Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Abigail Aaron was the daughter of Aaron Whipple and Sarah Muckamug of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc community. Abigail's early years were spent as a servant in the household of the Brown family in Providence. She later married a man named Whipple and had two children, one of which was Elizabeth. HL-P, Hassanamisco People, YIPP Research Files. Summary under the Criteria (Nipmuc Nation, September 25, 2001), 66.
Joseph Aaron was the son of Aaron Whipple and Sarah Muckamug of the Hassanamisco community at Grafton, Massachusetts. He was born when his parents were living in Providence, Rhode Island, the youngest of four siblings. He and his mother left Rhode Island for Grafton shortly after his birth, reaching there in 1741. He was indentured to David Daniels of Mendon after his mother's death in 1751. Joseph returned to Grafton in 1768 and lived with his half-sister Sarah on the family homestead, where he cultivated wheat and rye.
Nehemiah Abbot was the representative from Andover to the Massachusetts General Court. Schutz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court.
Elijah Abel was a member of a committee appointed by the Connecticut General Assembly to consider Pequonnock Indian affairs in 1780. IP 2.1.138
Nehemiah Abel was a Titicut Indian man who taught school there. In 1724, he was residing at Dartmouth, Massachusetts in 1724, He later appears on a petition in a controversy over lands in Middleborough. Putnam, Book of First Church of Christ in Middleborough, 123. MA 31:113, 317-326.
James Abner was probably one of the six children of Abner, a Pequot Indian listed in March of 1762 as residing in a wigwam on the Mashantucket reservation in what was then Groton, present-day Ledyard, Connecticut. Two years later, he served in Captain John Tyler's Third Company of Israel Putnam's Battalion during the French and Indian War.
Mary was the wife of James Abner and lived within the Eastern Pequot community on the reservation adjacent to Lantern Hill in what was then Stonington, Connecticut. She and James had at least one son, Randall Abner, who was a participant in the Brothertown removal. In 1788 Mary and her husband signed Jacob Sowas’ petition to appoint a new overseer. De Loss Love, Samson Occom, 335; 1788.05.00.00, IP 1.2.252.
Nabby Abner was enumerated by the Eastern Pequot tribe as one of the needy. The Reverend Joseph Fish described her as a “widow, poor and suffering” in December 1771. 1775.03.27.01 Fish First Book
Randall Abner was the son of James and Mary Abner of the Eastern Pequot community in Stonington, Connecticut. He married Sarah Tokus and the two removed, first to Stephentown, New York and then, by 1819, to the Christian agrarian community in Brothertown, New York, adjacent to Oneida lands.
Abomhomen, alias John Maheriment was an Abenaki sagamore of Anasagunticook. In May 1660, he and a number of other sagamores were conveyed to Alexander Thevayt a tract of land along the Kennebeck River. In 1701, he was a signator to a treaty at Casco Bay. York Deeds, Book X (Portland, ME: Brown Thurston Company, 1894), ccxiii.
Andrew Abraham, Jr. was the son of Andrew Abraham of the Hassanamisco community in Grafton, Massachusetts. He married Abigail Printer in 1739 and had three sons: Jonas, David, and John. HLP, Hassanamisco People, YIPP Research Files.
David Abraham was a member of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc community of Grafton, Massachusetts, the son of Andrew Abraham, Jr. and Abigail Printer. Abraham served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and resided at Alstead, New Hampshire at the time of his death. Probate Records (Worcester County, Massachusetts); Index 1731-1881; Probate Records, Vol 17-19, 1777-1786. HLP, Hassanamisco People, YIPP Research Files.
Deborah Abraham was a member of the Hassanamisco Indian community. She married Thomas Awassamog of the Natick tribe and had several children. Mandell, Behind the Frontier, 169.
Joseph Abraham (d. February 25, 1759) was the son of Samuel and Hannah Abraham of Natick, Massachusetts. In May of 1685, he and others petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for a reservation of land for their people. When he died in 1759, among his possessions were a beaver hat, deerskin breeches, "old Indian stockings," an old wig, as well as shoemaking tools, a Bible, spelling book, and brass ink pot. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Ancestry. O'Brien, Dispossession by Degrees, 148. Petition of Anookamaug and Other Indians, 1685.05.27.00.
Samuel Abraham (d. December 28, 1745) was a member of one of the Natick Indian community's prominent families and a proprietor of Indian land. He and his wife, Hannah Hannah Nehemiah had at least one daughter, Zerviah. Abraham served as Natick's selectman in 1716 and 1719 and was a member of a committee to encourage the Reverend Peabody to settle his ministry more permanently among the Natick. Abraham and Thomas Pegan were on another committee for the sale of the Indian land at Magunkook.
Zachary Abraham (Abram) was a Natick Indian convert. He served as a scout for Captains Thomas Prentice and Daniel Henchman during King Philip's War. In the winter of 1677, Daniel Gookin wrote a letter of on the behalf of him and others that assisted in capturing Metacomet's men at Medfield. His name appears on several petitions to the Massachusetts General Court.
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.
