Administrative files relating to the apprehended insurrection in Kennebec County, 1809-1811.

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Administrative files relating to the apprehended insurrection in Kennebec County, 1809-1811.

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Under successive authorizations, the Land Office oversaw the management and sale of public lands in Maine for the Commonwealth during the first half of the 19th century. Among its duties were the receipt and filing of documents pertaining to events in Maine that related to its main purpose of managing lands. This administrative file documents the activities of the Commonwealth in responding to the threat of insurrection in Kennebec County in 1809. Consisting of a variety of materials, the file details the responses of the several involved agents of the government in Massachusetts and the District of Maine. The governor, Council, General Court, local sheriff and the justices of the common pleas are the government officials primarily represented.

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Chadwick, Paul, -1809

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Massachusetts. Land Office

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The abolition of the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands did not signify a lack of interest in the development of Maine lands on the part of the Commonwealth. When the committee was abolished in June 1801, the General Court authorized the appointment of two land agents (Resolves 1801, c 46), who were directed to complete all contracts undertaken by the original committee, and to perform all other duties characteristic of it. With this action the legislature gave form to a land a...