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4.
We the subscribers being the Chief Men of the
Norridgewolk Tribe having heard the Submission
and Agreement of the Eastern Indians viz: The Penobcot,
[Norridgwalk], St Johns, Cape Sables, and other
Indian Tribes inhabiting within his majesty's
Territories of New England and Nova Scotia, who
were engag'd in the War in the years 1723 and
1724, which was made and concluded at Boston the
fifteenth day of December 1725, between the
Honourable William Dummer Esqr then Lieutenant
Governour and Commander in Chief of the
Province of the Massachusett's bay, and John
Wentworth Esqr Lieutenant Governour & Commander
in Chief of the Province of New [Hampshire], and
Paul Mascarene Esqr. appointed by [Lawrence]
Armstrong Esqr Lieutenant Governour & Commander
in Chief of the Province of Nova Scotia or Accadia
of the one part; and the aforesaid Eastern
Indians of the other part; Also the Submission
and Agreement of the Eastern Indians viz
the Penobscots, Norridgwalks and Weeweenocks
made and concluded at Falmouth in Casco
Bay on the sixteenth day of October 1749 between
Thomas Hutchinson, John [Choats?], Israel Williams
and James Otis Esquires Commissioners appointed
by the Honoble Spencer Phips Esqr Lieutenant
Governour, & Commander in Chief of this Province
of the Massachusetts Bay aforesaid and Theodore
Atkinson and John Downing Esqrs Commissioners
appointed by his Excellency Benning Wentworth
Esqr Governour and Commander in Chief of his
Majestys Province of New Hampshire of the one
part and the aforesaid Eastern Indians of the
other part distinctly and deliberately Read over
and Interpreted [illegible]; Do by these presents in a
publick and solemn manner as well for our selves
as for all the rest of our Tribe by whom we are
Delegated and fully impowered for that Purpose
Ratify and Confirm all and singular the articles
contained