Timber/Wood

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Petition of Moses Pocknet and Other Mashpee and Herring Pond Indians to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag, Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request for redress in the form of an alteration in the manner in which their trustees are appointed and for the extinguishment of the board of overseers
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Petition of Nathan Pocknet and Other Mashpee Indians to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An enumeration of complaints relative to conditions at Mashpee and a request for alteration in the law regarding such
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Petition of Zerviah Gould Mitchell to the Governor and Council of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Fall River/Troy
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A complaint regarding the illegal cutting and sale of wood from her land and a request for a legislative inquiry and redress
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Petition of Zerviah Gould Mitchell to the Governor and Council of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Fall River/Troy
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A complaint by Zerviah Gould Mitchell regarding the illegal cutting and sale of wood from her land and a request for a legislative inquiry and redress
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Petition of Sarah Walker 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 that the Trustee be authorized to convey and confirm unto Sarah Philips Walker such lands as she has rights to
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Petition of Sarah Berry and Family to the Massachusetts General Court

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Massachusett at Ponkapoag
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request from Sarah Berry, Jerusha Hawkins, and their respective families, Ponkapaug Indians, for relief from taxes because of the hardships of the Revolutionary War
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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
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Petition of Hannah Porridge 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, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A request of the Chappaquiddick Indians concerning land disputes