Joseph Beetle [1828] Type: Person Identifier: 201661 Title: Joseph Beetle [1828] Unique ID: Joseph Beetle Standard Name: Beetle Manuscript Name: Jo Beatle Jo Beetle Jo Belle Jo Betel Jo Betle Jo Bettle Joe Beatle Joe Beetle Joe Betel Joe Betle Joe Bette(l?) Joe Bittle Joseph Beati Joseph Beetle Joseph Betel Joseph Betiel Joseph Bette Joseph Bettle Ethnicity: Passamaquoddy Penobscot Place Vital: Eastport, ME Description: @ Date: 1828-06-01 1838-01-05 1838-01-23 1838-12-17 1839 1839-10-25 1840-01 1840-01-14 1840-02-13 1840-05-25 1840-05-26 1840-12-30 1841-05-18 1841-06-09 1841-10-18 1842 1842-01 1842-02-14 1842-06 1842-07-01 1842-09-17 1842-11-03 1843-01-17 1843-02-01 1843-02-04 1843-05 1843-09-16 1843-10 1843-12-27 1844-05-13 1844-06 1844-09-18 1844-11 1844-11-01 1844-12-30 1845-06-09 1845-06-25 1845-11-06 1845-11-19 1846-01-05 1846-07-04 1852 1888 Alias: Hemlock 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 132960 Received 1838 dividend.Item 132999 Agent paid Thomas Jacques Alexis and Jean Pierre Joseph to plow land for him.Item 133000 On agent's list of agricultural products for 1845.Item 133125 Agent paid to have his "old land" plowed.Item 133126 Agent paid Thomas Jacques Alexis to plow his land.Item 133127 Agent paid Thomas Jacques Alexis and Noel Lewie to plow his land.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 133293 Agent paid him bounty.Item 133322 Agent paid bounty for harvest.Item 133340 Agent paid for having his land plowed.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 133410 Agent paid to have his land plowed.Item 133411 Agent bought him lime.Item 133412 Agent's 1844 vouchers for supplies.Item 133460 Received agricultural bounty from agent for produce raised in 1841.Item 133594 Agent paid to have land plowed.Item 133649 Agent paid to have land plowed for him.Item 133749 Petitioned that Penobscot land titles be vested in the Indians, not the state, as inducement to agriculture. Indefinitely postponed.Item 133753 Petitioned for a change in the distribution ot tribal funds.Item 133754 Petitioned for biennial elections of governor and lieutenant governor.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 133789 Agent paid him for potatoes.Item 134612 Sponsored Pierre at baptism.Show 26 moreMentions of this PersonItem 14096 Remembered as good natured and witty.Item 14074 Signed a petition to governor and council for funds for a priest.Item 14100 Petitioned to support lease of fishing priviledge to Jo Mary Michel and Winslow Staples.Item 14101 Petitioned to defend agent Hayford.Item 14095 Agent paid him for poataoes.Item 14058 Received 1838 dividend.Item 14084 Agent paid medical expense. Again on 12/27/1844.Item 14090 Agent bought potatoes from him.Item 14091 Agent paid medical expense for his son.Item 14092 Agent bought him nails.Item 14093 Agent paid Thomas Jacques Alexis and Jean Pierre Joseph to plow land for him.Item 14094 On agent's list of agricultural products for 1845.Item 14082 Agent paid to have his "old land" plowed.Item 14085 Agent paid Thomas Jacques Alexis to plow his land.Item 14087 Agent paid Thomas Jacques Alexis and Noel Lewie to plow his land.Item 14088 Received building supplies.Item 14061 Penobscots petitioned for compensation for hosting Saint John and Passamaquoddy delegates.Item 14097 Protested against Penobscot governors for life; elected new governore by ballot.Item 14098 Petitioned to have spending of tribal funds changed to focus instead on education, poor relief and cultivation.Item 14059 Agent paid him bounty.Item 14071 Agent paid bounty for harvest.Item 14077 Agent bought nails for him.Item 14072 Agent paid for having his land plowed.Item 14075 Agent paid for having his land plowed.Item 14076 Agent bought him medicine.Item 14080 Agent paid to have his land plowed.Item 14081 Agent bought him lime.Item 14083 Agent recorded crop production for the year in detail.Item 14086 Agent's 1844 vouchers for supplies.Item 14089 Agent recorded estimate of crop production for the year in detail.Item 14078 Received agricultural bounty from agent for produce raised in 1841.Item 14062 Agent paid to have land plowed.Item 14068 Agent bought potatoes from him, paid his bill..Item 14069 Agent paid his bill.Item 14070 Agent paid to have land plowed for him.Item 14064 Petitioned that Penobscot land titles be vested in the Indians, not the state, as inducement to agriculture. Indefinitely postponed.Item 14067 Petitioned for a change in the distribution ot tribal funds.Item 14063 Petitioned for biennial elections of governor and lieutenant governor.Item 14073 Petitioned to replace Governor and Lieutenant Governor, to elect new ones and to end influence of British tribes. Indefinitely postponed.Item 14079 Petitioned the legislature that Pierre Thomas was the Penobscot representative, not John Neptune.Item 14099 Requested that no more funds be spent on schooling away from Old Town Island.Item 14065 Agent paid him for potatoes.Item 14066 Agent bought seed wheat for him.Item 14057 Sponsored Pierre at baptism.Item 14060 A likeable Passamaquoddy innebriate.Show 39 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300285 Kilby, William Henry. “Eastport and Passamaquoddy ...Item 300365 Maine State Archives Executive Council Report ...Item 300370 Maine State Legislature Graveyard, Maine ...Item 300371 Maine State Archives Legislative Index.Item 300468 Pleasant Point Register. Portland Chancery ...Item 300512 Sabine, Lorenzo. “Indian Tribes of New England ... Relationships Enlarge Citation “Joseph Beetle [1828],” HRI-FNE, accessed August 9, 2026, https://hrifne.avantlogic.net/digitalarchive/items/show/67509.Item201661 Save this item as a PDF file
