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1844.11.17.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Joseph Dunham and Others to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request from proprietors that they be spared the expense of maintaining the division line between their lands and that of the Chappaquiddick Indians
1851.03.07.00_page1.jpg

Petition Leavitt Thaxter, Guardian of the Chappaquidick Indians, Isaiah Belain, and Daniel Webquish to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for aid from the state to enable the Chappaquiddick Indians to build division fences
1853.02.15.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Margaret Peters and Other Chappaquiddick Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for the interposition of the Legislature in the protection of the rights and privileges of the Chappaquiddick Indians
1829.12.22.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Abigail Laton and Others Chappaquiddick Indians to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request for the removal and replacement of their current guardian and proper fencing of their lands
1823.05.27.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Valentine Pease and Other Chappaquiddick Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for a law requiring those proprietors adjacent to the Indian land to be resonsible for the maintainence of a dividing fence
1826.05.25.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Samuel Peters and other Chappaquiddick Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for the permanent division of their lands and appointment of guardians with full power to settle difficulties in the tribe
1813.05.18.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Simon, Nathaniel, and William Mayhew, Overseers of the Gayhead Indians, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A request from the guardians that they may be empowered to place liens on cattle or collect taxes on cattle pastured on proprietors lands
1811.01.28.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Moses Pocknet and Other Mashpee Indians to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request for redress in the form of an alteration in the manner in which their trustees are appointed and for the extinguishment of the board of overseers
1829.06.09.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Sundry Natives of Chappaquiddick to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request for redress regarding injustices associated with the division of their lands
1861.01.12.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Charlotte M. Belain and Other Christiantown Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Christiantown
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for relief from the encroachments of neighbors and a description of the losses resulting from said depredations
1809.01.10.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Zachariah Howwaswee to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A description of the injustice done to him and a request for financial assistance
1815.04.01.00_page1.jpg

Petition of Jonathan Cuffe and Other Gayhead Indians to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A complaint of injustices at the hands of their guardians and a request for the removal of the said guardians