Natick

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Petition Of Edward West on behalf of the Town of Sherborn to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
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Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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A request for exemption from Colony taxes, includes an order in response exempting the town from a single tax for a period of three years
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Petition of the Inhabitants of Boggstow to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
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Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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A request for a grant of land between Medfield and Natick, the liberty to purchase additional land from the Natick Indians, and exemption from taxes for seven years
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Petition Of Edward West on behalf of the Town of Sherborn to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
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Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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A request for the liberty to build a parsonage and to establish Nathaniel Gookin as minister
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Petition of Nathaniel Colburn, John Gay, and Others to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
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Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
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A request for a land grant and establishment as a separate town at Natick, includes Committee Appointment and Court Order

Petition of Micah Whitney, Guardian to Hannah Speen, to the Massachusetts General Court

Province of the Massachusetts Bay                                                                                                                                                                          

To His Excellency Francis Bernard Esq., Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over Said Province, to The Honorable His Majesty’s Council and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled

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Petition of Elizabeth Lawrence to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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A request seeking liberty to sell as much land as necessary to settle debts accrued in the medical care of various family members, together with an order from the Court granting said request with certain stipulations
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Order of the Massachusetts General Court on the Petition of Joseph Ephraim and Other Natick Indians

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
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Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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Order from the General Court that Ebenezer Felch come before the Court to respond to the complaint of the Natick Indians
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Petition of Joseph Ephraim and Other Natick Indians to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
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Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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A complaint by the Indians at Natick that their right to fish is being infringed upon by neighboring non-natives
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Letter from Mary Pray to Captain Oliver

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative
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Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas