Pending

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for authorization to grant a piece of land to Rev. Gideon Hawley, their longtime minister, in order to encourage his efforts at Mashpee
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request that Gideon Hawley be granted land for a house lot, improvement rights to 30 cleared acres, and, while minister to the tribe, use of enough marsh land so as to harvest five tons of hay, and the right to harvest firewood from tribal lands
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Nipmuc
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request that the Court appoint a successor to the trust so that the funds derived from the sale of lands at Natick may be disposed of to Martha Bowman, Samuel Bowman, Joseph Pegan, Martha Pegan, Zachariah Equis, Betty Equis, and Benjamin Wiser
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for liberty to sell as much of her land at Natick as is necessary to pay her debts and support her in her sickness
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request seeking confirmation of their ownership in various pieces of land, through the right of Mary Ompetowin Henry, at Natick and elsewhere and authorization to sell it for their support
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request that the Court examine the conduct of one of the Trustees of the Natick Indians and offer relief to Benjamin Wiser, who claims to have suffered at the hands of the Trustee
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An allowance for four pounds to be used to defray attested expenses in the care and boarding of Submit Awansamug
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Potenummecut
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Contrary to the report of Stone and Hall, Freeman states that his inquiry revealed that the Potennummecut Indians were never molested in their use of Billingsgate Point, except when one individual extended his use rights to white men from Harwich.
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Potenummecut
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An affirmation in support of the Potenummecut Indians earlier complaints regarding being exluded from exercising their rights to freely build on and fish from Billingsgate Point or Beach
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Potenummecut
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for liberty to exchange a piece of land that was sold to Richard Rogers with another piece of common land, so that the Indians ability to improve their property is not negatively impacted