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[a] Worcester County Native Households in 1860. Based on the manuscript of the Worcester County Census of 1860, a listing of Native Americans, Individuals Married to Native Americans, Native American-Connected households in the County's towns. http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/heads60.html

[b] Births, Death, Marriages, People of Color: African Americans and Native Americans Putnam, Connecticut. A compilation of people of color listed in the records of the Putnam City Hall. Everyone knows how often Native people are recorded as anything other than Native, so the Putnam records are a rich source for Native people from Putnam, Woodstock and surrounding towns sometimes listed as Indian and other times not. The records are also a great source for African American families of the area. The listed materials include individuals recorded in Putnam Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1855-1929 and additional Deaths 1930-1969. http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/putnamvit.html

[c] Sturbridge, Massachusetts Vitals Records for People of Color, Native Americans & African Americans Based on MS Vital Record, Office of Town Clerk, Sturbridge: Excerpts from Births 1860-1891; Births 1892-1955, through 1945; Marriages 1860-1891; Marriages 1892-1955; Deaths 1860-1891; and Deaths 1892-1955. A document reproducing vital record entries for people of color --Native American and African American---Sturbridge, Massachusetts based on original record books of the Sturbridge Town Clerk's office. http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/sturbridge.html

[d] People of Color at Woodstock, Connecticut: Native Americans & African Americans. A compilation of people of color listed in the records of the Woodstock, Connecticut. Everyone knows how often Native people are recorded as anything other than Native, so the Woodstock records are a rich source for Native people from Putnam, Woodstock, Eastford, Pomfret and surrounding towns sometimes listed as Indian and other times not. The records are also a great source for African American families of the area. The listed materials include individuals listed in Woodstock Births, Marriages and Deaths, Volume 4: 1848-1866 and Volume 5:1867-1929. http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/woodstockvit.html

[e] People of Color, Worcester County Census of 1790: Compiled from the manuscript of the 1790 Federal census for Worcester County, listing of people of color, both Native American and African American in Worcester County's towns in 1790. http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/census790.html

[f] Central Massachusetts Runaways: Selected Paid Notices from Residents of the greater Central Mass. Region Advertising for Fugitive Slaves and Runaway Servants, both African American and Native American, in 18th Century Newspapers. http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/fugitives.html

[g] People of Color, Worcester County 1754-1865. In table format, number of people of color in the towns of Worcester from 1754-1865. http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/pocworcounty.html

[h] People of Color, African American and Native American, at Worcester, Massachusetts. Because of its location at the center of Nipmuc homelands, Worcester has always been occupied by Nipmucs. Here we reproduce information from the manuscript vital records of the City of Worcester for the period from 1845 through 1890. Nipmuc Indians are to be found in Worcester Births. Nipmuc Indians are to be found in Worcester Deaths. Nipmuc Indians are also to be found in Worcester Marriages. URLs http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/worbirths; http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/wordeaths.html; and, http://geocities.com/quinnips/records/wormarrs.html

[a] George Briggs & House No. 46 of 1849: The Briggs Report. A discussion of George N. Briggs, the background of the Briggs Report and assessment of the strengths and limitations of the document. http://geocities.com/quinnips/briggs/briggs.html

[b] Massachusetts Indians in 1849 by Tribal Group. Complete reproduction of all individuals in the Briggs Report, as listed in the original document, by tribal group or tribal community. http://geocities.com/quinnips/briggs/briggs1.html

[c] Alphabetical Roster of Massachusetts Indians in 1849. An alphabetical roster of all individuals enumerated in the Briggs Report. http://geocities.com/quinnips/briggs/briggs2.html

[d] Wampanoag Indians of 1849 by Tribal Group. Overwhelmingly Wampanoag peoples make up the Indian community surveyed in 1849. This document is a listing of Wampanoags listed by their tribal group or community. http://geocities.com/quinnips/briggs/brgswamp1.html

[e] Alphabetical List of Mass. Wampanoags in 1849. This document is an alphabetical listing of all Wampanoag peoples enumerated in the Briggs Report. http://geocities.com/quinnips/briggs/brgswamp2.html

[a] Alphabetical Roster of Individuals in Earle Report. Massachusetts Natives were "wards of the Commonwealth," not being granted state citizenship until 1869. Between 1859 and 1861, John Milton Earle was the Bay State's Indian Commissioner. In 1861, he issued his REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL CONCERNING THE INDIANS OF THE COMMONWEALTH UNDER THE ACT OF APRIL 6, 1859 (Boston: William White, State Printer, 1861), the so-called Earle Report. In this extremely rare document Earle urged the Mass. Legislature to enfranchise the state's Indians and undertook a tribal community by tribal community "investigation" of Bay State Indians. At the end of the document Earle included an appendix listing roughly 1400 Indians, plus their non-Indian spouses, for whom the state assumed a "special relationship." These Indians are recorded under separate tribal community headings and the original lacks any index or method for finding individuals enumerated. For many reasons, Earle's report is important to doing Massachusetts/ New England Indian history and family history. http://geocities.com/quinnips/earle/alphaearle.html

