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The Republic of Indian Stream was a small, unrecognized, constitutional republic in North America that existed from July 9, 1832 to 1835. Described as Indian Stream Territory, so-called by the U.S. census taker in 1830, the area was named for Indian Stream, a small river, and had an organized, elected government and constitution which served about 300 citizens. Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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Pittsburg is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, USA. The population was 867 at the 2000 census. ...
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Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
The United States Census of 1830 was the fifth Census conducted in the United States. ...
Indian Stream is a tributary of the Connecticut River, approximately 25 mi (40 km) long, in New Hampshire in the United States. ...
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The area was first settled under a land grant not from the King of England, but rather from the St. Francis Wampanoag chief, King Philip, who had led many successful raids on New England settlements during the 1670s. The Wampanoag (Wôpanâak in the Wampanoag language) are a Native American people. ...
Metacomet (died August 12, 1676), also known as King Philip or Metacom, was a war chief or sachem of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philips War. ...
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This grant was sold to one land speculation company, while a second group of Indians from the same tribe claimed to another company that the Chief had been deposed, and that they were empowered to issue a grant, which they did to the second company. Following the Revolutionary War, both companies surveyed the territories and issued their own land grants to settlers, which frequently overlapped. It was not until after the War of 1812, when both companies were in financial straits, that they merged and reconciled all land claims. This article is about military actions only. ...
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The establishment of Indian Stream as an independent nation was essentially the result of the ambiguous boundary between the United States and Canada as defined in the Treaty of Paris (1783), because there were three possible options for "the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River." As a result, the area (in and around the three tributaries that fed into the head of the Connecticut River) was not necessarily under the jurisdiction of either the U.S. or Canada. Painting by Benjamin West depicting (from left to right) John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin. ...
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The relevant text from the Treaty reads:
- "...(westward) along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude; from thence by a line due west on said latitude..."
The Republic covered the northern reaches of what is now the state of New Hampshire, including the four Connecticut Lakes. Where the British claimed the southeasternmost branch (the chain of Connecticut Lakes), the U.S. claimed the border as we know it today (i.e., Hall's Stream, to the west—arguably a "northwesternmost headwater" of the Connecticut). Both sides sent in tax collectors and debt-collecting sheriffs. The double taxation in particular caused ire among the population, and the republic was formed to put an end to the issue until the U.S. and Britain could settle on the borderline. TheSaint Lawrence River (In French: fleuve Saint-Laurent) is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area Ranked 46th - Total 9,350 sq mi (24,217 km²) - Width 68 miles (110 km) - Length 190 miles (305 km) - % water 4. ...
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The republic ceased to operate independently in 1835, when the New Hampshire Militia occupied the area, following a vote to be annexed by the Indian Stream Congress. The vote arose from fears regarding a prior incident in which a group of "Streamers" invaded Canada to free a fellow citizen who had been arrested by a British sheriff and judge over a matter of an unpaid hardware-store debt, as debtors' prison laws were still in force at the time. The invading posse shot up the judge's home where their comrade was being held, causing something of an international incident. The British Ambassador to the U.S. was astonished at the idea of a war with the States over a matter of a hardware-store debt and quickly agreed to engage in negotiations to resolve the long-simmering border disputes resulting from the poor wording of the Treaty of Paris. The New Hampshire Militia was first organized in March 1680, by New Hampshire Colonial President John Cutt. ...
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Painting by Benjamin West depicting (from left to right) John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin. ...
Britain relinquished its claim in January 1836, and U.S. jurisdiction was acknowledged around May 1836. Still described as Indian Stream at the time of the 1840 U.S. Census taken June 1, 1840, the local population totalled 315. The area was incorporated as Pittsburg in 1840. Pittsburg, in Coos County, is the largest township in the U.S., at 300,000 acres (1,200 km²), or 282.3 square miles (731 km²) of land area and 9.0 square miles (23 km²) of inland water area. The United States Census of 1840 was the sixth census of the United States. ...
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Pittsburg is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, USA. The population was 867 at the 2000 census. ...
Coos County (pronounced with two syllables) is a county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, including the whole of the states northern panhandle. ...
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In 1842, the land dispute was definitively resolved by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty and the land was assigned to New Hampshire. However, the 1845 Lewis Robinson Map of New Hampshire "Based on the latest authorities," has a northern boundary at the township of Clarksville, just south of modern-day Pittsburg. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, settled the dispute over the location of the Maine-New Brunswick border between the United States and Great Britain and the shared use of the Great Lakes. ...
Clarksville is a town located in Coos County, New Hampshire. ...
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The Republic of Madawaska occupies the northwest corner of Madawaska County, New Brunswick (also known as the New Brunswick Panhandle), and lies partially in adjacent areas of Quebec and Aroostook County in the American state of Maine. ...
Further reading - Brown, Roger Hamilton. The Struggle for the Indian Stream Territory. Cleveland, OH: Western Reserve University Press, 1955.
- Doan, Daniel. Indian Stream Republic: Settling a New England Frontier, 1785-1842. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.
- Harmon, Joshua. Quinnehtukqut. Buffalo: Starcherone Books, 2007.
- Lent, Jeffrey. Lost Nation. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. (historical fiction)
- Pike, Robert E. Tall Trees, Tough Men. New York: W.W. Norton, 1967.
- -----. Spiked Boots. Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 1999 [reprint].
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