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Austin, William (1834 Apes Petition)

William Austin was a signatory to a January 1834 Mashpee petition written by William Apes.   Despite being away from home, his name was added to that of 288 other Mashpee residents and community members complaining of a number of longstanding grievances against the overseers and the Congregational missionary to the tribe.  He was married to Lucy Austin.  Together they had two daughters, Harriet Austin Pocknet and Patience Austin Gardner.  It is likely that he was related to John Austin.

Austin, Patience (1836), 1812 -

Patience Austin was the daughter of William and Lucy Austin of Mashpee, Massachusetts,  As the wife of Joseph Gardner, the couple had a number of children: Elizabeth, Lucy Anne, and Oliver S. Gardner.

According to a Mashpee petition to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1836, she was a proprietor and inhabitant of the Mashpee Indian community who supported Fish's missionary efforts and the status quo regarding the Mashpee parsonage, lands, and meeting house.   

Austin, John (1834 Apes)

John Austin was a signatory to a January 1834 Mashpee petition written by William Apes.   Despite being away from home, his name was added to that of 288 other Mashpee residents and community members complaining of a number of longstanding grievances against the overseers and the Congregational missionary to the tribe.  He is likely related to William Austin, Lucy Austin, Harriet Austin Pocknet, and Patience Austin Gardner.

Aucouch, Hannah (1823), 1770 -

Hannah Aucouch was the daughter of John Aucouch and Elizabeth Capey.  She married, it is thought, her first cousin, John Capey of Christiantown, Massachusetts.  By 1819, Hannah was living in Boston when she and her sister petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for sale of their land at Christiantown and for the ejection of George Peters, who was living on it.  Hannah died in Boston from old age on November 5, 1852.  Pierce and Segel, Wampanoag Families of Martha's Vineyard, 627-638.

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.

Attaquin, Rhoda, 1831 - 1927

Rhoda Attaquin was born April 1, 1831, the daughter of Ezra and Sarah Jones Attaquin.  Rhoda, age 3, was enumerated with her parents and nine siblings in a 1834 Mashpee census and was listed as a signatory on the January 1834 Mashpee petition written by William Apes, outlining a number of longstanding grievances against the overseers and the Congregational missionary to the tribe. She married William Conet and, years later, was a benficiary of her father, Ezra's, last will and testament in 1876.

Attaquin, Moses

During Fr. Rales War, Moses Attaquin served under Colonel Thomas Westbrook at Fort St. George in Penobscot Country. At the time he was a servant to James Otis. Letters of Colonel Thomas Westbrook and Others Relative to Indian Affairs in Maine, 1722-1726 (Boston, MA: George E. Littlefield, 1901), 7.

Attaquin, Lewis, 1818 -

Lewis Attaquin was born circa 1818, the son of Ezra and Sarah Jones Attaquin.  He was enumerated in an 1834 census as residing at Mashpee and was a signatory on the January 1834 Mashpee petition written by William Apes and signed by 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].

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.