[b] Individuals in the Earle Report by Tribal Group: Massachusetts Natives were "wards of the Commonwealth," not being granted state citizenship until 1869. Between 1859 and 1861, John Milton Earle was the Bay State's Indian Commissioner. In 1861, he issued his REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL CONCERNING THE INDIANS OF THE COMMONWEALTH UNDER THE ACT OF APRIL 6, 1859 (Boston: William White, State Printer, 1861), the so-called Earle Report. In this extremely rare document Earle urged the Mass. Legislature to enfranchise the state's Indians and undertook a tribal community by tribal community "investigation" of Bay State Indians. At the end of the document Earle included an appendix listing roughly 1400 Indians, plus their non-Indian spouses, for whom the state assumed a "special relationship." These Indians are recorded under separate tribal community headings and the original lacks any index or method for finding individuals enumerated. For many reasons, Earle's report is important to doing Massachusetts/ New England Indian history and family history. A "tribe" by "tribe" [including white, colored for non Native spouses] of Mass. Indians of 1861, providing name, age, gender, occupation, marital status, place of residence. http://geocities.com/quinnips/earle/earletribal.html

[c] Native American Individuals Identified in Earle’s Report, Living in the Central New England Region in the Year 1861, Listings by towns. Massachusetts Natives were "wards of the Commonwealth," not being granted state citizenship until 1869. Between 1859 and 1861, John Milton Earle was the Bay State's Indian Commissioner. In 1861, he issued his REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL CONCERNING THE INDIANS OF THE COMMONWEALTH UNDER THE ACT OF APRIL 6, 1859 (Boston: William White, State Printer, 1861), the so-called Earle Report. In this extremely rare document Earle urged the Mass. Legislature to enfranchise the state's Indians and undertook a tribal community by tribal community "investigation" of Bay State Indians. At the end of the document Earle included an appendix listing roughly 1400 Indians, plus their non-Indian spouses, for whom the state assumed a "special relationship." These Indians are recorded under separate tribal community headings and the original lacks any index or method for finding individuals enumerated. For many reasons, Earle's report is important to doing Massachusetts/ New England Indian history and family history. A roster, with annotations, of the Indians of central Mass. in 1861. http://geocities.com/quinnips/earle/nipmucearle1.html

[d] Individuals and Families part of Nipmuc Indian Communities Listed in 1861 Earle Report, an alphabetical listings of all Nipmucs enumerated in the Earle Report, providing name, age, occupation and place of residence for Nipmucs recorded as Grafton tribe, Dudley tribe and "miscellaneous." http://geocities.com/quinnips/earle/earlenips.html

[e] Alphabetical List of Massachusetts Wampanoag Indians in 1861. In 1861, according to John Milton Earle, there were some 1146 Wampanoag Indians in Massachusetts. Excluding their non-Native spouses, 1146 Wampanoags were enumerated in Earle’s Report. Nowhere in the Earle Report are they labeled Wampanoag but, rather, appear in the Earle document as Chappequidick, Christiantown, Edgartown, Mashpee, Middleborough, Fall River, Pembroke, Yarmouth, Herring Pond, Dartmouth or other designations associated with white townships in the Commonwealth. These Wampanoags appear here in an alphabetical listing. http://geocities.com/quinnips/earle/wamp2.html

[f] Wampanoag Indians in 1861: Individuals in Earle Report from Wampanoag Communities
In 1861, according to John Milton Earle, there were some 1146 Wampanoag Indians in Massachusetts. Excluding their non-Native spouses, 1146 Wampanoags were enumerated in Earle’s Report. Nowhere in the Earle Report are they labeled Wampanoag but, rather, appear in the Earle document as Chappequidick, Christiantown, Edgartown, Mashpee, Middleborough, Fall River, Pembroke, Yarmouth, Herring Pond, Dartmouth or other designations associated with white townships in the Commonwealth. Below, these Wampanoags appear here in alphabetical listing by tribal community or "ethnicity." http://geocities.com/quinnips/earle/wamp1.html

