Deep Bottom

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Resolve of the Massachusetts General Court on the Petition of Zechariah Mayhew

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown, Deep Bottom, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A resolution granting an excemption from taxation of Zechariah Mayhew's farm, due to his role as missionary to the Indians on Martha's Vineyard
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Petition of Zechariah Mayhew to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown, Deep Bottom, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request seeking an excemption from taxation of his farm, due to his role as missionary to the Indians on Martha's Vineyard
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Petition of the Guardians of the Indians on Martha's Vineyard to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown, Deep Bottom, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request by Paine Mayhew, William Hunt, and John Sumner for the Court to revisit and accept their previously submitted account of expenses
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Petition of Matthew Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard and James Coffin of Nantucket to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Christiantown, Deep Bottom, Nantucket, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), Chappaquiddick
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request by Matthew Mayhew and James Coffin for the General Court to approve a bounty for liquor seized by native peoples in Dukes County and Nantucket, and the General Court's response
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Petition of the Inhabitants of Tisbury to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown, Deep Bottom, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
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Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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Petition of Robert Cathcart of Tisbury to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown, Deep Bottom, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request by Robert Cathcart of the Governor and General Court to appoint someone to resolve native and non-native land boundary disputes, and the responses of the Court and Carhart
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Map of Martha's Vineyard

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), Chappaquiddick
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Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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A visual description of Martha's Vineyard in 1694 accompanied by a proposal to consolidate the towns of Tisbury and Chilmark
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Response of Agents for the Town of Edgartown to the Petition of Inhabitants of Tisbury and Chilmark to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), Chappaquiddick
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Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty

Petition of Priscilla Freeman to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

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

The undersigned, one of the Indian people of the Deep Bottom Tribe, situate in the southern part of the Town of Tisbury on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, would most earnestly and humbly pray the Honorable Legislature to award me an additional allowance for the support of my mother, Jemima Easton, sufficient to make it two dollars per week.            

Tribes

Amos, Elisha , 1736 -

Elisha Amos (Ianoxoo) was the son of Amos Ianoxoo from Chilmark, Massachusetts.  Around 1736, he first married Rebecca Suncasnin of Mashpee, but she separated from him shortly thereafter.   By the early 1760s, he was living with Rebecca, a slave belonging to Cornelius Bassett, who many claimed was his wife.  From his propensity for suing others and being sued himself for trespass, arson, stealing, and fraud, Amos has been called "the most controversial figure in the Vineyard Indians' history."  Pierce and Segel, Wampanoag Families of Martha's Vineyard, 34-45.