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1783.05.08.00_page1.jpg
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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
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Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
1783.05.00.01_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
1774.05.25.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
With the potential of selling their land and removing to Oneida Country, Tunxis leaders request a copy of the Colony's laws so that they understand their legal rights and responsibilities, as well as Connecticut's Indian policies.
1762.05.18.00_page1.jpg
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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Request by many of the Wangunk to sell their land at Middletown
1774.05.00.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
1774.05.19.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
With a promise of land from the Six Nations at Oneida, Tunxis leaders request permission to sell their Farmington property and a committee to oversee the process.
1780.10.13.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
1779.05.26.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A description of his service to the Mashpee and a request that their grant of land to him be enacted
1659.10.21.01_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0030_0012_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick, Pawtucket, Nipmuc
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Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A request that the exchange of land between Chelmsford and the Indian town of Pawtucket be confirmed and that Natick, Hassanamisco, Nashoba, and Okommakamesit be laid out and protected from alienation
1676.10.05.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0030_0037_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Massachusett at Ponkapoag
Category
Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A request by Thomas Swift asking for an allowance for overseeing the Ponkapoag Indians
1675.12.13.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0030_0025_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wamesit
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Request by the Town of Chelmsford about the return of some Wamesit, causing fear and distrust among the colonists
1774.03.05.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0118_0021_0001.jpg
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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A response to the petition of Issac Underwood and others regarding families formerly from West Needham who had annexed themselves to Natick