Attaquin, Lewis, 1818 -

Lewis Attaquin was born circa 1818, the son of Ezra and Sarah Jones Attaquin.  He was enumerated in an 1834 census as residing at Mashpee and was a signatory on the January 1834 Mashpee petition written by William Apes and signed by 288 other Mashpee residents and community members outlining a number of longstanding grievances against the overseers and the Congregational missionary to the tribe.  Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Vol. 1. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011; Petition of the Mashpee Indians to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1834.01.29.00