King Philip's War

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Argument by John Eliot that selling Indians into slavery hinders his work in spreading the Gospel message
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Lords of the Admiralty order to return the New England slaves formerly taken by Thomas Spragg back to John Matthews at Cadiz
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request by James Speen, an Indian from Nashoba, on behalf of other Indians, asking for compensation for firearms that were taken from them at the end of King Philip's War and subsequently lost
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for and confirmation of the title to a tract of land at Natick
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Nipmuc
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request of John Brigham on behalf of the Town of Marlborough, with a certification by several Nipmuc, seeking authority for the sale of land in Whip Suffrage
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Nipmuc
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request that the Court hear the proclamation of the innocence of William and Joseph Wannuckhow, and John Appamatahqueen in the murder of Thomas Eames' family
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request of John Cook of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, one of the ancient proprietors asking for the return of land given to him in trust by Papamoo
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wamesit
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Request by the Town of Chelmsford about the return of some Wamesit, causing fear and distrust among the colonists
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Massachusett at Ponkapoag
Category
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