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1757.11.19.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0303_0007.jpg
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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Nauset
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request of Isaac James and others for the interposition of the Legislature in the protection of land and fishing and whaling rights for natives in the Towns of Eastham and Harwich, and Billingsgate Point
1784.03.29.00_page1_25.270_Lot16_part_NWDIV.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer by a Tunxis woman to a Farmington resident of 4 acres, 1 rood, and 11 rods of land in the 16th Lot in the Tunxis Reservation for 4 pounds, 10 shillings
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer by the estate of a Tunxis man to his widow of 5.5 acres, 35 rods of land and a dwelling house in the 5th Lot for 24 pounds
1777.11.15.00_page1_22.147.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer from a Tunxis woman to a Farmington colonist of half of her father's house lot and all her rights to the reservation for three pounds
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Individual allocation of Tunxis property in the 200-acre reservation, the East Haven allotment, and the Indian Neck redistribution.
1675.05.31.01_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer from one of the region's prominent families of four acres in Indian Neck at Tunxis to Farmington colonists for ten pounds.
1778.11.10.00_page1_22.447 JOhn Peat to Samuel Robbin.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer from a Tunxis man in Westfield, Massachusetts to a Tunxis man in Farmington of 5.5 acres and 35 rods of land in the Tunxis reservation
1776.10.10.01_page1_21.279.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer by a Tunxis man to a Farmington colonist of land provided from his father's will and his own rights in the Tunxis reservation for 7 pounds, 12 shillings, and 6 pence
1749.09.05.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0031_0152_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request to address several plots of land that were rented out at Gayhead by tribal Guardians, Pain Mayhew and William Hunt written in Wampanoag
1749.09.05.01_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0031_0151_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An English translation of a request to address several plots of land that were rented out at Gayhead by tribal Guardians, Pain Mayhew and William Hunt
1741.07.00.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0031_0062_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Christiantown
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request by the natives at Okokamy (or Christiantown) for the interposition of the General Court regarding the illegal removal of trees from native lands, and the Court's response
1766.01.28.01_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0033_0077_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A complaint by James Robbins, John Joel, Benjamin Natick, and others of the Chappaquiddick Tribe to the Committee for Managing Indian Affairs in Dukes County seeking relieve from and restitution for trespass by non-Natives on Indian land