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This deposition given by Pere Pole of the Abenaki tribe describes the different names Native Americans used for the Androscoggin River.

Richard M. Gaffney, graduate fellow in History at the University of Maine, described the meaning and derivations of the name Peter Paul within the Abenaki community.

Pere Pole was Abenaki, part of the larger Wabanaki communities living in and around the Pejepscot Purchase land claim. In this paper he gives information about the area, specifically names for the Androscoggin River.

This deposition by Pere Pole, part of the Abenaki communities of what is now Maine, provided information about the names along the Androscoggin River used by Wabanaki peoples.

Josiah Little requested this deposition be taken as part of a legal case against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

William Hiscock, Eliab Eaton and William Read gave this deposition to the Pejepscot Company regarding Pere Pole's character. Pere Pole, an Abenaki from the Androscoggin River region, provided descriptions of local rivers within the Pejepscot Land Grant as part of a court case brought against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The Pejepscot Company was also known as the Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick or the Pejepscot Proprietors.