Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request from William Jeffery, an Indian man of Harwich, MA, seeking compensation for military service, having sustained a wound at Fort George while under the command of Colonel Westbrook.
A request by James Speen, an Indian from Nashoba, on behalf of other Indians, asking for compensation for firearms that were taken from them at the end of King Philip's War and subsequently lost