Natick

Letter from Mary Pray to Captain Oliver

 Courteous Sir, Captain Oliver,[1]
 
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Letter from the Governor and Assistants of Connecticut

Much Honored Gentlemen,      
                   
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Report of the Committee Appointed to Consider the Petition of Samuel and Zerviah Abraham Ompany to the Massachusetts General Court

The Committee appointed to consider the petition of Samuel Ompany and Zerviah, his wife, have considered the same and beg leave to report in the following manner, viz, that the trustees mentioned in said Petition be directed to pay out the sum of fifteen pounds lawful money to the petitioners for the purpose in the said petition mentioned and to take care that it be applied for that use and no other.
 
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Abraham, Zerviah

Born into a prominent tribal family, Zerviah Abraham was the daughter of Samuel Abraham and Hannah Nehemiah of Natick, Massachusetts.  She married Samuel Ompany, Jr., of Christiantown sometime around 1760.  They had three children: Samuel, Desire/Zerviah, and Hosea.

Petition of John Jones, Attorney to Samuel and Zerviah Abraham Ompany, to the Massachusetts General Court

Province of the Massachusetts Bay

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This Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq., Captain General and Commander in Chief, to the Honorable His Majesty's Council, and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled

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Response of the General Court of Massachusetts to the Petition of Thomas Sawin

In the House of Representatives  

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Petition of Thomas Sawin to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honored General Court Now Sitting in Boston, This 27th of February 1695

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Petition of Alquat and Walumpe to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honoured General Court at Boston, June 3, 1671

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Petition of Jacob Chalcom to the Massachusetts General Court

To His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq., Captain General and Governour in Chief, in and over His Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, to The Honorable His Majesty’s Council and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled

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Old Sosawanno

Old Sosawanno appears on a list of Natick Indians in 1683.  His name appears on two Natick petitions the following year.  In one, he, Captain Tom, and several others protested the sale of land near Whip Suffrage, Massachusetts, and demanded redress.  MA 30: 279a, 287. Petition of Captain Tom to the Massachusetts General Assembly, 1684.09.19.00/  MA 30: 276, 287, 256a.