Elizabeth Abram was the daughter of Andrew Abram and Deborah Abraham of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc tribal community and the wife of a man named Samson. The couple had two daughters, Althea and Deborah. In the winter of 1775, out of financial need, Elizabeth and three other Nipmuc women petitioned the Massachusetts Legislature for payments of their interest money. HL-P, Hassanamisco People, YIPP Research Files. Petition of Elizabeth Sampson
Achwanamett (before 1653 - after 1673) was a Wampanoag sachem whose territory comprised or at least included Mattapoisett. On October 3, 1673, he, Machacom and Papamo, two other sachems with interest in the same land, recorded the bounds of Mattapoisett in order to provide for their children. RPC 12: 225-225.
Abigail Adams was a Tunxis woman who received property in the community's 200-acre reservation in 1777 and sold it in 1784. She may be the same Abigail Adams, the wife of John Way.
Andrew Adams was the representative from Litchfield to the Connecticut General Assembly (1776-1770) and served as Speaker of the House (1779-80). He then became a member of the Upper House (1771-1789). Roll of State Officers and Members of the General Assembly of Connecticut.
Born in England, George Adams settled in Watertown, Massachusetts as early as 1645 and was a glover by trade. In 1647, he was a proprietor of Nashuway or Lancaster and removed to Cambridge in 1664, after selling his property in Watertown. Cutter, New England Families, Vol. 3, 1584.
John Adams was a Selectman of Braintree, Massachusetts in 1744. Petition of William Hunt, John Adams, and Ebenezer Copeland, 1744.02.08.01.
John Adams was a witness for the reconfirmation deed to Hartford in 1670.
John Adams, Jr., was the son of John and Sarah Adams from the Quinnipiac community of New Haven, Connecticut. He removed to Farmington and then to Brothertown, New York where he received lot 126 in 1795. He subsequently married Sarah, the widow of Henry Davies.
Love, Samson Occom and the christian Indians of New England, 336, 341,
Joseph S. Adams was a selectman of the Town of Tisbury, Massachusetts. In 1863, he, with other selectmen and Overseers of the Poor of Tisbury, supported the petition of Priscilla Freeman to get aid for her mother, Jemima Easton. Petition of the Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor for the Town of Tisbury to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, 1863.01.00.01.
Paul Adams was the President of the Boston Five Cent Savings Bank. He retired from the position in 1875. Professional and Industrial of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2 (Boston MA: The Boston History Company, 1894), 420.
Rufus Adams was a clerk of the Connecticut General Assembly's Lower House. IP 2.2.99
Samuel Adams was the son of Samuel and Mary Adams of Boston, Massachusetts who became one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A graduate of Harvard College, he held the positions of clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1766-1774), President of the Massachusetts Senate (1782–1785, 1787–1788), Lieutenant Governor (
The son of John and Sarah Adams of the Quinnipiac community of New Haven, Connecticut, Samuel Adams moved with his family to Farmington. He later married Mary Fowler, the daughter of David Fowler, and settled at Brothertown, New York. The couple had several children, Thankful. John, Simeon, Hannah, Emeline, and brought up Edwin C. Adams, an orphan.
Samuel Adams served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He was killed in the British raid on the U.S. store depot at Black Rock, New York.
Sarah Adams was a witness for Rebecca Davis in a petition to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1860.
Sarah Adams was the daughter of John Adams, a Quinnipiac of New Haven, Connecticut, and a Native woman named Sarah. On July 26, 1787, she married Abraham Simons, a 37-year-old Narragansett widower. The Simons family removed to Brothertown in upstate New York, where Abraham died sometime before 1792. In 1795, the widow Sarah Simons was assigned Lot 12 there where she lived with her son Reuben Simons (b.
Pually Adams was the daughter of Solomon Adams (Quinnipiac-Wangunk-Tunxis) and Olive Occom (Mohegan), and the wife of a Tunxis man named Mossuck. Born in the Brothertown community in New York Oneida Country, she later resided in Marshall, Wisconsin. She was an active member of the community, retaining her Native language and being known for her exceptional
Isaac Addington was the son of Isaac and Anne Addington of Boston, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1692-1715), judge of Common Pleas (1695-1702), and chief justice of the Superior Court (1702-1715). In 1675 Addington was a signator to a treaty made with the Penobscot Indians. Hugh M. Addington, History of the Family of Addington in the United States and England (Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 1931), 9-10. Daniel Neal, The History of New-England, Vol. 2 (London: A.
Adeawanadon was an Abenaki leader from Narraguagus. In 1695, the Governor of Canada sent him and Onwondaquiro with eighteen French Indians to take prisoners at Albany. In 1701, he was a signator to a treaty at Casco Bay. He is called a Pigwacket and was a delegate to an Indian conference in 1714. E. B. O'Callaghan, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Vol. 4 (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1854), 124. MA 29: 39.
Asabel Adgate was a landowner in Montville, Connecticut whose property abutted lands of the Mohegan.
Francis Adlington was a resident of Edgartown, Massachusetts. As a legal voter, he and several other men from Edgartown signed a petition to the Massachusetts General Court in 1854 supporting Jemima Easton's request for relief.
Petition of Barnard C. Marchant and Others to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, 1854.03.10.00.
Ageousos, see Hatchet Towsey.
Agononit was a member of the Nipmuc Indian community. In 1684, he, Captain Tom, and several others protested the sale of land near Whip Suffrage, Massachusetts, and demanded redress. Petition of Captain Tom to the Massachusetts General Assembly, 1684.09.19.00.