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PENOBSCOT

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PENOBSCOT , a tribe of

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AMERICAN

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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Algonquian stock . Their old range was the

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country around the

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RIVER

river Penobscot in

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Maine . They sided with the

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French in the colonial

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WARS

wars, but made a treaty of

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peace with the

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ENGLISH

English in 1749 . They fought against the English in the

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War of

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Independence, and were subsequently settled on an

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ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island in the Penobscot river, near Oldtown .

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