Ponkapaug

The Ponkapaug are a group of Massachusetts Native people whose historical territory lies in the Blue Hills of Massachusetts.  Their winter home was the village of Ponkapaug ("a spring that bubbles from red soil") and in the summer they lived around the mouth of the Neponset River.  After European settlement, English authorities established the Ponkapaug Plantation as an Indian Praying Town in 1654.  

Petition of Rebecca Davis to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Respectfully represents Rebecca Davis of Boston in the County of Suffolk, that she is a member of the Ponkapog Tribe of Indians, that she has an annual grant of fifty dollars per year during her life, made to her by a Statute or Resolve of this Commonwealth.

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Petition of Charlotte Myers to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honorable Senate  House of Representatives

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Petition of Rebecca Davis to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts                 

Respectfully represents Rebecca Davis of Boston in the County of Suffolk, that she is a member of the Ponkapog Tribe of Indians, that she is aged and infirm, and that she receives annually by grant from the State through the Guardian of the tribe, the sum of fifty dollars, that said sum of fifty dollars is insufficient for her support.              

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Petition of Rebecca Davis to the Massachusetts General Court

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

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Petition of Sally Burr to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Petition of Sally Burr to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Respectfully represents Sally Burr of Boston in the County of Suffolk that she is a member of the Ponkapog of the Indians and that she has a son, James Burr, dependent upon her for support and that she is unable to maintain herself and son a without assistance.

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Petition of Sally Burr to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honorable Senate and House of  Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Petition of Sally Burr to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Petition of Polly Crowd to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The subscriber respectfully represents that she is a member of the Ponkapog Tribe of Indians, that she is sick and unable to maintain herself.  She, therefore, prays that the sum of one hundred dollars may be granted annually for her benefit and that the same be made payable to the Guardian of said tribe, to be by him expended for her benefit.                                                                              

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