Wampanoags & Blacks

The "Indian" residents of territory settled by Europeans were often not recorded at all. Some show up in treaties, some in legal records, and a few in the Vital Records, especially marriages. Since the major point of the Vital Records was to keep track of property rights, this isn't surprising. Other people were also poorly recorded - sailors and other transients, slaves, people without much connection to the communities or without property rights.
Blacks were outsiders within the community, and they seem to have freely intermarried with the Indians, The early ones were slaves, although called "servants," and probably others were sailors.
It isn't always clear which group people belong to, so there are probaly errors of both inclusion and exclusion here.

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Indian villages at contact, from Deyo, 1890.


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