Elders

Memorandum from the Committee of the Massachusetts General Court regarding the Wives and Children of Indian Captives

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
List of family members of Native men convicted by Massachusetts Bay officials detailing their choice of remaining in the Bay Colony or being sent into overseas bondage
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Letter of William Whitman to Josiah Quincy

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society
Summary
A letter from a Mashpee overseer, discussing William Apes' and Phineas Fish's conduct at Mashpee
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Letter of Phineas Fish to John T. Kirkland

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A letter to Harvard President Kirkland, Fish reports on the condition of the Mashpee and his ministry to them and to others in the community. Refers Kirkland to Gideon Hawley for more information.
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Petition of Amos Ahauton and Other Indians at Ponkapoag to the Massachusetts General Court

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Massachusett at Ponkapoag
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Request of four Ponkapoag leaders to ask the Legislature to review the tribe's accounts with a view to providing for the community, especially the elderly