Attaquin, Sally, 1783 - 1862

Sally Attaquin was the daughter of Mercy Attaquin and the wife of Abner Hicks of Pocasset.  They lived at Mashpee and by 1807 the couple had a son, Jeremiah.  Nine years later on March 19 their son Hebron was born.  Eleanor Hicks was born to the couple in 1824, when they were both 40 years old.  Sally and her husband, along with about one hundred other Mashpee community members, signed a May 21, 1833 petition complaining of outside interference in governmental and religious affairs at Mashpee. She was a resident of Mashpee and a signatory on the January 1834 Mashpee petition written by William Apes.  Her name was added to that of 288 other Mashpee residents and community members raising a number of longstanding grievances against the overseers and the Congregational missionary to the tribe.  

In 1848 Sally and her husband, Abner, both age 64, were enumerated in a commissioners' report to the Massachusetts Legislature.  A number of their children and grandchildren were also enumerated. In 1859, she and Abner, both aged 75, were the heads of a large household at Mashpee.  It included their daughter, Eleanor, a number of grandchildren, as well as, several members of the Low family. Abner earned his living as a farmer and the family benefitted from 180 acres of land held in severalty by Sally Hicks.  Sally Hicks died in 1862. 

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Vol. 1, Ancestry; 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; Bird Report, 1849; Earle Report, 1861.