3. Nipmuc Documents: go to separate Historical Documents Description

[a] Hassanamesit or "Place of the Small Stones," Notes on the Indian Reservation at Hassanamesit or Hassanamisco And the Nipmuc People of Hassanamesit (later Grafton, Massachusetts), Part 1, by Thomas Lewis Doughton. Part I of a documentary summary of the history of the "Praying Indians" of the Nipmuc settlement at Hassanamesit, by a former Nipmuc tribal historian. It covers the period from the seventeenth century through the creation of Grafton, Massachusetts in 1728 from the reservation lands of the Nipmucs at Hassanamesit. http://geocities.com/quinnips/history/hassan1.html

[b] "Nipmucs 'Lose' Their Central Massachusetts Homelands: A Summary of Historical Documents" http://geocities.com/quinnips/history/transfers.html

[c] "Nipmuc Indians, the First People of Worcester" http://geocities.com/quinnips/history/neepmuk.html

[d] Article "Unseen Neighbors: Native Americans of Central Massachusetts, A People Who Had 'Vanished' " by Thomas Doughton. A shortened version of this writing was published in Colin G. Calloway, editor, AFTER KING PHILIP'S WAR: PRESENCE AND PERSISTENCE IN INDIAN NEW ENGLAND (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997). The work is a paperback and not expensive. It's available through amazon.com or can be ordered through a bookstore. The 10 essays in the collection constitute an interesting, and easy-to-absorb summary history of New England Indians from the 17th century to the present. The version of the Doughton article available here is the full, original article edited and shortened for publication in the After King Philip collection It contains detailed Nipmuc family history with source data provided in the notes. http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/history/unseen.html

[e] "Like the shadows in the stream": Local Historians, The Discourse of Disappearance and Nipmuc Indians of Central Massachusetts by Thomas L. Doughton. Article on regional Massachusetts historians and the notion of Nipmuc Indians as a "disappeared" people. An abbreviated version read by Nipmuc historian Thomas Doughton at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., May 20, 1999, as part of an evening public program titled, "Like Shadows in the Stream: Indian History and Historians," with Jean O’Brien of the University of Minnesota, and moderated by Barry O’Connell of Amherst College. http://geocities.com/quinnips/history/shadowstreams.html

[f] "People of Color and National Parks in Southern New England: Considerations on the Historical Relationships between African and Native American Peoples Impacting Contemporary Resource Management Within New England's National Parks." This is by Thomas Doughton, and like "Unseen Neighbors" an older piece from 1997. Commissioned by the U.S. Park Service, this writing became part of an anthology of articles for U.S. Park Service Personnel. This writing contains data on Nipmuc families of the Blackstone River Valley region of Massachusetts. http://geocities.com/quinnips/history/blackstone.html

[a] Nedson, Dorus and Dixon Families of Woodstock, Connecticut and Sturbridge, Southbridge and Webster, Massachusetts: Nineteenth-Century Native Indian Community At the Massachusetts and Connecticut Border. A narrative summarizing some of the history of the Nipmuc Nedsons. http://geocities.com/quinnips/nipfams/nednarr.html

[b] Genealogical Report: Nipmuc Indian Descendants of Mary Pegan of the Nipmuc Reservation at Dudley, Mass. & John Nedson of the Paucatuck Pequot Indian community of Stonington, Connecticut. Genealogical report of the Nedson descendants. http://geocities.com/quinnips/nipfams/nedgenrpt.html

[c] Descendants of Mary Pegan, a Nipmuc Indian from the Dudley, Massachusetts Reservation & her husband John Nedson, a Paucatuck or Stonington, Connecticut Pequot Mohegan. A Family Associated with the Reservation at Hatchet Pond, The Nedson/ Dixon/ Dorus Nipmucs of Wabbaquasset or Woodstock, Connecticut, Natives Who Didn’t "Disappear" An outline of the Nedson descendants. http://geocities.com/quinnips/nipfams/nedsonfam.html

[d] The Hemenway Family of Worcester: The largest number of known descendants of Hepsibeth Bowman and her husband Jeffrey Hemenway are members of the Tolson family in Worcester. The Tolsons and others are conspicuously absent from other web-pages devoted to Hepsibeth Hemenway and her family. Here are posted several files representing a more balanced view of the Hemenways. Some Descendants of Hepsibeth Bowman Hemenway is a genealogical report for seven generations of Hemenway descendants. Outline of Some Descendants of Hepsibeth Bowman Hemenway provides an outline of these same seven generations. Kinship Connections to Hepsibeth Hemenway is a file listing the known descendants of Hepsibeth Hemenway and a person's family relationship to her. URLs: http://geocities.com/quinnips/nipfams/hemgenrpt.html as well as http://geocities.com/quinnips/nipfams/hemout.html and, http://geocities.com/quinnips/nipfams/hepdes.html

[e] Nipmuc Family Notes: Scipio & Esther Jaha. http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/nipfams/jaha.html