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1811.07.13.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Abraham Cooper and Other Gayhead Indians to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request from sundry in the community for a delay in the appointment of new guardians until a meeting of proprietors and inhabitants can be held
1816.05.18.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Joel Rogers and Other Gayhead Indians to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request that the law entitled " An Act for the better regulation of the Indian, Mulatto and Negro proprietors of Gayhead in the county of Dukes County" be repealed