Contract between the Marshpee Overseers and Phineas Fish

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Summary: 
A contract from the Overseers of Mashpee providing Phineas fish with the annual use of certain Mashpee lands and a recommendation to convey a deed for land on which his house may be built
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Mashpee, Massachusetts

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People: 
Phineas Fish, Gideon Hawley, Walley Goodspeed, John Davis, Joshua Thomas, Ephraim Spooner, William T, Stevenson, Barzillia Davis, Hetty Davis
Community: 
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Protocol: 
Mashpee Public
Category: 
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Keywords: 
Overseers/Guardians, Government,Tribal, Buildings/Structures, Houses, Family, Religion/Beliefs, Protestant, Congregationalism, Christianity, Missions, Employment, Land, Woodland, Land Grants, Landforms -- Terrestrial, Improvement, Law, Contracts, Animals, Cow, Horses
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Source: 
Harvard University. Corporation. Records relating to the Marshpee Indians, 1811-1841. UAI 20.811, Harvard University Archives, page 1
Identifier: 
1811.08.23.00
Subject: 
Mashpee