Voting

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List of Voters in Marshpee

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A roster of 41 Mashpee male voters
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Petition of Joel Rogers and Other Gayhead Indians to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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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Act for the better regulation of the Indian, Mulatto and Negro proprietors of Gayhead in the county of Dukes County" be repealed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 Zaccheus Howwaswee and Other Gayhead Indians to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request that laws be enacted to prevent the selling and possession of spiritous liquours at Gayhead and for the authority to search on suspicion for the same
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Petition of Abram Rodman 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
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
An affirmation of the existing law concerning actions of debt between Natives and non-Natives, a request that the bounds of their lands be surveyed ,and a complaint regarding claims to land rights by some
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Petition on Behalf of Mashpee Proprietors to the Massachusetts Governor and Council

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A complaint against outside influence in their political process and lack of care provided to their indigent
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Petition of George Thomas Sewall and Lisbon Johnson to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request that two non-proprietors, Mashpee spouses, be granted rights in severalty in their real estate