gros Jean Swarsin Glausian Swarsin(?) Gros Jean Swarsing Glosseon Swasin Glossien Capt. Swason Glossion Swason Gros Jean Swassin Gros Jean Swasson Glasseon Swasson Gros Jean Ethnicity: Penobscot Place Vital: Old Town, ME Date: 1834-12-31 1835-07-29 1836-06-14 1838-01-23 1838-05-25 1838-07-29 1839-05-20 1839-07-18 1839-08-23 1840-02-07 1840-05-22 1844 1844-01-01 1844-09-04 1844-10-30 1844-12-30 1845-02-18 1846-11-07 1847 1847-11-26 1847-12-23 1852-03-07 Events that this Person attendedItem 132911 Agent's vouchers for 1846.Item 132993 Wrote with others of the Old Party to complain about the agent.Item 133409 Agent recorded estimate of crop production for the year in detail.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 101567 Petitioned for money to send representatives to Canada regarding border troubles.Item 103171 Signed a petition to have the state place education money in the hands of the priest.Item 103248 Petitioned for their legislative representatives to be paid board from the Indian fund. Passage refused.Item 133743 Names are hard to read. Ten not attempted; signed petition to keep Henry Richardson as their agent.Item 133744 Petitioned to remove agent Richardson; some unreadable names on attached signature list.Item 133778 Signed a petition that their agent be instructed to assist them in agriculture.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.Mentions of this PersonItem 24719 $2.58 for trap rental. Item 24720 Pawned a brooch. Item 24721 Pawned a band. Paid it back 06/02/1849. Item 24722 Pawned a band for $8.00. Item 24712 Agent's vouchers for 1846.Item 24713 Wrote with others of the Old Party to complain about the agent.Item 24711 Agent's supply vouchers for 1845; son was sick; son's burial espenses paid 03/31/1845.Item 24703 Agent bought seed potatoes from him.Item 24709 Agent paid a laborer for work for him.Item 24710 Agent recorded estimate of crop production for the year in detail.Item 24718 Penobscots petition for no money for delegates to travel to tribes in New York and New Brunswick, etc.Item 24708 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 24717 Petitioned for money to send representatives to Canada regarding border troubles.Item 24704 Paid for potatoes. Again of 05/28/1839.Item 24705 His bill was paid by agent.Item 24714 Signed a petition to have the state place education money in the hands of the priest.Item 24715 Petitioned for their legislative representatives to be paid board from the Indian fund. Passage refused.Item 24702 Names are hard to read. Ten not attempted; signed petition to keep Henry Richardson as their agent.Item 24716 Petitioned to remove agent Richardson; some unreadable names on attached signature list.Item 24700 Signed a petition that their agent be instructed to assist them in agriculture.Item 24699 Signed a petition as among those agrieved by sale of the four Indian townships.Item 24706 Agent paid him.Item 24707 Agent bought seed wheat and potatoes for him.Item 24701 Signed a letter putting two lots into the hands of Bishop Fenwick.Show 18 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300157 Eckstorm Indian Pawn Papers Manuscript Records ... Item 300365 Maine State Archives Executive Council Report ... Item 300370 Maine State Legislature Graveyard, Maine ... Item 300371 Maine State Archives Legislative Index. Item 300457 Penobscots to Bishop Fenwick, Manuscript ... Relationships Enlarge Citation “Joachim Gros Jean [1834] : Penobscot,” HRI-FNE, accessed September 22, 2026, https://hrifne.avantlogic.net/digitalarchive/items/show/60796.Item205266 Save this item as a PDF file
