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The Agriculture and Industry of the County of Kennebec, Maine; With Notes Upon Its History and Natural History


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1867 Excerpt: ... KENNEBEC COUNTY, ME. PART FIRST. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. CIIAPTER I. Historical Introduction. The Abnaki--one of two powerful nations of Indians which occupied the present limits of Maine when European navigators visited our coast--were in possession of the territory from New Hampshire to the Penobscot. This great nation was divided into four smaller tribes, one of which, the Oannibas or Kennebecs, ocsupied the land on both sides of the Kennebec river from the mouth of the Androscoggin to Moose Head Lake. This tribe was subdivided into the Norridgewogs who dwelt at Norridgewock; the Taconnets at Waterville, and the Cushnocs at Augusta. They spoke the same tongue with slightly differing dialects, and were virtually one people. The Kennebecs were a very numerous tribe, the different clans of which all paid homage to the head chief who resided on Swan Island, in Merry-Meeting Bay. This place, according to Williamson, seems to have been the head-quarters of the Abuakis. Holding the soil in common, they did not understand how one person could own a certain tract himself, as each native possessed an undivided right to the entire territory of his tribe. When the land was purchased by the whites, they supposed they possessed a title in fee simple--on the other hand the Indians supposed they sold only what they themselves possessed--viz: the right to fish and hunt and hold possession with others. Thus the Indians were compelled to yield to what they regarded as injustice, which was a cause for serious trouble between them. The mouths of the Cabbassa-contee and the Nahumkeag were two of their favored localities at an early date--Captain Smith alludes to the latter as early as 1614--though the whites soon drove them further up the river. So recently as 1829, large...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150488627
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115048862X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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