Land Rights

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer by a Tunxis man to a Farmington colonist of land provided from his father's will and his own rights in the Tunxis reservation for 7 pounds, 12 shillings, and 6 pence
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer from a Tunxis woman to a Farmington colonist of half of her father's house lot and all her rights to the reservation for three pounds
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer from one of the region's prominent families of four acres in Indian Neck at Tunxis to Farmington colonists for ten pounds.
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer from a Tunxis man in Westfield, Massachusetts to a Tunxis man in Farmington of 5.5 acres and 35 rods of land in the Tunxis reservation
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer by the estate of a Tunxis man to his widow of 5.5 acres, 35 rods of land and a dwelling house in the 5th Lot for 24 pounds
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer by a Tunxis woman to a Farmington resident of 4 acres, 1 rood, and 11 rods of land in the 16th Lot in the Tunxis Reservation for 4 pounds, 10 shillings
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A number of Mashpee find their support of the religious institutions is based upon their ancestors' example
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Individual allocation of Tunxis property in the 200-acre reservation, the East Haven allotment, and the Indian Neck redistribution.
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
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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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