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Natick to sell two hundred acres of indigenous land in order to hire a carpenter to rebuild the meeting house. Two white pastors, Grindal Rawson and Samuel
Danforth, of Mendon and Taunton, visited Takawambait's church in 1698 and noted that only a small church remained with ten official members, but Takawambait was "a person of great knowledge." Despite Takawambait's language skills and knowledge of Christian theology, some Puritan church leaders were concerned that Takawambait had some unknown theological errors or “errata” which may have included incorporating indigenous traditions into the worship services. By the 1712 colonial religious leaders, such as
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chose another Native
American pastor, John Neesnumin of Sandwich, as a replacement in 1717, but he died two years later, and the church largely dissolved shortly after. Today Takawambait's pulpit desk is on exhibit in the Natick Historical Society Museum and was built by members of his congregation
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wrote that "or we appointed a sober and pious young man of Natick, called Daniel, to be minister, whom they accepted in the Lord." In 1676 Takawambait signed a petition with several other
Indians in Natick and Punkapoag "requesting the release of an Indian youth named Peter" who "was a servant of
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By 1699 many worshippers in at
Takawambait's church in Natick had died or left Natick because they were impoverished and needed to live among the English to support themselves, and the original meeting house, built in 1651, was falling down, so the congregation petitioned the government to allow
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Letter from Cotton Mather to Sir
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and requested that services continue in the Nipmuc language by either Gookin learning the language or using their local interpreter. Eventually, "n 1683, the town appointed their second minister, Daniel
Takawambait, an Indigenous man, to replace John Eliot." In 1685 at the request of Gookin,
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began preaching once a month in the Natick Indian church solely in
English which proved unfruitful without a Nipmuc translator, but the congregation enjoyed worshipping with Gookin's Sherborn congregants who often joined him in the Native American church. In 1683 the Indigenous congregation,
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In addition to serving as a bilingual pastor, Takawambait was a community leader and signed and witnessed deeds for various Native
American land transactions. Between 1681 and 1685 Takawambait signed documents with other Nipmucs protesting the sale of tribal lands including near what is now
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Coughlin, "Our Souls are Already Cared For: Indigenous Reactions t or: Indigenous Reactions to Religious Colonialism in Seventeenth-Century New England, New France, and New Mexico" (UMASS Master's Thesis, July 2020), p. 38 citing Jean O’Brien,
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Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America, Some correspondence between the governors and treasurers of the New England Company, 74-75 (accessible on google
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Gravestone of Daniel Takawambait (1652-1716) an American Indian pastor, adjacent to Eliot Church in South Natick, MA, the former Praying Town
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from 1683 to 1716. Takawambait also advocated for indigenous land rights in colonial Massachusetts, and authored at least one publication.
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Perley, Sidney (editor) 1912 The Indian Land Titles of Essex County Massachusetts. Essex Book and Print Club, Salem, MA.p 10 (1912)
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After King Philip's War several Indians returned to Natick from slavery in the Caribbean including Sagamore George (
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in transferring land titles to settlers. Also, Takawambait witnessed a confirmatory deed by
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including Takawambait, appealed to the John Eliot using a theological argument from
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After the War Takawambait was ordained around 1681. Around the same time, Rev.
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Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts
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