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Memorial of Peter Pratt to the Connecticut General Assembly

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative
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Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
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Petition of John Myers to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
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Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A complaint that he, said Myers, was denied a copy of legal judgements against him, affecting his ability to appeal
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Copy of Enoch Coffin's Judgement against John Myers

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A description of the suit brought by Nicholas Norton against John Myers and the corresponding decision rendered by Justice of the Peace Coffin
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Petition of Chappaquiddick Indians to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
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A complaint by James Robbins, John Joel, Benjamin Natick, and others of the Chappaquiddick Tribe to the Committee for Managing Indian Affairs in Dukes County seeking relieve from and restitution for trespass by non-Natives on Indian land
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Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the Island of Chappaquiddick to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
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A request from John Pease, Joseph Huxford, and others seeking confirmation to the titles of lands purchased under dubious legal circumstances, and the General Court's response
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Petition of the Committee of Militia and the Selectmen of the Town of Dorchester to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Massachusett at Ponkapoag
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Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Request by the people of Dorchester to remove Indian servants and keep other Indians out of their town
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Petition of the Indians at Okokamy or Christiantown to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Christiantown
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
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A request by the natives at Okokamy (or Christiantown) for the interposition of the General Court regarding the illegal removal of trees from native lands, and the Court's response
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Petition of Robert Cathcart of Tisbury to the Massachusetts General Court

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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown, Deep Bottom, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
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Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request by Robert Cathcart of the Governor and General Court to appoint someone to resolve native and non-native land boundary disputes, and the responses of the Court and Carhart