Wampanoag

No 1. Plymouth Commissioners presented this following narrative, shewing the manner of the beginning of the present war with the Indians of Mount Hope and Pocasset.
 
A brief narrative of the beginning and progress of the present trouble between us and the Indians, taking its rise in the Colony of New Plymouth in the year of 1675
 
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A summary of various French and English explorations and colonial settlement of New England

Right Honorable,

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Concerning that part of America which we call New England, the French claim that as being first discovered by them,

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Fall River/Troy
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request of Lydia Squinn seeking authorization to sell land to John Frye in order to pay debts
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Fall River/Troy
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A resolution empowering the guardians to sell five and three quarters acres of land owned by Lydia Squinn in order to pay debts

Achwanamett

Achwanamett (before 1653 - after 1673) was a Wampanoag sachem whose territory comprised or at least included Mattapoisett.  On October 3, 1673, he, Machacom and Papamo, two other sachems with interest in the same land, recorded the bounds of Mattapoisett in order to provide for their children.  RPC 12: 225-225.

Machacom

Machacom (before 1653 - after 1673) was a Wampanoag sachem whose territory comprised or at least included Mattapoisett.  On October 3, 1673, he, Papamo and Achwanamett, two other sachems with interest in the same land, recorded the bounds of Mattapoisett in order to provide for their children.  RPC 12: 225-225.

Papamo

Papamo (before 1653 - after 1673) was a Wampanoag sachem whose territory comprised or at least included Mattapoisett.  On October 3, 1673, he, Machacom and Achwanamett, two other sachems with interest in the same land, recorded the bounds of Mattapoisett in order to provide for their children.  RPC 12: 225-225.

Rosier, John, 1793 - 1851

John Rosier was the son of Silas Rosier and Phebe Wamsley.  He married his cousin Jane Wamsley and had one son, John.  Rosier was a sailor aboard the frigate, U.S. Macedonia.  His family resided at Betty's Neck in Middleborough (now Lakeville), Massachusetts.  He died in the winter of 1851 by drowning in the Assawompset Pond.  Pierce, Indian History, Biography, and Genealogy, 217.