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of the Senate, 1861, No. 96, pp. 38-39.
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Laws of Massachusetts, 1828.
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"Sixty-six out of the whole number of the tribe, at the time of the enumeration, were not residents of the District; but 52 of them were considered as retaining their rights in the tribe, and more than half of the 66 were understood to be only temporary residents abroad, expecting, at some time, to return to Marshpee, and make it their permanent place of residence. A few others, as a matter of personal convenience, are now residing just over the line, and are so returned, but they consider themselves as identified with the tribe in all respects, and are so considered by the tribe. Fourteen individuals, included in the above 66, whose names are in the 'Supplementary List,' own no land in the District, but have been gone so long from it, that they are not now recognized by residents as members of the tribe."
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"A method was also provided through which his title might be established. This was through Commissioners which were to be appointed by the Probate Court who were to act under the direction of the Court and determine all necessary questions and make their report from which the Court could make its order or decrees. Any person who deemed himself aggrieved had the right to appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court. The right of the Indians became vested and forcible the moment the statute took effect." See a statement from the present Attorney General of Massachusetts, dated December 1, 1919.
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"Section 5, chapter 463 of the Acts of 1869 provided that the general agent of the board of state charities shall take charge of the house, and all property connected therewith, in the town of Webster, belonging to the Commonwealth and permission was given him to lease the same to persona heretofore known as members of the Dudley tribe of Indians, upon terms substantially like those upon which they have heretofore occupied it; or to sell the same at public auction under the direction of the state board of charities and pay the proceeds of such lease or sale into the Treasury of the Commonwealth." Statement of present Attorney General of Massachusetts, submitted December 1, 1919.
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Samuel A. Drake,
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John W. Cromwell,
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These facts were obtained from Mr. Butler himself.
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This list was obtained from the office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts.
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Compiled by Monroe N. Work.
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Beverly,
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Beverly,
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Not returned for the 1875-1876 session.
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Furnished by Major John R. Lynch, May 19, 1915.
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In 1895 South Carolina again revised her constitution. In the convention held for this purpose there were found Negro delegates, viz.: Thomas E. Miller, L. R. Reed, Robert Smalls, W. J. Whipper and James Wigg, all from Beaufort County. Smalls and Whipper had been delegates in the 1868 convention. (Reported by H. H. Wallace.)
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Furnished by Mr. H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
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Furnished by H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
[21] Names marked with asterisk not in lists given in Reynold's
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Reynolds,
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Furnished by H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
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George H. White, North Carolina, member of 55th and 56th Congresses, as the last Negro member. (Editor.)
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He was a page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
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There were no colored members of the Tennessee Senate.
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1868, 1870, see North Carolina list, Pasquotank County.
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This account was taken from James G. Thompson's Papers by his daughter, Caroline B. Stephen, of Washington, D.C. Special Correspondence of the
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This dissertation was in 1917 submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature of the University of Chicago, in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts by Henry S. Williams.
The following original sources were used in the preparation of this manuscript:
The secondary sources consulted follow: Lucian Carr,