Accounts and correspondence, 1788-1865.

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Accounts and correspondence, 1788-1865.

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Guardians of Massachusetts Indians tribes on their plantations were appointed by the General Court to take, redistribute, and lease or sell Indian lands, using the income to support sick and indigent Indians, and reporting their transactions to the General Court. These records include annual financial statements of such transactions as well as other reports and correspondence relating to the guardians' duties.

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Massachusetts. Guardians of Indians.

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The first legislation regulating the Massachusetts Indians (St 1693-4, c 17) provided that the governor appoint "one or more discreet persons...to have inspection and more particular care and government of the Indians in their respective plantations." Fifty years later (St 1746-7, c 12) the General Court began to appoint "near to every Indian plantation in the province, guardians to the said Indians," three to a plantation, empowered to take Indian lands, redistribute them among the...