Attaquin, Leah, 1791 -

Leah Attaquin was born circa 1791, the daughter of Solomon and Desire Attaquin. Leah was likely one of the three children enumerated in 1808 in the household of her mother, by then a widow.  By 1811 Leah had married Wiliam Mingo and that was the year their daughter, Mary Ann, was born.  This was the same year that Leah Mingo was a signatory on a petition for the removal of Overseers and for new regulations regarding the governance of the plantation.  William and Leah had at least five children, the aforementioned Mary Ann, as well as, William Jr., Andrew, David, and another daughter, Desire. 

She, along with about one hundred others, signed a May 21, 1833 petition complaining of outside interference in governmental and religious affairs at Mashpee.  ; Petition of the Mashpee Tribe, House Doc. Senate #14, January 1834.  She was enumerated with her family in an 1834 Mashpee census and was a signatory on the January 1834 Mashpee petition written by William Apes.  Leah Mingo signed along with 288 other Mashpee residents and community members outlining a number of longstanding grievances against the overseers and the Congregational missionary to the tribe. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Vol. 1. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011;Misc. Bound Docs. 1808, MHS, Boston, MA; Petition of Moses Pocknet and Other Mashpee Indians to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1811.01.28.00; Petition of the Mashpee Tribe, House Doc. Senate #14, January 1834; Petition of the Mashpee Indians to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1834.01.29.00;  Unpassed House Legislation, Number 178, December 31, 1836, Massachusetts Archives