Kennebunk Opposed Indian Removal Act
The history of the Kennebunks has its own shameful episodes of treaty breaking in the build up to King William’s and The French & Indian Wars when Indigenous families still camped along the Cape Porpoise (Mousam) and Kennebunk Rivers. But no Indigenous families had lived in the Kennebunks for 48 years in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson first proposed the concept of southern Indian Removal. He thought Choctaw, Cherokee and Creek tribes should trade their cultivated farms and orchards east of the Mississippi River for uncleared wilderness lots on his new Louisiana Purchase. In fact, he hoped to finance the Louisiana...