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1680.10.13.00_page1 petitions_masa_na_45X_0112_0024_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for the liberty to build a parsonage and to establish Nathaniel Gookin as minister
1762.01.22.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0033_0043_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request of Samuel Cognehew, Benjamin Natick, and others on behalf of the Chappaquiddick Tribe for the construction of a meeting house to be financed from the funds due to them, and the General Court's response
1767.11.16.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0033_0089_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An answer by Joel Joel, Benjamin Natak, Benjamin Natak, Jr., and others of the Chappaquiddick Tribe in their opposition to a request by the Proprietors of Chappaquiddick Island for confirmation of their title to land
1741.12.24.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0031_0074_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Massachusett at Ponkapoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An answer from a Ponkapoag Guardian showing why the recent petition submitted against him was incorrect
1776.00.00.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0144_0010_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for liberty to sell a parcel of unimproved common land to Simeon and Nathaniel Fish
1824.05.01.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A letter to Harvard President Kirkland, Fish reports on the condition of the Mashpee and his ministry to them and to others in the community. Refers Kirkland to Gideon Hawley for more information.
1836.01.00.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A number of Mashpee find their support of the religious institutions is based upon their ancestors' example
1810.09.08.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy
Summary
Directions from the Harvard Corporation to Frederick Baylies regarding his services
1811.01.10.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag, Chappaquiddick
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A letter proposing service among the Chappaquiddick on behalf of the Harvard Corporation
1779.04.27.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0223_0002_0003.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for authorization to grant a piece of land to Rev. Gideon Hawley, their longtime minister, in order to encourage his efforts at Mashpee
1768.00.00.01_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0033_0098_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Undetermined
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request to the Court for the release of funds necessary to support three Indian children put under his care
1758.09.05.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0033_0019_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request that Gideon Hawley be granted land for a house lot, improvement rights to 30 cleared acres, and, while minister to the tribe, use of enough marsh land so as to harvest five tons of hay, and the right to harvest firewood from tribal lands