Photos: Oakes Agnus Coombs Jr. and his wife Amanda Pocknett, daughter of Nathan Pocknett and Eleanor Hicks. She was the widow of Thomas William Gardner. These photos were featured in the 125th Anniversary of Mashpee Celebration 1995. Credit: Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, Archives.

Thomas Tupper: Missionary to Plymouth Colony Indians

By Melissa Berry on September 20, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Thomas Tupper, a missionary to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in the Plymouth Colony... (Read More)

Richard Bourne: Missionary to Plymouth Colony Indians

By Melissa Berry on September 18, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Richard Bourne, a missionary to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in the Plymouth Colony... (Read More)

Photo: Clinton Mye Haynes (Chief Wildhorse) of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe smoking a pipe. Credit: William Brewster Nickerson Cape Cod History Archives, Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Mayflower Descendants & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (part 4)

By Melissa Berry on February 29, 2024

Melissa Berry continues her series on the genealogy of the Wampanoag Tribe, friends of the Pilgrims, focusing on the Skipper and Mye family lines... (Read More)

Photo: members of the Wampanoag Nation who gathered for the three-day powwow of their tribes at Mashpee, Massachusetts, in 1929. Left to right: Chief Standing Rock of the Herring Pond Tribe; Chief Red Shell of the Wampanoags; Chief Small Bear of the Mashpee Tribe; and Chief High Eagle, medicine man of the Wampanoags. Credit: Boston Public Library Digital Commonwealth.

Mayflower Descendants & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on February 16, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on the genealogy of the Wampanoag Tribe and its Mayflower connections, focusing on the Attaquin family... (Read More)

Photo: Mashpee Wampanoag ceremony in Middleborough, Massachusetts, 1930. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.

Mayflower Descendants & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on February 13, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on the genealogy of the Wampanoag Tribe, the Indians who were in first contact with the Mayflower Pilgrims... (Read More)

Mayflower Descendants & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on February 9, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry begins a new series on the genealogy of the Wampanoag Tribe, the Indians who were in first contact with the Mayflower Pilgrims... (Read More)

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