Landform -- Terrestrial

Petition of William Boden to the Massachusetts General Court

Summary: 
A complaint that the mill of Samuel Stratton is negatively affecting the improvements of William Boden
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Natick, Nipmuc
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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Copy of a Petition of Samuel Stratton to the Massachusetts General Court and accompanying Vote of the Massachusetts House of Representatives on said Petition

Summary: 
A request for the Court to articulate the details of an order authorizing the construction and operation of a grist mill on Indian land and the accompanying articulation
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Natick, Nipmuc
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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Petition of Samuel Stratton to the Massachusetts General Court

Summary: 
A request for the Court to articulate the details of an order authorizing the construction and operation of a grist mill on Indian land
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Natick, Nipmuc
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
1760.01.03.00_page1.jpg

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

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Act for the better regulation of the Indian, Mulatto and Negro proprietors of Gayhead in the county of Dukes County" be repealed
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
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Petition of Simon, Nathaniel, and William Mayhew, Overseers of the Gayhead Indians, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Summary: 
A request from the guardians that they may be empowered to place liens on cattle or collect taxes on cattle pastured on proprietors lands
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
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Petition of Charlotte M. Belain and Other Christiantown Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Summary: 
A request for relief from the encroachments of neighbors and a description of the losses resulting from said depredations
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Christiantown
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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Petition of Joseph Aaron to the Massachusetts General Court

Summary: 
A request to sell an additional portion of his land so that he might pay debts
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Nipmuc
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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Petition of Joseph Aaron to the Massachusetts General Court

Summary: 
A request to sell a portion of his land so that he might have the funds to build a house , pay debts, and buy a cow
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Nipmuc
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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Petition of Margaret Peters and Other Chappaquiddick Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Summary: 
A request for the interposition of the Legislature in the protection of the rights and privileges of the Chappaquiddick Indians
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Chappaquiddick
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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Petition of Daniel Fellows, Jr., Guardian of the Chappaquiddick and Christiantown Indians, to the Governor and Council of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Summary: 
A request for assistance in fencing the lands of the Chappaquiddick and Christiantown Indians
Community: 
Indian Papers Project Editors, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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