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| + | Dividends [underlined] - The Penobscots used to draw two annuities a year. These were issued in corn, flour, pork, tobacco, molasses, broadcloth, powder, shot, & full blankets. At one time of the year they had a given number of yards of read [one struck through] red broadcloth, at another of blue broadcloth. Only hunters drew dividends containing [one struck through] of powder and shot. In the spring the hunters were allowed 2 lbs of powder & 4 of shot. | ||
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| + | Later the dividends were given in money | ||
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| + | They also got a "bounty" [one underlined] on raising crops. The ploughing was done for them and the seed furnished by the state; then "to encourage them", a bounty was offered besides - However they did not engage much in the industry. | ||
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Dividends [underlined] - The Penobscots used to draw two annuities a year. These were issued in corn, flour, pork, tobacco, molasses, broadcloth, powder, shot, & full blankets. At one time of the year they had a given number of yards of read [one struck through] red broadcloth, at another of blue broadcloth. Only hunters drew dividends containing [one struck through] of powder and shot. In the spring the hunters were allowed 2 lbs of powder & 4 of shot.
Later the dividends were given in money
They also got a "bounty" [one underlined] on raising crops. The ploughing was done for them and the seed furnished by the state; then "to encourage them", a bounty was offered besides - However they did not engage much in the industry.