Christiantown

Hirsch, Betsy, 1823 -

Betsy Hirsch was born circa 1823, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Hirsch.  As a Mashpee resident Betsy Hirsch was a signatory, at the age of 11, to a January 1834 Mashpee petition written by William Apes.   Hirsch's name was added to that of 288 other Mashpee residents and community members raising a number of longstanding grievances against the overseers and the Congregational missionary to the tribe.  

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts in General Court Assembled             

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court Assembled

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court Assembled

Respectfully represent the County Commissioners of Dukes County, that there are in said County as appears by the report of Honorable John Milton Earle, Senate Document, No. 96, of the year 1861,1

Anthony, John (1861)

John Anthony was a member of the Christiantown Indian community.  In 1861, he was one of many of the community who protested encroachments on their land from White neighbors.  Petition of Charlotte M. Belain, 1861.01.12.00.

To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled1

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts in General Court Assembled

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled

The petition of William H. Luce, M.D., of Tisbury, Dukes County, humbly sheweth that, whereas, in the year 1844, he, in his professional capacity, well and faithfully attended Recall DeGrass, a Colored man and State pauper, deceased, during his last sickness and also supplied him with all necessary medicines.