Wampanoag

Felix, Thomas, Jr.

Thomas Felix, Jr. was the son of Thomas Felix of the Assawampset community living at Titicut in Middleborough, Massachusetts.  A petition from his father to the Massachusetts General Court indicates that Thomas, Jr. had died by 1759.

Felix, Thomas

Thomas Felix was most likely the son of Nanauatauate (Felix) and Abigail, Wampanoags from Assawampset.  He had at least two sons, Thomas, Jr. and Israel.  By 1712 he removed to Titicutt, where he succeeded Thomas Sekins as the Indian minister and served as the local magistrate there.

Felix, Israel (1768)

Israel Felix was a Wampanoag man from Middleborough, Massachusetts, the son of Thomas Felix.  In 1759 he served under Captain Thatcher in a unit composed of many other Middleborough men.  Israel worked as a laborer, but Thoreau characterized him as "an old preacher." In 1768 he successfully petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for permission to sell ten acres of his land because of the debts he incurred by nursing and lodging his late Aunt Sarah Hood.

Weecum

Weecum was a Wampanoag woman, the spouse Benjamin Tuspaquin, and mother of four children: Esther, Hannah, Mary, and Benjamin Tuspaquin.  Pierce, Indian History, Biography, and Genealogy, 212.

Mitchell, Charlotte Eveline L., 1848 - 1930

Charlotte Eveline Mitchell was the daughter of Thomas Mitchell and Zerviah Gould of Abington, Massachusetts and a lineal descendant of the Wampanoag leader Massasoit.  A graduate of public schools in Abington and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Charlotte worked as a fancy basket maker in a family-run business.  She, her mother and her sister Melinda removed to ancestral land at Assawompsett (Betty's Neck) in 1849, where they built their home and established a farm.

Mitchell, Melinda, 1836 - 1919

Melinda Mitchell was the daughter of Thomas Mitchell and Zerviah Gould of North Abington, Massachusetts.  She was educated in the public schools of Abington and at Union Academy.  She removed to ancestral lands at Assawompsett or Betty's Neck in Lakeville, Massachusetts in 1859 where she, her mother and sister Charlotte lived in a house they built themselves.  Melinda and Charlotte farmed the property, raising crops and taking on boarders.

Squinn, Zerviah, - 1816

Zerviah Squinn was the daughter of a Native man named Wamsley and Lydia Squinn, a descendant of the Wampanoag sachem, Massasoit.  On December 4, 1791, she married James Johnson, a Gay Head Indian and had one daughter, Arabella, who died at three months old.   In 1816, Zerviah and her sister Phebe unsuccessfully petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for the ability to sell their late mother’s interests in the ancestral land in Fall River to pay her debts.