Petition of Joel Rogers and Other Gayhead Indians to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Summary: 
A request that the law entitled " An Act for the better regulation of the Indian, Mulatto and Negro proprietors of Gayhead in the county of Dukes County" be repealed
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Aquinnah, Massachusetts

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Community: 
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Protocol: 
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) Public
Category: 
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Keywords: 
Massachusetts Collection, Massachusetts General Court, Massachusetts Phase 1, Petitions, Law, Government/Leadership, Town Officers, Buildings/Structures, Meetinghouses, Voting, Civil Actions, Women, Poverty, Land, Overseers/Guardians, Race, People of Color, Friendship, Debt/Debtors, Houses, Improvement -- Pastures, Landforms -- Terrestrial, Deaths, Exposure, Constitution, Sovereignty
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Source: 
Massachusetts Archives, House Unpassed 1816, Docket 8029
Identifier: 
1816.05.18.00
Subject: 
Gayhead