The original great seal of Massachusetts Bay colony with a feather-clad Indian saying "Come Over and Help Us" URL: http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/17/seal.jpg

A map of 1634 New England showing the extent of English knowledge of Natives at that time: http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/17/wood.jpg

A map, from a Mass. Historical Commission report on historic & archeological resources in Worcester County, showing the major Nipmuc community clusters in Worcester County. It's missing an entire cluster in the western part of Worcester County [Rutland, Oakham, Hardwick, etc.]. And because the work is limited to Worcester County, not represented are very significant Nipmuc settlements at Assabet [Framingham, Sudbury] as well as Nipmuc clusters in northeastern Rhode Island & Windham County in Connecticut. http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/17/nips.jpg

A map of Native settlements & trails in New England 1600-1650 http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/17/villages.jpg

Formal Submission of Massachusetts Indian Nation to Mass. Bay Colony, March 1644 http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/17/submit.html

A map of seventeenth-century Indian resettlement in southern New England http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/17/settle.jpg

Distribution List of Native Children with Sagamore John of Packachoag, August 10, 1676, Who Were Assigned to English Residents as Servants http://geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/17/captives.html

Recipients of Nipmuc children put to Service in 1676 English Residents to Whom Children Were Assigned, From Manuscript Records of their disposition: August 10, 1676 "Beeing of those indians that came in & submitted with John Sachem of Packachooge" http://geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/17/gotcaps.html

Documents Relative to the Estate of Ammi Printer, a Nipmuc resident at Hassanamesit or Grafton, who died in October 1740 http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/18/ammi.html

The Massachusetts Act of Enfranchisement, On June 23, 1869 the Commonwealth passed an act making Bay State Indians citizens http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/19/enfranchise.html

Webster Nipmucs give Power of Attorney to Francis M. Morrison, Esq., Filed Worcester Probate Registry on Oct. 16, 1888 from: Worcester Probate Registry, Series B, Case 6045 The undersigned Nipmucs who defined themselves as, "…the heirs and assigees of certain rights, interests and titles in certain lands--one parcel situated in Webster…and in other lands, we are of the opinion in Mass. and other New England states--also the right of certain moneys now on deposit," engaged Francis Morrison. "…[I]n the disposal of our rights and the adjudication of the same we do hereby appoint the said Morrison an attorney to prosecute & do whatever in his judgment may be necessary for our best interests." http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/dud/firstdoc.html

Individuals Paid as Heirs of Dudley Reservation Residents: Recipients of Shares in Money from Sale of Reservation Land, from Worcester Probate Registry Series B: Case 6045: Dudley Indians http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/dud/dudheirs.html

List of Dudley Heirs Developed in October 1888 Relative to Reservation Land at Webster, Massachusetts from "Amendment for Distribution of Intestate Estate," filed Oct. 16, 1888, for petitioners Francis M. Morrison, Worcester Probate Registry Series B: Case 6045: Dudley Indians http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/dud/war88.html

Nipmucs Paid by the Commonwealth for Dudley Trust Fund Monies, from Case 6045, Worcester Probate Registry, Dudley Indians http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/dud/dudtrust.html

Heirs-at-Law of the Nipmucs of the Reservation at Webster, Massachusetts: a list of Nipmucs whose families were legally associated with the reservation at Dudley This is a roster of individuals from Earle, the Dudley trust fund payments and the Dudley reservation land payment list. Earle enumerated 86 individuals he listed as connected to the Dudley Indians. There were 38 individuals paid for the reservation land. There were 78 persons paid the balance of the Dudley Indian trust fund. http://www.geocities.com/quinnips/histdocs/dud/alldud.html