The Population of Martha's Vineyard

Abstract

S. F. Cook, The Indian Population of New England in the Seventeenth Century (Berkeley, 1976); “Historical Collections,” 141–227; Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha's Vineyard, 3 vols. (Boston, 1911); Conquests and Triumphs; “Indian Visitation”; Some Correspondence; NE Co. MSS 7955/1, 56; Experience Mayhew, A Brief Account of the State of the Indians on Martha's Vineyard … 1694 to 1720, appended to E. Mayhew, A Discourse Shewing That God Dealeth with Men as Reasonable Creatures (Boston, 1720); William Mayhew Memorandum Book, MVHS; Mass. Archives, 31:550, 643–5; Zachariah Mayhew to Richard Johnson, December 26, 1786, NE Co. MSS 7956/2, 21–26; Moses Howwoswee, Account of the Indians Resident at Gay Head, March 19, 1792, Misc. Unbound MSS, MHS; List of Children Under 18 at Gay Head, 1798, Misc. Unbound MSS, MHS; Zachariah Mayhew to Peter Thatcher, July 28, 1801, SPGNA, Records, Box 3, Folder 11; William Freeman, “A Description of Dukes County, Aug. 13th 1807,” MHSC 2d ser., 3 (1815), 38–94; ULRIA, Box 2, File 8029–1816 (4); Massachusetts Governor's Council Files, “Report on Complaint of the Chappaquiddick Natives, &c., Box, June 1808–July 1809;” Ebenezer Skiff to Paul Cuffee, October 1816, Paul Cuffee Letterbook, NBFPL; Letter of Frederick Baylies, May 17, 1821, SPGNA, Recs., Box 1, File 5; Baylies, “The Names and Ages of the Indians on Martha's Vineyard … Jan. 1, 1823,” NEHGS; Mass. House Document No. 68 (1827); Frederick Baylies, Letters, Box 26, Letter B, MVHS; D. Wrighte to Alden Bradford, April 9, 1839, Andrews-Eliot Coll., MHS; Report of the Commissioners; Earle Report.