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Penobscot
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian stock. Their old range was the country around the river Penobscot in Maine. They sided with the French in the colonial wars, but made a treaty of peace with the English in 1749. They fought against the English in the War of Independence, and were subsequently settled on an island in the Penobscot river, near Oldtown.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Penobscot'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/penobscot.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Penobscot'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/penobscot.html. 1910.