Gaspard Type: Person Identifier: 204897 Title: Gaspard Unique ID: Gaspard Standard Name: Gaspard Manuscript Name: Gaspar Gaspere Gaspou Kesba Kespar Kish Pan Kish Paw Kishpaw Kispaw Kosh Paw kesba Ethnicity: Penobscot Place Event: Augusta, ME Place Vital: Old Town, ME Date: 1827-12-26 1834-06-29 1834-12-31 1837-12-26 1838-01 1838-02-24 1838-06-09 1838-07-29 1840-06-18 1840-11-14 1841 1842-01 1842-05-16 1842-10-15 1843-01 1844-11-04 1845-02-10 1845-06-11 1845-07-19 1845-10-04 Alias: French Frenchman Events that this Person attendedItem 132851 Petitioned Governor for funds to support a priest.Item 100937 Petitioned for new agent. Hayford provides shoddy goods, lived too far away, let their fishing privelege out to rent.Item 102366 Petitioned regarding agent's leasing fisheries without tribal consent. Chief men.Item 133013 Agent bought tools for him.Item 133328 Agent bought wheat seed for him.Item 133465 Received agricultural bounty from agent for produce raised in 1841.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 133722 Petitioned complaining of injustice by the Fairfield administration; request payment for Rev. Thomas Sullivan, Pastor of the Catholic Church in Bangor.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 133744 Petitioned to remove agent Richardson; some unreadable names on attached signature list.Item 133779 Signed a petition as among those agrieved by sale of the four Indian townships.Item 133825 Penobscot petition to Gov. Kent expressing anger at the former Fairfield adnimistration for witholding their priest's salary.Item 134078 Sponsored Madeleine at baptism.Mentions of this PersonItem 23250 Petitioned Governor for funds to support a priest.Item 23269 Petitioned regarding agent's leasing fisheries without tribal consent. Chief men.Item 23270 Petitioned for new agent. Hayford provides shoddy goods, lived too far away, let their fishing privelege out to rent.Item 23261 Agent paid medical expense.Item 23262 Agent paid his bill.Item 23263 Agent bought tools for him.Item 23264 Agent bought him cloth to bury his child.Item 23260 Agent paid to have his land plowed.Item 23255 Agent bought potatoes for him; witnessed delivery for the whole group.Item 23258 Agent bought wheat seed for him.Item 23259 Received agricultural bounty from agent for produce raised in 1841.Item 23251 Letter to Gov. & Council in support of agent Richardson.Item 23266 Petitioned in opposition to abolish tradditional practice of chosing tribal officers "for life."Item 23256 Petitioned complaining of injustice by the Fairfield administration; request payment for Rev. Thomas Sullivan, Pastor of the Catholic Church in Bangor.Item 23267 Petitioned for up to $1000 (from the Indian fund) for a conference with the Saint Johns and Pasamaquoddy Indians. Indefinitely postponed.Item 23254 Names are hard to read. Ten not attempted; signed petition to keep Henry Richardson as their agent.Item 23268 Petitioned to remove agent Richardson; some unreadable names on attached signature list.Item 23253 Signed a petition as among those agrieved by sale of the four Indian townships.Item 23257 Land on Cow Island plowed for him.Item 23277 Penobscot petition to Gov. Kent expressing anger at the former Fairfield adnimistration for witholding their priest's salary.Item 23252 Sponsored Madeleine at baptism.Item 23265 Inscription on canoe in the Peabody Museum, Harvard. Inscription on canoe:... GASPOU a Frenchman from Madawaska married Mary Mohawk cultivates much wheat and corn.island 10 miles above Old Town.several...children.Show 16 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 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 ...Item 300434 OTR Old Town Register, Portland ChanceryItem 300469 PMH Peabody Museum, Harvard University Relationships Enlarge Citation “Gaspard,” Historical Documents of Indians of the Far Northeast, accessed April 26, 2025, https://hrifne.avantlogic.net/digitalarchive/items/show/69797.Item204897 Save this item as a PDF file
