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1791.06.02.00_page1.jpeg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Order for Hooker to pay Sarah Wampey three pounds eight shillings and two pence, plus costs for writ and sheriff's service
1790.09.25.00_page1.jpeg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
1672.05.13.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Tunxis leaders file a complaint requiring Connecticut authorities to establish the legal ownership of the land at Tunxis Sepos
1781.04.19.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick, Nipmuc
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An order that an inquiry be made into Joseph Parker's purchase of Indian land to include the value of the money paid and of the land sold
1784.01.30.01_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick, Nipmuc
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request that the Indian land he purchased, unknowingly in violation of the law, be confirmed to him by the General Court
1784.02.06.01_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick, Nipmuc
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An order that an inquiry be made into Asa Drury's purchase of Indian land to include the value of the money paid and of the land sold
1781.01.19.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Massachusett at Ponkapoag
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request from Sarah Berry, Jerusha Hawkins, and their respective families, Ponkapaug Indians, for relief from taxes because of the hardships of the Revolutionary War
1856.04.15.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Fall River/Troy
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A complaint regarding the illegal cutting and sale of wood from her land and a request for a legislative inquiry and redress
1737.11.00.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0031_0034_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request from the Indian proprietors of Oyster Island, heirs of Simon Wicket, seeking authority to sell the island in order to satisfy debts
1737.12.24.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0031_0034_0003.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A committee report on the request from the Indian proprietors of Oyster Island, heirs of Simon Wicket, seeking authority to sell the island in order to satisfy debts
1792.01.14.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A remonstrance against the recent alteration in the form of government at Mashpee and the encroachment of non-natives on the their lands
1828.05.20.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request that a law might be passed to compel the proprietors of lands living remote from the Indian lands on Chappaquiddick to keep in repair their proportion of said boundary fence