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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 See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Algonquian stock. Their old range was the See also:

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 See also:

RIVER

river Penobscot in See also:

Maine. They sided with the See also:

French in the colonial See also:

WARS

wars, but made a treaty of See also:

peace with the See also:

ENGLISH

English in 1749. They fought against the English in the See also:

War of See also:

Independence, and were subsequently settled on an See also:

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

island in the Penobscot river, near Oldtown.

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