Debt/Debtors

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Petition of Samuel Morse, Guardian of Sarah Wabon, to the Massachusetts General Court

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick, Nipmuc
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for authority to sell land allotted to Sarah Wabon, deceased, in order to pay for the care and nursing of her daughter, Sarah Wabon
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Petition of the Selectmen of Natick, Massachusetts to the Massachusetts General Court

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick, Nipmuc
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request from the Town of Natick for financial assistance from the Commonwealth in caring for Indians and their families
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Petition of James Athearn of Tisbury to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request and resolution for authorization for James Ahearn to take possession of the house of the late Joash Panue
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Petition of Joel Rogers and Other Gayhead Indians to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
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Act for the better regulation of the Indian, Mulatto and Negro proprietors of Gayhead in the county of Dukes County" be repealed
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Petition of Zachariah Howwaswee to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A description of the injustice done to him and a request for financial assistance
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Petition of Abram Rodman to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An affirmation of the existing law concerning actions of debt between Natives and non-Natives, a request that the bounds of their lands be surveyed ,and a complaint regarding claims to land rights by some
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Petition of Solomon Weeks and Other Christiantown Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Christiantown
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for relief from the encroachments of neighbors and others outside of the community and a description of the losses resulting from the encroachments
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Petition of Recall Degrass to to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Christiantown
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for compensation for the care and support of Samuel Hannet and his daughter Jane
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Petition of Simon Popmonet, George Wapock, and John Terkins, Mashpee Indians to the Governor of the Province of Massachusetts

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request that the Mashpee be protected from falling into English debt and from unjust servitude
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Petition of Phebe Gould to the Massachusetts General Court

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Fall River/Troy
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request of Phebe Gould for the appointment of a suitable person to sell her interest in land in order to pay the debts of her deceased mother, Lydia Squinn