Landforms -- Terrestrial

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Copy of a Petition of Samuel Stratton to the Massachusetts General Court and accompanying Vote of the Massachusetts House of Representatives on said Petition

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 the Court to articulate the details of an order authorizing the construction and operation of a grist mill on Indian land and the accompanying articulation
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Petition of Samuel Stratton 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 the Court to articulate the details of an order authorizing the construction and operation of a grist mill on Indian land
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Petition of Simon, Nathaniel, and William Mayhew, Overseers of the Gayhead Indians, 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
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A request from the guardians that they may be empowered to place liens on cattle or collect taxes on cattle pastured on proprietors lands
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Petition of Joel Rogers and Other Gayhead Indians 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
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Act for the better regulation of the Indian, Mulatto and Negro proprietors of Gayhead in the county of Dukes County" be repealed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 Charlotte M. Belain and Other Christiantown Indians 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 relief from the encroachments of neighbors and a description of the losses resulting from said depredations
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Petition of Joseph Aaron to the Massachusetts General Court

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Nipmuc
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request to sell an additional portion of his land so that he might pay debts
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Petition of Joseph Aaron to the Massachusetts General Court

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Nipmuc
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request to sell a portion of his land so that he might have the funds to build a house , pay debts, and buy a cow
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Petition of Margaret Peters and Other Chappaquiddick Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for the interposition of the Legislature in the protection of the rights and privileges of the Chappaquiddick Indians
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Petition of Daniel Fellows, Jr., Guardian of the Chappaquiddick and Christiantown Indians, to the Governor and Council of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for assistance in fencing the lands of the Chappaquiddick and Christiantown Indians
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Petition of Samuel Peters and other Chappaquiddick Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Chappaquiddick
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for the permanent division of their lands and appointment of guardians with full power to settle difficulties in the tribe