Attaquin, Solomon (the elder)

Solomon Attaquin married Desire Mingo sometime before 1786, the year their sons Ezra and Ebenezer were born. A daughter, Leah was born several years later in 1791. The family was noted in a 1793 community census performed by Rev. Gideon Hawley.  Attaquin, his wife, and several children lived in a home by the shores of Mashpee Pond.

He signed three Mashpee petitions between October of 1788 and May of 1795, each bringing to the attention of the Massachusetts General Court infringements on the community’s self-governance and religious freedom.  Attaquin was noticeably absent from the signatory lists in petitions after 1795 and by August of 1800 a community census enumerated his widow Desire, with three children.

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Vol. 1, Ancestry; 1793 Mashpee, Autograph File, Houghton Library, Harvard University; Remonstrance of Mashpee Proprietors and Others to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1788.10.31.00; Petition of the Mashpee Indians to the Massachusetts General Court, 1788.12.29.00; Petition and Remonstrance of Ebenezer Queppish and Other Mashpee Indians to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1795.05.20; ; 1800 Mashpee Census, Ms. 48: SPG, Account of Indians, Box 2, Folder 16, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.