Bingham's Penobscot Purchase (Me.)

found: Work cat.: NUCMC data from Maine Historical Society for Rogers, L.A. A little yellow dog ... undated(Bingham Purchase; Penobscot lands)

found: Email from Maine Hist. Soc., Jan. 30, 2007(Kennebec or Bingham Tract; not same as Bingham/Penobscot Tract)

found: Attwood, S.B. Length and breadth of Maine, 1946:p. 108 (Bingham's Kennebec Purchase; also known as The Million Acres) p. 109 (Bingham's Penobscot Purchase; beginning at nw corner of No. 8 at the Union River; 30 miles north; east to St. Croix R.; south to Whiting; and west to Machias)

found: Alberts, R.C. Golden voyage : the life and times of William Bingham, 1969:p. 233 (map: William Bingham's three million acres of Maine lands comprised the Kennebec Million, on the upper Kennebec River and the Penobscot Million. He also was involved in the purchase of the upper Penobscot Tract but boundaries are approximated and this was eventually bought by Alexander Baring)

found: DAH(Bingham Purchase; in 1786, when Massachusetts, which then included Maine, disposed of large tracts of unsettled timberlands in Maine by lottery, William Bingham, a wealthy Philadelphia banker, drew several townships and purchased others, with a total area of one million acres [Kennebec Million]. Gen. Henry Knox had signed a contract to buy another tract of one million acres, but his duties as secy. of war prevented his developing it and Bingham took that over also [Penobscot Million])